Great Worm generation has been broken

FYI: You should reproduce this without any mods enabled or this is going to get ignored/closed.

7 hours ago, asgerrr said:

FYI: You should reproduce this without any mods enabled or this is going to get ignored/closed.

 many others encounter same issue, and whatever this been ignored or not I dont care, because this boss is completely useless lol.

My last 12 depth worm attacks now were all regular worms. I made a copy of the world and skipped days to see if it spawns at all. I skipped 11 days 3 times, and after 3 regular worm attacks the big one finally showed up. It still feels a very rare encounter for a 10k day world. 

I've looked into the code for this myself and I think there is something to this being a bug. The problem appears to be that the _wave_pre_upgraded variable in the hounded component does not get saved. This means that if you reload the game while the next depth worm wave is planned to be a Great Depths Worm, the next wave won't actually be a GDW, but the chance will still get reset back to 0. This seems like the kind of thing that could reasonably have slipped through testing as well, since it requires reloading the game.

Edited December 23, 2024 by asgerrr