Behemoths

Some levels in R.E.P.O. go badly. Behemoths makes a few of them go very badly.

Deeper into a run, a level can roll as a boss level. Every monster on it is a Behemoth: bigger, three times the health, shrugging off half your damage, and hitting twice as hard. Put one down and it drops an orb worth two and a half times the usual cash. Everything else on the level is worth more too, and the extraction goal doesn't move, so the extra is all profit. Sneak past them like always, or go after the payout.

Host only. Only the host installs Behemoths. The whole lobby gets the tougher monsters, the harder hits and the bigger payout, mod or no mod. To see the Behemoths at their full size, a player also needs ScalerCore, which Behemoths already depends on.

A note from Vippy

After way too long of a break, I'm finally back and working on these again :D Every one of my mods just got a full pass: bugs fixed, reports read, a few things I'd always meant to do. New builds and fixes land in Vippy's Discord before they hit Thunderstore, so come hang out. Thanks for sticking around.

What a boss level is like

• You find out when you land. Once the level loads, the moon-phase screen comes up reading BOSS LEVEL, with this level's numbers. Only the host sees it, so warn your crew, or let the first Behemoth do it.
• The deeper you go, the likelier it gets. Levels 1 and 2 are always safe. From level 3 each level rolls, and the odds climb with the game's own difficulty curve until they reach 60% at level 10. The map then nudges that up or down.
• Some maps are worse than others. Swiftbroom Academy and the Museum of Human Art roll boss levels more often. McJannek Station, with its tight corridors, rolls them less. Headman Manor sits in the middle.
• They stay special. After a boss level, the next three levels are normal. The cooldown is saved with your run.
• The Behemoths. Every monster grows 1.4x and gets three times the health and half damage from everything you throw at it. Its body grows wider with the look, so what you see is what you shoot and grab, and its swing reaches as far as it looks. It stays door height, so it can still follow you through the building.
• Hits hurt, within reason. Behemoth hits do double damage. One hit never takes more than 75% of your max health unless the normal hit already would, so a hit you'd survive at full health, you still survive.
• You feel them coming. A Behemoth on the move shakes the host's camera when it gets close.
• The payout. A Behemoth's orb is worth 2.5x, twice the size, heavier, and takes about five times the knocks before it loses value. Every other valuable on the level is worth 1.5x. The level still spawns its usual loot and keeps its usual goal.

Who sees what

A player with nothing installed sees a normal-sized monster that just won't go down.

Settings

Everything works out of the box. The four you're most likely to touch:

• How often: BaseChance, MaxChance and CooldownLevels. For a boss on every level, set 100, 100, 0 and EarliestLevel to 1.
• How big: SizeMultiplier.
• How tough: HealthMultiplier, DamageMultiplier and DamageResistance. HitCap keeps a big multiplier from one-shotting anyone.
• How rich: OrbValueMultiplier and ValuableMultiplier.

Every slider also shows up in-game with REPOConfig.

General

Boss Levels

Boss Monsters

Boss Loot

Map Odds

Multipliers on the chance for each map. 0 keeps boss levels off that map.

Tuning

You shouldn't need these. They're here for when a map's doorways and a big Behemoth don't get along.

Tuning with the game running

Move a slider in REPOConfig, or edit the cfg file and save it, and the Behemoths already in the level pick up the new size, body caps, health and resistance within about a second. Damage and reach read the config on every hit. The console logs a [Tune] line each time. Other players with ScalerCore see a new size straight away, and a change to the body caps once that Behemoth respawns.

Compatibility

• Size comes from ScalerCore, so Behemoths shares its physics, audio and multiplayer sync.
• For players other than the host, the host sends the extra damage the moment it sees a Behemoth's hit land. It arrives as a second hit right behind the normal one, so it flashes twice, and on a laggy connection a hit you dodged on your screen can still sting.
• The Tick keeps its normal health. Its health is its hunger, and a bigger pool would stop it biting. It still grows, hits harder and shrugs off damage.
• Damage a monster deals without being credited for it, like a throw into a wall or a fall into a pit, isn't boosted.

Installation

Install with Gale or r2modman and ScalerCore comes along. By hand, drop Behemoths.dll into BepInEx/plugins/ next to ScalerCore. Only the host needs it.

Come hang out

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