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[V] Improved Combat System

ICS makes combat in RimWorld more dynamic. Weapons shoot faster, more accurately, and farther. Your characters and enemies have learned to hit targets that are not too far away from them. The armor really protects, and power armor greatly expands the possibilities. Mechanoids are as dangerous as their description suggests.


ICS is basically a collection of patches that fix the combat system and everything related to it. The mod has good compatibility as it does not interfere with the game mechanics, but just adjusts some values. Conflicts are only possible if another mod affects the same thing as ICS.
Some patches are universal, others apply only to specific mods. ICS is created for builds based on mods from the Vanilla Expanded series. Weapon and armor patches are written only for them.
Nothing prevents you from installing other mods as well. There will be no technical problems. Just weapons and armor from them will be weaker compared to those modified by ICS. All new Vanilla Expanded mods will receive support (if needed). Support for other mods is not planned. There are good reasons for this (in a nutshell, I don't like them and I don't want to waste my time on them). ICS is exclusive to the Vanilla Expanded series.

The marksmanship curve has been rewritten (to level 14) to make inexperienced shooters more likely to hit.
The basic marksmanship of turrets and mechanoids has been increased to level 14.
In humans, the shooting skill level also increases the aiming and reloading speed.
A limit has been set to reduce aiming and reloading time to 20%.
All melee attacks are twice as fast (they also have a reduction limit).
The probability of dodging melee attacks has been seriously increased.
Bullets and arrows do reduced damage to structures - this makes up for the fact that turrets and walls have no armor parameter.
The effect of quality on all weapon and armor parameters is reduced (to 25% at legendary level), the effect on cost is also reduced.
Poor condition of weapons and armor worsens their parameters.
Basic armor parameters are increased (based on common sense, the average increase was 1.5 times). Protection of legendary level armor (taking into account the reduction of the impact of quality from 80% to 25%) will be about the same as in vanilla. That is, the balance is not broken, but shifted in favor of enemies who can not afford high quality equipment.
Not only does power armor provide excellent protection, it also greatly expands your capabilities: it saves you from toxic gases, increases your speed, increases your carrying capacity, helmets increase accuracy and reduce aiming time, suits increase reload speed and increase melee damage. Since Power Armor is greatly enhanced, its cost has been increased slightly for balance purposes.
Armor protection extends to the hands and feet (gloves and shoes from VE mods removed).
Protection of creatures with natural armor has been increased.
Characteristics of bionics that grant natural armor have been changed.
The accuracy of the weapon decreases uniformly with distance, mimicking ballistics. The smaller the spread, the more accurate it is. This is noticeable at long ranges, in close combat the difference between a shotgun and a sniper rifle is small. The firing distance has been increased for weapons that logically should be longer range (e.g. assault rifle - 40.9, sniper rifle - 60.9).
The flight speed of bullets, arrows, grenades, rockets, etc. has been increased.
The speed of aiming and reloading weapons has been doubled.
Rocket launchers are now reusable (the parameters have been rebalanced).
Defensive structures (such as barricades) protect better. The cost of traps has been reduced (so that they still make sense).
The soldiers of the Empire now fight to the end and biocode all their weapons.
If you don't have the “Mortar Accuracy” mod, a patch will be applied to increase marksmanship when firing mortars.
And much more.

ICS contains patches for other mods. They affect weapons, armor, turrets, psi abilities, and creatures with natural armor. All mods in the Vanilla Expanded series (those with something to change) are supported.


I also recommend installing the "Projectile Bullet Retexture" and "Muzzle Flash" mods. They make shooting much more colorful. It is also advisable to install “Vanilla Expanded Framework” - only with it power armor will increase the payload in the caravan, and the range radius of long-range weapons will be displayed correctly.


- Why do you need this mod if CE exists?
- ICS is designed for people who want to improve combat in the game without changing its mechanics as drastically as CE does.

- Can I ask to add support for another mod?
- No. All such messages will be ignored. No offense, I warned you. I don't have the time or inclination to do that. However, you can write the patch yourself, there is nothing difficult about it.

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