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General / Re: Random questions (spoilers)
« on: May 22, 2020, 11:57:57 pm »2) Now I know I didn't imagine this but I could never reproduce it. I met a hostile npc named "Free Looter" on a jet once at Chancer's bay. I killed some random jet skiers there, moved on to land out of sight of the destroyed jets to repair + reload. When I moved back there was one single hostile npc "Free Looter" sitting on one of the wreckage. I'm wondering if this is a random event and if anyone else ever seen this npc?2. I'm not aware of a random event like that, but the maps with random jet skiers have some advanced scripting. Could be that.
Now that we know, thanks to Maelstrom, that the name is "Freelooter" I could check it out. It was pretty much what I guessed. Nothing in random events, nothing in maps, nothing in characters.
The only reference to Freelooter is in the code that manages generic jet skiers for the waterways. It seems freelooters have a 2% chance of appearing, and you will only ever see one at a time, unlike jet skier groups. They can't appear in CVW zones 8-15, 22-30, 44-48 nor at the rig. So, more or less nowhere near populated areas. For reference: https://www.underrail.com/wiki/index.php?title=Zones#Waterways (still missing screenshots *hint, hint* but at least the zones are named/grouped)
And as an aside, one ending slide also makes a passing reference to freelooters. Now that the endings have been bugfixed, I should probably re-check my list of them and put it up in the wiki.
How did you manage to read these files? is it possible to modify them?
