LW2 Field Medic Soldier Class
A quick and versatile support unit, the Field Medic is a new class for Long War 2 equipped to provide the medical assistance needed to keep your squad on their feet.
The class specializes in providing traditional medical assistance and has access to several abilities that increase mobility or provide free/bonus actions to make up for the loss of the remote healing gremlin (replaced by the arc-thrower).
The class has built-in proficiencies related to their role on the battlefield that grow as they level up – no matter which abilities may be choosen as a Field Medic ranks up, their medical proficiency will continue to rise, opening up more options and versatility in the ability tree. I’ve spent a great deal of time trying to put together an ability tree that offers solid choices at every level, regardless of which abilities were chosen before or will be chosen after, depending on a particular soldier’s stats and the role you want them to fill.
Abilities are divided into three general themes:
- Corpsman (left) – support skills that allow the medic to compliment a fire team without drawing too much attention to themselves and provide quicker wound recovery – If your medic is the first to go down, who’s going to save the rest of the squad?
- Combat Medic (center) – front-line skills that increase the medic’s combat capabilities – after all, ADVENT never signed the Geneva Convention…
- First Responder (right) – versatile skills that let the medic do more, faster – when lives are on the line, you need it done NOW.
Most class values are configurable and in-game descriptions should update accordingly.
Field Medic stat progression (with LW2 Ranger and Assault classes for comparison):
Field Medic ability tree:
- Non-Combatant Deal -1 damage with primary weapons. Damage penalty does not scale up with tech, does not apply to pistols, and is removed entirely with Combat Conditioning. (This is a Squaddie ability, granted automatically when a unit is assigned the class)
- Medical Specialist This is the Field Medic’s class proficiency skill that levels up with the soldier. Provides extra medkits, extra healing, and Revive charges. (This is a Squaddie ability, granted automatically when a unit is assigned the class)
- Revive Medkit ability granted through class proficiency – revives wounded soldiers, removes negative status effects, and provides a small amount of healing. Can revive soldiers who are bleeding out – stabilizing first is not required. Requires/uses a Medkit charge.
- Reposition Once per turn, after landing a standard shot on a flanked or exposed enemy that would normally end your turn, gain an additional movement-only action point to reposition with a -35% penalty to Mobility. Works with Arc-Thrower and Pistol standard shots and works against units that cannot take cover (thus the -Mobility tradeoff).
- Anti-Venom Stims Passive area protection from poison (like Bastion). Also grants a targetable Adrenaline Shot that can be used to remove Panicked or Stunned status effects from a single soldier.
- Quality of Care When the Medic heals, stabilizes or revives a unit, high quality care reduces wound recovery time by a small margin. Note, the recovery time bonus can be overwritten if the target is later wounded again and their HP drops below the provided bonus.
- Combat Conditioning Gain +2 Mobility, +5 Aim, and removes damage penalty from Non-Combatant. Boost of +5 Aim brings Aim stat progression up to within 1 point of most other classes.
- Emergency Aid Rapid Deployment for medkit abilities. Works with Revive if the soldier also has Advanced Trauma Kits.
- Smokescreen Grants one free smoke grenade and +1 to equipped smoke grenades.
- Battlefield Triage Boosts Will for the entire squad and reduces HP lost for calculating wound times. Like Field Surgeon, but always applied (no rolls/chance) and about 3 times as strong.
- Advanced Trauma Kits Makes Revive a non-turn-ending abililty and increases HP healed by Revive. Also increases chances a wounded soldier will bleed-out rather than die and adds 1 turn to the bleed-out timers.
Emergency Aid and Quality of Care will also work with Stabilize Me!
Reposition and Emergency Aid are configured for the AWC and can show up on other classes.
Reposition should play nice with all other standard and LW2 abilities that grant bonus actions that it is allowed to be paired with. For example, if a soldier has both Reposition and Death from Above, if they take a high-ground shot at an exposed target and kill it, they will get the full bonus action from Death from Above, but if they fail to kill the target, they will still get the movement only action from Reposition.
Firaxis for a mod-friendly game. Pavonis Interactive for LW2 and all the code examples I pulled from within. xylthixlm and robojumper for LW2 ShadowOps class pack and XModBase, both also key resources to learn from. All other custom class mod makers – I’ve dug through just about all of them I think, trying to stumble my way through learning to mod for XCOM2…
Source for mod’s main workshop image [ploscnicu.deviantart.com]
(See Change Notes for previous versions)
- 1.15:
- Quick update to maintain compatibility with Shadow Ops Class Pack.
Please let me know what you think of the mod, if you run into bugs, or if you have balance concerns. Thanks and enjoy!
