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Vanilla Skills Rexamined

Patch for VSE. Individual expertise have been nerfed, but are merged together. Each skill has 2 expertise to choose between.

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All values below are per-expertise-level. For most situations this means being either 50% or 100% faster/better. Many of these are multipliers, rather than additive meaning it impacts the game less than it appears.

Sharpshooter
Accuracy: 0.05
Stealth: 0.05
Ranged Weapon Max Range: 1.25% Once I figure out how to do this I will add it

Commando
Weapon Warmup: -2.5%
Weapon Cooldown: -2.5%

A 100% reduction in either aiming or reloading time was far too weapon dependent and breaks many modded weapons, including Vanilla Weapons Expanded! You could literally get a minigun repeating rifle.

Enforcer
Incoming Damage: -1.25%
Armor Penetration: 5%
Stagger Duration: -5%

Duelist
Melee Cooldown: -2.5%
Melee Dodge: 0.5
Movement Speed: 0.01

Represents the physique one would build up by reaching mastery in a martial art. Melee needs the most help among all skills.

Handler
Tame Chance: 5%
Train Chance: 5%
Attack on Failed Tame Multiplier: -5%

Rancher
Animal Gather Yield: 5%
Animal Gather Speed: 5%

Work speed and gathering yield are tied to the same expertise IRL. Check out a NZ sheep shearing competition some time. Animal gather yield will likely be reduced in the future, skill can improve how much wool you can shear off a sheep but there is a finite amount of wool to acquire and a 20 skill in animals pawn only getting half of the potential wool on a sheep pre-expertise is absurd.

Artist
Art Quality: 5%
Art Work Speed: 5%

Creative
Global Work Speed: 1.25%

Artistic is a weird skill in vanilla with few use cases. Its the perfect spot for a wild card.

Architect
Construction Success Chance: 5%
Construction Quality: 5%
Repair Chance: 5%
Repair Quality: 5%

Foreman
Construction Speed: 5%
Floor Construction Speed: 5%

Butcher
Butchery Speed: 5%
Butchery Yield: 5%

Chef
Cooking Speed: 5%
Food Poisoning Chance: -5%

Food poisoning chance needs testing, I believe it is bugged/OP in VSE where 1 point in the expertise provides 0% chance of food poisoning, the problem is food poisoning is so rare at that skill that it is very difficult to test. Here I swapped from % to flat values as that is what vanilla does for poisoning modifiers.

Processor
Mechanoid Butcher Speed: 5%
Mechanoid Butcher Yield: 5%
Component Crafting Speed: 5%

Crafter
Work Bench Speed: 5%

Surgeon
Surgery Success Chance: 5%
Surgery Speed: 5%

Medic
Medical Tend Speed: 5%
Medical Tend Quality: 5%

Tunneler
Drilling Speed: 5%
Mining Speed: 5%

Mining speed is only valid while you still have ore on your map. This results in you either spending 50% of your playthrough with no expertise, or losing your expertise in the last 50%

Prospector
Mining Yield: 5%
Stone Chunk Yield: 5%
Deep Drilling Yield: 5% Added!

Pharmacist
Drug Work Speed: 5%

Intellectual
Hacking Speed: 5%
Research Speed: 5%

Same deal as tunneler