Tau Armory [WOTC]

DESCRIPTION
This mod contains weapons, armors, cosmetics and voicepacks for the Tau of the 40k Universe.

REQUIREMENTS

REQUIRED DLC
WOTC
Shen’s Last Gift (For Battlesuits; can skip if you don’t care)
Alien Hunters (May have some missing anims if you skip)
Tactical Legacy Pack (May have some missing particle FX if you skip)

REQUIRED MODS
Community Highlander
Alien Hunters Highlander
Animation and Sockets Supplement (May have missing anims/sockets if you skip)

SUGGESTED MODS
Primary Secondaries: Can’t use Ethereal Honour Blade or Matched Fusion Blades without being able to use swords as primary weapons.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1142234205&searchtext=primary+secondaries+wotc

Invisible heads recommended to avoid helmet clipping.
[WOTC] Invisible Body Parts For All (v1.3)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2146403415

Empty WOTC Deco Slots for XCOM Soldiers (+ Some other empty things); Good to have for the custom armors.
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1127014384

All Armor for Heroes: Good if you want to use the armors/customizations on faction heroes.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1420233940

MEC Troopers: Because it makes sense to use the battlesuits on soldiers who have been promoted up from rank and file Fire Warriors.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1452700934

Improved Rocket Targeting: Recommended if you want to use the Broadside or Riptide battlesuits.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2067720616

Rainmaker for other heavy weapons: Enables support for the rainmaker ability for the battlesuit heavy weapons.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=728305946

Hide Large Units on Avenger: Recommended if you want to use Battlesuits on MEC Troopers. Without this, you will have giant MEC troopers in their underlays wandering the halls of the Avenger.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3253047648

COSMETICS AND ARMORS

Soldier Cosmetics
Cosmetic sets added for your standard Light, Medium and Heavy XCOM soldier armors.

Fire Warrior, Breacher, Pathfinder, Cadre Fireblade, Ethereal, Kroot Carnivore

Custom Armor Sets
Vespid Armor (Male Only)
XV25 Stealth Battlesuit*
XV22 Stealth Battlesuit* (Includes Shadowsun variant for females only; has heavy weapon slot)

SPARK and MEC Trooper Armors
Battlesuits, equipable by SPARKs and MEC troopers, have different stats from vanilla SPARK armors as well as size scaling.

Intermediate Battlesuits (gear suited for intermediate-sized Battlesuits can be used interchangeably among these Battlesuits)
XV8 Crisis Battlesuit (Comes in Crisis and Iridium variants)
Commander Battlesuit* (Comes in Coldstar and Enforcer variants)
XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit* (Has reduced detection radius. Powered tier only.)

Large Battlesuits (Large Battlesuits have a footprint of 2 tiles and will break concealment when they move. Recommended to use only gear with the same XV number.)
XV88 Broadside Battlesuit* (Available at Plated tier+)
XV104 Riptide Battlesuit* (Powered tier only)

*Indicates single build items. These items must be built separately and singly in the armory. Existing items will upgrade with next-level up schematics (For example, if you build a Plated Tier XV22 Stealth battlesuit, it will upgrade to Powered Tier if you purchase the Powered Tier armor schematic).

WEAPONS

Soldier Weapons
The weapons added by this mod are categorized below according to the weapon schematic that upgrades them.

ASSAULT RIFLE
Pulse Carbine
Kroot Rifle
Neutron Blaster
XV22 Plasma Rifle (Pistol weapon category)
XV22 Flamethrower (Heavy weapon category/slot)
Kroot Blade
Paired Fusion Blades
Ethereal Honour Blade

SHOTGUN
Pulse Blaster
XV22 Fusion Gun (Pistol weapon category)

SNIPER RIFLE
Pulse Rifle
Rail Rifle

CANNON
Ion Rifle
XV22 Burst Gun
XV25 Burst Gun

PISTOL
Pulse Pistol
Kroot Pistol

GREMLIN
Utility Drone

SPARK/MEC Trooper Weapons
All battlesuit weapons upgrade with SPARK rifle schematics. Battlesuit weapons are intended for use with battlesuit meshes. Regular sparks will not have the sockets to support the cosmetics for these weapons.

Some weapons are categorized as Heavy or Utility.

INTERMEDIATE BATTLESUIT GEAR

Primary
Battlesuit Burst Gun
Battlesuit Plasma Rifle
Ghostkeel Battlesuit Fusion Collider (Beam tier only)

Secondary
Flamethrower (Categorized as Heavy)
Shield Generator (Categorized as Utility)

Heavy: Rocket Pod

BROADSIDE BATTLESUIT
Produces at Magnetic Tier+

Primary: Broadside Battlesuit Railgun (Heavy)

Secondary: Broadside Battlesuit Seeker Missile (Heavy)

Heavy: Broadside Battlesuit Heavy Rocket Pod (Heavy)

RIPTIDE BATTLESUIT
Produces at Beam Tier

Primary: Riptide Battlesuit Twin-linked Plasma Rifle

Secondary: Shield Generator (Utility)

Heavy: Ion Cannon (Utility)

ALL BATTLESUITS
Heavy: Iridium Reinforcement: Increases armor by 1. Upgrades with armor schematics.

DRONE BEACONS
Drone beacons may be equipped by soldiers (utility slot) or SPARKs/MEC troopers (secondary slot). Activating the beacon calls in the drone, which will then act as an independent unit. Drones come in the 3 flavors described below.

Gun Drone: Armed with guns that inflict relatively small amounts of damage.
Shield Drone: Projects shields that protect other units. The shield drone cannot shield itself.
Grav Inhibitor: Generates a wave of energy to knock back and stun target units.

VOICES
Tau voicepacks are included for males and females. Note that most of these have only a very small number of lines, especially the ones from Battlesector (labeled (BS)).

CREDITS
Code from Dimascus’s Armours of the Imperium mod is used to facilitate some of the tinting.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1562717298

Tau Fire Warriors and Pulse Rifles by Shrodo. Modified for use in XCOM by IronGroin.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/fan-art-tau-fire-warrior-2020-12e5dd322e0643de885b84f8310e3fc2

XV22 Battlesuit by Apothecary.Kekoulis
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/commander-shadowsun-209865ec00284af5b34d3faa999e1baf

Ion Rifle, Rail Rifle, Pulse Carbine models by OrangeBlueHue
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1578930275

DISCLAIMER
Warhammer 40k is rightfully owned by Games Workshop. The assets here are for non-commercial uses only. No payment or donations will be accepted. I do not have a patreon.

Certain assets in this mod originated from Battlesector, by Black Lab Games, Gladius – Relics of War, by Proxy Studios, Dawn of War, by Relic Entertainment and Tacticus, by Snowprint Studios

ANTICIPATED QUESTIONS

Vanilla/LW/LWOTC version when?
Afraid not.

Will you do XYZ next?
I don’t know.

Would you make a separate mod for XYZ component of this mod?
Probably not.

Are Battlesuits compatible with other SPARK mods?
I don’t know. IIRC the Kastelan gear from my Mechanicus mod had compatibility issues with Iridar’s SPARK armory so it wouldn’t surprise if similar issues occur here. Battlesuits did work with MEC troopers in my tests, however.

The file size is too big!
I don’t disagree. If I ever figure out the cooking thing this mod will be on the short list.

Will you make the other vehicles (Piranha, Hammerhead, etc.) available for XCOM?
I have no plans to do so.

KNOWN ISSUES

If using battlesuits on Female MEC Troopers, weapon scaling will be off. Iridar’s Xskin can be used to rescale weapons so that they fit properly.

Some janky weight painting.