Oh, i get what you mean. Then i said nothing.

@DeaDBreaD you do realize this is a beta test version until it goes to the stable version of the mod?

Will this ever be out of beta? I mean its been 6 years now. You can develop a whole game in that time.

and if you're going to do ignoring mod manually, better tick off the update information option in AML. I got fked up by it too many times to count

Moreover, the "duplicate mod workaround" simply does not work for the Highlander.

TBH, yes it works.. but it's still "better" to put the effort in to ignoring manually with only one Highlander (stable or beta) installed.

The duplicateID workaround works by changing the non-primary xcommod file and appending "-disabled" to it, thus making it an invalid mod/file for the game to load. However, when steam does it's 'randomly decided to verify your mods' thing.. it will re-download the now 'missing' xcommod file.... and boom.. suddenly you have stable&beta highlanders installed, which IS very bad

(this was on AML 1.5+, fwiw... but hey, if it works, it works)

I did, but I recall seeing multiple discussions in the modding Discord where the two being installed together (even with only one loaded!) would break stuff. Interesting that that apparently works, now.

@XpanD read the bottom of the discussions of yes the beta works. And it tells about an aml function they worked whit the creaters of aml to fix this problem. =)

Wait what, that's a thing? I thought subbing to both at the same time was considered a very bad thing, huh.

@william09703 man thank you now its fixed!

guys, plz look into the discussion above..the one about THE BETA WORKS AS A REPLACEMENT TO THE STABLE

Yeah thats why i wish there was a mass ignore function to the ones missing only X2WOTC

It wasn't too bad when I did it on my 1700-mod list, just be sure to use the filters to only see stuff with missing dependencies. Worth putting a bit of time into imho, being able to see actual missing dependencies is pretty important.

@XpanD Yeah i know that, but 200 mods gonna take forever to put on ignore 1 by 1. I guess i have to live whit it. Just hard to see if something else is missing when adding and removing from list.

Not easily, but you can go to the dependencies tab at the bottom on each complaining mod and tick the Ignore box.

This is really good! Made my big mod list run so much smoother and some mods i could not use before, i can now for some reason use whit this beta version. Great Job all of you!

One question ALM is screaming over 200+ mods are missing the stable version. Is there a way to change it to fool ALM it is the old stable version?

this means you don't have the dlc highlander

for some reason start apear, how can i fix it ? x2wotc errors - DLC_2 not loaded
I have all DLCs

Like I said, it takes one line of config to fix Battlelord.

Well the issue is that skirm is limited to two actions total as a result of battlelord, when the ability itself specifically says you get an action after each enemy action in line of sight. It should be identical to Alien Ruler behavior, that is the bug.

That interrupt bug, wherein reinforcement pods got to resume a full turn immediately after spawning (related to summoning sickness) was thankfully eliminated a couple of patches ago, thankfully.

The battlelord bug is still just one of the most prominent bugs that I know exists in vanilla for the skirmisher class, as it makes Battlelord almost useless

The basic fix for Battlelord to allow it to make more than one action is a one config line edit, you can easily do it yourself locally. Interrupt, as far as I know, doesn't have any partiuclar bugs as long as you have just one Skirmisher and don't expect Interrupt to be actually useful.

Well sure, but I mean it would be nice to have a wholesale community fix for some of the remaining skirmisher bugs. I do like the ideas of the skirm reworks though, and will probably try them out eventually

Vanilla Classes Redux does that and makes more changes to make Skirmishers truly awesome.

I am dearly requesting more fixes to my favorite class, the skirmisher. The work that has been done is much appreciated, if you could quash the battlelord and interrupt bugs, that would be outstanding

That's fairly surprising - there are no AI changes in the 1.30 beta to my knowledge. This is the changelog: https://github.com/X2CommunityCore/X2WOTCCommunityHighlander/releases

Enemy AI is significantly more challenging with 1.30 beta compared to 1.29. Enemies hunt you down, even through doors. Supply crates get tagged by Advent far outside of soldier movement. I'm going back to 1.29 Legendary difficulty.

Interesting, I definitely get this version of the highlander mod when it comes out, reducing the quantity of mods (because the fixes are no longer needed) is always going, to slightly increase the speed of the game.

I just hope that in someway the highlander will help with appearance mods loading, so when I customise my soldiers I don't have to take as much time.

I started a new run earlier and noticed that my geoscape was significantly smoother, though I have shifted a few mods around since my last run. Nothing that I /think/ would affect that, though... Wonder if the Highlander update is making a difference there, but it's been a good experience so far.

Yes, some improvements specifically affect performance, though there's no guarantee it will affect the specific issues you experience.

Hello, I won't use this mod yet, but I am a bit curious:
would the improvements made to the highlander due to this mod, enhance performance of modded X-COM overall?

So for me I use the unrestricted customisation mod (final redux) and its kind of slow (frequent lag spikes) when customising my soldiers, would the changes by this mod increase the performance?

Iridar and your team, you all rule! Thanks!

@everyone
An update to full version 1.29.0 has been published. Full changelog can be found here:
https://github.com/X2CommunityCore/X2WOTCCommunityHighlander/releases/tag/v1.29.0

Importantly, the following bugfix mods have been integrated into Highlander and you no longer need them:

[WotC] Revival Protocol Fixes
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1123037187

(WOTC) Revival Protocol Charges Fix
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1862336674

They DO NOT conflict with Highlander, but there's no reason to use them either. You may still want to use the Charges Fix mod if you want to set non-default amount of bonus Revival Protocol Charges, which is currently 1/1/2.

No worries! I'm sure I'll get this going eventually with the building on my end. You have instructions plenty clear, just I've missed something preparatory or expected. Between that and r/xcom2mods' wiki entries I should be good.

Sorry, you'll have to wait until the full 1.29 release.

I hate asking anything of Iridar, as I know he's a busy one, but I'm dumb. Is there any chance you could push an update? I've tried to build the mod and have been hitting a wall. The target sort caching is something I desperately wish to utilize.

Thanks. Manually installing the highlander worked. Still very strange, because it was on steam mod folder.

See the two troubleshooting links in the description above.

@Dragon32 i have the same problem of @Alakhai, but my game doesnt launch (im getting error detected attempting load of package xcomwotccomunity highlander)

It seems the patch notes for the latest update are once again incorrect, fewer changes have actually made it into it. Apologies for the confusion, it seems the way I roll out partial releases needs some refinement.
Mentioned features will make it into the Highlander eventually.

@Alakhai
AML reports as Dependencies what mod authors have put on their mod's Workshop page. Shouldn't be an issue.

Hi, is it ok, that after swaping to LWOC [experimental] and this version of Highlander two other basic mods fo LWOC - Accurate Situation Report and Community Promotion Screen are missing dependencies, witch is previous version of highlander (1.28) ?

I didn't have any problems, I just wanted to say you guys are a great group of people and I see highlander is still updating today. While firaxis is only fool players by Chimera instead of xcom3, there are some people who are fighting for a better xcom. thank you.

Astounding work, as always! Going by the Github, it looks like that DLC Hook Manager should improve things drastically for people with enormous modlists.

@everyone
Published an update. Two important changes are:

Bugfix: Tentative fix for the crash that sometimes occurred while firing weapons or using grapple. May fix Templar Channel crash as well.

Performance: added DLC Hook Manager to call DLC methods only from DLC Infos that actually implement them. This should make frametime spikes less pronounced.

These features are very experimental, please keep an eye out for anything weird.

Great, thanks!! I'd think this should get great fanfare, as in my opinion this CTD issue is extremely invasive and far too frequent, given the right conditions - a templar with channel and lots of grappling and/or special ammo usage, which should be quite common. Therefore, a fix for this issue is super exciting to me. :)

This month.

@Iridar Thanks! I'll see if I have success with the older version. Since us outsiders have zero knowledge on what a realistic ETA is on such a release, could you please give me your best guess? Are we looking at a month or two, or six months, or a year? Thanks again.

@RolandJ
Fix will be added when it's ready.

It seems all of these issues are caused by the fix to the memory leak associated with firing projectiles that was added in 1.22, so until the fix for the crashes is published, if you don't have any mods that require a version newer than that, you can roll back to 1.21, previous releases are available here: https://github.com/X2CommunityCore/X2WOTCCommunityHighlander/releases

@Iridar When will the fix for the Templar's Channel ability make it into this version of the mod? The one that fixes the crashes related to grappling, whiplash, and using special ammo that are caused by a previous update to the highlander?