Re-skinning Protection should be removed / improved

[ADM]

So, my friends and I were unexpectedly playing all 3 characters of the new update. Them as Wendy & Walter, and I was Wortox (evil and intimidating).

 

I've long been very happy about the content we were going to receive in the beta, with most changes making notable improvements to the end result... but one change seems to have made its way without being announced, or at least nobody I played or asked was made aware of it until coming to realization while playing, or when I brought it up. And we find it all frankly bothering.

 

Companions with owners (specifically Abigail and Woby) can no longer be reskinned by other players. I noticed it as I was looking to show the new skins to my Walter buddy, and ask which one he'd like if any. But yes, this is restricted. The same goes with Wendy and Abby, and I remember very clearly being able to reskin her as anyone at least before the beta.

 

 

I understand two reasons that could have lead to make this change, the first being preventing people from 'griefing' what skin your companion has, we all trolled someone at some point with that but... well, I hope not to a lasting degree. And second, which some of you might think to be more likely why, is to encourage people to buy these companion skins for themselves.

 

Now I don't especially think the second is the main cause because (well, in effect it will cause that), reverting this is simple using commands
(or mods, as someone will certainly take care of that soon) and I'll share how with you :
-do mind that this has to be performed by a host or with admin perms and the command has to stay on 'Remote' if playing with caves-

Spoiler

This is a bit long so doing just one clipboard paste will generally chop the command and give you errors.
Consider splitting them in 3 as followed !

 

SpellCaster = require("components/spellcaster") OldCastSpell = SpellCaster.CastSpell OldCanCast = SpellCaster.CanCast 



function SpellCaster:CastSpell(target, ...) local test, oldplayerlink if self.inst.spelltype == "RESKIN" and target and target._playerlink then oldplayerlink = target._playerlink target._playerlink = nil end test = OldCastSpell(self, target, ...) if oldplayerlink then target._playerlink = oldplayerlink end return test end 



function SpellCaster:CanCast(doer, target, ...) local test, oldplayerlink if self.inst.spelltype == "RESKIN" and target and target._playerlink then oldplayerlink = target._playerlink target._playerlink = nil end test = OldCanCast(self, doer, target, ...) if oldplayerlink then target._playerlink = oldplayerlink end return test end 

 

Using this, you should no longer be affected for the rest of your session (note this is shard dependent too).

 

Anyway, nobody I know is a fan of this change. It could be reverted, but it could also just be improved. By making it so that the reskinning protection becomes a toggle in server commands or such, like Walter got with Woby backpack. In which case extending on that feature to even apply to Critter wouldn't just be... not a disaster, but an upgrade for PUBs, I guess.

 

Klei has always been very generous toward us when it comes to allowing us to share with others, and for something that is world dependent, having your friends capable or restyling your doggie and twin always rhymed with Klei to me.

[Nini voovoo]

you can reskin abby by dropping the flower and letting another player reskin the flower

[Notecja]

12 minutes ago, Nini voovoo said:

you can reskin abby by dropping the flower and letting another player reskin the flower

that's the flower, but you cannot drop Woby...

[nicolas103]

Maybe this is a bug? On PS5 i've reskinned Woby, and Abigail for another player, and Lucy as well, but Lucy was invisible in the inventory. Which is another bug with the new skins i should probably report.