Better ARCHIMEDES II

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This mod revamps Euclid C-Finder and the ARCHIMEDES II orbital laser, to the point where it becomes an actually useful weapon against anything tougher than a standard Fiend.

The new ARCHIMEDES II strike uses the special effect that's only ever seen should the player choose to test fire it at HELIOS One; it has a much larger blast radius, and deals 10x as much damage as the base game version, which renders it capable of disintegrating all but the most hardy of enemies. Experience is properly rewarded for any kills made by the device, challenges progress as expected, and other NPCs will appropriately react to their friends being blasted. As an added bonus, the targeting sequence can now be interrupted at any time by pressing the reload key. This will instantly halt targeting, and refund the expended charge.

The C-Finder itself has been overhauled too, numerous fixes have been made to the model, and thanks to Hitman47101, it has been given an entirely new animation set! In addition to the new visual changes, it now weighs less, plus once acquired it will generate a new charge once every 24 hours so long as you keep the C-Finder in your inventory and have actually diverted power to ARCHIMEDES II.

One final minor change is the unique effect where HELIOS One beams up energy can now be seen from anywhere in the map, so long as you are looking in the right direction in the main worldspace.

All of these features, plus some more, are fully customizable in the included .ini file. You can set the damage, ammo cap, amount of ammo received, how long you need to wait between ammo refills, the C-Finder's weight, and even if you need to divert power to ARCHIMEDES II or even do the quest That Lucky Old Sun at all.

Here's a video of it in action from Hitman!

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Requirements

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JIP LN NVSE

JohnnyGuitar NVSE

ShowOff xNVSE

kNVSE - Note, not strictly required, but the C-Finder will use vanilla animations without it.

Hitman47101 - For making the new animation set for the C-Finder, and helping test.

Weijiesen for separating the massive ARCHIMEDES II beam laser from its original combined mesh.