Not related to Ellie's "Death Wish +" mod from ~2016.

A more challenging and unique way of playing your favorite difficulty.

This mod can be played with anyone: only host needs to have it installed.

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Gameplay changes summary

Enemies can now handcuff you during interactions:

Assault waves last longer, but also have longer breaks:

Enemies are harder to intimidate, they respawn quicker, and in bigger squads:

Enemy weapon variety was enriched and some less often used units were brought back:

If mods had anthems, i would use this one.

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Gameplay changes in more detail

Cuffing on interactions
Works exactly as presented in the GIF above. Any interaction can be interrupted by any enemy. To get rid of cuffs, you need to either wait for a minute to uncuff yourself, or one of your teammates needs to come and rescue you. Inspire does not get you uncuffed.

In-depth explanation:

Police assaults
Assault duration is now ALWAYS the same, regardless of downs or players in custody, with the main part of the assault lasting 330-370 seconds. 'Fade' period of the assault (when no new enemies spawn in, and existing enemies are falling back) will always last it's max duration of about 1 minute, to compensate for longer assault waves. Anticipation phase will also never be skipped.

Harder enemy intimidations
Enemies with more armor/health are harder to intimidate, while normal 'every day' cops can be intimidated easily. Getting enemies to less then 40% health will make all intimidations much easier. Also catching enemies during a reload or while they are incapacitated can help.

Enemy respawns
Delays in between each squad's spawns are reduced. In vanilla this value is ~5 seconds.
While playing Death Wish +, minimum delay is set to 4. It also changes based on the chosen difficulty pre-set in DW+ options menu, and can go as low as 0.5 seconds.
Enemy squads are also slightly bigger - this causes more enemies to spawn at the same time as part of a single squad unit.

Enemy variety
Normal units:

• Some enemies that are rarely or never used in vanilla PD2 (like hostage rescue teams) are brought back
• Units from lower difficulties, like blue SWAT's from Normal, and green FBI's from Overkill difficulties are included in the spawn pool

Specials:

• Medic bulldozer was added
• Green bulldozer can now use a shotgun that stuns you (same shotgun that marshal shields use after their shield is broken)
• Marshal squads spawn earlier and more often
• New "Death Squad" was added. This squad consists of 1 Winter's Shields and 2 FIELD SNIPERS - they are not a heavy zeal sniper alternatives from crime spree, but normal rooftop snipers that can pen your armor. This squad is rare, especially on lower DW+ difficulties, but it can be a great threat at any distance. Note: "DS" field snipers, unlike marshal marksmen, will try to come as close to you as possible.

Enemy weapon variety
Some enemies, such as blue SWAT's from normal difficulties, by default spawn with very low damaging weapons. DW+ now replaces all enemy weapons to ensure roughly similar damage output from all units that spawn. Code for this part of the mod was taken from IareAwesome17's Mixed Weapons mod. Due to this change, any other mod that alters enemy weapons, including Mixed Weapons, is not compatible with DW+ and will most likely break it's balance.

Hostage Control (Optional feature)

Fully intimidated cops count as a hostage for this mechanic.
Keeping/killing hostages will affect gameplay in various ways, details in the table bellow:

Hostages killed/kept	Penalty	Bonus
1 through 8	Each hostage affects enemy respawn delay up to max total of 50% (at 8 hostage kills), special spawn chances up to max total of 25%, and max amount of cops on the map, up to max total of 30%	Same things as in penalty, but with positive values. Also with at least 1 hostage you get longer assault breaks
6	Cloaker starts teleporting to players prioritizing those with higher amount of hostage kills, he respawns every 50-130 seconds	-
8	Cloaker now respawns every 30-80 seconds	-
9	New enemy joins to prevent any more slaughter	-

Additional gameplay adjustments

• SWAT turrets will no longer self-repair while playing on any DW+ difficulty
• After all players were downed, game will end in roughly 32 seconds instead of 10 (stockholm syndrome buff)

Note: This mod is balanced for 4 players in your team - if you play solo, you will get same amount of spawns as in co-op and you might be overwhelmed quickly, so i would recommend against turning bots off.

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Gameplay customization

Things you can customize in DW+ mod options

Visual

• All minigun dozers can be replaced with Zeal counterparts for the american faction
• Marshal uniforms can be changed to black/green/black+green for the american faction

Gameplay

• You can change how many cops you have to kill for assault to end prematurely
• You can select one of four difficulty pre-sets

Difficulty pre-sets

You can adjust DW+ difficulty in mod options, here's a quick overview of all difficulties:

• "DW+ classic" is recommended for trying the mod, and for a chill experience with randoms
• "DW++" is a bumped up version of DW+, with minor changes - provides a fair and fun challenge
• "Insanity" increases overall damage output of all enemies. In terms of difficulty it should feel about as hard as Death Sentence difficulty would
• "Suicidal" makes enemies use hardest hitting weapons, increases their amounts to an absurd level, and spams specials non-stop. Defeating this difficulty without abusing Hacker's ECM's is what i would consider a great showcase of your skill. Or broken builds.

In-depth stats for difficulties

Difficulty	№ of cops on the map*	Respawn delay	Normal to special ratio**	Light to heavy ratio***
Vanilla Death Wish	54-72	~5 sec.	80/20 (roughly)	60/40 (roughly)
DW+ classic	48	4 sec.	55/45	65/35
DW++	60	3 sec.	50/50	55/45
Insanity	76	1.75 sec.	40/60	40/60
Suicidal	100	0.25 sec.	30/70	20/80

* In vanilla Death Wish max amount of cops on the map scales with a hidden value that depends on how much damage your team recently took, your downs etc. With DW+ this value is always static regardless of mentioned above events. This amount can also be reached faster in DW+ due to quicker spawns.
* * This value represents % chances for normal units to spawn when compared to special units. These numbers are not 100% accurately guaranteed, since enemies are picked randomly based off of these chances.
* * * This value represents % chances for light swats to spawn when compared to heavy swats (heavy swats are swats with body armor and 2x health). These numbers are not 100% accurately guaranteed, since enemies are picked randomly based off of these chances.

Special limits table

Special type	Vanilla Death Wish	DW+ classic	DW++	Insanity	Suicidal
Shields	4	5	6	7	8
Medics	3	4	5	6	7
Tasers	3	5	6	7	8
Dozers	2	4	5	6	7
Cloakers	2	3	3	4	5

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Additional mod information/other players interactions

Since you can host public games with this mod, a few things were added:

• Every person who joins your lobby, will get a welcome message when they join, to let them know what this mod does (only on DW difficulty)
• While hosting a game with this mod, your lobby will have "Death Wish +" (amount of +'s depends on your mod difficulty) set as it's name, if you selected a contract on Death Wish difficulty. This can be disabled, but you should only do so, if you have other mods that change your lobby name
• Chat commands can be used for quick ammo/med bag requests. Other commands can also be used by players who join your lobby to get more info on this mod
• When player joins your lobby, you can get information in chat on their skill point amount, used perk deck, their PD2 playtime (if possible) and infamy level. You can choose which ones to enable in settings
• When a heist ends, statistics of your choice (like kill/death ratio, headshots etc.) can be printed in chat (Host only)

How these messages look in game:

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Individual Heist Adjustments

A huge portion of heists have their own unique enemy amount multipliers to compensate overall pressure you will get from enemies due to close spawn points, map design and other similar factors. This multiplier is only applied to the max amount of cops on the map, enemy ratio spawn chances are not affected.
"No Mercy" heist has a unique beginning phase to "fix" spawns for the map.

Values for affected maps:

No Mercy Heist

Spawns on this map are inconsistent, due to randomization of spawn points, sometimes all of them can open at the start, and sometimes the opposite can happen. To avoid this issue, first 2 assault waves will be skipped in a quick and 'theatrical' way, after which the chaos of Death Wish + shall begin. How it will go down:

• Alarm goes off, first responders are coming in
• After the wait first 2 assaults begin
• Anticipation and build (starting) assault phases will be completely skipped
• Waves themselves are short, about 40 seconds each
• Break in-between those waves will be extremely short
• Enemies will be limited to blue light swats and occasional tazers/shields/medics, with other special units never appearing
• After second assault is over, a chat message and a voice line from Bain will play notifying everyone of the new assault beginning in full force
• With wave 3, DW+ chaos begins (note: wave 3 has no smoke/flash grenades to make it a bit less annoying, but on wave 4 they make their reappearance, so be warned)

Due to these changes it is recommended to play this heist in loud from the start, otherwise it may get quite boring.

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Custom Heists Support

Some custom heists have their own sets of enemy spawn groups, which causes DW+ to break. You will notice this issue quickly, because no enemies will spawn in, other then single cloakers and marshals, or you may just crash. DW+ will try to fix custom heists, but it's not guaranteed to happen automatically, so I will have to manually add support for custom heists affected by this problem to fix them. If you have played on a custom heist and noticed this issue, please report it in the comments with a link for that heist.

Currently supported custom heists (that were broken prior to manual updates):

• Hardware Store
• Harvest & Trustee: Southern Branch

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Other mods compatibility:

BeardLib is used for auto-updates. After installing a new version, you should restart your game in case there are some major changes. If you want to check patch notes you can check changelog on this page.

The earliest (like 4 months before upload) version of DW+ was a heavily modified version of Rokk's IREnFIST, which after a lot of adjustments and additions came to be what DW+ is now. So please give it a try, if you enjoy certain parts of DW+ that were taken from IREnFIST, like cuffs on interactions (non-aggressive version), if you want to play with new mechanics in a more light and closer to vanilla-like experience. P.S. This mod wasn't updated in over a year, so beware - bugs are probably present.

My personal additional mod recommendations: