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Veritas - Lifestyle Perks Overhaul

Compatible with 1.16
Mod version: 1.1.1
File abbreviation: vts


Veritas - Lifestyle Perks Overhaul is a complete overhaul of the Lifestyle perk system found in Crusader Kings 3 designed to encourage build diversity and to add exciting new gameplay options.

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• Veritas - Lifestyle Perks Overhaul overhauls all Lifestyles in the game and changes each Lifestyle from a perk tree style design to a perk chart design, giving the player the freedom to pursue only the perks that they want.
  
  
• In true RPG fashion, all Lifestyle Perks now have actual skill requirements that must be met before they can be unlocked. These skill requirements range from 5 (Poor) to 25 (Excellent). This means that a character with 5 skill in Stewardship no longer has access to the same amount of Stewardship Perks as a character with 20 Stewardship, and so on.
  
  
• Veritas makes changes to a total of 228 Lifestyle Perks, with at least 66 of these being newly added Lifestyle Perks.
  
  
• Dynamic skill increase. A skill is improved every five years based on selected Lifestyle. Enabled with game rule. Disabled on default. Previously a feature of Taberna, this game mechanic has been moved to Veritas.

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The content of this mod can be seen below.

• Each lifestyle perk should feel impactful and special to unlock. No lifestyle perk should feel like a dead perk.
  
  
• Further emphasize the difference between skilled and unskilled characters by introducing skill requirements to the game. Highly skilled characters should feel very different to play compared to unskilled characters, and vice versa.
  
  
• Encourage build diversity by removing perk trees and instead adopting a perk chart style of design, where a character is only limited by their skill in the chosen Lifestyle. This is further reinforced by Lifestyle Traits now requiring a certain amount of Lifestyle Perks to be unlocked, an amount that is shared across all Lifestyles.
  
  
• Minimise most sources of health and fertility to make the game more difficult, and in turn, more exciting.
  
  
• Introduce more interesting choices to the game by giving Lifestyle Focuses positive as well as negative modifiers. Consequently, the cooldown to switch Lifestyle Focus has been reduced from 12 months to 0 months.

The following vanilla perks are distributed to every playable character in the game. These lifestyle perks no longer require perk investments.

• Accomplished Forger
  
• Bound by Blood
  
• Mortal Adoration
  
• Confidants
  
• Carefree

3 out of 38 Lifestyle Perks shown.





3 out of 38 Lifestyle Perks shown.





3 out of 38 Lifestyle Perks shown.





3 out of 38 Lifestyle Perks shown.





3 out of 38 Lifestyle Perks shown.





3 out of 38 Lifestyle Perks shown.

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Veritas makes changes to the following game files.

• Every game file in the \common\lifestyle_perks folder.
  
  
• 00_lifestyles.txt
  
• (127_)lifestyle_focuses.txt
  
• (127_)lifestyle.txt
  
• (127_)lifestyle_perk_triggers.txt
  
• (127_)lifestyle_triggers.txt
  
  
• window_character_lifestyle.gui
  
• hud.gui (Veritas only overwrites this to fix a minor interface bug)

Patches will most likely be needed when it comes to larger mods (AGOT, EK2) to resolve any compatibility conflicts. Putting Veritas at the end of your playset should resolve most of these conflicts however.

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• English (official version)
  
• Chinese Translation

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All of my mods are completely free to use. You can patch, edit, or change anything that you like. You don't have to ask me for permission.

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Crusader Kings III and its assets are owned by Paradox Interactive.
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