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Steamworld Dig Wall Jump Tech Patch

05/09/24 This update only modifies the name and description on Steam, not a content update or fix or anything.

Patches the Wall Jump Tech to change its behavior. Enables the player to use items while sliding against a wall, refreshes your mid-air jump instantly upon sliding against a wall, and allows the player to choose their velocity when jumping away from a wall with a combination of the jump and/or a movement input. For example, holding in towards the wall will try and give the player some horizontal velocity in towards the wall will keep them sliding against it with only a slight increase in height for control, or releasing a direction input and just jumping will send the player straight up for scaling a vertical surface, or holding out and pressing jump, quickly, will give outward velocity for better distance.

After having played through Steamworld Dig: Fistful of Dirt and Steamworld DIg 2, I've come to realize that this combination patch to the wall jump tech makes it function very much like the wall jump in those games. So maybe some rebranding will make this more popular? I think it feels a whole lot better, at least, and would encourage others to try.

Combines 'Better Wall Jumps' by 'SilverSkies' and '(Slightly) Better Wall Jump' by 'this is a profile name' into one overwrite for the Wall Jump Tech.
Also maintains Better Wall Jumps' 'include' for FreedomofMovement, making this modification take priority and overwrite Freedom of Movement if you subscribe to both. Additionally, includes 'betterwalljump' which is the internal name for both original mods, meaning you can be subscribed to them and this one will overwrite them both. This mod is incompatible with any other mod that will overwrite the Wall Jump Tech's functionality (including the two mods this one merges only by technicality).
Go give the folks who made the mods this takes from a well-deserved like and favorite! They should get the credit. Here are the original Workshop item links:
Better Wall Jumps: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=745078478
(Slightly) Better Wall Jump: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=732815457

I stole the solutions, yes. The ends might not justify the means. If the original authors want this gone and/or the unpacked files, it won't be an issue.
I simply subscribed to the each of them, found the assets in my filesystem, unpacked the .pak files, compared their scripts against each other and the original implementation file, and typed up the differences.
A few tests assured it worked as intended, though I found if you hold down and in towards the wall you cling to, you don't jump nearly as high than if you'd just held in and jumped, to the point that you might get a net loss in height by doing so. However! This might actually be a good bug, because it'll allow you to stall on a wall without so much displacement, compared against jumping up into the air instead, it just isn't very intuitive. Not a bug, but a feature!