This mod enables recording of archangels to get their tapes. This mod also adds starting moves for archangel tapes, expands their list of learnable moves, and increases the move slots of most archangel tapes. Archangel exclusive moves can also be peeled like normal stickers and are compatible with sticker fusion. Archangel tapes and stickers can be recycled as normal.
Some archangel fights can only be fought once per playthrough. This mod does not add any new archangel encounters, so for archangels such as Helia and Lenna, you may have to use a mod that features these encounters (such as Boss Replay Mod or Infinite Railway by NCrafters). Otherwise, you may have to spawn them in directly using a mod such as Debug Plus by Lerycide. Archangel tapes spawned this way should still have the starting moves added by this mod.
Requirements
This mod requires Mod Utils by Cat.
Warning
BACKUP YOUR SAVE BEFORE USING THIS! Given the nature of this mod, there is always the possibility of something ruining your save file. While I personally haven't run into any save issues in my testing, use at your own risk!
This mod is usable while connected online HOWEVER you cannot use archangel tapes for coop or pvp fights.
Removing
This mod can be safely removed. Because archangel tapes already exist within the game, you should be able to keep any existing tapes along with their current stickers. However, they will no longer be able to equip most stickers and their move slots will go back to 8. They will still have their currently equipped stickers, but removing stickers that are above the move limit will also remove that move slot. Essentially, if you remove this mod you can keep your archangel tapes but you won't really be able to change their moves.
Also if this mod is removed, attempting to put archangel stickers in the sticker fusion menu will crash the game.
Tapes changed by this mod
Base game and DLC spoilers:
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Morgante, Morgante (wounded), Morgante Gestalt, Poppetox, Mourningstar, Nowhere Monarch, Heckahedron, Alice, Robin Goodfellow, Mammon, Lamento Mori, Babelith, Aleph, Aleph Null, Helia, Lenna, Pearl, Raven, Rose, Gwenivar, The Amber Lodge, The Mer-Line
Each archangel tape comes with the moves used in their boss fight (with some exceptions), at least 12 move slots (some having more to fit their larger moveset) plus Smack or Spit, Channeled Power, and usually an empty slot or two for customisation. All archangels are able to use Channeled Power, Eldritch, and Summon Tulpa. Some archangels (such as Aleph Null) do not have all their moves in their starting movesets due to limitations, but are still able to equip stickers of their missing moves, which can be taken off other archangels like normal stickers.
Gauntlet spoilers:
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Shining Kuneko, Magikrab, Shadow Lenna, Bytten Studio
Magikrab and Shining Kuneko are compatible with the 'Channelled Power' sticker. Magikrab now knows 'End of the Line' in its starting moveset (you are also able to record Magikrab from the gauntlet). Some of Bytten Studio's moves are modified versions of regular moves that are more powerful.
Channeled Power Mechanics
You do not use lose AP when using most attacks, but moves that cost a full AP bar will use AP like normal (such as last rites, headshot, and angelic attacks).
Switching tapes does not remove the Channeled Power status.
Channeled power does not grant you angelic attacks on its own, you need to add them yourself using stickers.
Known issues
- Fusion involving any archangel will crash the game. So...don't do that.
- You cannot record Poppetox during his boss fight due to his effigies. As a workaround, you could use my Record Anything mod (found in 'downloads' section) alongside this mod to record Poppetox. I made the Record Anything mod purely for debugging purposes, so I recommend removing it after you're done with it to be safe.
- When viewing tapes from storage, the movelist of 'typeless' tapes will appear to be formatted strangely, with move icons being varying sizes. This effect only seems to be visual.
- Helia's 'fusion power' move does nothing.
- The move 'Typeless coating' can only be used on its user.
Miscellaneous
I won't really be updating this mod, but anyone is free to use its source code for their own projects.
The software license for this mod (located in source code) applies only to the portions of files changed from the original game, and not the files in their entirety.
