Can you continue a campaign started pre patch? Yes. You can also speed up gameplay and make drops more challenging. Most improvements in difficulty only come after starting a new campaign.
Oh, so that's why I can't see any difficulty adjustments in my current campaign... darnit. I was already wondering why the "Difficulty" tab in the options was not clickable.
<_< *looks at his Avatar* Well, I will probably just play through the story then and wait until the now safe Warhammer, Marauder and Archer are injected into the game before starting another campaign.
Anyway, different question:
I copied and changed files for the +/++/+++ Magna Lasers and changed them to Defiance produced ones, switching out the Magna's improved damage and accuracy for stability damage modifiers instead. I originally wanted to give them a lower heat modifier as well, but then HBS massively reduced LL heat, and I realized that stability damage on Lasers is already plenty powerful on its own, even if it's just +2/+5/+10 for S/M/L Lasers. The fluff reason I made up in my mind is that the Defiance brand of lasers are based on particle laser systems, which have some kinetic energy properties... a bit like a PPC/Laser hybrid, but much weaker. I
know there was a laser brand that was fluffed as just this, but I just couldn't remember which type/manufacturer it was... so I went with Defiance, since it's one of the most advanced manufacturing companies out there and stability damage seems like a very Lyran thing. ;)
I kept the Magna's as well of course. All worked fine, the game starts without problem, but the new weapons don't show up anywhere. Are there any other files I needed to edit to get the game to recognize the new weapon files?
And since I am already talking about it... is there anyone else who is kind of disappointed by how the different Weapon Manufacturers are treated as straight upgrades? I expected them to have their manufacturer specific positive and negative quirks instead. Such as, for example, the Kali Yama Big Bore AC20 having higher stability damage but at the cost of a worse refire modifier, since it's one of the AC20's that fire only a few large rounds, unlike the Defiance MechHunter which fires a large stream of smaller projectiles, which in turn sounds like a reduced initial accuracy but higher damage weapon. Differences, not straight up upgrades, that's how I imagined it after first hearing about the different weapon manufacturers in this game.
Sure, some manufacturers have better quality standards than others, but imho everything above the first + is a bit too much in my humble opinion... +3 accuracy and +10 damage on a Magna Large Laser +++?! That's a very low heat PPC without stability damage, for heavens sake!
