Mostly Unarmed Tweaks

Mostly Unarmed Tweaks

In the vanilla game there are four melee weapons with an intended "less than lethal" use to knock out the target: Boxing Tape, Boxing Gloves (and the unique Golden Gloves) and the Cattle Prod. They cause damage in their weapon script, which is less than ideal because of kill counts and blahblahblah... you know what I'm about. This mod does the following:

Fatigue Weapons

[]Scripts are removed from these weapons, also so as to overwrite and revert changes by other mods such as YUP (don't worry kiddos I know what I'm doing)

[]Instead, a handler script now, well, handles how these weapons affect the target. They will do fatigue damage against conscious, organic targets, otherwise for robots and knocked out targets they will deal bonus health damage instead. This damage is now weighted against the weapon's regular damage just like the game's own calculations (probably), so you will deal additional fatigue damage from skill, perks, in critical hits, etc. The following are default values which can actually be changed in the scriptrunner file:

[]Bare Fist attacks now deal a base 10 fatigue to the awake and 2 extra HP to knocked out targets. This only works for human/NPC attacks, not those from creatures since those tend to bite, rip and tear more than punch.

[]NOTE: this is intended to replace the hardcoded fatigue damage that bare punches cause, for which you need to set the bUseGamesettingsForFistFatigueDamage setting in ShowOff's ini to 1. The other two settings (fatigue damage for creature attacks and any other unarmed weapons) are up to your preferences.

[]Boxing Tape now does 20 fatigue damage to the awake and 5 extra HP to the knocked out. In my view, this weapon is unlike boxing gloves in that it ought to be the bare minimum you wear for a "100% Unarmed" setup, since you can't get attack damage nor speed bonuses if only using completely bare fists. So I've removed its 20% penalty to baseline attack speed compared to bare fists, plus...

[]There's also an issue with power attack criticals that makes it so that when performed with an unarmed weapon, these are potentially less damaging than when performed with bare fists. To sum up a very long and weird story, a power attack critical triples an unarmed weapon's regular damage, but quadruples a bare fist's damage. Boxing Tape starts to lag behind in damage compared to bare fists at an Unarmed skill level of around 50, and the issue is only overcome by weapons with a minimum of 9 damage + 9 crit. damage or so. Therefore, a simple perk adds additional damage to your power attack criticals with boxing tape to avoid this.

[*]Boxing Gloves do 35 fatigue if awake, 10 extra HP