mrcreepysos / eclipse-difficulty

A challenging custom difficulty with overhauled AI, enemies, tactics and more! Includes playerside balance overhaul.

"What if Goldfarb suddenly came back?" twist to Payday

Eclipse is a complete Payday 2 overhaul that aims to provide early-payday hardcore gameplay feel while adapting it for modern age.

NOTE: Launching the game for the first time after installing the mod will put you on a new empty savefile. Uninstalling the mod will put you back on your vanilla savefile. If you want to skip grinding on the new savefile there is a max progression button next to reset progress button in options. It's not recommended to try to transfer your vanilla savefile into this mod as that can lead to crashes and inconsistencies.

Compatibility & Networking There is a list of incompatible mods that you will be asked to disable upon starting up the game in case you have one of them installed. Due to the extent of gameplay changes Eclipse uses its own matchmaking key so you will only be able to play with those who have the mod.

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General list of changes

• Weapons & Gunplay Weapons have undergone a huge overhaul in order to make them feel unique, from simple stat tweaks to some weapons changing their slots in your arsenal completely. Pretty much every weapon has a certain use case now. Complete rework of base recoil system and introducing recoil patterns for some weapons. No more laserbeam guns with no recoil! ⠀
• Skilltrees & Perk Decks A vast majority of powertrip skills / perk decks were nerfed while weaker and less interesting skills have seen a buff. Additionally featuring some completely new effects! For a carefully crafted skill / perk deck spreadsheet with highlighted changes click here. ⠀
• Difficulties & Scaling Eclipse removes 2 difficulties from the rotation as they're really pointless and do absolutely nothing other than bloat the game. More gameplay aspects use scaling which makes for a better difficulty curve: ai tickrate, spawnrates, drama gained, bulldozer armor, etc. Player count is also actively used for scaling, unlike vanilla, in order to make solo scenarios feel fair without making certain things (like bulldozer armor) trivial to deal with in a 4-man crew. Pro Jobs are seeing a return as a replacement for the OD modifier with more impactful and unique modifiers: friendly fire, affecting team AI count, PoNR, more punishing down system. Grace period scales with difficulty. ⠀
• Enemies Streamlined Heisting's AI is used as a framework for this mod's AI. No more difficulty health scaling - the very same FBI SWAT won't just magically become tankier because of an additional skull in the difficulty selection. Instead difficulty health scaling is done through tougher factions gradually replacing weaker ones as the difficulty increases. Enemies don't feel unsatisafyingly bulletspongy anymore - say "NO" to forced damage skills on higher difficulties! Damage that enemies deal is kept at sensible levels. Begone 225 no falloff. Hostage Rescue Teams / shotgunners see a return and brand new enemies enter the field on Eclipse difficulty. For an enemy breakpoint spreadsheet click here. ⠀
• Full Force Onslaught As Pro Jobs bring Point of No Return into frequent use, PoNR mechanic itself has been reworked completely. When PoNR timer runs out the heist isn't instantly failed. Instead the game enters a Full Force Onslaught state with massively bumped heist difficulty: prolonged assaults, more complex spawngroup compositions, higher spawnrates, etc. Expect an unwanted guest when you enter FFO while playing on Eclipse difficulty...

And much more!

⠀ Potentially / Frequently asked questions

• Q: I only have 2(or 1) Team AI, is it intended? A: Yes.
• Q: I'm seeing "ERROR: [insert string]" instead of proper text, why? A: You don't have Beardlib installed.
• Q: Does this work with custom weapons? A: They're technically functional but they won't be balanced for this mod.
• Q: Does this work with [insert name of a rebalance / overhaul]? A: Most definitely not, and even if it would be technically functional, it'll still cause unintentional behavior.
• will add more if i see more stuff pop up ⠀

Credits

• Hoppip for Streamlined Heisting framework, various other features and help with lua understanding.
• Rockymoto517 for feedback, help and direct contributions to the mod.
• ✨miss miki for cleaning up the code, fixing various errors and other help.
• Offyerrocker for Auto Fire Sound Fix.
• RedFlame for various fixes.
• Gorg Bus for some of the features.
• act2498 & wither2008 for Chinese localization.
• Bay1k for providing feedback.
• NotYourAvStalin for providing endless feedback and massive help in designing various gameplay aspects.
• RuggedlyHandsomeBunBun for providing feedback early on in the mod's lifecycle.
• Restoration Mod Team for inspiration from some of their ideas.
• Hopoo Games and Risk of Rain 2 for inspiring the name of the difficulty & the mod itself.

||additional note: you probably shouldn't jump into the highest difficulty right away||

eclipse-difficulty's Issues

AI Moves Too Fast when Stealth Heists Go Loud

When a stealth heist goes loud both the teammate AI and guards/SWAT start sprinting around at mach speed. Loud exclusive heists don't seem to have this issue, and during stealth guards move along their patrol routes at normal speeds.

License & Links

Under what license is this repository?
Where can this mod be found? ( Nexus for example )

PlayerDamage:is_friendly_fire() causes TeamAI and (sometimes) Player to not take damage

PlayerDamage:is_friendly_fire() doesn't correctly determine if TeamAI is being shot by friendlies, resulting in TeamAI not taking damage from cops at all with Pro-Job disabled. Also, this function uses "friendly_fire" variable, but it's supposed to first declared with "local", otherwise "friendly_fire" is a global variable. This can be a reason why sometimes Player stops taking any damage too.

From my testing, making "friendly_fire" a local variable and removing elseif check at line 214 in playerdamage.lua, seems to fix player's invincibility. This, however, makes TeamAI to take friendly fire damage with Pro-Jobs disabled again.