Diamond Difficulty

Published by neocodex

ModMaker Download Code 1831

Revision 20, published February 16, 2017, 8:04 am

Platinum too easy? Try this. 10 enemies on field with rebalanced stats and some tweaks, custom spawnlists and completely rebalanced weaker weapons. This is a complete mod. Click for more details.

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Extended Mod Description

This is a completely finished mod for platinum setting only.

Difficulty: Platinum 1.5

Enemy stats are redesigned to give them more flavor, and most have different attacks and behavior.

Spawnlists are completely custom, there are different and unique enemies every wave.

Some annoying things like Geth have been rebalanced to make them less frustrating to play against.

Full changelog of weapon rebalance and other information here: pastebin.com/fQUCA1Ba

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Changelogs

Minor updates

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Wave compositions

Hover over each cell in the table to view the wave composition. Cells labelled as BAD indicate clients will not be able to see at least one of the enemies. Cells with stripes indicate that the wave was modified since Genesis.

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Pay Table

Time bonuses are scaled down after a certain threshhold for each objective is hit. Complete objectives quickly to get the full bonus.

Pay table
Difficulty/Task	Wave 3	Wave 6	Wave 10	Extraction	Total
Platinum Objectives	18000	42000	60000	15000	~165000
Platinum Time Bonuses	4500	10500	15000	N/A

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Enemy Costs and Wave Budgets

Enemy Unit Costs
Assault Trooper	10	Cannibal	10
Centurion	20	Marauder	20
Engineer	30	Brute	50
Nemesis	30	Husk	10
Guardian	30	Ravager	40
Dragoon	50	Banshee	100
Phantom	75	Collector Trooper	20
Atlas	100	Collector Captain	30
Geth Trooper	10	Abomination	5
Rocket Trooper	30	Scion	75
Geth Hunter	30	Praetorian	100
Geth Pyro	30	Original Atlas	100
Geth Bomber	30	Original Geth Pyro	40
Geth Prime	100	Original Cannibal	35
Original Marauder	100	Original Banshee	100
Original Geth Prime	100	Original Phantom	80

Wave Budget Table
Difficulty	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Platinum	1100	1190	∞	1370	1460	∞	1640	1730	1820	∞	2000

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Recommended MixIns

The author of this mod has specified that the following MixIns are advertised for installation when the mod is downloaded.

• 1 Vote Kick v1
• Bugfix - Maelstrom - Ammo Respawns v3
• Bugfix - Neptune - Grenades Respawn v3
• Lobby - Extra Maps v1
• Reactor Hazard - Auto Venting v1
• Realistic Gravity - Reactor Hazard v3
• Sabotage - Extending Hack v1
• Sabotage - Hack All Enemies v1
• Shotguns - No Firing Latency v1
• Singularity - Allow Players In Field v2
• Skip Splash Screen v2
• Sniper Rifles - No NoScope Penalty v1

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Dynamic MixIns

The author of this mod has configured the following Dynamic MixIns:

• Krysae - Damage Radius: 175
• Scorpion - Proximity Radius: 265
• Scorpion - Stick Explosion Delay: 1.5
• Striker Assault Rifle - Explosion Damage Radius: 100
• Ravager - Movement Speed: 250
• Ravager Cannon - Max Speed: 10000
• Ravager Cannon - Spawn Speed: 10000
• Swarmer - Movement Speed: 200
• Husk - Movement Speed: 500
• Scion MP - Grenade Bounciness: 0.5
• BioPawn - Max Body Count: 10
• Phantom - Movement Speed: 450
• Phantom - Ragdoll Air Recovery Delay: 1
• Original Atlas - Movement Speed: 150
• Reactor Hazard - Reactor Damage per Second: 5000
• Geth Plasma SMG - Ramped Damage Multiplier: 4
• Atlas - Movement Speed: 200
• Original Phantom - Movement Speed: 600
• Centurion - Movement Speed: 300
• Disciple - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 1.25x, Armor: 0.75x, Biotic: 1.5x
• Krysae - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 0.35x, Armor: 0.55x, Biotic: 0.45x
• Tempest - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 1.3x, Armor: 1x, Biotic: 1.2x
• Hurricane - Create unique damage type N7Hurricane
• Raptor - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 0.5x, Armor: 0.2x, Biotic: 0.4x
• Raptor - Create unique damage type Raptor_SniperRifle
• Indra - Create unique damage type Indra_Sniper_Rifle
• Incisor - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 1.75x, Armor: 1x, Biotic: 1.35x
• N7 Piranha - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 1.25x, Armor: 0.75x, Biotic: 1.25x
• Piranha - Create unique damage type Piranha
• Striker - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 0.9x, Armor: 0.5x, Biotic: 0.7x
• Venom - Blast TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 0.5x, Armor: 1.6x, Biotic: 0.8x
• Venom - Grenades TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 0.8x, Armor: 0.3x, Biotic: 0.5x
• Shuriken - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 1.75x, Armor: 1x, Biotic: 1.5x
• Shuriken - Create unique damage type M4Shuriken (break inherance)
• Saber - TYPE Damage Multiplier - Shield: 0.5x, Armor: 0.8x, Biotic: 0.65x
• Valkyrie - Create unique damage type N7_AR
• Read from configuration files: SFXDamageType->Resistance property

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Required DLC

This mod requires the following DLC to install:

• Resurgence
• Rebellion
• Earth
• Retaliation
• Reckoning
• Mass Effect 3 MP Balance Changes Patch 2 (PATCH2)
• Binkw32 DLC Bypass (ASI Version) + Balance Changes Replacer ASI

MixIns may require additional DLC. They are not required but are strongly recommended as the mod will not behave as designed without them.

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Fork tree

Genesis
|>Balance Tweak Booster (by neocodex)

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Published mods that directly forked from this mod

• Nightmare Mod
• Platinum Extreme