[WOTC] Prototype Armoury

Prototype Armoury changes weapons and armour to be individually built rather than granted as an infinite supply, and makes it easier for other mods or anyone who can edit config files to do the same to any mod-added item. TLP weapons and armour are also reworked to serve as specially granted prototypes, with some new scanning sites in support of that.

• Weapons and armour are now individually buildable instead of infinitely granted through schematics
• Item costs have been rebalanced to roughly match with vanilla balance
• Tactical Legacy Pack items reimagined as ‘prototypes’ granted after research is complete
• Two new scanning sites added that grant current-tier prototypes or a single next-tier prototype
• UI improvements for removal of installed weapon mods

Since you are going to have a lot of individual weapons, the Lock And Load breakthrough is removed, while its effect is always enabled – you can always swap/remove weapon mods without destroying them. The UI was also improved to support that (including controller support).

This behaviour can be toggled in MCM (although only before you start a campaign). In that case, the UI enhancements would still work, but only if you actually researched the breakthrough.

The mod ‘Remove Weapon Upgrades’ is redundant, and should not be installed alongside Prototype Armoury.

Any mod-added item that is purchased with a schematic (squad upgrade) will work but will obviously not fit with the other items that are individually built. Automatic adjustment is impossible (or is likely to break things) due to differences in how the items are coded.

First, some mods already adjust automatically – check their description.

Second, check the Strategy Overhaul bridge mod collection – a bridge might exist already.

Finally, check this tutorial for instructions on how to adapt the item(s) yourself – we tried our best to make it as simple as possible.

P.S. If you are a mod author looking to make your mod compatible, follow the same link above.

While we will be checking the comments here from time to time, we encourage you to come chat with us on Discord[discord.gg]!

This mod was originally part of Covert Infiltration before being split off into its own project. The credits and acknowledgements for the work done here can be viewed on Covert Infiltration’s mod page.

Cannot be added or removed during campaign.

This project is hosted on GitHub under the MIT license: https://github.com/WOTCStrategyOverhaul/PrototypeArmoury