Soteria Effort (Vanilla+ Countermeasures Weapon Pack)

WARNING: NOT compatible with WeaponCore. See below for additional details.

My first and very small Vanilla+ weapon mod pack. This is purely a defensive mod pack and provides no additional destructive power advantage. If you desire destruction, check out my weapon mod pack the Kratos Program; designed to go hand-in-hand with this mod.

As tension rises between the many independent factions and the United Systems Confederacy, Titan-Armament Industries find themselves in a possible long-standing galactic war. Knowing this will lead to many factions growing and advancing their armaments, T-A Industries must quickly evolve their own defensive efforts. This led them to their first research program: The Soteria Effort.

Directional Infrared Countermeasure Turret: A laser-based countermeasure point-defense turret. Can intercept multiple projectiles in a short amount of time but requires a sufficient amount of space to operate and enough energy to maintain ammo capacity. Has a max range of 900m allowing more time for reacting longer range missiles/rockets.

Infrared Countermeasures Pod: A pod that rapidly deploy infrared flares to detract common homing munition. Available for both large- and small-grids. Each flare has a 15% of distracting incoming missiles. Godspeed.

Signature Decoy Launcher: An advance decoy launcher that fires expensive RF-emitting capsules simulating the owner's signature. Effective at deceiving many homing munitions, especially those with high detract resistance. However, each capsule has a 65% decoy effectiveness making them expensive to produce. Highly recommended to only use against very dangerous homing-based munitions.

Smart-Swarm Countermeasure Pod: A rapid firing countermeasure system that fires homing decoys that interferes with incoming projectiles along its path towards the locked target. Can also be used to overwhelm enemy PDCs when within range. Does nothing on impact. Requires a bit of timing for effective use.

Charged-Vapor ECM: An electronic countermeasure designed to be used against Player-Made Missiles (P2Ms). These include but not limited to: vanilla AI missiles, Whip's WHAM/LAMP missiles, or Rdav's Gen3 missiles. When the trailing grid is within the smoke's envelope, any parts within reach will be temporarily disabled allowing you to re-maneuver freely within a certain amount of time. Requires proper timing and positioning to use effectively.

Smoke Grenade Launcher: A simple launcher that fires smoke grenades to instantly break line of sight between you and the observer. Does NOTHING against AI detection.

FAQs

Is this WeaponCore compatible? No, nor are there any plans to make it so. If you have WC on your server/save, this may be your primary issue causing Soteria Effort to not work properly. Remove WC before reporting any bugs. Also, modding is just a hobby of mine and maintaining one version is more than enough. HOWEVER, I am open to any discussions with whoever is willing to make and maintain a WC port. Also, most likely, there are MANY WC weapon mods with these type of blocks. No need to dilute the pool even further in my opinion...

Mod.io available? No. I personally do not use that platform and thus will not create and maintain a mod for a platform I do not plan to use. Also, this mod requires scripts to work, which are not allowed.

Reuploads?

No reuploads allowed. Any form of Full or partial reuploads of this mod will be reported to Keen and Steam. A ModAdjuster supplementary mod (for balance changes only) is ok and does not require permission; just credit and a link back to the original is good enough.

Bugs/Issues

Please let me know of any bugs or issues you may encounter. This is one of the primary reasons I made my first mod small as I expect possible bugs/issues and will need to make the effort manageable.

However, before reporting, I would kindly request that the mod is tested on its own in a clean world and confirm the issue is not stemming from a compatibility issue with another mod. There are many mods on the workshop and it is impossible to compensate for all. After confirming the mod by itself is fine, determine which mod is causing the issue. Let me know which mod and the required steps to replicate the problem consistently. I will try to fix the issue on my end if possible. No guarantees...

You can let me know of such issues either in the comments below or on the official Keen discord server as I float about in there as well. You can also find me in the Vanilla+ Framework discord server and ask there if you are part of that server.

Complementary Mods

See below for a couple of mods to expand your combat experience while running this mod in parallel:

• Guided Vanilla Rockets (Vanilla+) by Harbinger Ace
• Point Defence Turret by Stonelords
• Vanilla Weapon Overhaul by FrostedDragonOats[/list]
• For more vanilla weapon mods, see my compiled list of available working vanilla-based weapon mods I found on the workshop. I try to keep it updated on a semi-regular basis.