V1.21 update : Fixed low tier bandits having too much damage resistance.
V1.2 update : Fixed resistances, stalkers with exo's, skats and armor of that tier can take much more damage before going down. Fixed expert ranked not using AP rounds. Plan to soon change artifact drops to include lead boxes.
V1.1 : Previously Rare NPC Loot, this addon adds rare item and artifact drops with increasing chances as NPC rank increases. It also increases NPC damage resistances as ranks increase. A novice stalker is going to take more damage than master stalker, so effectively higher ranked NPC's will be tougher to kill. This balances well because higher ranked stalkers will drop more rare items at higher chances. Another change included is that expert rank will use AP rounds in their rifles more often, and master and legend use only AP rounds. Expert through Legend ranks also carry high tier weaponry now capable of easily killing you in an upgraded exoskeleton, watch out!
Drop rates in previous version were too low, now they are balance better so you should see some good loot. This mod may need some more balancing, so please comment if you find something gamebreaking that needs changing or just have a suggestion. Look at PDF's included to preview loot chances.
![Ranked Loot, Resistances, and Loadouts v1.21 [1.5b]](https://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/174/173193/Artifact_Chances.3.PNG)
Hey
Sounds really interesting. What exactly does this do compared to "vanilla" Anomaly? From the description it seems to expand the current loot chances for the npc ranks, rather than replace them. Cheers
It does not replace any vanilla loot drops, it only adds items to npc drops that were not able to be dropped in vanilla, things like the repair kits you had to buy to obtain, medic bags of different sorts,
upgraded suit accessories, weapon modification kits, rebirth, adrenaline, and cocaine.
Ahhhhh that makes sense. Thank you.
Fixed please try it again and let me know if you get a crash
I feel like some of the resistances are a bit much.. I'd just came up on a bandit in my playthrough that took 7 MP-133 shots to the head at 5 meters or less to take down and because of that I went back and checked the top 100 ranking stalker list before killing... he wasn't even in the top 100's and it cut off at veteran rank. He was wearing only a bandit mercenary suit and a gas mask, forgot which model though wasn't a sphere even. He had a friendly with him as well wearing a bandit mercenary suit who otherwise only took about two hits to the body to bring down.
I will look into it tomorrow, i think I made a mistake with one of the low tier bandit ranks having too much head armor. There shouldn't be any head armor on those dudes. Should be a quick fix.
He managed to take quite a few body shots as well actually compared to his companion, I couldn't find out how many though because every time I tried to take him out on body shots I would die before I could manage to kill him since my armor is kind of RIP and I wasn't aware I was going to be fighting slav jesus.
Should be fixed now in version 1.21
Sweet! I will give it a shot and see how it goes. Wish I'd been able to provide a bit more information like a definitive rank for the stalker in question though not sure of a way to see the rank of those you killed unless it ends up coming from an addon eventually or theres some sort of way to get debug info of what you are looking at.
Just following up, that definitely had done the trick. Bandit slav jesus is now just another slight pay day towards getting that broken armor replaced. He still attempted to put up a fight but one shell of buck to the body and then a follow up to that gas mask removed all his worries about going thick succ on that pesky zone radiation.
just had some military boy take 3 clips from a VSS to the head.
Says the archive is broken when I try to open it. Tried both the browser download and using JDownloader, doesn't work still.
How exactly would I go about uninstalling this mod or reverting to the original files without deleting my progress? It's ridiculous when someone can take 30 rounds to the head and be completely fine on one of the harder diffiiculties.
Back your save up, reinstall Anomaly and use JSGME next time.
The monolith gear drop seems a little -too- OP lol. I'd just gotten a M24 SWS green dragon at 50%+, two/three different artifacts, a tier 2 armor upgrade part (maybe another one?), and a bunch of other stuff off of just one guy. Then another guy had similar-ish stuff except he had a LMG. They take a good 4-6 shots to the head from an SKS (using non AP) to down but I'm not sure just that is worth literally small fortunes for every single kill.
I like the concept but I feel it may be a bit too much in some cases? Mostly the loot, perhaps a slightly toned down alternate version? I just felt like early on I kept stumbling across dead high ranked NPCs and getting really good stuff somewhat consistently, typically one or two artifacts on a lot of the enemies.
Higher ranking stalkers now can take up to 20 Armor-piercing shots to the head.
Thank you for all the work you did. Can't make everyone happy with the values but all the ground work has been laid out for easy editing. I have edited mine to make a perfect warfare addition mod, makes some boss level baddies walking around the zone. ~30 min of editing gets it closer to personal taste.
dope can you please add a ver without the loottable add on and just more resistances?? cause i would love to add it to my da modpack