- Battleaxe and Warhammer penetrates 50% armor togglable in MCM
- Dragon's fire breath and fire ball now staggers like impact perk
- Burning damage can be put out by dodge rolling
- Dragons are more creative now and will use different shout that available to them
- Giants, centurions, and mammoth can't be staggered by normal attack
- Increased giants' magic and frost resist
- Gives extra armor to creatures that look like should have some armor, configurable in patcher settings
Version 3.5
- Major feature: revamped dodging, power blocking, and heavy/light armor/shield balance tweaks.
- Reworked dodging, more responsive, four directional plus a dodge in place (standing still), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjM9GROkHM
- dodge in the direction of direction key held instead of direction of character moving
- Light armor users step dodges
- Heavy armor users roll dodges
- Light armored NPC can dodge player attacks
- NPC dodge chance based on their level minus player's weapon speed
- New defensive action: power block. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfaDrmY-xQ
- Perform by tapping sneak key while blocking with a heavy shield
- Once performed, character will crouch (same animation as sneak mode)
- In power block stance, player is immune to stagger
- Power block stance auto disengages on any movement or releasing block
- Makes light and heavy armor more distinctive, as well as light and heavy shield
- Heavy armor more resistant to sharp weapon damage (daggers, swords, arrows)
- Heavy armor fat rolls as well as cost more stamina to dodge
- Heavy shield can power block, but not power bash
- Heavy shield normal bash stamina cost is higher
- Light shield can power bash
- Light shield normal bash stamina cost is lower
- Twohanded battleaxes are slightly faster
- Twohanded battleaxes and warhammers penetrate 50% armor
- Dragons now have more than 0 base armor (500 by default)
- There is no longer minimum stamina requirement to block, the stamina system is meant to create offensive cooldown, not defensive
- Sprint attack (have more fitting animation) is now the default attack while jumping in the air (you still need another mod that allows attacking in air)
- Recalibrated all of dwarven centurion's attack angles
- In soul-like stamina system, increased the default recovery lag by 1 second
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a werewolf attack reach bug
- Fixed werewolf still sometimes getting staggered
- Combat Focus' slow time won't trigger while blocking, this is to make it more compatible with such perks as "Quick Reflexes"
- Fixed some creatures have too small attack cone
- Will now automatically try to detect if any mod is not properly adding/deducting attack speed an patch them.
Version 3.4
- This version aims to improve the experience of fighting against Giants and Dragons
- Giants' stomp attack can be interrupted while the giant is standing on one foot with a melee attack
- When Giants stomp attack is interrupted, it will be knocked down and suspectible to critical hits
- Giants' attack and movement will slow down as its stamina lowers
- Giants will enrage after it runs out of stamina, refilling their stamina and vastly speed up and hits harder
- Dragons' attack damage, range, and attack cone rebalanced
- Dragons' stamina will gradually deplete while flying
- Dragons will lost even more stamina when attacked during hovering
- Once landed, dragons won't take off until it has at least 50% stamina
- Dragon's left and right wing can be injured separately to apply a debuff that will prevent dragons from taking off
- Dragons' bite attack now bleeds
- Dragons' bite attack now have forward movement
- Dragons' tail attack now sweeps and will knock down
- Dragons' Firebreath attack now ignores resistance and have increased damage
- Dragons' Firebreath attack can now be blocked
- Dragons' Frostbreath now spews slow icy cloud instead of the color swapped firebreath
- Dragons' Frostbreath now ignores resistance and have increased damage
- Dragons' Frostbreath now applies stackable movement and attack speed debuff
- Dragons now can be injured in its mouth when performing its breath attack by a power attack (it has to hit the front of dragon)
- Dragons' mouth injury will prevent them from performing its breath attack
- Dragons now immune to normal stagger such as those caused by bashes (but injury will still stagger them)
- The minimum amount of stamina required to attack and block can be configured via the patcher
- Dual attack now checks for minimum stamina
Version 3.3
- Rewrote half of the mod, overhauled stagger, power attacks and normal attacks
- Stagger mechanic is dramatically simplified and is more responsive and more compatible
- See the new stagger article https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/articles/52676
- Power attack mechanic is also simplified and is more responsive, using in game control to activate instead of script
- one cool down for both hand
- dual power attacks breaks block on all hit (but no more side movement or invincibility)
- normal dual attack simplified, no more speed increases, but no more script either
- sprint attack now have to be performed manually, but forward movement speed increased.
- Alot of balance tweaks
- Dodge works with Nemesis now
Version 3.2
Arrow stagger togglable in patcher settings
Stagger cause by critical hits togglable in patcher settings
Turning off weapon stagger should not causes corpses to fly off
Version 2.6
1. Reduced the ending pause after a dodge
2. Hops now move farther and is quicker.
3. There is now a third option for Combat Focus, which works as a toggle-ablelesser power.
5. Attack commit feature tweaked slightly, one hand weapon now commits a bit more, while 2h weapons commit a bit less.
6.The penalty to stamina regen rate when running is now configurable in the patcher.
Bug fixes:
1. Sometimes enemies won't die after kill move, this has been fixed.
Version 2.5
Tweaks:
Melee Focus power renamed to Combat Focus
Combat Focus slows down incoming power attacks
Combat Focus slows down incoming arrows too from the front
Combat Focus is a once a game day power that last for 5 min, however, can switch to a permanent version in MCM
Bows is now part of Souls-stamina system
Changed the implementation of Dodge slightly, removed weapon flicker, and should works even for users with script lag
Changed MCM initialization a bit for users who is having trouble getting MCM to show up
Race changes:
Skeleton now have mass of 1.2
Ice wraith now have mass of 0.7
Wisps and Witchlights now have mass of 0.2
Known issues:
Werewolfs are not balanced well
Version 2.4
Configuration added:
All key/button that this mod listens to now configurable in MCM's KeyButton section
Dodge animations configurable in MCM's Others section
All MCM settings can now be saved to disk under Others section, this mod requires JContainer now
Tweaks:
Dodge animation now only relies on movement speed, so the player will hop even when canceling attacks as long as he/she is moving fast enough
Dodge rolling animation start slightly faster, delay changed from 0.35s to 0.2s
Bugs fixed:
When updating, some settings are reverted to default values.
Version 2.3
Feature and Tweaks:
Dodging action has been added, see video for full detail, can be disabled in MCM, this feature requires FNIS or Nemesis
Taking an attack that would normally stagger you in the air will knock you out of air
Dual Power attack activable while moving in any direction now, all that it requires is the modifier key, the "Walk/Run" key, default is "shift", change in Skyrim's control settings.
NoStaminaRegenWhileRunning now only comes into effect while weapon is drawn, this helps the marathon runners.
Bugs fixed:
Bound weapon now have weight, this makes them stagger opponents, and also costs attack-stamina under the "Soul-Stamina" system.
Version 2.2
Feature and tweaks:
1. Bash stamina tweaked to be proportional to shield weight, this gives light shields a purpose in game
2. Power bash enhanced, it'll be easier to hit, have greater effect if hit at the right moment, and cost less stamina
3. Power bash still puts left hand on power attack cool down to avoid abuse
4. Above changes applies to power bash performed by a dagger off hand as well
5. Auto update mechanism, after updating Engarde, the mod will automatically restart itself, a prompt will appear once complete. Please stay out of combat before finishing restart
Configurations added:
1. Dagger off hand trading blocking for power bashing, toggleable in MCM
2. Bashing stamina configurable in MCM
3. The minimum amount of stamina required to perform block configurable in MCM, set to 0 to disable this check
4. Attack commitment changes togglable in patcher settings
5. 1h and 2h combat movement speed configurable in patcher settings
Bugs fixed:
1. Werewolf not having any stagger resistance fixed, werewolf now have mass of 3, same as troll, but slightly lower than a bear's 3.5
2. Werewolf stagger causing an roar animation fixed
3. Stagger causing bleeding out actors to stand back up fixed.
Version 2.1
Tweaks:
Dual power attack now trigger by "shift" + "middle mouse button" (run/walk key + power attack key)
Configurations:
The 3 Power attack effects, slow time, invincible, injury, now toggle-able in MCM
No stamina regen while running toggle-able in MCM
Dual Power attack animation speed configurable in MCM
Dual Dagger Power attack toggl-able in MCM
MCM menu re-arranged for better clarity
Sprint attack as forward attack toggle-able in patcher settings
Power attack cool down configurable in patcher settings
Bugs fixed:
Power attacks performed in 1st person wasn't moving the same as in 3rd person
Greatsword was triggering invincible effects
If fast enough, was able to trigger two standing power attack in a row
NPC wasn't able to perform Dual Power attacks
Standing Power attacks' crit bonus was applying even against blocking targets
Sprint Power attack wasn't triggering in Enderal version
Magic related movement tweaks snuck in causing problem with Long Stride spell
Version 2.0
Make normal attack changes and tweaks togglable through patcher setting
Make power attack changes and tweaks togglable through patcher setting
Reworked slow time implementation, this removed ConsoleUtils requirement
With this version, Engarde now requires nothing but Skyrim+SKSE!
This is a breaking change, users who were using 1.4 will need to deactivate, save , uninstall all files, save game, and install 2.0
Version 1.4
Lessen the stamina cost of power attacks, it was a little excessively high, especially at the lower levels.
Tweaked the visual effect of two hand power attack slow time, to distinguish it from a normal "magical" slow time effect.
When dual wielding, forward + left hand attack will block instead of left hand sprint attack. You can still left hand sprint attack by manually sprint then press left hand attack button.
Rework how crit effect is applied to victims, this remove the requirement on Game Events and is the 1st step towards SSE conversion
