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Spears are sort of lack-luster in vanilla so I make spear deal more thrusting damage and faster attack speed, also many other small changes.
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*If you are using 1.30 beta brance please use the version that said for beta branch. Beta branch introduce new name for some of the parameters for crafting weapon pieces so if you have problem loading game or start new campaign try switch to another version and vise-versa*
Mod Overview
This mod feature Spear Re-balancing by increase spears thrust damage and their attack speed this is achieved by changing the crafting piece thrust damage factor.
*I know there are already quite many spear re-balance mod out there but this mod is yet another option since it has many small changes that are different to other mods*
Spears
-Thrust damage increased by about 30% for all spear, pike and lances. Polearms with swing attack receive no buff to thrusting damage.
-Make spear guard pieces give bonus to hand armour like sword guard. (If it really working at all)
-Increase attack speed for both thrust and swing this is achieved by reducing weight for all spear shaft(handle) pieces.
-Swing damage nerf, why? have you try using Glaive on horses? with increase swing speed I decided to reduce swing damage factor for all polearms so it should still be fairly balance.
-Spears are now more expensive and cost as much as other weapon, they used to be very cheap which I wasn't really surprise as how lack-luster their stats were before.
Javellins
-Unfortunately changing spear damage factor also affects javelins damage but I try my best to increase less damage to those specific spear heads so most javelin damage should still be reasonable.
-Now javellin have fixed value which mean no more 30k harpoons from sea raider. I need to fix their value because with how Taleworlds auto price calculation from weapon stat works it messed up all the prices especially throwing weapons.
Compatibilities and Notes
-Double Stats Bug: unfortunately (again), right now there is a sort of bug that prevent overwriting stats(from spitems.xml) for weapons that can be crafted. This include all melee and throwing weapons. Basically instead of overwrite the stats it add yet another attack mode (when you press x to change weapon mode) so right now there are no way to directly edit the items stats and parts. You can look at javelin now have duplicate attack mode when you mouse over them... but this shouldn't affect the gameplay as both mode have the same stats. Actually I made an attempt to edit the spears them self so they use different spear head than javellin, add guards and pommel to them. But it turnout to be a failure due to those spear having 2 version of stats the old and new and the old stats were used as default so NPC will not use the new stats unless they know how to switch weapon mode.
-Not compatible with mods that re-balance spear by changing the crafting_pieces.xml, however if you load this mod after mod that change crafting_pieces.xml this mod will overwrite other mods spear pieces change.
-This mod only change javelins stat from spitems.xml and is modular
Installation
-Choose only one version then extract the content into Modules folder and activate it through Bannerlord launchers
Close Quarter version
-Slightly more damage than vanilla when thrusting attack hit target with your arm at close range.
-More damage than vanilla when not hitting with the tip of your weapon.
-Slower collision detection for thrust attack(on foot only) so your back swing hit friendly unit a bit less.
or you could try a more extreme mod below
Recommended Mod
Mods that might improve spear effectiveness.
Fix the spears dude - mod description: "Fixes all problems with spears in Bannerlord. no more getting stuck on shield behind you, no more being unable to thrust because enemy is too close or dealing 1 damage because enemy is too close." *a very nice mod for spear but this mod overwrite local xml file so its not modular. If you want something modular check the optional version of this mod but its less extreme than Fix the spears mod*
Xorberax's Cut Through Everyone - *Highly recommended* this mod allow your/npc swing and thrust attacks to go through enemy and friendly units. You can customize how easy attacks cut through units and how much damage reduced per hit.(no damage to friendly units unless you also use Xorberax's friendly fire mod)
Mod Overview
This mod feature Spear Re-balancing by increase spears thrust damage and their attack speed this is achieved by changing the crafting piece thrust damage factor.
*I know there are already quite many spear re-balance mod out there but this mod is yet another option since it has many small changes that are different to other mods*
Spears
-Thrust damage increased by about 30% for all spear, pike and lances. Polearms with swing attack receive no buff to thrusting damage.
-Make spear guard pieces give bonus to hand armour like sword guard. (If it really working at all)
-Increase attack speed for both thrust and swing this is achieved by reducing weight for all spear shaft(handle) pieces.
-Swing damage nerf, why? have you try using Glaive on horses? with increase swing speed I decided to reduce swing damage factor for all polearms so it should still be fairly balance.
-Spears are now more expensive and cost as much as other weapon, they used to be very cheap which I wasn't really surprise as how lack-luster their stats were before.
Javellins
-Unfortunately changing spear damage factor also affects javelins damage but I try my best to increase less damage to those specific spear heads so most javelin damage should still be reasonable.
-Now javellin have fixed value which mean no more 30k harpoons from sea raider. I need to fix their value because with how Taleworlds auto price calculation from weapon stat works it messed up all the prices especially throwing weapons.
Compatibilities and Notes
-Double Stats Bug: unfortunately (again), right now there is a sort of bug that prevent overwriting stats(from spitems.xml) for weapons that can be crafted. This include all melee and throwing weapons. Basically instead of overwrite the stats it add yet another attack mode (when you press x to change weapon mode) so right now there are no way to directly edit the items stats and parts. You can look at javelin now have duplicate attack mode when you mouse over them... but this shouldn't affect the gameplay as both mode have the same stats. Actually I made an attempt to edit the spears them self so they use different spear head than javellin, add guards and pommel to them. But it turnout to be a failure due to those spear having 2 version of stats the old and new and the old stats were used as default so NPC will not use the new stats unless they know how to switch weapon mode.
-Not compatible with mods that re-balance spear by changing the crafting_pieces.xml, however if you load this mod after mod that change crafting_pieces.xml this mod will overwrite other mods spear pieces change.
-This mod only change javelins stat from spitems.xml and is modular
Installation
-Choose only one version then extract the content into Modules folder and activate it through Bannerlord launchers
Close Quarter version
-Slightly more damage than vanilla when thrusting attack hit target with your arm at close range.
-More damage than vanilla when not hitting with the tip of your weapon.
-Slower collision detection for thrust attack(on foot only) so your back swing hit friendly unit a bit less.
or you could try a more extreme mod below
Recommended Mod
Mods that might improve spear effectiveness.
Fix the spears dude - mod description: "Fixes all problems with spears in Bannerlord. no more getting stuck on shield behind you, no more being unable to thrust because enemy is too close or dealing 1 damage because enemy is too close." *a very nice mod for spear but this mod overwrite local xml file so its not modular. If you want something modular check the optional version of this mod but its less extreme than Fix the spears mod*
Xorberax's Cut Through Everyone - *Highly recommended* this mod allow your/npc swing and thrust attacks to go through enemy and friendly units. You can customize how easy attacks cut through units and how much damage reduced per hit.(no damage to friendly units unless you also use Xorberax's friendly fire mod)