Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel Equilibrium (formerly Balance Dux) v..2.2 - download

Balance Dux is a mod for Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, created Raics.

Description:

The goal of the mod is to provide additional fixes and a thorough rebalance of existing ingame equipment, expanding equipment choices and providing more variety. Most stats were redone based on common sense or RL weapon parameters, however, if it stood in the way of the original purpose of this mod, common sense rules were bent without hesitation or completely broken. Additionally, the mod includes an extensive audio/visual rehaul to provide better immersion.

*** ATTENTION ***

This mod builds upon changes and bugfixes found in Fallout Tactics: Redux by Endocore and WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY WITHOUT IT.

Major features:

- Version 2.0 introduces a smooth equipment progression to the game, you will gain new items at a steady pace almost all the way to the final mission.

- Enemies are stronger than in vanilla game and much better equipped, each enemy in the game was manually checked and outfitted to ensure he's ready for you.

- Some ammunition types were changed, some were scrapped and some new ones were introduced, the system is probably more straightforward now.

- Armor was nerfed across the board again with special attention to reducing DR values because it messed up the damage calculation too much, as a result ammo modifiers work properly now.

- Fixed a lot of bugs related to weapon damage types.

- Added a ton of weapons with proper desriptions, some as replacements and some as additions to extend the gearing curve further, the game has close to 150 weapons in total now.

- Also added some unique armors to the game, usually offering some sort of twist rather than straight improvement.

- Real life weapons are more realistic, they use proper ammo, have proper weight and fire rates.

- Unarmed progression was reworked too for all the Bruce Lee fans out there, you get new moves at a faster rate, most were renamed and improved. Close quarters combat is more viable in general.

- All weapon and ammo sprites were replaced with high quality versions.

- Weapon sounds were also replaced and some bugs were fixed, a lot of weapons still share sounds but there should be much more variety now. For instance, in heavy weapon class, RPD, Bren, SAW, M60 and Browning all sound differently.

- Weapons and defenses were rebalanced repeteadly. The playing field should be more level than ever.

- Some of the races were modified, most wasteland animals are more deadly and some get free perks.

- Some recruit types were modified, super mutants and deathclaws should be much better now.

- Added a special new recruit that was strangely absent from Tactics even though he appears in every other Fallout game. He's part of a story mission and has an accompanying npc that provides his backstory.

- Quartermaster only sells armor, ammo and common weapons, but he gets it at a more steady rate. Some weapons or armor are more rare or even unique so you will have to find those yourself.

- Ammo is a bit more scarce so you might want to buy some.