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[WOTC] XCOM Durability Overhaul

A collated set of changes intended to smooth out the difficulty curve of the game and encourage better target prioritisation.

The main changes involve converting a portion of XCOM soldiers' health into armour, slightly reducing the damage of tier 2 ADVENT units, increasing the damage of Chosen and vanilla tier 3 ADVENT units, and buffing late-game alien explosives across the board.

I do not adjust enemy health or XCOM damage in any way with this mod, as I consider that the prerogative of other mods. After all, power is relative to the weapon and class mods you are using. I also do not adjust the force levels specific enemies come in at... maybe that can be my next target.

These tweaks are aimed at Legend difficulty - whilst the tweaks are compatible with other difficulty levels, I cannot promise that they will have the intended effect.

A full set of changes, and the specific justifications for them, can be found in the config files alongside the changes themselves.

Supports the following mods:
- Weapon and Item Overhaul
- A Better ADVENT
- Bio Division 2.0
- ADVENT General Revamp
- ADVENT Purifier Revamp
- Muton Harriers
- ADVENT Assault Troopers
- Alien Elite Pack
- Even More Robots
- A Harder War: Advanced Aliens
- A Harder War: Fanatics
- Muton Destroyers
- Flame Vipers
- Proficiency Classes
- Infiltrator's Disguises
- ADVENT Custodians / Custodians Standalone
- Purge Priests
- Long War 2 Platings
- Armoured Vipers
- ADVENT Psi Ops
- Standalone LWotC Enemy Pack (partial)

Mods not listed do not have any balance changes aimed at them. Either that means that I consider them balanced, that I do not play enough with that mod to determine their relative level of balance, or that I consider required balance changes not part of the scope of the mod (i.e. changing ADVENT HP or XCOM damage)

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Some tweaks WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY without the following mods:
- [WOTC] Ability Editor
- [WOTC] Create Custom Abilities: Stats

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As far as compatibility goes, this mod is basically just a huge lump of config tweaks. If there's a clash, it'll just mean that some other mod loaded afterwards and replaced my values.

Thanks to kexx for bullying me into modding because he's too lazy to make MCP himself :trollface: