I wish i could upvote your post

i am not downloading anything that lets andromedons get even more cover

Thank you for the reply @Juravis. I appreciate your time.

Dont do it in tactical also

Yes but youll get an annoying message

Hi @Juravis.

Would this mod be safe to remove mid campaign, as I would like to switch to another mod that does a similar thing but automates adding hunker to enemies, and also adds some simple A.I. to allow those units to use hunker without a separate A.I. mod being necessary.

Don't think this words with LWOTC

Its missing Arnold's yelling GEHT DOHWN!

"NestCentral" (Bradford) has been patched.

Golden oportunity to use a thumbnail of him looking at the icon and saying "What is this alien sorcery" for the mod.

Wow i thought hed have it by default. Gonna try and put that in!

You know who still can't hunker down?

Bradford.

Got a purifier on the Alien Nest mission and he couldn't put out his own fire.

Thank you for your gracious help my good sir.

Editing AI is hard, i dont think you could just patch it in easily. But if you look inside my AI mods, do a search for HunkerDown inside XCOMAI.INI youll see the anti burning routine. Its only executed if it would kill the unit usually as anything else than hunkering is better. If they do it while not dying they only do it in groups.

So it's possible, woo!

I don't suppose you could point me in the direction of the code which I could add to other mods to get the same effect.

I love so many of your mods however the incompatibility with other mods means using your AI overhaul mods a no go for me. :(

My ai mods have fire hunker removal checks when it makes sense

@ADVENT Avenger, could you tell me if you would happen to know if it is possible to code in that enemies would hunker (if the unit can take cover, of course) if they are set on fire.

This would make fire a more palatable weapon to use not only for DOT but as a way to make enemies effectively waste a turn.

Burning is still really potent, even if enemies put themselves out occasionally. This mod can make a specific encounter run a bit less predictably than you may be accustomed to, especially if you were relying primarily on fire effects, but it just changes the dynamics of how an encounter plays out, doesn't negate the significance of dragon rounds/fire bombs/flamethrowers/etc. You can definitely still strategize with fire usage and get a lot of mileage out of it, especially if you also use Burning Disables Shooting.

In what sense, makes it too easy or useless?

Wouldn't this kinda trivialize burning them?

Alternative option for if I run into this same thing again in the future: Is there a console command to remove status effects mid-battle?

@yes_commander:
A Better AI has behaviours for hunkering (specifically mentioning ADVENT Avenger's mod) so I bet A Better ADVENT does too.

Oh no those do have it i believe. But even then double agents are controllable so just this will work.

Okay. I'll check your AI mods for sure. My primary concern at the moment is with a specific situation where I have an ABA unit on my squad (Double Agent), it's burning, and I just don't get the hunker option.

Its going to give them the ability but they won't use it without AI mods.

@ADVENT Avenger
If I figure out the proper names of ABA units and add them to the allowed unit list in your ini, will that allow them to hunker? And would the same go for Bio units, etc? I assume so, I mean, it seems pretty clear, but I wanted to ask before attempting any changes.

Oh! Comprende. Thought it was for everyone . Phew.

For aliens. Which none of them have.

Just to clarify: the T-Pose fix completely breaks the Deep Cover perk?

T-Pose is fixed, but at the cost of not being able to user DeepCover ever again (which is not even in my mods, it's 99.999999% fixed).

Just saw a Andromedon T Pose, trying to fix it. Not sure ill succeed this is outside my technical knowledge (animsets). I quickfixed it by calling the effect a different name, but i'm scared it won't allow aliens from benefiting from Hunker Down enhancing abilities sadly.

Weird... anyway, it happened once. I am using your other AI mods, they seem to work fine, but it's rare to see aliens using supression, even more the hunker down.

I havent experienced that, i put special code and aliens use the idle animation i cant reproduce your case

I had a T-pose bug using this mod, happened with the Muton. I have to download something else to fix that or there's no way to fix it?

Good to know!

Its included. I didnt change hunker i just gave it to advent and aliens. And i saw them use it to remove burning

AA, i like to play with Charmed's "Burning Disables Shooting" mod... Any chance you could update your hunker with a "Stop, Drop, and Roll" function?

what do you mean with multiple civ shootings? That mod is not in the list of my used ones, yet every inactive pod takes 1 shot vs civies per turn, isn't this normal?

Woo! Count me excited then :)

Im working on something better. I think it was the cause of multi civ shootings per round.

Hey AA, sorry for spamming here but I noticed that your "Disable Executionar AI" mod has been removed from the Workshop. Wondering if that was a temporary thing or unintentional or..?

Yes

Does this work with A Better ADVENT?

mutons get a T-pose when hunkered down?

Thank you very much. This is nice for when you have Double Agent active

Fair enough, thanks anyway :P

I cant without a major retool. This is a quick and easy fix.

Ty, my alien allies can at least defend themselves XD

Also you could use the panic animations the aliens have, that makes them look like they are hunkered down.

@jweller12 It works in the sense that they're compatible and you should be able to run both of these mods without the game crashing.
But as it is stated in the description: unless you have mod that alters enemy AI, they are just going to run around until they burn to death.

Nice little addition. Your AI mods are unbeatable my dude!