TRAITDEFMELEE & TRAITDEFWEAPON

[muertos69]

Can anyone who has worked on the modding for Battletech, verify if I'm understanding properly the layout of adjusting these aspects of the skill system? When you open any of the melee or weapon traits that are supposed to modify the to hit chance, they have NO effects listed. That looks to me like there is no bonus actually applied for spending points in the traits beyond the specific named abilities each line has.

[Watcher0187]

I don't understand your question. They do exactly what they describe as far as I see.

[muertos69]

@Watcher0187 If you actually look into the files you'll see they have no Effect, as compared to any other trait. So as far as I can tell those to trait sets do not actually do anything.

[Watcher0187]

I see what you mean. The odd thing is I could swear in game it was going up effectively as I played. I'm going to see if I can't find the correct effect and add it in manually.

[Watcher0187]

looking into it further I think it's checked in the engine itself. Everything outside of the base hit change exists in the jsons

[muertos69]

So then where would one go to increase the amount of increase in hit chance those traits are supposed to modify?

[Watcher0187]

I haven't seen anything outside of the jsons bnut I'm assuming you can add the effect in traits. Look at the actuators for the correct effect setting there is one for melee hit I believe.

[Watcher0187]

haven't tested this yet but I think this is what you are asking for:

 

{
"Description" : {
"Id" : "TraitDefMeleeHit1",
"Name" : "",
"Details" : "",
"Icon" : ""
},
"Type" : "MeleeHit",
"ShortDesc" : "+ 2.5% Base Melee Hit",
"DisplayParams" : "ShowInPilotToolTip",
"ActivationTime" : "Passive",
"EffectData" : [
{
"durationData" :
{
"duration" : -1
},
"targetingData" :
{
"effectTriggerType" : "OnActivation",
"effectTargetType" : "Creator"
},
"effectType" : "StatisticEffect",
"Description" :
{
"Id" : "MeleeToHitModifier",
"Name" : "melee to hit increase",
"Details" : "increase melee hit chance",
},
"statisticData" :
{
"targetCollection" : "Weapon",
"statName" : "MeleeToHitModifier",
"operation" : "Float_Add",
"modValue" : "45.0",
"modType" : "System.Single"
}
}
]
}