Enhance melee combat

This mod combines all my work aimed at improving melee combat into one file (recovery functionality, new mechanics, grapple sequences, uniform animations, 8 fighting styles, shoving, kick animations, new animations and replacements for default animations, grapple position switches, hostage-taking abilities, etc.)

Enhance melee combat

🎮 **Completely upgraded Red Dead Redemption 2 melee experience**

This mod combines all my work on improving the melee system into one file, bringing unprecedented combat depth and variety to the game!

✨ Core Functions

**8 unique fighting styles**, each with exclusive grappling and melee animations:

• **BS_PLAYER** - Default animation
• **BS_PLAYER_WINTER1** - Unique intimidation gesture release animation
• **BS_PLAYER_FINALE** - Different knife attack and blocking animations
• **BS_BRUISER** - Slow but heavy attacks, unique uniform reversal and knockdown animations
• **BS_MICAH_FINALE** - Fast but lightweight attacks, unique wall grapple sequence
• **BS_MIXED** - Custom fighting style, including all dodge and block attack animations
• **BS_CHARLES** - Customized style, with 7 unique counterattacks
• **BS_PLAYER_MOONSHINER** - Fighting style activated when drunk

🥊 Brand new combat mechanism

**Grapple Attack Block** - Get a "Block" prompt when being grappled, press the button to play 6 unique animations

**Grapple Reversal** - Brand new function, quickly press E when being grappled to perform a grapple reversal

**Struggle Exit Mechanism** - Get the "Exit" prompt when starting to struggle and stop the struggling animation

**Command Window Throw** - Press X+WASD while grappling to throw the enemy over a railing, table or window

🗡️ Execution and Uniform

**Execute Strapped Enemies** - Just like in RDR1, approach a trussed enemy and select the knife to get the "Execute" prompt

**New Intimidation Animations** - Battles can now end with intimidation, with 4 unique animations

**Restore Tank Drowning Action** - Get a prompt when approaching a tank and grappling an enemy to start drowning enemies in the tank

🎯 Weapon system enhancement

**Unarmed Animations** - 4 additional unarmed counterattack animations, new close range boxing animations

**Pistol/Rifle/Shotgun** - Added a variety of execution and knockdown animations

**Knife/Machete/Axe** - 3 additional knife counter animations, new running execution animation

**Molotov** - 1 front and 2 back uniform animations

🤖 AI enhancement

AI can now perform actions such as custom uniforms, armed executions, grapple attack blocks, grapple reversals, etc.

AI will attack you from behind when fighting multiple enemies

AI is able to perform environmental finishing moves

🎮 Control instructions

• **Numpad1/F1** = bs_player
• **Numpad2/F2** = bs_player_winter1
• **Numpad3/F3** = bs_bruiser
• **Numpad4/F7** = bs_micah_finale
• **Numpad5/F8** = bs_player_finale
• **Numpad6/F9** = bs_mixed
• **Numpad7/F10** = bs_charles
• **Numpad8/F11** = Struggle Challenge
• **Numpad0/Z** = Reset grapple animation
• **Right Click/Aim Button** = Standing grapple toggle
• **G/RB** = Kick [combination]
• **Left Click/R2** = Push NPC
• **X + WASD / RB + direction** = window throwing animation

⚙️ Configuration options

Through the EnhancedBrawling.ini file you can:

• Changed "Suppress, Exit, Block, Reversal and Execute" text
• Disable grapples that cause you or an enemy to drop weapons
• Disable AI's knife combos
• Disable taunts or set play frequency
• Disabled AI armed executions
• Disable AI frontal grappling

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**Installation Requirements**: Make sure you have the latest versions of Lenny's Mod Loader and Alexander Blade's Script Hook

Place Enhanced Brawling.asi and EnhancedBrawling.ini into the Red Dead Redemption 2 folder and place the "Enhanced Brawling" folder into the lml folder