Dead Stalker PDA Rarity Icons & Models v2.4 + PATCHES addon - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

v1.0
Release

v2.0
Dead Stalker PDA inventory icons now represent which PDA model they use.
Now those PDAs don't use the standard PDA icon, they now use the PDA1.0, PDA2.0, and PDA3.0 Icons in the inventory.(DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH ICON CHANGING ADDONS, MAKES IT SO THAT THEY ONLY USE THE SAME ICONS AS REGULAR PDAs)
Added as an option though, since these Icons use the same icons as regular PDAs, you might accidentally disassemble YOUR PDA, fair warning.

Included patch for Mich_Cartman's Boomsticks & Sharpsticks

Included patch for swergdach's Artefact Renovation

v2.1

Included patch for Apathy_Knight's EFT Style Weapons Re-position

Included patch for Spacecheese88's Headlamp and Handheld Torch 50m

v2.2

Hotfix for EFT Style Weapons Re-position patch

v2.3

Included patch for the combination of Artefact Renovation + EFT Style Weapons Re-position

v2.4

Updated patches for EFT Style Weapons Re-position: REDUX

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!!!CURRENT PATCHES!!!!

Artefact Renovation patch

Boomsticks & Sharpsticks patch

EFT Style Weapons Re-position: REDUX patch

Headlamp and Handeled Torch 50m patch

Artefact Renovation + EFT Style Weapons Re-position: REDUX patch

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In the game, when you find dead stalker PDAs they all seem the same.
However, not exactly.
There are three different types of PDAs.
1. common
2. uncommon
3. rare
How do these rarities affect them?
They affect the reward amount when you turn them into a trader.
The reward calculated is dependent on TWO variables.
The rarity of the PDA.
The state of the PDA. (If it has junk, junk state and so on for info state, encrypted state, or the strelok state.)
The reward calculator gives a number to each rarity and state.
It will multiply the rarity by the state.
And so forth the resulting number will be multiplied by a random number between 350 and 900.

(rarity*state)(random number between 350-900) = reward amount

The result of that will be your reward amount.

local cost_per_typ = {
["common"] = 1,
["uncommon"] = 2,
["rare"] = 3,
}
local cost_per_state = {
["junk"] = 1,
["info"] = 1.5,
["encrypted"] = 2,
["kill_the_strelok"] = 15,
}
.................(skip ahead)
if typ and state then
local mul = (cost_per_typ[typ] * cost_per_state[state])
local mul2 = typ == "common" and 0.5 or typ == "uncommon" and 5 or typ == "rare" and 10
count = count + 1
total_value = total_value + (mul * math.random(350,900))

if (math.random(1,100) <= mul2) then
pda_bonus_coords = pda_bonus_coords + 1
end
Using that logic
If you turn in a PDA that's common(1) and has info(1.5)
You're gonna receive a maximum amount of 1350 or minimum amount of 525
But if you turn in a PDA that's rare(3) and has JUNK info(1)
You're gonna recieve maximum amount 2700 or minimum amount of 1050

All those PDAs use the same model.
From your perspective, when you turn in a PDA, you could experience that a PDA with info gives you 1350,
yet this another PDA with junk gives you 2700.

(For those of you wondering, the trader themselves tell you if it has junk, info, or encrypted)local trans = utils_data.collect_translations("st_broker_npc_about_pda_" .. state .. "_",true)
(Only displays certain text by state, never by rarity. There is text actually based
only rarity, but it's never used. It now only goes by state.)

The main takeaway here, you don't know how that shit makes any sense, and you're left wondering, why did this PDA with good info give me less than the other PDA with junk info?
This could plant the idea that, regardless if it had info or junk, that reward amount is completely random.
When it's not.

So my solution to this, gameplay wise, is implementing item visuals for each rarity when you equip and look at their 3D model. (And now their inventory icon, if you included that option with v2.0)
A common PDA will have PDA 1.0 model, the first PDA.
An uncommon PDA will have the PDA 2.0 model.
And a rare PDA will have the PDA 3.1 model.