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Here you can find additional information about the mod and certain features that aren't available or explained via the ingame menu.

Team AI weapon balance fix

This option greatly improves the weapon balance of bot weapons. In the vanilla game, Team AI weapon damage is based on the guns rate of fire, this is done for all weapons the bots can use. However there is a problem with that: Single fire weapons are not fired based on their real fire rate, but instead are fired according to their weapon usage preset. The weapon usage preset is used to group weapons into categories, like snipers or LMGs. Since all sniper rifles are using the sniper preset, all of them are fired at the exact same rate, despite having different damage values. This makes certain weapons objectively better than others, especially for single fire weapons (see demonstration video).

Enabling the "Fix Team AI weapon balance" option fixes this issue by giving each weapon a unique weapon preset adjusting fire rate, burst size and burst delay per weapon. On top of that it dynamically calculates the damage for all weapons based on rate of fire, reload speed, magazine size, accuracy and also burst size for automatic weapons. This ensures that all weapons can be viable for bots to use depending on the weapon type (different weapon classes have different damage falloffs making them more useful for certain ranges). This also fixes rifles having super long burst delays and making them essentially useless.

If you want to use secondary or akimbo weapons on your bots, this option should be enabled, as the vanilla game doesn't have proper stats for those weapons!

Character specific loadouts

Overkill made it possible to customize your bots via 3 loadout slots. Some people like to customize their bots depending on characters however, like giving every bot their signature weapon. In the base game, you can only do this when you set up preferred characters which means you'll be heisting with the same bots everytime. To help with this and to be able to select random bots but keeping their specific loadouts, there's an option added to the top right of the "Crew Management" screen called "Character Settings". To set and save character specific loadouts, the following steps should be taken:

1. Select the bots you want to customize via the preferred characters.
2. Customize the bots however you want.
3. Click the "Character Settings" button in the top right and select "Apply loadouts to characters".
4. You will see that your selections in the Crew Management are gone and will show "Character" now instead.
5. Repeat steps 1-5 for all the characters you want to customize.
6. After you're done, you can clear your preferred characters list so you will get random bots in your heists.

If you followed those steps, characters will use their loadouts even if you don't set anything up in Crew Management. Keep in mind that if you do set something up in Crew Management while also having character specific loadouts, the loadout slots from Crew Management will have a higher priority than the character loadouts.

Bot chatter

April 1st 2021 introduced a feature for bots to occasionally have a conversation in the chat. Originally intended as just an April Fools joke, this can now be enabled in the mod options. In addition to the original behaviour, you can add custom text by copying one of the quotes files in the mod's data folder to mods/saves and rename it to bot_weapons_quotes.json. The mod will load this file instead of the ones provided in the data folder. There are three distinct sections in that file, according to dialogue done by one bot, between two bots and between three bots.