Insanity Rework

Published by KryoTronic

ModMaker Download Code 8280

Revision 1, published December 25, 2025, 12:16 am

The Purpose of this Mod is to remove how Bullet Spongey Enemies are in Insanity.

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Extended Mod Description

It may sound ridiculous but I am working on yet another playthrough of the series. As soon as I got to ME3 (played on Insanity on both 1 and 2), I was immediately annoyed (on Pavalen), at how spongey all the enemies were. I had to cheese the hell out of that mission and try over and over, it was super annoying and un fun.

Health, Armor, Shields and Barriers have all been reduced on every enemy in Singleplayer on the Insanity Difficulty. Shield/Barrier recharges have been adjusted for all enemies as well, including while possessed. For the most part I believe it will be decently balanced though this is a first pass.

Some small changes have been made to the player and squad mates such as 1 second invulnerability when being revived. The "survivalability" window has been changed a tad as well. Shield/Barrier recharges a bit slower as well.

Being in or out of cover does not adjust the damage dealt to the player or enemies.

To make the enemies a bit harder since their effective HP has been changed, they are able to recharge all barriers/shields to 100% but their recharges and cooldowns have been adjusted quite heavily. The idea being that once you drop those shields you have a window to take them down just as in vanilla. Though with the full recharge I believe it will be much more important to focus fire on enemies and be more strategic with your strikes.

Powers are no longer instant for Squadmates which I may revert however with the health pools being adjust to better reflect the players health (for humaniods) I figure that we need a little more tact when utilizing your team as with the previous games. I could be remembering wrong because I put the game down for 6 months or so after the Pavalen massacre, but I swore the squadmates always had to cast and could even be interrupted in ME1 & 2.

Armor damage mitigation has been changed from 50 to 75. The idea behind this is to make the heavier hitting weapons specifically much better or necessary to take down armored units. Obviously their are powers which (have not been touched) that likely will destroy the armor at these lower values, but that's kinda the point of the power fantasy imho. I always felt that powers weren't as affective as they should be and thus always played Soldier... I know I am lame, sorry haha I was slightly inspired by Arc Raiders for this change as in a penetration type value for armor damage, though obviously it doesn't work the same it should have a similar affect and give shotguns, snipers and heavy rifles/pistols more of a edge against armor where as lower damage and faster firing weapons should absolutely destroy HP/Shields and barriers much quicker with the lower values. Idk, hopefully this makes me choose different guns more though maybe I won't, but that's my lengthy theory. Idk how this mod is gonna go or if I am gonna update it, hell I don't even know if it will run on my heavily modded SP save... but lets send it anyways rofl

If the playthrough goes great then I will update this description to be more accurate. If it goes terribly then I will be editing the entire thing and testing and thus will have to update this description as it will likely be outdated quick.

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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.

• Abomination - Explosion DoT All v3
• All SFXPawns Can Gib v4
• Atlas - Any Range Smoke v3
• Atlas2 - Any Range Smoke v3
• Attacks Pets - Banshee v4
• Attacks Pets - Brute v4
• Attacks Pets - Ravager v4
• Enemy Weapons Can Penetrate v4
• Engineer - No Turret Suicide v3
• Engineer - Repair Any Armor v3
• Engineer - Repair Anybody v3
• Everything Can Be Meleed v4
• Everything Can Be Synced 1 v4
• Everything Can Be Synced 2 v4
• No Instant Power Use v4
• Sniper Rifles - No NoScope Penalty v4

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Required DLC

This mod requires the following DLC to install:

• Resurgence
• Rebellion
• Retaliation
• Reckoning
• Mass Effect 3 MP Balance Changes Patch 2 (PATCH2)
• Omega
• Citadel
• 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

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