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[WOTC] A Better Start
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[WOTC] A Better Start

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[XCOM2] A Better Start | Rookie | Arsenal + (LITE) Mods
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Description
A Better Start for War of The Chosen
Buffed starting resource levels, research speed, building speed, and much more to begin your new campaign in WOTC.

Wait did I hear that right? "Decades" I expect Central to be a bit more sheepish in telling me how long I have been away. Sure the base is new but how did we seem to lose all of our scientists and engineers? How is it there are no supplies outside of a few MRE's? And who the hell lost the mystic knowledge that allowed the Skyranger to carry more than 4 grunts into battle?!

This mod is a tongue-in-cheek EZ-button for starting off as the recently awakened Commander. A cubic crap-ton of supplies, intel, and alloys along with tweaks to that reduce research and build times assuming the XCOM staff got actually BETTER at their work instead of worse.

*This mod works at all gamelevel difficulties.

Under The Hood
Through the update of XComGameData.ini I have have added large shipments of resources along with some calibration on scalars. The starting values have been curved to the difficulty setting giving you the most at rookie level and impossible level. Here are the specific changes.
  • Starting supplies is 3000+ with intel, elerium, and alloys starting out at a 1000 each if not better.
  • Starting area supplies is 350.
  • Building and clearing scalars have been reduced to 0 to 10%
  • Research scalars are at 50%
  • Healing soldiers scalar is reduced to 10%
  • New to A Better Start with the WOTC upgrade I have added deep discounts to research, supply, intel, corpse, etc. costs.

DIY Modding
If there are aspects of this mod that you hate or things you wished were just a bit more buffed, then open the file(s) below in a text editor and scan through settings. My mods are nothing more than configuration file overrides with no coding. A word of caution about editing the downloaded files in your workshop directory. If I ever update this mod your changes will get replaced with a fresh copy of my files. I recommend copying the modified file to another folder that you can swap back in after an update.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\1134711074\Config\XComGameData.ini
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\1134711074\Config\XComGameStrategyTuning.ini
This is assuming your running windows and steamapps are on your c:\ drive.

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8 Jul, 2018 @ 5:42pm
Bug - Monthly Recruit Refill Zeroed out
Scuba Steve
120 Comments
John Wick himself 56 minutes ago 
works fine for wotc, does not work for lwotc
Ludwig, Shadow Protogen 17 May @ 7:00am 
Do you know which line to change starting elerium cores?
kowalskiy 14 Jan @ 6:23pm 
Hi! one quick question.

What should I add in XComGameData.ini in order to add Elerium Cores and/or corpses?

Thanks in advance and thanks for the mod!
MagboneD 3 Feb, 2024 @ 7:05pm 
Why is it that when I manually change the values that change the AWC settings in XComGameData.ini, they don't have any effect unless A Better Start is enabled? Is there another flag in the .ini files that also needs to be set?

Specifically, I'm trying to match the following settings from ABS, without using the full mod.

XComHeadquarters_NumAWCAbilities=8
XComHeadquarters_MinAWCTalentRank=1
XComHeadquarters_MaxAWCTalentRank=10
Colva_Moon123 12 Dec, 2023 @ 5:20pm 
How do I change the healing rate. My boys are healing way to quickly for my tastes.
bigwormfire 26 Oct, 2023 @ 4:25pm 
on XcomGameDate how do i increase the research time the way it was
horsepowerYT 21 Oct, 2023 @ 12:16am 
Issue I don't get 3000 anymore, next issue I start with a decent 1000-1500
Nothing else is broken to my knowledge my playthroughs
But this won't be fixed anyway
Your Local Inquisitor 8 Oct, 2023 @ 9:43am 
Every time I start a new game, I only start with 800 supplies instead of 3000. Would anyone know what could cause this to happen?
morgangoodwin22 4 Jun, 2023 @ 11:59pm 
lw_officerpack i get as an error for this one
Cayde-6 24 Aug, 2022 @ 8:02pm 
idk why, but ever since i installed the three better start,rookies, and arsenal, my game just freezes on the second scan when you first start the game. Does anyone know a solution to this?