[tsl] Droid Enhancement

[ElecManEXE]

My first mod. Nothing to difficult, just some alterations, but needed. At least in my opinion. Here's the rundown on everything. Let me know what you think. And yes, I write way too much for the few changes I did

 

You can download it at KOTOR Files, here.

 

~ Combat Droid Class (HK-47) ~

* Increased starting Constitution to 12

* Added 3 Feats at his starting level (Close Combat, Droid Interface, Precise Shot I)

* Precise Shot feats are now granted automatically at levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20

* Increased feat gain rate, now on par with Scout class

 

~ Expert Droid Class (T3-M4 and G0-T0) ~

* Close Combat and Improved Close Combat feats are now selectable

 

~ Droid Weapons ~

* All Droid Weapons now have unlimited charges

* Droid Weapons were given a Constitution requirement (like Implants)

 

I felt HK-47 needed a lot of help. Almost everything about him was mediocre or poor, especially given the fact that he's supposed to be some advanced Assassin droid. His stats seem OK at first glance, except that Strength is completely worthless on a droid. I didn't change the Strength, since it does make some sense given his appearence and size, but I boosted his low Constitution a bit (helps with the changes to Droid Weapons too). His feats were downright disappointing for a combat-oriented character. Few starting feats and slow feat gain, and his "innate" skills hardly made up for it because they aren't very good either. So I fixed each of those problems. Yah, the automatic Precise Shot feats make him a bit like a Scout, but they ARE the best ranged characters in the game (and by they, I mean Mira). And since Mira's light-side, I figure having HK-47 share a few characteristics isn't too bad. The feat gain rate being on par with the Scout is just coincidence. I wanted to choose the middle rate of the human non-Jedi combat classes, and that just happened to be Scout.

 

Expert Droids are good at what they do (skills, and lots of them), so I didn't do much to them. I added Close Combat feats in order to alleviate the melee weakness a bit, though. Droids are already vulnerable to melee due to the fact that they don't have shields that protect against melee damage. The weakness is probably intended, but I don't think it needs to be so extreme. Plus the Expert Droids having at least a couple more feat options is welcome.

 

For the Droid Weapons... I've always viewed them as a droid's answer to Jedi Force Powers. But how can they be useful if they run out? Doesn't make much sense either, no other weapons in the game run out of ammo, why them? So I took the charges out. Most of them still aren't as strong as Force Powers, and they're usually pretty easily saved against, but at least they won't run out too. I definately didn't want them to be too powerful, though, so I also added a Constition limit to them (in addition to the Droid Upgrade Level limit). Also serves to add another stat for you to consider increasing for the droids, where before it was basically a bit of Int (or Con for HK-47) and then nothing but Dex. Makes sense too, if you consider a droids Con as its chassis strength. Better weapons need to be mounted on a stronger frame.

[ForeverNight]

Nice to see! I've always thought that the Droids were underpowered!

 

Downloading... now!

[TheExile]

Wow!!! You know what would be really cool.

A "HK-upgrade" item. It would have 3 marks, each one makes HK-47 look much better- not to hard, you create custom skins, and you set the item that when it's equipped it should give the character the new "disguise".

[Xarwarz]

Personally i think anything which is machine made should be strong you can only rate his strength in psi like hydraulics. Being stronger than humans his accuracy should be off the charts as well..

 

Just my 2 cents nice job though