Buffs the damage of the Pain Train perk as well as impact landing so they're more useful late-game. Also adds a new rank to Pain Train where bashing & impact landing kill instantly under certain conditions.
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Changelogs
Version 2.4
Organized conditions in the effect forms
Removed unnecessary "is hostile to actor" check from the 1st shoulder bash damage conditions
Rank 3 and 4 knockdown can now knockdown sitting actors (rank 1 and 2 still can not stagger sitting actors)
Version 2.3
The 4th rank now has no bearing on enemy level, but rather their health. Enemies at or below 50% health will die instantly to shoulder bashes and impact landings.
Lowered 4th rank level requirement from 80 to 65
Version 2.2
Fixed an issue where if the player had rank 4 of Pain Train, enemies greater than or equal to the player's level would not get knocked back
Version 2.1
forgot to include the scripts in 2.0, fixed now
file rename to "PainTrainAndImpactLanding-BuffedAndReworked" since there's only one version now
Version 2.0
Newly developed for the average player. This means this mod is no longer being developed for people using difficulty overhauls that give enemies a metric ton of health, or mods that make enemy levels match the player's
HEAVILY reduced and rebalanced damage buffs for both titular abilities. they still do significantly more damage than vanilla, but through testing i've often found that with no perks i wasn't killing most things instantly like the 4th rank is supposed to do
fixed an issue where rank 3 didn't actually do anything to impact landing's damage
now only available in "less than" form, no longer being developed in "equal to" form
Version 1.1
Added check for hostility to player to prevent effects on friendly NPCs.
Added .ESL versions (1.0 because they're the first versions of the .ESL file type).
If you're high-level, or use a mod where NPCs level with you, Pain Train and impact landing get pretty useless. I've worked hard on this mod for about 2 days to help improve their use and effectiveness late-game.
Here's what this mod does:
Buffs the damage of Pain Train's shoulder bash (gets higher with perk rank)
Buffs the damage of impact landing (gets higher with the last two ranks and with explosive vents)
Makes it so enemies who die from being impact landed next to explode (this effect is purely visual but it's really cool)
Makes it so impact landing near friendly NPCs does not aggro them
Makes it so friendly NPCs are not effected by any effects of impact landing
Adds a 4th rank at level 65 to Pain Train where shoulder bashing or impact landing next to enemies below 50% health die instantly
Enemies exploding when dying from impact landing damage is something I discovered during development, and honestly it makes impact landing kills feel really badass. Having it happen only from kills makes it rare, so I made the 4th rank be the killer so it happens more often.
Overall, these changes should make Pain Train and impact landing maintain their effectiveness late-game.
