Throes of Obedience
My attempt at spicing up one of the coolest zones in Kenshi. All credit for the idea goes to noppy, whose Spanking Spider mod adds security spiders with arms attached.
DISCLAIMER
This is extremely rough and likely will be for some time. Expect janky animations, bad hitboxes, poor AI, potential conflicts, messy spawns, maybe even crashes (though I’ve experienced none). I will attempt to refine it according to feedback as best I’m able, but I am a complete amateur.
CURRENT PLANS
- Give them the proper arm texture. If I try to use it now, it comes out a bit stretched, with some seams. The spider texture is a placeholder until I get around to learning how to fix that.
- Rework/tune the idles and add new ones. In general I’d like to make the arms "at rest" for longer periods of time, possibly adding multiple versions with different resting poses to help them blend in better.
- Switch from homeless to nest spawns in order to reduce clustering and how much they slide around (I can’t seem to completely eliminate their ability to move).
- Improve the attacks and add new ones. The major problems are getting the hitboxes right and keeping them from losing aggro mid-swing. The latter is especially difficult because of their massive range and long animations. I have toyed with making them more of a constant environmental hazard through spawning invisible goats to attract attacks, but other arms kept sliding all the way across the zone to gang up on them. Once I switch to nests, I may be able to tether them properly and go with that idea.
- Correct any relations issues that are reported. I want them to be hostile to the player alone, because they aren’t really meant to be attacked. If you see any Obedience spawns attacking them, let me know and I will patch it ASAP. That includes new enemies from other mods.
- Release a separate mod to enhance the ambience. I’d appreciate any ideas for this, I’ve only messed around with fog so far.
LUXURY FEATURES
- Improve the sound effects… AFAIK it’s impossible to add new ones, sorry. Go beg Chris-sama to improve the FCS.
- Add new variants such as the arm holding a head as shown in the trailer. I either need to use a proper ragdoll or a custom physics attachment for the light to work correctly, not sure. Probably a ways away.
- Create a faction of Behemoth worshipping NPCs.
- Make lore-friendly in the slightest.
- Do anything in a reasonable amount of time.
Again, big shoutouts to noppy for his awesome mod.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1693894429
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Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
