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[WOTC] Powered Armor Rigging

Introduces a Proving Ground project that increases the number of utility slots granted by powered armor.

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This mod adds a Proving Ground project, called Powered Armor Rigging, that is unlocked with Powered Armor research. After completing this project, all soldiers that have a Powered Armor equipped (including Heavy and Light versions, and Faction and Spark variants) will get an additional utility slot. The tech requires 5 Engineers and some Muton corpses. Yes, this tech is a strict XCOM buff that adds to the late game power creep of XCOM, but utility items are fun and more utility items are more fun.

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This mod is highly configurable.
In XComStrategyTuning.ini the reader can edit the costs and requirements for this tech, as well as the time it takes to complete it.
In XComPoweredArmorRigging.ini it is possible to edit which armor tech levels will be affected by this project (this project can affect multiple techs, so for example it can affect both plated and powered tech-level armors). It is also possible to allow/disallow this tech to effect individual armors, by adding them to a blacklist or to a whitelist. Lastly, the number of utility slots granted by this tech is configurable. An exercise to the reader is to determine what happens if the same armor is added to both the whitelist and the blacklist.

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Should be compatible with most things. Did not test with LWOTC, but some people reported it to work. If you edit the tech to also affect Kevlar tech level, then this might not work correctly if also used with WIO. This can be easily fixed, but since this is far from the intended use case of the mod, this support is not provided by default.
Can be used in existing campaigns.

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All required mods are strictly required.

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• For this mod to affect correctly the Rage Armor, you will need the following mod. This is actually a base game bug by Firaxis.

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The author would like to thank RustyDios and shiremct for their useful comments. The author would also like to thank the member of the MEME Discord server for their continued emotional support.