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Proficiency Plugin: Assault Infantry - Ballistic Shields
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Proficiency Plugin: Assault Infantry - Ballistic Shields

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Description
About the Mod

This will swap Swords for Ballistic Shields on the Assault Infantry class. Simple as that. Converts all of the Vanguard skills to equivalent skills focused around using a shield.

Skill Tree Conversion
Rank
Original Skill
New Skill
Corporal
Honed Edge (bonues to melee aim and crit chance)
Shield Stability (bonues to aim and crit chance)
Seargent
Breakthrough (move action after melee attack)
Protect And Serve (non-move action after using shieldwall)
Lieutenant
Combatives (block and counter melee attack)
Combatives (block and counter melee attack)
Captain
Relentless (non-move action after melee attack)
Shield Charge (melee attack, enter shieldwall after)
Major
Untouchable (ignore first attack after kill)
Untouchable (ignore first attack after kill)
Colonel
Ruthless (bonus damage to melee)
Ruthless (bonus damage to melee)

Dependencies and Suggested Mods
Core dependencies are:

Strongly recomended to make the most of this conversion:
  • [WotC] Shield Rework The lowered damage, disorient on strike, and built-in cover gives the Assault Infantry a solid close quarters specialist feel while allowing it to not be a swordsman using shield bashes instead of sword slices.
  • Proficiecy Plugin: Intelligence Officer -> Scout With the change of the Assault Infantry to shields, that then opens up the sword, and the Scout is the perfect class to fill that void.

Known Oddities
The animation when Combatives triggers uses the animation set for a combat knife, so it may look a little weird, but everything works just fine.

Compatibility
Designed to be a simple meta-mod, it should be compatible with everything except mods that directly modify the Assault Infantry's Soldier Ranks, Allowed Weapons, or Default Loadout. It does play nice with Proficiency Plugin: Full Class Decks and Proficiency: Community Perks Plugin

Thanks
  • shiremct for the amazing Proficiency Classes
  • Mitzruti and Favid for the shield perks that make a conversion like this clean and simple
  • Musashi and Claus for the shields themselves
    47 Comments
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    FearTheBunnies  [author] 24 Jan @ 11:24am 
    Yes, it is from Alternate Shields
    TheGreenDigi 24 Jan @ 2:32am 
    For reference for anyone in the future who's curious, I'm pretty sure the shield skin that's being used in the picture comes from the Alternate Shields mod.
    pabloaram2011 2 Jul, 2023 @ 1:13pm 
    What shield skin are you using on the image? the standar shield is ugly but that thing look so clean
    silverleaf1 11 May, 2023 @ 4:20pm 
    @FearTheBunnies I had several soldiers of this class and the situation was the same throughout. Being able to use a shield or a sword is handy if playing with the Hive.
    FearTheBunnies  [author] 11 May, 2023 @ 1:36pm 
    @silverleaf1 That is weird. Ruthless is from the PCP itself
    silverleaf1 11 May, 2023 @ 12:08pm 
    @FearTheBunnies The last icon in the ranks row, colonel, does not show properly.
    VS-lockon 2 May, 2023 @ 7:22am 
    okay thank
    FearTheBunnies  [author] 2 May, 2023 @ 7:00am 
    @captain_uzziah LWOTC has ballistic shields built into it, so you would need to check if the weapon category for those shields is the same as the standalone mod. If they are, then you should be able to use LWOTC as a replacement for the ballistic shields mod requirement. Otherwise, you will need to double check that Proficiency Class Pack works without issue before using this one (as this hard requires the base PCP classes)
    VS-lockon 2 May, 2023 @ 6:08am 
    dose this work with lwotc?
    Bullet Kin 23 Mar, 2023 @ 7:47pm 
    Thanks for the thorough response!