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Deadeye To Headshot

Replaces Deadeye with the old XCOM sniper's Headshot skill.

It's still called Deadeye because mechs don't really have heads, but it works like Headshot from XCOM Enemy Within.

Details:

- 5% aim penalty. XCOM 2 snipers max out at 91 aim, plus 10%-ish from a PCS, 15% from superior scope, +10% from Steady Hands or +20% from Aim, for ~125% base aim. Tracers add 10% optional. XCOM 1 snipers max out at 105 aim, +10 aim from scope, +10 from Damn Good Ground, for ~125 final. +10% from Executioner as well. That's approximately break-even if the XCOM 2 version takes a 5% hit.

- Original "ignores graze" effect was removed, it was too powerful on Commander to be able to use the skill to virtually guarantee that the viper/archon/stunlancer would take a huge hit out of concealment.

- Keeps the 3 turn cooldown of Deadeye. This forces you to choose carefully when you're going to apply your big shot.

- Ignores the typical squadsight critical chance penalty. Seems thematically appropriate, but more importantly, with squadsight on everyone range is a much more fluid factor than it used to be.

- Bonus crit damage of 2/2/4, which lets snipers do almost double damage crits. Expected crit damage amounts for the three tiers are 9, 12, 17. 12 lets you one-shot Facelesses but not Berserkers. 17 damage lets you one-shot most basic enemies, but on Commander difficulty will not let you one-shot archons, andromedons, gatekeepers, and sectopods.

- To adjust these numbers manually, edit XComModDeadeyeToHeadshot.ini.

Compatibility:

- This only modifies the Deadeye ability. This class does not use explicit overrides, but might break if another mod changes Deadeye.

- This mod is safe to remove. Removal just reverts the Deadeye ability to its vanilla form.

- This mod gives a flat +2 crit damage to weapon classes that are not conventional, magnetic, or beam.

Todo:

- Internationalized versions of the new skill description. Only the English translation is there for now.