ADVENT's Agenda (LW2)

ADVENT's primary goal hasn't changed since vanilla X2: complete the AVATAR project. Of course, in the beginning, XCOM won't know what this project is or how to disrupt it - but that doesn't mean that the aliens can't complete it without your knowledge and end the campaign. In addition to their primary goal, they also respect the threat that XCOM poses: there is an Advent strategic AI that attempts to respond to the Commander's decisions and playstyle on the strategic layer.

AVATAR Project

The Avatar project's progress is unknown to the player initially but has been increased to 20 'pips' before it's game over. To uncover the 'Doom Meter', a player must complete a series of missions to liberate a region for the first time.

Advent Strategic AI

ADVENT Strategic AI takes the form of three variables in each region: Strength, Vigilance, and Alertness. Strength refers to the overall quantity and quality of forces ADVENT has available in a given region. Vigilance refers to the attention XCOM has garnered due to its activity.

Strength

Each region has a 'strength' value that represents how many troops ADVENT have stationed there. This value determines the baseline mission difficulty in each region: each level of strength increases base mission activity level by one category, in addition to mission-specific modifiers. Strength also impacts the likelihood and frequency of spawning missions which pit XCOM against a large contingent of enemy soldiers and which award loot, corpses, and supplies upon completion. Successful completion of these missions not only awards XCOM with resources, they also reduce ADVENT strength by 1 in the region.

Vigilance

The aliens will move around troops from one region to another in response to XCOM activity, transferring strength from one region to nearby adjacent regions; their propensity to do so is represented by the Vigilance variable associated with each region. In addition, vigilance also affects ADVENTs propensity to run retaliation missions against XCOM, such as attacking and disrupting the activity and operations of XCOM's local resistance agents or even the Haven itself.

Vigilance is a hidden value and is not visible to the player directly. Vigilance decays by one point per week and most missions which XCom is victorious for increase vigilance by one.

Alertness

To do.

Advent Regional Activity

The missions in Long War 2 are defined through ADVENT activities, which are performed by the aliens on each regional to achieve their goals, which will then result in tactical missions, if the alien activity is detected by the Resistance.

Each Activity can have several settings or requirements for it to be activated:

• Priority - weight for mission to be chosen
• Rebel Income - amount of detection collected by rebels with Intel jobs for the mission to be detected
• Detection - daily pct of the mission being detected, once the Rebel Income requirement is achieved
• Force & Alert Modifiers - the effect the activity will have on the ADVENT Force and Alert levels
• Min/Max Vigilance - the range of Vigilance values were the activity is available for ADVENT to perform in a region
• Min/Max Alert - the range of Alert values, as the previous setting
• Mission Tree - the number and sequence of missions generated by the Activity
• Mission Families - the type of missions generated
• Duration - the amount of hours that the mission can be detected, once it is active
• EVAC Modifier - the number of turns added to Skyranger evacuation
• Infiltration Modifier - the number of hours added/removed from infiltration requirements

AI Activity	Priority	Rebel Income	Discovery	Force Mod	Alert Mod	Min/Max Vigilance	Min/Max Alert	Mission Tree	Mission Families	Duration	EVAC Modifier	Infiltration Modifier	Notes
Protect Region Early	3	110	40					0	Recover, Hack	216 + 24	1
Protect Region Mid	4	135	35		3			0	Extract, Rescue	192 + 48	0
ProtectRegion	5	160	30		3			0	Neutralize, Destroy Object	192 + 48	0
								1	Assault Network Tower	Infinite	0
								2	Assault Alien Base	Infinite	0
Counterinsurgency*	30	60	31			4/NA	4/NA	0	Destroy Object	144+48			COIN*
								1	Terror, Defend	24+5			Force Activity Detection
Reinforce*****	40	75	4		3			0	Supply Line Raid	144+144
COIN Research	45	95	7			3/NA	NA/8	0	Recover, Hack, Destroy Object, Neutralize, Rescue	Infinite
COIN Ops	50	65	11			3/NA	3/NA	0	Recover, Hack, Destroy Object	Infinite	1
Build Research Facility	10	850	13				NA/5	0	Supply Line Raid	1080+72
Regional Avatar Research	15								Sabotage	Infinite		96	Makes Doom
Reinforcements***	25	100	5	1	1			0	Recover, Hack	120+96	1
								1	Secure UFO	144+24
Emergency Reinforcements	38	100	30		1			0	Recover, Hack	120+96	1
								1	Secure UFO	144+96
Super Emergency Reinforcements	37	80	34		2			0	Recover, Hack	120+96	1
								1	Secure UFO	144+96
Invasion	15	70						0	Supply Line Raid	96+96
								1	Invasion	24+0			Force Activity Detection
Propaganda	55	32				NA/8	6/NA	0	Sabotage CC, Neutralize	216+72		-12
Protect Research	50	120	17			NA/10	NA/10	0	Hack, Recover, Rescue, Extract	216+72
Protect Data	55	5	35			NA/12		0	Hack, Recover, Destroy Object, Rescue, Extract	216+96
Troop Maneuvers	55	5	20*			4/15	NA/15	0	Troop Maneuvers	216+72		-24
High Value Prisioner	55	60	18			NA/12	NA/6	0	Extract, Rescue	216+96
Political Prisioners	55	40	28			NA/12	NA/7	0	Jailbreak	216+96
Logistics	55	90	60			NA/12		0	Smash N Grab	216+96
Intel Raid	41					2/NA	3/NA	0	Intel Raid	24+5			Force Activity Detection
Supply Convoy	42					1/NA	4/NA	0	Supply Convoy	24+5			Force Activity Detection
Recruit Raid	43					1/NA	4/NA	0	Recruit Raid	24+5			Force Activity Detection
Snare	26	0	85	1	1	5/NA	7/NA	0	Hack	216+72
Foothold	3	0	70	18**	12**			0	Secure UFO	96+24		-60
								1	Invasion	24+5			Force Activity Detection
Rendezvous		2		-2	-2			0	Rendezvous	504+168	2		Force Activity Detection