Adjusts PMC combat behavior to be reactive, fair, and fun
**A PMC focused SAIN preset targeting challenging but fair PMC encounters with improved AI reactivity. This preset try’s to eliminates some of the frustrating AI reactivity mechanics while maintaining tactical difficulty through better bot behavior. Minimal adjustments made to BOSS/ROUGE/CULTISTS and SCAVS other than global modifiers. Most if not all are on the default harder PMC preset settings as I find them fine.
Balanced other actors to fit with the PMC changes. This might make the overall experience too easy, if so recommend making non PMC actors spawn with hard and impossible difficulty.
This is also what I find fun, and that taste might not transfer. I try to have around a 1/3 raid death to keep the content interesting but still maintain a slight power fantasy with it being single player.
Core Goals:**
Challenging but Fair: Maintains difficulty while trying to eliminate high accuracy and instant reactions from bots. Bots are aggressive and smart, but give you a fighting chance to react and outplay them.
Dynamic Combat: Emphasizes movement, positioning, and tactical play over static cover shooting. Bots actively reposition and respond to your tactics faster then the default presets.
Difficulty Scaling: Each difficulty level provides an appropriate challenge curve, from forgiving (Easy) to hardcore (Impossible) without unfair advantages.
Recommended Setup:
ABPS with 10% Easy, 50% Normal, 30% Hard, 10% Impossible bots spread. Or adjust your method of bot difficulty.
Best For:
- Players who want challenging but fair AI combat with a focus on single player and the respective power fantasy
- Minimizing instant-first contact scenarios
- Anyone seeking more dynamic, engaging firefights
- Players who appreciate tactical, reactive AI behavior
Install:
Drop BepInEx folder into SPTarkov root directory, and select the preset from the SAIN config menu
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Another large pass over all actor settings, you might find this preset overall a bit on the easier side and I recommend spawning all non SCAV actors above easy.
This will be the final version of this preset until I publish my version of SAIN with added features.
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Balanced all other actors to fit core goals.
Should find SCAVS, and the boss enemies much more enjoyable.
Like the last version, a spawn difficulty of mostly Normal and Hard recommended.
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Do PMCs still rain RGNs like crazy with this preset?
It would be so awesome if SAIN presets were relegated to somewhere else. No offense or whatever but half the mod release updates I see are just some random guy’s SAIN preset and it’s gumming up the works.
this works on SAIN 3.10 ? SAIN is not updated to 3.11 thats why i ask
Maybe tone the bosses down a bit. Tagilla keeps head-eyeing me in secs
Thank you for this preset dude, I downloaded it yesterday and I’ve been enjoying it a lot!
is perfect for me.
Whoa, Goons saw me from the scav antenna. I was in the rocks on the other side of the road before the abandoned USEC camp and I was getting shot at, checked dynamic map and there was no one near me. (thought it was a sound bug untill I saw the tracers and ricochet. They came straight for my position even when i doubled back and tried to flank they just kept changing direction to make a B line straight to me like they could see through the rocks and hills. (Maybe only Bigpipe and Death knight)
guessing it is the SAIN preset. other than that I’ve had some fun encounters with PMCs and scavs also seem harder than Live Like Experience preset. great fun so far apart from this one experience of Goon X-Ray vision.
Edit: just replicated. they do not have x-ray vision through the rocks and ground but still started attacking same distance away.
started looking and got confused. Goons may have 360 cheat vision on in hard and impossible mode. i think I just turned that off
i’m playing this with MOAR, but not sure that has any bearing on the scav bot behavior i’ve noticed on factory. they are very slow to aggro me.
PMCs and bosses have no trouble shooting me, though!
Quick question, what’s your bot difficulty setting in the pre-raid screen? The one that is next to “Number of Bots”? Cause I already set my ABPS bot difficulty setting as suggested, but I also set my default bot difficulty setting in SVM to be “Normal” instead of “As Online”.
as you stated -
Recommended Setup:
ABPS with 10% Easy, 50% Normal, 30% Hard, 10% Impossible bots spread. Or adjust your method of bot difficulty.
How do you set this in ABPS ? i cant find any config setting to adjust like you describe. Please help
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