[MOD 0.16] DB's Combat Rework

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Description:

Overhauls combat to feel more satifsying, providing (and requiring) more meaningful choices when picking your weapons which have each been given a more unique feel. The point is NOT to add anything major to the game, just to adjust what is already there so that it's not just "combat shotgun all the way." I've given pretty much everything some kind of weakness, eg the Flamethrower for example is excellent against waves of Biters and grouped Spawners but struggles to kill Worms and the larger Spitters, and Destroyers now take longer to kill Behemoth Biters.

Defending in the early game is pretty much the same, though I gave Armour Piercing Rounds 50% more shots per clip and Gun Turrets 50% more HP so you don't need to maintain your defences quite as often. Grenades are now required to take out early nests, regular bullets will literally do nothing to a Spawner.

Still tweaking but it's at a stage now where I'm just fine tuning so any feedback is welcome. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do anything interesting with the regular Shotgun, was hoping I could give it a ton of range or something but the range values on the weapon appear to be ignored.

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DETAILS

Bullets: Your standard weapon, good against Biters and Worms, especially around equipment. Almost useless against spawners. Removed Gun Turret Damage but regular Bullet Damage is more effective to compensate.

Grenades: Your early spawner-killers. Now deals fire damage (makes more sense using Coal) and spawns fires so are more effective against Spawners (though they take longer to die) but less effective against anything bigger than a Small Biter, and poor against Worms.

Cluster Grenades: Short-range explosive damage, massive AoE, useful for quickly taking out large nests.

Shotgun: Much higher damage, slightly less range, more effective against Big Biters but slower to kill Spawners, added Uranium Shotgun Shells.

Flamethrower: Much shorter range but better AoE and more Fires. Feels much more satisfying to use but not as effective against Worms and Spitters.

Rockets: Long range, explosive rockets have good AoE, now instakills Spawners and Worms. Rockets move faster, impose a heavier movememnt penalty and take much longer to reload so be ready. Disabled Damage research, locking damage at 400. Nukes are cheaper.

Tank: Armour is now impervious to Fire damage and highly resistant to Impact damage
Cannon Shells: Much longer range and better pierce for all shell types, better AoE for Explosive shells.

Flamethrower: Much better AoE, now spawns flames but doesn't kill trees and consumes more ammo.

Personal Laser Defence: Less damage, much lower power usage, now scales with Laser Turret research.

Destroyers: Halved damage, added Electric resistance to Behemoth Biter.

Damage Research: Aside from Rockets, all damage research has been standardised to provide a 200% damage boost and then infinite damage provides 50% per level from there. At the level before infinite, most projectiles see little change other than Laser Towers which have had base damage boosted slightly to compensate.

Spawners: Now only susceptible to Fire and Explosion damage, no more relying on bullets and lasers. Spawns more
Biters and Spitters, but much less often - clearing mobs before attacking the Spawners is now a viable strategy.

Biters: Behemoths now start spawning earlier so will be encountered more frequently, but move much more
slowly. Behemoth Biters also attack more slowly to give your Walls a chance.

Worms: Medium and Big Worms are now resistant to Fire and Impact damage.

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Oops. I wrote in Grenades to use fire and it tested really well but I broke it while separating Grenades and Cluster Grenades. Shouldn't have uploaded at 2am xD