Changing the enemy respawn mechanism

[unreal beacon]

What I'm trying to do is to make certain enemies (for example Heide Knights in the Tower of Flame) to not respawn when killed, much like the Black Knights in DS1, basically. Now... my educated guess would be that I'd have to fiddle a bit with the Spawn Limit string in the EnemyParam param file, but here's the thing: while they still respawn up to 12 times in the game (while using Bearer of The Curse Edition) said string in DSMapStudio says their spawn limit is 1 (which should mean that they won't respawn when killed, like the Dragonrider Knight protecting the Vendrick Soul in Shrine of Amana, but as it turns out it doesn't)

Can someone please help me on this?

[trim grail]

Hi! I'm using SmithBox for this, but it should be the same in DSMapStudio. You need to load up the map (Heide's Tower), then select a Heide Knight. On the right, you'll have the properties windows. You just need to change the Spawn Limit to 1, and repeat it for all the others - simple!

P.S. EnemyParam effects all instances of the selected enemy, so you don't want to touch that unless if you want to do something like increasing the health of all Heide Knights and various other attributes.

[craggy gale]

in ds2 a lot of map data is stored in params. there's a good chance you're overwriting your changes in one editor with those in another

because you know.

software issues.

[unreal beacon]

I tried using Smithbox, but it crashes a lot on my end, Im not sure why

[trim grail]

Latest version of SmithBox is borked, crashes whenever you mouse over the "Edit" button. Only a DS2 related-issue I think?

Would suggest downgrading to 1.0.23

[unreal beacon]

that and other instances, but yeah... on DS3 it crashes as soon as I create a new project

[unreal beacon]

that would be my assumption also, if I modified their spawn number via modifying params... but the values you see in the screenshots are vanilla values, that's why I'm having a hard time understanding

[craggy gale]

are you changes sticking if you restart the program?

/ are you doing save-all

cus iirc there was some meme with ds2 params being loaded for maps files separately and I don't know if it ever got fixed

[unreal beacon]

I am, but that's not the problem: the problem is that judging bu the screen they are already non-respawning, since their spawn limit is set to 1

but when in game they still respawn

I'm gonna maybe try Beavis' method

and see if it works for me 🤔

[trim grail]

I tried it before I suggested it to you myself, so I can guarantee it 😄

Like 5 minutes beforehand :p