r/biomutant

Been playing a lot more recently cuz it randomly gave me the itch.

I like when a game has photo mode. I enjoy documenting my journey as it helps me feel more connected to my character and the story. I wish that Biomutant had a more in depth photo mode, but I’ve still been having fun with it.

I found some interesting leftovers from the cut Gizmotech class.

Its gear still exists in the files: a Gizmotech jacket, pants, helmet, shoulderpad, and banderole. From what I can tell, the jacket, pants, and helmet seem to have later become the Ark Suit pieces. There was also a ranged weapon entry called the Flamethrower, which looks like it may have been intended as part of the class identity.

I tried restoring Gizmotech as a playable class, but ran into several issues:

• The current class menu only supports the existing class slots.
• Adding Gizmotech as a separate class caused crashes.
• Replacing Mercenary with Gizmotech worked partially, but the UI still had hardcoded Mercenary references.
• The Gizmotech clothing exists, but some of it behaves oddly in the gear menu.
• The Flamethrower model exists, but its actual firing behavior does not seem fully connected anymore.
• Making it shoot by borrowing another weapon's behavior made it act like a gun instead of a flamethrower.
• Trying other fire or missile-style paths either broke the weapon or did nothing.

It is a shame that most of these things are baked in, and modding beyond changing a few values within the datatables is not really possible unless we properly rebuild or inject cooked Unreal assets, which I do not feel comfortable doing.