Could someone make a fork of this mod that doesn't have the forcefield-log-spam game-slowdown issue? It looks like the original author is long gone - their last comment is from 2017 - but this mod is so good that it'd be nice to see it get a bugfix for this issue.

Are the Chosen supposed to have 50 HP and five armor at the very start of the game or is there something screwy happening with my install?

HELLOW, BROTHER. i just translated this mod into Korean. I want you to add this file to the mod.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rGgp-ozLIoi4dmQjX-62-5_z1_BVDKjW/view?usp=sharing

Hello
This mod work with aba and proficency class?

I never get the pop up to activate this midcampaign. My soldiers get the buff, Advent does not.

If you have a LOT of enemy units, then yes, it'll still cause slowdowns. I don't know about theta strike, but it's specifically the forcefield accuracy cut and it does it even if you've commented it out. :/

@PM_Zigg Price
when did this mod cause any lags ? never noticed anything like this

Is this mod still causing slow down due to excessive resource usage?

And does this behavior appear in Theta Strike, as well?

this mod make game high lag in combat
too much log out put when moving unit

The Chosen having 39 HP and 9 Armour right from the start feels a little bit unreasonable

Does this work properly with a better advent?

the regen isn't working , i'm i the only one with this issu

Yeah, this mod is in need of an update. It seems to have several issues with it that can lag/crash a game. A shame, because this is a good one otherwise.

Ok I have no idea why its doing this but when I have this mod installed my game keeps crashing. Like it will not start it just crashes but when I don't have it installed, my game loads fine. Is there a mod I have installed already that is conflicting with this mod from working?

Also, this doesn't appear to affect extra factions. For example, MOCX, Marauders, etc.

Think you could add some more settings for stuff like giving the ADVENT troopers more health if we wanted to? You could keep the values at 0 in the default settings, but allowing us to change it as we wish would allow more flexibility.

Hey, dunno if you still check this mod, but I'm noticing in my campaign that during battles, the Forcefield modifier for psionic shielded units is being called or checked an extreme amount of times per turn, so much to the point where it's slowing down my game. I assume it's some sort of conflict? But I'm not sure with what exactly, since my launcher isn't telling me. Any help on the subject?

Hi, is there any way to edit values of specific alien types? or move them to different stat group in the .ini?because I play with Bio beast and Omega besrserker and these guys are treated as mutons by your mod and not as regular berserkers (meaning that instead of getting 75% hp more they get 50% hp more, which is fine, but also they getetra 15 armor... so it'ssimply impossible to deal with 5 of them in one single pod -.-)

Answered my own question, yes it does.

2nd question, does this use the beta strike multipler from the base config files to determene all of its own calculations, or does it have its own?

Can just comment out any lines I dont want active? Say, the Alien ruller lines. I have other mods I want to mess with their stats.

Weird thing, I don't get the bonus to health from the predator and power armor, but it does increase the armor and shield. Any idea what causes this? Or how to fix it?

Yeah I think MCM would really help this up more than anything.

Does this have compatibility with the Mod Config Menu?

To add to my previous comment (1000 character limit)

I've reached *normal* sectopods and they have 11 armour, certainly able to kill them easily but takes planning if you don't have your A team out.

I am playing on veteran difficulty, so seems to be about right in terms of armour, gatekeepers are on equal footing to sectopods.

The viper king and archon king appears to be buggy. Yes they return with their 100 hp and 29 armour (at veteran difficulty, what?) but they come back with different values.

In random missions such as council missions or when you try to block dark events they come with the 100 hp and 29 armour

However, whenever you assault an alien facility, I saw that the viper king had 11 armour instead and 50 hp. Something tells me that these alien rulers are bugged whenever they are encountered outside of an alien facility assault.

And so I started a new campaign with the option "Theta Strike"

Julian's Sectopod at the end of this DLC mission had 50 HP and 29 armour, wait, what? Oh, and on a mission so early in the game that you only have ballistics.

Later on in the campaign the Viper and Archon each had 100 HP and 29 armour. They ran, but when I saw them again they had fully healed themselves.... 100 hp 29 armour again.

The rest of the campaign, however, looks pretty good. I'm up to gatekeepers now with their 11 armour and they are a pain to deal with but you can still kill them in one turn. I have yet to meet a sectopod....

Julian's Sectopod needs tweaking, also the two alien rulers needs tweaking as well... if they just simply carry over their vanilla behavior and not regenerate their hp/armour after escaping...

Yes to Chosen and Alien Rulers; they get shields and armor and possibly extra health. I don't think the Lost are affected.

Like this idea here. Does this affect The Chosen, Alien Rulers, or The Lost?

Could somebody explain me how to edit the mods ini? I want ONLY enhanced xcom soldiers armor and WON'T touch the armor and HP of enemy. How to do that pls

@GFD
Delete XComGameData_SoldierSkills.ini in modś config

i just wanted some sheilds and armor while also having normal health but not to decrease weapon damages and boost high health enemies with armor and sheilds like rulers and sectopods, can anyone help me?

I started a campaign with Delta Strike and really liked it at first. For those early enemies, it struck a really good balance as an alternative to Beta Strike. But around midway through the campaign the enemy armors just started scaling up way too much, especially with the alien rulers. It feels like I need to dedicate my entire team to shredding to have any sort of chance. I didn't mess around with the .ini settings. I like a lot of what the mod is doing, but it definitely needs some tweaking, I think. Things start getting a little goofy when armor is absorbing more than half of an attacks damage.

Also, talking about armour, looks like dodge stats on the viper armour MK1 and MK2 are adding together, instead of MK2 (SWDS_Light_Alien_MK2_Dodge=50) substituing MK1 (SWDS_Light_Alien_Dodge=40) like it should. As a result MK2 dodge is now 90!!!

Agree, it feels some HP and specially armour could use some scaling up.

Just started a Commander Ironman campaign with just this mod and the cover damage reduction mod (nobody likes being crit striked out of full cover, it really shouldn't happen).

Gatecrasher went well, mainly thanks to a lucky alpha strike on the first pod by my reaper with a claymore, and I beat the timer by the skin of my teeth on my first guerilla mission. (extended timers on btw)

So far I’m enjoying the extra challenge and it feels fair but then I get the first haven mission and the Chosen hunter turns up. He’s got 26 HP, 6 Armour and, as I find out a bit later also has HP regen. I’ve got 2 grenades left and I may as well throw rocks at him. My shots can’t get past his armour and if I do get a lucky crit he just regens to full health at the end of the turn. The mission is suddenly un-winable and a failed mission this early in an ironman is game over.

So... Is there any way to turn off these buffs for the Chosen and the Alien rulers?

LoL! Viper King with armor 19 :)

Hello. I've submitted the log into the Debugging discussion.
The log was generated with only Mint, Community Highlander and Ability Panel mods.

Could you help me on what happened?

Awesome mod, love it. Quick questions though:

What about overdrive serum? I noted no armor is applied when you use it, as opposed to as in vanilla game. Have you changed it? Which .ini, or elsewhere?

Also, about sparks, the .ini file says it might not work (?)... how do one change its stats, like HP?

So there are options for Beta, Delta, or Theta strike. I can have Beta + 1 of the other's if I understand correctly.

Is it possible to have all three on? (The options say don't try it) If so, what happens?

Also, does this affect Sparks? (Custom class sparks)

@Type1Ninja - yes, though my point was that Delta adds armor to the game so making the weapon upgrades get armor mitigation properties while rectifying lasers would be nice. I totally agree the game is too short for lasers and coilguns (if we ever get those back in) to be a linear stepping tier.

As a standalone mod the suggestions I made might be too OP without Delta Strike.

That sounds like a problem with lasers more than a problem with anything at all here. The actual problem with lasers is that XCOM 2 is too short for them to fit. A branching tech tree might fix that, but that needs to be a standalone mod. IIRC there is already a mod that makes conventional, mag, and plasma weapons sidegrades, but you'll have to find it yourself as I don't remember what it was called. Something about vanilla and balance, maybe?

Lasers and balance:

I know this only tweaks armors, and you're using Classless:MINT to balance with the shredding/piercing, but here's a suggestion for balancing lasers:

-- Make all Mag weapons pierce +2, and all Lasers shred +2, but both do the same base damage. Tweak the tech tree so they can be researched at the same point in the game, but present a branching, strategic choice.

If we ever get Long War of the Chosen, and have Coil weapons again, then I imagine ballistic weapons are one branch of a tech tree and energy another, so coilguns would be +4 piercing and plasma +4 shredding, but both also have the same base damage.

The reason for this is that near the lategame, you barely have lasers researched before you get to research plasma, so economically, it makes sense to leapfrog straight to plasma without blowing loads of supplies on obtaining all the laser variants.

can you make this for LW2?

I had a weird bug, that the Delta Strike didn't affect my soldier, while the advent trooper has 3 hp and 1 armor under legendary.
I tried to fix this by verify integrity and reinstall the mod. None worked.

wotc?

@Ziodyne
Thanks, I kind of like it with my ABA run. Keep up the good work.

Yep, you can turn it off in the DeltaStrike ini.

I'm using classless at the moment and I'm trying to do a run without Beta, Delta, or Theta strike, but the armor and sheild bonus shows up anyway. This is supposed to happen right?

"80 HP, 16 armor Sectopod"
That get an action every time you damage them if you have ABA.

@ziodyne, ah, I see. (I am playing with Classless) Yeah I was having a particularly tough time on a facilty/VIP mission with 3 MECs, 2 Heavy Turrets, and 1 Andromedon, plus a level-2 Hunter, having just got mags and plated armor, but not taking any cannons along, and no matter what ended up activating them all at once. ( I play with console on so I can restartmission bronzeman style). Gotta check out those ammos, though. Even with Grimy's Loot, the elerium core drops aren't enough to cover all the new Proving Ground projects, especially with all the other mods that also require elerium cores.

I didn't mean to whine, but it sounds like I should adjust my strategy (and the drop rates for Grimy's Loot). thanks!