Deadly Effective - Minimal Skills Overhaul

Design Concept

Deadly Effective is designed around Synergies - playstyles opened up by the improvements to perks.

• Do you want to use automatic weapons and slowly overcome their downsides?

• Do you want to use highly accurate energy weapons to lay down consistent fire?

• Or do you want to just blitz into a room and clear hostiles in moments?

All these and more are available in the early game - as long as skills are chosen wisely.

Later skills build upon these playstyles to keep combat fresh and allow for deep specialization.

Skill Overhauls

Tier One

Ballistics is now Neutralisation - It focuses on semi-automatic carbines but also buffs pistols and shotguns at higher investment.

Lasers is now Focus - A broader discipline that covers all energy weapons in the game. It leverages their accuracy and fire rate to deliver devastating barrages at any range.

Dueling is now Evasion - It is designed to make all CQC playstyles viable even at higher difficulties with powerful damage mitigation abilities.

Pistol Certification has been modified heavily to encourage a more swashbuckling, daring playstyle. Gunslingers can manipulate enemy health to their advantage, making them a deadly force in tight quarters.

Shotgun Certification now focuses heavily on the strengths of shotguns and their ability to clear rooms and cripple foes with terrifying effectiveness.

Boxing now focuses more on the fundamentals of CQC such as footwork and offensive evasion. Skilled Boxers can trip enemies or dodge blows in close combat.

Tier Two

Rifle Certification is now Suppression - Allowing automatic fire to be laid down more easily and to devastating effect.

Particle Beams is replaced by Efficiency - the concept being that a savvy technician can squeeze enormous efficiency out of initially underperforming weapons.

Incapacitation now differentiates between organic and inorganic targets and can instantly KO at higher levels.

Isolation no longer offers flat combat bonuses, with higher levels offering Stealth bonuses and even allowing solo combatants to strike Fear into enemies.

Tier Three

Rapid Reloading is now Weapon Handling. Experts in this discipline can wield all weapons efficiently and are less encumbered in combat.

Skill Challenges

A majority of vanilla perks are now altered in some way.

Some of the most tedious or bland vanilla skill challenges have been changed for variety and immersion.

Configuration

Hardcore Mode

Enabled by default. Note: It is recommended to disable Hardcore Mode if using DE with other economy mods or survival systems.