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Significant Overhaul of Gears 5's AI and Difficulty

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Apparently.. Gears 5 is modifiable!
~ How long until the devs patch it? Dunno. ~
So enjoy it while it lasts!

Quick Warning: Gears 5 has anti-cheat. I think public/private lobbies are safe but maybe stay away from matchmaking with my modded files active.

Brief rundown of the overhaul:
~ Most of these changes are ONLY visible in Campaign/MP LAN lobbies ~
- For example: in private MP lobby, bots are barely any better.. in LAN MP lobby, they are God-like.

~ You can edit the text files to make your own changes to this mod (scroll to bottom) ~

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GENERAL:
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Friendly/Enemy AI across all modes..
- Shoot more often, accurately and further away
- Move frequently and evade often (especially MP Bots)
- Mantle kick/grapple more often (may even knife kill you)
- Reduced delay in reviving allies and executing enemies

Heavy Enemies like Boomers, Scions, DR-1s..
- Now sprint, melee charge and shoot while moving (run for your life!)
- Shoot more often, accurately and further away

Small Enemies like Juvies and other crawlers..
- Move faster and more aggressive
- Juvies spawn in varying sizes now! (Mini Juvies up to Extra Large)

Faster Startup
- Removed the Microsoft Studios launch video

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CAMPAIGN:
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Changes to difficulty..
- All previously mentioned AI changes make the game more difficult
- Friendly AI deals consistent damage across all difficulties (nearly as good as having co-op partner)

AI Weapon Swapping
- Squad and Enemies will pickup weapons from floor (a little buggy)

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VERSUS:
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MP Bots Overhaul
- Bot Characters have been swapped in LAN Lobby
- Aggressive and deadly with weapons (you'll lose your head!)
- Very agile and evasive of enemy gunfire

Game Mode changes
- Horde/Horde Frenzy now replace Arcade Blitz/Arcade Deathmatch (Why? Read HORDE changes below)
- Warzone is now TDM with endless amount of lives.. it never ends until the time limit
- (Supposedly) Custom lobbies grant same EXP as a regular lobby

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HORDE:
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Horde is now compatible with the mod (thanks to bslayer)
- To play Horde with mod, start a Versus game of Arcade Blitz (LAN)
- To play Horde Frenzy with mod, start a Versus game of Arcade Deathmatch (LAN) 

Friendly Bots Overhaul
- Now have full weapon loadouts and character skins
- More Agile/More Aggressive/More Accurate

A few drawbacks..
- Horde LAN cannot change difficulty.. By default it's similar to Hardcore
- Spawn as Robotics Expert (summons robot with minigun) but with custom upgrade choices

...Probably a few other things I forgot... Many changes untested... I'm sure I broke something


INSTALL:
Copy config/content folders to your Gears5/GearGame directory, overwrite the files.. (maybe save backups?)
The config folder has all the text files, feel free to edit them to your heart's content :)

(Not compatible with bslayer's Horde mod)

Self-Modding:
Simply edit the .json or .ini files included in my mod.
Parameters like damage and a few others cannot be modified in online lobbies. You need to be offline/LAN to notice a difference.

If Gears 5 updates then mod is broken.
To fix, find unmodded GearGame.b2index in your game folder \Gears5\GearGame\Content\B2
(you probably need vanilla b2index file so if you only have modded one then delete it and re-verify your game)

Place b2index in a hex editor (like HxD)

Search file for each .json and .ini included in mod by name and replace the
first letter. i.e. DefaultGame.ini replaced with XefaultGame.ini and save.
OR
Use quickbms and custom ue4 scripts (find the gears 5 script) to extract b2index and start your own mod
with fresh .ini and .json files, following steps from above.