Veteran to Master Difficulty Balance v0.1
This mod should make enemies and yourself much easier to kill. Additionally, it balances out some grindy elements of Veteran Difficulty.
Disclaimer
I believe the developers of the gameplay planned in great detail the difficulty of the game ahead of release, meaning that by installing this mod you understand that things will break, the game will play differently as intended and you might miss on the intentions of GSC Game World’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2.
Mod Balancing
Rebalanced Veteran difficulty for a more Master difficulty feeling from the previous games and a less grindy experience.
– Weapon_BaseDamage = 0.75 => 1.8 (This is player damage to everything else)
– NPC_Weapon_BaseDamage = 1.02 => 2.0 (Enemies with guns will hurt a lot more, no more tanking shotgun rounds)
– Mutant_BaseDamage = 1.35 => 2.0 (Mutants are lethal now, make sure to think of your positioning first before engaging)
– Buying and selling is cheaper, so you will generally have more money to spend.
– Durability of weapons and armors increased. (Weapons specially wont be a nightmare to mantain)
– Repairs are a bit more expensive to compensate.
– Quests and side missions now provide with much more (25%) coupons.
– Ammo and consumables are 50% more expensive. They should represent a bigger drain of your hard earned coupons.
– Anomaly_Damage = 1.45 => 1.75 (Anomalies now requiere a bit more maneuvering)
Master Healing
Additionally I’ve added an optional mod that makes all healing items heal over time.
– Medkits heal 10 ticks of health a second.
– – Red Medkits heal 65 HP over 6.5.
– – Military Medkits heal 75 over 7.5 seconds, and reduce more bleeding effects
– – Science Medkits heal 100 over 10 seconds, and vanilla reduce radiation
– Foods now heal over a much longer period, up to 30 seconds
– Bandages heal very little
WARNING! This is not tested all the way throught the campaign. I will be transparent and tell you I am just playing around with my game, and wish to share my ideas for those interested! Once GSC Game World fixes the AI bugs, I will probably return to base settings and enjoy the gameplay they crafted for us.
But for now enjoy!
Installation
1. Unzip to get the .pak files:
masterdifficulty.pak
2. Add the .pak files to the following folder (if the ~mods folder doesn’t exist, create it):
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Paks\~mods
This should work for both Steam and Gamepass version of the game.
