Order Fast Charge (Custom Balance Config)

The Iconic Order shotgun in this game has a charge time of a whopping 3 full seconds. That's too damn much, in my opinion; makes the weapon handle like molasses. Even with the Bolt perk to shave . 6 seconds off (2. 4 seconds) and extended Bolt windows you still have to stand there doing fuck-all for about two whole seconds before you can fire a proper shot with it. As much as I like the gun I found myself just not reaching for it due to this charge time; why awkwardly spend time charging when I can just throw a grenade or melee or something at that range? Any time I tried to force it it just felt bad. Meanwhile the regular DB-2 Satara has a charge time of only one second and isn't forced to reload after every shot; throw the iconic Wallpuncher mod on and it's really hard to justify ever using the Order over it. I'm down to have a slower-firing shotgun that packs a greater punch, but 3x slower charge speed is just painful to endure.

Hence, this mod!! The original idea was just to set it to a 2 second charge time and be done with it, similar to how the excellent Ozob's Nose Damage Increase mod just increases the damage of that grenade, simple as. And indeed, if you just install this mod and don't touch anything else, that's exactly what it does!

But this mod also comes with extra bells and whistles cuz I wanted to make it configurable and got slightly carried away!! I incorporated Native Settings UI (OPTIONAL dependency!) so you can modify the charge time to your liking in-game, and I also added a couple of other options too!! namely, options to configure whether it eats up 2 shots or just 1 per trigger pull, and the shot pellet count as well. You could nerf the gun (lower pellet count) or super-buff it if you wanted to (higher pellet count, lower charge time, half ammo consumption), but by default these other options are unchanged and only the charge time goes from 3 -> 2 by default.

If you do not want to install Native Settings UI, you can just edit the included config.json file manually. Regardless of which way you do it tho, please note that if you modify the values while in-game you will need to reload a save to apply the changes!!! All this mod really does is edit the game's internal TweakDB values (and save those changes), which are read-only while the game's running, so they can't be hot-reloaded on the fly, sorry. At least not without adding a bunch of other dependencies and even then it seems hacky. Sorry, but reloading a save isn't so bad, eh? Changes are 'permanent' so once you find something you like you can stop messing with it. :p

Also, I highly recommend getting the mods Bolt Shots Penetrate Cover and Bolt Shot FX Reset Fix to make Tech weapons, y'know, work right.