Immersive Explosions

Why this mod?

Ever landed a grenade right at a ganger's feet and watched him walk away because of a curb? Or stood at the very edge of a blast and still eaten half its damage? Both are real quirks baked into the game: explosion damage never drops below ~45% anywhere inside the radius, and the engine checks explosion line-of-sight against the target's FEET — so any knee-high prop blocks all of it. On top of that, most blast radii are tiny (3–5m).

What does this mod do?

1. Explosion Radius

Most explosions get bigger, deadlier, manually scaled between real life radius and in game balance:

• []Frag grenades (player and NPC): ~5m → ~8. 5m[/]

  []Launchers: 5m → 8. 5m (charged 7. 5m → 9. 7m)[/]

  []Exploding cars: 3. 7m → 7m[/]

  []Explosive barrels: 4m → 8m[/]

  []Explosion from bullets also improved.[/]

  []Utility blasts (smoke, flash, recon pulses) and boss attacks are untouched.[/]

Vanilla explosion damage deal 100% dmg out to ~1/3 of the radius, then drop to ~45% at the rim — the edge of a blast radius hurts almost as much as the middle. Replaced with a smooth curve: 100% at the core, ~45% at half radius, 0% at the very edge. Positioning matters now, and the bigger radius from feature 1 don't make everything a death zone, vanilla ~45% dmg position still receive ~45% dmg.

3. Explosion Cover Fix

[]Engine tests explosion line-of-sight with a single ray to the target's feet, so low cover means total immunity even with the whole knee up to head inside the fireball (player gets a smarter check).[/]

[*]This mod re-checks blocked targets at the chest: if the torso is exposed, they now take proper damage. Full cover still protects. Works for grenades (player and NPC), projectile launchers, exploding rounds, barrels, cars and weakspots