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2 years ago I'm privately tinkering with a "fragile speedster" version, the husk field is easy via the "emitter" property of enchantments. Zapback can be done via a spell trigger but I can't get a custom damage message to display. For the lightning attack there are two options: fake guns which are kinda janky, and spells which do not seem to get removed if the mutation is purified.
The best I can think of for hand charging in JSON is spawning battery charge or a new battery item.
Also of note is the ability to take damage from water as if it were acid, a skinny dip with my Incandescent mutation will outright kill you if you don't have a towel ready at the moment.
Still trying to figure out how to eat batteries without maintaining a custom whitelist of all other edible materials.
And yes incandescence+electric immunity is stupidly OP.
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I'm CwasCard#7191 on the official Discord, and I've been thinking up, trying, and failing tmo implement new mutation related content for CDDA. I saw I-Am-Erk's zombielike mutation ideas on the Cataclysm_DDA subreddit. There's also a lot of interesting stuff in the comments. I'm not good at programming and I don't know the first thing about C++, so I feel like the JSON parts of this is something that'd suit me - if I could pick up some C++ along the way that'd be cool too.
Solution you would like.
piezoelectric skin: your skin generates a trivially small electric charge which may cause you to emit a bit of light once in a while. You gain a little electricity immunity. I'm not actually sure how to do any of the random stuff noted here. I can do the electric resistance.
-- "piezoelectric skin" mutates into arcing skin: you constantly emit light, and once in a while bright flashes come off you which can slightly damage NPCs and monsters adjacent to you. I can do something that copies-from Mana Luminance or any of the Photophore mutations. I'm not sure how to make the "once in a while" thing - I think I can add an autocast spell with a certain cooldown?
---- "arcing skin" mutates into incandescent skin (threshold only): you constantly arc electricity, glowing brightly. You can activate or deactivate zapback, causing mild shock damage to anything adjacent to you. I can make a spell for this effect, but I'd like it to simulate the incandescent husk field effect as faithfully as possible. Casting a spell every turn is going to slow down the game a lot. Would the same ("emit_fields": [ { "emit_id": "emit_shock_cloud", "delay": "1 s" } ],) thing work if I stuck it onto a mutation/enchantment?
-- "piezoelectric skin" mutates into piezoelectric control: you can turn your piezoelectric skin on and off, and when on, you emit a constant very low light This is as simple as copying controlled photophore.
---- bioadaptive insulation requires "piezoelectric control" (post threshold): when your piezoelectric skin is disabled, you are immune to electric damage and take reduced damage from heat and acid.
I can do a transforming mutation similar to Hyper Metabolism that gives you armor values/immunity flags.
---- capacitance gland requires "piezoelectric control" or "arcing skin" (post threshold). You can emit a short range, powerful blast of electricity and light. It takes a few minutes to recharge and costs some stamina and calories.
The easiest way to implement this would be a spell, again, but I'd like to make it as similar to the shocker zombie attack as possible - mainly for the cooldown.
---- focused voltage requires either "piezoelectric control" or "arcing skin". You can charge batteries held in your hand at a rate of 1 charge per turn, costing 1kcal per charge.
I'm not sure how I would make this work. I know it'd be some sort of C++ that has something like - "If this mutation is active, check if this list of items is in your hand. If an eligible item is in your hand, remove 1 kcal of stored nutrient and restore one ammo to the item."
Apart from the ones I-Am-Erk listed, I think that both branches would have the standard "strongman" mutations - increased strength, toughness, chemical imbalance, etc. In the case of the controlled shocker line, I would like to give it some speed mutations to simulate shocker brutes, higher-order strength mutations and something similar to how EMPs interact with CBMs, but worse. Probably moderate limb damage & high pain. I'd like to do the same with the incandescent husk line - give it speed reducing mutations, but give it more health.
Any thoughts?
Describe alternatives you have considered.
Not having any of these mutations, which would then lead to a nonexploration of other lines that emulate zombie abilities, like acid zombies, bone zombies, ETC.
Additional context
If I can get this done, I could probably try the acid line next. My ideal bone line would have an insane amount of C++ required, so I don't think I could do that on my own.