🌺[1.5.2/1.5.1/1.5.0][DLTX optional] Dangerous Mutants v3🌺 addon

Meaning it's pretty broken to include this, yeah? I already have to charge around all of Yantar every time to keep every Ecologist on the map from being ripped to shreds, now the mutants are even faster AND tougher?

Id say a speed rebalance would be your best bet. Make them weaker, but faster to make up for it. Say a dog, obviouslly a blast of buckshot is going to pretty well kill a blind dog no matter what. 2ish rounds of 5.56 or 5.45 should also kill them off id say. It's a dog, and not even one with any meat or fat to spare really.

As such they should be faster to make up for this frailty, using their numbers to overwhelm players and AI alike before they can kill them. This would make them challenging and easy to be swarmed by but not impossible for the player or the more aimbotty AI to deal with.

Only downside would be grenade launchers could wipe entire groups, but still.

Primarily immersion. Kinda like why people make the NPC loot claim mods. While yes it's useful for NPCs to die so you can get free ****, many don't think it makes any sense.

I personally don't see why Ecologists would station guys around their bunker at all if they literally all get wiped out every time. If it were that damn dangerous they'd probably pull what they did in Shadow of Chernobyl and just hide in the bunker until they have a reason to leave.

Also mutants are already the games ammo waster. Without them a halfway decent player would have no problem storing up vast amounts of money, gear and ammo due to the fact that everything you spend ammo on gives you a direct return, often a profitable one. Mutants are there largely to add diversity (a lot of it actually) to combat and to waste your ammo, to keep you from advancing too fast.

Hence the logic portion of what I was saying, that you kinda skipped entirely. They still tend to be in large packs, why make them stupidly tough as well? GSC has made this same mistake actually, with the Psi Dogs. You already have to wade through the crowds of copies they make to find the real one, which often hides in the back. Why do these literal, actual figments of your imagination also do damage to you? It makes literally no sense. Instead they should be there to confuse and panic you, causing you to waste half your mag on the ones you think are the real one, while the actual real one blends in with the crowd to attack you unexpectedly. Or even just hide in the back and let you wear yourself down.

I apply the same logic to other mutants. Sure we can just spike their health to Psuedogiant levels and make them lightning fast like a lot of mods just love to do, but that isn't really fun. It's just harder. I don't get any satisfaction from killing a boar when it takes and entire mag to the head and there are 12 more behind it I have to dodge. Nor do I get much satisfaction from dealing with Misery grade Snorks who fly around like bolts of lightning despite their awkward, unnatural gait. It doesn't really make any sense.

Anyway, all of this is just my two cents. Pretty sure most Stalkers lore wise get to be experts and masters because they learn how to deal with all the threats, with some luck thrown in. Not because they invested in a belt fed MG to deal with the local boar. If that were the case, the Mercenaries would be having a grand time, and not dying to anything that doesn't wipe after it *****.

Fair enough, just wanted to pick your brain over the mod design. More options are always better and all that, great work either way!

Edit V2: Trimmed even more for brevity.

In short they just seem to tough for players or AI. Even given perfect, long approaches with no cover AI often can't deal enough damage to properly kill the mutants before the close in and kill them. This reflects for the player as well. Why the hell would I want them to be tougher if they already bleed me dry of ammunition constantly?

Dogs take an appropriate 1-3 rounds of 5.56 or 5.45 to kill given their body size and the tissue damage of those rounds. Even pistols do just fine, they're skinny, anything you hit is vital.

Boar understandably take more, but each boar takes a good solid 13-15 rounds of 5.56 or 5.45 to kill, and travel in groups of 3-6. Your only saving grace is distance and exploiting the AI by jumping to the side when they get close.

Snorks take an extrodinary amount of damage despite having an EXPOSED SPINAL CORD. ONE BULLET should permanently cripple the bastards. There is no reason they should take more than 1 shotgun shell, point blank to put down.

cringe

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Pathetic people who throw up a shitfit about his mod names and personal interests.

This time however I might have to agree with the rating, the mutants imo were tough as they were, this makes the much more difficult and overpowered.
Some might be into that, I'm not.

oh, this explains a lot

I actually find Chimeras, Burers and controlers easy to deal with in vanilla Anomaly. Pseudogiants are also easy if you don't count with the amount of bullets you have to waste.
I am of course, comparing it to Misery, which actually makes mutants a proper threat. Poltergeists are the easiest thing to deal with, it doesnt deal strong psy damage if you are close.

Misery also kinda dials things to 11. I mean I replayed it not long back, and while they did take the Snorks off their turbo boosters, packs of dogs come in like massive, 20 dog packs that basically own Zaton's swamps until you have to deal with them, mixed packs might I add. I had one that was around 12 blind dogs, a good 6 psuedo dogs and another 4 Psi dogs, which as you know **** out an entire regiment of dogs on their own. While it could be considered realistic that a pack could get that big, and include the Psueods and Psi's it isn't realy fun standing on a rock pile, burning through hundreds of rounds to kill the spongey as hell dogs while laoding constantly because they do that lovely lunge attack, which teleports them up there with you, then they just bite you another 4 times before you can move because each bite slows you down so significantly.

The less I have to load, the better. If every bullet puts me to red bleeding like i've had recently with STALKER Lost Alpha? Not really any reason to try to stop the bleeding given it'll take so long and bankrupt me on meds 2 minutes into a run.

at least you still alive, because here's some people can easily kill you

I wouldn't mention something like that about parents, too dirty business

If someone literally comes to your house and kills you over a mod fora cult classic game I think you can die with a smile knowing you still technically have the last laugh given they are that pathetic.

Also in the case of us crazy yanks, breaking into someone's home isn't a good idea when they could own a gun. Or several. And keep them loaded. And chambered.

Ah, there's a proper parameter for it in the files? I'll be sure to give that a look, thanks! **** make no sense. Maybe with Psi dogs though, given they are... you know hallucinations. They could break reality more, make them more challenging and unexpected.

Anyway, thanks! I may have to play with that!