Better Cantina Rewards

Update (Feb. 20th, 2024)!

Notable Updates:

- Significantly increased C-Bills rewarded for the ‘Mech Collector Career Path

- Increased C-Bills rewarded for the ‘Mech Hunter Career Path

- Improved distribution of C-Bills for the Equipment Collector, Treasure Hunter, Wardog, and Weapon Collector Career Paths

- Re-balanced and improved C-Bill distribution for various weapon and equipment types (Standard, RetroTech, and LosTech)

- Fixed progression errors NATIVE TO THE VANILLA GAME for the ‘Mech Collector Career Path

- Re-balanced progression for the ‘Mech Collector and ‘Mech Hunter Career Paths

As usual, please keep in mind that this mod is supposed to try and balance rewards between vanilla and YAML playthroughs (along with any other playthroughs that may benefit).

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Rewards for this mod have been adjusted so that there is a greater focus on receiving rare weapons and LosTech, along with a lesser emphasis on rewarding C-Bills (as they are so easy to come by in a vanilla playthrough).

For general rewards, Primitive Weapons (being Rifles and Chemical Lasers) and Double Heatsinks get a particular boost to how commonly they are awarded due to how rare they are in the game, while Pulse Lasers, Extended-range Weapons, LBX Autocannons, and the Ultra Autocannon 5 – along with other LosTech – are also more likely to appear as rewards (though less than Primitive Weapons). In addition, MASC, Guardian ECM, and the Beagle Active Probe are equipment that is significantly more likely to appear (like Primitive Weapons – for the same reasons), while other equipment (such as EWECM, and the EW Active Probe) is more likely to appear as well (though, again, less likely than MASC, G-ECM, and the BAP).

Specific Changes:

In particular, the Weapons Collector tree has been re-done so as to allow players to trade-in low-tier weapons for fewer, but better weapons across the board; acting as a sort of upgrade/recycling system. The higher the Cantina mission level, the greater the weapon requirements, and the greater the mission rewards (weapon tier level, and other applicable rewards (such as ammo and/or C-Bills).

For the ‘Mech Hunter and ‘Mech Collector trees, there have been various adjustments, as well. An example is that Crusader and Longbow have both been added, as they were both not included. (For those without the required DLCs for these ‘Mechs (4 and 5), you can skip these missions if they pop up.) Two notable ‘Mechs were removed from the ‘Mech Hunter tree: those being the Nightstar, and the Marauder II. Certain rare ‘Mechs have also had their requirements scaled down due to how rare they are, or when they spawn for the given Cantina mission difficulty (late gam