Enemy changes:

All enemies now have same amount of health on all difficulties, with values being similar to vanilla Death Wish difficulty.

Headshots now deal 2x damage, with exceptions for some special enemies.

Melee rework (important for skills):

Melee weapons now deal % damage - if your melee has 35 damage, it will deal 35% of enemy's health in one hit. Some enemies are exceptions to this rule.

Skills/Perks:

It's impossible to make a summary, since this game has so many skills, but i can tell you one thing - most skills that are considered to be good were made to be a bit worse, while skills that are considered bad, for the most part are better... or just a bit more fun. This approach is true for most things in this mod.

One of the most important balance changes is probably under the neutral (global) perk deck cards that every perk has, because you will (almost) always have them. So check them out.

Otherwise, you can check the "Skills Legend" picture on top of the skills tab bellow - it summarizes skills' information like if a skill was updated or not, if it was buffed/nerfed and so on. Check out whatever you think might be interesting :)

Also, 3 new custom perks were added - "Brawler", "Speed Junkie" and "Guardian".

Weapon Changes:

Damage and ammo:
All guns are now categorized under a "damage class" - most weapons will have a strict base damage value without random fluctuations from weapon to weapon like 66.4 vs 65.2.
Ammo pick up is now dependent only on weapon damage class, and it is much much worse. You HAVE to use both of your weapons, and even then you can still run out, especially on lengthy heists. Using melee and throwable weapons is somewhat mandatory, to avoid running out of ammo quickly.

Recoil:
Most guns have more recoil.
Recoil camera compensation is almost completely removed.
Weapon recoil now depends on your base stability: weapons with low base stability will have extremely high recoil, and vice versa.

Handling:
Weapon accuracy and stability are no longer affected if you: crouch, jump, walk or sprint. However, both accuracy and stability have a penalty if you are firing from the hip. Aiming down sights removes this penalty.
All weapons have an accuracy penalty if used in full-auto fire mode. If you use the select fire keybind to switch weapon to single-fire mode, it will gain it's full accuracy.

Common card #2 - Skill from common card #8 was moved here, headshot bonus was weird.

Common card #6 - You can now pick up throwables from ammo boxes without investing into "Fully Loaded" skill. This should increase variety in weapon and perk choices. To compensate, throwable pick ups now depend on your chosen throwable.

Common card #8 - Swapped random 5% dmg bonus for movement from Ghost's basic parkour and bag throwing bonus from Enforcer's basic transporter. Those skills were adjusted accordingly.

ROGUE
Introduction of COPYCAT perk deck, made rogue obsolete, because health regen, invulnerability and dodge ricochet are better then extra 5% dodge. Rogue now gets slightly more dodge, mobility and a more consistent AP chance to balance things out.

HITMAN
Updated the way armor recovery works with this perk to make it more unique, and slightly better.

SOCIOPATH/INFILTRATOR
Damage increase was changed due to melee rework. Hidden infiltrator duration buff was reworked, so now both decks have an increased window for follow up hits of 4 seconds.

GAMBLER
To avoid inconsistencies, caused by your teammates running berserker builds, this perk now provides extra health if at least 1 teammate has more heath. Your max possible burst healing is reduced to compensate. Ammo pick up range can stack with same skill from Ammo Specialist sub-tree.

YAKUZA
Added armor buffs to make running at low health slightly less dangerous.

SICARIO
Smoke bomb cooldown was reduced from 60 to 45 seconds. That's it.

TAG TEAM
Line of sight requirement was removed to make this perk easier to use, and the effect timer increase you get per kill was buffed, to make the effect last longer easier.

HACKER
These changes were made to Hacker to make it less spammy and annoying, and a bit harder to use, while keeping it's power at roughly the same level.

COPYCAT
Adjusted how this skill behaves with armor, to be more in line with what vanilla description implies. This made this skill too good and reliable, so cooldown was nerfed to compensate.

Note: you can reset your perk progression in Gilza's mod options to re-acquire perk decks, allowing you to try new custom perk decks without grinding XP to unlock them.

BRAWLER
Deck with a hard focus on melee weapons' usage. Your job is to take as much damage for your team as you can, to make their life easier.

SPEED JUNKIE
Faster you move, more bonuses you gain. This perk should feel really nice for those who like to move quickly, but beware of potential downsides if you overindulge in such high adrenaline activities.

GUARDIAN
A new defensive perk with powerful camping capabilities, that will cost you a lot of mobility and utility, and also survivability if you are not careful.

Tier 4

Basic version of inspire is barely used, unless you either enjoy shouting at other people to move the fuck up, or a teammate is carrying a heavy objective bag. With this change you should be incentivized to use it more often.

Tier 3

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Tier 1

This change keeps up with "Combat medic" idea while not hurting berserker players.

Tier 4

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Tier 3

A decent upside with an obvious downside. This skill was added to make other adjustments within Controller sub-tree flow better.

Tier 2

Now focused more on civilian control.

Split confident skill to make sides of this tree make a bit more sense. Also, the 35% damage penalty is how it works in vanilla - description was updated to make it more clear.

Tier 1

Aced version was always extremely bad for it's cost, so now it's cheap. Converted enemies are now slightly more expensive, since they are pretty good.

Tier 4

Damage calculations were updated to remove the need for headshots, and to make this skill's damage more consistent. Minimal trigger distance was added to incentivize sniping.

Tier 3

This skill does not need any changes, but it's cost was never justifiable to me. With new numbers it's a bit better.

Tier 2

Now has a new affect that interacts with Gilza's new weapon recoil, otherwise almost untouched.

Buffs slower playstyle, especially with bipod'able weapons.

Tier 1

Simplified.

Tier 4

This skill is not required anymore to effectively use shotguns, so it gained a reload speed bonus. Damage was updated for new weapon breakpoints. Increased duration should make aced version of the skill better.

Tier 3

Magazine increasing skill from vanilla skill "Close By", was reworked into this one, to let any shotgun get benefits from it, though bonus itself is lower.

Aced version now provides a similar effect to "Saw Massacre" while using Shotguns. Boost for killing a panicking enemy can be received with any weapon. Note that not every panicking enemy will trigger the boost, but only a specific "full panic" animation. I recommend using the pop up notification to figure out how it looks, you can disable it after.

Tier 2

ADS speed bonus was moved to "Shotgun Expert"

Increased damage is no longer needed. Now provides extra stability and ADS bonuses.

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Tier 2

Compensation for the new global perk card.

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Tier 4

Since you now can pick up grenades without this skill, nade pick up was increased compared to vanilla.

Tier 3

Bonuses swapped since aced provided much less value then basic.

Aced version now provides ammo pick up for the saw, making it more viable.

Tier 2

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Tier 4

Running 4 sentries is now cheaper to compensate new ammo economy. Aced version is a decent alternative sentry playstyle, especially for DS.

Tier 3

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Tier 4

Maximum total duration of firetraps is now 140 seconds longer for one full heist day. Increased range also makes them a more effective area denial tool.

Tier 3

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Tier 4

Basic version now provides armor piercing at a reduced damage rate, like "Surefire", but allows you to play with lazy aim. Aced version is a new DPS skill, but has only a few specific breakpoints that can actually work well. Also feels a bit weird, because bodyshots are more effective.

Tier 3

In vanilla you get more reload speed on a smaller magazine weapon, even though they already have faster reload speeds. This backwards logic never made sense to me.

Aced version now has a 50% damage penalty when dealing damage through body armor. This is a compensation for new weapon effectiveness with bodyshots. Can stack with new "Body Expertise" basic.

Tier 2

Max chances tripled, but new threat requirement was added to make this skill more synergetic with 'loud' weapons.

This skill was previously improving your hip-fire weapon handling, for some weapons, and compensating penalties for others. Now it only removes penalties that Gilza's weapon handling has.

Tier 1

Simplified.

Tier 4

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Tier 2

Bodybag asset and civilian cleaner costs were moved here to make it more "logical".

Spotter and spycam assets were moved here to make it more "logical".

Tier 1

Insider assets like keycards and better getaway driver are viable for loud, not just stealth, so if you want to run it for loud builds, it's now super cheap at just 1 skill point instead of 7. This skill is the only one in this tree that is viable in loud now.

Tier 4

New dodge focused skill that will help most dodge builds by providing extra safety, for moments when your armor is broken.

Tier 3

This is exactly the same skill from vanilla, but it's now cheaper at tier 3 instead of tier 4. "Dire need" functionality was moved to "Backfire".

Aced version is "Shockproof" aced combined with new electric bullets upgrade. You can now roleplay as the tazer.

Tier 2

Basic version's 10% movement speed was moved to general perk cards, so new functionality was added to compensate.

Tier 1

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Tier 4

Same as Low Blow at Tier 3.

Tier 3

Effectiveness was improved thanks to new critical hit damage multiplier.

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Tier 4

Now provides increased ammo capacity for small-caliber weapons, and can help both sides of the tree.

Tier 3

Now combines effects of conditional "on-hit" pistol skills into one skill, to make left side of this tree focused on pistols. Effectiveness is slightly reduced.

Now provides new bonuses to akimbo weapons, to make right side of this tree focused on akimbo weapons.

Tier 2

Magazine capacity was removed, to avoid confusion when using revolvers. Rate of fire effect is smaller, compensating for pistol ROF adjustments. Reload speed moved from skill previously known as "Desperado" to here.

Tier 1

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Tier 4

This is more of a QOL update to make using this skill easier.

Tier 3

Reduced this skill's combat effectiveness by removing infinite ammo, which harms Gilza's ammo economy quite a bit. Improved perk's supportive capabilities with new movement speed penalty avoidance and increased overall duration.

Tier 2

Increased duration to improve it's worth.

In vanilla, "Up You Go" aced provides you 40% more health when revived. However, this bonus is applied to the health bonus that is set per difficulty, so to the 10% health you get on mayhem and above. Because of that, you would only receive 14% health when revived with this skill instead of the expected 50%. New version provides a flat % amount of your max health. 7 skill points for 4% extra health is dumb, thus the change.

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Tier 3

Added damage to improve this skill's worth, especially with melee builds.

This is an overall nerf that makes this skill not as reliable. But, as an upside, you can now use healing skills to keep your health at 30% with frenzy or more without it, to avoid being killed by snipers.

Berserk visual screen flash preview: (Color, size, and how exactly it flashes, can be adjusted in Gilza mod options.) Preview link without downloading.

Tier 2

Numbers updated to match new melee damage.

New skill to make your melee's feel better.

Tier 1

This skill now reduced camera shake from melee attacks to make melee playstyles more comfortable.

This mod will automatically search for custom weapons and convert their damage stats to work with Gilza's health changes. Beware: some custom weapons may have attachments that change damage/ammo pick up or other stats in such a way that it will not match Gilza's values well, making them either too good, or bad. I can't do anything about it, other then manually adding support for every gun individually, and that is just tedious.

Currently supported attachment mods:
All of FrenchyAU's tacticool attachments packs (250+ attachments). Check Gilza's dependencies & Instructions tab for links.

Custom "special" weapons are not supported.

• While charging your melee weapons new melee UI will appear showing your charge amount and damage in %. This can be tweaked or disabled in Gilza's mod options.
• You can spoof Gilza's custom perks, to avoid being kicked in public lobbies. Can be disabled in Gilza's mod options.
• You can reset your perk progression to re-acquire perk decks, allowing you to try new custom perk decks without grinding XP to unlock them. This option does not reset amount of perk points you have already earned.