This mod tries to make fights and violent interactions more diverse, dynamic and interesting by making NPCs behave in new ways when getting shot (like stumbling and falling when running with a hurt leg, squirming on the ground when injured, lying moaning in pools of their own blood and much more).
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Changelogs
Version 1.44
- Fixed a bug where NPCs would enter the dying state immediately after being spawned and not snap out of it
- Fixed a bug where fall damage wouldn't work properly
Version 1.43
- Fixed a bug where NPCs wouldn't play the coughing sound when in a dying state and in water
- The occurence of dying states can now be configured in the ini (percentage chance of when to use dying states and when to use vanilla behavior)
- Excluding story NPCs is now optional (a setting was added to the ini, which allows the mod to affect story NPCs as well)
- Body part specific damage modifiers can now be set in the ini (arms, legs, torso, neck, head)
- Added rare occasions of NPCs audibly panicking when in hopeless situations
- Added a modifier for knife damage to the ini
Version 1.42
- Tweaked a value for the first dying stage
- Added more story NPCs to be excluded by the mods effects (please report to us, if we forgot any)
- Added an option for NPC accuracy to the ini (disabled by default)
- DyingStates are now disabled for NPCs who only got damaged in fistfights, so they can always get back up again like in vanilla (can be enabled/disabled in the ini)
- Disabling the disarming feature now also prevents NPCs from dropping their weapons when entering a dying state
Version 1.41
- Tweaked a value for the first dying stage
- Added an option for core depletion (health, stamina, deadeye) to the ini (turned off by default, but it can be turned on and configured in the ini)
- Added an option for core depletion (health, stamina, deadeye) on death (turned off by default, but can be turned on in the ini)
Version 1.31
Fixed some default ini values which would cause bugs.
Version 1.11
- fixed a bug where dyingthreshold and knockbackthreshold would not compute properly (thanks to @fitfondue for reporting!)
- adjusted dyingthreshold default value
- adjusted knockbackthreshold default value
Version 1.4
- Fixed some bugs
- Fixed some inconsistent behaviors
- Added more story NPCs to be excluded by the mods effects (please report to us, if we forgot any)
- Hogtying NPCs now disarms them (can be disabled in the ini)
- Bleeding damage now only occurs when hit by bullets, knives, etc. (melee wounds dont apply bleeding effects anymore)
- When disarming NPCs there is now a small chance of surrendering (hands up) or cowering in fear (additional to the fleeing or attacking behaviors)
- Added multiple stages of dying (with different movements) when health is below a certain threshold - all based on chances, so behaviors wont get old
- Rebalanced most of the values to fit in with the new features
- Added more configuration options to the ini
Version 1.3
- Story NPCs are no longer affected by this mod (if you notice some we might have forgot, please report their names).
- Every NPC can be fully disarmed now, including lawmen. Most times they'll flee, sometimes they'll keep attacking with a knife or bare fists.
- Enemies now stagger around as they clutch their wounds after being shot. They may trip over scenery or lean onto walls before falling or recovering their balance.
- Fall damage is now unnaffected by NPC health, so that even high health values will not make NPCs survive huge falls.
- NPCs now stumble more often if you shoot both legs. Falls can also result in leg damage, so shooting one leg may result in the other also being wounded in the fall.
- NPCs can be automatically disarmed when lassoed (disabled by default, but can be enabled in .ini).
- The .ini offers many more customization options now so you can tailor the experience to your liking.
- There is only one .zip file to download, which includes both the standard and the realistic version.
- added a bleedout function (NPCs in dying mode now lose health continuously, based on chance)
- added the option to adjust Arthurs health value (deactivated by default, but configurable in the ini)
- added a separate version with more "realistic" values
- added the following ini values (those marked with * are not in the config by default, but you can add them if you want to tinker):
BleedWhenDying (enables or disables the bleeding function)
BleedingChanceDying (the chance of NPC losing health = bleeding)
BleedingValue (the value which is deducted when bleeding kicks in)
PlayerHealth (option to set Arthurs health)
*BleedWhenShot (adds a bleeding function for NPCs under the knockback threshold)
*BleedingChanceShot (chance for NPC losing health when under the knockback threshold)
*StumbleForcePushX (pushing force when stumbling, x-direction)
*StumbleForcePushY (pushing force when stumbling, y-direction)
*StumbleForcePushZ (pushing force when stumbling, z-direction)
*IsDirectionRelative (pushing force when stumbling, is the pushing direction relative)
*IsForceRelative (pushing force when stumbling, is the pushing force relative)
Version 1.1
- lowered chance of NPCs surviving fire from 90% to 20%
- lowered health of NPCs
- certain weapons (shotguns, sniper rifles, tomahawks, improved arrows, dynamite arrows, dynamite) now do way more damage
- added ini for configuration with the following values:
ToggleKey (set the F-key with which you want to toggle the mod)
EnableScriptByDefault (choose if you want the mod to be enabled by default)
PlayerInvincibility (choose if you want to be invincible)
FireSurvivalChance (set the chance of NPCs surviving fire yourself)
FireHealth (health value which NPCs will get when they are burning and are not supposed to survive)
NPCHealth (set the standard NPC health)
KnockbackThreshold (set the amount of health under which NPCs can be knocked back)
KnockbackChance (set the chance for an NPC being knocked back when under the threshold)
DyingThreshold (set the amount of health under which NPCs wont be able to get back up again)
StumbleChance (set the chance for an NPC to stumble or fall if it has damaged legs)
SpecialWeaponModifier (set the damage modifier for the weapons mentioned above)
- fixed all the bugs that I noticed in v1.0
OVERVIEW
This mod tries to make gun fights more diverse, dynamic and interesting and keep them that way throughout the game. You will find NPCs stumbling when trying to run with hurt legs, getting the wind knocked out of them when getting shot, squirming on the ground when fatally injured, moaning in pools of their own blood until they meet their end, clutching their wounds and stumbling around when hit, etc.
FEATURES
Here is a quick overview of the most important features: First off, almost all of the features and their characteristics are based on chance, so the behaviors won’t be the same every time you encounter them - which should ensure more diverse fights and keep things interesting for longer than vanilla does... that was the idea, at least :) Almost every feature can be enabled, disabled or tweaked in the ini (more information further down the page), so this is not only a mod, but also enables you to create your own experience. The mod is activated by default and the toggle key is F9 (both can be changed in the ini). This mod only alters behaviors and attributes of human NPCs - animals or anything else remain untouched. Standard version:
NPCs get more health.
Your weapons do less damage to NPCs.
When their health decreases below a certain threshold, NPCs fall over and don’t get back up. Then they go through three different stages of dying, each with its own randomized behavior. Eventually NPCs will die of blood loss.
There is a bleeding feature, which makes NPCs lose health after they have been fatally injured. It operates based on chance, so NPCs don’t all bleed out in the same amount of time.
NPCs take longer to bleed out from artery shots and thus can travel longer distances (so be sure to check for eyewitnesses when raiding camps).
All PCs can be disarmed (yes, even lawmen).
Hogtying disarms NPCs, so if they manage to get loose, they can’t shoot you - they might draw a hidden knife, though.
NPCs burn alive for longer when set on fire.
There is a small chance of NPCs surviving a fire (although they won‘t be able to do much afterwards).
NPCs have a chance of staying on the ground for a random amount of time when shot (based on their health) - so you can now knock the breath out of your opponents.
For all included behaviors the movement and pain sounds have been adjusted (and also randomized) to hopefully make your experience more interesting.
Realistic version:
The same features as in the standard version apply – the only difference is that NPCs maintain vanilla health, and weapon damage is tweaked for realism. NPCs go down permanently with two or three revolver shots to the chest, which makes them less resilient than in vanilla.
We hope that you will have as much fun with this mod as we have creating and improving it!
INSTALLATION
Download Alexander Blade's ScriptHook: http://dev-c.com/rdr2/scripthookrdr2/
Extract the zip somewhere you want.
Go into the bin-folder and copy the Dinput8.dll and ScriptHookRDR2.dll
into your RDR2 installation directory (where the exe of RDR2 is).
Download the zip file of this mod and extract it somewhere you want.
Choose either the realistic or standard version and open the respective folder.
Take all the files from the folder (PedDamageOverhaul.asi,
PedDamageOverhaul.ini) and put them into your RDR2 installation directory (where the exe of RDR2 is).
Start the game and have fun.
While in game, you can press F9 to check if the mod was loaded correctly (F9 once to disable, then F9 again to re-enable the mod).
TWEAKING
There are already a lot of features enabled and tweaked for out-of-the-box use, yet there are some features left untouched which can be enabled in the ini. That said, if you just want to disable one or more features, set their respective values to 0. Examples:
To turn off the bleeding feature: set BleedWhenDying to 0
To turn off the disarming when hogtying NPCs: set HogtyingDisarms to 0
To turn off the dying state features: set DyingMovementThreshold, DyingMovementThreshold2 and DyingThreshold to 0
If you want to disable a feature which is based on chance, just set the chance value to 0. Examples:
To turn off the knocking the wind out of your opponents: set KnockbackChance to 0
To turn off the possibility of NPCs surviving fire: set FireSurvivalChance to 0
To turn off the chance of stumbling when shot in the leg: set StumbleChanceOneLeg and StumbleChanceBothLegs to 0
There are also many other features that can be activated in the ini - here are some examples:
LassoDisarms -> makes catching someone with your lasso disarm them (no hogtying necessary)
NPCWeaponModifier (and many other damage modifiers) -> makes NPCs do more or less damage, depending on what you set it to
BleedWhenShot -> enables a bleeding feature which triggerswhen an NPC gets shot (so not the usual "bleed out when under x health" but consistent bleeding which is applied after the first hit of a bullet – the bleeding chance and deducted health points can be set separately).
The ini is full of values for those wanting to experiment a little.
One word of warning to tweakers: If the NPC health is set too high, headshots might not be lethal anymore, unless they hit the actual brain of the NPC (so a shot in the jaw would do more damage than other body parts, but would not be an instant kill). Actual "brain-shots" are always one-shot-kills, no matter the health.
KNOWN "ISSUES" (not all of them are issues)
The disarming feature can be exploited to slow down new waves of lawmen. The same is true for the dying state feature. If there are too many lawmen dying or fleeing around the player, new waves won't spawn in until the lawmen die or get enough distance (this feature can be turned off in the .ini file if that is a deal breaker to you).
When disarming is enabled, the dropped weapons may appear partly invisible. This is only optical though, they can be picked up and used as usual.
Enemies on horseback or behind cover can't be knocked back by shots (just like in vanilla). However, if an enemy leans out of cover to shoot, they can be knocked back.
While time is altered (e.g. when using deadeye or the weapon wheel), physics and movement of NPCs in dying states (squirming, writhing, rolling on the ground, etc.) can get a little crazy, because the effects of this mod are applied using timers, which tick differently from the game clock. We are already looking for a fix, but haven’t found one that works yet.
