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Reduced AI Combat Buffs

Description
This Mod reduces the Buffs the AI gets in the campaign. Unfortunately, there is no way to remove them in custom/historical battles since the battle difficulty itself is hardcoded.

The estimated Buffs the AI got in Vanilla (credit to GameMnke: https://youtu.be/kJqWTw706hI):
Edit: The melee attack buffs seem to be invalid. Thus, i have decided to remove the debuffs.

Hard:
+3 Morale
+3 Melee Attack (Probably invalid)
+ 6 Accuracy
+ 12 (?) Reload

Very Hard:
+ 6 Morale
+ 6 Melee Attack (Probably invalid)
+ 12 Accuracy
+ 25 Reload

There is no such thing as Legendary Battle Difficulty.

Unfortunately, there is no way of completely removing the buffs, because some of them can only be modified percentage-wise in the pack-files, but seem to be flat numbers in the battle difficulty. As such, the debuffs are as follows:

Hard:
- 2 Morale
- 6 Accuracy
- 12% Reload

Very Hard:
- 4 Morale
- 12 Accuracy
- 25% Reload

This Mod should makes AI Archers no longer a complete nightmare to deal with. Do note however that the balance of power prediction on the campaign map is no longer accuracate, since these debuffs are applied BEFORE entering the battle. Only in battle the Buffs listed above are applied to the units. Autoresolve still does not favor the player, so be advised.
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Egalregent  [author] 22 Jul @ 1:30am 
@SwordNew Battle difficulty is fixed to "Very Hard" on Legendary and CANNOT be changed. Also, what if someone wants Very Hard Battle Difficulty, just without the annoying ranged stat modifiers? What if someone wants Legendary Campaign Difficulty, but without the ranged stat modifiers (just like @Smiley commented before)?
This is why this mod exists.
SwordNew 22 Jul @ 1:09am 
As far as I know, isn't it possible to adjust the difficulty of battles in the game settings after starting the campaign? Why is this mod made? What is the difference between this mod and the player adjusting the difficulty of battles in the campaign?
Smiley 19 Jul @ 11:11pm 
Great mod, I really love playing on Legendary because of the campaign difficulty, but I am not amazing at micro. If I could, I would play on Legendary Campaign difficulty and Normal Battle difficulty. Sadly there is no such option, so this mod is perfect for me. This also means I can finally play the Chosokabe and actually rely on ranged units. Thank you so much for making this!
Egalregent  [author] 5 Jul @ 6:09am 
@Arthillidan The info about melee attack buff seems to come from some old dev interviews. But you are correct, there is nothing to really back this up. I have thought about removing the melee attack debuffs since a while now and will probably do so in an update.

At any rate, thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Arthillidan 5 Jul @ 5:42am 
the AI does not get a melee attack buff, at least not a +6 melee buff at very hard. That's why people didn't notice they get a melee buff. it's really easy to test as well. just do custom games against the AI on the rice fields map. I did ashigaru vs ashigaru on vh (yari wall disabled). The AI seemed to have a slight edge that might be because of a combination of morale and RNG over small sample size. When I gave my ashigaru a single chevron they started clearly winning the combat, consistently having more men than the enemy unit, but would still be easier to rout becuase lower morale presumably. If the AI truly got +6 melee attack on vh, my ashigaru wouldn't be winning with a single chevron.

I can confirm that other battle difficulty buffs apply on custom battles as well, because when doing an archer duel between bow ashigaru, the AI shot a lot faster than me. I have literally no idea where Gamemnke got the melee attack buff from.
Egalregent  [author] 5 Jul @ 12:43am 
@Bug that is strange. I did not touch sounds in this mod at all. Have you tested that this is caused specifically by this mod? Because if it is, then i have no idea what causes it.
It would be great if you had some additional information for troubleshooting, as this kind of problem tends to be hard to narrow down
Bug 4 Jul @ 3:50pm 
Unfortunately on Mac this disables all game audio (other than video) for some reason.
Egalregent  [author] 22 Apr @ 1:11am 
Thanks for the info, I will try to do that soonish.
Orendiz 21 Apr @ 12:52pm 
Ah i see nice xd. Btw you can also rename the table (inside the folder) and then you can remove all the non changed items there.
Egalregent  [author] 21 Apr @ 12:50pm 
Just pushed an update that removes to unnecessary tables. I just forgot to get rid of them and procrastinated up until now lol