[WOTC]Psionics Overhaul V3 – BalanceGoldPrime++

This mod is a plugin/rebalance for Kyuubicle’s fun Psionics Overhaul mod. It introduces seven small in scale Psionic classes, each class specializes in one specific field.

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Psionics Overhaul V3 is a fun a mod, but after playing it for a while, this author felt that it provides a bit too much of a power creep – every psionically gifted soldier gains access to a lot of powerful psionic skills, and becomes a monster. Playing with the amazing Psionics Ex Machina mod enlightened me to the solution: increasing the variety of psionic abilities, and limiting the number of psionics ability each soldier can get. However, due to various reasons it is more convenient for this author to use the Psionics Overhaul method over the PEXM method, and hence this mod was created.

It introduces seven Psionic classes for Psionics Overhaul. Each such class has exactly five abilities, all focusing on one field of psionics. This mod also disables all the other psi classes for Psionics Overhaul (but NOT dedicated psionic classes like the base game Psi Operative), because it doesn’t make sense to have those huge psionic classes together with these small five ability specs. For detailed information about the new Psionic classes, see Appendix A. If the reader is not familiar with Psionics Overhaul, then please refer to the mod page.

The goal is to achieve the following:

• Reduced power creep from having less psionic abilities per soldier.
• The "capstones" of psionic powers are not present here at all (no Null Lance, Void Rift, Solace, Domination…).
• Interesting interactions between the solider class and the psi-class.

Due to the more random nature of these Psionic classes and their limited scale, the chance for a soldier to be gifted is increased to 33%.

This sucks, now psi is super weak! I want my Domination!
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This mod consists entirely of config. If you had a spare afternoon, you could recreate it yourself. XComLatentPsionics.ini has instructions on how to enable the original Psi classes from Psi Overhaul mod or other plugins to it.

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This mod is compatible with whatever Psionics Overhaul is compatible with, see the references therein. As explained, it is discouraged, but not impossible, to use this mod with other plugins to Psionics Overhaul.

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• Psionics Overhaul V3 – duh.
• Mitzruti Perk Pack – necessary, most abilities come from there.
• More Psi Abilities – uses several abilities from it.
• Shadow Ops – uses exactly one ability from it. You may ignore it, and then it will be missing, or use Shadow Ops Begone to remove the classes and GTS projects.
• LW2 Perks – can be replaced with LW 2 Classes and Perks. Only one ability is used, I think, so if you skip it it shouldn’t hurt too much.
• Stormrider – again, one ability is used, so you can skip and it wouldn’t be too bad.
• Proficiency Classes – again, one or two abilities is used from it.
• ABB Perk Pack – again, one ability is used.
• You may use a mod like Disable Any Class to prevent random promotions to the classes introduced by the prerequisites for this mod.
• Ability Prerequisite Get-Arounder – makes Bastion not require Solace. If you got rid of the LW2 Perks, then you can also skip this requirement.

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• If you don’t have all the requirements, expect some classes to have less than 5 abilities (duh).

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The author is grateful to the following for their assistance in the mod:
Kyuubicle – for the Psionics Overhaul V3 mod, which this is a plug-in to.
Mitzruti – for the wonderful perk pack.
Iridar – for More Psi Abilities, and the Stormrider abilities.
Favid, Deadput – for LW2 classes and perk packs.
Favid again – for Shadow Ops classes.
Kiruka – for ABB Perk Pack, and the Prerequisites Get Arounder.
shiremct – for the abilities from the Proficiency class pack.
RustyDios – for nothing one black pixel on 64×64 empty canvas.
As usual, the author is grateful to the members of the MEME Discord server for useful discussions and continued emotional support.
The author would also like to mention JFD, who had a very funny mod with a similar name for Civ5 🙂