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Rebalance Mod

Intended to make the worst performing weapons and mechs more viable, at least in their niche, without ruining the vanilla flavor. Is unlikely to work with other mods.

Updated March 26th 2025 for CN compatibility. No other changes.


Changes:

-Global
Armor-Fire resistance changed from 10% per point of armor to 8%

Thermal type weapons are now able to do some damage up to armor 12... Still bad but at least Turrets are no longer immune to Plasmaguns.

-Starting Equipment
Added 1x Flamethrower
Added 1x Toxin Sprayer

Flamer/Toxin Sprayer are pretty potent early game and falloff later... but their tech is late in the tree, awkward. Changing this involves a level of familiarity with GML/Lua I have yet to achieve, so I just gave you guys 1 of each at start.

-Plate
Ammo ratio reverted to build 60 stats

C-RAM leakage is significantly worse with build 61, and there isn't really an alternative imho.

-Holo
Removed 1 motor slot
Heat Resist increased to 5%
Added 1 extra aux slot

Conceptually, the Underwater specialists are meant to be less flexible, and so have less aux slots in exchange for having water mobility baked in.
However, Needle or Torpedo aux is almost mandatory for underwater combat, and you really want repair drones too, which makes the default 2 aux setup for underwater mechs almost crippling. 3 gives some breathing room while still making them relatively inflexible.

-Tentacle
Speed increased
Added 1 aux slot
Impact Resist increased to 33%

Same logic as the Holo. Higher impact resistance makes it more capable in melee; unlike the Miner "Coffinmech" (yes that is literally the game file name) you don't have alot of aux slots to spend ammo and impact resist, so I baked some of it in by default.

-Quadro
Cost increased by 50%. Build time increased by 1 day (now 6 days x 5 slots)
Resist profile redistributed from 4/25/95 to 44/5/75

The Quadro is very sad. It requires a mountain of components to fully equip, yet doesn't really have a good niche late game. In vanilla a well engineered Plate will do more DPS, and the Quadro isn't good at tanking or support either. Nevermind the Castle exists and is almost strictly superior.

I've shuffled some Impact Resistance and (uselessly low) Water Resistance into giving it the best baseline Heat Resist. Now the Quadro is a pretty potent DPS platform, though the poor munitions ratio makes it underperform with ammo intensive weaponry, and requires more investment than "look ma I redlined my Plate 27 times"

-Castle
Adds two motor slots

Castle is hardly underpowered, but adding 2 more motors feels natural.

-Tank Gun
Base penetration increased by 3

Was agonizing seeing a crit tank slug larger than the Aries Ram... bounce off of it. Still dependent on armor shred vs bosses.

-Flamer & Chemthrower
Base weight halved
Base dispersion doubled
Cost & Build Time reduced by 50%
Damage increased by 2 & 6
Toxin Sprayer base projectile speed increased from 9 to 18

Still mediocre, but they have a niche as low power, weight efficient sidearms for builds that can run Gas no Reload.

-Cabin 1 'Militarized Cockpit'
Weight 12 -> 14
Control 15 -> 18
Safety 30 -> 35
blurb: "Militarized cockpit featuring slightly optimized control layout and tremendously improved protection for a modest increase in weight and cost"

-Cabin 2 "Armored Cockpit"
Weight 30 -> 18
Control 30 -> 5
Safety 20 -> 60
"Reinforced design seen in both high hazard industries & underground mech fighting competitions. Cramped design hampers complex actions like reloading."

-Cabin 3 - Aerospace Cockpit
Weight 20 -> 22
Control 18 -> 60
Safety 45 -> 5
"Advanced mind-machine interface, to maximize pilot control authority. Primarily used on single-pilot SSTO Aerospace/LEO attack craft, armor was sacrificed to control weight margins. Controversial due to occasionally inducing neurofeedback pain and even fatal heart attacks."

-Cabin 4 & 5
Reverted to Vanilla.

All cockpits now theoretically have a unique niche now.

-Armor
Strike Face 0 weight reduced to 0
Strike Face 1 build time reduced to 1
Bulk Plate #3 (thin white s;ab) build time reduced to 1 day.

Now an niche exists (though not great) for more armor types

-ICE Motors
Weight increased by 2 to create a 2/4/6 weight curve (for standard/improved/heavy ICE)
Tier 2 increased to 16 Speed
Tier 3 changed to 13 speed
-Electric Motors
Base weight decreased to 1/2/3
Electric motor speed equalized with ICE of same tier

Now Tier 2 motors have a usecase all the way into endgame!

Even with these buffs electric motors are still very niche, due to the immense power draw of energy and energy adjacent (EM Accelerator/Plasmagun/Particle Emitter) weapons, not to mention the need for Energy Shields, but at least it doesn't feel awful to have to use electric motors.

Notes:
-Still looking for a way to add evasion/stability to Tier 2 motors

Credits
-WalrusJones for flame-armor suggestion.
-Skaian for debugging 1.0 mod-uploading process and handholding me through adding descriptions.
-Kiber for the game.

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