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[WOTC] A Better Start (LITE)

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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 (LITE)

Lightly 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 head large shipment 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. This LITE version has reduced the bumps significantly so that the base management is still an essential part of the game.

Starting supplies are 50 to 800 depending on game diff.
Starting intel is 200 to 550 depending on game diff
Starting elerium is 100 to 300 depending on game diff
Starting alloys are 150 to 300 depending on game diff
Starting power is 0 to 10
Starting comm capacity 0 to 4
Building and clearing scalars have been reduced to 0.3 to 1.2
Research scalars are reduced to 0.8 to 1.1
New to A Better Start with the WOTC upgrade I have added 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\1134713272\Config\XComGameData.ini

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\1134713272\Config\XComGameStrategyTuning.ini

*This is assuming your running windows and steamapps are on your c:\ drive.

38 Comments

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Lord Bubba 31 May @ 1:49am

This mod, although others as well, has allowed me to play at Legend difficulty which would not have been possible with either vanilla or WOTC.

Shuri-Sama 30 May @ 9:41pm

i am not sure but does this mod also increase the number of timed loot? i think since using this i have muiltiply of these.

VS-lockon 18 Aug, 2022 @ 5:03pm

Tecness thx

WeiszGuy 8 Jan, 2022 @ 5:58am

@Tecness Thank you. In my file, the line "RequiresXPACK=true" was in there twice, before and after the "tags=Gameplay, facility" line. I simply deleted one of those lines and it worked. I didn't change or add anything else.

I notice in your file that line is only there once, so I think that's the fix.

Tecness 27 Nov, 2021 @ 2:58am

For those of you having issues getting this to show up on the new 2K launcher, I got it working by
changing the WOTC_ABetterStart(LITE).XComMod file found in \steamapps\workshop\content\268500\1134713272 to this;

[mod]
publishedFileId=1134713272
Title=A Better Start for WOTC(LITE)
Description=Description of My XCOM 2 Mod.
tags= Gameplay, facility
RequiresXPACK=true
contentImage=

What changed exactly? I added the contentImage= line and added a space inbetween tags=Gameplay. That's it. One of those two things is the reason it wasn't showing up.