
Mods / BetterDrifters- Increased Danger and Loot.
Category:
#Cosmetics
#Creatures
#Tweak
Author: Mr1k3
Side: Both
Created: Apr 18th 2021 at 6:29 AM
Last modified: Jan 26th at 8:52 AM
Downloads: 5856
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Author: Mr1k3
Side: Both
Created: Apr 18th 2021 at 6:29 AM
Last modified: Jan 26th at 8:52 AM
Downloads: 5856
Follow Unfollow 32
Better drifters is a mod dedicated to making drifters more notable as an enemy. Most importantly it scales up their models, adds new sounds, and a new nightmare drifter model, all in hopes to make them more intimidating. It also changes many aspects of their stats making them slightly less common but more dangerous, tweaks the loot tables to be slightly more generous to compensate, and adds a new weapon drop to high-end drifters, below are a deeper breakdown of the changes:
Combat tweaks:
- Drifters have all had their health increased by a few hitpoints on the low end and progressively more as their tier increases.
- Max spawn count for each drifter has been decreased by a large amount so there should be fewer drifter swarms and more 1-1 encounters but they should be more dangerous
- All movement speeds (except surface) have been increased by a scaling amount depending on tier up to double speed
- Drifter aggro/sight range now scales with tier from 14 blocks to 20
- Now deal slightly more damage, the rate of attack has been slightly randomized and now scales with tier so harder tiers hit more often. Surface and deep drifters take a little longer time before they damage you in a swing so you have a a tiny bit more time to dodge them.
- There is overall a 100ms longer delay before a drifter deals damage to you when it swings
- Chance to flee when hit has been reduced overall, means fewer cowardly drifters that wont finish what they started
- Scaling with their larger models, each tier also has larger hit boxes to mach the size
- Drifters now will try to evade attacks sometimes after getting hit, happens more often the more dangerous the drifter
- MOST IMPORTANTLY:
- The priority override for stone throwing has been fixed to make drifters not interrupt themselves with an absurdly high rate to throw stones, in addition to these next changes this means drifters will try to only throw stones at you when they cant reach you
- The cooldown between thrown stones now scales inversely with drifter tier but has been increased by 3x at the minimum and up to 8x at max, so drifters cant just spam stones but lowe tier drifters can throw more often
Loot and cosmetics:
- Drifters have been tuned to have slightly more drops, added flax twine to loot tables and gave surface drifters a tiny chance to give rusty gears, flax fiber drops really commonly but the other drops have only been increased by a small amount
- Harvest times with the knife have been cut in half
- New weapon drop from corrupt, nightmare, and double headed drifters, rare chance to drop on the first two but the weapon offers lots of damage but does not have that many uses
- Drifter size has been increased, surface/deep have had a 30% increase in size, double headed is 2x larger, and the rest have are increased by 50%
- Nightmare drifter model tweak- now has many glowing eyes, don't stare into them for too long...
- New sounds for all drifters, corrupt and up have reverb added to sound more otherworldly
- Corrupt, nightmare, and double-headed drifters now drag their blade behind them when they walk or run like pyramid heads from silent hill
Alternate hardcore version available in forum post comments. Thanks to Thaliusfor making those changes. For those who want a even bigger challenge.
Version | For Game version | Downloads | Release date | Changelog | Download |
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v2.1.3 | 3250 | Jan 26th at 8:52 AM | Show | BetterDrifters_v2.1.3.zip | |
v2.1.2 | 312 | Jan 22nd at 10:12 AM | Show | BetterDrifters_v2.1.2.zip | |
v2.0.2 | 1252 | Aug 14th 2021 at 6:14 PM | Show | BetterDrifters_v2.0.2.zip | |
v2.0.1 | 688 | Apr 28th 2021 at 3:34 AM | Show | Better-Drifters2.0.1.zip | |
v2.0.0 | 340 | Apr 18th 2021 at 6:32 AM | Show | Better-Drifters2.0.0.zip |
Hello Mr1k3. I am really liking the mod. Cant wait to see it in the latest verson 🧐 No rush
2.1.3-
2.1.2-
Major update to 1.16
Please could you update better drifters to 1.15.6
This dosen't fix the killaura and the fact they stand perfectly still after missing a hit, but it's still a huge step in the right direction for drifter combat. Especially the reduction in passive noise, GOD I hated that. This is a must-download for that reason alone.
2.0.2 changes:
Enabled new drifter sounds, should be much more pronounced so you can better tell when drifters are near. Also now they have a very distinct aggro sound so you can learn when one is about to charge.
Slightly reduced spawn sizes and chance for lesser drifters so hopefully constant swarms from nowhere are less likely, mixed with their buffs should still have similar difficulty.
Now uses a patch rather than a full file replace, hopefully everything works but sometimes the modmaker does wierd stuff so let me know if something isnt right. But as a plus other mods that modify drifters should work with this mod.