Hi! I'm trying to get to the bottom of the conflict between this mod and Extended Information. Is this problem solved? My testing doesn't show any error. Both Extended informaion and EU show same numbers when SHOW_CHANCES are true. Also Extended Information picks up any custom number from HEIGHT_MODIFIER. Thanks

@Dan I'm pretty sure there's an old beta (but still the newest version) of extended information on the xcom modders discord that allegedly addresses this issue.

I personally use it and I think it works fine even though im not payying attention to the numbers. RustyDios mentioned it in Extended info's modpage.

I'm very glad I found this mod. Why is this mod not in the top? I still remember how I burned when the gatekeeper killed with a shot my favorite grenadier-colonel through full indestructible cover, inflicting huge critical damage on him from a fairly large distance.

I'm not using LW2 but this mod still tells me i am and i should change config

Is this compatible with Damage Calculation Tweaks? Sorry if this has been asked.

Honestly I think that the one roll makes sense. If you are in high cover than your exposure is mostly your head peaking out. I am still intrigued by this mod though.

So THAT'S why troopers are always fucking critting my guys through high cover
Holy shit
What kind of chimpanzee there thought that putting it in one roll was a smart idea

@Dan that cannot be fixed per say. The modder of the WOTC - Extended Information! needs to write code to include that.

Great mod ! But there is a compatibility issue with WOTC - Extended Information! .
The flyover showing the hit chances from this other mod do not include the height advantage tweaks from [WOTC] EU Aim Rolls. The %Hit displayed uses the vanilla value for height advantage (+20%).
Any ideas how to have these height tweaks visibles to Extended Information ?

Essential mod. Also, thanks, Jack! Great stuff, adding that to my ini.

*I'm just redoing my mods and thought I'd repaste this. I use this mod to add in multiple levels. I don't think the base game had the configurable levels?

+HEIGHT_MODIFIER=(ZDiff=1, OffenseBonus=2, DefenseBonus=-2)
+HEIGHT_MODIFIER=(ZDiff=2, OffenseBonus=5, DefenseBonus=-5)
+HEIGHT_MODIFIER=(ZDiff=3, OffenseBonus=10, DefenseBonus=-10)
+HEIGHT_MODIFIER=(ZDiff=4, OffenseBonus=15, DefenseBonus=-15)
+HEIGHT_MODIFIER=(ZDiff=5, OffenseBonus=20, DefenseBonus=-20)
+HEIGHT_MODIFIER=(ZDiff=6, OffenseBonus=25, DefenseBonus=-25)

The function StaticInternalRollForAbilityHit seems to be missing the Highlander fix for issue #426 [github.com]

ya, but note that code basically just make the targets considered as flank properly for effects that care about flanking purposes, if you solely want to adjust for aim, you can always just have the hit mod adjustment effect instead, which i have the other mod that does that - ignore partial cover

Could I use your code to ignore cover for overwatch shots as part of this mod ? Full credit will of course be given.

the message show up by detecting the Long war 2 highlander that also did their own aim roll patch. So if any mods that uses that are enabled it will cause the message to appear so you should do the same config changes.

I’m getting the “bad config for LW2” message on startup, but I don’t have LW2 installed. I’m running a covert infiltration campaign, do the same config changes have to be made?

Honestly, this is just too damn amazing. I always preferred the way EU and EW did rolling, and it's nice to have something similiar for wotc. I'm already having a lot more fun than I did before.

The "flanking guarantees crit" is also a thing that I like seing brought back. It makes you focus a lot more on keeping your soldiers flanks covered, and it makes it more benefical for you to try and surround your foes.

@-bg- Thanks for the answer, I only need this mod then.

this mod has a config to customize that called ONEHUNDREDPERCENT_CANCELSDODGE

@Kamen42
Both mods override the same classes so probably don't work together.

I think if you crit with this mod the target can't dodge, you can edit the behaviour somewhat in the .ini but I don't believe Mr Nice's mod can be duplicated.

@-bg-
quick question - in vanilla, if you have 100% hit chance, it removes all dodge chance from the enemy. How does this mod handle this? From the flowchart it looks like the dodge may still occur even on 100% hit.

I also installed this mod to preserve the dodge chance on 100% hit and i realized there may be a conflict between these two mods.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1130400927

What's the difference between ABILITY_AIM_OWNERONMISS and ABILITY_AIM?

this mod does not really do much calculations beyond the vanilla behaviour, and those log stuffs are just for animations timings (I may implement a log level setting in the future if i have stuff to update). Random long lags are caused by conflicting overwrites, if the mere act of writing these logs causes the lag (which mind you only happens when animations are playing), you have actual disk issues as xcom write logs to disk directly rather than memory.

I'm not sure how it works, but I had some time lags for 10-30 seconds when this mod was busy with calculations or something like that, and it can be clearly seen in the log file. After I removed it, game started to run faster again. And there is nothing to do with hard drive speed. Have a latest Samsung SSD with 32 GB of RAM, modern CPU.

if writing a < 1 KB log slows down your game drastically you need to check your hard disk

the mod is very bugged, i looked at the log file it generates multiple messages like these: [1349.84] EUAimRollsVis: Pre block notified
[1349.84] EUAimRollsVis: Pre block got context
It slows down the game drastically.

@Terrance The T-Rex
I'd say the vanilla game behaviour is more consistent, in that an entity in cover who's hit will be consistently critical hit.

ngl I am very confused by all this text, would you say this is more consistent than the default?

@Rossocuore
Again, a sizable chunk of time between the last event written to the log and the crash event. Five seconds this time
[3640.98]
[3645.22]
If you've got a repeatable crash then try a binary search to find the problem mod.
https://www.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/wiki/mod_troubleshooting#wiki_binary_search

@Dragon32
Thanks for the Pastebin tip. Didn't know about that one. Here I attach another example:

https://pastebin.com/ahr8P877

What do you think?

@Rossocuore
There's about 10 seconds between the EU Aim Rolls event and the crash event. Also, use something like Pastebin for text files, they're not images

I suspect this mod being involved in crashes with my configuration; these are the last lines of the crash log:

https://ibb.co/4SdnJmj

What do you people think about it? Thanks.

@-bg-

Happy New Year!

The "Mod updated!" error modal doesn't have the mod name anywhere in it, so it takes a bit of effort to find out that EU Aim Rolls has shown the modal.

https://i.imgur.com/qXgwEcs.png

Might be worthwhile to have something like "[WOTC] EU Aim Rolls - Mod updated" and "[WOTC] EU Aim Rolls - Bad config for LW2!" in the title to save others the effort.

@MissGambit
You sure about that? I didn't need to disable separate hit and crit rolls in my last RPGO campaign, although that was before -bg-'s latest change to this mod.

Hi -bg- thank you for the mods you've made.

If you guys are running RPGO mod, you will have to do a quick change to the config. Click the "please read - for long war 2 (LW2) users discussion link above ^. Otherwise you will get this error message upon startup: https://i.ibb.co/TLk0zVK/image.png

commenting out any lines will result them to be set to default values, which is false/0

Regarding configs: Is it safe to ;; out any and all lines that change things outside the way rolls are done, as would like the rolls without the changes to anything else...

the crit portion is not ignored

Thanks for the prompt reply!
One more question: does your mod also do something with the squadsight crit penalty?

I see that in your config there's only the parameter for squadsight aim penalty (which I used to remove said penalty and it worked perfectly well). However, I tried to make a separate mod that also removes squadsight crit penalty found in XComGameCore.ini, and it doesn't seem to work. At the same time comment in your config says "the original squadsight penalty config is ignored" - which makes me wonder whether the original crit penalty is ignored too.
If that is indeed so, what's the easiest way to get rid of the squadsight crit penalty while having your mod in place?

it's just an example

Hi! Thanks for this great mod.

I'm curious about this line:
+SQUADSIGHT_MODIFIERS=(EffectName=SquadsightMaster, PenaltyModifier=2.0, IsTargetEffect=false)

What is this "SquadsightMaster" effect? Is it a real game effect or just an improvised name you put there as an example?

@-bg- I am suspecting a freeze associated with this mod. Total freeze, no crash to the desktop. no crash log & file created. In the launch.log the last entries are several iterations looking like this:

26463.44] Log: X2TacticalGameRuleset_18 TurnPhase_UnitActions: Available Actions
[26463.57] Log: X2TacticalGameRuleset_18 TurnPhase_UnitActions: Available Actions: Done waiting for New States
[26463.57] Log: X2TacticalGameRuleset_18 TurnPhase_UnitActions: Waiting for Visualizer: 1.5
[26463.91] EUAimRollsVis: Pre block notified
[26463.91] EUAimRollsVis: Pre block got context
[26463.92] Log: X2TacticalGameRuleset_18 TurnPhase_UnitActions: Available Actions
[26463.92] EUAimRollsVis: Pre block notified
[26463.92] EUAimRollsVis: Pre block got context

Thanks for your reply and all the awesome mods you've done :)

No, but you can turn off each individual changes made in this mod to get close to vanilla behaviour except with only the bug fixes and the height customization

Will there every be the chance of a standalone mood for the height bonuses?

Only because (I'm probably wrong), but does the aim calculation of this mod mess with some other mods that alter abilities or add in new shooting abilities?

Cool, thanks again.

yes

Thanks for the update -bg-

Just checking, we still need to set DefenseBonus as a negative? Like this:
+HEIGHT_MODIFIER=(ZDiff=3, OffenseBonus=20, DefenseBonus=-10)

While I did not suffer from any CTD issues. I really appreciate the update and continues support for all of these years! Thank you!

welp for a long time I am unable to reproduce the crash issue, finally found the actual cause of it. Fixed in the latest update.