Enhanced 'Mech Traits

Update (Jul. 25th, 2023)!

Responsive Movement skills; Anchor Turn skills; and Target Lock Retention skills have been increased in potency, along with minor cost increases. Costs and install times for two of the three Jump Jet skills have also been normalized to match one-another.

Enjoy!

‘Mech traits always felt very over-priced as well as weak, to me, so I opted to never use them – especially given that they are removed once the ‘mech receiving the upgrades are moved to Cold Storage. (I actually forgot about them entirely, as a result!) With this mod, ‘mech traits are much more powerful (but are not meant to be over-powered); making them feel more practical for how fleeting they can be, and how expensive they are (to me).

The adjustments have been done with the intention to make both the costs and effects balanced well-enough to be used both in vanilla playthroughs, as well as with mods (most specifically, YAML). In some cases (especially with my “Increased Enemy Difficulty” mod), you may find them necessary (should you choose to use it).

Information on all vanilla values and their adjusted values can be found at the following Google Sheets data sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M7L_-W_8RH8_0m1dSv6pith78zjPHWS5cLmC7c3ajWQ/edit?usp=sharing

I hope you find this mod enjoyable, if you decide to use it!

Other mods by me!:

Alternate Flamer Visuals: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/847

Dimmer Loot Beam: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/851

Enhanced Critical: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/848

High-damage Critical: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/860

Improved Airstrike: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/850

Increased Enemy Difficulty: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/861

Increased Treefall Animation Rate ("The 'Timber' Mod!"): https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/852

Increased Warzone Rewards: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/849

Increased Warzone Rewards (Light): https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/854

Party Critical: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/866

Projectile-based Machine Guns: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/748

Re-balanced and Expanded Jump Jets: https://www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5mercenaries/mods/858

Re-balanced and Exp