GZ-Threat: Biter Escalation [BYOB]

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GZ-Threat: Biter Escalation (Early BYOB Edition)

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• This mod is holding on by the seat of its pants and was only tested to not crash the game and that the systems were functional
• This mod is in desperate need of balancing but is entirely playable and beatable
• This mod will get a lot of integration with gz-loot and gz-economy as well as mods like Alien Loot
• I spent more time on this than I wanted to and will take some time to work on other mods before the integrations

• Biters = Both biters and spitters. Have not touched Gleba units yet.
• Biters no longer only target only sources of pollution. If the player is a closer target, they will target the player instead.
• Biters scale from level 1 to 100. For every 10 levels, each biter moves up one rank.
• The highest level biter in an attack group will be promoted to the next rank.
• 50% of the remaining biters will be demoted 1 rank.
• If 20 rank 5 biters are in an attack group, one with the highest evolution class among them will be promoted to Broodleader
• Of the 19 remaining, 50% will be demoted to the next lowest rank based on evolution class
• 1 level 6 Broodleader biter, 9 rank 5 biters, 10 rank 4 biters in the attack group
• Biters do not use any additional pathfinding or runtime logic in order to execute.
• Biters simply mimic the leader's target or else target the player when they are close by.
• GZ Leveled biters are drawn in the data stage and stats are applied multiplicative with quality
• Some extra hardcore "QOL" is included as an optional dependency (don't get wrecked)
• I have included more details in the FAQ in case anyone did not want to be spoiled.

FAQ

--- SPOILERS AHEAD ---

LEVELING

• Killing the first biter triggers the Biter Mutagenesis tech, unlocking the ability for biters to be upgraded in the following ways by researching the corresponding tech:
• Biomass Scaling: Size (up to 2.5x) and health
• Swarm Architecture: Attack group size increased
• Endocrine Overdrive: Movement and attack speed increased
• Xeno-gene Splicing: Attack damage increased
• Apex Strain Evolution: Each level increases the global rank by 1 level
• Each time the player researches a technology, they will additionally receive one level in Apex Strain Evolution
• At level 150, a single Pandora Omega enemy spawns on the map
• This is roughly around the time most players are getting ready for Aquilo
• Pandora Omega moves slowly but will travel any distance to reach the player's science labs.
• Pandora Omega destroys infrastructure on contact and is roughly equivalent in health and health regen to a Medium Demolisher
• Pandora will initially spawn a maximum of once every 12 hours of playtime
• Pandora ignores water tiles and moves through it with a splishy splash
• Enemies will no longer increase in rank after level 100, but the time between Pandora spawns will decrease to around 4 hours