Hey folks,

 

Out of curiosity I ask, is it possible to add additional enemies to encounters by hand? Is it feasible or inordinately difficult? Is this something anyone has attempted? I haven't seen signs of pursuit of this matter in the modding community, but I could easily be missing it. Does it require specific paid or proprietary tools?

 

Any insight at all is appreciated. Thanks all.

Adding new enemies to existing encounters is fairly quick and painless, at least random encounters.

Within worldmap.gamedatabundle, look for

WorldMapEncounterGameData -> WorldMapEncounterComponent -> CreatureSpawns

Here I have edited the Rock-Stoper Rodul encounter so that he has no crewmates, by removing all other entries in the CreatureSpawns array 😄

 

{
  "GameDataObjects": [
    {
      "$type": "Game.GameData.WorldMapEncounterGameData, Assembly-CSharp",
      "DebugName": "RE_SD_Rodul",
      "ID": "f4049eab-742e-4df5-845b-d262ece1502b",
      "Components": [
        {
          "$type": "Game.GameData.WorldMapEncounterComponent, Assembly-CSharp",
          "CreatureSpawns": [
            {
              "SpawnPrefab": "prefabs/characters/poe2_npcs/random_encounters/vtc_encounters/npc_re_captain_rodul.prefab",
              "SpawnType": "Boss",
              "AppearsInDifficulty": "15",
              "EmergeIndex": 0,
              "AlternateSpawnPrefab": "",
              "CrewKilled": 0
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Here, I additionally added Hauani O Whe:

{
  "GameDataObjects": [
    {
      "$type": "Game.GameData.WorldMapEncounterGameData, Assembly-CSharp",
      "DebugName": "RE_SD_Rodul",
      "ID": "f4049eab-742e-4df5-845b-d262ece1502b",
      "Components": [
        {
          "$type": "Game.GameData.WorldMapEncounterComponent, Assembly-CSharp",
          "CreatureSpawns": [
            {
              "SpawnPrefab": "prefabs/characters/poe2_npcs/random_encounters/vtc_encounters/npc_re_captain_rodul.prefab",
              "SpawnType": "Boss",
              "AppearsInDifficulty": "15",
              "EmergeIndex": 0,
              "AlternateSpawnPrefab": "",
              "CrewKilled": 0
            },
            {
              "SpawnPrefab": "prefabs/characters/poe2_creatures/cre_ooze_black_mountainous.prefab",
              "SpawnType": "Any",
              "AppearsInDifficulty": "15",
              "EmergeIndex": 0,
              "AlternateSpawnPrefab": "",
              "CrewKilled": 1
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

 

Thank you for the information and assistance Noqn.

I'll do some experimentation with this.

If all goes well I'm hoping to spice up enough encounters to make 6 character parties a fun challenge. At least to make myself a few for kicks.

Greatly appreciate the insight.

That's interesting, I thought spawns might have a random element, but no.