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[LWOTC] A Better Rookie

Buffed soldier and other player types' abilities, characteristics, growth, and more.

Commander we know you have been away and before you start thinking that we spent all of our time scavenging wind turbines to build our flying cave base we wanted you to know that we have been dabbling a bit with bioengineering.

Our rookies come from the solid stock of our orginal XCOM gene-modified and psi-trained soldiers and then trained up and made ready for the day you returned to once again wage war against alien forces.

This mod, created in the same vein as "A Better Start" starts your rookies out with more mobility, HP, offense (aim), defense, and WILL (they have the WILL of Gods... no more will PVT. G. PILE piss his pants because he got shot at after stepping off the Skyranger).

*This mod works at all gamelevel difficulties.

The changes made span 4 different ini files including the soldier skills, character stats, LW soldier skills, and xp data.

• Character Stats - All of your men, women, and sparks have greater health, mobility, offense, defense, WILL, crit, etc. - LITE: mobility, hp, defense, etc. have been considerably lessened from full version.
  
• Soldier Skills - cool-downs and charges have primarily been tweaked so that you can use abilities more often during an engagement. LITE: all cool downs have only been reduced by 1 turn without any 0 cool downs. ability charges have only been increased by 1 in most cases. Ability damage modifiers have also been reduced.
  
• XP/Rank - the criteria for promotion has been reduced so that you can climb the ranks faster and unlock those awesome perks. - LITE: rank progression is not as fast as full version but better than vanilla.

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



If you have been frustrated by not being able to find the actual LWOTC mod on Steam you are not alone. LWOTC devs are still building it and have not yet released it on Steam. If you want to try out my mods with the new BETA LWOTC you can follow these links to download and install the latest BETA release.

Long War of The Chosen install instructions: Installing LWOTC [github.com]

The install instructions provide an easy link to download the BETA v2 release which is out of date. You can get the latest release notes and download here: Releases[github.com]
*Thanks Online Addict

Note: If you use AML for loading your mods testing has shown that my mods and likely others will not load after the locally installed LWOTC. If you do not want to wait for the production Steam release of LWOTC you will need to copy my mods to the same local directory you installed LWOTC in (per instructions). Then in AML select the local versions of the mods and not the workshop versions.