Dev Diary 146: SPECIALs (Patreon)

Heya mutants,

another great week is behind us. I've been primarily focused on two things: bringing party members up to standard and conducting a comprehensive review and update of all special encounters.

For party members, I've updated the code to allow for proper customization of their behavior: distance, equipment, healing preferences, and so on. I tested all of this on the Hanged Man, of course. He's a beast now, much more useful than before. But he comes at a price with that tricky personality of his. And once you get your hands on a vehicle, I can imagine the party quickly ending up on the wasteland's "most wanted" list :-) I still have to implement some "unique" behavior for certain party members next week.

Besides that, I conducted a full review of all special encounters, including those in our backlog over the years. So, to summarize, special encounters from Fallout 1 and 2, which were always intended to be temporary, have been replaced with lots of new, unique encounters for Fallout Yesterday.

So, in the upcoming week, I'll wrap up the work on party members/special encounters and move on to implementing the remaining Traits and Perks from our to-do list.

P.S. Don't worry, you can still get your hands on the alien blaster, but in a different encounter :-)

See you soon,
-PJ