Total Overdose is a great fun action game, but even with the hard difficulty setting, it's too easy on repeated playthroughs. Rather than making self-imposed challenges like "no rewinds and loco moves", i thought it would be much more fun to have a difficulty where the entirety of Ramiro's incredibly overpowered arsenal would be essential for survival. I wrote a lua script for CheatEngine to create such a difficulty, and will use it in this playthrough. Besides that, I follow some rules:
- Beat all the missions within a single combo whenever possible (sometimes it's really hard, so i allow myself to save and load during missions)
- Hard difficulty setting
- Only collecting powerup pickups when they're on my way, not searching for them on purpose
- No farming for rewinds/loco moves between missions (using "Day of the Dead" etc).
- Won't bother with the driving challenges because i don't like driving physics in this game, and especially because it's almost impossible to win all rewards in them without ramming over a lot of pedestrians

The script does the following changes:
- 5x all damage received
- Invincibility, El Toro and El Mariachi timers shortened to 7.5 seconds (in original they're 15-20 seconds)
- Invincibility time granted by using a rewind is nullified, so that player can take damage as soon as rewind is over
- No infinite weapons rewards (all weapon skill powerups collected over 50 are therefore useless)

The damage modification has two quirks:
- When receiving damage for the first time, the change made by script won't be registered on the health bar right away, it'll become apparent next time the health is updated by the game (usually getting damage next time)
- When player survives the damage assigned by the original game, and the script would have reduced the health down to 0, it reduces it to 1 instead, because game wouldn't register the player as dead until health is validated, yet having 0 health would create undesired glitches (such as inability to enter cars and save) until health goes above 0.

If you're playing the game on windows 7 64bit and having random crashes, try limiting the game process to 1 core in task manager.

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