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Advent Sentry WOTC (based on LW2 unit)
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Advent Sentry WOTC (based on LW2 unit)

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Advent Sentry is a specialized Advent trooper capable of shooting and entering overwatch at the same time. Essentially the unit of the same name from LW2, not much more to it.

NOTES:
- Tier 1 and Tier 2 versions have Ready For Anything perk (enter Overwatch after shooting their weapon), Tier 3 has Guardian in addition to that.
- They use Advent Captain rifles. Their LW2 weapon was somewhere between LW2 Trooper rifle and LW2 Captain rifle. I opted to give them the higher damage variant, but I'll leave commented out loadouts with Trooper gear in XComGameData.ini if you feel they pack too much of a punch
- LW2 version seemed to have AI very similar to normal troopers, so I pretty much sent them down the Advent Trooper routines. They do have their own Character Root though so if someone feels they need their own AI it should be easy to edit in. (this should work by default with Advent Avenger's AI packs by default, if you use A Better Advent instead there is commented out version that'll make them use ABA Trooper AI instead)

CREDITS AND THANKS:
Advent Sentry was first created by Pavonis Interactive for their Long War 2 mod. They deserve pretty much all credit for this unit, my input in porting it over mostly amounted to figuring out what to copy and paste :P

Special thanks to:
- Jammerware from r/xcom2mods reddit for helping me out in making flyovers for Ready For Anything work properly
- Wilko for providing me with recolored Stun Lancer model

PERMISSIONS:
Feel free to use this for noncommercial use, just credit Pavonis, since it's their work, and Wilko if you use the provided recolored unit model.
16 Comments
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J. FAITH 28 Nov, 2024 @ 6:10pm 
I never had such problems with the regular launcher until was removed, also not fan of aml, steam already gives two options, why having to work downloading installing and so when u o my wanna play and have fun?
Malek Deneith  [author] 22 Nov, 2024 @ 12:35am 
Don't use the game's default launcher, use AML instead. Default launcher had issues with mods for ages now, as far as I know.
J. FAITH 21 Nov, 2024 @ 12:10pm 
not working in the new launcher
RoxeusRose 8 Dec, 2019 @ 10:38am 
tiene alguna recompensa ?
victorlapin 2 Jun, 2018 @ 1:31am 
please fix Russian localization file, it's in UTF-8 encoding, and should be UCS-2 LE BOM
Malek Deneith  [author] 20 Mar, 2018 @ 7:58am 
They start showing up at Force Level 3 I believe, so fairly early. But yeah, like Deadput said the more new enemy mods you have the more likely they are to out-compete themselves for a spot in a pod.
Deadput 19 Mar, 2018 @ 8:29pm 
It's all RNG they show up when they show up just like any other enemy, of course they would be less likely to show up if you have dozens and dozens of enemy mods.
Soulmancer 19 Mar, 2018 @ 8:17pm 
When n where do these start to show up? I have it installed along with a couple other new enemy mods... The others have shown up but I've not spoted the Sentry yet?
Lehemoth 6 Feb, 2018 @ 3:32am 
Ah ok bummer, i can't imagine it would be easy anyway, yeah i use ABA, another excellent mod. However the units are not quite the same, the advent gunner from LW2 used a mag cannon which looked and sounded awesome (like an MG42) and was an area suppresion/normal suppression specalist
Malek Deneith  [author] 5 Feb, 2018 @ 7:01am 
Glad you enjoyed it. No plans for Advent Gunner, to be honest I don't even have SDK installed at the moment. That being said DerBK's "A Better Advent" had an unit equivalent to LW2 Gunner... although ABA does come with a lot of other stuff you might or might not like. Worth trying out if you haven't played with it before at any rate.

And probably worth noting that there is a community run project to make LW2 for WotC so we might see it again in the future :) (How far in the future though is anyone's guess)