Cat Balance

The goal of this mod is two-fold. First, to add fun to the game through variety and challenge. Second, to have you make choices about your equipment instead of just scaling up the +++ ladder of weapons and tonnage.

• []Adjusted APC_Vargr movedef to match the other faster vehicle speeds, now you won't always get the three types of vehicles that seem to take forever to move for your escort contracts.

  []Added turret location to all vehicles that did not have turret information specified, now you will no longer AC20 that SRM carrier for no damage when you really need it dead except when you miss.

  []Adjusted morale gain in combat to be drastically reduced on successful actions against the enemy. Also added negative morale effects on successful actions by the enemy against you.

  []Adjusted heat damaging large lasers to have UI names more consistent with function and the rest of the naming changes.

  []Added missing LRM ammo to WVR-6M_support enemy.

  • []Enabled the AI being able to be inspired.

    []Cleaned up the storyline contract files to only include changed values (general housekeeping).

    []Fixed customized settings.json not applying properly in AIM.

    []Limited maximum chance to hit to 60% + Gunnery 2. 5%. Modifiers will still affect actual chance to hit, but maximum chance to hit is capped 85% for example if the pilot has 10 Gunnery.

    []Mechwarrior costs reduced to 35% of original since mechwarriors are still eating too much budget for how many may be on staff at a time. (Hiring cost still left at 75% since it's always more expensive to hire a trained professional.)

    []Increased contract cbills per difficulty by 30% placing cbills per difficulty at around 210% of original. Maintaining solvency will be easier unless you're always selecting pure salvage.

    • []Found Precision Shot still boosting base accuracy, fixed to not boost base accuracy as much.

      []Changed shutdown overheat chance of ammo bins exploding from 10% to 15%.

      []Updated AIM mod to v2. 0.

      All weapon variants rebuilt around trade-offs instead of arbitrary bonuses. Added 149 new weapon variants. I did not limit myself on what could change, so yes, there are variants with +/- to tonnage, critical slots, recoil, etc along with the usual acc/dam/stab. All stock game weapon variant changes restricted to non-crit/tonnage changes to maintain compatibility with other mech mods.

      []Example: +damage on LRM's may come with -acc, reduced maximum range, or decreased stability damage. Alternate example: An AC may come with +acc or -heat but will use an extra critical slot. (there is a .xlsx in the download with a full li