This mod adds a large amount of content, 3 game modes, 50 guns that need to be unlocked in Ex Throne before becoming available in other Ex modes, and over 500 total cards which include some rebalancing of vanilla cards.

The "balance" of this mod aims to be less rigid and lean more into the idea of "fun and powerful without becoming trivial, difficult and challenging without becoming overly frustrating".

Gun traits activate at certain ranks(game mode dependent) to counterbalance the advantages the white army gets. These traits are only available in Ex game modes. For Ex.Throne and Ex.Draft, they become available every 10 ranks, while in Ex.Endless they become available every 3 ranks. Note that these do not stay active on ranks lower than the one where it was unlocked.

Progression is tied to Ex.Throne, you must unlock your ranks and guns by playing in Ex.Throne before they become available in Ex.Draft and Ex.Endless.

Certain stats such as absolution, gamble, ammo regen, etc can be hovered over in the stat bar to get an explanation for what each one does.

• ID00: Old Extra
  Unlock: Default
  Tip: Playing this gun on rank 10 can easily unlock various other guns with specific card requirements thanks to its trait
  
  
• ID01: Father Garcia
  Unlock: Have 4 absolution
  Tip: Use "Gradual Absolution" to stack it
  
  
• ID02: Heartseeker
  Unlock: Have 100% pierce chance
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID03: Reaper
  Unlock: Have "Small Fry Harvest" and "Cannon Fodder"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID04: The A.O.E.B.O.I.
  Unlock: Have 3 grenades
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10 or start a run with The Alchemist
  
  
• ID05: The Royal Enforcer
  Unlock: Have 4 chambers
  Tip: Use "Pressure Chamber" or start a run with Voracious Hunger
  
  
• ID06: The Bullseye
  Unlock: Have 8-10 range
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID 07: The Hot Shot
  Unlock: Reach the Boss in under 5 minutes
  Tip: git gud
  
  
• ID08: Sonic Boom
  Unlock: Have knockback and recoil
  Tip: Find "Micerang the Conqueror"
  
  
• ID09: Plague Bringer
  Unlock: Have 3 rats
  Tip: "Feast and Famine" are 2 rats so you only need to find another one card after that
  
  
• ID10: Shapeshifter
  Unlock: Have "Hubris" and "Shifting Chamber"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID11: Soul Clock
  Unlock: Have "Final Coundown" and "Purgatory"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID12: The Bounty Hunter
  Unlock: Have "Caltrops" and "Hunter's Hook"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID13: Deathwish
  Unlock: Have 8 blade
  Tip: Use "Grindstone" to stack it or find "Queen's Edge"
  
  
• ID14: The Alchemist
  Unlock: Have "Explosive Combo" and "Inequal Exchange"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID15: The Wand of Premonition
  Unlock: Have "Seer's Orb" and "Mystic Shackles"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID16: Drunk Shot
  Unlock: Have 5 pellets with double spread
  Tip: Find "Black Market Powder" twice
  
  
• ID17: Leviathan
  Unlock: Have "The Pact" and "Unholy Call"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID18: Gentleman Jack
  Unlock: Have "King's Mistress" and "Bad Rumours"
  
  
• ID19: The Lost Musketeer
  Unlock: Have 3 Bullet Travel Range
  Tip: Find "Airburst Rounds" twice
  
  
• ID20: Underground Underdog
  Unlock: Have 1 Firepower on the Boss floor
  Tip: Use a 'blade focused gun'
  
  
• ID21: Old Shotgun
  Unlock: Have "Thocracy" and "The Wine"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID22: Explosive Rupture
  Unlock: Have two "Shattering Undoing" cards
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID23: Slick Cane
  Unlock: Have "Undercover Mission" and "Ancient Flagstone"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID24: Time Weaver
  Unlock: Reduce pawn speed by 3 points
  Tip: Play on higher ranks
  
  
• ID25: Tsar's Gambit
  Unlock: Have 4 Gamble
  Tip: "Let's go gambling!"
  
  
• ID26: Glass Cannon
  Unlock: Have 2 Cannonballs
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID27: Voracious Hunger
  Unlock: Have 0 ammo
  Tip: Use "Starvation"
  
  
• ID28: Starburst
  Unlock: Have 180 spread
  Tip: Play with the Shapeshifter and cards that increase spread
  
  
• ID29: Despot's Mancatcher
  Unlock: Find "The Ring King" card
  Tip:You need "Imperial Shot Put" and "Hubris"
  
  
• ID30: Outis
  Unlock: Find "Cloak and Dagger" and "Obvious Disguise"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID31: The Showoff
  Unlock: Have 3 Hops
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID32: The Tally Marks
  Unlock: Have 1 Restart and 1 Rewind
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID33: Late Bloomer
  Unlock: Find 3 Blooming Cards
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID34: Coagulated Bloodlust
  Unlock: Find the "Famished Countess" card
  Tip: You need both "Iron Guard" and "Bloody Countess"
  
  
• ID35: Nightmare Hunter
  Unlock: Trigger Hellmare's second phase
  Tip: Kill all Starvations during the Hellmare boss fight
  
  
• ID 36: Miss Fortune
  Unlock: Has a 1% to randomly unlock
  Tip: Get a little lucky
  
  
• ID37: Deathmark
  Unlock: Have 4 Pellet Damage
  Tip: Use Celestial Ring since it already has extra damage
  
  
• ID38: Snagharpoon
  Unlock: Have 4 Hook Damage
  Tip: Find the "Harpoon of Blind Obsession" and "Wolf Tooth"
  
  
• ID39: Soul Edge
  Unlock: Find the "Chains of Others" and "Voodoo Doll" cards
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID40: Dunkler Schütze
  Unlock: Have the "Kopfschuss" card on the final floor
  Tip:Just use "Dunkle Kugel VII" on the last floor without winning
  
  
• ID41: Unstable Gemstone
  Unlock: Get 20 or more firepower
  Tip:Just play normally
  
  
• ID42: Gradual Assembly
  Unlock: Find the "Gradual Augmentation" and "Gradual Degradation" cards
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID43: Dead and Departed Butterflies
  Unlock: Find the "Funeral of Butterflies" and "Coliva"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID44: Black Sulfur
  Unlock: Get 3 Aura Damage
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID45: Guiled Collector
  Unlock: Have a Rare, Very Rare and Special card
  Tip: Just play normally or pick a gun that starts with a Special card
  
  
• ID46: Trojan Gift
  Unlock: Find the "Foal Play" card
  Tip: You need 3 knights so use Old Extra on rank 10 and pick "Stack the Decks" for the black card and a white card that adds knights, then pick Foal Play when "Stack the Decks" triggers
  
  
• ID47: Cheater's Hand
  Unlock: Find the "Gaslight" and "Straight Up Cheat" cards
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID48: Heavy Metal Smith
  Unlock: Find the "Cruel Irony" card
  Tip: You need "Iron Maiden" first so either play on higher ranks or use Old Extra on rank 10 and pick "Stack the Decks" for the black card and a white card that adds Queens, then pick pray you find "Iron Maiden" and pick "Cruel Irony" when "Stack the Decks" triggers
  
  
• ID49: Vector Point X
  Unlock: Find "Ricochet" and "Falcon's Blessing"
  Tip: Use Old Extra on rank 10
  
  
• ID50: Your Reward
  Unlock: Reach floor 12 on rank 50
  Tip: Good luck.

The way to obtain these badges remains virtually unchanged from the base game, but I'll test them here anyway for those who wish to get them but aren't familiar with how to do it. Spoilers.

1. King Badge
   Reach the final floor and kill the White King Boss
   
   
2. Bishop Badge
   Reach the final floor and kill the White King Boss
   If you have "The Red Book", "Theocracy" and leave exactly 1 Bishop on the board, the Black Bishop Boss fight will trigger
   Kill the Black Bishop Boss to get the badge
   
   
3. Book Badge
   Reach the final floor and kill the White King Boss
   If you have "The Red Book", "Theocracy" and leave exactly 1 Bishop on the board, the Black Bishop Boss fight will trigger
   Kill the Black Bishop Boss
   If you have at least 1 shell still loaded in your chamber, you will get the badge
   
   
4. Blight Badge
   Reach the final floor and kill the White King Boss
   If you have the "Iron Maiden" card and exactly 1 Queen on the board, the Blight fight will trigger
   Kill the Blight to get the badge
   
   
5. Horseman Badge
   Reach the final floor and kill the White King Boss
   If you have exactly 4 Knights on the board, the Horsemen fight will trigger
   Kill the Horsemen to get the badge
   
   
6. Stolen Badge
   Reach the final floor and kill the White King Boss
   If you have exactly 4 Knights on the board and are disguised as a Pawn, you get the badge
   
   
7. Hellmare Badge
   Find "Black Mist" and "Profane Skull"
   "Profane Skull" will become "Call of Hellmare"
   Alternatively, have -10 absolution
   When the Boss floor is reached, the cutscene will be different and the Hellmare fight begins
   Kill Hellmare to get the badge
   
   
8. Starvation Badge
   Reach the Hellmare boss fight then either:
   Kill Hellmare with at least 1 Starvation alive to get this badge
   Kill Hellmare after your max ammo reaches 0 or lower
   
   
9. Speedrun Badge
   Win a run in under 3 minutes
   
   
10. Killer Badge
    Kill at least 100 pieces during a run

• Gun Badge Cheat
  
  1. Enter ExThrone
     
  2. Go to a gun of your choice
     
  3. Press any key from 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 to unlock/lock the appropriate badge
     
  4. This also works during game play
     
  5. Badges do not show on guns that aren't unlocked yet
  
  
• Gun Unlock Cheat
  
  1. Go to the game mode selection screen
     
  2. Before entering any game mode, press U
     
  3. If you are already in a game mode when you press U, exit and reenter
     
  4. Enter ExThrone and all guns that were previously locked should become unlocked
     
  5. Pressing U again will lock all cheated guns after exiting/reentering the game mode
     
  6. If you get the requirements for unlocking a gun while this cheat is active you keep the gun
  
  
• Browsing Mod Files
  
  1. Find the following path \Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\1972440\3143935189
     
  2. Files that have the .lua extension can be opened with notepad or other free programs
     
  3. Graphic files can be opened in MS Paint or other free programs
     
  4. Navigating the folders and files should be fairly easy given their names
     
  5. The scrip.lua file contains all cards and most of the custom code
     
  6. For cards pwe= determines how often a card may appear, change this to 0 or 99999
     
  7. The exthrone.lua from the modes folder contains the weapon stats and rank modifiers
     
  8. The custom english file used by this mod is in the lang folder, it contains most descriptions
     
  9. The misc folder is basically this mod's storage room, it contains a bunch of random stuff

Dullahan, The Headless Mistress
Dullahan is a durable debuffer made of two different pieces trying to work together to kill you.

Dullahan (Head + Body) has the following abilities:

• Black King gets -2 firepower if he's standing near Dullahan
  
• Killing either the Head or the Body will instantly kill the other one
  
• Dullahan can't be knocked back or lifted by normal means
  
• Dullahan will reduce Black King's firepower by 1 when attacking him
  
• The Black King can't hide from Dullahan with cloak/disguise effects
  
• Killing Dullahan will grant the player +1 Firepower and Blade that run
  
• When Dullahan dies, a normal Knight is spawned at the body's location

Dullahan's Head

• The Head can attack like a queen and move like a knight
  
• The Head can fly and attack across obstacles
  
• The Head becomes ghostly when it's not ready to move

Dullahan's Body

• The Body can attack like a knight and move like a queen
  
• The Body can only take 2 damage at a time
  
• The Body can carry nearby non-knight and non-rook pieces

Tips:

• If you have burst damage, attack the head
  
• If you have reliable chip damage, attack the body

The Fool, The Cursing Phantom
The Fool is an annoying ghostly piece that will attempt to sabotage your card choices

The Fool has the following abilities:

• Can move two tiles in all directions and attack within one tile around himself
  
• The Fool becomes ghostly when it's not ready to move
  
• The Fool can move and attack across obstacles
  
• Picking the card "Disturbing Spectacle" will add 3 Curses to the card pool
  
• Picking all 3 Curses will make the next choice offer a special Black Card
  
• Killing the Fool will scare all other Pawns
  
• Killing the Fool will will make Pawns move 6 turns sooner
  
• Killing the Fool will grant an extra turn

Tips:

• Ignore him if you don't have enough firepower to kill him quickly
  
• It might be a good idea to keep him alive until you need to fear all pieces

Shade, The Resurrecting Ghost
Shade is a ghostly piece that starts off weak but will gradually become stronger each time it revives throughout the run.

The Shade has the following abilities:

• Moves and attacks like a King
  
• Starts with very low HP
  
• Each time it is killed, it gains +1 HP for the rest of the run
  
• When killed for the first time per floor, it revives and flips its own card
  
• When killed for the first time per floor, it gives +1 soul slot for the current floor
  
• When killed for the first time per floor, it becomes ghostly
  
• When killed for the first time per floor, it gets +2 speed for the current floor

Tips:

• An absolution build is recommended
  
• Kill it in later floors so its presence is less bothersome

Hero, The Bringer of Justice
The Hero is a very resilient piece that can also use the bow very efficiently.

The Hero has the following abilities

• Can jump like a Knight
  
• Ignores the first instance of damage
  
• Can take 4 damage at most
  
• Has a bow
  
• Killing it will grant -5 spread for the rest of the run
  
• Becomes 'mad' and attacks allies if Hellmare is present
  
• Increases 'Starvation' by 2 if Hellmare is present

Tips:

• Avoid this Elite if you don't have reliable long range damage since it has a lot of shields
  
• The Buckler shield is not active while it readies the bow so that's a good moment to burst him down

Mimic, The Amorphous Slime
The Mimic is a very resilient piece that transforms into a different piece when moving and fully restoring its HP

The Mimic has the following abilities:

• Changes between forms in the following order: King>Knight>Bishop>Rook>Queen>Repeat
  
• Fully heals when changing shape
  
• If the mimic is killed while in its King form, all pieces get -2 speed
  
• If the mimic is killed while in any other form, the piece type that matches that type get -3 speed

Tips:

• Be mindful of which shape it has and what piece is currently giving you the most trouble

Tips:

• There is no solid strategy other than avoiding cards that transform while having his card

Kitsune, The Shrine Maiden
The Kitsune is a tricky piece that uses its Wisp reposition and attack.

The Kitsune has the following abilities:

• Wisps don't attack
  
• Can attack like a Queen but can't move normally
  
• Can swap places with a Wisp in order to reposition
  
• Heals 2 HP after moving
  
• After all her Wisps die for the first time, she starts moving like a Knight
  
• Killing her grants +1 Aura Damage and +1 Absolution

Tips:

• Kill one Wisp to reduce the mobility of the Kitsune

The Statue, of a Weeping Angel
The Statue is a very tanky and dangerous pieces that protects allies and debuffs you.

The Statue has the following abilities:

• Cannot attack normally
  
• Cannot move normally
  
• Cannot be lifted
  
• Cannot be knocked back
  
• Can push nearby pieces and the Black King
  
• Can charge at the Black King orthogonally
  
• Reduces your Firepower by 2 if you are near it
  
• Imprisons you if you are near it
  
• Protects nearby allies
  
• Floor Effect 0(25%): Has no effect this floor
  
• Floor Effect 1(25%): Causes the light level to drop and begins to move actively
  
• Floor Effect 2(25%): Becomes an iron piece and gets -3 speed
  
• Floor Effect 3(25%): Triggers a 30 turns countdown
  
• Killing it grants +1 Pellet Damage
  
• Killing it flips its card
  
• When its card flips, some of the floor effects are reverted

Tips:

• If you don't have a strong build avoid this Elite
  
• This Elite is a death trap, don't get near it nor let it slip near you
  
• If you can somehow flip its card, Effect 1 and Effect 3 can be alleviated

Hellmare, Warden of The Dark Forest
Hellmare is boss that grows more powerful the more pieces you kill during a run.

Hellmare has the following abilities:

• Hellmare gets an extra +100% HP from HP increasing effects
  
• Each time a piece dies during the entire run, Hellmare will get a certain amount of extra HP
  
• When initially spawned, Hellmare will be assisted by 6 Starvations
  
• When moving, Hellmare may perform a Knight jump
  
• Each time Hellmare is hurt, Starvations will get +1 extra HP per instance of damage
  
• Each time a Starvation dies, Starvations lose -1 Speed
  
• Each time a Starvation dies, Hellmare gets +1 Speed
  
• Each time a Starvation dies, Hellmare will take a high amount of damage
  
• Each time a normal piece dies, increase the damage Hellmare takes when a Starvation dies
  
• When the last Starvation dies, a festering aura fills the arena
  
• When the last Starvation dies, Hellmare becomes more aggressive
  
• When the last Starvation dies, Hellmare's card will change to spawn Starvations
  
• Every 10 turns, Hellmare gives -2 ammo max
  
• Every 10 turns, Hellmare gives -1 absolution
  
• On turn 50, Starvations become wraiths
  
• On turn 100, Starvations become immune

Tips:

• Try to not kill the Starvations too early, instead killing other pieces to build up damage for a huge burst of damage
  
• Try to not kill too many pieces during the run so Hellmare won't have that much HP
  
• Focus on a build that can reliably eliminate the Starvations
  
• If your build allows it, leave 1 Starvation alive so Hellmare doesn't change phase and use your cards to kill her during her first phase

It is recommend that you do not play any of the vanilla game modes while this mod is enabled, as some features might break or cause anomalies to occur.

Please ensure the EXTRA language is selected.

This mod requires Glac Terminal, Glacies' Extra Features and Glacies' Collection.

Glac Terminal must be the last mod in your mod list in order to ensure it will work properly.

This mod is compatible with Glacies' mods but I am not sure about mods from other creators, bugs and crashes may occur.

If a crash occurs, it is advised to grab the crash log from the path "Steam\steamapps\common\Shotgun King The Final Checkmate" and bring it to the official discord server for the game (in the modded channels) in order to troubleshoot.


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