oh right on, appreciate the response man. these are great!

@bryan_03_93 The latter, and yes, the same can be said about the conv and beam variants.

and if the latter, can the same be said about your conventional and beam variants?

i'm a little confused here. so do all of these come with all attachments permanently on or do they have support to add and remove the attachments thus changing the appearance depending on what you attach?

@Jess Yes, either using WSR or Template Master. Refer to those mods' pages and guides for more informations.

Is there a way change the stats for these weapons so that they differ from the base game weapons?

@Baerunner Yeah, you can do so via WSR.

Newbie question: I'm currently using the Laser and Coil tier extenders for my game, and I wanna use these just on the Laser tier, and keep Magnetic on its own tier. Would I be able to do that without much hassle? For reference I have the RPG Overhaul on in case that breaks anything.

Well I was planning on hiding the vanilla TLP guns anyway with this mod. Thanks for the clarification

@Hot Wet Nobel Laureates Not exactly. Those mods affect the vanilla TLP weapons, this weapons are additional ones. I can confirm that this mod's cannon's barrels do rotate without those mods.

If I use this mod, will I not need your Vanilla Cannon Animations For TLP Cannons, or Iridar's Spinning Barrels for TLP Magnetic Cannon?

@Veehementia Oh, that makes sense. Thank you.

@Kyrox don't delete the section, just the semicolon (";") before it. If you want to hide a weapon, delete the semicolon before the line of the weapon. In this case, if you delete the semicolons of the section you posted in the comment, you will hide the magnetic tier of the weapons.

So how do you tell WSR to hide the magnetic tier, and beam tier with conventional tier?

Do I just delete this section?

;MAGNETIC TIER

;+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLP_V_LMG_MG
;+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLP_V_Pistol_MG
;+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLP_V_Rifle_MG
;+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLP_V_Shotgun_MG
;+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLP_V_Sniper_MG

@Kyrox that's intended. Read the description, you can hide unwanted tiers by using the WSR file included in the mod. By default, each of this mods gives you three tiers corresponding to the vanilla three tiers with the same skin.

So I have all three of these mods installed. With the Strategy Overhaul Bridge: WOTC TLP 3 Weapons. I started a new campaign, and I have everything unlocked. Beam weapons, Magnetic, all the weapons. From the very start. They all do the same damage, but why am I seeing magnetic and beam weapon skins without researching the tier first? This makes no sense.

@CondiKing They should not indeed. Try to resub, perhaps some data got lost in the way, so to speak.

Are the extended mag attachments supposed to have no texture and be entirely black? I figure not so I'll play around with it until I can figure out what causes it?

@Veehementia : Many thanks friend.

@small loan of a million dollars https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2551110222
despite the name, it covers all 3 mods.

Hii. Anyone know if this works with Prototype Armoury?

I only have these ones https://imgur.com/a/vDKmYX2
They are not described as deprecated

@Pointmort you have both this mod and one of the two deprecated ones linked in the description. Disable one of those two.

Is this a bug related to this mod?
https://imgur.com/a/CUOfEK5

@Valvatorez I don't know what you mean by "dependent on the attachments", but they are most definitely not a single brick, if that's what you're asking.

@Veehementia
Are these all in one piece(unmoddible bricks) or are they dependent on the attachments? Because IMO, the default TLE_shotgun_MG is on the puny side and I'm looking for something beefyer to use with the skin replacer.

@Sniper677 Just pushed an update that should fix the issue. Thanks for the report.

Started using all your 3 '[WOTC] TLP CV/MG/BM Weapons With Visual Attachments REDUX' mods. Fantastic mods IMHO. With this one here (Magnetic Weapons), I found a minor issue. The T2 sniper rifle is not removed from loadout screen after plasma sniper rifle was researched.

Hmm. I must have a mod conflict of sorts then, I'll be right back

@_b1ack0ut Define "spin properly". They should already do so by default.

Is there a change I need to make in the config file to get the barrels to spin properly?

For those wishing to hide the base TLE firearms, you can do so by adding the following lines to the XcomWeaponSkinReplacer.ini of each respective weapon pack.

(Change CV to MG for magnetic, and CV to BM for beam)

+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLE_AssaultRifle_CV
+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLE_Cannon_CV
+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLE_Pistol_CV
+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLE_Shotgun_CV
+WEAPONS_TO_HIDE_KEEP_SCHEMATIC=TLE_SniperRifle_CV

It will make your armory a lot cleaner, and a lot more immersive. And best of all, it even works with the "Infinite TLE weapons" mod, meaning that you'll be able to use the infinite swords without the additional firearm clutter.

So the last couple days ive been looking through your mods and i wanted to ask, if i want all the tlp cannons to always be carried like a cannon and still work what would i have to do and which mods do i need? I know youve made one that works but carries the cannons like rifles until shot and one that does what i want but does not work. So do you have some guide here?

@Veehementia ahh cool thanks for that !

@Skyran Yeah. LWOTC significantly changes the tech tree and my weapons availability is based around vanilla researches. You can still use the conventional variants, use them via WSR to swap a tier of your choice, or use WSR to modify LWOTC tech tree in order to make the weapons appear.

when using this with LWOTC the mag and beam tiers don't show up,
is there a compatibility issue?

Thank you for the guide and the answer :)

@Green Raven WSR has a very, very detailed guide that you can find here , alongside plenty of companion ghost packs for it (some of which made by yours truly). I'm sure you will be able to use it properly. I won't do a workshop version because, bluntly, it would amount to around one WSR line per weapon modified.
Regarding your other request (the shoulder fired Cannons), I won't do it. I am currently on hiatus on XCOM 2 Modding and, even if I wasn't, I don't take requests, especially ones who don't really interest me.
Stay safe and healthy too, my friend.

I did in fact try the WSR, but I cant get seem to get it to work. Ini files don't like me; I murdered many of thier brethren when trying to adjust the original Long War for EU, and the survivors spread the word. I'll try typing something like "use weapon: coilgun", and then look up to find that the actual words written on the document are "we are coming for you". I was hoping you could create a workshop version, if you have the time. Either way, thanks for answering and thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

@Green Raven It's not a pipe dream. Weapon Skin Replacer will allow you to do all that easily.

Ooh! With Mag Pistol on tier 2 but Coil Pistols on tier 3. OK, I'll stop now. Thanks for listening.

Actually, this is a pipe dream, but I figure it cant hurt to ask: is there any chance to create a combined Laser/Mag tier and a Plasma/Coil tier? Rifles and Shotguns use the energy variants, Cannons and Snipers use the physical stuff. But... the skin for the Cannon would be the Mag Rifle / Coil Rifle, so that Grenadiers retain thier look of carrying powerful heavy weaponry without looking comically overburdened. Stay safe and healthy!

Can I make a request? This should be right up your alley... could you make a mod that makes Grenadiers fire their base weapons (i.e. Mag Cannon) from the shoulder, the way they they fire the LMG?

@Veehementia is there any chance you could make a similar mod but for the resistance factions and SPARK's, or if you know of another mod that does those things

@Veehementia Thank you, worked like a charm

@Librarian Moarfistin Latest update should have fixed the issue. Do let me know if otherwise.

@Librarian Moarfistin Thanks for the report, I'll investigate.

This is how they are set up in the config file for WSR (for all three tiers, but only copied the conventional overwrite):

+WEAPON_REPLACEMENT=(ACCEPTOR_TEMPLATE=AssaultRifle_CV, DONOR_TEMPLATE=TLP_V_2_AssaultRifle_CV, HIDE_ACCEPTOR_ATTACHMENTS=true, HIDE_DONOR_TEMPLATE=True, COPY_DONOR_ATTACHMENTS=True)
+WEAPON_REPLACEMENT=(ACCEPTOR_TEMPLATE=SniperRifle_CV, DONOR_TEMPLATE=TLP_V_2_SniperRifle_CV, HIDE_ACCEPTOR_ATTACHMENTS=true, HIDE_DONOR_TEMPLATE=True, COPY_DONOR_ATTACHMENTS=True)

I have a slight issue, the expanded magazine on assault rifles and stock on sniper rifles appear black (untextured). I use this mod with Iridars weapon skin replacer.

@Everyone UPDATE IS OUT:

- Added compatibility with [WOTC] Weapon and Item Overhaul (BETA) . FOR IT TO WORK, YOU NEED TO BE ALSO SUBBED TO MY [WOTC] Visual Attachments For Shiremct's Overhaul mod, or else Bipods and Reflex Sights won't work.