GlacialElite

Glacial Elite

Some ordinary hostile mobs spawn as Glacial elites.

A Glacial mob has 4× health and deals 2× damage. It is tinted icy blue. At the default damage multiplier, Muck treats it as a buff: it is larger, it shows the buff bar, the host drops 1.25× loot, and the kill counts toward the Steam BuffKills stat. A damage multiplier of 1 or less does not do those things. Its melee hit slows you on the ground for 1.5 seconds, and the edges of your screen frost over pale blue while you are slowed. When it dies, ice crystals burst from the corpse and from a dark frost crust in a ring around it, over a pale blue glow on the ground, the same kind of warning the Chief and the Guardian paint under a leap or a slam. The ice spreads out over half a second. A crackle and a hiss play. It does not hurt during that spread. The crystals come up small. Then it builds up: the crystals grow, swell, tremble and glow brighter, the glow pulses faster and brighter, and the hiss rises, until after 2 seconds it bursts if you are within 4 meters. Stepping into the ring early plays a short sting. On the ground your speed is clamped and you cannot jump for 1.5 seconds. A low clink plays, separate from the burst, and the frost on your screen edges grows stronger until you can move again. An ice crystal sits in the corner of the screen while you are slowed or frozen. HighContrast (on by default) widens the dark crust, makes the crystals larger and outlines that corner crystal more thickly. In the air you keep your momentum and can still steer. A player who is already standing still can creep, because the game adds a little force before it clamps speed. Shield drains before health, the same way a mob hit does. That hit path has been read in the Update 4 decompile and has not been confirmed in a match.

The health number is 4.03125× at the defaults. The extra 0.8% is a tag so the mod can recognize the mob after a save. The bomb's damage does not grow with the elite's damage multiplier. The default hit is 22. The host then applies the day's mob-damage multiplier and your armor, as for any mob hit, so on Normal it is 19 at day 0 and 116 at day 10, before armor. BombDamageCap (30) caps the value before that multiplier, not the damage you take.

On an Artifact of the Night Swarms night, mobs still roll Glacial. Swarms' health factor (0.5 by default) stacks with the 4×, so a Glacial mob has about 2× normal health that night. Everything else about it is the same. If you change Swarms' health factor to a value that is not a multiple of 1/16 (0.0625), such as 0.3, no mob becomes Glacial on Swarms nights.

With RoR2 Enemies installed, a mob it has converted (a Jellyfish or a Stone Titan, for example) is never Glacial. That mod stores the enemy type in the mob's health multiplier, and Glacial leaves that value alone so the type is not lost.

This is not a new powerup. It adds no item ids, so chest and shrine drops stay the same.

Bosses, guardians, and neutral animals do not spawn Glacial. Set IncludeNeutral if you want neutral animals included. Bosses and guardians stay excluded.

Multiplayer

All players should install this mod. A peer without it can still join, because the mod adds no packets and no ids. The players will not agree about which mobs are Glacial.

Every player in a lobby should use the same Spawn and Stats values. If they differ, health bars disagree. On launch the log prints Glacial config and a hash of those values. Every peer should print the same hash.

Slow, freeze, and the bomb are per player. Muck trusts the client that reports a hit, so each player's own config decides the debuffs they receive. Config is not copied to other players.

• Modded host, vanilla client. The client sees a normal mob at normal size, with no buff bar, and takes normal melee damage. The host's health is about 4×, so the mob takes longer to kill. The client gets no slow and no bomb.
• Vanilla host, modded client. The host's health is normal. The client's bar shows the tagged 4× value. That client takes 2× hits, the slow, and the bomb. The vanilla host still applies the bomb hit.
• Both modded, same config. Both players pick the same mobs, and the health bars match. Each bomb hurts only the player who is standing in it.

Saves

MuckSaveGame loads mobs by calling the normal spawn path with the saved multipliers. A Glacial mob's saved pair carries a 1/64 tag, including one from a Swarms night. The mod sees that tag and puts the tint and the bomb back without scaling the mob again. If DamageFactor changed between the save and the load, the tag no longer matches and the mob is left as a plain buffed mob.

Config

BepInEx/config/evan.muck.glacialelite.cfg, created on first launch.

For a test, set Chance to 1. Every eligible mob is then Glacial.

Section — Key — Default — Where the number comes from

Spawn — Chance — 0.1 — Not from the wiki. RoR2 elites come from director credits, not a flat chance.

Spawn — IncludeNeutral — false — Not from the wiki

Stats — HealthFactor — 4 — RoR2 wiki, tier 1 elite health. The tag makes the effective value 4.03125

Stats — DamageFactor — 2 — RoR2 wiki, tier 1 elite damage. Applied through mob.multiplier. Above 1 is Muck's buff, including 1.25× host loot and the Steam BuffKills stat. 1 or less is not a buff

Slow — EnableSlow — true — Not from the wiki

Slow — SlowSpeedFactor — 0.2 — RoR2 wiki, an 80% slow. Caps speed on the ground. Airborne movement is unchanged

Slow — SlowSeconds — 1.5 — RoR2 wiki

Bomb — EnableBomb — true — Not from the wiki

Bomb — BombFuse — 2 — RoR2 wiki

Bomb — BombRadius — 4 — Not from the wiki. The RoR2 wiki lists no radius

Bomb — BombDamageFraction — 1.5 — RoR2 wiki, 150%

Bomb — BombBaseDamage — 15 — Not from the RoR2 wiki. Goblin melee baseDamage from a pre-Update-4 asset rip

| Bomb | BombDamageCap | 30 | Not from the wiki. Appli