RPG Overhaul – Psionics Specializations Extended

This mod is an extended version of Ash’s mod RPG Overhaul – Psionic Specializations.

It adds three new specializations for Musashis RPG Overhaul and 14 new abilities, including 5 from Iridar’s mod [WOTC] More Psi Abilities, 7 brand new custom Starting Abilities (aka Squaddie perks) for RPG Overhaul, 1 brand new custom Brigadier rank ability for the Telepath specialization and the Bastion perk from Long War 2.

• Three new specializations with 7 Psionic abilities each.
• 7 new RPGO Starting Abilities specifically for psionically gifted soldiers. These work with Psionic Abilities from many other mods.
• T1 Psi Amps available from campaign start.
• Psi Amps are given a +50 Psi Offense boost to make up for the RPGO Soldier’s nonexistant psi stat.
• All biotic abilities can be used with Psi Amps as well.
• Supports RPGO’s new Random Classes SWO

• Psionic Conduit: Activate to make the next Psionic ability a free action. Each time Psionic Conduit is activated, the soldier’s Will is reduced by 10. When the soldier’s Will falls below 50%, Psionic abilities deal 50% reduced damage and Psi Offense is reduced by 33%.
• Unstable:The soldier deals 50% increased damage with offensive Psionic abilities, but using an offensive Psionic ability has a 25% chance to make them panic.
• Psionic Atrophy: Increases Psi Offense by 15 and grants immunity to Psionic damage and Mental effects. Damage taken from all other sources is increased by 33%.
• Battle Meditation: Hunker Down increases your Psi Offense by 10 and your Will by 10 for 2 turns.
• Mind Over Matter: Whenever this soldier takes damage, the cooldowns of their Psionic abilities are reduced by 1.
• Spirit Thief: Killing a psionic enemy increases Psi Offense by 15 and damage dealt with offensive Psionic abilities by 50% for 2 turns.
• Open Mind:Increases Psi Offense by 25 but reduces Will by 10.

All values can be adjusted in the configuration files of Bstar’s Perk Pack.

To prevent situations where you have Psi-related Starting Abilities on soldiers without Psi-related specializations, I highly recommend picking an appropriate combination of SWO.

This mod is incompatible / will not work correctly with:

• [WoTC] XCOM Psi Overhaul

This mod makes the following mods obsolete and you can and should remove/uninstall them:

• RPG Overhaul – Psionic Specializations
• Starting PsiAmps

This mod should work correctly with and I recommend the following mods:

• RPG Overhaul – Templar Disciple Specialization

The Starting Abilities added by this mod should work with abilities added by:

• Biotic Class Redux
• [WOTC] More Psi Abilities
• Mitzruti’s Perk Pack and the class mods that depend on it.
• Others will be added over time.
• More can easily be added in the configuration files of the mod Bstar’s Perk Pack.

• There may be some mod-added Psionic abilities that don’t work with the Starting Abilities added by this mod. If you find any, please report it in the appropriate thread.

Ash for making the original Psionic Specializations plugin which this mod is based on.
Musashi for making RPG Overhaul.
Mitzruti for porting the Chimera Squad icons, parts of which I used for the custom icons in this mod.
Mr. Nice for letting me bribe him to do 99% of the work on the Mind Burst ability.
shiremct for helping me and letting me use some code to get AbilityAvailabilityCodes to work correctly.
The CX & X2 Modding communities, especially Iridar, Mr. Nice, Musashi and robojumper for basically solving every single one of my modding problems.