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Dunno-Lars
Apr 7, 2011
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Iymarra posted:

So I've started a singleplayer campaign but there's no way of like, saving the characters created for use in a future game (like Jim, Bob and Tim all die, start a fresh game and load templates for Jim, Bob and Tim) unless there's something I'm missing
Also, is there no way to pick an alternate starting uniform/equipment like you can if you host a multiplayer game and add AI/bots?
Is there any difference between singleplayer campaign with bots vs multiplayer campaign save with bots only, hosted as a private server and password locked, in terms of getting achievements?

You can use the online save editor to save the characters, then add them back in to your new campaigns.

https://ignis05.github.io/baro-save-editor/

Use "Edit crew" on the ones you want to copy, copy the XML to clipboard and paste this into a text file. When you want to add them, copy the XML stuff from said text file and use the "Add character from XML". The "paste character XML from clipboard" does not work for me.
If you are comfortable with XML or computer stuff, you can poke around in the raw XML and edit a bunch of stuff. It's easy to see what is what.
The player characters in multiplayer are saved as XML files in your multiplayer saves folder and are also very easy to edit.
Save files are in " C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Daedalic Entertainment GmbH\Barotrauma "

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Dunno-Lars
Apr 7, 2011
:norway:

:iiam:



Thank you for the mod recommendations, super appreciate it and will add several to a ongoing campaign.

We currently use a bunch of subs from the workshop and a couple of... Flavour mods.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2876860342 Epic Accordion is my favourite, it adds a bunch of songs.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2932031871 Ye Olde Cannon is just plain fun, but would probably crash with your game balance criteria as they do oneshot all human sized enemies. Single shot though, so have to manually reload and the shots only stack to two.

We also just added the EK mod that someone updated, but it throws balance out the window. Super fun though!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954237072


Subs and my two cents on them:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2912530417 Coffin, fun idea, haven't tried it properly yet, but it has a nuclear suicide button.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2948351971 Fat Belly, our current sub. A bit slow when it comes to vertical movement, but the huge ballast tank means you can take on a surprising amount of water before you sink. Also the size makes it pretty durable. Have fought an abyss creature with it and we were fine. Keep the pets in the crew quarters to prevent them from being eaten by Threshers.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2946485711 Our rescue shuttle. Comes with a ton of meth, which makes any death much more enjoyable :)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2847437196 Our starting sub. Was a good one, but the small size means any creature will get inside and eat you/your crew/your pets every time. Fought a lot of mudraptors and threshers next to the nuclear reactor. The glass around the turrets makes you really want to kill things before they gnaw on your ship as they get in very fast. Bots sometimes got stuck on the ladder, but a good whack with a wrench fixed that. But yeah, floods all the time, so you will spend a lot of time on the ocean floor. Recommend it even if it means starting with no money!

Our current goal is to get to a place that sell tier 3 subs and get the Big Kruste https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2860638620
One of the players wants it and it looks fun. Haven't tried it yet.

Dunno-Lars
Apr 7, 2011
:norway:

:iiam:



The real problem with that is that the ingame stuff is also Chinese. So unless you can read it, calling out leaks will be an issue. You can edit the ship in the sub editor and translate it if you can figure out what is what though.

Dunno-Lars
Apr 7, 2011
:norway:

:iiam:



So had a fun session.

Three players, me as the captain, a medic and mechanic, and two bots, one engineer to babysit reactor and an assistant for cleaning up our mess. In addition to us, we had a cultist transport mission, so we had a rather full boat.

We were using the Fat Belly and was also tasked with fighting some sort of creature from the Abyss. We were sure this would be fine, we have had some rumbles with creatures of the Abyss before and survived. So we get going. A few minutes into the mission I notice a wreck on the sonar and decide to go have a look.

It was a thalamus, and it hooked us in! gently caress! And it has several operative gun poking holes in us, poo poo poo poo poo poo! Knowing that it is just a matter of time before it destroys us, I gear up and try to head down to take it down. But that god drat coil gun is suppressing our only airlock! But hey, our ballast tank has enough holes to exit now, so I go out through one of them, wielding a thermite grenade (from the EK mod) that I intend to use to burn a way into the wreck. I toss it, maybe in a bad direction, maybe the currents messed it up, we will never know. But it lands right between the top of the wreck and the bottom of our ship, which are sandwiched together. poo poo. It goes off and starts damaging both hulls. Sucks, but should be fine, none of the bots are set to fix the hull or repair anything in the ballast, the thermite will burn and sink into the wreck, this is fine, no need to panic.
Then our assistant calls for a medic. Makes sense, they are a whiny one, especially when you kneecap them while passing. But this time is different. They die in a matter of seconds. What killed them? Suddenly, our (player) mechanic dies, and they are not sure how. What the gently caress is happening on our ship? I ask the medic to be careful while I take on the wreck. I go in, start fighting those green flashy bastards and looking for those juicy organs. It's going fine for me, but then the medic claims the ship is on fire. How? Our AI engineer goes down and dies in a matter of seconds. Again, what the hell? Then we fail our transport mission because too many of our passengers die. What the gently caress is happening?! Reactor haven't melted down and our pomegrenade plant is flooded, as is most of the ship at this point. There shouldn't be any fires! Also these green shits are slowly wearing me down and are starting to paralyze me and causing burns. I know I saw a medic corpse further up in the wreck, so I race for it, but it is too late, I am paralyzed. I call for the medic, luckily I am very close to the entrance of the wreck, my suit starts beeping as I see a flashlight. Medic got to me just as the oxygen bottle runs out and manage to swap it out for me. After fixing me up, we take out the rest of the wreck with no real trouble and start assessing the situation. At this point, our mechanic is back in the methmobile (from Breaking Bad) and we try to figure out what happened. All we know is that we have a bunch of crispy corpses all over and we have no idea how they died. We decide that we are not really fit to battle this creature of the Abyss in our current state, especially when we don't know what actually killed us. There were no intruders on the ship, this doesn't make sense. We reach the outpost and decide to take a few days of shore leave.

A few hours later, a thought occurred to me. The thermite grenade was awfully close to the ship, might have been inside the ballast wall. In hindsight, I don't think it did any significant damage to the wreck, compared to what thermite grenades have done when we tested them in the past. Did... Did the bots clean it up? Did they pick up the live thermite grenade? And brought it to a locker, only to burn everyone? Surely not! But did they?

Tried hosting a quick game to test it and couldn't reproduce the exact scenario. But when throwing a thermite grenade in the ballast tank, the bots did crowd around it to fix the hull even when not ordered to. And the thermite grenade sort of disappeared. This needs further study. Also loving hell bots, stop being suicidal!

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