Guns of Kerensky - A Better Weapon Balance - BT Edition

PLUG N' PLAY & VANILLA FRIENDLY!

COMPLETELY STANDALONE; WILL NOT BREAK YOUR GAME; DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY OTHER RESOURCES!

Simply unzip to your mods folder and you are good to go (see file description for details).

This is no mere "1 for 1" conversion of standard tabletop stats.  I wanted to bring my knowledge of ADVANCED tabletop rules to the PC game and see if I could find a good middle ground that wouldn't break the vanilla PC experience.  I've tested this mod for balance to the best of my ability and am confident that this mod will improve the experience for both new and old-school Battletech fans such as myself.

CURRENT PROBLEMS WITH OLD VANILLA

• []Weapon stat buffs/nerfs are all over the place and do not consistently scale with tabletop at all; for example, take ballistics: basic stats of light ACs are pretty bad in tabletop (especially when not accounting for BattleValue), but they were buffed just a bit TOO much for the PC game.  The PC version of the AC/20 is okay, but the AC/10 is overshadowed a bit by the AC/5.

  []Large lasers and PPCs are a little behind in the damage curve at higher tiers; this is made worse by the fact you can't easily exploit their range advantages due to limited default spotting range.

  []LRM stability damage across the board is too high; too easy to exploit for easy knockdowns and KOs. (this was addressed in an official update).

  []There is not good consistency on weapon traits (ex. some autocannons get higher accuracy buffs than lasers for some reason).

  []Despite being even more rare, Star League era weapons don't compete well with "+++" tier weapons on the open market!  This is a tragedy!

  []Lack of equipment tier choices in skirmish mode.

  WHAT THIS MOD DOES

  • []Establish a consistent damage conversion rate based on tabletop values with a few liberties taken to account for special traits some weapons have.

   Damage = tabletop value x 5 = base damage in game

  Heat = tabletop value x3 = base heat in game

  []Adjust weapon values to better balance between base weapons and upgraded versions.

  []Create some consistency with weapon buffs (ex. lasers get higher accuracy, autocannons deal a bit more damage, but are less accurate, missiles have higher critical damage chance, etc) while still allowing for some variations (ex. even though most missiles have bonuses to crit damage, the venerable Holly SRMs still deal extra damage).

  []Accuracy now generally gets better as you upgrade to higher tier lasers.

  [*]Stability Damage is now directly proportionate to Damage output and is included in the base stats of weapons to make ro