Bestiary - Aggressive Enemies and Variants

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General Changes

• []Overhauls a number of enemy movesets to increase aggression and variety of attacks while keeping close to the base DD design. All bosses are covered, as well as some small enemies.[/]

  []Some moves depend on the creature's state, either when they're angry or low hp, allowing a more dynamic battle as you wear them down.[/]

  []Certain "super attacks" are intentionally uninterruptible when appropriate, with clear telegraph to signal a state change, so keep an eye/ear out, learn and adapt.[/]

  []Garm and Skeleton Lord are now considered mini bosses and have a boss health bar.[/]

• []New enemies with their own moveset, abilities, strengths, weaknesses and colors. There are over 30 of them.[/]

  []Some of them are inspired by previous games in the series, while some are original.[/]

  []Some variants spawn in specific places, while others are randomly distributed. Note that it's possible to face some endgame variants very early, so don't be afraid to flee if an enemy is too powerful.[/]

  []Resetting scripts, resting at camps or reloading the enemies in any way will re-roll the variants. This is intended. However, there's an option in the config script to set a fixed seed for the randomization, which will make it so the same enemy will always be the same variant.[/]

  []Do note that the game still treats variants as the original enemies, so pawns will call out the original enemy's weaknesses and use the wrong name, and killing them counts towards the badges of the original enemy. There's nothing that can be done about this.[/]

  []If using Durnehviir, the new variants will appear in some monster culling requests.[/]

• []Much like Skill Maker, Bestiary supports other mods adding movesets and variants to its systems.[/]

  []To get an example on how to do that, check out Apex - Bestiary Add On.[/]

  []Make sure your main expansion file is called Bestiary_Name. For example, "Bestiary_Nick's Expansion".[/]

• []Silencing a boss enemy while it's attacking will now always stagger, even if it's not a spellcasting attack, but the effect will no longer stick as a condition.[/]

  []Behavior is unchanged from vanilla against non-boss enemies.[/]

  []Pawns still use it reliably, sometimes even more to keep staggering some bosses, making it a valid multipurpose skill option.[/]

  []These changes were necessary for technical and design issues related to Bestiary's movesets, so this rework can never be optional or standalone.[/]

• []The chance for Dragonsplague to be healed automatically when resting has been reduced from 15% to 5%.[/]

  []When Dragonsplague jumps between pawns when resting, it will transfer to the new carrier without leaving the original carrier, and its stage will progress in the original carrier as usual. This means from the moment of infection, you have 10 days until it reaches max stage, no matter what, and several pawns will likely be infected by then.[/]

  []Dragonkin possessing a pawn now has a chance to infect them with Dragonsplague at stage 5 (max is 10), or to bump the stage by 5 if the pawn was already infected.[/]

  []When Dragonsplague reaches its max stage and calamity occurs, a new boss enemy will be waiting for you, which drops an Eternal Wakestone when defeated. This means Dragonsplague is now a fully fleshed out mechanic that makes sense. Note that one Eternal Wakestone is not enough to revive all NPCs in most cities, so there are still consequences to unleashing the calamity.[/]

  []These options can be tweaked in the config script.[/]

INSTALLATION 

[]Download the mod and install with Fluffy Mod Manager. You need to install both main files like this.[/]

[]Make sure you have REFramework installed [/]

[*]Install _NickCore, _Script