adding hlas to physical damage dealers

[Guest anon]

Is there a way to add HLAs to classes like fighters/thieves in the same way that they can be added to casters? 

If they are added to a .cre file.. will the NPCs actually use them?

[Guest anon]

25 minutes ago, Guest anon said:

Is there a way to add HLAs to classes like fighters/thieves in the same way that they can be added to casters? 

If they are added to a .cre file.. will the NPCs actually use them?

Can't edit main post.. but through further inspection.. looking at the SCS readme...

'High-level Abilities

• genai/hla_choices/hla_always.2da: list of fighters and thieves who get to use High-Level Abilities at TACTICAL difficulty.' 

From my understanding.. if I add the .cre files to that file...  All fighter/thief orientated creatures that have an assigned kit will then get said HLAs and be able to use them with the assigned SCS script at any difficulty above TACTICAL, right?

Levels for fighters and thieves

• genai/level_override/bg1.2da: overrides levels for BG1 fighters/thieves. Creatures should be listed in non-TUTU form, i.e. without the initial "_".
• genai/level_override/bg2.2da: overrides levels for BG2 fighters/thieves.

If I want to say add +3 levels to all fighter/thieves kits across the board, I then have to add all those .cre files to that file?

[Guest anon]

So through further testing, HLAs are able to be added to all physical damage dealers that have a kit assigned to them if they meet the threshold for it and the difficulty slider is where it needs to be.

With this mod: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/32334/level-adder-v0-5
Levels can be added to each individual class the same way it works for mages/priests under the stratagems.ini file with:
mage_level_add = 0
mage_level_scale = 100
priest_level_add = 0
priest_level_scale = 100
 

This fixes 50% of the thing trying to be accomplished, however there still doesn't seem to be an area to lower the HLA threshold for NPCs?
In the .2da files using nearinfinity, there is lunumab.2da.. this edits the range that HLAs can be received by party invited characters or players. This does not edit the HLA tables for NPCs in the game. 

Where/what needs to be edited to change the level threshold that NPCs receive HLAs?
I.E. Instead of being able to access HLAs at level 20, they are now able to access them at level 10.. in the same sense lunumab.2da works:

2DA V1.0
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                        FIRST_LEVEL     RATE      CHANGE_LEVEL   NEW_RATE
MAGE                    18              1         99             1
FIGHTER                 20              1         99             1
CLERIC                  22              1         99             1
THIEF                   24              1         99             1
BARD                    24              1         99             1
PALADIN                 18              1         99             1
DRUID                   15              1         99             1
RANGER                  18              1         99             1
FIGHTER_MAGE            14              1         99             1
FIGHTER_CLERIC          41              1         99             1
FIGHTER_THIEF           41              1         99             1
FIGHTER_MAGE_THIEF      41              1         99             1
MAGE_THIEF              41              1         99             1
CLERIC_MAGE             41              1         99             1
CLERIC_THIEF            41              1         99             1
FIGHTER_DRUID           41              1         99             1
FIGHTER_MAGE_CLERIC     41              1         99             1
CLERIC_RANGER           41              1         99             1
SORCERER                18              1         99             1
MONK                    22              1         99             1
MULTI2FIGHTER           14              1         99             1
MULTI2MAGE              14              1         99             1
MULTI2CLERIC            15              1         99             1
MULTI2RANGER            13              1         99             1
MULTI2DRUID             14              1         99             1
MULTI2THIEF             17              1         99             1
MULTI3FIGHTER           12              1         99             1
MULTI3MAGE              13              1         99             1
MULTI3THIEF             15              1         99             1
MULTI3CLERIC            13              1         99             1
SHAMAN                  18              1         99             1
 

@DavidW

 

[DavidW]

You need to edit the code in lib/hla.tph, specifically the grant_hlas and number_of_hlas functions.

There's an argument that I ought to parse lunumab, but right now I don't.