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Shadow and cult creature updates from Arcana #2037

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Summary

SUMMARY: Balance "Shadow and related nether monsters favor cold theming over electric, other overrides ported from Arcana"

Purpose of change

This effectively ports over some of the last remaining changes to vanilla monsters from Arcana, except for stuff specific to the mod like the death drop overrides. This is mainly to further flesh out and make certain monster interactions a bit weirder without having to keep them in a mod override.

Describe the solution

  1. Ported over the concept of shadow monsters (for now just shadows, shadow snakes, and wraiths) dealing cold-type damage, with a corresponding adjustment of their base melee damage. also have those values standardized a bit more compared to how they are in Arcana. Part of the goal for the damage results (as seen below) was to make their approximate average damage progress more consistently, up to wraiths with have the same rough average damage as below (aside from losing the bonus ELECTRIC would give in exchange for cold damage being harder to mitigate).
  2. Ported over the concept of shadows, shadow snakes, wraiths, hunting horrors, and hounds of tindalos having the COLDPROOF flag. Also comes with the removal of the ELECTRIC flag from monsters that had it.
  3. Minor: porting over of FLIES applied to flesh angel.

Describe alternatives you've considered

  1. Also adding COLDPROOF to zombie masters, zombie necromancers, and flying polyps, along with adding cold damage to hunting horrors, as was standard in Arcana before I decided it was okay to give that the axe during cleanup today (via commit: chaosvolt/cdda-arcana-mod@e695dbf).
  2. Removing zapback from shadow monsters now that their base attacks no longer deal electric damage from the ELECTRIC flag.

Testing

Checked affected files for syntax and lint errors, and did the math on damage changes for shadow monsters.

Before:

Monster Damage Min Max Average
Shadow 1d2 bash 1 2 ~1
Shadow snake 1d4 bash + 4 cut 5 8 ~5
Wraith 3d8 bash + 3 cut 6 27 ~15

After:

Monster Damage Min Max Average
Shadow 1d3 bash + 3 cold 4 6 ~5
Shadow snake 2d3 bash + 6 cold 8 12 ~10
Wraith 3d3 bash + 9 cold 12 18 ~15

Additional context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho4xcXIgIr0

@Coolthulhu Coolthulhu self-assigned this Oct 18, 2022
@chaosvolt chaosvolt added the JSON related to game datas in JSON format. label Oct 28, 2022
@Coolthulhu Coolthulhu merged commit 3deef06 into cataclysmbnteam:upload Oct 30, 2022
@chaosvolt chaosvolt deleted the monster-override-ports-from-arcana branch October 30, 2022 16:39
chaosvolt added a commit to chaosvolt/cdda-arcana-mod that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2022
Removed overrides from BN version no longer needed now that cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN#2037 has been merged.
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