[WOTC] LordAbizi’s Hacks & Text Improvements
Oooh, Insight… I can speed up my research… but what am I researching right now?
The mod introduces two (three with Covert Infiltration) new hack rewards, and improves various texts that appear on existing hack rewards.
The mod introduces the following hack rewards:
Broadcast Propaganda: Some rookies will join the Avenger some time after the current mission.
Contact Resistance Cell: A soldier will join the Avenger some time after the current mission. This soldier is a reward soldier, so it is as if you bought a soldier from the Black Market, or got one from a mission. So it can be a higher level soldier.
Investigate ADVENT Activity: (REQUIRES COVERT INFILTRATION) A random "basic" Activity Chain will spawn after the mission (Datatap, Crate Extraction, or a Scientist/Engineer).
But if you don’t like any of those, then the mod simply also improves the text on various hacks.
Resource-giving hacks will now mention the quantity. This is done in a dynamic way that will automatically reflect any config or other changes.
Insight Hack Reward will now mention the tech that will be influenced by it.
Negative Hack rewards that boost enemy stats, will mention which stats, and by what amount they will change.
Fully localized in German (?).
XComGameCore includes the options to disable the new hack rewards, and configure their numbers. The localization file seems to have a config table in it, but this is just for my convenience, changing it will not achieve a lot. I guess in principle you can delete some entries there if you don’t like the extra information I provide to the corresponding hack.
No.
- There is an extra Hack for Covert Infiltration, but it is not necessary. Without Covert Infiltration the chain hack will not exist anyway.
- The mod Corpse Droped Revamp also includes the information about the number of resources you get from hacks. But in that mod this is hard coded, and mine is done in a dynamic way which is robust against config and some other changes. There is nothing stoping you from using the two mods together, they might show different numbers, but mine will always be correct.
- I had some issues in testing that I weren’t able to fully isolate if they are truly caused by this mod, or just an artifact of my testing. If you run into wierd stuff with hacking, let me know.
- Getting multiple of the same personnel hack reward in one mission migt not work properly.
- Ignore the broken hack screen in the mod’s description images. This is an artifact of the way I tested the mod. You should NOT be getting broken hack screens.
The author would like to thank Styrium, Stukov and SwfDelicious for useful discussions, and deaconivory for the sanity check.
As usual, the author is grateful to the members of the MEME Discord server for useful discussions and continued emotional support.
Hamas is ISIS.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
