Can you research their armor? And it would be awesome if you could recruit them.

can you make it maybe so that you can also recrut one

@我是啊钧
DO you have Plasma Weapons research? That's needed I think

why there is no corpse i can do research??? i just kill the Viper and it shows i have a corpse. but there is no research that i can do about Beam Gatling Rifle or other Viper guns

For those who can't get regular viper corses due to these guys spawning in, I recommend doing the Alien Nest mission, tons of free corpses

The mod's not changed in ~4.5 years, try Steam's Verify Files function

@Marcus I get the same issue, no idea why, it just started happening

This still appears in my game, but dose not show up, only an image icon box instead. It use to be ok, but not now. Anyone else having this problem? or fixes for it?

Anyboby knows if this work with long war of the chosen?

After reading the bug reports, I guess I have too many enemy creatures spawning from a few other mods causing the issue. I have eight different enemy types that will spawn resulting in a low chance of regular vipers spawning...Of well, more fun this way will use console if I need to.

Nice mod, however there is an issue. They appear too soon before I had a chance to research regular viper to get battlefield medicine. Had to add a corpse from the console so I could research it.. thanks.

would be awesome if you could recruite these

i really love this enemy, from Visuals to skill, an absolute prime Mod, just thx again.

This is just me and my wishful thinking. But I would really love to have this as a playable character. Even just a single unique character.

@AlShegardy92
The game uses the compiled scripts (.u) not the uncompiled ones (.uc), you'd need the SDK to make changes that worked.

so i got a weird one.

i want to use the vorpal blade as a combat knife "from LW2 secondary items".

but when i go to the SRC file and change the xcom vorpal blade weapont cat = combatknife.
it is still a sword and cant be equiped by my knife weilders. only sword weilders.

so how can i change it from sword to knife. so that knife abilities apply to it as well

For some reason the weapons aren't showing up when I craft them

@Swidzernaiv you'd need psionics ex machina for that, and psi overhaul disables the old psi class for an xcom eu/ew style psi in which any class can roll a psi gift in which they can be trained to also use psi skills

@Alyfox any class that weilds a sword can use the vorpal blade, it's categorized as a sword

Always liked this enemy, but one thing irks me: if this viper is so heavily armored, why it has insane dodge still? This design makes no sense.

Question for the mod authors: I was poking through the configs a bit to sate some curiosity, and while I see a weapon category defined for the psi gatling rifle, I dont see one for the vorpal blade. I assume I am missing something here - either it was removed, or its not defined the same way? Mostly was seeking out that info so I can tweak what classes can wield what :)

@Beach Head B82 such a mod already exists. https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850357200&searchtext=viper

I wonder if someone could add this mods armor to the viper cosmetic options, Torque would look awesome in this gear, side note they're giving me Daedric armor vibe and i love it

is the psi viper immune to mind control? It seems to never success?

This mod doesn't seem to be compatible with psi overhaul (https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2134513735) , as Vorpal Gatling Rifle cannot be given to any class with psionic ability. In fact, Psi Op has disappeard so it cannot be equiped.

Doesnt seem to work with LWOTC fyi

One of my favourite enemy mods! Does it work with LWotC?

@Key Ring
This isn't my mod. Adjust SpawnWeight values in XComEncounterLists.ini, I tend to set mod-added enemies' values to 80% of the original

@Dragon32 Thanks for this! Love the mod but these things completely phase out regular vipers by the late game and viper corpses are so hard to find.

@zin
I've set these up to drop normal Viper corpses so there's no autopsy and no guns.

CorpseViper in XComGameCore.ini

Any way to disable the guns you unlock?

Can we just have these as cosmetics only?

Regular vipers still spawn, but any given mission has a limited number of enemies at mission start, so each modded enemy can result in less regular ones on a mission.

Does this replace the base game vipers?

@Gandair tysm, been trying to figure this out for a while.

If you are using this with Musashis RPG Overhaul and want to equip the psi gatling rifle from the armored psi viper corpses to a character you will need to open the XComClassData.ini file and add the following text to the file on new lines.

[UniversalSoldier X2SoldierClassTemplate]

AllowedWeapons=(SlotType=eInvSlot_PrimaryWeapon, WeaponType="psigatlingrifle")

As much as I love this mod (seriously, great job) I forced to turn it off in my mod list, same issue as @ironboy32 - Viper on the mission just missing, although it targetable (and displays "image" icone) and kills pod's AI, entry in UFO bestiary exists, but same problem - no model. Same no idea thats the reason, but if I make a guess it could be do something with increase pod size (last time I meet Armored Viper - it was part of 5 units group) or just in general game's inability to load it with other mods (320 mods ain't a joke). Again, fricking great mod, shame I cant use

No range bonuces for rifles. How to fix?

Hi Dragon32, good call, "Iridar's Weapon Skin Replacer" did the trick.

Thank you Dragon32 for your quick response!! Will take your advice.

@fgbrooks
Have a look at Iridar's mods, maybe "Iridar's Weapon Skin Replacer" or one of his other ones should be able to alter that weapon's slots.

If you're making changes to the script files without rebuilding the mod with the SDK that won't have any effect

I would like to modify the Gatling Rifles to have an extra upgrade slot. In my game, I have 3-slot Gatling rifles, and I would like to have a 4th slot. I tried adding appropriate comments to the configs and the script files, but no luck. Any suggestions on where to specifically make the appropriate changes?

@ironboy32
Not seeing that here, try unsubscribing and resubscribing first. Also, clear your user configs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/wiki/mod_troubleshooting

I think i've found either a mod error or conflict, when armored vipers spawn they don't show up properly or act at all on alien turns, and their targeting icon is just a .img glitched out image. not sure what is causing it though

Does this work mid-Campaign?

I want to say that these two armored vipers are as big a pain in the ass as an Andromedan. And starting in mid-game they will appear more often. Especially if you play Commander mode or higher; I swear to Bob every other reinforcement pod is 2 Armored Sneks and a Psi Snek. I'm glad to see heavy MECs in reinforcements now. Excellent alien mod, 5/5 stars, would fight them again.

I love this mod, but is there a way to remove the corpse requirement to build the weapons? These things aren't that common even in late game.

@Thobio
Increase SpawnWeight in XComEncounterLists.ini to give them more weighting when the game's creating pods.

There probably isn't a way to tweak their spawn rate, right? I'm literally never getting any normal vipers, and most missions have these armored variants.

Nope.