Ped Damage Overhaul V 1.0
OVERVIEW
This mod tries to make gun fights more diverse, dynamic and interesting and keep them that way throughout the game.
You will find NPCs staggering and stumbling when trying to run with hurt legs, going down without dying within seconds, still audably reacting to player behavior when down, etc.
FEATURES
Here is a quick overview of the most important features:
First off, almost all of the features and their characteristics are based on chance, so the behaviors won’t be the same every time you encounter them – which should ensure more diverse fights and keep things interesting for longer than vanilla does… that was the idea, at least 🙂
Almost every feature can be enabled, disabled or tweaked in the ini (more information further down the page), so this is not only a mod, but also enables you to create your own experience.
The mod is activated by default and the toggle key is F9 (both can be changed in the ini).
This mod only alters behaviors and attributes of human NPCs – animals or anything else remain untouched.
Features:
NPCs go down in 1-5 shots (to the torso) depending on your weapon and their body armour (and are not dead).
NPCs do more damage.
NPCs are less accurate marksmen.
NPC accuracy reduces when their health gets lower.
NPCs take less damage from leg or arm shots.
When their health decreases below a certain threshold, NPCs fall over and don’t get back up. Then they go through three different stages of dying, each with its own randomized “behavior” (movement on the ground). Eventually NPCs will die from blood loss.
There is a bleeding feature, which makes NPCs lose health after they have been fatally injured. It operates based on chance, so NPCs don’t all bleed out in the same amount of time.
All PCs can be disarmed.
NPCs burn alive for a little longer when set on fire.
NPCs have a chance of staying on the ground for a random amount of time when shot (based on their health) – so you can now knock the breath out of your opponents.
NPCs will try to audably react to different situations (they can panic, try to calm you, beg for their lives, etc.).
For all included behaviors the movement and pain sounds have been adjusted (and also randomized) to hopefully make your experience more interesting.
We hope that you will have as much fun with this mod as we have creating and improving it!
INSTALLATION
Download Alexander Blade’s ScriptHook
Extract the zip somewhere you want.
Go into the bin-folder and copy the Dinput8.dll and ScriptHookV.dll into your GTA V installation directory (where the exe of GTA V is).
Download the zip file of this mod and extract it somewhere you want.
Take all the files from the folder (PedDamageOverhaulV.asi, PedDamageOverhaulV.ini) and put them into your GTA V installation directory (where the exe of GTA V is).
Start the game and have fun.
While in game, you can press F9 to check if the mod was loaded correctly (F9 once to disable, then F9 again to re-enable the mod).
TWEAKING
There are already a lot of features enabled and tweaked for out-of-the-box use, yet there are some features left untouched which can be enabled in he ini. That said, if you just want to disable one or more features, set their respective values to 0.
Examples:
To turn off the bleeding feature: set BleedWhenDying to 0
To turn off the dying state features: set DyingMovementThreshold, DyingMovementThreshold2 and DyingThreshold to 0
If you want to disable a feature which is based on chance, just set the chance value to 0.
Examples:
To turn off the knocking the wind out of your opponents: set KnockbackChance to 0
To turn off the chance of stumbling when shot in the leg: set StumbleChanceOneLeg and StumbleChanceBothLegs to 0
There are also many other features that can be activated and tweaked in the ini – here are some examples:
NPCWeaponModifier (and many other damage modifiers) -> makes NPCs do more or less damage, depending on what you set it to
BleedWhenShot -> enables a bleeding feature which triggers when an NPC gets shot (so not the usual “bleed out when under x health” but consistent bleeding which is applied after the first hit of a bullet – the bleeding chance and deducted health points can be set separately).
The ini is full of values for those wanting to experiment a little.
One word of warning to tweakers: If the NPC health is set too high, headshots might not be lethal anymore, unless they hit the actual brain of the NPC (so a shot in the jaw would do more damage than other body parts, but would not be an instant kill). Actual “brain-shots” are
always one-shot-kills, no matter the health.
KNOWN “ISSUES”
(they are not real issues)
The game’s “getting up”-animation is hard to circumvent, so in rare cases you may encounter burning NPCs getting up and falling to the ground again.
While time is altered (e.g. when using the weapon wheel), physics and movement of NPCs in dying states (squirming, rolling on the ground, etc.) can get a little crazy, because the effects of this mod are applied using timers, which tick differently from the game clock. We are already looking for a fix, but haven’t found one that works yet.
The original “Ped Damage Overhaul” mod was created for Red Dead Redemption 2. This mod is a port.
