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   Dilemma Mod 1.0 (story difficulty mod) by byblo for State of Decay YOSE edition
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Presentation:
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This mod mainly makes the game harder by rarifying everything, like the vehicles, the melees, pistols, backpack, medecines, ect... Searching a LOT to find barely NOTHING.
Also, some idiot broke the radar during his holidays, so guess its time to learn how to read a map -_-
(See changelog for details)

Why this mod? I LOVE SoD, but few hours after starting a new game on story mode, I always end wondering myself: "why bother to keep scavenging, where my supply locker is already full with 100 melees, 100 pistols and 1000 other stuffs?... Why bother to preserve my melees and cars when I can find them everywhere"

I feel SoD is suffering by what I call the "survival-in-a-supermarket' syndrome, like many others 'survival' games around. How to get the survival fun and feeling, when, after scavenging few houses already, you get out from there with almost everything you will need to the rest of the game?

Thus, I needed a mod where I'll cry of hapiness when eventually finding a pistol, a durable melee or simply a backpack after hours of searching...

This is what the mod is about, searching a lot, with very few results, forcing us to keep getting out, taking hard decisions and risks.

This said, and unfortunately, the game being very forgiving, the result is not totally satistfying me. Maybe a V2 will make it much harder, we will see later :)




Installation:
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- Ensure first you dont have installed yet any other mod that changing the gameplay!
- Copy the content of the \SoD_Dilemma_YOSE_1.0\ folder into your State of Decay game folder.




IMPORTANT NOTE - DLC's COMPATIBILITY:
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Since Breakdown and lifetime DLC sharing some files with the main story mode, I do not recommend you play a new DLC game while the Dilemma mod is installed:
It is highly recommended to play only the story mode while Dilemma mod is installed!

For instance, the file: Game\levels\Class3\vehicle_spawns_win.markup is shared between the story and the DLC Breakdown...
Which mean if you start a new Breakdown game, the vehicles spawn position will be from the Dilemma mod...

This said, if someone enjoying this mod on DLC (radar still broken, ect...), maybe I can also mod the Breakdown and the Lifetime DLC, the same way I did for the story mode: new vehicles positions, lot of searching for few results, harder, ect...




IMPORTANT NOTE - This version is NOT compatible with the non-YOSE edition:
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You can find the non-YOSE version here: http://www.nexusmods.com/stateofdecay/mods/408/




Changelog (approximative, like my english...)
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- vehicle_spawns_win.markup: Totally new cars positions and new classes added.

- missions.win.bmd: Mainly, lowered amount of ammo, materials, food and medecines.
- missions.win.bmd: Few minor changes like removing crowbar from Ed, ect...

- radiooptions.win.bmd: Radio options much more expensive.
- radiooptions.win.bmd: Increased cooldown timers.

- vehicles.win.bmd (class3): Added new vehicles classes for Dilemma mod.
- vehicles.win.bmd (class3.1): Added missing classes from Dilemma mod since Breakdown DLC using the same vehicle_spawns_win.markup file from the main story mode...

- items.win.bmd: Reduced backpack capacity (from 8 to 6 for small backpack and from 10 to 8 for big backpack)

- characters.win.bmd: Removed lot of durable melees and weapons from characters, or lowered them.

- enclaves.win.bmd: Lowered or removed some enclaves items.

- facilities.win.bmd: Increased enclaves requirements.

- rtsevents.win.bmd: Changed time when starting a new game (from 8h to 13h)
- rtsevents.win.bmd: Increased zombies count while day/night
- rtsevents.win.bmd: Lowered or changed enclaves items additions (removed for instance painkillers given to all survivors every day)

- search.win.bmd: Drastically reduced the items found while scavenging, while increased the searching places (lot of searching with few results)

- actorconstants.win.bmd: Increased health penalties, falling, toxic ect...

- class3_banners_i8.dds: Removed red banner when spotting a horde (but text still showing up)

- class3_centerprompts_i3.dds: Removed hint banner (but text still showing up)

- class3_notifications_i6c.dds: Removed main blue background banner, like the base or dialog banner (but text still showing up)

- class3_notifications_i3.dds: Player icon replaced by a yellow circle on the map helper
- class3_notifications_i3.dds: Removed zombie icon on infected special count (prevent player to know how many special are in the infected zone)

- class3_radar.gfx: /!\ Disgusting hack method used here, by disabled functions calls. (if someone gets a better method...) This said, it should not give problems. Tested without any trouble.
- class3_radar.gfx: Disabled function SetWaypointArrowRot to prevent green waypoint arrow to show up on minimap.
- class3_radar.gfx: Disabled function SetObjectiveArrow to prevent blue waypoint arrow to show up on minimap.
- class3_radar.gfx: Disabled function ShowZombieCounter to prevent special zombie count/cleared on clearing an infected house. Prevent player to even know he is on an infected zone xD

- class3_radar_i8.dds: Resized texture by 200% (from 1024x256 to 2048 to 512) for broken radar better resolution (see below)
- class3_radar_i8.dds: Added broken radar to prevent player to use the minimap (have fun!)

- intromovies.usm: Disabled intro video

- intromovies_noesrb.usm: Disabled intro video

- yose_frontend.usm: Alternative startup screen Dilemma mod

- hatchback_modern_green.mtl: Material for new car class: hatchback modern green color

- hatchback_modern_white.mtl: Material for new car class: hatchback modern white color

- pickupold_rusty.mtl: Material for new car class: Pickup Old rusty version

- van_cargo_destroyed.mtl: Fixed material: front glass was still visible after van explosion

- van_cargo_variant_destroyed.mtl: Fixed material: invisible destroyed model

- hatchback_modern_green.xml: Added: new vehicle based on original Hatchback_modern_blue class (diffence is just the green color)

- hatchback_modern_white.xml: Added: new vehicle based on original Hatchback_modern_blue class.
- hatchback_modern_white.xml: Car is supposed to be older than original, and has lower perfs.

- pickupold_rusty.xml: Added: new vehicle based on original PickUpOld class

- pickupold_rusty_dead.xml: Added: new vehicle based on PickUpOld_rusty class (vehicle is intentionally barely moving, and produce heavy flame at starting engine)

- van_cargo.xml: Fixed: multiple positions (seats, enter, exit, zombies, burning)

- van_cargo_variant.xml: Fixed: multiple positions (seats, enter, exit, zombies, burning)
- van_cargo_variant.xml: Fix attempt: sometimes missing playing sound while driving

- danger_zone02.dds: Blood splat won't show anymore on map. Player won't know anymore the level of infestation (how many specials to expect to kill, how many zombies to expect ect...)

- icons_map.dds: No zombies (or players) visible on the map/minimap. (excepted hordes)
- icons_map.dds: Removed horde looking direction on map/minimap.
- icons_map.dds: Possible objective (green circle) removed on the map/minimap.
- icons_map.dds: Player icon is now a yellow circle: not showing direction anymore. use your compass :)
- icons_map.dds: Crosshair is now more open on the middle and clearer at view. (bars not touching anymore)

- user.cfg: Prevent blurry aliasing - for use with FXAA or other




Recommendations:
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Since this mod is heavily changing the gameplay, it is not recommended to use with another SoD mod that modify it.

This said, I recommend you play the Dilemma mod with those mods:
- HD Map and HD Minimap Mod
- new Blood Fire and Smoke
- new flashlight texture
- NoGlowingZedEyes
- No More Tutorial Tips (WARNING! Install ONLY the 'hints.win.bmd' file. DO NOT replace any Dilemma's dds files!)




Tools used:
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- Phacops-MultiTool_and_Vehicle_Pack (ingame debugging tool)
- SoD_win_markup (vehicle_spawns_win.markup map editor)
- SoDtool_driverSitPos (vehicles xml developping tool)
- SoD_clipsearch (search developping tool)
- Gimp (image editor)
- VirtualDub (video editor and capture)
- medianoche (usm video encoder)



Differences between YOSE and non-YOSE version:
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- search.win.bmd should now showing much more highlighted props, which should make the game a bit longer and harder. To compensate, increased by 10 to 30% the drop of some stuffs in some cases, like the resources, ect...
- Small changes here and there.


Uff... Been a lot of work². Have fun! :)
   
  byblo