Unofficial Super Mutant Redux-Horizon Patch

No longer being maintained as of Horizon 1. 3

I feel Horizon has made enough changes to factions to no longer warrant external mods covering factions.  I'll leave my faction patches up in case anyone wants to use older Horizon versions or wants to take over but I will no longer be making updates.

Unofficial patch for Super Mutant Redux and Horizon.

This is considered a BETA until I am convinced there are no bugs or inconsistencies.  If you find any bugs or inconsistencies please report via the bug tracking tab.  I only offer support for the latest version of Super Mutant Redux and Horizon.  If you're using an older version of either I offer no support.

Summary:

Horizon's new Nightkin and Sniper NPCs:

As of version 1. 1: Horizon's new nightkin and sniper supermutants are removed and replaced by SMR's nightkin and sniper supermutants.

Horizon makes nightkin very rare and always legendary where as SMR completely replaces all melee super mutants with nightkin.  I went with a mix of the two.  Nightkin spawn alongside normal melee supermutants; initially occuring very rarely and will gradually increase in frequency the higher level you get.

The same applies with Horizon and SMR's snipers.  SMR completely replaces missile launcher mutants with snipers.  This patch will keep missile launcher mutants and you will occasionally see a sniper mixed in with normal supermutants.  The frequency of snipers also increases the higher you get.

As of version 1. 1: super mutants now follow the balancing standards set by Horizon.  Super mutants have ~200 health and their resists gradually scale up as the level progresses.

There are a lot of changes to make NPC's have the proper health pools and resist scaling.  In general, super mutants have ~300 health, legendaries and bosses have ~350, and hounds have ~200.  They also have the same damage resist scaling as Horizon's super mutants, gradually getting tougher the higher the level.

The intention was to be a little tougher than Horizon's default super mutants because that's basically what Super Mutant Redux does in comparison to Vanilla.  They also give slightly better loot such as broken stealth boys (precious fiber optics and circuitry) and meat for survivability and I felt a little bump in difficulty was necessary to balance this.

Strong in particular has had his changes from Super Mutant Redux merged with Horizon.  Specifically, he retains the "Strongs Back" buff (+700 Carry weight, +10 endurance) perk from SMR and the companion traits (no fall damage, radiation/posion immunity) from Horizon.  His companion perk was also included but slightly nerfed compared to default SMR.