The mod basically adds some more realism to the carnage. Shotguns won't explode enemies anymore, explosions are more likely to rip off body parts instead of gibbing.
Limits for mutilation to occur have been disabled. Usually the game wants a certain amount of "normal" deaths until another limb is allowed to fly again.
It also pushes low-health indicators like heavy breathing a bit up so they occur at higher health threshold.
I did this mainly because the medpack supply in FEAR mostly keeps you above the thresholds and later in the game you wouldn't hear them very rarely since it's either heal or death.
The batteries for the flashlight have also been exchanged for, well, normal batteries.. Keep the light on.
Choose between three versions of the mod. All three come with the changes mentioned above, Mutilation Plus and Payneful add gameplay changes like being able to carry more weapons and throwables and more health/slomo increase.
The mod basically adds some more realism to the carnage. Shotguns won't explode enemies anymore, explosions are more likely to rip off body parts instead of gibbing.
Limits for mutilation to occur have been disabled. Usually the game wants a certain amount of "normal" deaths until another limb is allowed to fly again.
It also pushes low-health indicators like heavy breathing a bit up so they occur at higher health threshold. I did this mainly because the medpack supply in FEAR mostly keeps you above the thresholds and later in the game you wouldn't hear them very rarely since it's either heal or death.
The batteries for the flashlight have also been exchanged for, well, normal batteries.. Keep the light on.
Choose between three versions of the mod. All three come with the changes mentioned above, Mutilation Plus and Payneful add gameplay changes like being able to carry more weapons and throwables and more health/slomo increase.
Blood and debris won't stay with this mod, BUT you can crossover it with the Rivarez mod as long as you only use the basic version. Instructions for how to do that are below.
Mutilation comes with:
- Heavy breathing starts at 90 health instead of 25
- Heartbeating starts at 55 health instead of 25
- Explosions are more likely to rip off body parts
- Normal weapons are less likely to rip off body parts
- Limitless mutilation
- Shotgun doesn't gib people anymore
- Limit of dead bodies increased
Mutilation Plus also adds:
- Carry 8 explosives of each type instead of 5
- Slowmotion recharge from 0,35 to 0,5
- Slowmotion cooldown from 2 to 1,5
- Slowmotion pickups give 0,3 instead of 0,25 permanent buff
- Carry 4 weapons instead of 3
Mutilation Payneful has all Plus has but also:
- Slowmotion pickups give 0,5 instead of 0,25 permanent buff (this is a LOT)
- Carry 5 weapons instead of 3
Installation:
1. Make a backup of "Default.archcfg" located in your FEAR main folder.
2. Pick one of the mod versions.
3. Copy both files to your FEAR main folder. Overwrite when prompted.
4. Start a new game.
Installing other mods along with Mutilation (only works with mods that are not based on database edits which is hard to find out without using SDK tools):
Best addition in my opinion is the "without weapons" version of the Rivarez mod for the bodies and the blood! The weapon changes are database edits and won't work or override Mutilation.
1. Install the Mutilation version you'd like to use as described above.
2. Copy the .Arch00 file of the other mod into the FEAR main folder (for example, Rivarez.Arch00)
3. Open the Default.archcfg in the game's main folder with a text editor and add the whole name of the .Arch00 file you just copied, including the file extension, above the entry for the Mutilation pack you use.
4. Save file, close text editor, start a new game.
This is only for mods using a single .Arch00 file. More should work fine, just make sure to add them all to the list. Mods working differently should work as well, just take a look at the Default.archcfg that comes with it to get behind how the changes are loaded into the game.
A lot of mods make use of database edits though and are not compatible.
