Odd SX Gameplay Tweaks

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Author: FearTheBunnies

Last revision: 25 May at 16:03 UTC (2)

File size: 15.99 MB

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Description:

• Aquilio’s Weather Pack:
  
  • Remove ultra-dark lighting modes.
  • Add custom lighting configs.
• Auto-Set Second Wave:
  
  • Default Setting: Busy Skies & Grim Horizon.
• AWC Expander:
  
  • Added perks from included perk packs as AWC options.
• Choose My Class:
  
  • Restrict to 2 options.
• Classes:
  
  • Keeper and Psionic classes level as hero classes.
  • Give Keeper a pistol as secondary weapon.
  • Remove Spark BIT from Specialists.
  • Swap Vanilla Class Redux Suppression for Proficiency Class Pack’s Version of Suppression.
• Commander HUD:
  
  • Move Evac All to Commander HUD.
• Covert Experience:
  
  • Enable promotions after finishing convert actions.
• Covert Infiltration:
  
  • Remove the Covert Action for promotions.
  • Reduce the faction loyalty required before being able to recruit additional faction soldiers.
  • Reduce overall scan times.
  • Remove Interception chains.
  • Renable Alloys Points of Interest.
  • Set barracks to 30 with +10/+25 upgrades.
  • Rebrand Rescue Resistance Leader chain into rescuing psi soldiers. This is the only way to get psionic soldiers normally.
  • Nerf detection radius reduction on Disguises due to Ranger’s Phantom ability having natural detection radius reduction.
• Denmother:
  
  • Denmother is customized to be SPOILERS, runner-up of the Skyranger Customization contest! Congrats on making it into the season!
  • Make into a proper hero class (you get at most two unless you unlock the GTS trainable with a Captain rank Keeper).
• Dynamic Encounter Zones:
  
  • Tweak encounter zones.
• Enemies:
  
  • Buff Avatars, Lost, and other mod added enemies.
  • Riftkeeper reinforcement spawn uses the reinforcement timer, is limited to 2 charges and with a cooldown.
  • Remove Chosen strengths do not play well with the list.
  • Cap lost swarms to 5 total.
  • Turn on A Better Chosen’s Chosen Prime Reactions.
  • BioDivision’s Elerium Poisoning no longer has a chance to stun and counts as a "super" poison. This causes it to replace the Poison status malus versus stacking alongside it.
  • Yellow Alert is set for Defensive Actions only on scamper.
  • Add local version of Universal Enemy Compatibility Patch group definitions.
  • Limit Randomedon to Dead, XCOM, or Advent teams.
• Enhanced Action Camera:
  
  • Add cinematic firing where camera looks at the soldier back in.
• Expose Chosen Weakness:
  
  • Now appears after completing the first Hunt the Chosen mission.
  • Can only be completed once.
• Extended Squad Sizes:
  
  • Leviathan configured for 8 units + Commander.
  • Reduce starting squad size for Avenger Defense & Chosen Avenger Defense missions to 8 from 10.
• Grim Horizon:
  
  • Add a few annoying Dark Events to the list of DE’s that cannot become permanent.
  • Increase the amount of time Grim Horizon Lite’s Covert Action takes to complete, making it impactful on the strategy layer to choose it.
• Missions:
  
  • Up Objective Health to make Protect the Device missions a little less "always fail".
  • Remove some SitReps.
  • Remove Retaliations from Pyrrhic Victories.
• MOCX:
  
  • Use only Dark VIPs and assign preferred by base class.
  • MOCX can spawn at Colonel, capture max at Captain.
  • More likely MOCX enters bleedout.
  • MOCX are excluded from appearing with the Chosen.
  • MOCX reward classes are base vanilla classes and Psi-Sentinel class.
  • Enhance base stats of MOCX enemies.
• Phantom Evac:
  
  • Restrict it to friendly carry-able only and carry unit range.
• Recruits:
  
  • Limit recruit list to only 2 at a time.
  • Soldier rewards cap at Captain at FL 15.
  • Hides CP class and Psi.
• Research:
  
  • Smooth research times for faster paced gameplay.
  • Turn off Avenger Breakthroughs.
  • Turn back on instant autopsies.
• Restore Tutorial Narrative:
  
  • Jane Kelly is customized to be SPOILERS from the Production Team. Congrats to them, and thank you for your tireless contributions to making OddCom the best it can be!
    
    • NOTE: Jane Kelly will appear WITH Bradford on Gatecrasher, but the reward soldier in the barracks is the custom soldier.
  • Ramirez and Osei are customized to be SPOILERS from the Playtest Team. Congrats to them, and thank you for all your hard work!
  • Change the reinforcement schedule to be more forgiving.
  • Create themed Gatecrasher pods and reinforcement pods.
• Soldier Conditioning:
  
  • Remove bonus perks, but instead give AP alongside small stat bumps.
• System Infiltration:
  
  • Tweak System Infiltration to give it a 1-turn cooldown and 2 charges per mission.
• UI:
  
  • Remove "Target Preview:" label text to clean up the tactical UI.
• Weapons:
  
  • Ultrasonic Lure nerfed.
  • Rebalance ammo.
  • General campaign balance to weapons, items, costs, and upgrade slots as needed.
  • Rebalance consumable items.
  • Rebalance modular spark costs
• World War L:
  
  • Remove non-junk items from Lost drops.

This mod also has for import the following character pools:

• Odd SX Special Soldiers: This is the pool which contains the gatecrasher crew and denmother soldiers.

The mod folder located at

contains quick launch reference AML profiles that can be used to setup your local environment to play along.

• odd sX GA-Cosmetic.txt: This contains all 171 mods in Soldier Cosmetics-Only List for Odd Season 10.
• odd sX GA-Gameplay.txt: This contains all 422 mods in Odd SX: Season 10 Gameplay Collection.
• odd sX GA-Full.txt: This contains all 583 mods between both collections: Soldier Cosmetics-Only List for Odd Season 10 AND Odd SX: Season 10 Gameplay Collection

For more information please reference the Alternative Mod Launcher section in the Odd SX: Season 10 Gameplay Collection description.

We try our best but there are sure to be other minor tweaks which were missed.

• All of the OddCom Producers & Playtesters. Everyone does so much hard work to make this happen!

Thank you,
– Odd SX Production Team