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TIHYD_Out on a Limb
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MECR  [developer] 14 Apr, 2019 @ 12:16pm
What's been done so far.
Here's an elaborate list of what this mod changes. I used the spoiler tag in case you want to find out for your own.

What's done so far. Version 0.70 on 19/06/05

*- New

Rebalance:
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- (Rebalancing Part 1) Rebalanced the penalties on lower tier skeleton-made limbs (hiver-made are untouched). First step, Athletics: The penalties were too extreme and nerfed low-level skeletons far more than I intended. In the vanilla game, this wasn't important because you'd almost never use lower tier skeleton-made limbs. Either hiver-made in early game or higher grade skeleton-made in mid to end game. But now they are on a LOT of weak Skeleton NPCs and on every Player Skeleton Character at Game Start. And always all 4 of them so the penalties stack up. Will be doing more rebalancing later...
- (Rebalancing Part 2) Well, that turned out to be quite the effort. I made a huge spreadsheet and now have extensive data on every value of every robotic limb there is. Found several small bugs and inconsistencies, as well as some over- and underpowered items... be it in the vanilla game files or in my mod. Long story short, I did a complete rebalance of almost all values. Expect much more reasonable and streamlined stats than before. I consider the mod finished in that regard.
- Completely reworked the Limb Distribution Table. Expect far more varied spawns than previously. I consider the mod finished in that regard.
- Changed a lot of limb quality values on different NPCs after I found out which values lead to correct quality grade display. No more blue high grade or green specialist limbs!
- Removed Duststorm immunity from all Skeletons. They are immune to every kind of weather, that's OP in my opinion. A Skeleton's high-tech optical lenses will surely have some problems with Duststorms. To give the Skeletons some gear to counter that, I added Duststorm resistances to all body armour that also has the head covered i.e. Dust(!)coats.
*- Added all the new headgear from my now completed co-mod "You can keep your Hat on". With its reiterating changes, that mod is incompatible by the way, and should not be installed when playing with Out on a Limb.
*- All the new headgear has been distributed to the various Skeleton NPCs.
*- Fixed some small bugs here and there.

Immersion:
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- Changed the Material for a lot of the new limb types. Now, damaged limbs have a rusty look, enhanced grade legs no longer look like KLR, and more! This is however a very basic implimentation of the feature, more sort of a Workaround. The Textures mapped to the limbs do not fit them, so on close distance it doesn't look all to good. With greater distance or in the inventory they look alright.
- I'm not a fan of generic names like "Skeleton Civilian", so I changed NPCs like that to have names.
- More NPCs changed: Added chance to spawn with 1-4 Robotics limbs to several groups of NPCs like Tech Hunters and Cannibal Hunters. See List below. If those NPCs had generic names like "Cannibal Hunter", I mostly changed them to have names, too. Due to restrictions of the FCS, these NPCs do not have Skeleton Repair Kits. So I added a Medic NPC Type to those squads who has them, as well as First Aid Kits. Will add more NPCs later.

New Game Starts:
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- Anti-Slavery Start. SPOILER ALERT: Don't try if you don't know what Anti-Slavery Factions are.
- Cheat version of said start, for testing purposes.
- Limb Theft. Variant of Rock Bottom, see below.
- Opportunistic Looter
- The Limb Doctor
- Click.

Altered Game Starts (deny skeleton race on vanilla game starts and make a skeleton-only copy)
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- Wanderer
- The Holy Sword
- Rock Bottom
- Guy with a Dog
- Empire Citizen
- Wandering Trader
- Son of a Captain (Note: no Skeleton start but fixed it, now restricted to Scorchlander/Greenlander/Shek and moved to Clownsteady.)
- Nobodies (Note: All skeleton only for the time being.)
- Freedom Seekers (Note: All skeleton only for the time being.)
- all other vanilla game starts are restricted to the non-skeleton races ATM. Will work on that later.

New Limb Types:
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- Damaged
- Refurbished
- Model "08/15"
- Legion Grade (now with another new version)
- Devastator Arms
- Sniper Arm
- Thrall Limbs. The Thralls of Venge are fast hordes by design, but my distribution of standard or damaged limbs prevented them from being so. Now they have their own limbs.

Some of these have been added to the corresponding Vendor Lists. All Limb prices have been rebalanced. Also some Masterwork versions of these are unique as in: can only be found on certain NPCs.

Renamed Limb Types:
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- "Standard" to "Enhanced". The new standard grade is the "08/15".

New Unique Limb Types (spawn only once on unique NPCs):
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- Empereror Grade
- Flying Steel Set

New Equipment:
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- Skill Reallocation Cards that can be inserted into your Skeleton's "Belt" Slot. They favor some skills but come with penalties to others. Can be bought in the Black Desert City.

New Playable Skeleton Race:
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- P4 Unit. This makes sense since they spawn with Tech Hunters and others. All other Skeleton Races are not meant to be played, considering the game's lore. Also altered the P4 to be more of a Research/Support Unit, to underline the differences to the standard skeleton Unit, the now so-called 08/15 Unit, see below.

Changes to Standard Skeleton Race:
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- The Standard Skeleton Unit is now the 08/15 Unit. Mass produced for exploration and warfare, they now come with enhanced sentience and personality processing and are notorius for their curiousity and strange sense of humour.

New Factions:
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- Limb Theft Victims (Great Desert and surrounding areas). No Boss or HQ.
*- Limbs of Steel (dto.). Fully fleshed out this Faction: Faction leader, HQ, unique AI of roaming squads, a lot of different Worldstates, campaigns and HQ takeovers, unique captive who you can recruit.

New NPCs:
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- Legion Assassin

Exchanged Limbs on:
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Unique Characters:
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Skeleton race:
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- Armour King
- Dack ("unique" was set to FALSE, which is FALSE. Corrected it)
- Tinfist
Screamer MkI race:
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- Screamer the False
- Spider Foreman
P4 Unit race:
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- Elder
- Iyo
- Quin
- Rhinobot
Skeleton P4MkII race:
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- General Hat-12
- General Jang
- Head of Agriculture
- Mad Cat-Lon
- Ponk
Skeleton MKII Screamer race:
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- General Screamer (The True)

Unique Recruits:
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Skeleton race:
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- Burn (also made him proficient with crossbows)
- Sadneil
Soldierbot race:
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- Agnu

Non-Unique Recruits (already Skeleton-only):
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Skeleton race:
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- Holy Nation robot
- Imprisoned Skeleton Recruit
- Skeleton Recruit 2500
- Skeleton Recruit 2500 swamp 1
- Skeleton Recruit 2500 swamp 2
- Skeleton Recruit 700

Non-Unique Characters (already Skeleton-only):
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Skeleton race:
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- CHARACTER
- CHARACTER---
- Hound Skeleton
- Skeleton Barman
- Skeleton Civilian
- Skeleton Drifter
- Skeleton Grayflayer
- Skeleton Outlaw
- Skeleton Patron
- Skeleton Resident
- Smuggler Barman
Screamer MkI race:
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- Skeleton Variant01
- Soldierbot
P4 Unit race:
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- Bookshop Trader
- Broken Model 30
- Skeleton Doctor
- Skeleton Variant02
Soldierbot race:
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- || Error Code 0xFFFFFF ||
- || ErrorCode 0x000000 ||
- Skeleton Variant03
- Soldierbot Guard
Skeleton P4MkII race:
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Skeleton_MkII
Skeleton Log-Head MKII race:
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- Hydraulic Knight
- Legion Scout
- Old Empire Police Captain
- Skeleton_MkII Log Head
- Sniperbot
- Upgraded Watchbot
- Watchbot
- Legion
Skeleton MKII Screamer race:
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- Screamer Unit
- Skeleton MkII Screamer
Skeleton No-Head MkII race:
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- Armour King's Thrall
- Heavy Thrall
- Stormthrall
- Thrall
- Weak Thrall
Miscellaneous:
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- Legion Thrall
- Broken Skeleton
- Skeleton Bandit (Yeah that's right. They don't believe to be Skeletons now, they're halfway there.)
- Broken Skeleton Bandit
- Upgraded Skeleton Bandit
- Upgraded Skeleton Guard
- Skin Bandit

Factions (exclude Skeletons Races from race spawns):
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- Anti-Slavers
- Drifters
- Machinists
- Mongrel
- Tech Hunters
- United Cities

Non-Unique Characters (Skeleton-only copies):
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Anti-Slavers:
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- Anti-Slaver Jonin HQ
- Anti-Slaver Jonin
- Anti-Slaver
- Anti-Slaver unarmed HQ
- Anti-Slaver unarmed
Drifters:
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- Drifter
- hire engineer
- hire gunner
- Sword for hire 10
- Sword for hire
Machinists:
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- Machinist
Mongrel:
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- Shinobi Guard
Tech Hunters:
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- Tech Hunter Guard
- Tech Hunter Ruins
United Cities:
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- Samurai
- Samurai Conscript

Squads (add Skeleton-only copies and rebalance):
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Anti-Slavers:
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- Anti slaver (override)
- Anti slaver all strong small
- Anti slaver base attack strong
- Anti-Slaver base attack weak
- Anti slaver HQ (override)
- Anti slaver patrol (override) grande dead
- Anti slaver patrol (override) kana dead
- Anti slaver patrol (override) longen dead
- Anti slaver patrol (override) ren/sly dead
- Anti-Slaver Gate Guard
- Anti-Slaver Town Patrol
- Tinfist HQ
Drifters (add Skeletons recruits that were removed from faction as new copy to recruit lists):
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- Recruits List
- Recruits List Empire
- Recruits list Empire (malnourished)
- Recruits list Empire copy Catun
- shady bar recruits list travellers
- Treasure hunters
- Treasure hunters aggressive
Machinists:
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- University big
Mongrel:
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- Mongrel HQ
Tech Hunters:
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- Drifter squad
- Drifter squad bar
- Tech Hunter HQ
- Tech Hunter Ruins
- Sword for hire 10 tech hunter
- Sword for hire tech hunter
United Cities:
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- Added possibility for a small number of skeletons in larger army squads. Will add more units/squads later.
Hounds:
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- Hound HQ
- Hounds Assault
- Hounds town home
- Hounds town patrol
- Swamper Hounds---

Added (chance for) Robotic Limbs on:
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Unique Characters:
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- Dust King
*- Valamon

Non-Unique Characters:
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Tech Hunters:
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- Sword for hire 10 tech hunter
- Sword for hire tech hunter
- Tech Hunter
- Tech Hunter Gate Guard
- Tech Hunter Guard
- Tech Hunter Ruins
- Tech Hunter shopkeeper
Cannibal Hunters:
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- Cannibal Hunter
- Cannibal Hunter Captain
- Cannibal Hunter Robun
Dust Bandits:
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- Dust Bandit
- Dust Bandit Bowman
- Dust Boss
Red Sabres:
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-Red Sabre
Scavengers
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- Scavenger
Hounds
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- Hound
Grass Pirates
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*- Grass Pirate
*- Straw Lieutenant
Bloodraiders
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*- Blood Raider
Miscellaneous:
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- Lost drone

EDIT 19/06/05: Updated for version 0.70
Last edited by MECR; 5 Jun, 2019 @ 4:32am