Hellblau and Alfleet's Story-Based Starting Loadouts addon

Thanks! Ive always found pistol only was a stupid design decision even on survival difficulty.

It doesnt make the game harder, makes it boring and unimersive.

As a loner, makes you cower behind your tourist safari followers (who, inexplicably somehow have way better weapons than you, a rookie stalker who is supposed to help them in the hunt).

As a merc (who is supposed to be one the top of the food chain, except for monolith maybe), having only a pistol makes you play like a pussy.

Duty, who are supposed to be brave veteran ex-military who stayed behind to fight the zone, have only a ****** pistol?

And so on...

Ive made some personal edits to your file. Added weapons to other untouched factions, in a lore friendly and balanced way way (no scoped weapons, only the most basic weapons of the smg/rifle category):

Loner: ppsh
Bandit: kiparis
Clear Sky: AK74u
Duty: AN-94
Freedom: M16

Ive also changed monoliths rifle. I think they deserve a better rifle because they are the best equiped lorewise, are hostile to everyone, dont have easy access to the beryll vodka trade, and start out in the north, where dangerous mutants roam. I think it makes sense lorewise and balancewise as well.

I think the g36 fits them well but the vanilla scope is terrible. I never use it unless i have the 2d scope addon. Assuming people will play vanilla, i gave monollith the l85. So they are the only faction that gets a scoped rifle out of the box, to counterbalance their inherent difficulty

I think other people might like a version like my personal edit, maybe you would consider making it an optional component?

Edit: changed duty from groza do AN-94.

Edit 2: BaS patch gives monolith g36 back, since the scope is fixed.

Better than original, much better and logical!

I had a bruh moment at first and read "Better Starting Locations" instead!

Uh, i think your ideas are based upon the decently established conventions for all factions.
Definitely a refreshing take on new game loadouts on the middle of the year, it's good to keep the newer players entertained with these balance changes.

Will there be a BAS patch?

Do you by any chance know how to edit mission rewards?

I think pistol starts might be bearable if you could edit each faction leaders first easy mission to reward you with your starting main weapon.

That way you would still start with a pistol, but quickly get an upgrade to get you going.

This addon is kinda useless for Hard + Survivalist players. They add nothing new except new pistol

Ok I might be dumb here but when I try to download it gives me a .0 file. is this right?

I will try this since i'm about to make a new game thanks for the mod !! Edit : it works 1.5.2 with B&S