Rain Rebalance: 8-Man Squad-Size Changes

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Author: Rather Incoherent

Last revision: 23 Sep, 2023 at 10:39 UTC (1)

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Description:

This is the core set of changes required to run an 8-man squad-size campaign in Covert Infiltration. It goes a fair bit further than that, though.

1. Changed squad size in CI for all mission types to 8.
2. Changed infiltration penalties to be proportional.
3. Increased Living Space from 30/40/50 to 35/50/60 to accomodate for 33% larger squads.
4. Increased starting troops from 16 to 26 to accommodate for larger squads.
5. Set Leviathan Squad Size to 10 (12 with the Riftkeeper teleport item)
6. Tuned DABFL to frontload 1 guaranteed additional enemy in every pod from FL1.
7. 5% additional chance for an enemy per FL, capping out at 3 50% chances at FL20.
8. I’ve buffed the hp of all Rulers and Chosen by 20 to 30 %
9. Changed DEZ to let the pods stay slightly further forward, and to spread them out further left and right. Hopefully this (combined with Yellow Alert Lite’s reimplemented downthrottling) will avoid quite so many whole map brawls.
10. Removed the Recruiting Centers order as it was too powerful.

Included in the Preview Images is a link to a far too long video explaining all 4 of the Rain Rebalance mods I’ve just released, with timestamps for each specific submod.

The requirements for this mod are Soft Requirements. Without them, the changes won’t be made, which may or may not be a bad thing for you. However, the game should still run just fine.

Without CI This mod is basically just a DABFL setting to increase enemy counts and Waterworld Squad Size configuration. That is still useful if you’re running without CI, but you’ll need to set starting squad size to 6 with Robojumper’s Squad Select in MCM.

Retaliation Configurator, to include more civilians on Terror Missions (since there will be more enemies).

WotCStrategyOverhaul for Covert Infiltration and Living Space
RedDobe for Dynamic Encounter Zones
H4ilst0rm for Diverse Aliens By Force Level
Shiremct for Proficiency Class Pack and its plugins
MrCloista for PCP Combat Engineers, PCP Field Supports, and Laser Sparks
Rusty Dios for Leviathan Extended

Anyone is free to use any part of my mod in their own works, just be sure to give credit to myself and the original mod author’s where it’s appropriate.