Witcher 3 scaling enemies mod#

AI combat behavior was tweaked to make it more aggressive signs were rebalanced in terms of numbers, calculations and power to fix numerous issues with overpowered and useless skills combat is more dynamic and effects that stunlock your enemies have lesser duration to prevent infinite burning stunlock with Igni AI stamina management was also reworked, so all AI actions now have stamina cost and you can now actually cause human opponents to run out of stamina overall stamina management was reworked: all combat actions now pause stamina regeneration, even if an action itself has no stamina cost casting a sign has a small delay before stamina starts regenerating, alternative sign casting has bigger delay a chance that getting hit won't interrupt your current combat action: medium armor chances are very low, while heavy armor chances are considerably bigger

medium and heavy armors now grant a chance to keep balance when hit, i.e. being over encumbered adds severe penalties to sprinting, rolling and dodging actions, depending on how big your over encumbrance is medium and heavy armors have stamina penalties for certain combat actions per piece: medium - for sprinting and rolling, heavy - for sprinting, rolling and dodging armor value still depends on armor level like in vanilla and it's now more meaningful because of its considerably bigger effect on damage taken player armor classes were redone, so light armor has smaller resistances, medium armor has average resistances and heavy armor has bigger resistances to all types of damage enemies have better chances do dodge strong attacks, overall AI handling of dodging was improved, making it more consistent, an ability to dodge different types of attack differs depending on enemy type enemy types are more distinct in terms of armor and resistances, some enemies are very hard to deal with using light attacks only, because light attacks won't be able to penetrate their armor strong attacks deal 25% more damage and have +200 armor penetration bonus, as a result strong attacks always hit considerably harder To complement this change a set of other modifications was introduced: This works both sides, so higher difficulties enemy attack bonuses don't render armor value useless.

Witcher 3 scaling enemies mod#

New damage formula was implemented in the mod to fix the snowballing problem: you now need to penetrate enemy armor first for your attack power bonuses to start taking effect. And it also results in useless skills (like strong attacks), upgrades (like armor penetration) and item stats (like armor value). An issue with vanilla formula is that there's nothing that can counter damage increase from attack power: bigger sword damage multiplied by bigger attack power results in fast snowballing into massive damage dealt to any enemy in the game. How damage is calculated affects all the other combat related gameplay aspects: from weapons and armors to skills and bonuses. Starting from another overhaul mod is not recommended, especially if the mod changes skill tree and/or experience curve - this will result in broken skills and leveling. Starting from existing vanilla save is possible, but some of your equipment might get weird stats after installing the mod (newly found/crafted equipment will have proper stats). Starting a new game is highly recommended both to avoid problems and to get used to mod changes. The mod supports all DLCs, but doesn't require them to function properly.

Large portion of the mod is dedicated to resolving these issues: fixing bugged skills and items, providing better descriptions, tweaking useless and overpowered skills and items to be more balanced, changing loot so dimeritium plate can no longer be found inside poor peasant's shack, etc. Vanilla game has lots and lots of gameplay issues: skills not working as intended or not working at all, descriptions being wrong, decoctions not doing what they're supposed to do, quest levels and experience being weirdly distributed, etc. The mod aims to create more challenging and balanced experience, while not deviating too far from vanilla system and principles, i.e. Ghost Mode is an overhaul mod which changes almost every aspect of gameplay: from combat and damage to loot and economy.