SlowerColds
Adjusts cold (disease) proc system.
About this mod Author’s original text
Slower Colds
Slower Colds is maily intended to stop the annoying "instant" colds in Outward.
Outward has a very slow 2.5 minute (1 in game hour) check frequency for cold infections, which is probably why the chance is so high at 35%. The issue is that the first check usually happens immediately upon reaching the temperature threshold, meaning a fair amount of the time you will immediately catch a cold the moment you hit 40 temperature (Needs: Cold), which is a bit unrealistic and heavily punishes momentary temperature drops.
Slower Colds implements a more frequent check with a lower infection rate, smoothing out the curve, while also allowing minimum times before infection can happen. It checks for Needs: Cold or Needs: Very Cold instead of temperature, and uses the found status's age as timer.
The default values for Needs: Cold create a curve similar to vanilla without the sudden large front loaded jumps and a 30 second minimum, while Needs: Very Cold has twice the infection chance and no minimum time. Both check every 30 seconds instead of 150.
Config
Needs: Cold and Needs: Very Cold each can have their own values for the following:
- Chance: percent chance of catching a cold
- Min Time: minimum time before the first check
- Check Frequency: how often to check again
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: