DAC v0.1.5-alpha

v0.1.5-alpha

Updating from v0.1.4 is save-safe. Requires SkyrimNet Beta 25 (0.25.0) or newer. If you are still using the Beta 24 version, use the v0.1.4-alpha version instead.

SkyrimNet Beta 25

• Updated DAC's SkyrimNet content to work with SkyrimNet Beta 25 version. It now ships as two content-library plugins under SKSE/Plugins/SkyrimNet/external/ — innocento.defeat-and-capture (core plus the SL Kidnapped Redux, Leash Framework and Captive Player content) and innocento.dark-arena-skyrimnet with the Dark Arena option. They appear on SkyrimNet's Installed Plugins page with an External badge.

Fixed

• Enemies who are not flagged hostile are now recognised as enemies. Counting them relied on the game's hostility flag alone, which some mods do not set, and a yielded or ceasefired actor reports as not hostile while still attacking. The consequence was severe with "Stay down until the fight ends": the player could be defeated and, seconds later, declared the winner and stood back up into a fight that was still going on, with no capture. An actor whose combat target is the player now counts regardless of what their factions say. The same blind spot is fixed where the room is pulled out of combat at the moment of capture.
• The player's Essential flag is re-checked the instant a defeat happens. It is a shared setting that other mods can clear, and DAC previously only re-checked it on game load and when the MCM closed.

DAC v0.1.4-alpha

v0.1.4-alpha

Updating from v0.1.3 is save-safe.

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Fixed

• The MCM now loads on Skyrim 1.5.97. The config declared a minimum MCM Helper version higher than the 1.5.97-compatible build provides, so MCM Helper rejected the whole file with "error loading config" before reading any of it.

DAC v0.1.3-alpha

v0.1.3-alpha

Updating from v0.1.2 is save-safe.

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New

• Stay down until the fight ends — new MCM toggle, off by default. Being defeated takes the player out of the fight without ending it. Mostly works but still needs some refining. Worst case just turn it off. If enemies win a capture triggers, if followers win player stands back up. Applies in every follower mode.
• Surrendering while down ends it for the whole group — the most common case is the player falling first while followers fight on. The Surrender hotkey gives up for everyone at once rather than waiting the fight out.
• Pacify area hotkey — new debug keybind, unbound by default. Puts every actor currently hostile to the player into the truce without triggering a capture. For roleplaying purposes. Or when a captivity moves into a new part of a dungeon whose occupants were never in the original fight. Only affects actors already hostile.
• Clear pacified actors — new MCM button. Undoes only what the pacify hotkey did. Safe to press mid-captivity: it does not free the player and leaves captive followers alone.
• A capture by a group now reads as the group's — when several captors are present, the NPC who took the player no longer describes them as their exclusive property.

Fixed

• "Player Essential" could silently stop working. Should be fixed.
• Denying a capture turned bystanders hostile. Pressing the surrender hotkey near a friendly NPC and choosing Deny could make that NPC hostile and attack the player.
• Enemies sometimes attacking captured followers out of nowhere.
• SkyrimNet no longer warns about the capture prompt. Removed the redundant comment from the beginning.

Under the hood

• New decorator dac_captor_group, and three new globals: DAC_StayDown, DAC_PacifyKey, DAC_ClearPacified.

DAC v0.1.2-alpha

Fixed:

• Small fix. SkyrimNet no longer spams Could not find quest errors when DAC mod is disabled. The cause was DAC's quest and script being mentioned in dynamic_character_bio.prompt in overwrite folder, SkyrimNet read it even without DAC enabled.

DAC v0.1.1-alpha

v0.1.1-alpha

Updating from v0.1.0 is save-safe. End or cancel any active captivity first.

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Biggest changes

Restraints genuinely lock. They were cosmetic before — now they are properly locked DD restraints.

Improved performance in big battles. Still don't recommend jumping into fights with 20+ NPCs at once; DAC will still work, but slower.

Follower items get taken too. Also fixed several issues with follower handling modes.

Captive Player Patch is now shipped in the FOMOD. Received permission from the author.

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New

• Followers' gear can be taken — new MCM toggle "…and your followers' gear" under Captor takes your gear. Off by default. Only applies to followers actually captured alongside the player; one still fighting keeps their gear until they go down.
• New SkyrimNet action: DAC_ReturnGearTo — a captor can hand one named prisoner their belongings back. Works for the player too, without ending the captivity.
• A follower defeated by a different bandit is credited to that bandit. Their gear goes to whoever actually defeated them. Falls back to the player's captor whenever it cannot be certain.
• "Get back your stuff" now recovers the whole group's belongings, not just the player's. Returned followers are nudged into re-equipping.
• "Currently Captured" OFF is now a full teardown — returns everyone's gear, removes restraints without needing the key, destroys the captor's key and frees followers.

Fixed

• Followers pacified after the capture are now robbed too — the strip ran once, so latecomers got nothing.
• Followers defeated before the player are now captured — the check only ran once the player was already captive, so anyone already down was permanently ineligible.
• Followers captured in "keep fighting" mode were never robbed — that only happened on the "captured with you" path.
• Captured followers now stand up, disarmed and out of combat, instead of lying in bleedout.
• "Keep fighting" now actually keeps them fighting — pacifying the room was ending the captors' fight with the followers as collateral, and nothing restarted it. WIP
• Captor search radius 0 ("whole cell") pacified nobody.
• Captor resolution now samples hostility before the room is pacified — the old test was reading a state that had just been cleared, so "nearest hostile" rarely meant hostile.
• Devious Devices detection checked the wrong plugin (Assets rather than Integration).

Performance

• Watchdog reduced from three cell walks per tick to one; follower checks use a small tracked list instead of scanning every actor present.
• Freezing the room and picking the captor merged into a single pass — previously two full scans back to back, before the confirmation prompt could even appear.
• Hit handling throttled to 250 ms — it ran once per incoming blow, many times a second against a dozen attackers.
• Removed a redundant AI package evaluation per pacified actor (22 per capture on a big fight).
• Removed a double evaluation in the truce scan — every filter test was running twice per actor.
• Filters reordered cheapest-first, and the expensive humanoid check now runs only on viable candidates rather than everyone in the cell.

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Leash Framework Patch

Only relevant if you use this patch.

• Proper master switch. Leash you on capture OFF now also stops NPCs being offered the four leash actions, so an AI captor cannot rope the player either.
• New "Remove all leashes" button — cuts every rope, the player's and their followers', for when one is applied at an awkward moment. Does not end the captivity.
• Followers captured after the player are now leashed too — the patch never heard about them, due to a malformed mod event.
• Followers are roped to whoever actually captured them, matching where their gear went. WIP

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Under the hood

• Per-victim item manifests, so one captor can hold several people's belongings separately. The player's manifest keeps its original keys, so no save migration is needed.
• New decorator dac_holds_gear; spoken names resolve against that captor's own victims only, so a fuzzy match cannot hand over a stranger's gear.
• New global DAC_StripFollowers.

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Known issues

Base mod

• Recovery can miss items granted very early in a new game, before the load order settles.
• Cancelling a captivity while wearing real DD locks is untested since restraints began locking properly.
• In "keep fighting" mode, a fight between the captors and surviving followers does not always resolve on its own.

Leash Framework Patch

• The leash collar can still be unequipped by hand.

DAC v0.1.0-alpha

Initial release. Check the README for details.