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Offline huskinatorr2

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Increasing health of non-player characters (npc) in free-roam
« on: September 16, 2014, 08:41:45 AM »
Correct me if im wrong, but from what I've gathered from tutorials on here, pedstats.dat can be used to increase the max health of npc's in free-roam so they're harder to beat yes? but I noticed that not every character is on the file (eg. tad spencer).

So because of that, I'm just wondering if pedstats is actually the correct file to increase the max health of npc characters, or is there something else?

(Sorry if I were on PC I'd just trial and error with the different files but since im on an xbox 360 I needa get it right the first time to avoid wasting cd's)



Also on another note, if I am looking at the right column, I noticed that  'STAT_P_BOXING_Parker' and 'STAT_P_BOXING_Bif' both have the same max health value set to 500, but that can't be right since Bif has so much more health than him?


« Last Edit: September 16, 2014, 08:49:44 AM by huskinatorr2 »

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Re: Increasing health of non-player characters (npc) in free-roam
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2014, 09:14:14 AM »
Basically, all npcs are divided into groups in the Pedstats.dat file.

For example, Tad and Gord both use the "P_STRIKER_A" stats, "P" meaning preps and "STRIKER_A" referring to their spawn name. If you were to edit P_STRIKER_A both Tad's and Gord's stats will be changed.
Some npcs have their own stats, for example most bosses(J_TED, G_JOHNNY and GS_GARY), however both Darby and Bif use something else, I don't remember what though.

Those P_BOXING_NAME ones you found are used in the boxing mini-game.

Read up more about pedstats modifying here: http://www.bully-board.com/index.php?topic=14626.0

Here are some groups:

J_DAMON: Damon
J_STRIKER_A: Kirby and Dan
J_MELEE: Bo and Casey
J_GRAPPLER_A and B: Yuri and that other wrestling guy. I don't remember who uses which though.

G_STRIKER_A: Peanut, Ricky and Lucky (Also used by Zeke, Lightning uses P_STRIKER_A)
G_MELEE: Vance and Lefty
G_GRAPPLER: Hal and Norton
G_RANGED_A: Unused

P_STRIKER_B: Justin and Parker
P_GRAPPLER: Bryce and Chad

N_STRIKER_A: Fatty and Melvin. B is used by Algernon.
N_RANGED and N_MELEE: I don't remember which one is used by whom, but Bucky, Donald, Cornelius and Thad

GS_MALE: All of the male non cliques, except for little kids and Constantinos
GS_FEMALE: All female non cliques, except for little kids
GS_MALE_TATTLER: Constantinos
GS_FEMALE SMKID AND GS_MALE SMKID: Little kids, meaning Gloria, Melody, Karen, Sheldon and that other guy.

PF_BASIC_A: All prefects but Seth
PF_BASIC_S: Seth
PF_OFFICER_A: Cops
PF_ORDERLY: Mental Asylum guards
CV_MALE, CV_FEMALE, CV_MALE_OLD and CV_FEMALE_OLD: Adults







« Last Edit: September 16, 2014, 09:16:39 AM by riki2cool »

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Re: Increasing health of non-player characters (npc) in free-roam
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2014, 09:31:31 AM »
Those P_BOXING_NAME ones you found are used in the boxing mini-game.
ah I thought so, that must explain why the have the same health then!

anyway thanks! I guess all I need to do now is find the right group for bif and parker :)

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Re: Increasing health of non-player characters (npc) in free-roam
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2014, 09:35:31 AM »
anyway thanks! I guess all I need to do now is find the right group for bif and parker :)

Parker is part of P_Striker_B, however Bif is a mystery for me

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Re: Increasing health of non-player characters (npc) in free-roam
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2014, 09:40:21 AM »
oh right you even said parker's name when you were listing groups haha my bad! yeah i'll do a little more googling on bif

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Re: Increasing health of non-player characters (npc) in free-roam
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2014, 10:49:31 AM »
I think i've found the answer!

According to 'the dream is dead' (http://www.bully-board.com/index.php?topic=17352.0), the stats for derby and bif are in P_Boxing

so then I checked out version 1.1 of the op's pedstats mod, (since this is the version in which he stated he increased derby and bif's free-roam health), and P_boxing health was changed to 1850 (holy crap), so i think we can assume that those are their stats