Enemies Evolve!
Credits go to https://steamcommunity.com/id/ivangr Mnementh who created the original implementation of the mod below.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3010501248&searchtext=level+up
Tired of building only the aoe weapons/defenses?
Do you want to feel like your base is actually under threat?
You came to the right place!
This mods adds distinct evolutions and custom Lua coding when the game attacks you.
They work together so that the examples below happen.
Example 1:
The game thinks you deserve a 160 Skarabei attack wave.
This mod realizes that is more than 150, and evolves all the Skarabei units into Poisonous Skarabei.
Because Poisonous Skarabei are stronger, the game only thinks you deserve 80 if them.
Example 2:
The game thinks you deserve a 1000 Skarabei attack wave.
(This can occur on high difficulty/moon games)
This mod realizes that is more than 150, and evolves the Skarabei into Poisonous Skarabei.
Because they are stronger, the game only thinks you deserve 620 of them.
This mod again realizes that’s more than 150, and evolves them again (and again, and again if needed)
This mod will evolve until the # of units in the attack wave stay under 150 by default.
But you can set the max # allowed in an attack wave based on what you think your PC can handle
Special notes:
Note #1. The base unit/species will always be respected.
If the game thinks you deserve a Skarabei attack, you will only get Skarabei.
This mod does not evolve Skarabei into Juno, or any other variation.
Note #2. Each evolution is the same strength jump from a Shrieker Hatchling to a Shrieker Broodmother.
Tier 5/6 units are intended to be unfair and base killers.
They are intnded to be base killers, and I have no qualms making higher tiers that are even more unfair.
Tamed animals have:
1. Eat less food per day
1. Have higher pregnancy chances
2. Lower gestation periods
3. Give birth to their evolutions
4. Will only breed to a species specific cap.
5. Be immediatly draftable with combat lvl 5
(training can still be done to improve their prowess)
This cap can be hard set via mod options, or based on the max attack size set.
Instead of just light/heavy bipedal and machine gun/laser crawlers, the Consortium has undergone a massive military overhaul.
There are now 8 unique classes, with each having 5 evolution tiers!
Those classes are scout, light assault, heavy assault, demo, forge, artillery, sprayer, & monk.
These classes are highly synergistic, and require a strategic response.
Do you target the Scout class first because they grants buffs to all robots that attack their target.
Or the mobile forges who increase enemy robot’s armor?
That will leave you open to the constant barrage fire of their artillery pieces though….
As enemies (Robot and Animal) evolve, their weapons and armor get more and more unique.
Skarabei will become near impenetrable to blunt & piercing weapons….
Glutches will smother their targets in gaseous fumes.
And the normal weapons/armor need a revamping to account for this.
The base game armors will now provide great protection against a specific damage type.
With enhanced carbon providing the best general defense.
This controversial armor editing can be disabled via a mod option, and all armors will give flat all defense stats based on their armor "tier".
What weapons and turrents also matter more, as equipping all your colonists with railguns will lead to bad time against a high tier Skarabei wave.
In general, this will raise the difficulty of your game.
And intends to shakeup the normal "Build a blast zone gap in the walls, and fill it with missiles/flamethrowers".
I’m trying to provide a natural end game threat to colonies.
So players who like to just survive can feel challenged after getting their base up and running.
And give some tools for players to respond approprietly to this increase in diffulty.
The above is my goal for this mod, and I plan to continue supporting it for the moderate-future.
When you find bugs in this mod (Or if you find this mod does not live up to its goals), you are more than welcome to:
1. Comment on the steam works
2. Comment on the Nexus Mods item
3. Open a Git issue at: Enemies Evolve git link[github.com]
If you want to translate this mod into another language, I am working to extract all my mods into this google sheet[docs.google.com].
(And include what version it was extracted from)
(Note EE currently is having "difficulties" exporting it’s translation tables, so it is not there yet ™)
A compatibility disclaimer
This mod is a combat & enemy overhaul mod.
I cannot garuntee thsi mod will play nice with other mods that add animals/equipments/weapons (Or edit the base game items/code).
As I learn of mods, I will do my best to make sure they play nice.
Other mods I have incorporated or made explicitly compatible:
Mnementh’s original Evolution mod
– This mod was the original inspiration for this, taking their mod to it’s logical conclusion.
Mnementh’s Pregnancy quota
– This mod’s feature is incorporated into EE via the mod option described in #2.
– It should not be used with EE, as the evolutions make quotas…. much harder to track via the way the pregnancy quota mod does it.
LukeH’s Gujo Egg Mod
– All Gujo evolutions can generate eggs
LukeH’s Milking Mod
– All Ulfen, Camel, & Noth evolutions can generate milk
Version: 5.03-269
