DDDX RPG survival (map and mod)

DDDX

Version 159 coming in as soon as the FAF Development team patches the antitele towers issue with INSIGNIFICANTUNIT category.
Should be today, maybe tomorrow. Soon, anyways.

Below is a detailed list a list of changes for v159, also in the CHANGES file inside the mod.

Most important changes is that the mod is reworked to not contain any Blackops assets (for the rest i've gotten permission from mod makers).

WARNING: because of that, the map/mod now need extra mods (but only downloaded, no need to enable them)

Xtreme Wars
Harryvk21s Naval Pack

if you experience desyncs at the start of the game, it's probably because you have not downloaded those 2. Make sure upon hosting that all players have these mods, and the desync and missing meshes for units should be no more

Next, added a Legendary class of units. They are essentially tier 5 - very strong, but only one can be made by the entire team. So do not waste resources making more, you will just lose them.
Aeon have a massive shield with a larger area than the Aurora, and insane power requirement (adjecancy does reduce it)!
Cybran have a very powerful megabot that also cloaks allies around it
Sera have a regeneration field turret that also provides some defensive capabilities

UEF has a modified Novax that automatically builds sattelites as long as it's alive. No need for a picture.
Only the chosen faction can make a Legendary unit of its race, even if you have engineers of other factions (so, only Aeon can make Aeon Legendary, only Sera can make a Sera Legendary...). Let me know if the "only one" rule can be exploited/broken.

Zombies. New main mission, has a 30% chance to trigger
Above: an idyllic picture of a peaceful zombified village. FU**ING KILL IT WITH FIRE ASAP!!!!!

Next, reworked the teleporting SACUs so that they actually teleport. This means that they can be stopped using antiteleport towers. And right you are to do so, for the SACUs grow in numbers, strength, and even bring experimentals over time to teleport in the middle of your base!

New AA optionsSo that the Aeon and their Sky trackers are not the only go-to solution. AANG stands for Anti Air Non Guided. They are very fast, fire and forget, antiboss-class anti air rockets of extreme range, but can only be built on hydrocarbon deposits. Good vs CZARS, bad vs bombers, because of god awfull turret turning and no guidance of missiles.
Heavy AA cruiser for Sera, submersible.

Uef have had the Horizon experimental buffed in ragne and damage to be better suited for anti air, and Aeon...they're good

Here's a list of all major changes:

Map:

Made the starting dialogue, battle, and mid base optional in settings -can be reduced or turned off completely
Added reinforcement waves as an option under "Extra defences".
Added a 4.th main mission type - Zombies. Triggers in place of the Gateway mission, if randomly chosen (2/7th chance to get picked).
--WARNING! ZOMBIE HABITATS WILL LAG THE GAME SIGNIFICANTLY IF LEFT UNKILLED FOR A LONG TIME!!!!!!
Reworked the teleSACU script so that they actually teleport in our bases - can be countered with antitele towers finally. Increased the area where they spawn, gave them enhancements over time, and even experimentals that teleport in near endgame unless you make antitele towers.
Opened path to Allied Paragon so it can be reached by foot and repaired to give us a Palace shield -if difficulty is 30+
Cleared up terrain around transport paths to allow for making distant AA outposts to take transports out before they have a chance to land - or even some Gateways!
Raised mountains around some farther mexes to prevent them from getting hit by arty in yet unopened parts of the map.
Increased props around the starting area and the map in general (for visual appeal), added more mexes and hydros to the edges of the map - to make transport paths areas more appealing for colonisation.
Added more Mexes in the far south to reward expansion there
Fixed Naval factories event not triggering unit spawn if it was chosen as an active event
Fixed Paragon nuking triggering always, regardless if we made a Paragon -no more nuke subs nuking at min 25
Fixed Paragon nuking script giving nukes to dead subs, and locking subs in place, messing up SIM speed
Reduced Antitele structure HP to make it easier to kill and free up teleporting, reduced field range drastically, but increased antitele numbers around the map (field range is now 120, that's slightly less than an Avalanche beetlebot range)
Nerfed all mission transport HP, removed Fire and Doom beetles from cargo to prevent friendly fire
Reduced transport numbers if extra transport mission is selected (max 14 per side, with 6 players, more if pl 7 is in game)
Made all allied and enemy minibosses have varied hp based on difficulty

Mod:

Added Legendary units and build restrictions for them - only one allowed per entire team!
Added new anti-air options (t3 AA cruiser for Sera, buffed Horizon exp damage and range for UEF, hydrocarbon Antiboss rocket instalation for Cybran )
Nerfed Raw Omega air damage
Removed a bunch of warnings for drones and events to speed up sim speed
Nerfed Aeon Alpha lvl 1 hp, buffed lvl 3 slightly
Fixed Aeon Alpha lvl 3 getting free nukes with nuke enhancement
Fixed Aeon Alpha lvl 2 and 3 not being able to make Sky Tracker with air enhancements
Fixed Aeon lvl 3-4-5 naval weapons range bug
Gave rapid fire anti fighter missiles (Shaddower missile) to Aeon hero lvls 4 and 5 with some enhancements.
Nerfed Cybran hero lvl 3-4-5 long range weapon (less damage, slower fire), fixed Rail gun pitch
Buffed all lvl 1 Alphas mass production to allow for faster starting upgrades and less time wasted on getting them.
Gave Silencer turret weapon enhancements
Nerfed Duke and Count (mini CZARS) land damage, HP, air crash damage, and slowed down spawn rate by +10 seconds
Nerfed Carrier shield - +20 sec for shield to recharge, - 10.000 hp to Carrier hull. Fixed the unkillable Carrier bug.
Reduced Carrier movement speed, reduced Interceptor turret damage, crash damage
Reduced the mind control chance of nanite projectiles for Cybran heroes.
Added a bunch of missing icons and unit descriptions.
Fixed issues with Aeon hero Stinkfly drones not getting upgrades when hero gets enhancements for them.
...and a bunch more...

Resistance

can you add those into the map/mod description?
i mean the additional mods

DDDX

@rezy-noob yup, did. Needs to be upoloaded to the Vault, though - waiting on FAF to reverse some changes that broke some mods first

DDDX

v160 uploaded to the Vault. Minor fixes and balances, with one notable exception - created teleport buildings for heroes to quickly reach other parts of the map.

For more details check the starting post or the Changes.txt file inside the Balance mod

DDDX

v162 is out. A small patch, Icons and visuals for various missions , and bugfixes + balances. Details are in the Changes.txt inside the balance mod

CHANGES IN VERSION 162

Patch 162

Map:
Added Mission icons
Fixed some missions triggering even though you've selected to have no missions

Mod:
Further optimised code to increase stability, mostly on Carriers
Reduced Carriers numbers in waves
Halved their drones, from 8 to 4, but buffed drones hp and damage to compensate
Nerfed Cybran heroes Rail gun damages by 20%
Further nerfed Aeon heroes OC damage, buffed starting AA weapons
Fixed not having Sky trackers buildable from drone enhancements for lvl 2 and 3 Aeon hero
Nerfed Aeon hero lvl 3-4-5 lasers damage, buffed lvl 2 laser dmg
Further nerfed Aeon hero Overcharges
Buffed Aeon heroes starting AA missiles

BvH

Hi DDDX, thank you for this great mod! One question regarding the Player_1 slot, is it required to fill this either with a human player or an AI? We experienced that the mod wouldn't work (showing the complete map with red units etc) if we leave this slot empty.

DDDX

@bvh which mod was that?

If player_1 spot is empty, then it spawns an AI version of the hero, after a while - starts at level 3 (not 1), is a lot stronger (more upgrades and buffs) and can be controlled by the defenders in the same manner as was the case with Brackman's Megalith in the SupCom mission.

As far as I know, there should not be anything to interfere with other mods, specific to player 1 being present or absent...

BvH

@dddx I start the DDDX RPG survival map v162 with the following mods active and updated via de faf client to their latest versions:

BlackOps FAF: Unleashed
Survival Mayhem&BO balance
Total Mayhem

The other mods that are downloaded but not selected:

BlackOps FAF: ACUs
BlackOps FAF: ExUnits
Extreme wars

Other settings:

Auto teams: Top versus Bottom
One player at position 2

If I start the following screen shows with the warning in the minimap

But if I add an Aix player or a friend to positon one it all works correctly.
Maybe someone can test this on their own pc?

DDDX

sorry mate, could not recreate it.
Used same 3 mods, one player at pos 2, no problems there.
You should see the log and find out why the main script file failed

it will be under a "WARNING: failed to load DDDX_RPG_Survival_script.lua" (look for something like that and see where it went wrong, or better yet send me in a message

Nuggets

Hey, just tested the survival. Either after 4 or 5 waves no more units spawn (its always either 4 or 5). Also, is it intended that the Top slot is allied, but can't control the "survival units"?

DDDX

You need to see the log. If waves stop spawning that means you are missing some mods - they look for a unit that is not there.
Or some similar error inside the main script (DDDX_RPG_survival_script.lua file)

And no, player 7 was never intended to control attacking units. How would that work exactly? You could just wait a bit then send in all of them at once, that would be extremely difficult to counter.

Nuggets

Hi,

i have the following mods enabled: Surivaval Mayhem&BO balance + BlackOps FAF: ACUs + BlackOps FAF: Unleashed. The mod extreme wars is downloaded but not activated. Is that correct?
As to the unit controlling... I saw that in a different survival map and was just wondering if its the same here

DDDX

dude...you are missing the biggest mod of them all. And the one that uses the most units in waves. Total mayhem.

Nuggets

Oh sorry, forgot about that, had that enabled aswell

ErkDog

@DDDX I keep trying to host this, but it never launches, Can you list exactly the mods that should be enabled and no more?

ErkDog

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x0067aa5f
attempted to read memory at 0x00000000

Program : C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe
Cmd line arguments : /init init.lua /nobugreport /log C:\Users\mwest\AppData\Roaming\Forged Alliance Forever\logs\game_16712202.log /gpgnet 127.0.0.1:46824 /mean 756.126 /deviation 129.593 /savereplay gpgnet://127.0.0.1:7388/16712202/ErkDog.SCFAreplay /country US /clan FC /numgames 65 /numgames 63

Callstack:
Unknown symbol (address 0x0067aa5f)

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info: SSB >>> TRACE GameResults: result = defeat -10, armyID = 5, name = raz2ser
info: SSB >>> TRACE GameResults: raz2ser has been defeated by civilian
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stack traceback:
[C]: in function error' ...alliance\gamedata\mohodata.scd\lua\system\config.lua(12): in function <...alliance\gamedata\mohodata.scd\lua\system\config.lua:11> ...aforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\ui\game\gameresult.lua(200): in function DoGameResult'
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Please advise @DDDX

DDDX

@erkdog most crashes have been narrowed down to one issue - the game spawning too many different entities/effects, which eats up RAM.
Once the RAM usage reaches 2 GB, the game crashes. It's a 32 bit aplication so it cannot be helped.

The workaround is

set TEXTURES in video settings to NOT high (medium is fine). rest of the video settings can be high.
(optional) don't use aggressive mods like 10% particles. Overall, more than 4-5 mods in any game will give you trouble, and some host with 10+...that's just asking for trouble. The more mods you put in, the more likely something snaps.
(optional) decrease difficulty = less stuff on the map, less strain on the SIM speed. If it's too easy - well you can always play with just 1 starting ACU, can't you? Besides, on easy the bosses will still come at you. They will be a bit weaker, but...RIP People are used to playing survivals on max diff...well mine is designed to be a challenge on default for experienced teamworking players, and damn near impossible on 40+ difficulty.

Ardentia

For the life of me, I can't get this map to work correctly. Please someone help me. I start the map in FaF, only mods are blackops, total mayhem and the BO balance mod. I have extreme wars installed but not loaded. Teams are set to top and bottom. When I start the game, none of the RP starts. The map is fully zoomed out, i see all of the AI and they just start fighting each other. Nothing else happens. What am I doing wrong? This sounds like such a cool map!

DDDX

@ardentia this sounds like an error in the starting initialisation of the main script.
Should be easy to spot in the error log.

Start the game, press F8 (if I remember correctly, to get the error log, I do it so automatically by now
Press the check boxes to filter out only warnings, you don't need the rest.

Search fir the warning that concerns "DDDX rpg survival script.lua"
It will probably concern the OnInitiate, OnStart, or SurvivalTick parts of that script - you can see what the reason was, from that, which part causes trouble and breaks the script.

You can also paste that warning when you find it, here, or DM me (this forum has that function).

DDDX

v166 is out.

Tons of bug fixes, brought on by FAF updating (tsk, tsk),
Reworked missions to make them feel less like a chore, and also giving you more flexibility in selection/turning off, while still having the randomness element (should make my map easier to play without OP mods)
New missions, new enemy units for those missions
A new "Bonus" system for the hero that lets you tweak your play style even more (should aid in Alpha hero usefulness/survivability/team contribution extremely, specially on later waves). Here's what that looks like - 7 platforms, each giving you a certain buff to your hero.

You get a limited number of bonus Selectors to use on platforms of your choice.

As always, the entire list of changes is located inside the "Changes.txt" file in the Balance mod.
Here's a copy-paste of the latest:

Patch 166

Map:

Fixed allied bosses not spawning
Fixed allied bosses and reinforcements still spawning if the Rift was destroyed
Buffed reinforcements numbers, and Extra defences turrets
Reworked all missions to make them a bit easier on defenders and more random. Buffed them to compensate.
Added Sats and Spider mission to mission rooster, randomly selected between tele sacus
Gave all mission types descriptions so people know what they're up against.
Made script less prone to breaking due to lazy players not cleaning the map of units.
Increased CZAR numbers in waves, reduced Carriers.
Removed Harbringers from attacking waves (they reclaimed wrecks instead of attacking)

Mod:

Reworked zombies meshes + gave them attacking animations for bites.
Fixed zombie mind control not working.
Fixed Gateways not getting killed.
Created and added Centipede, SpiderLord to attacking waves
Created Overlord and added to certain special waves
Removed mini Czars from allied Pride boss
Nerfed mini Czars hp, dmg, crash dmg
Nerfed Carrier spawn chance in waves, slowed down its speed.
Nerfed transports numbers if trans mission is chosen.
Nerfed Dominator turret DPS, death damage.
Air Omega secondary form cannot be mind controled anymore.

Created Bonuses for heroes + all acompanying units and buildings, can be turned OFF in map settings.
Fixed UEF t2 hero not being able to OC submerged units.
Nerfed Air hero death damages.
Fixed hero Sky tracker infinite build bug.
Made Cybran attached turrets on hero unselectable
Allowed Aeon Alpha to make limited numbers of Annihilators at higher lvls
Nerfed all Sera hero basic regen and max hp.
Buffed UEF HP gain when using special ability, nerfed the same for Aeon.
Fixed broken drone behavior for heroes.