Attributes (LWR)

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Effects of Attributes

Aim

Determines a unit's ability to successfully land a hit on another unit. Hit chance is calculated as aim - defense + modifiers.

Mobility

Determines how many tiles a unit can move with 1 AP. Each point of mobility = 1 tile of movement. Units with 2 AP can dash (+20% movement) to move 240% of their mobility in tiles.

There is a cap on total movement in a single move of 39 tiles. This means someone with 20 or more mobility can move further with 2 single moves than a dash.

Hit Points

Increases the total HP units have on tactical mission. When HP reaches 0 the soldier may die or begin to Bleed Out. Can be further augmented with small items and armor (which grants Armor HP though, not more base HP).

Base HP can affect the attributes of MECs produced through augmentation.

Certain abilities are affected by how a soldier's base HP differs from the average values. The averages are:

• 6 HP for soldiers
• 10 HP for MECs

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 2%
• For each HP above/below average, injury time is reduced/increased by 4%
• For each HP above/below average, scatter is reduced/increased by 8%
• For each HP above/below average, the effect of overpower is reduced/increased by 2%

• The chance a soldier will bleed out instead of die is 10*(Base HP - Overkill Damage)% and cannot exceed 90%

Will

Increases the success rate and time taken to train psionically thereby increasing a psionic soldier's Psi Rank and unlocking new psionic skills.

Increases the hit chance of psionic abilities and the ability to avoid psionic abilities: Click Here for Details

Grants resistance to panic.

Base will also modifies fatigue times:

• For each will above/below average (30), fatigue times are reduced/increased by 0.5%

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 enable a 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	60 - 70	20 - 55	8.0 - 9.3

All stats are determined with the mid stats being more common than the extremes. Additionally, aim has the mid stats even more common and will has the low stats more common.

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	1	30	5	-
Scout	1	20	15	1.3
Infantry	2	20	20	1.3
Assault	2	5	10	0.6
Gunner	3	10	5	-
Rocketeer	3	15	10	-
Medic	1	15	15	0.6
Engineer	1	15	10	-

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 along with possible bonus stats based on their base HP and rank before conversion. For more information see: MEC Augmentation

Class	total	total	bonus
Jaeger	-	20	1.3
Marauder	4	10	0.6
Goliath	6	5	-
Shogun	2	20	1.3

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 0.5% for each point (mobility by 0.333 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, 70 Aim, 55 Will

Maximum Boosted Attributes: 12.6 Mobility, 18 HP, 90 Aim, 95 Will

As well, non-preset soldiers acquired later in the campaign gain a random amount of the following attributes for each month passed: +0.25 mob, +0.5 HP, +1 aim, +2 will. There is no cap on this growth.