An Enemy who dynamically buffs Allies.

[Radioactivelad]

So I have a concept for certain groups of enemies in my mod to use a buff mechanic, whereby an NPC designated as the Squad Leader provides the buff to thier allies, and killing the Squad Leader clears the buff.

 

Now I could simply use an onDeath script on the squad leader that removes an actor effect from a reference, but I quickly realized has the problem of needing a new script and unique npcs for every instance of a "Squad Encounter." At least how I wrote it.

 

How could I implement this in a more "dynamic" way? Not necessarily at runtime (So if you chase a Squad leader to other non-squad allies, the Squad bonus doesn't have to apply to them), but for setting up multiple Squad Encounters without needing several extra unique NPCs?

Edited June 5, 2018 by Radioactivelad

[EPDGaffney]

I'm a little too busy to look into it myself, but off the top of my head, an effect with a condition of the linked ref not being dead should do it. Then you obviously would make the squad leader the linked ref of each member.

[Mktavish]

Ya no need of scripting , just a condition on the actor effect checking the references linked ref.

 

Unless the squad to squad leader relationship is going to be dynamic. Which I have been puzzling over how to do with a mod I'm working on. And so far have found no way to do that short of specific scripting / packages to account for all possible scenario's.

 

To bad there is no reciprocal "SetPackageTarget" of the "GetPackageTarget"

But there is a way to set a linked ref in Lutana and JIP.

However that doesn't help me with my Fo3 mod.