ME3 Melee support mod

Published by bigalknox

ModMaker Download Code 4642

Revision 19, published December 19, 2017, 8:40 am

this mod is designed to increase the effectiveness of melee in higher difficulties by improving damage and area of effect on attacks, reducing sycn kill chance, and improving some power ranges.

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Extended Mod Description

melee builds are fun but tragically impractical. despite melee itself having a disadvantage of requiring you to be close, the default game doubly punishes melee builds with sync kills, requiring the choice between melee damage and health, and poor dps compared to most power and weapon focused builds. This mod roughly doubles the damage of the light melee attacks of the various melee specialist characters and improves the range of close range powers significantly.heavy melee's have been massively strengthened in order to act like high risk high damage grenades (about 2000 to 2500 damage depending). I've played around with it on gold and platinum and while it does make melee a lot better it doesn't make it any less risky, just more rewarding .It also raises the limits on enemies hit at once for most melee attacks and close range powers. it doesn't do much to make melee builds more durable but hopefully it will make playing on gold and platinum more fun. it frees you from worrying about damage boosting equipment by giving a constant power boost. note that sycn kills have their chance reduced to 1% depending on enemy and difficulty but are not removed. collector enemies are unmodified if you ever want to challenge yourself. also improves power damage resistance from fortification barrier etc in order to account for actual damage resistance being about 70% of the listed value. so using them grants the actual resistance they were supposed to. exp- tech armor maxed for resistance gives 75% which after the .70 modifier becomes 50%. this gives a slight boost to class durability but it isn't very noticeable.
balanced vs a GI with a javelin 2 (maxed mods and lvl 3 booster) without using the mines damage bonus. compared to any well built infiltrator with a sniper damage is similar but area of effect on heavy melee's is better. this is counterbalanced by the natural risks of melee. sniping will still do much more damage if debuffs like warp or mines are used or maxed weapons taken into account.
-also undoes power combo and tac cloak nerfs

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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
Bronze Objectives	1875	4375	6250	1675	~17301
Bronze Time Bonuses	469	1094	1563	N/A
Silver Objectives	3750	8750	12500	3125	~34376
Silver Time Bonuses	938	2188	3125	N/A
Gold Objectives	9000	21000	30000	7500	~82500
Gold Time Bonuses	2250	5250	7500	N/A
Platinum Objectives	16500	38500	55000	13750	~151250
Platinum Time Bonuses	4125	9625	13750	N/A

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Enemy Costs and Wave Budgets

Enemy Unit Costs
Assault Trooper	20	Cannibal	25
Centurion	30	Marauder	35
Engineer	40	Brute	70
Nemesis	40	Husk	10
Guardian	40	Ravager	60
Dragoon	70	Banshee	100
Phantom	80	Collector Trooper	25
Atlas	100	Collector Captain	35
Geth Trooper	20	Abomination	40
Rocket Trooper	40	Scion	75
Geth Hunter	40	Praetorian	120
Geth Pyro	40	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
Bronze	240	271	∞	333	364	∞	426	457	488	∞	550
Silver	400	460	∞	580	640	∞	760	820	880	∞	1000
Gold	600	720	∞	960	1080	∞	1320	1440	1560	∞	1800
Platinum	900	1010	∞	1230	1340	∞	1560	1670	1780	∞	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.

• Shotguns - No Firing Latency v1
• Sniper Rifles - No NoScope Penalty v2

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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)
• Omega
• 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

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