Vanilla

Published by Whipper_snapper1

ModMaker Download Code 8120

Revision 21, published October 19, 2025, 9:57 pm

1. All equipment have the same bonus 2. All ultra rares do max damage 3. No shotgun delay 4. Reegar is nerfed 5. Cain trip mine is nerfed

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Extended Mod Description

EXPLANATION

1) So this game is extremely gear dependent and with the store being what it is it's kinda hard to stay topped up on the highest level gear, especially shotgun rail amps. So now all gear regardless of level give the same bonus. Effectively what this does is MASSIVELY increase your stock of good gear amps. Very helpful for new(ish) players. In short level 1=level 3/4 depending on that respective gear's max level, i.e. rail amps top out at 3 cyclonic at 4 etc.

2) Again another help for new(ish) players since they don't have maxed out ultra rare weapons. Now they do max damage for that weapon regardless of level. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it truly equal across the board. Damage is the same, but weight and reserve ammo remain unchanged. Still this drastically reduces the RNG pain of the store, like the last change.

3) This change is a pretty much a necessity and is considered a patch by most. It removes this weird delay where your shotgun is .1s off from when you shoot. It doesn't sound like much and it most of the time it isn't but on the Crusader it messes up your aim quite often.

4) Now this change is probably the most controversial in my mod/patch but it had to be done. The Reegar Carbine benefits from this bug where your rate of fire is tied to your frame rate. So on console, which I dare say should be the reference, the frame rate is 30. But on PC the frame rate is 60. Essentially what this means is this gun does DOUBLE damage on PC. Stack that on top of Incendiary ammo cheese and you have a hilariously broken weapon. So I felt a 30% damage nerf was justified to bring it down back to Earth. Although honestly you could justify it getting nerfed even more. Remember how I said it does 2x console damage on PC? Well with this 30% nerf it is still doing 1.4x console damage on PC. The only reason I didn't nerf it even further is because of the way armor damage reduction works in this game. Basically you really don't want to reduce a gun to less than 50 damage per bullet/pellet so 30% nerf is as far as I could go.

5) So this is probably the least consequential change out of my mod/patch. Since the Talon Merc is broken and most people don't ever play him because either A) They don't know/want to go through the hassle of fixing his key binds or B) Play on controller so they don't even have the option. But basically for the few of you that play this guy you know it had to be done. This character is the cheesiest no skill spammy spam spammer in the entire game no contest. It is unreal the cheese this guy can pull of if you completely ignore his niche crossbow powers and opt to instead just cheese and spam his mines all game like they are grenades. Disgusting game play absolutely no skill super annoying cheese. So with this mod/patch the arming delay is increased to 2 seconds, which is a 33% increase. And his max active mines is increased to 6, which is a 100% increase. In effect with these two changes his spam potential is DRASTICALLY reduced. So now you are more incentivized to use the trip mines as they were intended, as trip MINES not grenades. Or you might even consider using his other crossbow powers since you know he's the only character with a freakin crosbow lol

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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 v3
• Skip Splash Screen v4

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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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Genesis

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