Better Combat Evolved 2.0 - Thunderbolt

Please refer to nexus changelog.

v1.2.0-beta.3

Quen changes

Basic quen:

Rank 0 - 1 hit durability / 50% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 1 - 1 hit durability / 55% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 2 - 1 hit durability / 60% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 3 - 2 hit durability / 65% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 4 - 2 hit durability / 70% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 5 - 3 hit durability / 75% damage reduction on each hit

The duration of the sign is now related to the attribute "Sign Intensity", the duration starts at 10 seconds and gets 1 second longer for each 10% sign intensity Geralt has.

Kind of like this.

0% sign intensity - 10 seconds duration
10% sign intensity - 11 seconds duration
20% sign intensity - 12 seconds duration 
50% sign intensity - 15 seconds duration
100% sign intensity - 20 seconds duration 
150% sign intensity - 25 seconds duration
200% sign intensity - 30 seconds duration 

• Quen Intensity increases number of hits at 3/5 and 5/5, starting at 1 hit for 0/5
• each rank in Quen Intensity increases % damage absorbed by 5 %
• every 10% spell power increases duration by 1 second, base duration is 10.
• Cast costs 55 stamina
• Quen Discharge reflects 10% of damage TAKEN per rank while quen is up, up to 50% at rank 5.

Alt quen:

• Absorbs all of the damage from a single hit
• Heals you for 25% of the damage of that hit, or a spellpower scaling % of your health whichever is lower. Don't expect large amounts of healing at low levels. at 50% quen spell power, it heals about 90 damage (2% health with 4400 max health)
• With explosive quen, explosion has twice the range of normal
• Costs all of your stamina once you're hit
• Drains 30 stam/sec at level 1, and 15 stam/sec and level 3

Balancing changes

• Sign perks reverted back to 5% per rank, was 4%
• Increased Ekhidna healing from 1.5% to 2.5%
• Removed multipliers for low high and deadly enemies for better ESGO synergy
• Tweaked toxicity-related skills
• Gave Geralt's fist fighting stats a small increase in damage and a large increase in defence.

Additional Balance Changes

• Increased all buy prices by 35%
• Reduced player sell prices by 40%
• Roughly doubled most quest gold rewards
• Stamina regen for ALL enemies increased from 25% to 75%
• Humans blocks a witcher's blade much less frequently
• Re-worked NPC armor ability types -
  • light armors = more dodge, less block
  • heavy armors=more block, less dodge, more health
• Added +75% damage resist to Geralt for fist fights(untested!)
• Re-worked ALL trophies, each one now greatly changes combat style.

v1.2.0-beta.2

Quen changes

Basic quen:

Rank 0 - 1 hit durability / 50% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 1 - 1 hit durability / 55% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 2 - 1 hit durability / 60% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 3 - 2 hit durability / 65% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 4 - 2 hit durability / 70% damage reduction on each hit
Rank 5 - 3 hit durability / 75% damage reduction on each hit

The duration of the sign is now related to the attribute "Sign Intensity", the duration starts at 10 seconds and gets 1 second longer for each 10% sign intensity Geralt has.

Kind of like this.

0% sign intensity - 10 seconds duration
10% sign intensity - 11 seconds duration
20% sign intensity - 12 seconds duration 
50% sign intensity - 15 seconds duration
100% sign intensity - 20 seconds duration 
150% sign intensity - 25 seconds duration
200% sign intensity - 30 seconds duration 

• Quen Intensity increases number of hits at 3/5 and 5/5, starting at 1 hit for 0/5
• each rank in Quen Intensity increases % damage absorbed by 5 %
• every 10% spell power increases duration by 1 second, base duration is 10.
• Cast costs 55 stamina
• Quen Discharge reflects 10% of damage TAKEN per rank while quen is up, up to 50% at rank 5.

Alt quen:

• Absorbs all of the damage from a single hit
• Heals you for 25% of the damage of that hit, or a spellpower scaling % of your health whichever is lower. Don't expect large amounts of healing at low levels. at 50% quen spell power, it heals about 90 damage (2% health with 4400 max health)
• With explosive quen, explosion has twice the range of normal
• Costs all of your stamina once you're hit
• Drains 30 stam/sec at level 1, and 15 stam/sec and level 3

Balancing changes

• Sign perks reverted back to 5% per rank, was 4%
• Increased Ekhidna healing from 1.5% to 2.5%
• Removed multipliers for low high and deadly enemies for better ESGO synergy
• Tweaked toxicity-related skills
• Gave Geralt's fist fighting stats a small increase in damage and a large increase in defence.

Quen rebalancing

Basic quen:

• Quen Intensity increases number of hits at 3/5 and 5/5, starting at 1 hit for 0/5
• each rank in Quen Intensity increases % damage absorbed by 5 %
• every 10% spell power increases duration by 1 second, base duration is 10.
• costs 55 stam
• Quen Discharge reflects 10% of damage TAKEN while quen is up, up to 50% at rank 5.

Alt quen:

• Absorbs all of the damage from a single hit
• Heals you for 25% of the damage of that hit, or a spellpower scaling % of your health whichever is lower. Don't expect large amounts of healing at low levels. at 50% quen spell power, it heals about 90 damage (2% health with 4400 max health)
• with explosive quen, explosion has twice the range
• costs all of your stamina once you're hit
• drains 30 stam/sec at level 1, and 15 stam/sec and level 3

1.1.2

• Fix delayed recovery being too powerful
• Removed White rafford invulnerability
• Max toxicity has been changed from 100 to 1,000. This was done to prevent rapid toxicity degeneration. YOU MUST DRINK A RESPEC POTION!!!!
• All potions/decoctions and skills regarding toxicity have been changed to new appropriate toxicity values
• All potions and decoctions duration and effects have been reverted to vanilla
• Each point spent in the alchemy tree increases potion duration from 1% to 5%
• Toxicity management is a thing now.
• The upgradable Kaer Morhen armor has been nerfed on each tier, making the Serpent Armor from the Hearts of Stone DLC superior.
• Ekhidna decoction's healing effect has been changed from 10% to 2% due to BCEv2.0's extensive use of stamina.
• Alternate Quen's cost reduction has been increased from 8% per rank to 25% per rank
• Refreshment has been changed from 2% per rank to 3%
• All trophies have been re-balanced, each providing both positive and negative effects.
• Armor/Weapon enhancements have been decreased from 15% to 10%, but still last 45 minutes.
• All enemies have been re-worked through global modifiers ONLY, this was done to prevent some enemies being vastly overpowered, and to also fix enenmies while doing Ciri quests.
• We are now working very closely with the mod author of Enemy Scaling and Gameplay Overhaul (ESGO) - we strongly recommend that you download it. BCEv2.0's enemies have been tailored to be 100% compatible with ESGO.
• Potion of Clearance has been added to every Inn in the game, and it's price has been reduced from 1,000 to 300.
• Food and water healing effect durations have been decreased almost in half, and their healing rates have been increased.

v1.09

Version 1.09 - up to date with the nexus

Initial dev version

This version is older than what is on the nexus - download it there