Crasher Class For LWOTC

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Author: Kiruka

Last revision: 14 Dec, 2021 at 11:22 UTC (1)

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Description:

The Crasher is a class that, unlike most of my other classes, I didn’t have long-time plans to make. Rather, I was inspired to make it after seeing Lago’s Jane Kelly Starting Soldier mod. I figured that since she’s a unique character, I’d set up a unique class for her (much like Iridar did for Denmother in his Rescue Denmother mod), one which would fit in nicely with Long War of the Chosen. Check out the main class tree here.[docs.google.com]. As the Crasher is set up for LWOTC, they have a 4-tier XCOM row as well as the pistol row in addition to their three main ability rows. They can equip a Shotgun, Assault Rifle, SMG, or Chemthrower as their primary weapon, and either a Sword or Combat Knife as their secondary.

The Crasher starts with the Maim, Fleche and Lightning Slash abilities at Squaddie rank, and has 3 specializations in their main ability tree.

  • Shell Shock is all Shotgun, all the time. Most of the skills require a Shotgun to be equipped, and have a wide variety of utilities. If you want to hit groups hard up close, and without the usual risks of melee combat, this is the specialization for you.
  • Cut Down is the Crasher’s melee tree, and is the most at home getting up close and staying there. Damage potential is very high, but this specialization generally needs more support from squadmates than a Kenshi-type Shinobi would in terms of staying out of harm’s way.
  • Escape Artist is a versatile tree combining defensive and grenade abilities. It shines the most on short smash-and-grab type missions, particularly those with fixed evac points. This is also the best tree to invest in if you roll low Mobility or some XCOM row abilities that might favor mid-range combat with an Assault Rifle.

Miscellanous Features:
  • This mod will change Jane Kelly’s default class to the Crasher instead of the vanilla Ranger, done via this mod’s XComJaneKelly.ini, if you use the Jane Kelly Starting Soldier mod. You can comment that part out if you don’t want that feature for whatever reason.
  • Since I designed this class to be unique to Jane Kelly, by default, it does not show up as trainable in the GTS, nor does it show up on random recruited soldiers or promoted Rookies. You can change this if you want via this mod’s XComClassData.ini. Due as well to its intention as a unique class, the Crasher has only one callsign, "Reclaimer", which is totally a Chimera Squad reference. You can add more callsigns to the Localization file if you want.

Mod Requirements
  • In addition to the requirements listed on the side, Long War of the Chosen is required.[www.nexusmods.com] You could repurpose the Crasher for use with regular WOTC, but that would at the minimum require the LW2 Classes and Perks mod, plus a lot of restructuring of the classdata to swap out the LWOTC versions of skills with the LW2 Classes and Perks versions. This is entirely possible to do even without ModBuddy (just config edits), so don’t ask me to do it for you.
  • While the Jane Kelly Starting Soldier mod is not technically a hard requirement, you should absolutely grab it if you want to use this class without having to do any config work of your own. I have tested, and it works just fine with LWOTC.

Conflicts
  • There should be no conflicts to speak of.

Credits
  • Lago for making Jane Kelly Starting Soldier, which inspired me to make this class.

If you don’t see your name in the credits and think you should be there, let me know and I’ll add you ASAP.

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Required DLC:

These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.


XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
Revisions:

Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.