Enemy Compatibility Patches: Miscellaneous Aliens

The Enemy Compatibility Patches (ECP) are an effort to get a bunch of modded enemies to play nice. Two of the main issues you’ll run into with large groups of enemy mods are SupportedFollower lists not including other modded enemies, and differing spawn weight philosophies resulting in some mods being far too common and others barely showing up at all.

The ECPs are primarily just fixing those issues by balancing out spawn weight lists across multiple mods and cross-referencing Supported Followers lists between mods where compatibility would be appropriate (so giving Omega Berserkers muton followers, but not giving any new followers to the themed Frost Legion pods, as an example).

These mods do go a little bit further than that, with minor force level adjustments, adding enemies to target lists for various buffs, and the like. However, 99% of the changes are just making everyone play nice together. All of the ECPs are using ABA as a baseline for their unit weights. All of them include fully fleshed out Supported Follower Lists across all the mods, but those will only come into play if you have the original mod / the ECP module that puts those enemies into the encounter lists.

The requirements for this mod are Hard requirements, and the game will crash without them.
However, you can run this mod if you disable the mods you aren’t running, by either of the below methods;

1. Install Choose Your Aliens and add lines to remove every alien from the mods you don’t run.
2. Delete or Comment Out the entire EncounterLists.ini for any mod you aren’t using.

In the case of mods with multiple sources (Alien Elite Pack vs individual mods and Pathfinders vs Standalones) either source is perfectly acceptable.

These mods are still a WIP as I fully playtest them in my own campaign. Any comments about spawn weights seeming out of proportion are valuable feedback, and I’d love to hear them.

This ECP Module covers the rest of the Miscellaneous Aliens that didn’t neatly fit into other categories and includes;

• Black Ice Codexes
• LEB’s Lategame Enemies
• The Drome Dome
• Viper Elites
• Sectoid Commanders
• World War L

Ashylnne_Lee for Black Ice Codexes
TePª for The Drome Dome
LeaderEnemyBoss for Leb’s Lategame Enemies
Hectorzx for Sectoid Commander and Viper Elite
ObelixDk for World War L
RustyDios for various bits of advice with the mod and the formatting of this post.

Anyone is free to use any part of my mod in their own works, just be sure to give credit to myself and the original mod author’s where it’s appropriate.