Search Command

[Qetesh]

We have just overhauled the search command and it works in an entirely different way now.
Instead of spamming search until your internal estimate of "I've found everything" is met. Your character will now enter a search mode. While in this mode you will overtime find more and more things, or not, depending on your stats skills and good ol' RNJesus. I'll leave the fun of figuring out the nuances to you all.

This is new so things may change as we feel it is necessary and please let us know if you run into any issues.

So enjoy taking your time to search for things!

[MavorTheTurnip]

Unsure if intended, but when searching through hallways with doors, it will repeatedly bring up any attempted lockpicks on the same door, over and over and over again, for every search tick that goes by until the character becomes bored of searching.

[Qetesh]

Thanks, should be fixed now try again and let me know the results. I'll go visible for a bit.

[TalonCzar]

I can't endlessly spam search to find cameras with my fucking garbage minmax character anymore?!
I have to... HIRE SOMEONE TO BE A CHEESY SHIT!?!

Instant dislike, unsub, uninstall, and I'm Nick Offermanning my computer this very instan-

[Rain]

Issue with tampered locks being found over and over again has been fixed.

[Rain]

I can't endlessly spam search to find cameras with my fucking garbage minmax character anymore?!
I have to... HIRE SOMEONE TO BE A CHEESY SHIT!?!

Instant dislike, unsub, uninstall, and I'm Nick Offermanning my computer this very instan-

In some ways this is a buff to your fucking garbage character; the longer you spend searching in a single area, the better results you'll have (as opposed to there being a unique totally random roll for each search command).

Of course, that's assuming your character doesn't get bored and start picking their nose instead.

[CookieJarivs]

Will the scavange command work similarly to this eventually? Instead of just spamming scavange over and over? (idk how it works too well I don't play a scav)

[Rain]

That's a very good question that I'm not going to answer right now because the thought hadn't even occurred to me and I don't know.

[Res]

I just want you to know that the change in status message associated with the new search (the one that says 'Your room status is now: (description) is searching the room') scared the ever-loving SHIT out of me the first time it popped up....nothing like thinking you are alone in a room, and suddenly SOMEONE ELSE IS THERE. *heart seizure*

That said, now that i'm used to it, its kind of nice to just search and drop it. Thanks!

[subtact]

Will the scavange command work similarly to this eventually? Instead of just spamming scavange over and over? (idk how it works too well I don't play a scav)

As someone with a scavenger character (top rated Survivalist last time they were IG), IMO applying a similar change to the scavenging command doesn't make sense.

For one thing, as I understand from my experience, you have a daily number of times you can use the scavenge command, and that itself doesn't make for a simple application of how search works now.

And scavenger characters which actually have the Scavenge skill soft capped (it sounds like a no brainer, but it was quite common for players to try to get away with putting in what they perceived was the bare minimum amount of SP into scavenging), you'd only occasionally need to run the command more than 2-3 times to scavenge an animal corpse. If scavenge needs to be spammed by a character, that's just a consequence for min/maxing and they don't deserve a quality of life change IMO.

[Pennywise]

This.

[Kunoichi]

This is a very good change, I particularly like how it temporarily overrides your room status. It would be cool if more commands that might take a period of time or repeated attempts worked like this.