i made a mod for this game to make it easier

[nixos]

while i played the game i fine tuned it to make it easier, for a relaxed play

some weapons got boosted damage (buckshot, ion bow) as i wanted to oneshot the head drones, while the pistol takes 2 hits, at least has got autoaim (secondary attack)... while i found out the shotgun has less ammo and still took 2 shots to destroy them

i boosted ion bow damage since hitting with it is hard and it didnt do enough damage, compared to a pistol 1shot on most enemies. unmodded i felt was only good as secondary attack on very high hitpoints enemies while losing 33% of ammo

i also boosted damage of smg and chance to put things on fire... not as funny as blood flare gun but hey :D

and chaingun... after an airplane boss i decided i needed a little boost, so far i found the chaingun works well on high hitpoints monsters and to clean trash...

the only weapon i am not satisfied is the landmine like weapon... i feel its damage is too low, and the secondary attack is a mess still i didn't mod it

i liked the bowling selfguided bomb and i didnt mod it XD

i changed the way armor works:

1 armor shard gives 5 armor, when you collect them a new hud image pops of an armor shard and the cap is 25 armor. after 5 shards picked armor stays at 25 armor.

the bullet vest now gives only 25 armor, but the cap is 50 armor... if you pick it up when you have 25 armor you go to 50 armor, if you pick it up when for example you have 10 armor you go to 35 armor.

the tier 2 armor gives 50 armor, cap is 100 armor

finally the tech vest gives 100 armor and the cap is 200.


i didnt like to just open a door and get oneshotted, hopefully there is enough armor to survive, then you either collect back the lost armor and health or die.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/ion-fury-made-easier/downloads/ion-fury-nixos-mod

to create your own mod, you can just rename the .grp file into .zip and extract it, you can modifies the text files .con, located into scripts folder.

you can use notepad++ and the function: search inside files

the developers forgot to use the variable MAXAMMO somewhere inside the chaingun, so do not be surprised if you cannot change the chaingun ammo on pickup or the chaingun ammo gained by simply substituting the numbers inside customize.con

the rest should be fine.

also about armor:
there is a piece of code that says how many armor levels you have... i made a third one...
0 1 2 3, instead of 0 1 2

once you lose all armor you go to level 0, which in the unmodded game is 50 armor cap... i made the cap 25, meant to stay as long as you do not collect any armor.

also there is a piece of code executed every time you pick 1 type of armor, i modified the quantity of armor gained... in the unmodded game you gain armor equal to the max armor cap... so a tech vest gives you 200 armor since that is the cap.

i created 3 new variables each with half the value of the armor caps...
now when you pick up an armor you only get half of its armor cap.

[Fat Angus]

I can't see any reason to make the game easier, it's already quite easy.

[dwtietz]

Originally posted by Fat Angus:

I can't see any reason to make the game easier, it's already quite easy.

No harm in making it easier. What may seem easy for one person could be very difficult for someone else.

Also, the same method could be used to make the game harder by basically inverting the values (larger instead of smaller, or smaller instead of larger).

[nixos]

hum... easy for you :D
i guess i am not very good at fps :D
but i quite enjoyed the level design.

(also with this mod i can actually play the game without savescumming... )

somehow i found both
blood
and duke nukem
and ion fury much better than shadow warrior.

for example in shadow warrior what you have to do to go foward is always convoluted and hard to grasp.

in ion fury everything makes sense, in logic steps, you can also watch telecameras that helps you if you memorize the floor tiles, after you find a key you open the correct door which is sometimes illuminated with a light the color of the key so you see it better from distance.

in other cases pictures on walls helps you like about powering generators, and rising level of water and so on.