Servants Rebalanced mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Servants Rebalanced

A simple servant rebalancing, bringing smarter search behaviours, and more to the base game. Compatible with Amnesia Remastered.

Features

• Universal Features
  • Servants no longer play enabled sounds, and soundtracks no longer play when they are roaming about.
  • Servants gain a slight boost in FOV while searching for the player. (From 120 to 150 degrees)
  • Narrowed search and patrol angles, increased player search times, and allowed servants to approach the player closer in searches.
  • Servants now react to more obvious audible cues from the player easier now.
  • Servants stick around longer patrolling.
  • Servants react more aggressively upon spotting the player, attempting more effort to catch up to you then before.
  • Tearing down doors is now alot more menacing. Servants will now continously pound (with less damage done to doors) against doors very loudly.
  • Servants now play enabled sounds when giving up the search.
• Depending on Servant, they aquire different senses and behaviours.
  
  • Servant Grunt
    
    • Grunts have good senses of sight.
    • Grunts patrol more passively.
  • Servant Brute
    
    • Brutes, compared to grunts, have worse senses of sight.
    • Brutes, compared to grunts, patrol more aggressively, and catch up to the player faster if spotted.
  • Suitors
    
    • Suitors are now blind, relying on audible sounds to detect the player, or direct presence of the player being in-front of them.
    • If spotted the player, hunt will insue, and suitors will instantly sprint.
    • Uses the same damage as the grunt.
    • Replaced visual damage from slashes to claws.

• Misc Features
  • Sanity will only naturally recover to "head is pounding and hands are shaking"
  • Sanity events will happen at all levels of sanity, though rarely when sanity is clear.
  • Drop in sanity doubled upon viewing servants.
  • Servants no longer glow in the dark.

Installation

1.) Open the "INSTALLATION" folder inside the winrar file.

2.) Drag and drop contents from "Amnesia The Dark Descent" into your game directory.

3.) Play

IF using Amnesia the Dark Descent Remastered, drag and drop contents from "Amnesia The Dark Descent Remastered Compatability" into your game directory as well.

Changelog

Servants Rebalanced - Changelog

• Release 1.2.1
  • Added an optional file for enemies to never despawn. [Experimental]

• Release 1.2.0
  • Suitors are now blind, relying on audible sounds to detect the player, or direct presence of the player being in-front of them.
  • Applied changes to ALOIS, BASILE, and MALO suitors.
  • Fixed bug (-1 value) in activation distance, causing suitors unable to move.
  • Grunts now patrol less aggressively.
  • Grunts now are now slightly slower when attempting to catch up with the player.
  • Servants now play enabled sounds when giving up the search.

• Release 1.1.0
  • Servants stick around longer patrolling.
  • Removed constant 150 FOV. Servants now instead gain a slight boost in FOV while searching for the player. (from 120 to 150 degrees)
  • Reduced search times from a minute to 45 seconds. (Should give a grace period of 15 seconds to get your location for a 30 second search of the area.)
  • Servants react slightly quicker upon hearing noises emmitted from the player.
  • Grunts now react more aggressively spotting the player, initiating hunt sooner if the player attempts to flee.
  • Restored vanilla sprint speeds for servants.
  • Each servant now has different senses.
    • Grunts have good senses of sight.
    • Brutes, compared to grunts, have worse senses of sight.
    • Suitors have the worst senses of sight, but are notably better at hearing the player.
• Release 1.0.1
  • Adjusted sanity drop rate in darkness. For every 30 seconds in darkness, 5% of your sanity drops.

• Initial Release 1.0

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