This effect is copied from Cpt. Winters, because this is the only way to make damage resistance sync to clients. Due to the way it's implemented, Cpt. Winter's icon will stay on everyone's HUD during the heist. This damage resistance is normally set to 50%, so double the bullets to kill.

This change actually has a small lie - damage resistance is set to 49% instead, to avoid damage breakpoints from breaking in some scenarios.

While miniboss is active on the level, damage resistance is increased to 66% (instead of promised 66.6%) which makes all enemies take roughly 3x the bullets to kill.

New system made for this mod, by yours truly.
Whenever you start an interaction, a "hotspot" is created at your position. These hotspots have a "heat" level, which tells enemy AI how important they are. Heat level depends on what objective/deployable you have interacted with when creating the spot and how many players are close to this area.

Hotspots can also be created at player's location without interacting with anything. There can only be 1 hotspot that is player-position based, and not interaction based.

Hotspot's heat level is constantly updated by the game, and it depends on amount of players in proximity to the hotspot. If a hotspot was left alone for long enough, it's removed.

Enemies will dedicate 12 units to guard 3 hotspots with highest heat level (5 for top 1, 4 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd). Some enemies are excluded from this task. Whenever unit is assigned to a hotspot, they will instantly rush towards it, locate nearest available position, and dig in. They will not move. They defend the hotspot untill it's discarded by the mod's logic.

This system does 2 things:

1. makes objectives harder to defend, since enemies will try to go towards objectives and stay there until they are dead/hotspot is disregarded;
2. makes camping harder, since hotspots created at player's areas will constantly have enemies come towards them, because players will continue to kill assigned units, after which, new ones will be assigned. On top of that, enemies will completely disregard safety and cover searching protocols, and instead try to get to the hotspot as soon as they can.

Reduced chances for a stun from 80%-100% every second to 18% every second. After enemy is stunned, they will be stunned for only 1.5 seconds, instead of 3-9 seconds (in vanilla duration depends on enemy type).

This is practically a nerf to Hacker Perk deck, because it's stun effect, and it's spammibility is way to high.
If i was a developer behind PD2's balance, i would just make hacker worse (oh but wait, i actually did that in a weapon/perk/skill rebalance i made), to avoid adding this change to a new difficulty like DSBW, since this implementation unfortunately affects standard ECM jammers as well, which i don't have a problem with.

This change does not disable Hacker's ability to gain health, and dodge for killing enemies affected by PECM, since enemies are still affected by it, they just don't get stunned, and can fight back.

Standard flashbang fuse timer is 3 seconds for lower difficulties. On mayhem and above it's set to 2 seconds (but currently is broken thx to update 237.something).

This mod's flashbang fuse timer is set to 0.8 seconds. Additionally, if flashbang was not successfully destroyed, it has a 45% chance to turn into a fire field trap, 22.5% chance to turn into an average power explosive, and lastly a 7.5% chance to turn into a much deadlier explosion.

None of these grenades hurt enemy/civilian units.

Works exactly as presented in the GIF above. Any interaction can be interrupted by any enemy.

When you start any interaction, area around you gets scanned for a nearby cop. If a cop was found, he will be chosen to come and arrest you, as soon as he reaches your position.

On top of that, there is an aggressive cuffing mechanic that allows for any other cop to cuff you (so not just the one that was chosen when you start the interaction). This mechanic checks if you have a cop close enough to your location (~1.5m radius around you), and if so, you will be cuffed automatically. This mechanic starts working 1 second after you start the interaction, BUT if your interaction is a player revive, it will be delayed, and only activate after 3 seconds.

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.

All cuffing mechanics work on other (human) players as well, exactly the same way.

A lovely friend of yours from a nightmare dimension is going to hunt you down while buffing everyone else around them.
(If you have tried Death Wish + before, you might know this guy a little too well.)

Miniboss spawns ~20 seconds after assault's main part (sustain) begins. While boss is active on the level both normal and Bulldozer medics will get a red highlight.

Boss's spawn location is chosen by selecting a random player, finding closest available spawn position to said player, and spawning there. After spawning, boss tries to move to selected player's location. If target player is dead, targeted player will be replaced.
Spawn position is assigned based on existing nearby special units, relatively to chosen player. If such special enemy exists and it's not too close to the selected player, Boss will spawn there. If such enemy does not exist, a random spawn point is chosen based on latest used enemy spawn points.

For the 1st assault - miniboss can spawn in, only if that assault is endless (Hoxton breakout day 1 for example).

If heist you are currently playing on, is tagged as "fast" (heists that skip easier first assault due to logic/difficulty reasons, like Alaska. more info under assault pacing tab) they have 33.3% chance to spawn on the first assault, 66.6% on 2nd, and 100% for 3nd assault and onwards.

For other heists chances are 0% for first wave, 33.3% for 2nd wave, 66.6% for 3rd wave, and 100% for 4th and onwards.

While miniboss is alive, enemies will take 66.6% less damage, (3x bullets to kill), and will respawn 2x faster. If you kill the miniboss, (both of them, hehe), these buffs dissapear for the rest of the wave.

If miniboss is not defeated by the end of an assault, it despawns and their buffs are removed. This can also happen if boss is despawned via mission scripts (like going up the elevator shaft on Beneath The Mountain).

Heavy swats keep using their 225 damaging rifles.
Light swats can use m249 LMG's, r870 shotguns or same rifles as heavy swats. LMG has lower dps but faster rate of fire, while shotguns deal 500+ damage per shot, but are very slow.

Most special enemies use various weapons with slightly (but barely noticeable) higher damage.

As for Bulldozers: their damage will be bigger on average and every fight with them will be different, since Bulldozers that usually have big damage bursts and slow rate of fire (like green Bulldozer) may now have a completely different weapon.

Max possible amount of enemies on the map reduced from 120 to 38.
Enemy squad's respawn timer is reduced by 25%.
Enemy squads will have less enemies per spawned squad (going from 3-6 units per squad to 2-4).
Specials spawn more often when compared to vanilla, but their special limits in some cases are smaller.

This should make enemy spawns feel a bit more varied, while keeping overall pressure at slightly higher than normal level, without bullshit situations with 80+ alive enemies on the map.

Light swat have 25% chance to surrender. Heavy swat's chances are set at 15%.
Getting them to less than 33% health will double your intimidation chances.

As a bonus: super light cops and guards, will have 100% chance to surrender regardless of circumstances.

If you are struggling with intimidations, use relevant skills in the Mastermind tree, get enemies as close to <33% hp threshold, and try getting guard-like cops at the very beginning of the game.

Very first assault wave is shorter and easier than the 2nd and onwards. During the first assault wave, enemies from normal, overkill, and mayhem difficulties will spawn in, as 'recon' units. By the end of the first assault, some zeal units will start to appear, but in smaller quantities.
After a regroup, 2nd assault and onwards will be in full force. Acting quick and accomplishing objectives during the first wave is preferable.

Second assault and onwards have a duration of 4,5 minutes, or 270 seconds. After assault is finished, fade phase begins, this fade will ALWAYS last it's maximum duration of ~60 seconds. During this phase no enemies spawn in, so you should clear enemies that are left alive, and complete your objectives. After fade ends, regrouping/waiting phase begins, during which enemies also do not spawn.
During the next, anticipation phase, enemies will spawn as quickly as possible, to fill up the map, and after assault moves on to sustain phase, respawns are set back to 25% faster than vanilla.

Some maps are exceptions to the rules above, and will have a less forgiving first assault, that will be slighlty under 3 minutes, and will also be a bit easier, but nowhere near as easy as standard maps. 2nd assault and onwards have full force.
Maps that are exceptions, are usually made this way due to logical reasons (like Alaska being a set up, so "recon" assault is not needed), or to make maps feel better (like default bank heist, because it has an absurd delay before enemy spawns start).

This was done purely to make them harder, and to make them count as 'harder' maps, and to have miniboss spawn immediately.

SWAT turrets are stupid design, need i say more?

If you happen to be in a situation where Cpt. Winters bugs our your assault and it becomes endlessly endless, you as host, and only you, can try to kill the captain. Doing so forces endless assaults to stop. Should help with this annoying bug.

• Immortal Dominated cops - may prevent frustrations when playing with randoms
• Gilza - my own weapon/skill rebalancing mod. It makes gameplay overall slightly less dependant on DPS skills, but overall is harder due to harsher weapon control and ammo pick up. This rebalance also the game overall slightly harder, so maybe give it a go on vanilla DS difficulty first :)
• TdlQ's Lobby settings - saves lobby settings properly and allows you to limit players who can join your lobby based on their infamy/playtime but unlike NGBTO will do all these checks while players are connecting, so they wont be kicked after joining, but rather declined on the Crime.net screen
• Anti crash - self explanatory. People sometimes are assholes, and DS difficulty attracts these assholes like no other.
• Peer Mod List Highlighter - highlights mod names with color you specify when viewing player's mods. Helpful for avoiding cheaters.