Yeah, it is, indeed, very... hard

I suspect it would work with lwotc but it wouldn't be balanced for it

LWOTC Compatible?

I didn't add sitreps because I didn't really feel like the divisions offered enough diversity to really make it worth it. I tried to add them to other relevant sitreps (like greens showing up along side bio units if you have that mod)

With the help of using another mod you can deactivate specific enemies of this mod. You would need encounter list cleaner mod to prevent crashing though

I honestly wish the different divisions were spawned by sitreps, rather than on an individual basis. The MECs are nice, though. Playing this with ABA results in barely seeing the Trooper variants that mod adds, at least in my general experience.

Any items besides the shield vest?

It adds a bunch of new enemies to advent's ranks.

I don't understand what exactly this mod does.

I didn't want to make it a required dependency but the visual replacer should work. Or you could edit the unit loadouts to give them more specific weapons.

Quite easily / they allready use them iirc if you use Iridars visual replacer mod

would it be possible to give them Iridar's Advent arsenal weapons?

the "fix" creates new grenades for purifiers. You could replace the loadouts of Spectrum enemies i guess, but that would be something to do for yourself. Because if the Mod Author would do it this would require the Grenade Fix to use this mod. And honestly the fixed purifier grenades are a joke imo. But yeah changing the loadouts is your best approach or alternatively reduce the damage of xcoms flame grenades

Nope that fix mod fixes the ones carried by purifiers so they wouldn't be op and kill your soldiers instantly. Hmm, if these dudes grenades are xcom's grenades then we can't alter the dmg values I guess.

I believe the incendiary grenades they are carrying are the same ones xcom gets. If the fix replaces the xcom ones with new ones this won't take that into account.

Incendiary grenade fix doesn't have an effect on this one, at start these fire dudes carrying incendiary grenades does 4-5 dmg with lotta burn dmg I think. Is it possible to make that mod work for this one or can change dmg values in this mod? I tried looking for their grenades dmg values but you did so much work (thanks for effort btw you are awesome) I couldn't find it all that mess xD

That would be great if you could integrate it into this mod. Still great mod.

There is not. I guess you could remove them from the vanilla encounter lists but that could be a bit of work.

Is there an option to disable regular troopers and captains and make only these troopers and captains appear?

The psi trooper's action reduces a random stat by a small amount. It could hit defense, aim, mobility, and dodge I think.

have you checked your soldier with f1 after the move? iirc it has no animation but reduces defense

Advent Psi trooper is doing his psi move and trhrows his psi energie at xcom soldiers. but... nothing happens. no psi effect, no stat change of the xcom. it looks like a broken move. What should happen when he is doing the psi ? never seen it

I don't play with lwotc so I couldn't say for sure. Best guess is that it will work but I don't know how well it would integrate.

does this work with lwotc?

Probably makes more sense not to have them, though, so I'll remove them for whenever I put up the next version.

indeed it is ... i never realized that. strange

I put them there because AdvTrooperM1 is included in the original leader list. I'm not sure if that was intentional as it doesn't have the later versions of the trooper.

I think you don't want the normal troopers as Leaders in the Advent Field Training Sitrep

Seems like some weird disconnects have happened in the package files and will result in some missing models/textures. I should have it up tomorrow.

Thank you for the quick update for the shaders, seems all good now :)

Viper Huntress and Toxic Troopers, all black. I think shaders broke on your last update?

Looks like their shredder gun was configured as a pistol so it automatically got 99 shots instead of the 1 it should normally have.

are the shredders supposed to be able to use there shred storm cannon on every turn they take

I'll pay more attention to the Snipers. Couple thoughts: what about adding Phase Walk to their perks? Could be a early Perk, if they're not in good position. They always jump higher. But then they can only do a non-crit snapshot, or Overwatch for second action. They get the typical aim boosts if they stay in place. Two, Kinetic rescue - maybe, at higher tiers, they can pull an advent unit from Danger? They'd be annoying but bada$$. I have no idea how difficult that would be - just ideas.

@Stukov81-T.TV I see how that's misconfiged but I'm not actually confident any of them are using their custom timed loot tables instead of the default ones. I'll have to check on that.

@jahsinha They do spawn their shields, yeah. I tried to balance it by them only doing themselves and it takes an action so they won't be as offensive as often. I hadn't considered status effects changing their behavior.
Psi snipers should have a couple of psi attacks that are done using the rifle. At first they have one that will disable a unit's weapon and later they will gain one that let's them inflict panic.

Aegis Troopers. What's the intended Counter on them spamming Shields - Disorient, flames, poison, nothing seems to stop them using that ability. And then each, if in a Pod, will do it. Bluescreen rounds? I'm trying to stay away from that Meta but Ok. I think if you disorient them, maybe they Hunker down instead or something? Not a necessary change but just seems off that they'll spam regardless of any game condition. Maybe one of Advent Avenger's mods is actually causing this behavior?

Either way, this mod remains top notch man ( probably my favorite enemy mod). Only the Psi-Snipers do I not see a gameplay difference or a specific tactic they're using - no Psi attacks or anything. Just sniping. What's your next step there?

I think there is a little mistake in the loottables. The Psi Units all get PyroTimedLoot

Man Toxic and flame troopers can be brutal in early campaign. Even if your soldier survives the first hit, many times they end up with 1hp and then burn to death my next turn. Honestly kind of love it. The flame grenades though.. that can be frustrating

I've updated the AI for all units to use the base game's shoot or reload function instead of the one here that lets them also suppress or hunker. None should hit the suppressing logic now.

There is a bug in the AI system I've encountered while working on this, but it never caused a crash: every so often it would decide that it doesn't recognize nodes that are defined below the calling reference. That would be where I might start but it doesn't help that I'm not seeing the same behavior.

I'll do some testing and see what specific troopers I can find are causing it. With the regular trooper it might have been something else in the pod off-screen or in the fog, or the start of the next unit in the pods turn.

As to the logs, it spits some stuff out early on about the suppression score but the level loads fine. It then spouts a dozen or so None: Warning- Child node ScoreSuppressingEnemy_Supp_SE instances after some stuff from the Jetpacks mod before crashing.

It's not Jetpacks though because the crash replicates with or without that mod.

Regular Advent Troopers? I don't touch those. Toxic Troopers use Advent Trooper AI routines. Psi Troopers have their own so would hit those but I haven't encountered any issues. From my experience broken AI routines shouldn't crash the game, it should just complain in the logs. If there's an issue with compatibility with another mod I'd need to know what mod it is to know what to look for.

It's not just the Toxics, I've noticed it with standard and Psi troopers as well. It can also occur during their reaction on reveal if you've got mods that allow actions other than scatter.

I can confirm the fix of commenting out those lines working too.

I'm not sure if those could be connected. Toxic Troopers don't have their own AI routines and just reuse the basic Trooper one, so that suppression node would never get hit for them.

Thanks for your hard work, I've been loving the added enemies. I just wanted to let you know that you might want to double check the enemy's ability to Suppress. It's been fine with the Riot and Psi units, but the moment a Toxic Trooper is on the field the game crashes on the enemy turn.

The log file is showing about 6 instances of "None: Warning- Child node ScoreSuppressingEnemy_Supp_SE not found. No behavior node created." right before the crash occurs and is running fine after I commented out line 462 in XcomAI.ini and every line below it.

Yesss. Th anks

adds new ones

Does your mod adding new enemies or does it change the normal Advents?

Need adaptation for LWOTC