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

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:

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.
During endless assaults enemies will respawn 2x faster.

"Fade" (ending) assault phase will always last it's max duration of about 1 minute, to compensate for longer assault waves (new enemies do not spawn during Fade).
The "in-between assaults" phase will no longer spawn enemies to make assault breaks a bit longer and easier.
Anticipation phase (~30 secs before assault) will never be skipped, and enemies will spawn as quickly as possible during it's duration, to fill up the map.

Street cops will now give up instantly regardless of difficulty or other factors. Light swats and Heavy swat chances to surrender were reduced. Exact chances depend on chosen DW+ difficulty and certain factors that affect the enemy. Values can be found in the spoiler bellow.

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.

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 VD12 shotgun that visually 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 Cpt. 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: Death Squad's field snipers, unlike marshal marksmen, will try to come as close to you as possible.

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.

ECM feedback stun effect can now be nerfed. By default "reduced" option is used, which lowers chances for ECM feedback stun effect to apply to enemies from 80-100% (depends on enemy type) every 1 second, to 20% every second. You can either disable this feature to use vanilla values, or make ECM feedback have 0% chance to stun enemies. This effect applies to both Hacker perk deck's PECM and standard equipment ECM jammer.

This feature was introduced mostly for the Hacker Perk Deck, because it goes from being an S+ tier perk to S+++ tier perk while playing with DW+ rules.

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

• 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.

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 tweak ECM feedback stun effect power
• 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 can feel about as hard as Death Sentence difficulty for an unprepared player
• "Suicidal" makes enemies use hardest hitting weapons, increases their amounts to an absurd level, and spams specials non-stop. Defeating this difficulty without Hacker's ECM's is what i would consider a great showcase of your skill. Or broken DPS builds.

In-depth stats for difficulties

* 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.
**** This changes how many spawn points can be used by the game to spawn enemies at the same time. 'Respawn delay' is applied to every spawn point individually, so higher this number is, faster enemy respawns will be.

Special limits table - max amount of every unit on the map at the same time.

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 by players who join your lobby to get more information on this mod via a private message. If you as host use any of these commands, you will print information from them for all players in the lobby
• 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:

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:

Spawns on this map can be 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 extremely short with only the most basic enemies spawning in:

• First 2 waves have shorter durations, anticipation and fade phases. They should last for ~3 minutes at most.
• First 2 waves do not allow smoke grenades to spawn in.
• Enemies will be limited to blue light swats and occasional tazers/shields/medics, with other special units never appearing

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

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 if a custom heist is using custom enemies. DW+ will try to fix custom heists, but it's not guaranteed to happen automatically. If you have played on a custom heist and have issues, feel free to report them in the comments with a link for that heist.

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:

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