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For solo players who don't want bots to be useless on missions above Ruthless or against bosses in general

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Currently in the game, bots deal 40% of the players damage (At least in Astartes), I found their performance to be terrible, especially against terminus/bosses, for the following reasons.

  • You essentially have to burn all of your ammunition in an encounter designed to be fought by three players (yes there is ammo caches but you are running from the boss often on higher difficulties for the next reason), while not having the support of two others past the occasional ability
  • Terminus enemies/Bosses prioritize those who deal the most damage, or at least it seems like that anecdotally, so bots are ignored by bosses and can't even be used as decoys to gain some respite during boss fights, the mechanic that makes sense during multiplayer, turns into a massive detriment in single player

So this mod has the following changes:

  • Bot damage has been tuned from 40% of the players damage to 100%
  • As a result bots will use the following rarity weapons per difficulty, Minimal = Standard, Average = Master-Craft, Substantial = Artificer, Ruthless/Lethal = Relic
The second change is so that bots don't use relic weapons to slaughter everything for you on lower difficulties as Astartes makes all bots have relic weapons regardless of the difficulty, now I don't know if this is actually the case or the tiers are just visual, but I'm making this change just in case. Despite dealing the same damage, bots have way worse accuracy when it comes to hitting a headshot unless its a stationary enemy, so you can still out damage them.

It is HIGHLY recommended to play with Astartes Overhaul and a mod that increases the amount of enemies/bosses, such as Deluge or 5x Hordes, but the mod should work without it technically? I'm not sure, but Astartes is better. It works with mods that increase bot sizes, but if you use those the game gets alot easier without the horde size mods and in some cases if a boss gets stuck they can get burned down easily, so both a squad size and a horde size mod should be used to compensate, with a squad size of 10 being my personal maximum, 5 should be the sweet spot

INSTALLATION
  • Install Astartes (Preferably, I don't know if the mod works without it)
  • Open default_other.pak in steamapps\common\Space Marine 2\server_pc\root\paks\server\default with winrar (There is no equivalent in client files, its only required in server)
  • Copy the contents of the mod into the SSL folder
  • delete default_other.pak.cache
  • Download PakCatcher and follow the instructions to make a new cache file
  • Enjoy