Void Crew - Better Shields

Reverts shields to be 100% absorbant and more durable.

🤔 Why this mod?

Ever since the nerf in recent patch, shields have been pretty useless resulting in people stacking shields all over the place. What's worse is that people also don't understand the diminishing returns mechanism resulting from the nerf.

This mod returns the shields to their former glory and then makes them worth of the space age!

💡With this Mod

• This shields now absorb as much damage as they can before letting the remaining damage through.
• The shields now boast 25 damage absorption per shield rather than 10 in base game.
• The ship now comes with built-in shield that will absorb stray hits and regenerates over time on its own and cannot be boosted like regular shields with cells.
• The shields now charge at 1.5 hp per tick instead of 1 per tick to compensate for the extra HP on them.
• Since these are powerful shields, they take longer time to recharge again going from 5 seconds of delay to 7.5 seconds of delay.

📀 Runs on

• ✅ Host
• ⬜ Client
• ⬜ Both

⏬ Manual Install

📃 Prerequisite

This is a BepInEx 5 mod and as such requires that you have BepInEx 5 installed and working properly. If you've not done that yet, please go to their documentation on how to get it installed.

You want the Stable (5.x - 5.4.22 LTS at the time of writing) MONO build when you're presented with choices.

If you already know how to get BepInEx working, head over to their Releases to grab the latest copy.

👌 Recommended

My mods support configuration through BepInEx Configuration Manager and I'd recommend you grabbing that as well to be able to tweak the mod to your own tastes.

✔️ Mod install

So you've got a working BepInEx 5 Mono installation running successfully. Now you can download this mods zip file. Unzip the contents into your game directory where you have your Void Crew.exe.

You should find the mod installed under Bepinex\plugins\MavsPlugins\BetterShields.

👋 Shoutout

While I've had many people help me out by offering me feedback on how the balance was feeling, helping me shape the balance that my mods are in one person in particular has been happy to endure my experiments and many mission fails while I adjusted settings or tried new things.

So here's a shoutout to you my friend: Blaze.

Without your patience and company, I probably would not have poured hundreds of hours I've put in making the mods and even writing all the code that builds these readme files or store packaging!

⚖️ License

This work by Maverik is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

✍️ Source Code

The code for this mod is available at Github

🙏 Wanna say thank you?

I do love a Starbucks Classic Hot Chocolate! If you enjoy my labour of love and would like to support my guilty pleasure, the gesture is highly appreciated!