All good m8, thanks for the update! This is one of my favorite mods on the site!

@Larren honestly that version isn't really supported any more but it should be a quick change, I'll get to it when I'm back at my PC

is it possible to update the armour and weapons only version as well? or will that be too bothersome?

Also, I definitely didn't almost forget to upload the change pfft

Alright, sorry that it took me 1-2... 3-ish months to do a two-line change.

I'm really bad at this productivity thing lmao.

~~still about 3 years behind schedule on the other project~~
but I do appreciate the kind words!

Same, the faction also seems to work on 1.5. I'm about 2 years into a run and haven't had any problems as of yet.

Hey guys! I haven't tested the faction, but the weapons and armor seem to work fine for me for 1.5

1.5?

Legendary armor mod take your time king

This mod is so cool. If you get around to updating it we would all love it. either way thanks for the hard work <3

You don't gotta update the mod, but I would appreciate it. It's one of those Always Use mods,love it.

@MalodorousFiend possibly depends how busy and or lazy I'm fleeing in the next few days, I keep meaning to to a proper update for this and and actually finished my next mod project but the motivation escapes me :V. But thanks, I will try.

Any chance you'll give this the 1.5 treatment? Still my favorite weapons/armor/faction on the workshop. Cheers!

Man the guns got that combine suond

Hello, in 1.3, your armor had 100% poison resistance and my colonists who wear it would not be affected by the radiation of rim-atonomic. However, in 1.4, your armor cant prevent my colonists from being hurt by poison, what should i do to recover the poison-resistance?

Just a warning for anyone else disable the contractor faction in world-gen unless you want to get raids that are overwhelmingly for mid-tier colonies to handle unless you have enough allies to throw into the slaughter, I got raided by the mods factions at about 100k colony wealth came at me with 25 guys and 23 of them were in full contractor gear, if was only through sheer luck and sending every single allied factions men at them that "I" won.

My colony wealth almost tripled after that, just from the contractors gear alone as I burnt all the gear from the valorous dead allied faction members that laid down their lives to keep me safe from overwhelming odds. Totally not meat shields to make the enemy waste all their ammo killing them.

any chance that the Factionless version might be updated?

the SLZ556 shoot straight upwards doesnt matter which direction the pawn is aiming

Quite unplayable. You get a raid with 6 fully armored guys around 35 RHA with guns after 10 man tribal raid.

@ZeroPhoenix sorry if i came off a little heated, just early game it seems to be an issue because every raider has the modded weapons early on so the specific faction raids can be pretty deadly. I didnt have a killbox or traps setup yet so i got shredded. idk if i just had back luck or what

@Withy I don't recall others having this problem before, I guess it's worth bearing in mind this mod is quite old, I'm barely maintaining it and I don't actually play with it. I'll look into fixing it.

the faction does not scale with wealth correctly in raids. I have 4 colonists with low wealth and im getting raided by 6 people with end game weapons and all flak gear on bloodlust. instead of just releasing a factionless version of the mod consider making the raids scale with wealth so its actually enjoyable playing with the faction enabled. if i wanted insanely hard raids then i would just turn up threat scale.

@Sheriff_Ostryy I don't have one, and I wouldn't feel right putting one here since this was 3 man project, but thank you, I very much appreciate sentiment. my next project will have one but I've been doing it mostly on my own,

Imma ask this once and only once... Ko-Fi link?

It would be really awesome if this mod had any type of integration with VFE Pirates so you could hire this faction as mercs, at the end of the day I think money would talk louder to these mercs.

A bunch of pawns started spawning with all sorts of physical deficiencies (bad back, heart defects etc). It went back to normal when i removed this mod. I don't know which mod might have caused it or why it happend, but i figured i'd let you know. Let me know if you need logs or something

I'll get around to it but you can do that with this version by just disabling the faction on world generation, but yeah imperfect solution so I'll get to it probably tomorrow

Don't forget the factionless version when you can get to it. Thanks!

@EFX hotfix deployed

Pog

I have some "sound is missing errors", full log: https://gist.github.com/ErraticFox/7fbcfd9696b340d910e160652ddbf6bf

1.4 Update deployed, untested past startup and generation.

Just want to say that this is one of the best looking armour and weapons mods out there, really thanks for making this.

TYTYTYTY

You sir, are a saint.

Gah, it'll be done it's done but I'll try for about 24 hours from now.

ZeroPhoenix, I know you're busy but I just want to tell you I feel it'd be an absolute travesty if this doesn't get maintained. Not only my favorite spacer armor/weapons on the workshop, but my favorite faction mod too. Blackwater/Murkywater raids always come absolutely loaded for bear and always give me a butt pucker no other faction does.

Top tier work my friend. Hopefully it gets passed off to be continued if you're no longer interested.

update?

@abraxas the weapons and armour version might still work fine, not sure though

aight fair enough. too bad i love the sprites and the guns feel balanced.

@abraxas at some point, I'm working on a completely different mod that's been in the works in some form since at least Dec 2019, and don't really have any interest in updating this, sorry.

will this be updated for 1.4?

Prestige variant would be nice, or maybe a more expensive version with a built in flamethrower or grenade launcher, I feel like a space mercenary would wanna be prepared for everything so it would make sense they'd have some utility module on their armor.

Hey ZP, I noticed when starting a new game there was a faction w null leader error popping up. I tracked it down to this mod.

It seems you have a pawn kind designated as "faction leader" but you never added it to the pawn generator in the faction def.

Adding
<Contractor_CEO>5</Contractor_CEO> to the Combat kind def
and
<Contractor_CEO>10</Contractor_CEO> to the Settlement kind def

should fix this error. Hope it helps.

Im having some problems using this mod, for some reason i cannot hunt or attack with force with the weapons in 1.3

I didn't make the patch myself, unlock my next mod, with the power armour having about 46 mm of armour equivalent :P

I went into the config files and just changed the armor values of hte contractors armor from 21mm of RHA to 13 mm of RHA. Makes it much easier to deal with when given early firearm penetration values while still being a strong armor against attack

@Ol' King Cole grenades and IDEs would be your best bet, thought but I don't actually play with this very often and I'm working on another mod (very slowly) now and essentially just maintaining this one so you may have to come up with your own strategy :P

Foreward: I'm using CE, so weapon penetration matters

Gotta say, I find the contractors crazy overpowered. I'll get a raid of contractors landing around may base of 3 soldiers. 6 or 7 fully armed and armored contractors with power armor and charge weapons that rip through my troops who have literally no chance of getting through their armor. If there was a way to push back when they come or how much, I'd be more willing to us it, because theres a lot of cool gear here, but I have to uninstall for my own sanity.

I had this mod in the past but is it balanced? If so, I'd give it a go once more...