Longer No Return Encounters
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📋 About This Mod
This mod extends the No Return encounter types to be more difficult and longer.
These are the changes:
Increased the number of waves to be proportional the the current encounter number, e.g.
If it's the first or second encounter, there will be 4 waves
If it's the third or fourth encounter, there will be 5 waves
If it's the fifth encounter, there will be 6 waves
Increased the number of enemies per wave to ~6 (this can vary based on enemy types, as some count as multiple enemies).
Increased the timer length: Now calculated as (2:30 base value + encounter number 20 seconds), so:
First encounter: 1:30 -> 2:50
Second encounter: 1:45 -> 3:10
Fifth encounter: 2:30 -> 4:10
Increased number of enemies that can be alive at the same time
Made it so multiple enemies can spawn at once
Increased number of enemies: Now calculated as (20 base value + encounter number 5), so:
First encounter: 25 enemies (again, number might vary slightly due to different enemy types)
Second encounter: 30 enemies
Fifth encounter: 45 enemies
Increased number of enemies.
======== INSTALLATION ========
This mod requires the ndmodloader.
Simply put the "longer_no_return.psarc" file from the .zip archive in your mods folder.
======== NOTES ========
The UI for assault is currently slightly broken as the amount of bars is hardcoded to be 3. I'm not looking to change this as it's not a big deal and the numbers still work.
This mod modifies scripts in the game that might break on an update, if they do I'll try to fix them as soon as possible. Modifying scripts
also means there might be bugs that I didn't catch during testing, please let me know if you find any.
This mod also includes my "No Return Skip timers button", so you can press P to skip the countdowns at the beginning/end/in the middle of an encounter.
In rare cases (that I can't seem to consistently reproduce), you might experience a crash after a particularly long encounter. From my testing though,
this shouldn't happen with the values chosen in this mod. This is not actually a bug with the mod itself but something in the game that happens after
many kills/long encounters. If it happens to you, please comment here and let me know in detail what you were doing. Thanks.
This mod goes great together with my other mods that modify item limits/gun behavior, see a list below :)
======== SUPPORT ========
You can support my work on my Ko-fi. All my mods with always be free on day one. Thank you.
======== CHANGELOG ========
- 1. 1. 0 | Reduced the number of enemies in holdout to hopefully prevent crashes
- 1. 0. 0 | Release
======== MY OTHER MODS ========
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Thelastofuspart2 Mods
- Author
- DeepQuantum
- Version
- 1.2.0
- Downloads
- 2,624
- Endorsements
- 43
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 5/29/2025
- Updated
- 7/8/2025
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