Patch notes/Horizon/1.1.0

(NEW) ZX-1 Experimentation Lab - This new settlement workstation can allow you to build customized weapons - This station is located in "Crafting Stations" section of the workshop - The system does not use the standard crafting, but an entirely new customized menu-driven system - When you use the workstation, it will access the computer terminal to begin crafting - The Terminal offers a wide range of dynamic information for every menu/step - Once you can build a weapon, you will go through a series of menus to customize it - No materials are used until you reach the final menu and choose to actually build the weapon - Currently, the system only supports creating weapons, but I will probably add in armor and other items in the future - The materials can be pulled from your inventory, or your current Scrap destination (NEW - see further below) - You can safely use the terminal's "BACK" key to go back and redo steps*
 * There may be a few cases where some display information is not accurate when you use the back key. If this happens, go back to the main menu and start again.

Learning Weapon Schematics - To unlock weapons, it requires reverse engineering the weapons in order to learn the schematic to rebuild it - Reverse engineering does NOT grant you automatic access to build it. You may still require specific perks. - When you attempt to reverse engineer weapons, it will look through your inventory for weapons you are carrying - Reverse engineering does NOT destroy or alter your existing weapons - Once a weapon is cataloged, you no longer need to carry it in order to rebuild a new one

Experimentation Points (EP's) - When you reach the stage where you can improve the quality on a weapon, each material you use requires a certain amount of EP - The base starting value is 100 EP, and you gain extra EP's based on your crafting skill - EP's can max at 200 points (with 1000 skill) - Titanium Alloy grants reduced EP cost for all grades

Calibration Points (CP's) - When you reach the stage where you can calibrate your weapon, each calibration consumes 10 CP's - CP's are determined based on the quality of the weapon (10 CP's per 1% quality) - Steel Alloy grants 20 extra calibration points

Weapon Crafting Skill - You can gain Weapon Craft Skill by crafting weapons and reverse engineering them - Crafting gives skill based on the quality of the product, and the level of the base mod - Crafting skill maxes at 1000 points - For every 10 crafting skill, you gain 1 bonus "Experimentation Point" (max of 200 points) - Reverse Engineering weapons gives 5 skill points per - Weapon quality needs to at least be 1 in order to gain skill - When you reach 250 skill, crafting weapons under 3 quality only gains half skill - When you reach 500 skill, crafting weapons under 5 quality only gains half skill - When you reach 750 skill, crafting weapons under 7 quality only gains half skill - NOTE: Crafting skill is meant to be gained over the course of a playthrough. It's really not meant to be something you grind out to skill up.

Legendary Properties - The "base" mod you apply to the weapon is similar to a legendary property - Many base mods require certain perks in order to appear on the list, so not everything is unlocked for free - Most base mods can optionally be upgraded during the process, to increase it's effectiveness - All crafted weapons are flagged as "legendary" with a star icon and description, but do not have the "featured" pop-up - All crafted weapon mods will be reflected with the item naming (i.e. the Quickdraw mod will say: 10mm Pistol "Quickdraw")

New Crafting Components (Alloys from prototypes and some junk items): - 9 different grades of Steel Alloy (primary ingredient) - 9 different grades of Aluminum Alloy (primary ingredient) - 9 different grades of Titanium Alloy (primary ingredient) - Beryllium Copper - Tungsten Alloy - Chromium Alloy - Magnesium Alloy - Nickel Alloy - Zirconium Alloy

New Crafting Components (Materials from animals and creatures): - Mutated Leather, Mutated Carapace, Mutated Plating, Mutated Fibers - Mutated Bone, Mutated Claw, Mutated Acid - Mutated Neurotoxin, Mutated Hemotoxin, Mutated Atracotoxin, Mutated Dortoxin, Mutated Bufotoxin - (NOTE: Some of these creature parts aren't used for much yet, but they will be for armor and possibly consumables)

Acquiring Materials - The primary source of these new components is "Prototype" devices (junk items) that can be looted - Prototype devices are primarily found on legendary enemies, but can also exist in certain containers and some NPCs - There are currently 50+ different types of prototype devices and animal parts, each with a different mixture of components - Some components can also be found in standard junk loot now, but is usually lower grade materials - Many rare junk items contain alloys now - Many rare robot/synth parts (mainly salvaged with Technologist) now contain these new components

Weapon Selection - Weapons are unlocked by reverse engineering them - In most cases, weapons also require a perk to build (the pipe gun is one of the few that anyone can craft) - Weapons are divided into different categories, which are based on the selection of base mods available - After you select a category, and then a weapon, you will be brought to a confirmation menu which shows the materials/perk required to make this weapon - Most weapons requires 3 components to craft, usually including weapon parts - Each main faction has 1 signature weapon that requires being allied with them

A few examples of Weapon requirements - Pipe Gun: No requirement - Laser: Requires Science rank 1+ - 10mm Pistol: Requires Gun Nut rank 1+ - Laser Musket: Requires "Faction: Minutemen" - Gauss Rifle: Requires "Faction: Brotherhood of Steel" - Institute Laser: Requires "Faction: The Institute" - Deliverer: Requires "Faction: The Railroad"

Base Modifications - These mods are essentially legendary properties, which can enhance the weapon - Every base mod has 4 different levels of upgrading to improve their stats - Each upgrade level requires additional components and perk requirements - Each upgrade level is cumulative, and requires ALL the components and perks before it - Some upgrade levels have different mixtures of perk requirements, some of which might be from magazines recipes - Currently there are 22 base mods (equaling 88 total legendary weapon mods possible to choose from) - The damage bonus from "Quality" upgrades, is separate from the legendary base mod bonuses

Base Mod Types: - Standard: (All weapons) - Quickdraw: 5-20% Less action points (All weapons - no requirements) - Hawkeye: VATS accuracy increased, but costs more AP (All ranged weapons - Marksman rank 1) - Balanced +10-40% faster movement while aiming (All ranged weapons - Gunslinger rank 1) - Rapid: 5-20% fire rate, 5-20% reload speed (All ranged weapons - no requirements)

- Heated Chamber: +1-4 fire damage (Ballistic weapons - Demolitionist rank 1) - Chilled Chamber: +1-4 cryo damage (Ballistic weapons - Science rank 1) - Electrified Chamber: +2-8 energy damage (Ballistic weapons - Robotics Expert rank 1) - Radioactive Chamber: +2-8 rad damage (Ballistic weapons - Nuclear Physicist rank 1) - Acid-soaked Chamber: +1-4 poison damage (Ballistic weapons - Chemist rank 1) - Jagged Chamber: +2-6 bleed damage (Ballistic weapons - Commando rank 1)

- Focused Heat: +1-4 fire damage (Energy weapons - Science rank 1) - Overcharged: +10-40% critical hit damage (Energy weapons - Science rank 3)

- Weighted: +10-40% critical hit damage (All melee weapons) - Aerodynamic: VATS uses less AP (All melee weapons) - Cavalier: 5-20% less damage while blocking or sprinting (All melee weapons)

- Sharpened: +2-6 bleed damage (Bladed melee weapons) - Puncturing: -5-20% armor piercing (Bladed melee weapons) - Poisoned: 2-6 poison damage (Bladed melee weapons)

- Armor Breaking: -5-20% armor piercing (Blunt melee weapons) - Shell-Cracking: +10-25% damage against bugs/mirelurks/deathclaws (Blunt melee weapons) - Skullcrusher: +10-25% damage against humanoids (Blunt melee weapons)

Quality - Improving the quality of a weapon requires rare alloys (you need at least 1 to build any weapon) - Each point of quality adds +2% base weapon damage (this value is NOT multiplied by receivers and other bonuses) - Each point of quality gives you "Calibration Points" to work with in the Calibration phase - You can only work with 1 type of alloy on a weapon - Each grade of alloy, requires a certain amount of "Experimentation Points" - Lower grade alloys will drastically reduce your ability to improve the weapon - Each alloy type has different properties and benefits - Steel Alloy: Adds weight, adds bonus calibration points - Aluminum Alloy: Reduced weight, no extra calibration points - Titanium Alloy: Reduced weight, reduced cost for experimentation points - Improving the quality requires 1 alloy per experiment (potentially stacking many times with a high quality weapon) - Because of it's cheaper EP cost, Titanium has the highest potential for Quality

Calibration - You can spend Calibration Points to improve different weapon properties - You can spend up to a maximum of 10 upgrades on each property - Ranged and Melee weapons have their own set of properties to customize

Calibration Properties (Ranged) - Range: Increases the range of the weapon - Accuracy: Increases the sighted focus - Recoil: Reduces the weapon's basic recoil - Control: Reduces the weapon's recoil control - VATS: Increases your chance to hit in VATS by +1% per point

Calibration Properties (Melee) - Limb Damage: Increase the amount of limb damage - Critical Hit Chance: Increases critical hit chance - Critical Hit Damage: Increases critical hit damage - Power Attack: Reduce the AP cost of power attacks - VATS AP Cost: Reduce the AP cost in VATS

How to Craft a Weapon: Step 1: Build a ZX-1 Experimentation Lab in your favorite settlement Step 2: Acquire some alloy (either from a legendary enemy with a prototype item, or from specific junk that may contain some) Step 3: Use the Lab, and follow the menu system (outlined below)

Reverse Engineering Process Step 1: From the main menu, select "Reverse Engineering", then enter the Weapons menu for it Step 2: You can view how many schematics you own, and how many are possible to learn (based on your inventory) Step 3: Select "Reverse Engineer Weapons" to learn schematics for any weapons in your inventory Step 4: Done. You can now return to the main menu

Weapon Construction Process >> This system is easy enough to follow in-game, but I'll outline it just in case Step 1: From the main menu, select "Construct Weapon" Step 2: Select the category of weapon you wish to build (Ballistic weapons, energy weapons, etc.) Step 3: Select the weapon you wish to build (if there's more than 10 weapons, select "Next Page" to view more) Step 4: Look over the materials/perk required to craft this weapon, and confirm your selection Step 5: Choose the base modification you wish to apply to your new weapon (these are legendary-like effects) Step 6: (Optional) Choose to upgrade the base modification (requires additional rare materials) Step 7: Choose the type of material you wish to work with (Steel Alloy, Aluminum Alloy, or Titanium Alloy) Step 8: Select the grade of material you wish to experiment with, in order to increase the quality Step 9: Repeat this process as much as you want, until you use most/all of your "Experimentation Points" or materials Step 10: Based on the quality, you can now calibrate your weapon to improve range, accuracy, recoil, control, and VATS accuracy Step 11: Repeat this process until you used up your "Calibration Points", then continue onward Step 12: Review your weapon summary, and craft it if you are happy with your results Step 13: The materials required will now be consumed and you will receive the weapon in your inventory

Experimentation Lab Compatibility - The Lab system contains a special template which can be used inside of external weapon patches - This template quest can be set up to have weapons added to the Lab (currently being used with the DLC weapons) - The following DLC weapons are supported in the ZX-1 Lab: Lever-action Rifle, Radium Rifle, Handmade Rifle - Sometime after 1.1 is released, the official weapon pack will have this added to it

Legendary NPCs and Weapons - Legendary weapons/armor no longer drop from legendary-type enemies. That system is done with. - Legendary-type humanoids/robots/synths usually drop prototype devices that can contain rare materials - Legendary-type animals and creatures usually drop rare animal parts that can contain rare materials - Animals and creatures often have at least 1 guaranteed part based on their type, plus another random part (i.e. you can always harvest a mutated stinger from a radscorp, plus an extra random piece.) - Some NPC types are classified as "elite" and contain extra parts (i.e. Assaultrons, Sentry bots, high-ranking humans, Yao Guai, etc.) - Your existing legendary weapons/armor will remain intact, but a few properties may have been altered - FO4 Mods that edit or change legendary weapons/armor/NPCs, are NOT compatible with the new system - (Unique weapons on vendors remain unchanged - for now)

Damaged Weapons Rework - Stage 1 - The current damaged weapon system is being replaced by real weapons with damaged properties - There are 4 types of damage: Degraded, Deteriorated, Damaged, and Destroyed - "Degraded", "Deteriorated", and "Damaged" weapons have reduced stats/value, but are usable weapons - "Destroyed" weapons are completely unusable. Either scrap it or sell it (it's better to scrap, as it sells for little.) - Destroyed weapons have a limit to how many shots an NPC can fire it, before it breaks and they have to switch weapons - Melee weapons don't drop as Destroyed - Institute weapons don't drop as Deteriorated/Degraded, but can be Damaged/Destroyed - Certain NPCs (usually named ones) that drop pre-war weapons can have improved quality called "Pristine", which gives +10% base damage - Damaged weapons can still be reverse engineered, and scrapped - The naming convention is updated to show you the weapon condition in the name of the weapon (i.e. 10mm Pistol [DESTROYED] ) - Destroyed and Damaged weapons are prefixed with a "trash can" icon, and sort to the bottom (makes it easy to scrap these) - Degraded and Deteriorated weapons use the normal weapon naming (these are still considered "usable" weapons) - This new method also eliminates the problem with seeing the NPC still holding a weapon even after you loot - Some weapon drops will purposely use the old damaged weapon system for balance (ex: Crylolator parts on synths will always drop as damaged junk items) - NOTE: Not all weapons are ready for 1.1, some will still have the "old" damaged parts, until the next patches - (The weapon pack weapons will soon be added to this system, as well as some loot tables on NPCs)

(NEW) Super Mutant melee weapons - New weapons were created to specifically expand super mutant's melee weapons, to give them more variety - They use the 2H Board animation so that super mutants can actually wield them (since many vanilla weapons can't be used by them) - They can all be wielded by your character (although aren't really intended to be upgraded or anything - at least yet)

(NEW) Handmade Axe (a new weapon made mainly for Super Mutants) - This weapon has no attachments

(NEW) Machete Glaive (a new weapon made mainly for Super Mutants) - This weapon has no attachments

(NEW) Skull Pike (a new weapon made mainly for Super Mutants) - This weapon has no attachments

(NEW) Killamajig (a new weapon made mainly for Super Mutants) - This weapon has no attachments

(NEW) Water Pipe (a new weapon made mainly for Super Mutants) - This weapon has no attachments

(NEW) Organ Pipe (a new weapon made mainly for Super Mutants) - This weapon has no attachments

(NEW) Shovel (a new weapon made mainly for Super Mutants) - It technically can attach some existing pre-made board misc mods, but you cannot craft them from scratch onto the shovel (yet) - It uses a modified version of the "nails" attachment mesh to fit the shovel mesh - The shovel in the Sanctuary cellar is replaced by this weapon now

Weapons - (NEW) Scrapping melee weapons now gives much better and appropriate scrap for the base item - Scrapping all ranged weapons now gives 4 weapon parts (down from 6), but this includes all damaged weapons too* - Rolling pins, walking canes, and pool cues that spawn on NPCs will usually have spikes/razors on them, to better emulate a real improvised weapon - The Deliverer is slightly lowered in damage to be closer to the 10mm - The Deliverer no longer has a "featured" legendary pop-up - Some signature companion weapons temporarily cannot be modded (I'm going to tweak this next patch)
 * Unfortunately, I haven't figured an easy way to give different parts based on the new weapon system, but an average of 4 parts per drop balances the same as it was before.

Weapon Mods - (NEW) Hunting Rifle: .308 Incendiary-Calibrated Powerful Receiver (replaces Calibrated Powerful receiver) - Hunting Rifle: .50 Receiver - The ROF was properly set to reduced rate of fire, instead of improved - Submachine Gun: The rapid .38 receiver no longer has recoil reduction - Pipe Revolver: .308 receiver no longer has improved rate of fire and reload speed - Pipe Revolver: .38 receiver now has improved rate of fire and reload speed

(NEW) Production and Cargo Bot Re-routing - The destination for production from the Resource Manager, and Cargo Bot drop-offs can be changed to settlement workshop workbenches - This feature can be accessed through the Resource Manager - Currently this feature only has 3 settlements: Sanctuary, Red Rocket, and the Castle (more will be added soon)- - The destination can be changed at any time at any Resource Manager - The destination effects the ZX-1 Lab's crafting*
 * This feature does not work with supply lines yet (so the Lab will ONLY check that particular workbench itself, and not connected ones)

UI Tags/Names/Icons - (NEW) Bonuses such as critical hit chance and VATS accuracy from crafted weapons, will appear in your perks tab on the top when a currently equipped weapon has them (this is a nice indicator for some stats that won't appear on your weapon tooltip) - (NEW) Padded/dense armor will show an active armor buff perk on the top of your perk tab - (NEW) Your lack of hunger will now display a warning perk on the top of your perk tab explaining the debuffs - The perk chart can now remove text icon tags (Thanks to McGuffin for this SWF modification!) - Computer terminals can now remove text icon tags (Thanks to McGuffin for this SWF modification!)* - (Optional addon) The Workshop UI no longer shows text tags (Thanks to McGuffin for this SWF modification!) - (Optional addon) The Crafting/Scrapping UI no longer shows text tags (Thanks to McGuffin for this SWF modification!) - All perks on the perk tree will now show an icon in the Pipboy like I originally wanted - All perks that are rank 2+ are named with their rank (you will never notice this normally, except inside the Experimentation Lab) - Pistols should now have the standard [Auto] tag in the name if they're automatic, and no longer have the "Auto Pistol" name


 * NOTE: These are not automatic, and only work on terminals that are updated specifically for this formatting. I will try to edit vanilla terminals to support this when I get the chance.

NPCs - Human resist scaling was adjusted so that it scales upwards smoother - Some humans have different levels of resist scaling now, so "light" or "heavy" armored NPCs will scale more appropriately - Triggerman Bodyguards and Bouncers have less resists now (should be easier at lower levels) - Kellogg now has human resist scaling, but less health - Kellogg now drops a prototype part and extra ammo - DC Guards have added resists (fire, etc.) and increased health, and are tagged as level 40+ - NPC loot lists are being setup to support external weapon patches and the weapon pack easier

Raiders - The types of raiders will now spawn at much lower levels so you see much more variety - The types of raiders have been normalized, so they scale better at all levels - Raider outfits and weapon variety is being expanded (more will come later too)* - Not all raiders automatically wear armor pieces now, depending on the type - Forged no longer drop large amounts of flamer fuel - Melee raiders can now wield rolling pins, walking canes, and pool cues (always modded with spikes/razors to look like real improvised weapons) - Wasters: Now have their own customized variety of outfits - Survivalists: Now have their own customized variety of outfits - Veterans: Now have their own customized variety of outfits - Pyro: Now has it's own custom outfit - (NEW) Deranged Raider: variant of the Psycho that has a bizarre choice in fashion, equipped with molotovs - (NEW) Frenzied Raider: melee variant of the Psycho that deals extra damage - (NEW) Scrounger: melee variant of the Waster that now uses ranged weapons and has extra ammo/junk - (NEW) Pit Fighter: melee variant of the Survivalist, has a custom outfit, custom AI, and uses a different selection of melee weapons - (NEW) Pillager: grenade variant of the Survivalist, has a custom outfit. (Still armed with cluster bombs) - (NEW) Chem Dealer: grenade variant of the Veteran, has high armor, drops chems/caps

Super Mutants - Loot lists have been restructured to allow for better future balancing and weapon mods - Ranged Super Mutants usually carry a "smaller" melee weapon as a backup - The new 2H weapons I created can be carried by Super Mutants - Boards, Bats, and Shovels wielded by Super Mutants will randomly have mod attachments on them based on level - Dead Eye always carries a Machete Glaive - Super Mutants can now drop random clothing/armor scrap junk items, since they generally don't drop armor

Synths - Loot lists have been restructured - Some minor loot errors were corrected

Crafting / Loot - Breaking down .45-70 and 7.62 ammo now gives more gunpowder - Some of the "1 of a kind" unique junk items now have better materials, so they feel like something special (for example, the championship bowling stuff has 1 gold, as if its branded with special gold engravings.) - Curie's special ammo should no longer be visible - Grognak's armor melee damage increased to 20%, but no longer provides strength

Perks - Hunter rank 2: Now gains +20% damage to most mammals - Hunter rank 3: Now gains +20% damage to bugs and mirelurks - Hunter rank 4: Now gains +20% damage to radscorpions and yao guai - Hunter rank 5: Now gains +20% damage to deathclaws - Made it more clear that the term "animal" in Fallout usually means specifically "Mammal" type animals

Items / Loot - The value of some smaller "concealed" melee weapons are reduced - Lowered the amount of ammo found in the Coast Guard Pier

DLCs - All legendary NPCs are updated for the new system - Raiders/Trappers have their scrounger entries fixed - Legendary Nuka Raiders now have the proper junk loot

Raider Overhaul Patch >> Unfortunately, the Raider Overhaul patch is no longer officially supported. As much as I like some of what this mod does, keeping a patch to balance it properly is just unworkable. Horizon has it's own raider overhauling, which is what I really want to be the primary focus/balance for raiders in Horizon. - The raider overhaul patch can still be located inside of the zip file, but is removed from the installer - Lowered some armor values back to vanilla - Removed Legendary prefixes on NPCs - Moved food recipes into categories - Adjusted some raiders to match Horizon's updated stats (some loot lists for raiders will be broken as of 1.1, if you use this mod)

(Developer Notes for Patch Authors) Weapon/Ammo Loot Table Changes - The loot tables are being reworked to make my job (and weapon patches) easier to deal with - LL ammo management for weapons is simplified for: scrounger, bonus ammo, and damaged rounds - Weapon patches can now use 1 "LL_Weapon_Ammo_xx" per weapon to automatically balance ammo rounds - All NPC weapon loot is being overhauled to use an actual standard system for weapon LL's (I'll explain this later) - This may effect existing weapon patches, but I'll go into this in detail once this system is fully completed