VanillaReloaded

Vanilla Reloaded

Vanilla Reloaded is a weapon balance mod that aims to rebalance the game's existing arsenal into a more interesting state. The goal is not to drastically alter the existing weapon balance, but instead to tone down some weapons that have become overcentralizing, while buffing some weapons that are currently underperforming. In some cases, weapons have been changed to emphasize what makes them unique from the rest of the cast, further diversifying the options available to the player.

Melees

Sledgehammer

The R8 nerfs to Sledgehammer's stagger were perfect, no additional changes necessary.

Knife

R8's addition of a backstab multiplier to Knife gave it the perfect amount of power against Giants and other enemies where Knife prevously struggled, no additional changes necessary.

Bat

The Bat is a well-rounded melee, however it is largely overshadowed by the Sledgehammer. While the R8's Sledgehammer nerfs have let it shine as the melee with the highest stagger ability, we decided to additionally increase its light damage, to truly let its light attack shine. We've slightly reduced its light attack stagger multiplier to keep its stagger reasonable.

Breakpoints affected: Bat will now be able to kill a Striker with a light attack to the occiput.

• Light attack damage: 3.0 -> 4.0
• Light attack stagger multiplier: 5.0 -> 4.0

Spear

While the recent buffs worked wonders for Spear's usability, Spear still felt to be the most underperforming of melee weapons. We have substantially reduced Spear's stamina usage and slightly reduced its charge time, allowing players to better utilize the playstyle of adopting defensive positions interspersed with quick repositions. We have additionally given it a minor buff to its light attack damage, allowing it to hit some important breakpoints.

Breakpoints affected: Spear will now be able to kill a Striker with a fully charged attack to the body and a light attack to the body. Spear will now be able to kill a Shooter with a light attack to the occiput.

• Light attack damage: 2.0 -> 2.5
• Charged attack stamina cost: 5% -> 0%
• Shove stamina cost: 5% -> 0%
• Max damage charge time: 1.8 -> 1.5

Main Weapons

Pistol

The Pistol is already a well-rounded weapon with a solid identity. Previously, the major drawback of this weapon was the inconsistency of its 3-shot kill on Strikers, but the recent patches have already addressed this. However, its power level is just slightly low for our intended balance-point, so we've increased its damage to slightly improve its breakpoints across the board.

• Damage: 4.64 -> 5.01
• Stagger multiplier: 1.5 -> 1.4

Burst Pistol

Burst Pistol seems to have entered the game in a fairly underwhelming state. We've buffed its damage to make its breakpoints a bit more forgiving, and lowered its burst delay to make it more spammable. We've slightly lowered its ammo to compensate.

• Damage: 3.2 -> 4.01
• Precision Multiplier: 0.8667 -> 0.8
• Bullet cost: 1.8 -> 2.1
• Rounds/refill: 50.0 -> 42.86
• Starting ammo: 166.67 -> 142.86
• Maximum ammo (excluding clip): 255 -> 219
• Burst delay: 0.2 -> 0.12

HEL Revolver

HEL Revolver was definitely overperforming at high level play. The main attraction of this weapon was its insane uptime with reload cancel, incredibly good ammo efficiency and an incredibly fast time to kill, to the point that the overpenetrating qualities just became icing on the cake. We've substantially toned down the ammo efficiency of the weapon, encouraging players to lean into its overpenetrating capabilities in order to get good value.

• Bullet cost: 5.0 -> 6.0
• Rounds/refill: 18.0 -> 15.0
• Starting ammo: 60.0 -> 50.0
• Maximum ammo (excluding clip): 92 -> 76

Machine Pistol

The Machine Pistol already has some fairly impressive stats, we opted to give it a slight damage bonus, while also tweaking its falloff, so that it has a similar damage profile at range but can be even more devestating up close.

• Damage: 1.9 -> 2.2
• Falloff start: 7 -> 3
• Falloff end: 35 -> 40

HEL Autopistol

The R8 buffs to HEL Autopistol's damage ended up not being as big of an issue as expected. While in the base game its damage nearly competes with some other automatic weapons, given that we've massively buffed most other automatics we feel happy leaving HEL Autopistol's damage untouched.

Bullpup Rifle

Despite its recent buffs, the Bullpup Rifle still felt that it was significantly underperforming. We opted to take a rather extreme route when rebalancing it, we gave it some incredible stats, but then reverted its reload back to a lengthier value. Hopefully, the weapon's incredible power will now feel it justifies its long reload.

• Damage: 2.1 -> 2.91
• Reload time: 2.3 -> 2.4
• Bullet cost: 1.5 -> 2.1
• Rounds/refill: 60.0 -> 42.86
• Starting ammo: 200.0 -> 142.86
• Maximum ammo (excluding clip): 306 -> 219
• Shot delay: 0.055 -> 0.064

SMG

The recent buffs to SMG have put it in a decently good place. We've shifted some of its power away from its precision multiplier and substantially increased its raw damage, which should help the weapon feel much more consistent, and also improve its performance in more hectic scenarios.

• Damage: 1.98 -> 2.45
• Precision multiplier: 0.91 -> 0.7413
• Shot delay: 0.066 -> 0.062

PDW

We've reverted the PDW's previous damage nerf and given it a bump to its precision to make headshots feel very impactful.

• Damage: 2.15 -> 2.31
• Precision multiplier: 0.7413 -> 0.9

Carbine

*Carbine has been repeatedly buffed to the point where it simply outshines the majority of other similar weapons. We've toned down its damage to a much more reasonable level, but have also given it more ammo to compensat