@JeffbotClassic.TTV
Not if I'm remembering my last play through with it correctly.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesnt warlock have a mind control ability? Did this mod disable that?

This mod makes the warlock incredibly broken by letting him bumrush you and disable one soldier guaranteed every turn while you're fighting pods with scorch and mind control, when you combine that with 3hp regen and reaction shots it's just not fair to fight

This is a brilliant fix that makes the Hunter and Warlock's AI not exploitable anymore. It feels much better how they would move towards and pressure your soldiers by fighting directly. No longer are you just impeded with small setbacks, but actually needing to hold the Chosen back at the same time while going for the objective.

Just finished a campaign with about 280 mods, this one included, and had no major issues! Thanks for putting this up, definitely upped the pace of my missions a bit. (which was a very welcome change)

Unless A Better Chosen added ChosenActivated trees, it should still be, yes.
Warlock advances a bit slower with A Better Chosen because he has more to do.

Is still fully compatible with "A better Chosen"?

ICAI doesn't edit the ChosenWarlock::ChosenActivated tree, so with just ICAI and Aggressive Chosen the Warlock should advance. It sounds like there's something else in your modlist messing with his ChosenActivated tree.

Do I have to edit anything in the warlock's a.i to make this work with ICAI? I had a retaliation mission where he stood there and did nothing the entire time except summon zombies, I had several soldiers in his line of sight and hit him with a grenade twice and he just ignored us. I have several chosen related mods installed but the only two which affect the a.i are this and ICAI.

This and Realistic Chosen damage is utterly brutal. The chosen are the feared predators they are supposed to be.

Great stuff.

This is really cool mod, chosen are pretty smart too, they will arrive midway in fight bringing intensity up

It should be fine. It's just ini edits.

This works mid-campaign right?

I hate the Warlock's vanilla behaviour, he just stands on the other side of the map and spams Spectral Zombies. Gonna try this mod out right away.

Not with an AI mod, no.

Request: could you make it so that the switch from activated to engaged is done instead when there are at most X remaining pods in the map, where X is configurable throu* mod settings manager?

Make sure you only delete the ChosenSniper::ChosenActivated bits. If you delete the ChosenSniper::ChosenEngaged bits, you'll undo that mod's AI changes to the Hunter.

so basically almost the entirety of the hunter's script in that other mod. gotcha

Then yes, you delete all the + and - lines for ChosenSniper::ChosenActivated for one of the two mods.

yeah

Are you talking about making it compatible with Improved Chosen AI?

ok so.. what should i delete for the chosen hunter? all of those behaviors with + and -?

I now have a small panic attack when the Hunter shows up. Thank you for this wonderful mod.

If New Chosen Traits doesn't make any AI edits, it should be.

Is the compatible with New Chosen Traits?

It works. Wow. The Sniper is no joke now. I always thought he seemed like the easy one because his tracking shot is so easily avoided.

If you're not installing mid-tactical, it should be. It's only config edits.

Heyy is it save game compatible? I'm a bunch of hours into a campaign and just encountered the Warlord Chosen...he is pretty lame in a 1v8 lol...

There'll be a -Behaviours for the original behaviour in both mods. I'd delete the full set of changes, both - and +, from one of the mods.

+Behaviors=(BehaviorName=MoveInIfLastUnitHunter, NodeType=Sequence, Child[0]=IsLastAIUnit, Child[1]=OverwatchIfLastAction)
+Behaviors=(BehaviorName=OverwatchIfLastAction, NodeType=Sequence, Child[0]=IsLastActionPoint, Child[1]=TryOverwatch)

+Behaviors=(BehaviorName=TryGrappleMoveForDefense, NodeType=Sequence, Child[0]=IsAbilityAvailable-HunterGrapple, Child[1]=FindDefensiveGrappleDestination, Child[2]=SelectAbility-HunterGrapple)
+Behaviors=(BehaviorName=FindDefensiveGrappleDestination, NodeType=Sequence, Child[0]=ResetDestinationSearch, Child[1]=RestrictToAbilityRange-HunterGrapple, Child[2]=RestrictToEnemyLoS, Child[3]=RestrictToUnflanked, Child[4]=OverrideIdealRange-23, Child[5]=FindRestrictedDestination-MWP_GrappleDefense)
+Behaviors=(BehaviorName=OverrideIdealRange-23, NodeType=Action, Param[0]=23)

And I'm assuming the -Behaviors should be left as is because we do want the old AI removed.

This is everything listed in the ChosenActivated list before it gets to the ChosenEngaged list.

+Behaviors=(BehaviorName=SelectHunterMovement, NodeType=Selector, Child[0]=TryGrapple, Child[1]=HuntEnemyWithCover, Child[2]=HuntEnemyUnsafe)
+Behaviors=(BehaviorName="ChosenSniper::ChosenActivated", NodeType=Selector, \\
Child[0]=EngagedSniperBranch, \\
Child[1]=MoveInIfLastUnit, \\
Child[2]=TryTrackingShotIfFirstAction, \\
Child[3]=TryGrappleIfJustShot, \\
Child[4]=TryMoveForTrackingShot, \\
Child[5]=TryTrackingShotMark, \\
Child[6]=TryTrackingShotMove, \\
Child[7]=MoveDefensive)

There should be a +Behaviours too. The -Behaviours removes the vanilla behaviour, the +Behaviours adds the new behaviour.

for the compatability with ICAI, is it only these lines that need to be removed or do I need to delete anything else?

-Behaviors=(BehaviorName="ChosenSniper::ChosenActivated", NodeType=Selector, \\
Child[0]=MoveInIfLastUnit, \\
Child[1]=EngagedSniperBranch, \\
Child[2]=TryTrackingShotIfFirstAction, \\
Child[3]=TryGrappleIfJustShot, \\
Child[4]=TryMoveForTrackingShot, \\
Child[5]=TryTrackingShotMark, \\
Child[6]=TryTrackingShotMove, \\
Child[7]=SkipMove)

@Lago and Dragon32 thanks

In that case I believe they'll work together fine.

@Lago:
DerBK's mod doesn't affect these three vanilla game behaviours:
ChosenWarlock::ChosenActivated
ChosenSniper::ChosenActivated
ChosenMoveTowardDazed

If DerBK's one doesn't edit the Activated state (when the first track plays before you engage them) then I reckon they're compatible.

@DujeBurgur:
Not confirmed but DerBK believes they're compatible.

will this work with A better A.I: chosen tweaks?

*Sub Sonic Grenade and +A Better Everything. I just woke up :o

GUA really plays 10 man squad, without Beta Strike, every enemy mod (A Better Everything), random pod spawning, increased pods, dynamic pod activation and this mod? That's how I play XCOM :D

I'm not using the Avenger's Chosen, because it's hard enough for me without and believe me, leaving 5 or more enemies can easy kill one soldiers! I don't need a Chosen to make it a 10 man squad wipe ;P
I have over 50 GAMEPLAY mods and the mods don't conflict, most are just small tweaks or small things like the new super sonic grenade. I'm surprised how it still runs without crashing!

I'm not surprised if he was up against a 10 man squad. You'd probably be better off with ADVENT Avenger's Chosen mod if you're balancing for 10 man squads.

The only chosen this works against is the Hunter. He spawned on a small map, when I had my team of 10 on overwatch. He got killed from the overwatch, in one turn.

True. :)

It's XCOM, everything is possible :P

Can't see why it wouldn't.

It should work with the Chosen Dialogue Tweaks mod, right?

Edits the following templates
- NarrativeCondition_IsAbilityRapidFire
- NarrativeCondition_IsAbilityTargetHighRankSoldier
- NarrativeCondition_IsEventSourcePsiOperative
- NarrativeCondition_IsAbilityTargetPsiOperative

Glad to hear it's working well for you. :)

This is a great mod, it made both the hunter and warlock an actual challenge as opposed to target practice- seriously i nearly lost a mission as a result

This makes fighting the Warlock a lot easier. Normally that coward would just camp at the opposite end of the map, spawning endless waves of psi zombies at you. Now he actually fights fair.