[WOTC] Starting Engineer – Lily Shen
Another tiny QoL mod that I have been meaning to make for far too long. This mod adds an engineer to your staff roster after you complete the Gatecrasher mission. There is always at least one engineer on the avenger and that engineer is Chief Engineering Officer An-Yi “Lily” Shen.
I have had too many bad Legendary Ironman starts where I don’t get an engineer for just long enough that it completely destroys the run. No more! Start excavating or building your first room as soon as you finish the first mission with this simple but game changing QoL mod.
I mostly created this mod to address the rough starts you can have on higher difficulties when you don’t get an engineer for a long time. As such you will only gain engineer Shen for new saves. I didn’t see a point in adding her for existing saves since if you’re a ways into the campaign you’re probably fine by now anyway. She’s more or less just a regular engineer. I wanted to get her looking the part for when you assign her to rooms and such but there are a lot of restrictions in place that makes this more difficult than I thought and I don’t think there are work arounds for the problems I run into.
– When assigned to a room she’s forced to wear the standard issue engineer clothes. I don’t think there’s a way around this. I made her tint colours match her regular clothing colours. I think it helps a bit. It was either that or make her invisible.
– When Lily is assigned to a room she is technically in two places at once but I couldn’t find a way to hide her from the main room when she’s assigned. Sometimes you just can’t have everything. Such is life.
Ultimately this is probably another niche mod that probably won’t get many subscribers but I figured I’d release it for anyone else that has had too many higher difficulty runs ruined by unlucky RNG. I swear I have gotten 3 scientists on one campaign and no Engineers either from missions or POIs for the first few months of a new campaign. There’s no coming back from that and it sucks to waste time on a run that is punishing you for something you had no control over.
Anyways, if you are using it I hope you are enjoying my mod. 🙂
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
XCOM 2: Shen's Last Gift
