Lore Accurate Controllers

☢️ LORE ACCURATE CONTROLLERS ☢️Disappointed by the relatively passive nature of vanilla Controllers in STALKER 2? This mod transforms them into terrifying psy-masters, introducing a suite of new abilities that make every encounter a proper mini-boss fight you better come prepared for.

☢️ KEY FEATURES ☢️

ENHANCED PSY-AURA

The Controller's signature psy-field is now a truly dangerous zone of influence.

• Manifests ethereal PSY Phantoms that converge on the player from multiple angles (10-20s on Moderate, 6-10s on Hard and VeryHard)

• Covers and tight spaces will not be your friend and neither will be open areas without cover

Buggy. Temporarily disabled until I can figure out how to implement it. You will still get PsyPhantoms and PsyNPCs at various stages of Psy.

- Disrupts player control through random camera interference ("yanking" the aim) and inertia input manipulation.

- Periodically impairs movement speed (varied slowness debuff) and weapon handling (prevents aiming and shooting randomly).

- Deals constant damage while within the aura's influence.

Unfortunately, taking damage results in Skif closing his backpack, so I can only recommend having Psyblock in one of the quickslots ready or using the Moderate balance version, which disables Psy-aura damage. I'll consider changing this up in future updates.

DEVASTATING PSY-STRIKES

They now actually hurt!

Much lower cooldown, depending on the version (12s -> 5. 5-6. 5s).

When a Controller launches its PSY strike:

- Knocks the player off their feet upon successful hits

(Credits to nov1chok and his mod that inspired me to tweak Controllers further; check out his AI overhaul as well!).

- Causes severe disorientation through input disruption for 8s.

- Applies inertia-based camera effects for the same duration.

Overall, the cooldowns of most abilities are considerably lower.

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☢️ BALANCE OPTIONS ☢️

Main file contains all three options.

VeryHard (zzzzz_Lore_Accurate_Controllers_LAC_VeryHard_P.pak)

For those who want the new mechanics while maintaining the need for high penetration weapons + AP ammo.