Arkhne's 12 Enemies Mod - "Official Release"

Ok, where to start..... Enemy health numbers are configurable, and I believe I can, for example, give Cannibals Barriers, though I have specifically avoided health-bloating and damage-pumps. As to the swarmers, it really is fun seeing them skitter about all hyperactively now, they were, however, totally OP before I got told to nerf them. They were out-running even Adrenaline Module Drells, and one-shotting them from full barriers+health because of how many there was. I reduced the damage per second, but increased the duration of their DoT, which effectively makes them do the same damage, but also prevents shields from regenerating for longer.

In all honesty though, Mgamerz did all the work, his ModMaker tool on me3tweaks.com is really easy to learn and use, no prior experience needed. You can go totally nutz and make godlike Cannibals who have Possessed Praetorian levels of Health, and hit like Ravagers (BTW, did you notice how fast Cannibals run to eat their buddies?).

I have always found that platinum wavelist editing is super annoying. I don't understand what makes clients see or not see enemies for plat, where it's pretty well figured out on gold and below. Most times what I just do, if I am making difficulty mods, is bump silver to gold levels and gold to plat levels and then I just disable bronze and plat.

Adding armor or shields/barriers to enemies that don't have it isn't possible, at least not through modmaker. Enemies are initialized read values in a script and then add the shield component if they have any shields or barriers. Even if you set in coalesced the shields value from other enemies, the startup code for enemies doesn't even look at it, and even if it did, without extra code to add the shield modules it doesn't do anything. And editing unrealscript functions is like getting a root canal. I can modify in-place but I have never successfully extended or truncated one.

It may be possible to change health to armor through mixins. I acutally wanted this as a dynamic mixin so you could change the health types, e.g. you can have a enemy that only has shields as health (like the drones do). However dynamic mixins always took numerical values, where health types are enums (which is a fixed list of integers) so I never built out the interface for it. If you really wanted that capability I could do it - but additionally, I don't know if this replicates off host properly. I know I changed the CAT6 Executioner in Rejection from Armor to Health to balance out his damage reduction factor.

As for enemy compositions, take into account the role of each pawn. A wave of brutes is really easy until they are in range. But if you toss in a double tap nemesis, it locks you in place allowing the brutes to close distance. You can add a phantom to add flank. Geth Hunters can get close to distract, giving lots of time for larger enemies to get into position. Scions lock down large open areas. Praetorians can lock down corridors due to their speed and size. The Atlas is a tank that can suck up damage while allowing others to get into position. Marauders are basic mooks that are good at forcing people into cover at mid range. I tend to always mix some of these - some waves I like to design as "long range" - missile troopers, nemesis, ravager, mixed with a bunker buster like a phantom or brute.

Or you could just use modmaker.