[WOTC] Stop Spamming Reinforcements!
Many enemy mods give their newly added enemies the ability to summon reinforcements. The author finds this behavior undesirable, and as such reduced this phenomenon considerably, using the fantastic tools developed by Boundir.
There is a config list of abilities in XComGame.ini. These list have a condition added to them, which makes them never to be available. The result – the unit can never use this. In addition, some other abilities, like the Hive swarm ability, gets increased cooldown. Some other abilities are flat-out removed from the units in question. This is the "kill it with fire just to be sure" approach.
New!
Now this mod comes with a functionality to limit the sizes of reinforcements groups and Lost groups (or Lost reinforcements groups). This can be configured to not work in certain mission types or against certain encounters.
This entire mod is config-based, feeding the configs into the wonderful machines developed by Boundir. You may change anything to your liking. The files one should edit are XComGameData,XComAbilityEditor,XComDisableAliens, and XComRepurposeAbilities, and XComGame.
For the list of supported enemy mods, and exactly what this mod changes, see Appendix A.
New!
See XComGame.ini for configuration of the new functionality to limit pod size of reinforcements groups and Lost groups. There are three flags – one that affects Lost, one that affects reinforcements, and one that affects Lost reinforcements. For each flag there is configuration to whitelist certain encounters or certain missions (for example if reinforcements pods are limited to 3 enemies, then MOCX pods will also be limited to 3 enemies, but MOCX pods are excluded from this functionality).
This mod makes the game too easy!
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The required mods are striclty required. If the author was smarter, then perhaps it would have been possible to eliminate some of them.
Vanilla version?
Of cou- No. Not really.
The author is grateful to Boundir for the fantastic game-editing tools employed here, and for the clear instructions as to how to use them. The author appreciates the useful discussions with h4ilst0rm and the permission to re-use some of the logic of DABFL to create the new functionality to limit reinforcements pod size and Lost pod size. The author is also grateful to the MEME Discord server for the continued emotional support.
Required items:
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[WOTC] Repurpose Abilities — Steam Workshop
[WOTC] Choose Your Aliens — Steam Workshop
[WOTC] Ability Editor — Steam Workshop
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
