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@lexo1000 We fixed two more little bugs this weekend and will wrap up the latest build as soon as we are ready. It wont be long, hopefully this weekend 🙂

Yes, for testing purposes.

Next beta version. We would appreciate any form of feedback 🙂 PedDamageOverhaul.ini PedDamageOverhaul.asi

Did you activate the spine shot paralysis? This is the only setting allowing NPCs to go down before the thresholds are reached and those NPCs wont be able to move (and if the thresholds arent reached, they wont bleed out either). But this feature is disabled by default (exactly because of this behavior - which is logical, but often not wanted).

@ChristianW. Thanks for the feedback. Addressing your points: Enemies are down and dont die: you turned on "AlwaysBleedoutLonger" - turn this off and check if it changes. Enemies dont takte much damage from leg or arm shots: this is intended, so you cant take NPCs down by a few hand or foot shots - you can change it via the ini. Enemies stopping after fleeing from the player: how often did this occur? Is there any way to properly reproduce the scenario? Screaming NPCs in combat: this is the panic chance - it can be configured at the bottom of the ini. Screaming NPCs in combat looping sound: is there any way to reproduce this issue? Does it happen for every scream or only occasionally?

@ChristianW. No, the knockout threshold does not interfere with the bleeding and running. When Im talking about thresholds, its always the DyingMovementThreshold, DyingMovementThreshold2 and DyingThreshold. If you have UseAnimChance set to 100, the DyingMovement-Values are obsolete to you. The DyingMovement-Values are the ones used if the animations are not played -> NPCs are moved via force pushes (this was the usual way before we figured out how to use animations and it stayed in because some people liked it).

Here is a new beta version for v1.54. Please test and provide some feedback, guys (ini is configured for tests - you might want to disable invincibility). PedDamageOverhaul.ini PedDamageOverhaul.asi

@ChristianW. I would suggest playing with the following variables for the following effects: How much damage NPCs can take before going down: increase/decrease DyingMovementThreshold How quickly they bleed out: increase/decrease BleedingChanceDying1 and BleedingChanceDying2 How much damage you take: increase/decrease NPCWeaponModifier If you want NPCs to lose health after you have shot them once (even if they are not down) enable BleedWhenShot and configure BleedingChanceShot to control how quickly they lose health. Concerning the bleeding and fleeing, it is a bit complicated. Its like this: when NPCs are bleeding, they start doing certain tasks (the running around is a task, for example). We dont know all the tasks which are linked to the bleeding and running, only some of them. For those we know, we have already made exceptions in the code, so NPCs dont get forced to the ground, even if their health is below the thresholds. For those tasks we dont know, NPCs will only be able to run around bleeding as long as their health does not cross any of the thresholds. So there is really nothing much you can do at the moment. We tried to improve it in the new version (v1.54), but it still occurs.

Artery shots seem like they occur by chance (depending on different factors like NPC health and point of impact) - I was never able to produce them on purpose. That said, we didnt change anything about neck damage, NPC health or anything that might impact the bleeding behavior (at least from what I understand).

I fear the forced ragdoll flinch causes them to do this. If thats ture, I dont think I can circumvent that without introducing other (formerly fixed) bugs concerning riders :/

Bug report: I was in tall trees, getting attacked by skinner brothers. Took one of them and didnt find a horizontal branch, so I tried to just attach him to a tree (about 4 metres high, I aimed at the tree and the hanging option appeared). The player character approached the tree, the screen faded black, then the mod crashed and I got an infinite loading screen. I suppose it has something to do with the chosen spot being on a vertical surface.

@vtap @salveta New version out - I hope I fixed the stuff you mentioned.

@salveta Yes, please, that would be helpful. @Frizio I dont know. I know the task NPCs execute when getting knocked out by hand or rifle-butt, and even if its the same as when kicked on the ground, I dont know the state they enter afterwards, so I wouldnt know if I could get them out of it.

There is a reaction which makes NPCs stand still in shock. Its occurence is proportional to the DSEuphiaStumbleChance (so if you want it to happen less often, decrease the chance). Or did I misunderstand you?

No, its currently not in the mod. I wouldnt know how to accomplish this. Euphoria is some kind of ragdoll behavior - if an NPC is in this mode, I cant really touch it or order it to do something without the NPC leaving the euphoria/ragdoll mode. The only way to do this, is to configure the file in which euphoria behavior is specified - and for this, OpenIV is needed. This is the way I understand things, at least. Maybe Im wrong, though.