Lenient stagger and exhaustion

Introduction

The stagger system in DD2 is, in my opinion, a bit too annoying. You just spend too long out of control of your character, between the long stagger animations, the exhaustion state being extremely punishing, wall bangs, dazed status effect, and so on. This mod tones that down a little bit by modifying a few mechanics to be more lenient. I recommend that you use Simple Difficulty Tweaks if you want to further customize the difficulty of your game.

Modularity

All of the features in this mod can be independently toggled on and off by opening the script with any text editor.

Exhaustion changes

When you get to 0 stamina and enter the exhausted state, your stamina will start to recover immediately (keep in mind that the game allows for negative stamina values, so you won't see this effect immediately if you used a skill that left you with less than 0 stamina), like in DD1, and it won't stop until you're no longer exhausted. This means that:

• []The time you spend in the exhausted state is smaller.[/]

  []Enemies attacking you can no longer keep you in the exhausted state indefinitely.[/]

• []Replaced the biggest forms of stagger for smaller ones. For example, you will no longer get staggered so bad that you get down on your knees for a few seconds.[/]

  []A select few ranged attacks (mainly goblin and bandit projectiles) will now deal 90% less stagger. You can configure the stagger multiplier for each attack in the script.[/]

  []Wall bangs (crashing against a wall when getting staggered near it) are no longer a thing.[/]

  []Enemy slam attacks will no longer make you trip to the ground (disabled by default).[/]

  []Every vocation now has access to Thief's Controlled Fall, but for other vocations it comes at a cost of 100 stamina. Note that you need to have unlocked it on Thief before you can use it.[/]

  []The duration of crawling knockdown has been reduced from 8 seconds to 5 seconds. If you're using Balanced Augments and the Dilligence augment, you'll skip the crawling entirely. On top of that, you can now start moving in the crawling state after 1 second rather than the 2 seconds it takes in vanilla.[/]

  []Unbalance rework: enemies will no longer yeet you off instantly when you're standing on them (for example when you open a Drake's heart while standing on it). Instead, a minimum of 2 seconds spent in the "unbalance" animation are needed before you're yeeted off an enemy. On top of that, you now get an extra half a second to react to enemy "shakeoff" animations while climbing or standing on enemies, meaning an extra half a second before these animations take control away from your character. So you can now react to an Ogre jumping on its back if you're quick.[/]