About this mod
Edited the Priority Missions to reflect the state of the Periphery in 3025 (Light: 30%, Medium: 40%, Heavy: 20%, Assault: 10%).
- Permissions and credits
Legend:
Vanilla Mech [buff/debuff] -> Edited Mech [buff/debuff] (Reason)
Tutorial
- No Change
Coronation Day
- Shadow Hawk 2H [Partial Armor] -> Commando 1B [Full Armor] (Decrease medium composition)
- Cicada 2A [Partial Armor] -> Locust 1M [Full Armor] (Decrease medium composition)
Three Years Later
- Spider -> Locust 1V (Align with Majesty Metals produced mechs)
- Shadow Hawk 2H -> Firestarter (Decrease medium composition)
Axylus
- Quickdraw -> Shadow Hawk 2H (Decrease heavy composition)
- Shadow Hawk 2H -> Cicada 2A (Substitute Cicada from Coronation Day)
Liberate Weldry
- Trebuchet -> Commando 2D (Decrease medium composition)
- [25% armor for all mechs] (Reason for being held reserved instead of joining the main defense of Weldry)
- Grasshopper -> Trebuchet (Unknown reinforcements found in .json)
- Quickdraw -> Cicada 2A (Unknown reinforcements found in .json)
Liberate Panzyr
- Dragon -> Griffin 1N (Decrease heavy composition; align with obtaining Griffin after mission)
- Trebuchet -> Hunchback 4G (Move Hunchback outside compound)
- Hunchback 4G -> Griffin 1N (Align with obtaining Griffin after mission; move out with other Griffin to imply mech being assembled)
Liberate Smithon
- griffin 1N -> Trebuchet (Substitute Trebuchet from Liberate Panzyr)
Newgrange
- Panther -> Firestarter (Switch out with Victoria's Kill Team)
- Centurion -> Trebuchet (Align with Victoria's lance in Coronation Day)
- Dragon -> Griffin 1N (Align with Victoria's lance in Coronation Day)
- Firestarter -> Panther (Align with Victoria's lance in Coronation Day)
SLDF Castle Part 1
- No Change
SLDF Castle Part 2
- Zeus -> Thunderbolt 5SS (Decrease assault composition)
SLDF Mech Reward
- SLDF Highlander -> SLDF Griffin (SLDF Highlander, Atlas II, or Black Knight were too OP after testing)
Defense Smithon
- Battlemaster -> Black Knight (Decrease assault composition)
Liberate Itrom
Defense Panzyr
Extraction
Liberate Tyrlon
- No Change
Locura
- Orion K -> Catapult C1(Substitute Catapult from same mission to compensate for replaced Orions from Showdown)
- Jenner -> Urbanmech (Introduced Urbanmech in an urban environment)
- Catapult C1 -> SRM Carrier (Decrease heavy composition; replaced with suitable enemy type for urban environment)
- Battlemaster -> Grasshopper (Decrease assault composition)
- Reinforcement Lance: lancedef_mech_d8_dynamic_HeavyBattle -> lancedef_mech_d5_dynamic_MedBattle (Decrease heavy composition; increase medium composition)
Showdown
- Cataphract -> Orion K (Align with Victoria's lance in Coronation Day)
- Jagermech -> Orion K (Align with Victoria's lance in Coronation Day)
- Awesome -> Zeus (Have a variety of assault mech appearing in priority mission; similar role)
SLDF Mech Reward
- SLDF Atlas II -> SLDF Black Knight (Align with award of first SLDF mech reward)
Requirements
** Warning: Uses the experimental ModTek that might change**
- install ModTek using the instructions here
Recommended Mods
Use only the .dll that removes story difficulty boost for the rest of the other non-priority missions to be lore-friendly.- dll does not seem to be working anymore after addition of career mode
Full Random Campaign Start Mod
- Randomize your starting lance.
Other Recommendations
(Special Thanks to theholylancer for sharing the initial configuration. Additional deviation done by me.)
Edit custom start with the following settings:
- 6 parts salvage
- Stingy salvage reward
- Stingy money
- Rare advanced mech warrior
- Very Slow mech warrior progression
- Easy Enemy Force Strength
Edit GlobalContractDifficultyMax in simgameconstants.json
- Change GlobalContractDifficultyMax from 10 to 5 in simgameconstants.json
Installation
- Install ModTek.
- Download the mod, extract the mod to BATTLETECH\Mods.
- Restart a new campaign. If you are loading a priority mission, changes would not be reflected.
Credits
- Thank you to theholylancer from reddit for introducing the idea of a lore-friendly custom start.
- Thank you to SimulatedKnave and other redditors for sharing comprehensive information about the BT universe.
- Thank you HBS for this amazing game.