Ricochet Redux

About this mod

This mod loosens the angles at which ricochets snap to valid targets (enemies, explosives,...) so you can more reliably use them.

You can still shoot the ground in front of the enemies for the free damage multiplier, but with this you can now also use walls, ceiling, and all the rest of the environment to manage impressive feats and hit targets behind cover.

You can use either Native Settings UI or a text editor to control the seeking angle. The higher the value, the easier the bounce.

(you may need to reload your save in order to apply the changes).

Details

This mod normalizes all ricocheting weapons to seek targets up to a specific angle (decided by the customizable value).

Default value is in the range of what you could reach with a vanilla legendary attachment and its reliability lets you learn what to expect from the bounces (so you can try them even while not aiming).

Johnny's Malorian is the only exception as it now makes use of its native potential of 75°, by staying 15° beyond all other weapons. The gun is an iconic without an iconic perk, but this gives it a niche.

Silencers and Explosive bullets

Default mod behaviour is that silenced weapons can ricochet but explosive bullets can't.

There is a new switch in the options that allows you to enable ricochets even on explosive bullets, and this applies to all Power weapons (including ones modded with Firecracker) except O'Five (which uses an entirely different kind of bullets, more akin to a shootable grenade).

Number of bounces

Game update 2. 0 rebalanced a lot of things and, among them, it nerfed the bonus damage to ricochets and cut down on (pretty much all) the ways to increase the number of possible bounces.

The former is a much needed balancing act, since ricochets need something to compensate the lack of headshots (which they retain) but were objectively overtuned before. The latter is a harsh denial of functionality.

The video you can still find on yt about a gun with 6 bounces? Impossible now to even get close to that.

That amount of ricochet stacking may have indeed been too much, but 2 bounces are still the required minimum for any use of this mechanic that goes beyond single-surface complexity. So, with this mod the Ballistic Coprocessor cyberware will also give a bonus +1 Ricochet bounce when upgraded to Epic or above rarity (deactivable through the options), bringing the total of possible bounces up to 2.

All weapon vendors will also, sometimes, have in stock a new Power weapon Mod: Ricochet Engine, that gives +1 ricochet bounce to the weapon it gets fitted in.

Kongou and Breakthrough

As this mod brings these two iconics to share the same, customizabl