Unit Card Options

In MechWarrior 5, all unit spawns are controlled with a system known as Unit Cards. These assets contain a bunch of data including the type of unit (Mech, Turret, Tank, or VTOL), the AI Behavior the unit uses, the year and difficulty level they start spawning, what factions can use them, etc. Within these are some unique properties that, until now, only the game developers and modders had access to manipulate. This mod opens up these properties to direct player manipulation via mod options, giving more room for players to tailor how AI units can act in-mission.

THE OPTIONS

• []AI Accuracy Bonus: Positive or negative bonus applied to the unit's accuracy.[/]

  []AI Lethality Bonus: Positive or negative bonus applied to the unit's chance to target critical components over non-critical ones.[/]

  []AI Global DPS Bonus: Positive or negative bonus that a unit adds to the global damage per second limit AI units can use against the player's lance.[/]

  []Delay Between Shots: Sets, in seconds, the forced delay between follow-up shots AI wait through.[/]

  []Override Combat Range: Sets, in meters, the maximum range AI will try to engage a target from.[/]

  []Opt Out of Weapon Level Adjustments: A true or false action that can opt units out of having their weapon tier levels automatically adjusted by gameplay factors and instead keep the weapon tiers pre-defined in their loadouts.[/]

  COMPATIBILITY

  This mod will work with vanilla and Yet Another Mechlab. MercTech compatibility is not currently known. In theory it's fine, but testing is required before that can be confirmed or not. If used with Yet Another Mechlab, this mod will override YAML's own mod options for the AI Delay Between Shots and the Global Combat Range Overrides. Also, if used with Coyote's Mission Pack, the unique units added by that mod are excluded from being affected to keep their intended gameplay functions intact. Disembark's VTOLs are also exempt from being changed per request by its mod author.

  RECOMMENDED COMPANION MODS

  These two mods offer even further customization of unit spawns and stats that pair perfectly with this one.

  • []Adjustable Battle Value by Jackalope85.[/]

    []Modular AI Starting Damage by Rumia.[/]