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Six Man Difficulty

An Alteration of Tactician Difficulty to the following NPC Stats:

HP = 1300%
Damage = +0%
Physical Armour = +165%
Magic Armour = +165%
Accuracy = +0%

This mod was made with the goal to keep it's normal challenge with the following ideology.

1. Being able to use all 6 Origin Characters.
Use all the Origin characters in one game and see their stories in one go, while keeping the game balance.
You will need a seperate mod to actually play with 6 people, such as "Party Size Evolved" https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1503849808&searchtext=

2. Keeping the relative challenge up without randomized NPC buffs or more NPCs.
Everywhere I looked on the Workshop the solution was always one of the two, and I didn't desire to randomise NPC buffs because it either turned the game to save abuse, or radically changed the encounter from what the Larian Developers intended. And it wasn't even in a unique way the Author felt would enhance that particular encounter, because it was always random.

I also didn't care to simply add more NPCs cause sometimes it messed with even engaging the encounter. For a small example, on Fort Joy there is a gravestone where if you dig it a zombie will rise out and attack you. However, if you have more monsters in your game a second zombie will just be standing next to said stone, removing the whole element of surprise, and simply making it two 1 man encounters thus also failing to increase the challenge. As well as having the issue of requiring an XP scale mod to keep balance, which had it's own issues of not being a precise fix so players would start leveling at different points than the Developers originally intended.

3. Giving players the relative flexibility of Lone Wolf without making the game easier.
Maybe this is just me, but I always feel more complete as a character when Lone Wolf is on. I feel like I have a lot to do on my turn, and that I can make any build I envision. While then moving back down to a non-Lone Wolf build always leaves me feeling empty. However, you can't quite have more than 2 Lone Wolves by default and still have the game balanced, hence the need for a custom scaler.

You will need a seperate mod to have everyone treated as Lone Wolf, such as "Wolf Pack": https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1537716324

(Wolf Pack doesn't effect Level 1, if you care about having level 1 buffs too simulate it with a mod like "Stronger Start").
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1644147299

4. Enabling a bit more Control on and Party Synergy on the player side.
I didn't scale up Magic/Physical Armour by the same extent I did Vitality, and boosted Vitality by an extra amount to compensate. This should make enemies just as hard to take down, but require less overall effort before Control can be applied, or until both Physical and Magic users can both widdle down the HP allowing mixed parties to work better together.

5. No Accuracy or Damage Buffs on the NPCs
I found the Damage Buff a bit cruel, and opened 1HKO on Players a lot. And the Accuracy buff made stuff like Dodging builds a bit harder to idealise. So I removed the bonuses, and scaled up Durability to compensate.

However you don't need to have the same goals as listed above to use this mod. If you just want a Difficulty Scaler, these numbers work for you and you have a different goal or modset to make it work for you then go ahead. Use the mods how you want, it's your game to enjoy.

Please note that this is my first mod, so although I would like to say this shouldn't conflict with anything other than other difficulty scalers. I can't say for certain, please let me know in the comments if any bugs or issues pop up and I'll try to fix them.

Special Thanks to Murderbot and LaughingLeader for having helped me learned the basics of modding so that I could make this mod.

BUGS & ISSUES

It seems some people are experiencing a bug where the file types within the mod suddenly change, and that this bug is mirrored in other Difficulty Mods. If you are suffering this issue, try to install it from here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uQzDUYrwDc-njPc9bwCyBC06gjGb2Lxf/view?usp=sharing

And place the file into the following file path:
User > My Documents > Larian Studios > Divinity Original Sins 2 Definitive Edition > Mods

FAQ

Q: This doesn't balance it! Control spam breaks everything.
A: This is an inherent issue with modding as a whole that increases party size, and/or adds more skills. And to my knowledge it's not really something any other approach can fix either. More Monsters limited cause most Crowd Control is Area of Effect, and Randomized Buffs is random, so it won't reliably address it either.

The best thing you can do here, in my own opinion is to restrict the amount of crowd control in your party, or spread it in more build types. Cause the only thing that can truly address this concern is advanced modding rewriting the whole system, and something that is honestly beyond the scope of this beginner mod.

And even if/when my modding skills improve, it will likely be made part of a new mod instead. So as I don't suddenly add new features to peoples current playthroughs that they did not consent to.

Q: Does is this apply to pre-existing saves?
Sort of? The way Divinity 2 Scalers work are that it is applied when an Act is first loaded. So any Acts you have loaded before activating this mod won't be affected, but any Act you load afterwards will. For this reason I recommend you only use this Mod with a New Game.
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This mod but with a +70% damage boost (for you sadists out there) by Misha