TPS Cold Dead Hands

TPS Cold Dead Hands

Author: Apocalyptech

Last Updated: August 21, 2019

In Categories: Loot System Overhauls

Download Methods

Link to Mod File (right click and "Save Link As")

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README

This mod completely revamps the way in which weapons and shields are acquired during the game. Instead of dropping weapons/shields from a random loot pool, enemies will now always drop the specific gun and shield that they're using. In the default configuration, enemy gear quality is also improved considerably.

In general, these enhanced enemy drops are just about the only way to acquire weapons and shields in the game. Weapons and shields will not be found in chests, and vending machines have severely restricted inventories. Some notable exceptions include quest rewards, which are unchanged, and larger "lootsplosion" type events generated by raid bosses, endgame rewards and the like.

In the default configuration, this mod is a spiritual cousin of my own Better Loot mod. You'll be up against enemies using purples, glitches, and even legendaries. Gear quality can be customized easily in BLCMM, so you can still play using something close to the stock Borderlands gear quality. Regardless of gear quality configuration, Badass enemies will have better gear than their ordinary counterparts.

Grenade Mods, Class Mods, and Oz Kits will still be acquired as per usual - via world drops, chests, and the like.

NOTE: This mod has a lot of user-configurable options (detailed below in the "Configuration" section). In fact, there's 61,440 theoretically-supported permutations of the options (though to be fair, there's only about 480 which are closely-related). Needless to say, I have not thoroughly tested out all combinations to ensure that everything works as it should. If you encounter strange behavior, definitely look me up on Discord, github, or email, with full details of how you've got it configured, and I can take a look.

View whole README on Github

Description (from inside mod)

TPS Cold Dead Hands v1.1.1
by Apocalyptech
Licensed under Public Domain / CC0 1.0 Universal

Enemies will always drop the exact gun/shield that they were using, and
weapons/shields are in general not otherwise findable in the world (treasure chests,
for instance, will not contain guns or shields).

In the default configuration, enemy gear is MUCH improved from stock -- you will be
fighting enemies with gemstones, glitch, and even legendaries, across all weapon
types.  Various options for controlling the quality of gear used by enemies (and
thus available to yourself) can be found below.  See the README file for full
details.

Changelog

v1.1.1, August 21, 2019:

• Added the Heart Breaker as a potential legendary shotgun

v1.1.0, July 27, 2018 (commit 889a322f5f4e370ad3ccbad14395355b590bda9d):

• Converted to BLCM format (BLCMM is now required; FilterTool is not supported)
• Added more options for rocket launcher equip chances other than the binary choice from previous versions.
• Added in my TPS Early Bloomer mod to enable all item/weapon types from the very beginning of the game
• Forced some early-game unlocks from Early Bloomer to be active at all times, regardless of whether that option is selected
• Alphabetized a few categories which were in need of it (mostly in the categories which deal with specific enemies)

v1.0.0, July 9, 2018 (commit 502a6d1e2a96a76750299b930e267074e6dc260e):

• Initial public release