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Doubling Down: Soldier Drone Retune

MOD: Doubling Down: Soldier Drone Retune


# # # Summary: # # #
This mod will overall buff soldier drones.
No import needed, safe to disable any time.
This mod does not change race playability, or change any races other than the 3 soldier drone races (South, West, and Fog).


# # # Philosophy: # # #
Soldier drones are even more fun when distinct in gameplay too! This means keeping all their unique disadvantages, but double down on their combat biology advantages.


Changes include enemies and recruits. Hostile soldier drones are much easier to find than soldier drone recruits, which means this mod will technically makes the game harder.
A fair price for making playable soldier drones desirable.


# # # Changelist: # # #


# Limb Changes: (TLDR: Bug Fix, & Hive Soldiers fight well even without good armor.)
Head hit chance has been increased by 250%, making all other hit zones less likely.
Head health massively increased to compensate for lack of headgear.
Stomach health increased to be the same as their chest.




#General Biology (TLDR: More blood, no duststorms, more food):
Blood Pool has been increased to be the same as a Shek to avoid instant blood KO’s.
Their hunger rate has been increased to 85% (from the original 60%) to better reflect the high metabolism a strong and fast soldier species would have, but keeping some of the hiver food discount.


Like all hiver species, they are immune to acid, but they are now also immune to dust storms. This aligns with their combat capability - as duststorms just debuff combat relevant stats - and since there is no real way of dealing with them without headgear.
You still have no way of ever reducing fog damage, unlike any other playable species.


#Equipment Slot Changes (TLDR: Yes Boots, no sandals):
To compensate for total lack of head slot, soldier drones can now wear footwear, with the exception of sandals for obvious physical reasons.
This means they are much better able to protect their legs, and have two less weak points to worry about when compared to other hivers, but still lack the luxury of the useful and cheap sandals.


#Stat / Skill Changes: (TLDR: Downsides kept, additional upsides)
All 8 of their skill disadvantages are kept intact.
The bug of non-western hivers using an unused skill as a downside has been replaced with the western hiver’s perception disadvantage as they share head shape.


On top of the vanilla Melee-Attack and Toughness advantage, they now also have advantages in strength, dexterity, and melee defense.


Unique hive-type advantages:
West Hiver: Polearms and Heavy Weapons
South Hiver: Polearms and Blunt
Fog Hiver: Athletics and Blunt
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and that's it! (Thumbnail also by me)