Legion Initiative: Part 1 – Hard Contact

A curated, grounded overhaul that turns Door Kickers 2 into a slower, more punishing tactical experience with stronger suppression, harsher damage, and a grounded audiovisual overhaul.

Future features are in development and will be added over time.
Follow development here

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Legion Initiative is a overhaul to Door Kickers 2 aimed to increase player immersion.

It is for players who:

• Are seeking an easy set up, go to mod framework without the extra debugging, testing, or curation
• Are seeking immersive campaigns, purpose built for growth with one unit
• Are seeking for a fresh, polished shine upon door kicker’s mechanics, visuals, audio, and UI
• Are seeking for a more hardcore door kickers gameplay experience with less forgiving combat, encouraging deliberate fire suppression and maneuver tactics with longer and extended gunfights
• Are seeking to control larger tactical operations on the platoon level

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This project is in Phase 1 (Pre-Alpha)
What you are playing now is a prototype direction, not the final experience.

• Containing placeholder elements
• With a focus on alignment, tone, and laying a foundation for deliberate tactical gameplay
• Bugs, inconsistencies, errors, and crashes may be encountered
• …and is subject to change

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• Mod Loader:
  • Loads mods from the Hardcore Tactical Framework into a cohesive experience
• Audio Changes:
  • OST replacement
    • Replaces the soundtrack to better match tone and pacing
    • Currently replaced with Low Pass EQ’d scores from Dune, Modern Warfare 2019, XCOM, Sicario, and more
  • Integrations to silenced Comms Check Voicelines and other actions
  • Using dependencies, replaces friendly and enemy voices from the games Insurgency 2014 and Insurgency Sandstorm.
• Visual and UI Refinement:
  • Removes Social Media icons
  • Presents a cleaner and more subdued main menu
  • Night Visuals:
    • Removes green lasers from most primary weapons when operating at night
    • Outside the tube, NVG shine is vastly dimmer
    • Using dependencies, replaces the UI with Deluke’s UI Overhaul and other tweaks and integrations
  • Grenade & Explosive Visuals:
    • Handhelds and explosives now have a hidden blast radius
    • Grenades no longer blink red
      • (Watch for Realistic Grenades and Explosives & Backblast!)
    • Grenades now kick up half a second of smoke and dust
• Balancing Tweaks:
  • Increased consequences upon being hit
  • Increased effectiveness of cover
  • Doctrines progress more slowly now, earning only 1 per squad level as well as some are now locked behind squad levels
  • The Mission is everything: XP gains have been changed, only increasing and decreasing based on mission performance
• Gameplay Tweaks:
  • Deliberate Pacing:
    • Doors and entry points open significantly slower when using mechanical means
    • Turning speed is slower
    • Interactions, breaching, and utility usage have been slowed down
    • Being suppressed and shocked have greater thresholds lasting longer
  • Dangerous Combat:
    • Projectiles now go through all doors
    • Both your units and all enemy units can now use suppression
    • Suppression is more focused and effective (both ways), with high penalties on seeing nearly allies hit (morale)
  • FOV has been increased
  • Enemy grenades now reflect Rake5000’s Realistic Grenades and Explosives. (yeah, be careful!)
  • Grenades have a larger radius of 15m as well as a stronger concussive factor
  • HVT’s, Civilians, and VIP’s are more skittish once threatened

  …and much more…

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  You must have all parts of the mod:
  Legion Initiative Steam Collection

  It is important to follow these steps exactly for the intended experience:
  Installation Video Tutorial

  Written Instructions:

  • Step 1. Subscribe to all mods within the Legion Initiative Steam Collection
  • Step 2. Navigate to your mods menu in game (bottom right) and disable all mods
  • Step 3. Enable Legion Initiative: Operations (to load dependencies)
  • Step 4. Enable Legion Initiative: Hard Contact (to load dependencies)
  • Step 5. Ensure Hard Contact, Units & Operations, and War Tapes Redux are loaded last
  • Step 6. Restart your game

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  Legion Initiative does not reupload or redistribute other’s work.
  All original content remains the property of its respective creators.