Talk:OBDATA.DAT

Would anyone know how to change the TUs needed to work the psi-amp? I don't see anything in OBDATA (all its TU fields are set to 0). It would be helpful to psi testing. NKF? ---MikeTheRed 16:29, 7 September 2006 (PDT)

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Unfortunately obdata doesn't store all weapon stats. Unique actions like the costs for priming grenades, throwing stuff, mind probe, psi amp, etc are tucked away in tactical.exe. Hmm, I'm positive that they can be located, but there are so many iterations of similar values that it could take a long while to discover them.

What could make thi worse is the possibility that these in-built actions (perhaps even the in-built alien melee attacks) will not be clustered together near each other.

- NKF

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Arg. Well it's not a real big deal. The psi equations are now known quite well; it'll be posted shortly. Reducing psi-amp TUs would make it easier to ultra-tune the psi equations, but it wouldn't make any difference to players. Don't knock yourself out, but if you can find it, that'd be nice! Thanks for the reply ---MikeTheRed 18:40, 8 September 2006 (PDT)

Lazar Blastas!!1

It occurs to me that I have no idea what it is that allows the laser weapons to fire without a clip. At first I thought simply giving them a base power rating (something other weapons don't have) was the key, but apparently giving a clip a power of 0 doesn't render it useless...

Can someone provide some details on this?

-Bomb Bloke 03:32, 4 October 2007 (PDT)

Just a quick gaze at obdata, it seems that the laser's three clip types appear to be set to 255 (or -1 if we think in terms of signed values) to mark that they're not used and the item has a power rating. Apart from that, I can't see anything terribly out of the ordinary. - NKF