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Mod: Harp's Combat Techniques Balancing v1

Goal: Differentiate speed, damage, and characteristic for each weapon types as well as rearranging 1 weapon into a sensible (to me, anyway) category.

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File Instructions:: Weapons now behave differently!

Installation: Kenshi Ver 0.33

1. Extract the .rar file and move all .mod files into your kenshi/data folder.

2. Open mod.cfg within kenshi/data folder with notepad/wordpad and type out the name of the components of the mod that you wish to have. such as "harp combat balancing.mod".

It is one line per mod. Therefore, you can have multiple mods.

3. Save mod.cfg in notepad/wordpad.

4. Installation complete, launch the game.
Includes:

Harp's Combat Techniques Balancing: Completely expanded the differences and charactertics between different weapon class.
Harp's Global Constant Mods: Changes bleeding and damage modifiers to balance out the new combat techniques. Standard settings are still playable. -Optional.

Harp's NPC Mods: Added more NPC's weapon variety and also prevents NPCs from healing in mid-battle. NPC numbers and spawn rate remains the same.-Optional

Compatibility:
Harp's Combat Techniques Balancing mod alone does not interfere with characters and NPCs mods. Harp's NPC mods, however, will not guaranteed to work with other NPCs and Characters mod.

Initial issues with standard combat techniques: I felt that the bigger weapons see a lot more uses and a lot more powerful than a standard katana. Everywhere I go in Kenshi, it is a giant weapons swing fest. As matter of fact, the saber, hacker, and heavy weapon class are actually faster than the katana class in the standard combat technique settings. Which is weird and not balanced at all.

Goal: Differentiate speed, damage, and characteristic for each weapon types as well as rearranging 1 weapon into a sensible (to me, anyway) category. Or simply give you guys ideas of how you want to differentiate weapons to your own taste and preferences.

Katana(s)-

Pro:
-Excellent against single targets.
-Fast Speed
-Great for killing enemies that are trying to running away.
-Light Weight
-Insignificant change in combat potential if you lose the left arm.
-High Defense

Con:
-Lacks range and arc against groups of enemies. If you want to survive with a Katana user, don't get surrounded.
-Low damage combo and attacks only.
-Cannot break guard

Sabers-

Pro:
-Good at against single targets and groups.
-Medium Speed
-Balanced combo with speed, arc, and damage.
- Guard breaking does 1/4 damage.

Con:
-Harder to hit fleeing enemies.
-Disadvantageous if used one handed.
-Medium Blocking Speed

Hackers-

Pro:
-High Damage Combo
-Widest arc
-Great Against Groups
-Guard breaking does 1/2 damage.

Con:
-Medium to Slow Speed
-ineffective if used one handed
-Slow

Heavy Weapons-

Pro:
-OVERPOWERED
-NIGH UNBLOCKABLE: If an enemy tries to block an attack swung at them using a heavy weapon, they will break an arm or a leg, or both. When fighting NPCs with heavy weapons, best to micro manage the fight and dodge out of the way.

Con:
-Very Slow
-Only have 2 high damage moves: Heavy Swing and Heavy Downcut.
-No low damage combo.
-Cannot be used one handed.

These are my philosophy in trying to create a unique feel for each weapon. If you want to see the damage/speed and things like that, please look at the mod using the game modding tool. Reference the modding tutorial in the Kenshi forums.

Combat Techniques found in Kenshi version 0.33.0:

These techniques are the base animation used for each weapon. The speed, damage, etc are set differently for each weapon category. Some weapon can use all animation, some can't. Some have the same animation, but does different things. IE: The Katana cannot use heavy downcut/ heavy weapons cannot use downward combo. Saber Heavy attacks does different damage than Hacker Heavy attacks.

heavy swing
heavy downcut
chop down static
chop down
cut left static
cut left
block up
block left

High damage attack are Heavy Downcut and Heavy Swing. Katana have Heavy Swing, but does normal damage and cannot breaks guard.

*Guard Breaking*: These are just heavy swing or heavy downcut with 2 attacks in 1 animation. Meaning, the character swing once, yet deal 2 hits. However, the hits are spaced far enough apart that a skilled fighter can potentially blocks both hits. Saber deals 1/4 damage on the second hit. Hacker class 1/2 damage on the 2nd hit. Heavy Weapons Deal 100% on both hits, 0 on the 3rd since the game does not yet allows you to edit the 3rd attack.

Why did I do that? I think it is rather unsatisfying to see a character swing a massive fragmented axe at an enemy and the enemy just blocks it as if the fragmented axe is a pillow filled with feathers.

-REARRANGEMENT

-Topper haven been moved to hacker class.

Having the topper uses the katana setting was pretty OP. It had longer reach as well as higher damage. Besides, the flat topper is a hacking weapon. So should the topper.

-Ringed and Horse Chopper Saber size have been reduced by 10 percent.

KNOWN ISSUES:

-Instant hits against non-resisting enemies, even with a heavy weapon.

This means that if you are next to a unarmed civilian and attacks him, he just drops dead and no animation is played. On the other hand, against an armed gate guard with a weapon, an attack animation will be played. However, this could be useful against enemies that have their right arm disabled and civilians. They stand still as long as you don't have them targetted. Stand next to them and right click "attack target" and the hit can be instantaneous. If they don't faint right away, they will start running. De-target them and they will stop running away. Repeat the process until dead.

HARP'S NPC MODS

-Removed First Aid Kits from generic faction soldiers to prevent AI from healing in middle of a fight.

-Added Medics to all major factions

-Added weapons variety for various factions.

HARP'S GLOBAL CONSTANT MOD.

-Instantaneous Bleeding have been adjust to make a character faint if 3 non-vital body part reaches 0 hit points.

-Bleeding Rate have been adjusted so that if a character loses a right arm only, they will faint some time after if first aid is not recieved. It is to prevent NPCs from chasing an enemy that lost only their right arm around and around forever.

-Global Damage have been increased to 1 from 0.75.

-Attack Slot have been increased from 3 to 4. It is to prevent the Katana from dominating in big group fights despite low arc and range.

WISHLIST:

-More weapon Categories

There are gaps and anamoly between the weapons. Such as short katanas, extended katana, and topper. Extended Katana and Topper have longer reach, but there is no way to make them have their own weapon speed. It is either katana or hacker, fast vs slow. Putting them into saber is not quite right either. Also the plank, it is not quite a hacker and not quite a heavy weapon. It does not look convincing using the heavy weapon class speed and damage.

-More weapons

There are no true blunt class weapon in game yet.

-The ability to make a weapon class or specific weapon defenseless.

Cannot make a class of weapon unable to block. Meaning, I wanted the Heavy Weapons class to go all out offense and cannot block incoming attacks. No matter what I tried, the heavy weapon class can still block incoming attacks. I did several testing with katana, sabers, as well as hackers to try to make them defenseless. They all go back to the standard blocking animation if you do not specify a combat techniques file or set "can block" values to "false" in weapons path.

-Switching Weapons between primary and secondary weapon without having to lose the right arm.

-Switching Weapons to the left arm, in case of injury or person preferences or things like that. It is quite annoying to chase enemies down as well as standing there doing nothing cause you injured the right arm.

Please try it out, I would like to hear your suggestions and feedback.

File Name: harp_mod_v1.rar		Author: Admin
File Size: 15 KB		Files Added: 9,436
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Posted: 22.01.2013		Supporters: n/a