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22 Feb, 2017 @ 11:43am
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Stunlancers Riot Control Flashbang

Description
"At first ADVENT deployed non-lethal crowd control units for the occasional protest, but you don't see a whole lot of that anymore."

Do you hate yourself? This mod is for you.

All Stunlancers have 1 Flashbang in their inventory.

-= CONDITIONS =-

They will use it if:

- They cannot Stunlance for whatever reason (Mobility or high Aim penalties)
- You have 3 or more units in the target range (punishment for bunching up your units).

Basically if you try to stunlock or debuff (Red Fog/Disorient/Poison/Iron Curtain/Suppress) a Stunlancer it can now fight back. It was made for this job, it's time it does it correctly. Stunlancers are more than just charging headstrong like idiots into melee combat.

V1.1 : AI UPDATE
Will now Flashbang more, consider yourselves warned.
Since the StunLancer is a FANATIC, I had to put a check that it wasnt flanked before performing the toss.

-= COUNTER =-

The Mindshield is still an excellent counter tool against Lancers, as the Flashbang is also a Disorient effect. So having a Mindshield basically renders the Stunlancer useless since it cannot do any damage to you or debuff you.

-= COMPATIBILITY =-

LW2 doesn't change the Stunlancer code so this mod should be compatible with both LW2 and Vanilla.
15 Comments
Juravis  [author] 21 Sep, 2017 @ 9:17am 
No
Galgus 21 Sep, 2017 @ 7:42am 
Will this work in WOTC?
Juravis  [author] 27 Feb, 2017 @ 12:31pm 
I have never tested if solace provides complete immunity to Stunlancers but I have seen many Stunlancers do nothing against Mindshielded people.
Juravis  [author] 27 Feb, 2017 @ 12:30pm 
The mindshield provides an immunity called "Mental" which includes panic, disorient. There is only one item that provides immunity, the Mindshield HOWEVER there is also an ability, Solace.
LightenedDark 27 Feb, 2017 @ 12:27pm 
AA you crack me up. Also, is mindshield the only way in vanilla to avoid disorientation?
Green Raven 27 Feb, 2017 @ 5:41am 
You are a horrible person. Thank you.
Juravis  [author] 26 Feb, 2017 @ 7:54pm 
Here is a resume of the StunLancer attack choices.

Action 1: Try To Stun Lance, Move If flanked, Try Flashbanging if not flanked, Movement, Try to shoot, reload or overwatch, Hunt if it sees no one.

Action 2: Try to flashbang first if not flanked, Try to Stun lance, try to shoot/reload/overwatch, then all movements to spare.
Juravis  [author] 26 Feb, 2017 @ 7:52pm 
AI update. I'm laughing maniacally as I upload.
Juravis  [author] 24 Feb, 2017 @ 10:31pm 
Or other impairments, anything really that makes them not want to stunlance. And I'm not sure anymore if you can grenade or not while disoriented, ill have to double check. Poison would work.
Insufferable Smartypants 24 Feb, 2017 @ 7:18pm 
I thought that you can't throw a grenade if you're disoriented.