Enhanced Medical Operation

Introduction:

EMO is a major medical overhaul, bringing a more realistic medical simulation to Barotrauma without relying on LUA at all.

For me personally, vanilla medical was not exciting and challenging. Using "healing potions" like morphine and even combat stimulants, to treat people in whatever condition they were, is boring and uneventful. Damage types are simply a copy of the other; doesn't matter if it's a gunshot wound or blunt force trauma - it made no real difference.

After working on the precursor of Neurotrauma (Advanced Medicine), I felt that both are too complicated in certain regards, especially with the limitations of Barotrauma itself, as well as its reliance on LUA. Thus EMO was born, first as a silly side-gig to test out what could be done with XML-Code, eventually developing into a serious project to bridge the gap between Vanilla and Neurotrauma.

Enjoy!

Features:

• Full rework of the health system! Ranging from reworked wounds to fractures, organ failure and more

• A box of new and old tools! Use morphine to stabilize, scalpels to open a patient up or a hypospray to inject new medicines (based on trek-med)

• A complete armour overhaul! Ballistic weapons inflict different levels of internal injuries and you can protect yourself with light, medium and heavy body armor against a swift demise!

• Build your own medbay! If your ship has a medical bed, a plethora of devices will make it a proper ICU; if not you still have resuscitation kits that allow you to stabilize patients in the field

• Ingame manual - feel like a medical student while learning EMO before realizing it isn't that complicated!

Incompatibility:

Attention: This mod will rewrite large parts of vanilla Barotrauma! Anything overwriting vanilla damage afflictions is incompatible. Anything overwriting medical items is most likely incompatible. Anything overwriting husk affliction is (mildly) incompatible. Anything overwriting human.xml will disable a chunk of the medical system.

It will most likely have minor to major incompatibilities with medical reworks of any kind.

For maximum functionality, overriding mods should be placed below EMO.

Known Bugs:

• Lag-Spikes when too many bots are injured (might be fixed?!)

Patches:

• Enhanced Armaments

• Enhanced Armaments - Fuel For The Fire

• More Content For Europa

• aWeapons (Partially deprecated; gives AI a mixture of aWeapons, new armour and energy weapons when loaded)

• Energy Weapons (Deprecated)

Recommended Mods:

• BetterHealthUI

Credits:

• Refurbished graphics used from the precursor Advanced Medicine!

• Graphics for isolinear chips and medicorder made by Krill

• Graphics for cardiostimulator made by MilkTea and myself

• Most other graphics have been pieced together with vanilla assets

• Used sounds under the CC0 license and modified them

Future content:

Improved Medicine is a passion project in the work for over 4 years now. I'm still working on it and am always open for suggestions as well.

New content that may come include:

• Translation into German

• Additional tools?!

• Futher reworked talents for the medical doctor

• Potentially more in-depth genetics work

• Potentially better and more plants

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Can I add the mod to a running save? A: Yes, you can, albeit keep in mind that you will have barebone medical equipment. Also, it seems old characters will get access to new talents, too!

Q: Is this compatible with bots? A: It is partially compatible with bots. They are incapapable of treating complex injuries though and bots trying to heal other bots may cause lag.

Q: Is this compatible with weapon mod X? A: There are patches available for a few mods, to make their armours work with EMO. As of a recent update (August 26) weapons do work with the ballistic system without further patching.

Q: I have an idea; where can I post it? A: Use the attached discussion thread to post any feature requests. Writing down ideas in the comments makes it difficult to keep track of them and the discussions surrounding them.

Q: I am overwhelmed; is there a Trello page like with Neurotrauma? A: Currently there are no plans to make a Trello page. For a manual refer to the ingame encyclopedia which covers the majority of the mod.