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Overhauls the general difficulty and loot of the level 55 and level 60 oil rigs, including chest and NPC loot, as well as blueprint odds!

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===Oil Rig Overhaul===
This mod is designed to be a general overhaul of the base-game oil rigs, with the goal being to address serious flaws in Pocket Pair's handling of the rigs, which feeds into other balance issues in the game. ORO greatly improves on these facilities/features, bringing them a bit more in line with the rest of the game, and making them far more useful. With this, the challenge remains without going way overboard and being miserable, while also being substantially more worth your time and ammo expenditure.


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===Features===
  • Overhauled Regular Chest Loot - Tired of getting small lotuses, piddly amounts of gold, and Large XP manuals that stopped being useful 20 levels ago? Now chests feature much more reasonable loot for this point in the game, such as XL XP Manuals, large lotuses, and greater quantities of gold and dog coins. On the level 60 oil rig in specific, you can even rarely find coveted training crystals and technique/skill books!
  • Enhanced Gold Chests - Loot in both the Level 60 and Level 55 oil rigs have been enhanced for these chests, giving more ancient cores, guaranteed trainings crystals, technique/skill books, and more balanced blueprint odds!
  • Reworked NPC Loot Drops - NPC loot is now reworked to include varying amounts of ammunition, appropriate for the weapon used. Rewards are greater on the level 60 oil rig, thanks to the tougher challenge. You'll also notice increased drops of gold and oil. Crushers in particular even have a chance to drop dog coins!
  • Rebalanced NPCs - Many of the NPCs on the Level 60 oil rig in particular are just massive bullet sponges in the base-game, putting out heavy amounts of damage while you load rocket after rocket or waste multiple clips of gun ammo to take them out. With this mod, their HP is dropped drastically with damage adjusted to be a little less harsh in spots. Some have even been tuned to be slightly less frail over on the Level 55, or have traded HP for just a bit of extra damage.
  • Rebalanced NPC Pals - Just like the NPCs themselves, the Pals were a bit overboard. Most have received universal changes, remaining with a bit of extra HP and damage that feels reasonable. Knocklem in particular has been knocked down several pegs, no longer requiring half your arsenal to take down.
  • Weakened Attack Chopper - It's still death from above, but it won't take you quite as long to take out now, and it won't be quite as overpowered as before.

Mod Documentation: Oil Rig Overhaul - Documentation


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===Installation & Compatibility===

This mod requires PalSchema. If you haven't installed it yet, you can find the installation instructions here: PalSchema Installation Guide
To install this mod after PalSchema is installed, simply extract the mod folder and place it in PalSchema's "mods" folder.

Thanks to PalSchema functionality, this mod is compatible with all other mods, presuming you're not using other mods that also alter oil rig loot and NPCs.

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===Notes===
  • The level 35 Oil Rig still hasn't been done, but will be worked on in the future. It's much harder to test without a brand new playthrough world.
  • NPC stats may still be slightly adjusted going forward. This is a difficult adjustment to make in regards to balance though, thanks to the base-game's struggles with balance. Ultimately this is just a band-aid for a much larger issue.
  • This mod can actually be customized to your liking! As long as you have some knowledge of .json and a proper editor, you can go into the .json files inside the mod and adjust values however you prefer!
  • Pals will still struggle to stay alive on the rigs, but they'll be a lot more capable of surviving and doing meaningful damage than they were before. Working on further overhauls, presuming Pocket Pair doesn't fix this stuff themselves, to try and compensate.
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