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Introducing, the Checker Wrecker!
This is a new custom item that may appear during Race and Battle.
It is a large checkered wrecking ball reminiscent of Dr. Robotnik's first battle in the original Sonic genesis game.
It'll crush players and many other things in its path.
USAGE:
Unlike many SRB2Kart items, it can only be thrown forwards. Treat it like a giant, more powerful orbi. It is generally an offensive, not defensive item, but it can be defensive if used creatively via bouncing off walls. It also instantly throws, and does not get held out like Orbis or Bananas.
The wrecker will live until it spends 15 seconds without moving. This lets it behave like a dodgeable track hazard for those farther behind than the user.
INTERACTIONS:
Track Elements:
It interacts with a lot of objects that players do. It is affected by Sneaker Panels, Zippers, and Springs, behaving much like a player would. It also will interact with slopes and conveyors as you'd expect a ball to.
Racers:
It will flatten any racer caught in it's forward path. Racer contact with the ball on the exact side to rear will result in a heavy momentum based bonk, and can be used to redirect or push the ball.
Racers with Invincibility and/or Grow:
An invincible or grown racer will no longer get flattened by the wrecker. In a situation in which an unbuffed racer would have been flattened, a buffed one will bonk the wrecker instead.
Thrown Orbinauts and Jawz:
Will be destroyed on contact with the Checker Wrecker, but will impart their momentum on it, allowing players to use orbis and jaws to redirect the wrecker away from them for defense.
Orbiting Orbinauts and Jawz:
Yes these are a bit different. These have much less effect on the Checker Wrecker's momentum, and should be assumed ineffective as a defense. A defending racer should time a throw against the wrecker to defend, not rely on orbiting items. Players attacking with the wrecker should know that it is a very effective counter to a player holding quad orbinauts.
Bananas:
Useless. Destroyed on contact with no effect on the wrecker.
Mines:
Explodes on contact, will destroy the wrecker.
Eggbox and Racers with Hyuu:
Intangible, phases through.
KNOWN ISSUES:
Sometimes the chain will bug out and behave weirdly. Not a big deal, as it is intangible and doesn't affect gameplay.
Non-player objects in SRB2Kart are unaffected by ramp marked sectors. This means that in some circumstances involoving steep slopes, or very fast moving wreckers, or both, the wrecker may bounce off a slope that you may have expected it to travel up, or fly off a slope you may have expected it to travel down. There is nothing I can do about this. Here is a funny example:
TECHNICAL NOTES:
This addon uses the amazing xItemLib mod by Minenice
It is currently using the version from the github that hasn't appeared on the MB yet, which includes a number of improvements by myself as well as JugadorXEI and Retrostation
Since there isn't any documentation for these features and fixes yet, I'll give a short overview.
new cvars, that all default to off:
xitemdebugdistributionsreplay allows you to view the distribution debugger in replays only when on, which helps with understanding odd replays.
xitemserverlogrolls will log all rolls to the server player's log.
xitemsmugglerbonus will give players who are in 3rd or higher a small item odds bonus if 1st or 2nd are holding certain vanilla items that some would consider as smuggled.
xitemdistcalcconga is a big one. It defaults off and is entirely optional. It's a Lua implementation born of discussions with TehRealSalt (of Kart Krew) who originally intended for the game to have an item odds generation system somewhat like this. She had worked on a conga line like implementation before 1.6 came out, but it did not make it into the official release.
Vanilla has more of this spider web like distance calculation with scaling. The conga line implementation changes the calculations to draw a snaking line from racer to racer to calculate distance for item rolls.
Non-Technical Summary: It should mitigate some of the poor item odds racers get in certain track layouts like hairpins, spirals, or really compact high lap maps.
new compatibility:
JugadorXEI has also wrote a number of compatibility extensions for xItem that greatly increase its compatibility and interoperability with other mods Jucebox, KartMP, and Egg Panic.
These make this addon safer and work better with these other mods.
fixes:
Item roulette while spectating.
Fixed deprecated function usage warnings.
Floating item quantity limiter functions properly.
IMPORTANT:
This mod must be loaded after the mods Juicebox for compatibility to work.
If you're also using the Chronoshift track pack you need to ensure the cvar chronoshift_xitem_alwayson is on for Checker Wrecker (and other custom items) to appear outside of that map pack's specific tracks.
CREDITS:
Sprites: Mr. Logan and RaiVolt
Lua script: Ashnal (poster)
xItem library: Minenice
xItem compatibility scripts: JugadorXEI
Original concept/idea by Sekhedsu/Ivo
This is a new custom item that may appear during Race and Battle.
It is a large checkered wrecking ball reminiscent of Dr. Robotnik's first battle in the original Sonic genesis game.
It'll crush players and many other things in its path.
USAGE:
Unlike many SRB2Kart items, it can only be thrown forwards. Treat it like a giant, more powerful orbi. It is generally an offensive, not defensive item, but it can be defensive if used creatively via bouncing off walls. It also instantly throws, and does not get held out like Orbis or Bananas.
The wrecker will live until it spends 15 seconds without moving. This lets it behave like a dodgeable track hazard for those farther behind than the user.
INTERACTIONS:
Track Elements:
It interacts with a lot of objects that players do. It is affected by Sneaker Panels, Zippers, and Springs, behaving much like a player would. It also will interact with slopes and conveyors as you'd expect a ball to.
Racers:
It will flatten any racer caught in it's forward path. Racer contact with the ball on the exact side to rear will result in a heavy momentum based bonk, and can be used to redirect or push the ball.
Racers with Invincibility and/or Grow:
An invincible or grown racer will no longer get flattened by the wrecker. In a situation in which an unbuffed racer would have been flattened, a buffed one will bonk the wrecker instead.
Thrown Orbinauts and Jawz:
Will be destroyed on contact with the Checker Wrecker, but will impart their momentum on it, allowing players to use orbis and jaws to redirect the wrecker away from them for defense.
Orbiting Orbinauts and Jawz:
Yes these are a bit different. These have much less effect on the Checker Wrecker's momentum, and should be assumed ineffective as a defense. A defending racer should time a throw against the wrecker to defend, not rely on orbiting items. Players attacking with the wrecker should know that it is a very effective counter to a player holding quad orbinauts.
Bananas:
Useless. Destroyed on contact with no effect on the wrecker.
Mines:
Explodes on contact, will destroy the wrecker.
Eggbox and Racers with Hyuu:
Intangible, phases through.
KNOWN ISSUES:
Sometimes the chain will bug out and behave weirdly. Not a big deal, as it is intangible and doesn't affect gameplay.
Non-player objects in SRB2Kart are unaffected by ramp marked sectors. This means that in some circumstances involoving steep slopes, or very fast moving wreckers, or both, the wrecker may bounce off a slope that you may have expected it to travel up, or fly off a slope you may have expected it to travel down. There is nothing I can do about this. Here is a funny example:
TECHNICAL NOTES:
This addon uses the amazing xItemLib mod by Minenice
It is currently using the version from the github that hasn't appeared on the MB yet, which includes a number of improvements by myself as well as JugadorXEI and Retrostation
Since there isn't any documentation for these features and fixes yet, I'll give a short overview.
new cvars, that all default to off:
xitemdebugdistributionsreplay allows you to view the distribution debugger in replays only when on, which helps with understanding odd replays.
xitemserverlogrolls will log all rolls to the server player's log.
xitemsmugglerbonus will give players who are in 3rd or higher a small item odds bonus if 1st or 2nd are holding certain vanilla items that some would consider as smuggled.
xitemdistcalcconga is a big one. It defaults off and is entirely optional. It's a Lua implementation born of discussions with TehRealSalt (of Kart Krew) who originally intended for the game to have an item odds generation system somewhat like this. She had worked on a conga line like implementation before 1.6 came out, but it did not make it into the official release.
Vanilla has more of this spider web like distance calculation with scaling. The conga line implementation changes the calculations to draw a snaking line from racer to racer to calculate distance for item rolls.
Non-Technical Summary: It should mitigate some of the poor item odds racers get in certain track layouts like hairpins, spirals, or really compact high lap maps.
new compatibility:
JugadorXEI has also wrote a number of compatibility extensions for xItem that greatly increase its compatibility and interoperability with other mods Jucebox, KartMP, and Egg Panic.
These make this addon safer and work better with these other mods.
fixes:
Item roulette while spectating.
Fixed deprecated function usage warnings.
Floating item quantity limiter functions properly.
IMPORTANT:
This mod must be loaded after the mods Juicebox for compatibility to work.
If you're also using the Chronoshift track pack you need to ensure the cvar chronoshift_xitem_alwayson is on for Checker Wrecker (and other custom items) to appear outside of that map pack's specific tracks.
CREDITS:
Sprites: Mr. Logan and RaiVolt
Lua script: Ashnal (poster)
xItem library: Minenice
xItem compatibility scripts: JugadorXEI
Original concept/idea by Sekhedsu/Ivo
