UTILITY PYLONS

This mod adds the highly-configurable Utility Pylon, a unique item which has the capability to provide beneficial effects to players who are in it's area of effect such as speed, damage boost, cloak, x-ray vision and death protection. This mod also adds a remote controller and an instruction manual alongside the Pylon.

TRAILER (Click the image below to watch on YouTube)

UTILITY PYLON - 500 CREDITS IN TERMINAL STORE

Modes

Utility Pylons are powerful devices which can provide (as of now) 8 beneficial effects to aid players within it's AOE radius shown visually. Effects can stack depending on what the effect is. Players are notified by their HUD if they are being effected by a Utility Pylon with small Icons on the right hand side of their screen. Each icon has an appearance designed to match the effect.

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Speed Boost

This mode provides a small speed boost to players who are within the Pylon's AoE.

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Damage boost

This mode amplifies all damage dealt by players, whether that be to enemies or with PvP.

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Healing enhancement

This mode provides an AoE healing effect to all players in the Pylon's radius.

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Death Protection

Probably the most powerful effect, death protection prevents a player's death by any means in it's AoE and teleports the player to the Pylon's location.

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Damage surroundings

The pylon inflicts tick damage on ALL entities within it's radius (Players AND enemies).

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Sanity Stabaliser

The insanity of nearby players is significantly reduced, resulting in the player having a smaller chance of being chosen by enemies cantered around sanity (e.g. Ghost Girl), or mods that add mechanics to insanity.

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X-ray vision

Scans all objects and entities within the Pylon's radius and reveals them to all players. Useful for findings scrap, and detecting stealthy enemies.

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Cloak

Makes players in radius completely invisible and undetectable to nearby enemies. Can provide precious time to escape an encounter, or can be used to temporarily pause the Jester.

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Overheating

As the Utility Pylon is a very powerful item, there is a built in stability meter that drains upon usage of the Pylon. All effects have different stability drain values depending on their effect. Furthermore, the more players benefiting from the effect or the more pylons in the area there are, stability is drained faster considering these factors. If stability reaches 0%, the pylon will explode. However, there are a few things that can be done to avoid this. The pylon itself notifies players in the area it's about to explode and plays auditory and visual cues, and the player must respond and turn the Pylon off to prevent explosion.

PYLON REMOTE CONTROLLER - 100 CREDITS IN TERMINAL STORE

The remote controller is an item added to accompany the Pylon. It allows players to wirelessly interact with the nearest pylon. Players can use this item to change the Pylon's mode, monitor it's stability and notify players if they are in range of a pylon. However, they do require it's battery to be fully charged to work.

Instruction manual

A short instruction guide has been added to the terminal store for 5 credits that players can read to learn about the Pylon's different effects.

CREDITS

• DawnLib API by TeamXiaolan used to make mod: https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/TeamXiaolan/DawnLib/

VFX CREDITS

• J0n4rez for making: the pylon AOE effect, the top of pylon effect, inside the pylon effect, head electricity player effect.

SFX CREDITS

• Thank you to Ben Betteridge for voiceline acting!
• SFX from https://www.zapsplat.com

See list of SFX used.

• PMSFX, Sci-fi electricity bursts : https://www.zapsplat.com/author/pmsfx/

• GameMaster Audio, Factory machinery loop, machine rhythmic clanks : https://www.zapsplat.com/author/gamemasteraudio/

• Zapsplat, Metal industrial cabinet door shake, rattle 3 : https://www.zapsplat.com/music/metal-industrial-cabinet-door-shake-rattle-3/

• Epic Stock Media, Futuristic activate : https://www.zapsplat.com/music/game-sound-science-fiction-futuristic-activate-turn-on-bright-machine/

• Zapsplat, Science fiction machine, power down, turn off : https://www.zapsplat.com/music/science-fiction-machine-power-down-turn-off/

• Zapsplat, Science fiction computer alarm, warning, clicking tone : https://www.zapsplat.com/music/science-fiction-computer-alarm-warning-clicking-tone/

Contact / Feedback

Would love to receive any feedback, clips, suggestions, or bug reports! Feel free to reach out to me on Discord (reikomegalul) or create an issue on the GitHub repository.