Basic Panic System

Basic Panic System

ModTek mod that adds a basic panic system for MechWarriors, both playable and non-playable into the game. Forked from mpstark's PunchinOut mod (https://github.com/Mpstark/PunchinOut).

Installation

Place the mod folder inside the game's mod folder:

WIN: C:\Users\user_name\MyDocuments\MyGames\BattleTech\mods

LIN: /home/user_name/MyGames/BattleTech/mods

OSX: /Users/user_name/MyGames/BattleTech/mods

If the above folder doesn't exist, you need to start Battletech to have it create the folder.

If you get a message about needing to overwrite the folder, click yes: either you're updating the mod (in which case you should be replacing it),

or you're installing another mod from me, in which case your OS should be smart enough to merge the conflicting folders.

General Details

There are four states for a pilot to be in: Normal, Fatigued, Stressed, and Panicked.

Every time a pilot has their mech take an attack, they roll for panic. This roll is increased in strength by how powerful the attack was, where it hit, how damaged the pilot's mech is in terms of armour and structure, is the rest of their lance dead or gone, etc. It is decreased by a pilot's tactics and guts scores, and their team's morale.

If this roll succeeds, they are then knocked down to the next lower state. Once they hit Panicked, they then start rolling for ejection chances. This is affected by the same things as mentioned above.

By default, pilots can only get worse in panic states once per turn, to prevent runaway panic attacks from multiple mech attacks.

For panic recovery, as long as a pilot avoids failing another roll while they're under a panic state, they recover one state up (ie Panicked -> Stressed, or Fatigued -> Normal)

A typical chain of events under this system is thus something like Normal at start -> Turn 1 during enemy action: takes hit, downgrades to Fatigued -> Turn 2: manages to avoid failing a panic roll -> Turn 3 on pilot's movement: hits Normal again

Advanced Details

By default:

The player character always gets to resist automatically ejecting.

There's always a chance to drop down a panic state.

Panic state changes are gated to once per round.

The maximum panic resist is 15. (The roll for this is a D20)

The highest the chance to auto eject from an attack can be is 50%.

Everybody gets 10 points of ejection resistance. Every point of guts adds 2 points, every point of tactics adds 1 point.

Unsteady adds +5 to ejection chance from an attack.

Injuries affect ejection