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Improved Witch AI (Deadlier)

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Description
Manacat's Witch mod, but with some differences and changes to my liking.

This is a "lite" version of my other Improved Witch AI mods. She doesn't get re-startled when shot while climbing or mauling a survivor. It's like the original mod by Manacat, but with a few changes, as seen below:

It lowers the "passing by" swipe attack radius from 70 to 45. Damage wise, those passing-by attacks now do 100 damage instead of 10. Do note those "passing-by" attack's damage only happen when she swings at her target with you in the way, or when she slashes at survivors blocking her path when she's retreating.

The Witch pushes survivors away while climbing everything, not just ladders. She can also push survivors when jumping across gaps, when a Wandering Witch is screaming (to prevent the cheap melee tactic of jumping behind her), and when playing the pre-retreat animation.

She now takes 1 hit to open the saferoom door instead of 3, and will break normal doors in 1 hit as well if realism mode or the Witch's instakill mechanic is activated.

The Witch instantly re-aggro's after killing a survivor with !witch kill. She no longer waits a second or two (looks around while retreating) before getting re-startled, making her more dangerous and responsive.

After killing a survivor with !witch kill, she can now go after incapacitated survivors. In the original mod she ignores incapacitated survivors and went for the nearest standing survivor.



This mod is unlisted as this isn't my work. I just edited a few values in Manacat's "Improved Witch AI" code to make her more deadly and responsive to my liking. I will make it public if Manacat is fine with it.

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11 Comments
Kали 26 Sep @ 9:20am 
Strange, my Witch only gains more health when I remove the mod. Another guy said the same thing on the "Witch 2.5k Health Locked" mod, about the Manacat one being incompatible. Turns out I managed to make incompatible tank mods work together for a while too, but they stopped working after i reinstaled the mods. Idk if it's the same case tho
Xenorvya  [author] 26 Sep @ 9:06am 
My Witch has 5000 health and I'm using this, I don't have any issues.
Kали 26 Sep @ 9:05am 
it seens like mods that change witch health dont work with the original mod and with that one
Xenorvya  [author] 13 Jul @ 6:48pm 
I use this with his other mods and it works fine.
Halberd 13 Jul @ 6:45pm 
Using improved witch ai (deadlier) with the other manacat mods like improved hunter causes that mod to not work anymore.
Rtma Eros Paragon 7 May @ 5:02am 
yeah it is wandering witches and that is a shame.
Xenorvya  [author] 7 May @ 4:20am 
This is a problem with the original as well. Improved Witch AI doesn't work well with the Wandering Witch.

You must have "!witch kill" activated, the setting that makes her attack multiple survivors, which is one of the things that cause her to go back to crying. If you are talking about Sitting Witches, this does not happen with them for me.

The "deadlock" feature also causes this, so if the script considers her stuck and a survivor shoots her, instead of being restartled she will go back to crying, the bots will continue shooting her but she won't care. This, again, only happens with the Wandering Witch.

I've unfortunately got no fix for this so I had to disable the Wandering Witch altogether. Manacat hasn't replied to my report of that problem, nor does he seem to care about that mod anymore.
Rtma Eros Paragon 7 May @ 4:14am 
I have noticed that sometimes she goes back into a wandering sobbing state when her startle is killed (I like this behaviour), even on fire, rather then flailing around, standing there in anger on fire, not sure what or why, thought I let you know, I am using killing 2 survivors then retreat.
Rtma Eros Paragon 10 Feb @ 7:34am 
Excellent, thank you.
Xenorvya  [author] 10 Feb @ 7:30am 
No you do not, this works on its own.