Wotan International
Wotan International is a vanilla-style mod consisting mostly of vanilla assets, with minimal retexturing and added models. It adds a full PMC-style unit, with custom doctrine, shooting patterns, names, and ammunition to the game. It is somewhere between Rangers and CIA in playstyle, though you do get some half-price troopers and shields a la SWAT.
Fully Custom Doctrine Tree:
Wotan International features a completely new doctrine tree that tries to minimally borrow from vanilla doctrines. While some nodes are the same (mostly relating to special abilities like language), the amount of filler in shooting doctrines is reduced. The amount of straight upgrades in shooting doctrine is reduced, to generally one per level. Each shooting/weapons doctrine node should have a real impact in how the guns feel, as opposed to incremental changes characteristic of some vanilla units.
Vanilla Weapons; Reimagined:
One purpose of the mod was to shine light and make useful some weapons that see little to no use in the base game and remix them into a unit that makes them fun to use and play, while mostly sticking to vanilla balance. Overshadowed weapons like the MP5K-PDW and AR-M14SF can be your bread and butter in Wotan, whereas overrepresented weapons like the M4 are absent. Wotan also adds some enemy weapons, reworked with proper player attacktypes and configured to take customization properly. The SR-3M can now take suppressors and properly placed optics, giving you a powerful alternative to the .300 Blackout rifles of vanilla.
No crazy aimtimes or damage stats here, most weapons are balanced to have attacktypes that are about the same as the base game. However Wotan operatives do prefer to use full auto more, with some doctrines which can increase that.
Unique Utility Feel:
Most Wotan operatives don’t carry frag grenades or other similarly lethal ordnance, being a PMC, not a state military or paramilitary. They also don’t carry crowbars, eliminating the unrealistically easy option to breach every door. Lockpicks, slap charges, and new custom wall charges will be more important with this change to utility.
Some textures and models courtesy of D Boy, AnthonyNonStop, and Eladorn. Additional modeling and texture spport by Levan.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
