For those with mods: Tweak is not compatible with the Long War.
The timer settings are already in it.

shaska, thank you very much for posting a reply here I appreciate it. when I play Xcom 2 I'll load in the mod that triggers timer at time of stealth being broken. If I find I need more turns, I will try your mod in conjunction to give myself 2 and 4 more turns respectively. Hopefully they can go together, if not I'll just use yours since it will probably help a little more :). Also I am going by advice of internet and not playing WOTC until after I play the vanilla game first. I enjoyed xcom 1 about 7 years ago and looking forward to this before jagged alliance 3!

To my knowledge there haven't been any patches to the game that breaks the mods. When the mod isn't working for people, the issue is usually that they forgot to turn on the mod in the launcher. You can always give the original mod a try and see if it works, but otherwise I'd recommend the mod that doesn't start the timer till stealth is broken.

Giggles made me giggle. Also never played xcom2 yet and not playing with WOTC first time, so here is my question: Was looking at the mod from shaska that removes timer completely from vanilla but comments suggest it does not work now. Is there an alternative that works, or better yet does not disable timer completely but adds a few turns like this one (2 and 4 respectively)?

Thanks for the help.

Pretty cool mod, I play with larger pods and harder enemies and the default time isn't balanced for that. Thanks.

@BottomScorer Just stfu, christ. Every damn mod. As if your spam wasn't bad enough, "War of the Chosen" is awful and WotC is the most used and proper tag,

One Steam tag should be sufficient!

War of the Chosen

NOT war of the chosen!
NOT WotC!

thanks for this i love the game but i'm starting to get sick of the tight ass timers
which are fun sometimes but when every mission is so tight it feels like a big chore
the game is punishing enough already thank you very much

How to i modify this to +2 turns across the board, instead of 4. I think 4 is just a little too much time.

There is a line in this mod don't have "="
[SecureUFO]
BaseTimerLength_Rookie=8
BaseTimerLength_Veteran=8
BaseTimerLength_Commander7
BaseTimerLength_Legend=6

Seems to be working fine for me. 16 turns for extract VIP on legendary, was 12 by default I believe. Might not have been working when I previously tried it, before I switched to the alternative mod launcher.

@Morgan
It's just .ini changes; have you tried the basics?
https://www.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/wiki/mod_troubleshooting

I'm not sure this mod still works.

The timer mod no longer seems to work with the most recent updates.

Also adding a simple thank you. I activated a mod that adds enemy types (sounds cool, right?), except said mod added rather than replaced pods. Even playing overly aggressive I barely made it with everyone alive thanks to this mod. Very nice to have a simple .ini edit for this setting, as it makes other mods playable. If anyone's wondering:
steam>steamapps>workshop>content>268500>112547.. for the text file

omg @ Shaska thank you i wanted the timer still be there but way longer

What would be really cool is if it could be configureable not just based on difficulty but by how far into the game you are. So at different force levels you would have less or more time. So for example around force level 1 you would have 2-3 turns added and maybe force level 11 1 turn added or even 1 turn subtracted

@Fonzosh:
Probably not needed as it's just a .ini change

Will this be uppdated with the release of the Tactical legacy pack?

@Shaska From what I read on reddit, if you set your game to opt out of beta it should download just the 'modbuddy' portion of the editor, instead of the entire SDK. It is much much smaller from my understanding. Hope that helps.

That could possibly work, I'll have to look into it.

@Shaska
Heh. For one character.

As this is just a change to an .ini, would using the Alternative Mod Uploader be possible?

Good catch, surprised I missed it for so long.
Unfortunately I'll have to download about 91 GB to fix it, so I'll probably be dragging my feet a bit on that.

Hey Shaska, thanks for the mod. I spotted a typo though:
[SecureUFO]
BaseTimerLength_Commander7
Should be:
BaseTimerLength_Commander=7

Thanks!

@jpinard
It should, yes, though it won't change the timer of the current mission if you're on one.

Will this work if I enable it with a campaign already in progress?

Gotcha. Thank you @Shaska

One will likely overwrite the other, though I'm not sure which.
Other than that, I doubt there'd really be any issues, but you probably are better off just picking either the mod or the double time limit option.

Will this have issues if the time limit is doubled via the advanced options?

Should increase the turn limits by 2-4 as normal.

Hi :) How does this affect a campaign with beta strike on?

By the way. Your mod seems perfect this way, story missions must not get altered and 2-3 turns more are what I was looking for to still have the "oh my god I must hurry" but still use some tactics instead of running to death if the luck turns around (when everything is fine and perfect of course you can run, but that must not be the common mission nor should I feel to re-load each time events are not perfect, which usually means events are funnier when not perfect).

WOTC doubles the value, which is exagerated, it's like "disable timers". You don't feel timers at all with doubled values.

We just need a couple of turns more for some tactics or to stop rushing-only to death if something "strange" (and funny) happens, like a boss spawning in a timed mission or an unlucky turn of events. Instead of reloading a couple turns more give you the possibility to use your brain to balance the lack of luck.

But doesnt WOTC already include this as an advanced new game option?

Thank you so much for this I am so tired of getting 7 turn timers with 3-4 pods in a datatap mission

Thanks a lot

@Doombunny That sounds like the psionic transmitter mission, which has a normally low base timer, but can be increased by destroying the 2 hp nodes along the way.

You'll have to be a bit more specific.
Which mission type was i?
What difficulty are you playing on?

Does not appear to be working in WOTC - was just on a mission with a 6 turn limit with an objective too far to reach while running, let alone fighting. Status?

Thanks for updating this for WOTC Shaska!

Alright. Thanks for quick reply. Shows your mod is needed.

Thank you. / Спасибо.

Yeah, the story missions weren't altered.
It should work for the rest of them though.

Not working for me in WotC. Second mission in (from Tutorial start) and mission timer is merely 8.

isn't there now already a setting for that in WotC ? I've read here and there that one can chose to double the timers

@BlueRaja
Sounds like a good idea. I'll see if I can't figure out how to do that.

Thankyouthankyouthankyou. Forgot how ridonculous Xcom 2 was without this. 3 pods of 2 Faceless and a Stunlancer and 6 turns to get to the crate? Jake, I know "that's Xcom baby!" and all, but give a brother a break!

It would be great if this mod supported Mod Config Menu, so that the turns added were configurable. It would also be great if this mod supported holding the timers until concealment is lost, like True Concealment used to (that should be easy, since it's now a config option: just set EngageTimerWhenConcealmentLost and EngageTimerAtMissionStart)

indeed.