Better Squad

Better Squadmates

What does this mod do?

Do you ever feel like Drack isn't doing enough damage even with his skills maxed? Or maybe you feel like your squad is dying too often? Look no more!

This mod Increases damage output(both power and weapon damage) and defense of all squadmates   by increasing their offensive and defensive stats so they perform the way  they should in battle; by doing more damage  and dying less. Some skills, mainly their "special" skills were directly increased as well.

By default, In MEA your squad feels weak and unbalanced. Drack should deal more melee damage than Liam. Drack should also have much more defense than everyone else since he is a Krogan, so his defense was increased more than the other squadmates. Cora's main "Flair" of her character is her  special ability to charge, so her charge radius was increased along with its Damage and Force. This is the gist of the mod. In default state, your squad  merely tickles  enemies and this mod aims to change that to what you would expect of a Battle Hardened Krogan or an Asari Commando.

The average increase is about 120%  more power damage, weapon damage, and 120% more resistance  across the board than vanilla stats. Some skills like Drack's Flak cannon and Cora's Charge skill saw an increase in radius and damage as well. Each squadmate received a boost in their pertinent stats that go with their specials. Some are more than 100%, Some are less. It depends on the character.  I wanted the characters to feel unique and powerful  in their own  way. Increasing  passive stats of a character consequently increases all damage output of that character (even for skills on that character I did not touch) so that's why I did not increase the damage of all their skills(besides the signature ones). It would make your squadmates too overpowered and kill things too quickly.

I am just uploading this here for anyone who is instereted. I know there is a mod out there that does a similiar thing but it was too much of an increase for my liking and made the  squad mates kill things  before you had a chance to. My mod balances the squadmates out according to their individual strengths.

Also, For anyone that is interested, I mainly play on Hardcore and sometimes Insanity(for a much greater challenge) and the enemies do not feel too bullet spongey or too easy to kill on Hardcore so that is the mode I recommend you try it on first. It took a while to get the numbers right for all the stats but I will probably release updates as i playtest more.