Stay & Combat Fixes

What's new in 2.1.0

What this mod does

Combat and abilities

• Stay aura — Stops units from sliding and leaning forward under Stay (Banner Bearer and similar). Keeps weapons from drifting and improves ranged aim without breaking charge abilities.
• Lay down — Improves lay-down combat: range checks, attack targeting, and firing while prone. MG-42 and M2 Browning keep vanilla unit combat moves (lay-down stays on the weapon only).
• Mirror shield — Improved projectile reflection and block behavior. Toggle with Mirror.Shield.Improved in the config file.
• Possession free aim — Crosshair targeting, zoom, and related QoL while possessing units, Adds Mag Based UI, Auto Fire for Fast Ranged Weapons (toggle), Melee Dash Toggle for melee units.

Environment and projectiles

• Water physics — Replaces vanilla mud-like water slowdown with separate tuning for still ponds and rivers. Fixes dynasty-style river forks pulling units toward the junction.
• Barrel death explosion — Units with the barrel ability reliably explode on death, not just the Barrel Roller blueprint.
• Gas grenade — Fixes the gas grenade falling through the floor on ground hits.

Faction creator

• Drag reorder — Drag units in the custom faction list to change order. Order is saved with the faction.
• Custom unit cost on hover — Shows cost when you hover custom units in the faction editor (faction list and unit browser). Vanilla faction units are unchanged.
• Units on startup — Fixes custom factions showing 0 units until you add units to a dummy faction (Hopefully).

Unit editor

• Custom stats — Target Priority, Animation Speed, and Step Frequency multiplier rows on the STATS tab.
• Config toggle — Set UnitEditor > CustomStatsAndScroll to false for vanilla unit editor stats behavior.

Win conditions

• Kill All Selected Units — Victory condition in the map editor: pick multiple enemy units (click each one on the battlefield), then Apply. You win when every selected unit has been killed.
• Kill Enemy Count — Win after killing a configured number of enemy units.

Team line (square)

• Square team boundary in placement (third type after Line and Circle).
• True square red/blue map tint uses shader Hidden/StayCombatFix/TeamEdgeSquare, loaded from teamedge_square.assetbundle (circle fallback if the bundle is missing).

Configuration

After the first run, edit BepInEx/config/pretz.staycombatfix.cfg:

• Water.Still / Water.River — Pond and river movement tuning
• Mirror.Shield.Improved — true for improved mirror shield, false for vanilla behavior
• Possession.FirstPerson > FreeAim — true enables possession crosshair aim, zoom, Etc; false restores vanilla possession behavior
• UnitEditor > CustomStatsAndScroll — true enables custom STATS rows and scroll; false for vanilla unit editor stats

Requirements

• BepInEx Pack for TABS 5.4.16+
• SLMA Core 1.1.3+

Verify installation

In BepInEx/LogOutput.log after launching the game:

[Info   : Stay & Combat Fixes] Loaded v2.1.0 by Pretz — Harmony 125/125
[Info   : Stay & Combat Fixes] Square team line: loaded TeamEdgeSquare shader from asset bundle (material)

If the patch count is lower, check the log for warnings about skipped patches (usually a game update changed types).

Reporting errors

If something is not working, include:

1. What happened and what you expected
2. The map or unit involved (if relevant)
3. Your BepInEx/LogOutput.log from after the problem occurred

Send reports on the mod's Thunderstore page or wherever you downloaded the mod from.

Credits

Pretz

Changelog

[3.0.0] - Initial Public Re-release

Previous Versions of the mod included several things that were split into other mods such as Free Aim and Tabs Unlimited.