LethalRPG

Personal progression for Lethal Company: every player buys their own upgrades such as more stamina, more health or extra item slots, paid with a share of the money the crew earns above the quota. On top of that come unique and ultimate skills that you unlock with XP and keep forever.

Status: singleplayer is tested and should work. Multiplayer is still being tested and not fully covered yet; you may run into bugs there.

Requirements

• BepInExPack (your mod manager installs it automatically).
• Every player in the lobby needs LethalRPG, in the same version.
• Recommended: LethalConfig, so all settings can be changed in the in-game mod menu.

How it works

• Upgrades have several levels and cost money. When a quota is completed, part of the surplus is paid out as budget to the players, split by the scrap each of them brought to the ship.
• Unique skills cost XP and need a certain level in a related upgrade (skill tree). Ultimate skills are the top of the tree: expensive and with two requirements.
• XP comes from your rank at the end of each day, scrap you bring in, monsters you kill, surviving a day and completed quotas.
• Upgrades last one run: when the crew gets fired they are gone. The mod remembers what you had, though, and rpg rebuy buys it again.
• XP and skills are permanent: they are stored on your own PC and apply in every lobby and save.
• Every player buys and owns their upgrades, or the crew shares them in team mode (see below). The rules (prices, shares, difficulty, balancing, team mode) are set by the host.

Controls

Terminal

rpg              page 1: body upgrades, your budget and your XP
rpg tools        page 2: tool upgrades
rpg unique       page 3: unique skills
rpg ult          page 4: ultimate skills
rpg sneak        details of an upgrade or skill
rpg buy sneak    buy the next level
rpg buy sneak 3  buy three levels ("max" = up to the highest level)
rpg stats        your stats: health, slots, load, sprint time and all upgrades
rpg crew         what your teammates have
rpg build        your saved build; "rpg build save" saves your current upgrades
rpg rebuy        buy the missing levels of your build; "rpg rebuy auto" does it after every payout
rpg refund       respec: shows what you get back; "rpg refund confirm" resets everything
rpg info         the rules on this ship

skills works the same as rpg.

Skill menu

Press K to open a menu in the game's look that can do everything the terminal can: every upgrade and skill with its levels, effect (now and next level), price and the buttons BUY (one level) and MAX (as many levels as your money allows), or LEARN for skills. Point at a row to see its description, requirements and details at the bottom. Further tabs: Stats (your stats and respec), Crew & Build (teammates, saved build, rebuy) and Rules (the rules on this ship, with DebugCommands also the test commands). Like at the terminal, buying, rebuy and respec only work on the ship; looking, saving your build and switching auto rebuy work anywhere. K or Esc closes the menu; while it is open your character stands still.

HUD

Small lines appear below the weight when they are needed:

• Status line: your health when Vitality raises it above 100 (HP 140/200; the game's display only shows damage below 100), Second Wind charges left, ADRENALINE, ROD ACTIVE (storm, outside, carrying metal), RALLIED (a teammate with Rallying Presence is close) and a short "+6 XP (Thumper)" after a kill.
• Danger Sense, Bio Monitor, Compass and Prospector, if you have these skills (see below).
• Day report: after each day a tip shows how much XP you earned and from what, how much budget was paid out and what you can afford now.

Upgrades

Body (rpg)

Tools (rpg tools)

Every further level costs more (usually ×1.5 per level, Inventory and Brawler ×2). Strength, Sneak, Nerves, Surefooted, Marksman and Bargain Hunter have a cap on their total effect.

Unique skills (rpg unique)

Buy once, keep forever. They cost XP (the host can switch to money) and need the listed upgrade level.

Ultimate skills (rpg ult)

The top of the skill tree: each one needs a unique skill and a high upgrade level.

Budget and XP

Budget: when a quota is completed, by default 50% of the surplus (sold minus quota) goes into the players' budgets, split by the scrap value each player brought to the ship during that quota. If nobody brought anything, it is split evenly. The share is taken from the group credits; the host can turn that off (the budget is then a bonus) or let upgrades be paid directly with the group credits.

XP:

Team mode: the host can let the crew collect upgrades together. All upgrades (Stamina, Strength, Inventory, ...) then apply to every player, payouts go into a team budget, and anyone can buy upgrades for everyone from it. Unique and ultimate skills and XP stay personal.

• Switching to team mode: each upgrade keeps the highest level any player had. All budgets go into the team budget.
• Switching back: every player takes over the team's levels and continues alone from there. The team budget is split evenly between the players aboard. If the host switches before loading the save, this happens when the ship starts next, so the crew is there.
• In team mode rpg refund only resets your own skills; the team's upgrades stay. The saved build and rpg rebuy apply to the team.

Difficulty: the host can choose Easy (prices ×0.7, XP ×1.5, upgrades ×1.2 as strong), Normal or Hard (prices ×1.4, XP ×0.75, upgrades ×0.9 as strong).

Balancing: separately, the host decides how far upgrades go and how strong the skills are tuned:

• Standard: the values from the settings.
• Generous: three times the levels (e.g. Stamina 15 instead of 5), but only as far as levels still do something: at most 20, reductions up to their limit, Inventory up to 20 slots, Crouch Walk up to walking speed; Agility goes up to 10, Jump to 6, Climber to 7, Long Reach to 8. Prices rise slower, so the last level costs what the old last level did. Lockpicking, hacking and the Medic delay take half as long, Concussive Blows stuns longer and twice as often, Blast Shield deals half the damage, Rallying Presence reaches 50% further and Second Wind has one more charge per day.
• Strict: 40% fewer levels (5 → 3), lockpicking, hacking and the Medic delay take 50% longer, Concussive Blows stuns shorter and less often, Blast Shield deals a third more damage, Rallying Presence reaches 25% less far.

Skills never ask for a higher level than an upgrade can currently have. Bought levels above a lowered max level are kept and work again once it is raised.

What stays, what resets

Saved build: when the crew gets fired, the mod remembers your upgrades in the order you bought them. In the new run rpg rebuy buys them again as far as your budget allows. With rpg rebuy auto this happens after every payout. rpg build save saves your current upgrades as your build at any time.

Respec: rpg refund resets all your upgrades and skills and gives back 50% of the money and XP you spent.

Your permanent profile is the file LethalRPG_Profile in %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\ZeekerssRBLX\Lethal Company. Back it up if you reinstall the game.

Settings

All settings are in BepInEx/config/cucumis.lethalrpg.cfg or, with LethalConfig, in the game's mod menu. Changes apply immediately. The host's settings always apply.

rpg <skill> shows the current values of a skill on this ship in the terminal.

Multiplayer

• Still being tested: playing with several players (purchases, payouts, skills that affect others) is not fully tested yet. Singleplayer should work.
• Every player needs the mod in the same version. If someone has another version or none at all, the mod warns everyone.
• Everyone buys and owns their own upgrades, or the crew shares them in team mode; the rules come from the host.
• In LAN games, upgrades and budgets in the save belong to the player slot (Player #1, #2, ...): join in the same order to keep yours. XP and skills are stored on your own PC and always stay yours.

Compatibility

• Bonuses from other mods (speed, stamina, health, ...) are kept and add up with LethalRPG.
• With an inventory mod (ReservedItemSlot, HotbarPlus, AdvancedCompany, LethalProgression) on the host, the Inventory upgrade turns itself off for everyone; Fast Hands then does not need Inventory 1.
• LateGameUpgrades, LethalProgression and GeneralImprovements work alongside; similar upgrades add up.
• Known: with GeneralImprovements and SprintOnLadders = Allow, Climber has no effect. The night vision of LateGameUpgrades and the mod "NightVision" override Night Owl while they are active.
• If another mod changes the game in a way that stops a skill from working, only that skill is affected; rpg info then shows a note.
• Tested with LethalConfig and a larger modpack (including LethalLevelLoader, DawnLib, JLL, MonsterManager, Fair AI).

Author and license

• Author: Cucumis
• License: MIT (see the LICENSE file). You may use, modify and share the code as long as the copyright and license notice stay included. No warranty.
• LethalRPG is an unofficial fan-made mod and is not affiliated with Zeekerss or Lethal Company. No game files are included. Use it at your own risk and keep backups of your saves.