Attributes (LWR)

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Soldier Attributes

Soldiers have fully randomized starting attributes. However, the starting 15 soldiers will have preset, non-random attributes. Note that multiple Second Wave options exist that can change this. Balanced Soldiers (#31) will re-enable the point system for randomly-generated soldiers, and Fresh Recruits (#33) will replaces the starting 15 soldiers with randomly-generated ones.

	range	range	range	range
Base Attributes	4 - 8	53 - 77	5 - 55	8.0 - 9.3

Soldiers all have a Defense attribute of 0.

Attribute progression for soldier ranks has been altered to provide approximately half of the attributes at the rank of Specialist, and the remaining attributes are distributed over the remaining ranks. This makes it less punishing to lose high-ranking soldiers, and contributes to normalizing the mod's difficulty curve. Each rank increase, a soldier will gain 50 to 150% of the attributes for that rank (this range can be reduced to only 100% if the second wave option Predictable Potential (#6) is enabled).

Class	bonus	bonus	bonus	bonus
Sniper	-	20	5	-
Scout	-	10	10	-
Infantry	2	15	20	0.6
Assault	2	5	15	-
Gunner	3	5	5	-
Rocketeer	3	5	10	-
Medic	1	10	10	-
Engineer	1	5	15	-

MEC Attributes

Unlike soldiers, MECs gain no will from level ups. Augmenting (chopping) requires a soldier to be at least the rank of LCPL. It then resets their experience to 0 and their rank to SPEC.

When being augmented their stats are reset to 10 HP, 65 aim, 8.7 mobility and 30 will. MECs will have increased or decreased base stats based on their previous base HP (with 4 HP units being weak MECs and 8+ HP units being strong MECs). Note that Per Ardua Ad Astra, Jungle Scouts, and Survival Training bonuses will not effect this conversion and are adjusted for. If a soldier's base HP is 8, they will not lose any of their reset stats. HP > 8 adds stats after augmentation, while HP < 8 will subtract stats after augmentation. This makes HP the most significant stat for a good MEC candidate.

This means soldiers with high hp, poor aim, poor mobility, and/or poor will make ideal candidates for augmentation. They also have a 50% chance each to gain 0-0.6 mobility, 0-2 health, 0-4 aim, and 0-8 will for each rank above LCPL they had attained before being augmented. Whether or not these bonus stats are worth augmenting higher ranked soldiers will depend on the situation during each campaign.

Another important factor to consider when augmenting soldiers is that augmentation will remove 80% of fatigue and injure time. This makes it ideal to augment soldiers who have high amounts of fatigue or injury, though it can decrease the augmentation success rate.

Augmenting takes 10 + 20% of previous fatigue/wound time in days and the cost is: 30 credits and 70 meld

Class	total	total	bonus
Jaeger	-	40	-
Marauder	4	20	-
Goliath	6	20	-
Shogun	4	30	-

Bonus Attribute Boosts

Soldiers have a chance to gain +1 in some attributes after each mission.

The chance to trigger a potential bonus after each mission is 100% for MSGTs, and then half that chance for each rank below MSGT (GSGT:50%, TSGT:25%, etc.).

The chance to gain an attribute is: 5% chance for mobility, 10% chance for HP, 20% chance for aim, and 40% chance for will.

These chances are increased or reduced by 1% for each point (mobility by 0.666 instead of a full point) lower or higher the soldier's attributes are compared to the maximum natural attributes. The final chances are then modified by Campaign Length.

Thus, the higher a MSGT's attribute is, the less chance they will gain a point in that attribute after each mission. Conversely, the lower a MSGT's attribute is, the more chance they will gain a point in that attribute after each mission.

Maximum Natural Attributes: 9.3 Mobility, 8 HP, 77 Aim, 55 Will

Maximum Boosted Attributes: 12.6 Mobility, 18 HP, 97 Aim, 95 Will

Effects of Attributes

Base HP can affect the attributes of MECs produced through augmentation. Base will can affect the success rate and time taken to psionically train a soldier.

Certain other abilities are affected by how a soldier's attributes differ from the average values. The averages are:

• 6 HP for soldiers
• 10 HP for MECs
• 30 will for both

Base HP modifies throw range, rocket scatter, injury times, and bleed out chance:

• For each HP above/below average, throw range is increased/reduced by 4%
• For each HP above/below average, scatter is reduced/increased by 4%
• For each HP above/below average, injury time is reduced/increased by 4%
• The chance a soldier will bleed out instead of die is 10*(Base HP - Overkill Damage)% and cannot exceed 90%

Base will modifies fatigue times:

• For each will above/below average, fatigue times are reduced/increased by 1%