Is there a reason why the "Manifest Mechlink" psycast doesn't add the mechlink to the brain?

What is mean "Mech-mind only"

Honestly I hate how neither Staticlord's "recharge" nor Technomancer's "power" work on mechanoids.

Like @Tirith Amar said, would love for a psycast that recharges them in some way, or makes them not deplete charge unless repaired or something.

Just tested Ambush and Stealth precepts and 2 hours of stealth seems meh even depending on the mechanoid it's used on, ambush is fine for worker mechs and positioning for a first good hit on combat ones, changing the Stealth psycast for a recharging one would be better in my opinion.

Or just adding it in one of the two main trees, idk, maybe you wanted to keep the trees looking as they are, either way, good mod as always.

Okay, i found one small issue, a continuation of my previous post, regarding the implants. Apparently pawns, which have been granted a mechlink by the psycast (bodyimplant), can use a regular mechlink implant. It will "consume" the item, but not actually grant anything, no doublelinks and no upgrades. I dont expect a fix for the issues you mentioned (save breaking sounds worse indeed), but i feel its worth mentioning for players to be cautious.
Maybe for when you may want to do a 2.0 of this mod, i'd have some suggestions for rebalancing too :)

Any chance we could get a recharge psycast? Instantly recharges x energy in a mech, it scales with psycaster bandwith and sensitivity.

Excellent! Sounds lightweight in principle. The wealth focus makes a series of calls that request a list of all tiles in range and their wealth then sums it up, every tick, as far as I can tell. It's stupidly expensive, but I haven't dug deeper than dub's analyzer. Anyways, being able to use it without the focus is fantastic and allows me to just sidestep the issue, if it turns out to be an issue (which it probably won't be). Thank you!

@Molay I don't know how wealth focus type works but the mech focus only checks for the mech booster as it is the meditation item

Yes the tree will work fine without the focus type.

I have a small question about the Mech-Mind focus type. I avoid the custom focus types like the plague, as they tend to really tank TPS for me (the ones I tried at least, wealth focus being horrendous and dropping TPS from 360 to around 40). What does that focus type check for, is it optimized okay? And if I see big performance concerns, does the tree still work if I debug-unlock it without grabbing the focus type?

Update: Removed DDS textures from the files, some users are having issues while loading these.

@MercuryDoll LMFAOOO, that's a small issue but fixing it would require people to reset their psycast list so it's not really worth fixing imo.

Okay, whether this is a bug or its like this due to a limitation, but i thought it was funny so have this meme https://i.imgur.com/xMn0HtE.png

@K9Salmon958 Good that it works, let me know if it happens again and i'll remove the dds textures from the mod files

Deleting Both DDS Textures, After Deleting and Reinstalling mod fixed it after i did it the 2nd time

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/69f4cc87b9cd41934d9b21b3ea6ac159

I've tested on 1.6 with the mods you mentioned and no error on my end.

@K9Salmon958 Can you go into the textures folder and go to this path

"Textures\UI_Mechanitor\Tree" Delete Mechtreebase.dds

"Textures\UI_Mechanitor\PsyfocusIcons" Delete Hexagon.dds

I doubt it's that but it's the last thing I can think of.

Try sending a hugslib log so I can have a look.

Advanced Mechanoids
The Dead Man's Switch
Alpha Mechs

Deleting and resubbing didnt fix it

Would be cool if they could skip gate those mini slugger turrets

Update:

1.5, 1.6:

The mech booster has been added as a meditation item for the Mech-Mind focus, place up to 8 band nodes nearby to boost the meditation power.

@K9Salmon958 I remember there being an error on 1.6 a while ago due to me forgetting to add paths for the supported mods, are you running any of the ones mentioned in the description?

Try updating the mod by unsub and resub? I did add them and it works in my game now, maybe steam borked your update?

Verse.ModContentPack:ReloadContentInt (bool)
Verse.ModContentPack/<>c__DisplayClass56_0:<ReloadContent>b__0 ()
Verse.LongEventHandler:ExecuteToExecuteWhenFinished ()
Verse.LongEventHandler:UpdateCurrentAsynchronousEvent ()
Verse.LongEventHandler:LongEventsUpdate (bool&)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Root.Update_Patch1 (Verse.Root)
Verse.Root_Entry:Update ()

These are the only Error Codes that Showed up that were related

[Graphics Settings][Mechtreebase.png] UnityEngine.UnityException: Failed to create texture because of invalid parameters.
[Ref F7E66971] Duplicate stacktrace, see ref for original
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch1 (string)
GraphicSetter.StaticTools:LoadTexture (RimWorld.IO.VirtualFile,bool)
GraphicSetter.Patches.TextureLoadingPatch/LoadPNGPatch:Prefix (RimWorld.IO.VirtualFile,UnityEngine.Texture2D&)
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.ModContentLoader`1[[UnityEngine.Texture2D, UnityEngine.CoreModule, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]].LoadTexture_Patch1 (RimWorld.IO.VirtualFile)
Verse.ModContentLoader`1<UnityEngine.Texture2D>:LoadItem (RimWorld.IO.VirtualFile)
Verse.ModContentLoader`1/<LoadAllForMod>d__4<UnityEngine.Texture2D>:MoveNext ()
Verse.ModContentHolder`1<UnityEngine.Texture2D>:ReloadAll (bool)

Verse.Log:ErrorOnce (string,int)
Verse.InspectTabBase/<>c__DisplayClass19_0:<DoTabGUI>b__0 ()
Verse.ImmediateWindow:DoWindowContents (UnityEngine.Rect)
Verse.Window:InnerWindowOnGUI (int)
UnityEngine.GUI:CallWindowDelegate (UnityEngine.GUI/WindowFunction,int,int,UnityEngine.GUISkin,int,single,single,UnityEngine.GUIStyle)

This is the error code with the mods I had on, Taking off the VPE puppeter and Hemosage actually made the error code show up

Exception filling tab VanillaPsycastsExpanded.UI.ITab_Pawn_Psycasts: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
[Ref 3764C7AA]
at VanillaPsycastsExpanded.UI.ITab_Pawn_Psycasts.DoPaths (UnityEngine.Rect inRect) [0x00106] in <67c08b36bae3434b9d4b59a29aed2221>:0
at VanillaPsycastsExpanded.UI.ITab_Pawn_Psycasts.FillTab () [0x00875] in <67c08b36bae3434b9d4b59a29aed2221>:0
at Verse.InspectTabBase+<>c__DisplayClass19_0.<DoTabGUI>b__0 () [0x00039] in <fcfab19af5d14a608a65ebd77f29482f>:0
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch1 (string)

With just VPE Mechanoids it works with 2 tabs, im on 1.6

@MercuryDoll It currently doesn't provide a meditation item, i'll either add the mech booster as a focus item or remove the focus type directly.

@K9Salmon958 That's weird, can you try with only VPE and this installed? i've never had this issue, are you on 1.5 or 1.6?

Does the mech focus do anything other than being an upfront cost to speccing into the perktrees? It doesnt show any focus objects so not sure if something like being surrounded by mechs or machinery would do anything for focus gain.

i always run a handful of mechinators in my long term colonies, this is sexy as hell to see. and it has dms as part of it, thank you, you are a blessing upon the Rim!

the misc tab in the psycast page is empty im assuming thats where the Mech tab and all the others are, how do i fix it? i used a psytrainer for a mechanoid spawn and it still didnt show up

Can you make it that colonists auto-cast buffs to nearby mechs that doesn't have that buff? It's hassle to find a mech and apply buff.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That is all, thank you

Awesome thanks @Sentinel

Update:
1.6:
Added missing path defs for the supported mods.

@Kylo My bad I forgot to add the supported path xml to the 1.6 version, I added them and was able to access the main menu without errors, should be fixed.

This mod is causing a ton of errors, if I disable it, it works fine.
https://pastecode.io/s/3pqbnso4

Had to truncate the log as it was spamming so many errors it was 1mb. let me know if you need more

Update: Added support for Reinforced Mechanoids 2 and Alpha Mechs

Noice, thanks Sentinel :D

@Bat stealer
Ye. Deploys the anti raid squad and goes back to his bunker to sip tea XD

level 30 psycaster mechanoid goes crazy now, imagine you are raiding a single guy and then he says: BEHOLD, A MECHANOID CLUSTER and then 10 mechanoid turrets and a diabolus spawn out of nowhere

@Coldzero

I'll check out which mechs could be good to add in the tree, I know there's a lot of mechs in that mod so it's unlikely that every single mech will be inside the tree. I'll consider adding support for that mod though.

Hi Sentinel, thanks for the mods (they're all awesome)

Just wanted to know if it's at all possible to add support for Alpha Mechs?
I checked the XML and if it didn't involve <abilityClass>, I would've tried it myself. I suck at C#

Anyway, thanks again for the cool VPE Paths (there can never be too many). Hope to see more of your ideas soon (thumbsup.jpg)

Update: 1.6 port

Do report if you encounter another issue, glad that it seems to be working.

update on my previous comment, i have reloaded it again and removed the hediff with dev mode then put it back on, I seem to be running fine so perhaps just a glitch on my end.

I had a quick look at the XML and noticed you used severity for the levelling.
I had tried messing with it prior too, putting max_Stack in there which didnt seem to do anything but may be where a conflict occurred.


If i notice anything else I'll let you know.
Cheers

@HEDGEH0G91 That's what I suspected would happen, the pre update hediff was at 1 severity which is the 10th level of the post update upgrade, you'll have to remove the hediff via dev mode and reuse the ability.

Concerning the crash, that's odd. I only changed the hediff and the ability that grants the hediff, I didn't touch anything else.

@Sentinel I thought something had changed, I've just loaded up a save, clicked my mechanitor and saw I have a bandwidth of 129 where it was only ~30 before.
The game then crashed shortly afterwards.
I'm assuming this is the only thing that has changed since I was last on a couple hours prior though i would have booted it up prior to your update.

I'll investigate a bit more and see if I can provide more detail.

Thank you though ^_^

Update: Mechlink upgrade is now stackable up to 10 times.

@HEDGEH0G91 That does sound possible, i'll maybe change the Psy-Mechlink psycast to make it so recasting it grants you the same bonuses up to like 5 times for example.

@Super Colby I'll have a look.

Hi @Sentinel, love the mod
I've read through a few pages of the comments to see if anyone else had asked this but only found you specifying it didn't.

Would you consider / be able to add a mod option that allows the bandwidth upgrade to stack?

Essentially like how the band nodes do but without the structure?

Cheers,

can you add compatibility for reinforced mechanoid 2 (continued)?

It IS just a retexture, but it only retextures mechs under a certain age. 100 years, I think. If it has the nice shiny newly made mech texture, it replaces those. if it has the aged texture most mechhive mechs have, it doesn't replace though.

That aside, the only weirdness I've noted so far is casting the mechlink cast while having a mechlink removes the one in your head, puts it in your body, and untethers all yours mechs. Given I'm already using "Psychic sensitivity effects bandwidth" making my solo mechanitor a psycaster for mech summons is just a natural choice. enjoying this one, glad I didn't have to figure out how to write something like it myself.