I assume this adds additional enenmies via reinforcements or something? Just had a god awful mission where moxc showed up then this additional pod showed up which to my knowledge never has reinforcements

so it adds extra enemies ?

Oh, my God! Holly Shhh! Some Barry Hell Me!

Ive been using it with Diverse Aliens by Force Level, about 20 missions. So far so good.

Inquiring the same as Boberto and Pietia

same question what Boberto :)

Is this compatible with "Diverse Aliens By Force Level WOTC" ?

Does this mod have some kind of aim penalty? Missed some high percentage shots constantly when I was using this mod.

This mod have EXTRA 60 % PENALTY AIM when is squad is special specific mision ???????

Oh me likie this

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”

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To be fair, I am playing on Legend for the first time, so me getting squashed might be that, in that case I'm sorry for the dumb comment. :)

Any way to tone this mod down a tad in the inis? Don't get me wrong I'm loving it, just not the part when I'm dealing with a Chosen, Berserker, MEC etc. and get another Berserker and Spectre dropped on my ass with only 5 guys. Normally I'd have no problem with it, but it's happening almost every second mission.

yes, they turned from civilans. must be some other mod then, i put 4-5 of them to make game even harder, but thats too much. :)

5 at the same time and they transformed from civilians? What was the mission and was the more hidden faceless Dark Event active? That was not from this mod for sure. Unless you mean the 5 Faceless were in their Faceless form to start? Than that could have been from this mod BUT this mod would not spawn a pod of 5 so that might be from DerBk Better Mission PLUS

Hi Shadow! I play L/I , its late april i think, had m. with your Sitrep , Advent training Officer. Chosen was also there ( a better chosen mod). problem was at the end, sudenly 5 faceless showed up, turned from civlilians. Do you think its this mod, or maybe some other mod, like DerBk Better Missions PLUS. i also have few realityMachina mods, dont know what mod is doin this.

yeah i understand what youre saying. All im saying is Diverse Alien Pods is not coded to touch the DLC missions and all the pods including the Viper Kings pod are forced enemy pods, which Diverse is codded not to touch anyway. bIgnoreForcedSpawnNames=true The golden path misssions revamp mod also does not touch the DLC missions.

@MrShadowCX If you looked at the config files for DAP, you'll see that all golden mission paths are excluded...except viper lair. Which is why Dragon32 suggested adding in the actual mission name in his comment that I referred to. He even showed video evidence in a link. It most likely is true that it's another mod causing that effect, but it doesn't hurt to add the exclusion, which again is *missing* from the exclusion list. When I added that in my subsequent playthrough with no mod changes since the last it didn't have any added advent or other aliens. So it worked for me, otherwise I wouldn't have suggested it

Pod Size increase by forcelevel

What mod to increase pod sizes do you recommend to use with this?

Will do MrShadow! I may start my next campaign in March or so. If it happens again, I will message you about it. But it is no big deal with me. Like I said, I enjoyed it!

Well still keep me posted please.

It was the Viper King Mission on both occasions it happened. Once at the start of the mission and, the second time, near the end. But again, I have had this and the DAP mod for a long time and it never happened to either before then. I am assuming there is another mod out their that is the cause. It might not even be a mod conflict with this mod.

You’re positive it was the viper Kings mission and not just the map in a map pack being used for another mission type?

It's really not an issue. Like I said before, it is probably a mod conflict that is relatively minor since it has only affected a small number of missions. As MrShadow noted, its probably not the DAP mod that is the cause, especially since I have used that mod a long time and this glitch is a recent development.

I have no problem with them appearing during the mission, especially since it is just advent soldiers in the Alien Ruler mission. It was a little freaky to have a sectopod in a Children of the King mission, but that was easily mitigated. Tbh, I kinda enjoy it since it keeps me on my toes ;p. I just wanted to comment on it to give others a heads up and to show Dingle cringe Everett was not the only person to experience it.

Also by default Diverse Alien pods TURNS OFF the diversity in all golden path missions unless you go into the ini and comment it all out.

Diverse Alien pods mod does NOT alter the viper kings lair mission. The viper king and the pods in that mission only have viper-like followers. Diverse Alien pods mod does not force in other enemies as followers that are already not set as follows. All Diverse Alien pods mod does is mix in a better pod composition from allowed Alien followers. So if anyone is getting adv or other strange stuff showing up in the viper Kong’s lair mission, it is not caused by Diverse Alien pods or golden path missions revamped. Neither mod touch that mission.

@Dingle McCringleberry & @DragonKnightXCX
Are you both also subscribed to Diverse Alien Pods? Because that can change the pods for the viper lair unless you add an exclusion. Which you can find out how to do a couple pages down in the comments from Dragon32

Do you know if this works with the Advent to Empire mod? I'm thinking there is no reason it shouldn't...

glad you like ;)

Maybe the most important difficulty mod, this separates the girls from the Rebel Shock Troopers!

To be honest, I have had that happen at least three times. It also happened to me during a Children of the Frost Sitrep. It was a long time back and I just assumed there were a glitch. For the Viper King Lair, there was a random assortment of advent forces at the entrance at one time and the second playthrough, it was near the end.

For the children of the Frost, it was all vipers until the end. There was a random Sectopod next to the mission objective. Again, I just assumed it was a minor bug and did not mention it since I was able to handle it in the end.

Well I had purifiers, priests, and codex's showing up at the viper kings layer. I will ask around on some other mods I'm subbed too. Thank you for responding so quickly and keep up the good work, I love this mod.

first "Hunt" mission? If you mean the Viper King's lair with all vipers, this mod does not alter that at all. If you mean the Children of the King mod, again this mod does not alter that at all.

Is there any way I can disable the diverse pods on the first "Hunt" mission. Having things like purifiers and codexes show up along side like 25 vipers is kind of rough

So, getting attacked by 16 berserkers when I still have conventional weapons... not fun lol

What is the general focus?

we have a massive mod coming soon so keep your eyes open ;)

as do i

I love playing on 11 difficulty out of 10

glad you like it :)

Jeeeeesus, youre not messing around. this is hard looool

well glad its spiced up the game for you.

No, it is a "good thing", it was a retaliation mission, she got over extended and then hammer smacked by a 1) Bezerker 2) One of the General's assistant and 3) a Faceless
I doubt that set of circumstances will happen again, but it teaches to be more circumspect after adding in a bunch of mods that increase difficulty.

She will be missed.

lol sorry :(

THIS, along with some of the other new Alien mods, seriously UPPED the seriousness of missions. Thanks for that.

I have a SuperSoldier Ninja funeral to go to now.

Thanks for the answer @Shadow.

yes

@MrShadowCX would you happen to know if this mod is compatible with [WOTC] Increase Pod Size By Force Level?

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1550396115

It has a similar function as Diverse Alien Pods but also adds a configurable incremented increase in od sizes.