Obsolete Dire Wolves

[Karol1223]

Summary

None

Purpose of change

They were completely unused anywhere in the repo save for one shotgun test and one filler Backrooms mongroup. Not to mention they no longer really make sense to keep in vanilla, as wolves are restricted to small populations in zoos and in #74554 I outlined why allowing large vertebrates to mutate is problematic

Describe the solution

Destroy

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

Additional context

Huge shout out to Megafauna for both including additional spawns for this monster and then blacklisting it so it can't spawn

[SirPendrak]

Game ballance doc has one line mentioning direwolves:
Monster melee dice size scaling:
Maximum dice size for balance purposes: 12 (hardest possible hitter; dire wolf )

[LyranRenegade]

hmm I use one in my mod which hasn't been released yet.
Don't know why you would remove things that aren't in the way of anything..

[Karol1223]

hmm I use one in my mod which hasn't been released yet.
Don't know why you would remove things that aren't in the way of anything..

If it doesn't have a reason to exist, it has a reason not to. Unused content is still maintenance burden - has to be translated, has to be updated during bigger monster syntax changes (like armor last year or so), ends up being accounted for in things like modded blacklists or XE vampire spells, or ends up used as useless (because they don't occur ingame anyway) examples in documentation.

If you use it in your mod, feel free to add it back to your mod, but it's not any reason to keep it in vanilla.

[LyranRenegade]

ok yeah I get that..