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wombat140
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I'm making my first mission, and I'm trying to set up a lot of Borg drones so that they attack only if the player approaches them quite closely, otherwise they just stand still; in other words it's a map designed to be stealthed. I've seen plenty of Foundry maps that can be stealthed, i.e. there are enemies on the map but if you don't get too close they won't notice you. But when I try to do it, the drones see and attack my character as soon as I start testing, even though she's starting in the middle of a large room (the Borg Cube 2) and they're along the edge.
Can somebody tell me how to make this work, please? Is there some kind of radius I can set?
Can somebody tell me how to make this work, please? Is there some kind of radius I can set?
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1. You have the Borg NPC groups set to Timid behavior. This will case them to not attack unless the player fires first. Great for mimicking Borg behavior from the shows.
2. If you really want the Borg to attack based on proximity (instead of aggression), place the Borg NPC group behind an invisible wall(s). Add a reach marker. Set the invisible walls to disappear when the reach marker is set off. The Borg won't "see" the player because of the invisible walls until they're removed. This is also useful if you want the Borg to attack because of another event such as accessing a console or after the dialog for a final boss.
I'm sure it wasn't a reach-marker-and-invisible-wall job in those maps, because half the time fighting the mobs was a required objective (I was just stealthing to see if I could), so surely not built with stealthers in mind!
The problem though is that the new hostile enemies will beam in when they are triggered.
Yes they will have the beam animation, but if you trigger it with a dialog promt "Objective in progress" the dialog box will mask the beam in.
Or you could just have the player interact with a console with their back to a room full of friendly Klingons and then turn around and face enemies.
Triggers are very complex and can be frustrating but can also be fun to figure out.
I completely forgot about the timid mode. That should work well in my new mission currently under development. Thanks thegreendragoon.
I found several great tutorials on StarBaseUGC including triggers. This includes optional triggers as well as setting up mission required triggers. I learned a lot from the whole series regarding basics of the Foundry. One of my favorite things to use is invisible objects, depending on the size of the object to trigger dialogue, events and effects. In some cases you can use reach markers as well.
Brian
(AKA: Evil70th)
(Which isn't very Borg-like)
I would deff go with the invisible walls that disappear when you hit reach markers. Simple, straight-forward, no messy beaming, totally effective.
For the mission currently have under development I will try both methods to see which works better. If the wall functions as indicated that may be the better options for me as well.
Brian
(AKA: Evil70th)
Please ignore this post.
So the short answer is both methods work but you have to tailor the mission to meet the restrictions of both. In other words if you are using Borg and you do not want them to attack until a certain point then the wall is you best choice. If you do not have the player approaching too closely to the enemy then timid will work.
Brian
(AKA: Evil70th)
The scenario would be like this: derelict 8472 ships that Borg tries to assimilate.
A few ships must be derelict and not return fire when shot at except one of them.
After that: boarding party to that ship, 8472 half-assimilated creatures in stasis, same thing: shoot them and only some of them revive and shoot back.
is this possible ?
Would of been nice also if you could spawn NPC ships with custom loadout (specific consoles, weapons, etc instead of defaults).
This was suggested at the time. However, it seems loot tables are set at much broader level and can't be disabled by a set behavior.
The scrip idea was to shoot at derelicts until one that's dormant is found.
My character Tsin'xing
Problem is this approach wont fit our story script. Mission requires termination of all found derelicts.
Only trouble with this one, Greendragoon, is that timids RUN away from you quickly when you get near until you attack. It may not be Borg-like. But it is a great behaviour otherwise. Good for animals and Ferengi.