@Sylvester Graves Ty, it did indeed! Please join the Rimtroid server to see the roadmap for the 1.5 update, alongside updates and looks into it as it progresses, when playtests are available, and all that good stuff.

https://discord.gg/JCCVcpX2

Can't wait for 1.4

another 10$ donated

Id love some canonical features, shooting super missles would be cool af

@Pureza Corezlaster all the beams actually have art, and is an eventual plan. Sadly, giving them canonical features (missiles, combos, etc.) requires some heavy coding.

However if it would show enough interest... making "basic" versions of each beam is definitely doable. Versions of each type, with swapping most likely done at some sort of workbench.

No missiles (unless it was it's own beam), no modular projectile type (i.e. long beam), and possibly no on-the-fly switching, but most would be accessible.

I would love to see this mod add more than just metroids, maybe some armor and weapons from the Metroid series as well?

Thank you, that will help. Once the coding work can be fully afforded, the mod will be updated, and IDEALLY it will enable the mod to be updated properly between versions, and always be working with at least it's metroid and evolution features.

Threw 10$ at you just now <3

@Towa Musa that'd be super helpful. If you have Discord, use this link, say hi, and I'll go over what should be able to get finished.

https://discord.gg/TZdEX62m

aite ill throw some money at you one of these days as i would like to see this project done

@Tower Musa It'd probably be enough to get the main system (the evolution mechanic) working again, and any help would be very appreciated. The Patreon is in a below comment if you need it.

will 50$ get us to 1.4?

@The Ducktor this will fully be using VFE. However they are still many abilities and features VFE can't do (and thus requires custom code), which is why the mod isn't going anywhere. There's no funds to update all the coding.

Vanilla Expanded Framework can help with abilities a lot.

If I use the no version warning mod, can I run this in 1.4?

yep

@DC2 same issue as the other mod you asked about. This is in update limbo until it and other mods can be funded.

can you update to 1.4?

@Towa Musa yes, though most of the mod has come out of my or the previous owner's pocket. It is a very costly mod unfortunately.

there is not a set up Patreon, but there is a ko-fi which has the same benefits and setup as the WIP Patreon: https://ko-fi.com/sepphoris

paying? is this on a patreon or something?

@Towa Musa yes, once paying for coding changes and the like can be afforded (and the remaining metroids are added in, which are also in the works).

are there plans to update this to 1.4?

@Un7n0wn right now, the only way to come across them is either specific raids, or in the wild. However, the plan is to have a quest that allows you to enable them spawning, since lore-wise, they would be creaturesd that would rapidly grow and hunt all over the world.

Letting them follow the same pattern as insects could be ideal though. That may happen with certain ones, most likely anything that isn't still considered a "child" metroid.

@SepphorisVT Temperate forest actually. Nothing fancy or modded. I also don't run any mods that change the spawn rates but I do have a few animal mods.

Is there a reason you want them spawning with the normal wildlife? Seems like they could show up as a raid and not be immediately hostile (like insects), to give the player a little more warning and punish them for not taking it seriously.

@Un7n0wn mind providing the biome please? Most biomes have extremely low weight, but I can double check.

As for spawning I'm working on a solution to prevent certain metroids spawning before the player is ready.

Currently, the zeta metroids specifically are a problem early game. On a tribal start, they spawn with the normal wildlife in packs of around 3. Usually, they go on a rampage killing entire herds of even some of the stronger wildlife from Magical Menagerie (I watched one solo 3 kitsune specifically). All metroids will attack colony people and animals without warning (should at least have an animal hunting x alert like the normal animals) and they have a habit of swarming a single isolated creature (would be fine with a warning).

The spawn rate for wild metroids seems really high I'm not sure the exact numbers, but after dev removing a whole pack of zetas, I had a new pack by the next morning. They just don't let you get a foothold if you start below industrial tech. I'll be removing the mod for now, but I really like the direction you guys are going with this and I'll be back after some tuning. We really need more bio horror mods.

da baby

@kirby20082 No. This mod is specifically meant for the metroid species, and anything directly relating to them. Anything else will be in another mod, if it happens.

are you planning to add X virus form metroid fusion to your mod

Update 8.21.2022

Fission and Fusion metroid defs have been removed for the time being, as they were incomplete metroids and caused issues when present. This may cause one-time missing def errors, but should be safe to ignore.

@dchy possibly, but it's not something I can handle at the moment.

will the mod be compatible with CE?

YESS PICS, i'm glad the art for this is actually great and vanilla friendly)

@GameofGames mote issue is mentioned on Discord (should mention it here), but it just a call for something that's eliminated. It is safe to ignore. EvoGrowth Fission is helpful though! That is also safe to ignore, as it cannot be called either currently.

https://gist.github.com/5d99161063c285d0b29c4a6572c4cb0f Alright I added the Core mod and better loading works initially but I got a yellow error with "Broken compatibility". I can ignore that error and even remove better loading from my list but I am still getting some red errors from RT, regarding "Air puff" and "evo growth fission"?

@GameofGames that would explain it then! No worries though. Be sure to let me know if you come across any issues while running both please!

@SepphorisVT Hmmm I did not, I need more coffee and shall thoroughly enjoy testing this mod.

@GameofGames have you installed Rimtroid: Core?

Is this incompatible with better loading? Better loading gives a warning that not all the .dll files assembled correctly and that it might be a load order or missing dependency. The modlist works fine without rimtroid and I use rimpy to sort and manage mods. There are also some additonal rimtroid related errors. https://gist.github.com/e0f5ac90514f62e4b3342013ff52ab1d There are some could not load reference errors that aren't related. (I switched back to another modlist but figured i should recreate the rimtroid issue to see if I could solve it.) It could be load order related but I figure I would throw out the hugslib here and it might be of some help.

@Jinru yes, upcoming. Initially this was just unlisted, so screenshots wasn't going to be a thing.

any pictures/screenshots?)

If you'd like to see the work that's already put into that mod, it'll be on the Discord soon.

@Best Username To Exist It was actually brought up to a coder yesterday! While the individual beams can certainly be done, making one truly accurate to the series is an absolutely MASSSIVE task, since Rimworld supports very little of what would be needed.

I'll be breaking it down once the time comes to work more on it. In the meantime, I'll probably release a minor mod that at least gives you individual cannons.

now all we need is for someone else to make Samus' Armor and blaster (All variants included)