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27 Jan, 2023 @ 8:55am
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The Cowboy Class

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What is a cowboy without their revolver? And without their trusty lasso(ripjack)?

The Cowboy is a rootin' tootin' lasso usin' soldier combining the Sharpshooter's pistol skills with the ripjack prowess of a Skirmisher.

They use a Pistol as their Primary and a Ripjack as their Secondary, they can equip any armor a regular soldier can, and their stats are similar to a Sharpshooter's.

The Freeshooter tree is mostly the same as the Sharpshooter's Gunslinger tree and focuses on maximizing the number of shots the Cowboy can take.
Perks in this tree that aren't from the Sharpshooter:
-"Zero In" from the Skirmisher
-"I Meant To Do That" from "Mitzruti's Perk Pack"

The Buckaroo tree largely made up of the Skirmisher's Ripjack perks, so if you know the Skirmisher, you know this tree.
Perks in this tree that aren't from the Skirmisher:
-"Pistol Expert" from Veehementia's "[WOTC] Pistol Expert Ability"
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This mod is just a simple combination of a vanilla Gunslinger and a Skirmisher because I wanted a Pistol + Ripjack class. I'm not sure how balanced it is but seeing as it is mostly vanilla perks, it shouldn't be more overpowered than the vanilla classes. I've only done a little testing, but the abilities work just fine. If you find something wrong with it please let me know.

-I've only tested this with True Primary Secondaries, not with the regular one.
-When you first promote a soldier to this class their Primary weapon might not update properly but you should be able to give them a Pistol.

Huge THANK YOU to Mitzruti for making their Perk Pack and their Skirmisher Animation Patch, Veehementia for their Pistol Expert Ability, and Musashi for their True Primary Secondaries mod.
26 Comments
Captain Ben 5 Jan @ 2:25pm 
Awesome, thanks!
Jokerke  [author] 5 Jan @ 5:47am 
In Mitzruti's Perk Pack's files go in the config folder, open the ini file called "XComMZPerkPack", close to the top you'll see this line: "AllowCrossClassAbilities=true". Change the "true" to "false". Now none of the perks are gonna get added to a class's random AWC perks.
Captain Ben 4 Jan @ 6:53pm 
I'm a big fan of having cowboys around, but I don't really want all 650 additional perks that come in Mitzruti's pack. Is there some way to disable the others, and just keep "I Meant To Do That"?
kadra, oh..... 28 Apr, 2024 @ 8:06am 
@jokerke this class is fine and all. but lately i been getting this odd but absolutely funny glitch where the cowboy holding a pistol like 0114 or raptor x would just go FULL AUTO on the enemy. hilarious
Jokerke  [author] 27 Jan, 2024 @ 7:24am 
I've never tried running this without Pistol Expert, but since the class's config file calls directly for that ability, instead of Return Fire, I assume it wouldn't replace it. It's probably just gonna be an empty slot on the ability screen.
Vanzgars 26 Jan, 2024 @ 9:46am 
If I try to install this *without* the Pistol Expert Ability mod, will the class have Return Fire instead (since the PEA mod replace the Sharpshooter's Return Fire ability), or will the class just not work at all?
Jokerke  [author] 23 May, 2023 @ 5:07am 
I changed absolutely nothing.
Haywire 22 May, 2023 @ 10:32pm 
Has something changed in this? I suddenly keep getting a CTD when I use any of the grappling hook skills, but it's only on this class not skirmishers.
YOUR FAMOUS GAY DAD 29 Mar, 2023 @ 1:42pm 
Can confirm no nicknames are autogenerated for soldiers in the Cowboy class, which is the best part. However, I assumed the author had forgotten about it and I (foolishly) came up with a bunch of nicknames. So, in the spirit of wastin' no part of the buffalo:

The Kid / Slim / Deadeye / Holliday / Doc / Shorty / Wrangler / Cassidy /
Butch / Slue-Foot / Rootin / Sheriff / Hopalong / Rawhide / Tootin / Auger / Ballyhoo / Yank /
Buscadero / Cookie / Moonshine / Snake Oil / Huckster / Night Hawk / Piebald / Calico / Pilgrim / Reckoner / Sagebrush / Sawbones / Sawdust / Simon Pure / Slicker / Dandy/
Tanglefoot / Guttersnipe / Helter-Skelter / Higgledy-Piggledy / Hither-n-Yon / Hook-or-Crook / Hoosegow / Knee-High / Fandango / Cisco Kid / Rattlesnake / Buffalo / Longhair /
Sundance / Bittercreek / Soapy / Poncho / Pancho / Red Buck / Calamity / Dutch / Oakley / Rustler / Pickett / Bandit
Jokerke  [author] 27 Mar, 2023 @ 8:20am 
I always give my soldiers nicknames myself, so I have no idea if it is a bug or not. Unfortunately, I can't do anything about it until late next week.