Change Log (LW2)

Patch 1.2 (Released Feb. 26, 2017)

Bugfixes

- Fix bug in base XCOM 2 relating to mind control. When releasing mind control effect wore off, any active ticking effects (including stun) were still registered to tick only on the mind-controlling player's turn, instead of the new (original) player's turn. This resulted in weird side effects in particular for units that were stunned while mind-controlled. Added new code to X2Effect_MindControl.OnEffectRemove to unregister the old listeners and re-register new listeners for any active ticking effects of the appropriate type.

- Regional network tower hack will no longer stun any soldier unit (for modders: this means any unit with a charactertemplate with bIsSoldier = true)

- Fixed two urban maps that were not allowing soldiers to jump low obstacles or break through windows, and we're placing people to rescue in bad locations. (SEE WORKAROUND)

- Added new AWC melee abilities to Disallowed AWC abilities list so rebels don't get them (SEE WORKAROUND)

- Crit is now clamped to 0 to 100; Dodge is now capped at 100; Negative dodge now acts like positive crit, allowing only a single tier upgrade. This should prevent edge cases where excessively high dodge or high/low crit scores had unintended impacts on the to-hit calculations.

- Fixed Mind Merge so it lasts through alien turn (SEE WORKAROUND)

- Fixed Kubikiri so it accounts for alien armor when applying damage, and gave it some extra crit damage to make sure stuff gets dead

- Bronzeman setting on Ironman Mode (with ini change) now works

- Corrected bad G-vehicle schedule for alert 16

- AWC cross-training restrictions reconfigured to exclusively use perk triggers (rather than currently bugged class restrictions). SHould see a lot more options open up for training.

- Set Psi Zombies and Avatars to be immune to arc throwers and concussion rockets per their vanilla immunity to stun effects and to cure bugs related to missing stun animations

- Fixed alert levels for Extract_D10_5_LW (was causing a relatively easy schedule to sometimes pop at high alert levels)

- Vipers will no longer attempt to bind units being suppressed, which caused weird behavior.

- Mind Control abilities can no longer target stunned units.

- Fixed a bug that was preventing stabilized/bleeding out soldier recovery and timed loot recovery on Supply Convoy defense

- Fixed a bug that was allowing stabilized/bleeding out soldier recovery and timed loot recovery on Recruiting Raid

- Fix issue where wounded Sparks could infiltrate more than one mission at a time.

- Disallowed on-mission sparks from being selectable for healing in Engineering.

- More explicit controls to prevent Sparks from being eligible for AWC training.

- Fix CTD issue when pressing up/down arrow in AWC Ability UI

- Added missing 'StockSupport' attachments for Coil Cannon.

- Geoscape hotlink will no longer be available in UIPersonnel and Promotion screens when in SquadSelect. This fixes the ability to back out of the Avenger Defense mission and freeze the campaign.

- Handle destroyed evac zone or evac spawn location on Haven Defense. Zone or spawner will relocate to a new location on destruction.

- Add arrow to evac zone/spawner on Haven Defense.

- Flamethrowers given +1 range to get it back to intended 1.0 levels

- Unarmed rebels get 4 hp like their armed counterparts. Fixes issue with NCE killing 1-hp rebels and makes them not drop dead from poison.

- Fixed 2nd tier Focus PCS not providing enough will

- Attempted Fix to Mec Micromissiles and Poison Spit targeting places with no visibility from anyone on alien side

- Fixed bad config preventing Proximity Mines project from being available

- Fixed bad config preventing Incendiary bombs from being buildable

- Rebels on mission and appropriate haven advisers are now killed or captured when the mission expires.

- Switched one of the two Rapid Deployment perks in AWC Defense level 2 to level 3

- Fixed issue in which identical Override hack rewards would show up on the same hack attempt

- Fixed bad schedule: Guerilla_D17_1_LW, was defined as Guerilla_D17_D1_LW, leading to rare missions with way too few bad guys

- Added utility category for Neurowhips in all loc

- Prevented Serial and Traverse Fire and Serial and Hit and Run from appearing on same soldier via AWC due to reported bugginess

- Added Single activity in world restriction to Foothold so you don't get hit with 16 UFOs at once.

- X2Effect_TemporaryItem will now ignore "SmallItemWeight" ability. Things that give free items should no longer cause mobility penalties (e.g. Flashbanger, Smoker perks).

- Fixed Default Doom reduction on Legend for killing Codex / Avatar were still set to generous vanilla scores; reduced to be in line with other diffs (1 for Codex / 3 for Avatar)

- Iron Skin should no longer show triggering at mission start

- Rebels will only get lasers/mags if you've researched the appropriate techs as well as the existing triggering techs. So a mag rush that skips lasers will prevent rebels from getting lasers.

- Fixed bad config LARGE_INTEL_CACHE_REWARD in LW_Overhaul.ini

- Fixed bad text in Lethal dark event for all languages

- Fixed KOR Incendiary Bomb project display name loc

- "Find a Lead" now capitalized in mission objective in all cases

Gameplay / Balancing

- Added Sedate Ability to medikits; will allow you to render unconscious any adjacent human ally who is panicking, stunned or disoriented. This allows them to be carried out of combat. Uses 1 action, does not end turn, has two charges.

- Added Berserker corpse requirement back to Combat Stims

- Increased Gatekeeper Will

- Lost Towers and Alien Nest should pop earlier now (available when you get a POI after ~75-80 days)

- You can take 12 soldiers on invasion missions.

- Added a defend pod job for the 5th pod on a big assault-type mission

- You may now evac to escape from regional network tower missions

- Hail of Bullets now requires 5 ammo. Removed Hail of Bullets from allowed Rebel abilities.

- Danger Zone now only adds 1 tile to Area Suppression Radius instead of 2

- Increased resarch time and/or reduced application chance for several tactical dark events

- Worked on Psi Tree to 1) add more pre-reqs, with the effect of reducing the number of high-level perks that take an eternity to train appearing so early 2) ensure at least one perk from the top two levels can be trained if pre-reqs are fulfilled and 3) reduce training time overall. This is an issue we'll continue gathering feedback on and may make further changes for 1.3.

- PsiAmp_MG costs reduced, requires Codex research and Codex corpse, provides +10 to psi offense instead of +15, updated all locs

- PsiAmp_BM costs reduced, requires Gatekeeper research / Gatekeepr corpse, provides +20 to psi offense instead of +30, updated all locs

- Delayed first chance of Avenger Defense dark event based on DifficultySetting. Hunter UFO will cap at 14 days flight time.

- Engineer advisers will now appear on resistance Supply Convoy missions, and Scientist advisers on Intel Raid missions in addition to retaliations. Soldiers will continue to appear on all raid types and retaliations.

- Removed Codex teleport from list of allowed yellow alert abilities

- Gave Rookie Spark +5 aim to match Rookie diff soldier bonus

- Increased Scout detection range

QOL

- Added version number to credits scroller

- Set up mission brief that appears in geoscape and squadselect with some parameters of current mission, like turn counters, type of evac, whether corpses are gathered, etc.

- Added average scatter display (updates in real time) for rocket/blaster launcher targeting.

- Added new NavHelp button "Strip All Weapon Upgrades" to UIArmory_Loadout, UISquadSelect and the Upgrades UI.

- Added explainer text for all languages for rocket scatter, how to build a radio relay, the liberation progress pips, green/yellow alert mechanics

- Added hint that liberation moves you toward unlocking aliens true purpose

Modding

- Remove 'const' from plot and parcel definition arrays in XComParcelManager. Allows easier mod access to add new objective kinds to existing plots.

Patch 1.1 (Released Jan. 28, 2017)

1.1 Hotfix

-Fix for issue where Reinforcements could take yellow alert (offensive) reflex actions. Bug in 1.1 briefly made them more likely to take reflex actions.

Bugfixes

- Fixed bug preventing tactical Dark Events from occurring. This will cause a meaningful increase in difficulty.

- Fixed bug causing captured soldiers to not be controllable after hacking the cells in Jailreak missions.

- Fixed an array bug that was causing not all tiles to be partitioned correctly when applying explosive environmental damage falloff.

- Fixed bug in which buildable weapon upgrades were ignoring INSTANT_BUILD ini setting, making them take time to build

- Fix vanilla setting causing AI to adjust their patrol paths in response to XCOM's movement without any direct knowledge of them. (Default behavior can be re-enabled via config)

- Psi Operatives can now equip heavy weapons (with appropriate armor).

- Fix for non-commanding officers on a mission getting officer abilities.

- Disorient effects will now cancel overwatch on units that are already disoriented.

- Soldiers that are in a permanent squad, but are temporarily assigned to another squad for one mission, will now be removed from their permanent squad if killed or captured. This could cause a CTD if a dead soldier was sent on a mission.

- Corrected line-break in RapidTargeting detailed help text and other typos.

- Disallowed Field Medic from list of possible Rebel skills

- Increased delayed init for infiltration squad select by .25 secs to prevent some UI wonkiness

- Fixed base-game issue that could cause POIs (points of interest on the geoscape) to become unselectable. POIs now have minimum Weight of 1 instead of 0.

- Fix pod leaders flanking themselves on scamper. This was an unintended side-effect of fixing the AI lock-up if a pod activates out in the fog due to taking damage while xcom is concealed (e.g. by spawning on top of fire or being too close to a sectopod/big chryssy/etc that walks on something explodey). Fixed by restoring the original behavior except if no xcom can see the scampering unit.

- Fixed bug in UITacticalHUD_AbilityColor that was causing bad objective ability colors

- Added check for Kill Zone/Gunslinger being active to conditions for Command and Fall Back

- Fixed bad schedule entry (AdvFireteambucket_lw) in G_V_D10_5

- Removed possibility you can spawn two of the same ruler on black site mission

- Fixed bug causing Full Kit to grant a partial extra ghost grenade

- Bugfix for alert locations: adjust the location to ensure it's pathable so the pods can actually try to get there. Prevents locked pods on awkward maps like the network tower.

- Fix bug with faceless that are acting as xcom soldiers on rendezvous were being removed from the haven on mission end. These faceless have not blown their cover and remain.

- Fix bug with the post-rendezvous cleanup of faceless spies only removing the first one (this was masked by the above bug).

- Added SMG Range profile to hunter pistol weapons via template mod.

- Fixed incorrect offset for CoilCannon Reargrip B.

- Officer ranknames/icons now only show once officerRank > 0. Pulling a trainee from the tube will no longer lock their rank at NCO.

- Fix bug allowing reinforcement units to get yellow reaction shots.

- Item-based template mod now removes environment falloff for CombatEngineer, not TandemWarheads

- Fixed bad config for WARCRY_OTHER_BONUS that was preventing war cry from being applied to any unit that wasn't a Muton type.

- Rebels can no longer accrue to an officer's leadership bonus pool.

- Fixed bug in sorting by mission count for Leadership display for officers

- Added more info to Leadership display (rank, class), and additional secondary sorting criteria.

- Attempted fix to change end of month report to display delta doom since previous month (since limited to 12 pips).

- Added new icon for AlienGrenade (based on EU/EW version). Swapped it in for soldier AlienGrenade item and MutonGrenade variants

- Removed SoundCue audio from narrative moment for AutopsyMuton_M3 bink.

- Added UpdateNavHelp override to officer pack promotion UI to disable Ability Info button when controller isn't active.

- Added condition to officer pack to prevent display of "Officer already selected" warning unless UISquadSelect is active, and not in squad management.

- Added Frostbomb as a valid support-type grenade for RapidDeployment

- Adding grenade targeting to XComGame to provide smoke preview fixes.

- SetMaxForceLevel=99 sted 20 on final entries in variousspawnweightsarrays in characterstats.ini

- Faceless from 'Infiltrators ' Dark Event; Faceless pods (1x FacelessCivilian + 1xCivilian) replaced with a new _LW variant that uses 1x FacelessCivilian and 1x HostileCivilian. Avoids the regular civilian on these missions from having no detection squares. FacelessCivilian template has bIsHostileCivilian=true, giving them detection squares. FaclessCivilian now excluded from infiltration detection modifiers that aliens usually get. Avoids them being detectable on high-infil missions due to a lower detection radius than civilians (which do not have this modifier applied).

- Fixed some bad FL15 boss definitions in mission schedules

- Fixed sticky Dark Event Reveal button issue by destroying the button when selecting to reveal a hidden event.

- Partial fix for extraneous Dark Events. Added validation code that runs once per day when the Activity Manager generates new activities

- Added new socket overrides for AlienLgt_Std_A_* torsos to correct HeavyWeapon socket position on DLC2 hunter armor.

- Made some fixes to XComGame.UITextContainer to fix vertical autoscrolling behavior

- Made some fixes to XComGame.UITacticalHUD_ShotWings to fix vertical autoscrolling behavior.

- StandardShot has a special ApplyWeaponDamage ability intended to be upgraded by stock weapon upgrades. Added a condition to prevent non-damaging events from triggering this. This will fix Area Suppression ending on misses and Evasive not working as well as it should.

- Removed the persistent flag for Bombard and JavelinRocket abilities, as they don't need to persist when switching from tactical to strategy

- Squads will now reliably halt on configured infiltration halt points, instead of just once per squad.

- Fix for displayed negative/underflow time on expiring mission passed 100% infiltration.

- Hacked doors on jailbreak after a restart level would not unlock all doors.

- Adjusted the DLC2 HunterWeaponPOI alert so that it triggers 'HunterWeaponsViewed' when carry on is pressed.

- Fixed a base-game issue where multi-unit movement could sometimes result in a unit temporarily teleporting to the 0,0,0 tile, which could result in concealment break / reaction fire trigger.

- Corrected LEADERSHIP_COVERTNESS_PER_MISSION from 0.075 to 0.0075.

- Dismiss button is now disabled in UIArmory_MainMenu if soldier is training.

- Added event listener to squad manager to remove a unit from squad when unit is dismissed.

- Fix for Resistance mecs and liaisons having their abilities refreshed in a new gamestate without having a new unit state created and added to that state. This could have unpredictable results.

- Fix for rare bug causing units to be unable to move in tactical. They have a leftover "Immobilized" unit value assigned to them with a eCleanup_Never policy. This prevents them from taking any actions. I have no idea how the unit got into this state - the only thing that sets Immobilized with a Never policy is bind, and that is usually removed when the binding unit is killed/flashed. Somehow this unit got out of tactical with the flag still applied. To fix the unit I added a \LWSetUnitValue console command so the affected unit can be unstuck (and any other unit value assigned or changed, but only with a BeginTactical cleanup policy). Also change the bind ability to use the BeginTactical cleanup policy, like just about every other ability in the game.

- Added AvengerDefense_LW to the INTERVENTION_INVALID_MISSIONS list.

- Fix for Combatives animation not firing.

- Skulljack and Skullmine should show correct icon colors now

- Avatar progress modifier display in ResistanceManagement now rounds instead of truncates (so 0.98% => 1% instead of 0%). Also fixed potential issue with localized string.

- Fixed bug in which Wraith Suit (Shadow Armor) was repeatable tech

- Fixed bug in facility configuration that may have ignored some elerium core costs

- Fixed loc error in "low on scientists" and "low on engineers" that said you can buy them with intel (english only)

- Added calls to ResHQ.AddGlobalEffectString using DarkEvent GetPostMissionText when completing dark event missions.

- Disable the pointless mission counter UI on supply convoy missions.

- AWC Abilities button in Armory (and foreknowledge of trainable AWC abilities) does not appear until you build AWC

- Fixed missing psigate schedule/diff level (4)

- Alien Facility lead RP increment corrected from bad huge erroneous value

- Fixed bug in Plot_TWN_Mixed_LgObj_10_LW and _11_LW maps that were allowing out-of-bounds objectives to spawn

- Cleanup of multiple map plots and custom parcels. Shout out to McDenny's '09 for the labor.

- Fix civilians rescued summary for Soldier VIPs.

- Set max hacking loss from NCE to -4 so everybody has at least 1 hacking and can use their xPhone

- Fixed description of Armor Piercing Rounds so it doesn't say all armor in INT, FRA, ESN, ITA.

- Snapshot modifier no longer applies to pistol, only to the weapon in the slot assigned to the ability (primary weapon).

- Shortened Polish translations of SquadSize and Covertness infiltration modifiers.

- DLC missions will no longer have encounters changed by our postencounter code, so no more lone trooper in the towers mission

- Added plating category localization text to Carapace Plating item.

- Added replacement 512px image for Carapace Plating.

- Fix for zero intel cost showing up on shadow / plot projects with no intel cost

- Fixed Propaganda mission rewards (personnel no longer will be granted)

- Added a check for minimal env damage for application of sapper, combat engineer and randomness, so flashbangs won't start nuking planters

- Fixed iSoundRange ini values for some weapons

- Fixed a bug causing Cutthroat not to grant crit bonuses

- Fixed issue where squad icon would not disappear from geoscape when aborting an infiltration.

- Fix bug with sparks causing the evac zone to disappear and reappear on recruit raid missions.

- Fix bug with sparks not being able to rescue civilians on terror/defend/invasion missions.

- Fix objective updating for optional rescue objective on defend missions.

- Handle failure to complete the sweep objective on terror missions: rebels left behind on the map in this case do not survive, but rescued ones do. Similar fixes to invasion mission.

- Swapped ViperM1 and ViperM2 weapon damages so progression is 5,6,7 not 6,5,7

- Fix for Grazing Fire perk causing you to never miss

- Vital Point Targeting will no longer provide damage bonuses to area of effect attacks or damage per turn effects, just to melee and direct firearm attacks.

- Fixed Precision Shot not applying crit damage bonus

- Fixed bug causing advanced rocketeers to be excluded from some pods

- Set up separate Advent reinforcement encounters to prevent drone from arriving on ATT (as it was bugged visualization when it did)

- Fixed stiletto rounds not working

- Units in reinforcement pods dropping out of LoS are now marked with a special marker preventing them from taking reflex actions on the turn they spawn. This brings them in line with units that spawn in LoS and immediately activate, which also currently are not permitted reflex actions.

Balancing / Gameplay

- Psi Operatives now gain three psi perks upon initial training. They must gain XP on missions to be allowed to train further. They still may choose from three perks to train and may train powerful perks early in their development, but that will require they stay in the tube for an extended period. They may only train one ability per rank so may not train further after they achieve maximium rank. Psi offense and enemy will progression reworked. Rework of psi tree to better match training times with ability power.

- Set up Shaped Charge grenade with full loc! Thanks awesome translators!

- Faceless now steal supplies as a percent instead of absolute value.

- Swapped around Covert, Conceal and Tradecraft on Shinobi tree. NOTE: THIS WILL CHANGE EXISTING CAMPAIGNS. Sorry.

- Swapped Chain Shot and Tandem Warheads on Grenadier tree. ALSO SORRY.

- Grenades versus most vehicles should not cause immediate explosions reliably without Sapper + Combat Engineer perk. Sapper tends to set them on fire for a future explosion. Trikes will still blow up a lot. Cars with open doors will blow up more often.

- Huge revision of flamethrower targeting mechanics that Rachel spent 4 days on:

• Preview of tiles and affected units should match units affected.
• Should be better at shooting from behind full cover. Step out should properly preview and and animate.
• Can now path around behind obstacles that block LOS, acting more like a real flamethrower.
• Destructible actors will no longer be highlighted, since flamethrowers do not do direct environmental damage (only start fires).
• Increased the width of the flamethrower target effect from 5 tiles to 6 tiles at the end.
• Rebalance of damage and fire chances because it's so much more effective now, specifically, Reduced chance to directly apply burning effect from 75% to 60% for flamethrower/firestorm, and from 33% to 20% for Roust; Reduced % of tiles set on fire from 85% to 50% for flamethrower, and from 25% to 20% for Roust. Firestorm is unchanged.
• Targeting now happens half a vertical tile higher, making it easier to hit adjacent enemies, plus tiles close to unit will not be able to set on fire as often
• Placing cursor on enemy while targeting will no longer cause flamethrower to aim up in into the air.
• Targeting will now show a vertical cone to help visualize that the flamethrower is affecting tiles in a 3D cone.

- Rendezvous activity now has regional instead of global cooldown.

- A region's liberation status now affects infiltration time on Golden Path and facility sabotage missions. Base infiltration time for those missions significantly increased to encourage liberation in those regions.

- Chances for Haven Faceless to help generate retaliation and raid missions reduced.

- Set Mission Timers modifier to +2 on veteran sted +1, because we listen and care

- Added a bunch of AWC perks to each level, lots of doubling up and a few (Combat Fitness, Lone Wolf, Damn Good Ground) that cross offense and defense

- Shadow Chamber takes more days to build, significant reduction in research times for shadow chamber projects (50% or so), added intel cost to research shadow chamber projects

- Significant number of new schedules to increase granularity at higher alert levels. This makes small deltas (changes) in infiltration more meaningful.

- Green alert enemies can now sometimes take green (defensive) reflex actions after scamper; removed Beaglerush maneuver

- Rookies can now show up on Jailbreaks with the same % chance as the recruiting job. Jailbreaks can now have up to 6 prisoners to rescue, but they are limited in the early months.

- Removed Lightning Reflexes from ViperM2, removed ViperM2 from Scout job

- Added Terror Bucket encounters to some intel raids and alien bases, and as reinfs on defend and supply convoy raid

- Made Black Market personnel a bit cheaper on all diffs but Legend

- Added config var allowing bias toward soldier recruits if a haven is full

- Adjusted down some PCS trading post costs, Spark gear costs, armor research costs, armor costs

- Added some Faceless civilians on rare guerrilla ops

- Set Defend missions to spawn reinfs based on proximity to evac zone instead of squad centerpoint

- Rookie max wound time shorter

- Rookie, Commander longer Doom intervals for fortress (day or two)

- Added new advent units to war cry bonus list

- Capped Advent Grenadier as 1 per pod

- Reduced Hack Defense on Hunter Drone

- Removed Charger, Defender AI job from the game (pod jobs does it better)

- Added configuration multiplier for AWC pistol training times, initially set to 75% of normal.

- Defend/Guard pods can now patrol within a small area near their destination once they reach it. Keeps them from standing absolutely still when they have reached their defend location, so they're a little less predictable. Also ensures their alert gets periodically refreshed so they won't lose it.

- New avenger defense podjobs for the two assault pods and the defender pod. Defender pod will stay near the disruptor (as in vanilla). Assault pods will charge the avenger like everyone else but include 'Charger' job leaders that will attempt to enter the avenger landing area.

- Hunter Rifle Aim and Crit stats scale up with tech, also gains 1 shred at all tech levels

- Adjusted up advanced Hunter Pistol and Axe damage stats

- Removed possibility of Alien Rulers on Regional Network Tower missions

- Reduced Spark build cost to same as Mechanized Warfare research

- Increased spark rifle damage from 5.5 - 9 - 12.5 to 7.5 - 10 - 12.5, gave aim and ammo bonii as you upgrade weapons, gave spark more aim at high levels

- Sparks now get 5 ablative armor HP

- Set all drawbridges to down on all rooftops maps. Added custom versions of the two small vanilla rooftop maps with this in place.

- Increased chances for datapads as loot and in Black Market

- Made some techs and plasma weapons cheaper

- Reduced reveal cost of dark events to 5 intel

- Reduced duration of 50% job effectiveness dark events from a month to average 15 days

- Increased Avatar delay hours per global vig from 8 to 10

- All varieties of smoke now counter the crit bonus from flanking.

- DLC POIs set to 1-2 days just like the rest

- Standardized weights for all POIs to prevent any zeroing-out late campaign.

- Protect Data will reward supplies if all POIs exhausted

- More Hit Points for M3s on Legend

- Lost Towers POI won't appear to FL 8; Alien Nest won't appear until FL 12

- Set Flanking Crit chance for xcom soldiers, rebels, sparks to 40 in all diffs

- Dark Events will now first trigger on a difficulty-based month setting

- GTS projects get cheaper

- Recruit soldier bias goes to 80-20 in full regions

- Set lose mode to 28 days, 24 on legend

- Made liberation sequence missions a little easier to detect

- HEAT Warheads will check for existing shred > 0 on grenade before adding more shred.

- Hunker Down bonii will no longer apply to units flanking you

- Fixed alloy padding dark event so it only pops post-codex

- Reduced some enemy defense scores on lower diffs

- Reduced application chance of some tactical dark events

- Gave rookie-diff xcom soldiers +5 offense

- Added one day to cooldown between FL UFOs (so it's 16 days instead of 15)

- Fixed bad icon for Rapid Targeting passive

- Change the secure UFO reinforcement pod on timer expiry to an 8 pod. Increased timer significantly.

- The following perks will provide no bonuses if the unit it is impaired (stunned, disoriented, unconscious, panicking, mind controlled) or burning: Damn Good Ground (defense only), Lone Wolf (defense only), Will to Survive, Tactical Sense, Lightning Reflexes_LW, Infighter, Hard Target, Combat Awareness.

- Added standard shootereffectexclusions for Ghostwalker (so can't do it in lots of bad situations)

- New Region Contact is now 3-4 days sted 4-6

- Focus Fire aim bonus increased from 4 to 5

- Increased officer command range significantly

- A few rookie settings changes

- Returned Insanity and Soulfire cooldowns to vanilla

- Reduced research time for Sectoid Autopsy

- Clutch Shot no longer works at squad sight range

- Set Priorities on General Ops to the be same to mix them up, particularly when a new region is contacted

- Removed elerium core cost for Medium and Heavy Tier III armors, reduced crystal cost for Light Tier III armor

- Removed elerium core cost for plasma pistol and alloy cannon. Inreased alloy cost for Alloy Cannon.

- Removed Corpse costs from advanced heavy weapons projects

- Increased env damage on all heavy armor weapons

- Shredstorm Cannon Project now requires only Battle Armor and Advanced Coilguns

- Plasma Blaster Project now requires only Battle Armor and Plasma Rifle

- Gave war suit +1 armor, -1 hp

- Scanning Protocol now gains bonus charges from 2nd and 3rd tier Gremlins

- Higher-tech swords and knife gain higher aim bonuses

- Allowed you to take 10 soldiers on an invasion mission

- Mind Control via insanity attack now lasts two turns and is ini-configurable

- Shadow / Wraith armor now offers greater infiltration bonus

- Made several proving ground projects cheaper

- Commander default evac delay increased to 4 turns, same as Legend

- Evac timer -2 only awarded on 200% infiltration instead of 190%

- Decreased tradecraft infil bonus to .75; Ghostwalker bonus to .98, Covert bonus improved to .95, Reduced Spark infil penalty to 1.34

- Reduced tube time for a lot of officer ranks

- Some missions will have extra evac time associated with them. This is a new-activity-mission variable. This was initially set for Liberation step 1, all three pre-UFO-intel-lead missions, and COINOps

- Liberation missions will not be available on Legendary until 2nd month. Ini-configurable.

- Embiggened patrol zones on Troop Maneuvers

- Added accuracy bonus to Death From Above for sniper rifle that cancels weapon-based accuracy at squadsight ranges. LOC undocumented bonus in Japanese, good in all other languages.

- Set Combat Stims cost to reflect they are consumed upon use

- Changed up Alien HQ loot, moved supplies to loot table and gave you a bunch of datapads to extract intel from

- Generals a little tougher on advanced difficulties

- Removed SMG-laser env damage

- Zeroed out sword env damage

- Reduced damage spread on all shotguns

- Zeroed out crit penalty at squadsight ranges

- Updated some stat Not-Created-Equally stat trades

- Added some melee abilities to AWC for gunner/shinobi

- Vital Point Targeting bonus damage now proceeds as 1, 1, 2

Compatibility

- Added linux/mac formatted movies to project. Requires pending Feral patch to base-game XCOM 2 for them to work.

QOL

- Set 'bronzeman' style restart mission controls. Enabled on non-ironman campaigns; requires setting an ini flag in gamecore to enable on ironman campaigns.

- AWC and officer training can now be initiated from the relevant Armory Promotion UI.

- Set VeteranSoldierRank to 0 so all customization options are available from start

- Weapons and armor should be sorting better in engineering

- Regions in resistance management will now show bullets for each liberation stage completed

- Attempted to get rid of swaying camera effect for berserker rage

- Add the loot ability to rebel soldiers. Rebels on Rendezvous and IntelRaid will be able to pick up loot that drops, and it will be recovered at the end of the mission. Rebels in SupplyRaid would work too if anyone dropped loot. Unarmed rebels on terror missions or recruit raid cannot loot.

- Strip gear buttons in UILoadout will not strip units in the current squad.

- Add a mission expiry panel to the custom mission screen for non-infinite duration inflitration missions.

- Removed camera shake from Coil Cannon during suppression.

- Removed camera shake from Laser Cannon during suppression.

- Added new config to Helpers_LW named LowStrengthTriggerCount. This allows using this value (if defined >= 1) instead of GetMaxSoldiersAllowedOnMission for triggering UIForceUnderstrength. ID 1577

- Added standard sound fx for the command and oscar mike abilities.

- Replaced the custom logic in Intervention's visualizer to play the sound with the new sound cue support - just set the name of the cue in the template's AbilityConfirmSound variable.

- Gave ourselves some credits on Shell/ShellDifficulty

- Made death animations faster

- Evac time on missions where you throw a flare should now display on infiltration missions in UI mission popup.

- Remaining time to infiltrate to 100% will now show for non-expiring missions.

- Add LWRenameRebel console function.

- When in UIPersonnel Squad Select, training message now takes precedence over unit being in another squad.

- Added console command LWForceSquadPostiMissionCleanup to help if a squad gets 'stuck' infiltrating

- Option "View Locked Perks" now allows display of officer perks. Also the detailed info for future perks is shown for both officer and class perks. Target patch 1.2

- Mixed up visual and auditory Geoscape cues to better differentiate mission types, especially the mini-retaliations, which will have burning icon on the map now and a warning siren.

Modding

- Removed most non-UI class overrides.

- Added a new versioning scheme for the xcomgame replacement. LW_Overhaul can use this to detect if the xcomgame replacement was successfully loaded (which is mostly useful only if the community decides to implement a compatible one outside of LW2 that can be used in place of ours). Needs new loc to pop up a useful dialog instead of a redscreen.

- Revamped the yellow jobs so they are now defined in the same config array as the green jobs.

- Added new fields to the job definition to allow us to implement custom logic similar to that in the avenger defense

- Extended XComSoundManager to allow SoundCues in PlaySoundEvent, as well as supporting sound path aliases to let mods replace sounds.

• A new SoundCuePaths array is processed at initialization time, just like SoundEventPaths. All assets found here are loaded and cached, except they are expected to be SoundCues instead of AkEvents.
• The string given to PlaySoundEvent() is first looked up in the SoundAliases array. If such a key is found, the string for the sound to play is replaced with the value in the alias entry.
• The string is then looked up in the standard SoundEvents array mapping the string to an AkEvent. If it's found, it's played as normal.
• If the string isn't found in the SoundEvents array it's looked up in the SoundCues array. If found the corresponding SoundCue is played.

- Added world effect and smoke effect classes to mod's XComGame override.

- Allowed setting of delayinit timer for squad select in lw_overhaul.ini

- Added event hook 'PostPsiProjectCompleted' to PsiTraining HeadquartersProject gamestate.

- Updates XComGame calls to DLCInfo hook DLCAppendSockets so that AppearanceInfo is available for XComHumanPawn

- Adusted event handler GetUIClassForMissionSite so that mod-mods can override the MissionSite UI class.

- Add hooks to allow mods to override the fire and death sounds on projectiles. Use a config mapping in Helpers_LW to assign a sound cue to any projectile element (by projectile name + index).

- Reworked UI class overrides so they can be further overridden recursively.

- Made config array X2LootTable.LootTables non-private so that DLC/Mods can make run-time adjustments to it.

- Made some adjustments to FullKit code to move hard-coded abilities into config variables.

- Added an event to the alert when an AWC training project is complete.

- Another attempted fix for GP and non-expiring missions not showing correct time in UIMission_Infil screen.

- Added hook to allow override the usual tactical mission launch process.

- Converted event-type hook for ModifyEarnedSoldierAbilities to X2DLCInfo-type hook to prevent CTDs or other oddness on campaign start.

- Add 'RebelAdded_LW' and 'ResistanceMECAdded_LW' events.

- De-const the evac flare effect paths for easier modder access.

- Units with CharacterTemplates assigned bIsSoldier will no longer be cleaned up. Mod compatibility fix.

- Change the specific tests for the 'Soldier' template for the adviser loading to use the more general Unit.IsASoldier() to allow compatibility with mods that add new soldier types.

Known Issues

- The mod does not work out of the box with Mac or Linux. Some players have reported workarounds to get it mostly working. Feral is working on a patch to XCOM2 to support total conversion mods and custom cutscenes.

- Our custom cutscenes do not have localized audio for non-English players. They have correct subtitles. This is a modding engine limitation.

- Our custom audio snippets in missions do not have localized audio or localized subtitles for non-English players.

- The mod does not support controllers.