Distance Based Combat

WARNING: This mod will significantly increase the difficulty in combat 

Idea behind the Mod

Combat mods like Attack Behavior Revamp and MCO increase the power of the player by adding combos and making third person melee combat in Skyrim much more enjoyable. While being much more fun to play, many users of both mods have always noted that they feel, that the challenge from the Skyrim enemy AI does not scale well with those mods and the player feels too powerful. Trying out different kinds of combat mods like Engarde, Blade & Blunt or Inpa Sekiro does not really solve the issue either as the enemy is still bound to their basic behaviors.The skilled modder BotUser999 had the idea that this could be changed by factoring in the distance to the player from the npc. With the emerge of Skyrim Platform I was able turn this idea into a working plugin for animation events and BotUser999 built the behaviors around those events. 

Core Mechanics

Distance Based Combat is a npc combat overhaul, which adds new combos, behaviors and animations to humanoid NPCs. The core functonality is the constant distance measurement of all nearby enemies in combat state. The distance to the player is divided into close range, medium range and long range. Everytime an enemy crosses the borders of those zones, an animation event gets send and behaviors for the changed position are getting used. 
Since DBC 1.1 this also applies to your followers and their targets.

New NPC behaviors

Humanoid npcs now have additional tactics they use in combat:

• attack canceling
• gap closing
• charge attacks
• a much more agressive approach to the player position
  

Increased Combat Difficulty

The general difficulty of combat engangements and the speed increases with this mod significantly. The enemy is showing no mercy in closing in on your position and will give you much less of a chance to breathe. The gameplay feels very balanced on expert difficulty but you can of course try yourself on master or legendary, if you think thats too easy. The mod can be used as a standalone but it is recommended to use either Attack Behavior Revamp or SkySA. 

Additional Features

• new animations for humanoid npcs
• combos for npcs
• customization of charge attacks (more info below)
• freely set the update tick rate (more info below)
  

Installation Instructions

• install all requirements
• install the mod via mod manager
• load mod below requirements
• start Nemesis and tick Duff `s Distance Based Combat
• update Engine in Nemesis
• launch Nemesis Behavior Engine
• launch the game
• check ingame console for message "DBC - Script initialized"
  

Uninstall Instructions

• Remove mod from load order
• Delete Nemesis cache
• Rebuild Nemesis cache without the mod
  

Recommended Combat Mods

• Attack Behavior Revamp or MCO
• A dodge Mod like TK Dodge RE
  

Compatible Combat Mods

• everything can be added on top of DBC
  

Incompatible Mods

• FNIS (there will never be FNIS support, dont ask)
• Engarde stagger system is not working correctly with DBC installed. Its advised to disable it until this is resolved. 
• SkySA is not combatible anymore in combination with Elden Counter. Switch to MCO please as SkySA is deprecated and wont get anymore updates