FtyCombat

Description

The goal of this project is to create stamina-based combat, but unlike other Souls-like or stamina-based mods, it encourages you not to run away from enemies and wait passively when your stamina runs out. Instead, it promotes aggressive play and the use of the full Witcher arsenal rather than simply spamming light attacks.

Core Changes:

- Attacks, dodges, rolls, parries, counterattacks, and Signs use configurable stamina. Perfect parries and counterattacks do not drain stamina.

- You can now perfect block most attacks by pressing guard shortly before the attack lands even when in another combat or non combat animation, even custom animations should work although I only partly tested with Complete Animations Redux. The timing window is configurable.

-  A well-timed guard costs no stamina, prevents damage, and staggers the attacker. When your stamina is below 40%, a perfect block also restores stamina.

- To encourage less repetitive combat, performing the same action twice in a row applies a stamina penalty. For example, a second consecutive light attack, heavy attack, or cast of the same Sign costs twice as much stamina. Using a different type of attack, casting a different Sign, rolling, dodging, or parrying breaks the streak and removes the penalty. This feature can be turned off.

- To promote more aggressive combat, I added a Lies of P-inspired health regain system. When Geralt takes damage, the player has 2 seconds to regain up to 25% of the lost health by landing attacks or performing perfect blocks.

- The longer the player goes without performing one of these actions, the less health can be recovered. After the 2-second window expires, no health can be regained. A light or heavy attack that pays any repeated-action stamina penalty, will not restore health.

- Enemies have a poise system. Perfect blocks and counterattacks reduce enemy poise. Enemy poise scales with level difference by ±5% for each level, and enemies begin regenerating poise if they have not taken damage or been perfect blocked for 8 seconds. Enemies affected by Axii take 50% more poise damage. When an enemy runs out of poise, they are stunned for 6 seconds. Hitting a poise-broken enemy during this stun deals 350% damage, capped at 25% of maximum health for bosses. Landing the hit ends the stun and resets the enemy's poise.

- Some skills have been changed to improve parries and counterattacks, mainly skills that become less useful with this playstyle.

- When you enter combat, you gain one-time-per-combat buffs for relatively underused actions to encourage more combat diversity.

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Work is still in progress. Please endorse the mod if you like it. Videos of your cool gameplay are also welcome. You can give your feedback at posts. 

Unparriable attack list:

- all specters outside of Yrden

• All unparryable attacks on this list are intentional. If you find an unparryable attack that is not listed here, or if you would like to suggest adding an attack to this list for gameplay, aesthetic, or logical reasons, please create a post.

One-time-per-combat buffs:

[]Heavy attack: +10% damage[/]

[]Crossbow: +30% damage (only on the first fired bolt)[/]

[]Igni: +7% damage[/]

[]Aard: +25% damage[/]

[]Yrden: +15% duration[/]

[*]Axii: +10% stun or control duration

Skill Changes:

Muscle Memory

In addition to the vanilla buff:

Now also includes counterattacks and perfect blocks.

Three Strikes

Rank 1:

In addition to the vanilla buff:

Consecutive light or heavy attacks of the same type cost 25% more stamina on attacks 3 and 4, then double from attack 5 onward, as opposed to costing x2 from the second attack. (Only affects players who have double stamina cost for repeated actions enabled.)

Rank 2:

Consecutive light or heavy attacks of the same type have no penalty through attack 3, cost 25% more stamina on attack 4, then double from attack 5 onward, as opposed to costing x2 from the second attack. (Only affects players who have double stamina cost for repeated actions enabled.)

Rank 3:

For light and heavy attacks, the stamina cost penalty begins on the fourth consecutive attack of the same type instead of the second. (Only affects players who have double stamina cost for repeated action