Better multiplayer difficulty scaling

Configurable scaling of enemy health, block value, and abilities (by number of players) in single and multiplayer games to increase the challenge of the game.

BetterMultiplayerScaling

🎮 **A mod that gives you complete control over the multiplayer difficulty of Slay the Spire 2! **Tired of the default difficulty curve? This mod allows you to fine-tune enemy attributes, whether you want to challenge your limits with friends or want a more balanced experience, it can satisfy you.

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🛠️ Configurable options

The mod contains **8** configurable options, allowing you to tweak the game however you want:

• **Fixed Health Bonus**: Adds a fixed amount of health to all enemies, not affected by scaling factor or player count. Great for increasing the difficulty of early levels without overly affecting later levels.
• **Additional scaling percentage per player**: Additional scaling percentage for each additional player in the lobby. The default value is **5%**. This number is multiplied by the number of players in the lobby and added to the **base scaling percentage**.
• **Base scaling percentage**: The default scaling ratio of the lobby. The default value is **100%**. Setting it below **100%** can effectively **reduce** the monster's health.
• **Minimum number of players required to take effect**: How many players need to be in the lobby for this mod to **take effect**. The default value is **2**. Set to **1** to make it work in single player as well.
• **Elite Health Multiplier**: The percentage by which the health of elite enemies should be multiplied. The default value (i.e. the original value) is **100%**.
• **Boss Health Multiplier**: The percentage by which the boss enemy's health should be multiplied. The default value (i.e. the original value) is **100%**.
• **Ability Stacking Multiplier**: The ratio by which the values ​​of "Artifact", "Plating", "Buffer", "Slippery" and "Easy to Startle" are applied to an enemy. The default value (i.e. the original value) is **100%**.
• **Block value multiplier**: The ratio by which the enemy's value should be scaled when it obtains the "block" effect. Does not affect the Plating or Susceptibility values ​​applied to enemies. The default value (i.e. the original value) is **100%**.

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🧮 Calculation principle

**The calculation formula is as follows:**

`Standard game calculation * (base scaling percentage + (number of players * additional scaling percentage per player))`

**Give me a chestnut 🌰：**

Using default values ​​(base 100%, 5% per player) in 8-player co-op:

`800% * (100% + (8 * 5%))`

= `800% * (100% + 40%)`

= `800% * 140%`

= **1120%** total scaling (original is 800%).

This means that if an enemy has 14 health in solo mode and 112 health in vanilla 8-player co-op, with this mod it will have **156 health** in 8-player co-op. If **Health Points Fixed Bonus** is also configured, an additional bonus will be added on top of this.

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📥 Installation Guide

• Unzip the downloaded file and you will get a folder named `BetterMultiplayerScaling`.
• Place this folder into the `mods` folder in the root directory of your game.
• The final file structure should be like this:
• `SlayTheSpire2/mods/BetterMultiplayerScaling/BetterMultiplayerScaling.dll`
• `SlayTheSpire2/mods/BetterMultiplayerScaling/BetterMultiplayerScaling.json`
• `SlayTheSpire2/mods/BetterMultiplayerScaling/Config.json`

⚠️ **Important Note:** For multiplayer games, it is **strongly recommended that all players install this mod and keep their `.json` configuration files in sync**. Otherwise, it may cause synchronization errors and increase the risk of disconnection.

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🎯 Usage suggestions

• **Challenge yourself**: Increase the `additional scaling percentage per player` and `base scaling percentage`, so that even high-player teams will feel a lot of pressure!
• **Balanced experience**: If you feel that the enemies in the late stage of the original multiplayer mode are too "brittle", you can approp …