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[WotC] Don't Move A Muscle
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[WotC] Don't Move A Muscle

Description
Features
The Chosen Hunter tends to be the least effective of the vanilla Chosen at what the Chosen are designed to do. His map ability, Tracking Shot, is barely disruptive at all, and the antisynergy between the melee Extract Knowledge ability and his long range fighting style make it quite difficult for him to capture soldiers compared to Warlock or Assassin. What he's very good at is accidentally wiping your squad before he can capture anyone, especially with how lethal his Bleeding Rounds are against early game soldiers.

This mod makes two changes to the Hunter's abilities to address this.

  • Tracking Shot is reversed: it now triggers if you move. Stay still!

    • Tracking Shot now works like suppression without the aim penalty: if you move, the Hunter will fire. This makes his map disruption ability much more dangerous: an effectively immobilised soldier can't reposition away from flanks, move for better shots or run for objectives.
  • The Hunter's attacks now inflict Dazed instead of Bleeding.

    • The frustrating Bleeding Rounds are gone: the Hunter's now taken a leaf out of the Assassin's book and equipped some new Concussion Rounds. These rounds have a 50% chance to Daze their target on a hit.

Configuration
All this mod's changes are configurable in the .ini files. If you just want the Concussion Rounds, you can turn off the changes to Tracking Shot. If you just want the Tracking Shot changes, you can delete the Hunter's new loadout to get the Bleeding Rounds back. You can also configure the duration and proc chance of the daze effect on them.

Compatibility
This mod should be fine to install and uninstall mid-campaign.

This mod should work with most Chosen overhauls, although it may override the Will reduction A Better Chosen adds to Tracking Shot Mark. If another mod changes the Chosen Hunter's loadout you may need to do a little .ini tweaking to add the Concussion rounds to that mod.
59 Comments
... 7 Mar @ 8:04am 
lwotc compatible?
Saul 24 Jan @ 1:39pm 
I love this mod, use it since I know it. But some of Hunter's lines always bug me like:"I'll give you a sports chance." But recently it hit me, if tracking shot can change with his line like,
"I'll give you a sports chance." RUN.
"I'm watching you". Don't move.

That'll be very awesome, I know it probably has almost no chance to happen thao..:lunar2019smilingpig:
Still thanks for this great mod.
Epic Dovahkiin 15 Oct, 2024 @ 6:43pm 
finally the hunter isn't either a total menace early game or totally useless late game
Dignan Zazumba 21 Jun, 2024 @ 10:19am 
Just had a bizarre experience with A Better Chosen. The Hunter used tracking shot, seemingly targeting nothing(?). I move everyone and no one is shot. Start of his next turn he makes the shot, hitting nothing and no one
Dragon32 13 Jun, 2024 @ 7:28am 
@Dignan Zazumba
I'd use a grep tool (I use TextCrawler), search my Mods folder for files named XComAI.ini containing the string "chosen" then go from there.

Assuming I'm right with the AI guess, of course.

Oh, if you haven't done it in a while: clear out your user configs, it's the magic "fix 95% of mod problems" thing to do
Dignan Zazumba 12 Jun, 2024 @ 7:41pm 
@Dragon32 Only other thing that specifically modifies him would be A Harder War: Chosen Pack but I *think* the only conflict there would be in his loadout, which I manually smoothed over. I guess its *possible* he just had no sightlines on that map but that seems very unlikely. ABA makes some very minor tweaks to generic Chosen AI but I really can't imagine its that

Also is there a way to master search for specific things like that?
Dragon32 12 Jun, 2024 @ 3:00pm 
@Dignan Zazumba
Sounds like something's changed his AI, check the mods you use with a XComAI.ini file. Aggressive Chosen makes him move towards your squad but hasn't disabled Tracking Shot for me.
Dignan Zazumba 12 Jun, 2024 @ 2:19pm 
So the Hunter isn't using Tracking Shot...at all. He actually seems to actively close distance for some reason?
Dies Irae 16 Mar, 2024 @ 1:27am 
Hi Largo, I see in the comments that this mod this doesn't work with hunters tracking shot like serial (ver 2) do you know what the issue is? I am looking to see if i can make a work around.
HKR31 13 Aug, 2023 @ 8:45am 
can you add guaranteed hit on flanked as well?
my teammate was out in the open (without cover) and hunter targeted him but did not fire because i did not move my character