Do the cooldowns and ability charges affect modded classes?

How do I adjust how many bonus skills I get? I'm having all of the skill slots filled even when I disable the mod.

Yeah, it's always driven me nuts that XCOM's new recruits, even the ones whose backstories suggest they're absolute badasses who should, by rights, be able to take on whole squads by themselves, shoot like drunken idiots who've never held a gun before and piss themselves in terror the first time they get shot at.

I do like the Lite Mod. It gives you better ability to do Commander and such without being uber lucky and going through soldiers like crazy. I feel like Xcom would at least make sure their rookies could Aim and such.

Its a good middle ground.

It should not auto select them and in the lite version you do get a bit more AP per level but not so much that you can have everything. One of the things you can tweak is look at the SoldierSkills and XpData ini files. You should be able to reduce the amount of starting AP and per rank AP on a new game.
I need to crack open this set of mods at the moment due to folks reporting that they are not loading at all. I'll take a glance at the AP and skill selection changes I make to see if I could be causing that.

Soo... is it normal that my squaddies instantly learn all the new perks of the unlocked level without me even clicking them? They litterally learn all the trees on level up.

I've been trying to figure out which of my mods is causing this as I vaguely remember having to at least click the perks first, right? Also, there shouldn't even be enough AP for a squaddie to just learn all 3 paths instantly, right?

It's kinda annoying cz it's taking away the fun of the RPG decision-making. Tips, any1? :O

Thanks Pireotis for the follow up. I have in the past created versions of my mods to support mods, namely the Long War mods. If I get into RPGO I'll look to see if I can do something there.

Hi Steve. I have tried it myself and all I can say is that all A Better series does not break RPGO indeed. However most of the buffs are not applied unfortunately. No problem. I unsubscribed RPGO for the moment since I now play some heavy Advent upgrade mods and need the extra power.

Thanks for the help.

I had not heard of RPGO until I read these comments. Apparently I have been living in a cave. Looks impressive. My mods overwrite the game's default values for the weapons, soldiers, base, etc. Most often they will work with other mod's however my mods can't buff up unique classes or weapons created in another mod. That said you can look at the files I have listed in the details above and see how I modify these things (if you feel like digging into the text files). Once you see how I change an attribute you can always make similar changes to the soldier classes or items that may be offered in another mod.

The short answer is that my mods should not break another mod or your game but when added with another mod my mods can be overridden by another.

I'll have to check out RPGO for the unique classes and see if I see any conflicts.

Does this work with RPGO?

*RPGO I mean :)

Hi Steve, I am about to start a new campaign and wondering if it is compatible with RDGO. Any feedback? Thanks for the mod!

I don't know if it is possible to make skills available but what you can do is set how many points the player starts with and then the cost of each skill. This means you can then afford to buy all skills as soon as they are available.

I'm trying to figure out how to adjust how many bonus skills are available. But I'm having trouble, Could I get a hand?

You can but may not see some of the buffs on your existing soldiers as their stats are baked into your save files. It will buff the abilities that they have and they will jump a few levels as the xp latter in my mod is lower than vanila.

can i activate this mid-campaign?

In the character stats file (path in details above) you can tweak the "mobility" setting for soldiers another option is to use the "Lite" version of this mod.

How do I change the mobility modifyer? My characters are crossing the entire map in two turns.

Alright, thanks.

Yep, this mod adjusts it. in the XComGameData_CharacterStats.ini (full path above in the details)
Under the section:

[Soldier X2CharacterTemplate]
CharacterBaseStats[eStat_Will]=70

The original value is 40. Then understand you need to change the overides for game difficulty level

[Soldier_Diff_0 X2CharacterTemplate]
CharacterBaseStats[eStat_HP] = 6
CharacterBaseStats[eStat_Will] = 130

Orginal value was 50.

Does anyone know how I'd go about changing the .ini files so soldiers have a base Will of 50?

I could really use the help.

Sorry for the late response. characters that don't use the base soldier template that I modify will not be buffed in anyway.

How might this interact with mods that add different soldiers like playable aliens?

You could be right. that or the buffed mobility allows you to get to it in fewer turns than the game expects. I'm not sure of a fix other than to scale back vision and mobility by hand editing the ini files or not using my mod.

So i encountered a bug that i most likely think comes from this mod,
Sometimes my soldiers would walk close to the objective and you can see the objective yourself, But the soldier does not acknowledge the objective.
For example: When i as the player see the psionic gate, the game does not recognise that it has been spotted and would therefor not trigger the cutscene to progress and update the objective.
This goes for Blacksite mission, All dlc missions, and the chosen's sarcophag in the chosen lair.
My guess is that this is because of the buffed vision of the soldier from this mod.

I was at first as at the time of my updating the mod I had not played enough of the WOTC to get to Elena and Mox. I did however still guess that they were xcom playable and did buff them. I'm glad I guessed right otherwise shortly after getting Elena I would have been pushing out an update to the mod. Thanks though for helping with the clarification. The devs don't comment the configs as much as I wished they did and it isn't clear what are playable and enemy characters. ...and now with WOTC you can get Advent soldiers on your team and they cary the very same stats as the enemy Advent soldiers because they use the same base class template. I can't buff those at all which makes getting them as friendlies late in the game make them a nuiscance due to their lack of mobility and health. (I always had to keep them at the back for fear of getting them hit or killed and messing with my chances for Flawless rating.)

@Scuba Steve I noticed that you were confused on the entries labled LostAndAbandonedElena and LostAndAbandonedMox. They refer to the characters Elena and Mox. They are the Reaper and Skirmisher units respectively that you get if you decide to activate the Lost and Abandoned story mission.

cool, thx

Updated full version of A Better Rookie and have made the same additions with lesser buffs to the LITE version as well.

* Added updates to the Xcom Turrets.

* buffed soldier bond radius for benefits with out having to be as close.

* reduced ability point cost for purchasing skills.

* reduced the fatigue and negative effect impacts and days out of service.

sorry to hear about that trouble... this is the first I have heard of that issue. You might try dumping your config cache or also unsubscribing to my mods -> run the launcher -> enter the game then exit. Go back subscribe to my mods and then -> run the launcher -> check my mods -> enter the game. I've noticed that sometimes my freshly subscribed to mods don't show up in the first run of the launcher after subscription. It seems like entering and exiting and starting the launcher again will bring them up as they got downloaded in that time.

I am trying to play this mod but it wont show up in my mods list :((((( all the other a better mods show up, but not the ones for WOTC

the new classes in WOTC are getting buffed. I changed those by hand along with revisiting the buffs for all the base game classes.

So the new classes will also be buffed by these, mods, right?

what is happening is the LW2 mods are getting applied and then the WOTC DLC and then my new mods. As I replace most of everything in LW2 mod version none of it shows... my guess anyways... but hey let's count as a perk that you don't have to keep turning them off and on as you switch back and forth between LW2 on legacy and WOTC.

here is an update, have found that the LW2 Lite Mods work along side the new WOTC Lite mods. Apparently i loaded both when i started my new game the other day. So, uhm bonus i guess!

that is odd for sure. I am myself a Mod'aholic and i had almost made the error deselecting some mods and selecting others when loading as I was testing things.. I've seen that prompt but not for the LW2 mods.

small hiccup, but it may be on my end. i was playing on my desktop and saved my game, but then later i switched to my Surface to do some mobile gaming. When i went to load the file it said that i needed the Better lite mods for LW2 to use that save file. I loaded it anyway and there were some differences. Just a small issue, but like i said it may be that i loaded the wrong set of mods, and i use quite a large amount of mods.

Thanks Force! You guys are way too good to me. Let me know if you find any hiccups .

Scuba Steve, YOU ROCK!!! Was waiting on these mods! Great Stuff man!

good shit man, keep it up

Woohoo! Thanks for the great work :D

WOTC Compatible versions of my A Better' MODS have been released!!!

A lot of additions were made by WOTC that made upgrading a few of these a bit more tedius.. I'm looking at You, A Better Arsenal!

Thank you all for your patience. In the interest of getting these out ASAP I didn't get to do the full amount of play testing that I would like. Please send me your feedback. (please refrain from commenting that these mods are too OP as that is their intent. That said, if I didn't dile back the LITE versions enough then pass those notes along.)

--- A special thanks to reCLUsive7 for sponsoring this work.

Links to new mods:

+ A Better Start for WOTC | A Better Start for WOTC(LITE)

+ A Better Rookie for WOTC | A Better Rookie for WOTC(LITE)

+ A Better Arsenal for WOTC | A Better Arsenal for WOTC(LITE)