I tried to mod game based on my personal feeling and want to share my thought:
in general i played with all custom options turned ON
battlescape
- pistols have only snap shots with 40-60% accuracy and 15-25% cost to use, other way its useless
- rifles have auto cheap but inaccurate, snap same and very accurate and expensive aimed
- heavy have normal snap, no auto, and a bit better aimed, heavy and bulky (even plasma) and in general better damage
- all grenades weight 4, high explosives 9
- all tanks have auto shot but very inaccurate
base
- double cost of research
- cut scientist cost to half
geoscape
- small radar, cheap and low range
- large radar, expensive and mid range
- decoder, more expensive and high range
crafts
- many changes, in general stick with speed to values like 1000, 4000 etc,
- firestorm is fastest
- skyranger 400K buy / 200K upkeep
- interceptor 600K buy / 300K upkeep
production
- all alien weapons x2 to manufacture time
- laser cannon and FLB time to manufacture +25%
missions
- more aliens in general per mission
- civilians during base defense mission
- missions are 2 times more frequent then normal
aliens
- in general lessen damage modifier by half (from 1.6 -> 1.3 from 0.4 to 0.7)
- smaller sectoid
- +15 reaction fire to floater
- reaper have fast, weak melee attack
- chrysalis have heavy but slow melee attack
- zombie is very slow
- all commanders and engineers smarter
craft weapons
- stingray 60 dmg, 40 range, 60%, 20 reload, 6 speed move, 8 missiles
- avalanche 100 dmg, 60 range, 80%, 30 reload, 8 speed move, 4 missiles
- cannon 20 dmg, 20 range, 30%, 100 bullets, 12 speed move, 5 reload
- laser 80 dmg, 30 range, 40%, 50 bullets, 10 reload
- plasma 120 dmg, 50 range, 50%, 25 bullets, 15 reload
- fushion bomb, 200 dmg, 60 range, 100%, 4 bullets, 25 reload
Tom
