[WOTC]Scanning Sites Plus Glass
Introduces the author’s config edits to the fantasitc "Scanning Sites Plus 2" of Mitzruti.
Scanning Sites Plus Two is a fantastic mod that offers more "relaxed" missions to get rewards out of scanning sites. However, the missions are still the usual missions, so they are affected by whatever difficulty modifiers are applied to the entire game. In this mod, identical copies of most mission types are created, and are assigned to the scanning sites. This allows greater control over the difficulty of these missions types.
Basically, scanning sites are divided into three categories: Easy, Moderate, and Hard. Easy missions are for four soldiers, and have around 7 enemies on them. Moderate missions are for six soldiers, and they have around 12-13 enemies. Hard missions are for eight soldiers, and have around 25 enemies on them. In general, missions that grant more "raw" material are considered "harder". The full division into categories can be found in Appendix A.
Another feature of this mod is that it makes the ADVENT Network Tower mission a mission that the player can play multiple times during the game, by making it one of the missions eligible for certain scanning sites.
The Chosen cannot appear on the Scanning Sites missions with this mod.
In general, the reader should avoid touching the configs unless they know what they are doing.
XComEncounters: related to the enemy lists on the new missions.
XComGame: some of the configs to clone the mission types, into the Easy/Normal/Hard categories. Controls how many soldiers can go on each category.
XComGameData: Chosen banning configs, and stuff related to the extended timer sitrep which will be on the "hard" missions.
XComMissions: more config required to clone the mission types.
XComMissionSources: removes the original Scanning Sites Plus Two configs, and adds its own.
XComScanningSitesPlusTwo: removes the number of available scanning sites from 4 to 2. Removes some scanning sites that don’t make sense with CI.
XComSchedules: Schedules on the new missions.
Scanning Sites related to stuff from Savage Items are also incorporated in this scheme, but since the author does not use it, it was impossible to test.
Obviously, Scanning Sites Plus Two.
In the author’s experience, the ADVENT Network Tower mission requires finishing the turn one extra time after the mission objectives are cleared.
The author is of course greatful to Mitzruti for the Scanning Sites Plus Two mod this mod expands on.
The author is EXTREMELY grateful to ReshiKillim for the kismet for the new Network Tower mission. Her help has been invaluable in this work.
The author would also like to thank to h4ilst0rm and Stukov for useful discussions when creating this mod.
The author would like to thank the users of the MEME Discord Server for the continued emotional support.
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