[WOTC] Luck Tracker

Visual display of your overall luck percentage for the current mission in the tactical view based on the hits or misses performed by your soldiers.

If you are like me, and you are convinced you are the unluckiest person alive when playing XCOM, this mod will show you just how unlucky you are.

Currently it’s a basic system that measures your current luck by your hits and misses. Hits positively effect your luck and misses negatively impact your luck. Example:

• If you hit a 70 percent shot, you gain 30 luck and the luck meter will show 30%.
• If you then hit a 10 percent shot, you gain 90 luck and your luck is now 120, but the luck meter will simply show 100%
• If you then miss a 70 percent shot, you lose 70 luck and you are then at 50 luck (120-70) and the luck meter will show 50%
• If you then miss a 60 percent shot, you lose 60 luck and you are at -10 luck, but the luck meter will show 0%

Any suggestions on improving this system would be welcome but for the moment I feel it’s simple enough to both understand and visually represent luck!

I also added a scaled system that can be enabled in the mod settings so that it isn’t so 1:1 to 0-100 and is scaled for 0-350 instead if you prefer.

• Visually see how lucky (or unlucky) both you and the enemy are during tactical missions
• See a breakdown of all hits/misses performed during the mission segmented by hit chance ranges
• Various settings to alter the position and display of the luck meter using the Mod Config Menu
• The luck meter will maintain your luck statistic when a save is reloaded

• Build upon the luck system to incorporate more aspects that effect your luck in any given mission
• Aggregate and Visualize Luck over time from all combined missions
• Have a breakdown of the enemy hits/misses to cross compare luck
• Incorporate the final results from the mission on the debrief or walk up

• The luck meter UI element tracks the luck of the player during a tactical mission and when a new mission starts it will be reset. So essentially the luck meter is a representation of your luck in your current mission.
• Both a 0 and 100 percent shot hit or miss will not effect the luck meter in either direction.
• This is simply a visual representation of luck and does not have any actual gameplay impact at the moment.
• Consider this an alpha build at the moment as it still could use some work and hasn’t been super tested!

• With Mitzruti’s Perk Pack installed, there are a fair amount of duplicate calls that are sent to the event listener I am working with that effectively double Hit/Miss values. Other perk packs play nice with this mod though (Extended Perk Pack, A Better Barracks).

Again, this is a work in progress and I’m still working out the kinks but of course if you see a bug, go ahead and send it my way so I can give it a looksee 🙂