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Crit Chance Change

This mod makes a simple change to critical hit chances: shots with a hit chance below 85 take a -1 penalty to critical hit chance for every 2 points below 85 the hit chance is. For example, a shot with a hit chance of 65 has -10 to crit chance, and a shot with a hit chance of 45 has -20 to crit chance.

In vanilla XCOM 2, increasing your defense doesn't actually decrease the chance that a particular shot will be a critical hit. Increasing your defense by 20 might take a shot from 50% miss, 40% regular hit, 10% crit to 70% miss, 20% regular hit, 10% crit. This change makes it so that increasing your defense actually helps protect you against critical hits. Other mods do the same thing by returning to XCOM 1's system where the two chances are rolled separately, but that makes it so that bonuses to crit chance are less valuable: if you have a 50% chance to hit, a +20 crit chance bonus becomes really only a +10 bonus. This mod leaves crit chance bonuses just as good as they were before.

This is derived from a similar change in my Shadow Ops Class Pack mod. If you have that mod, you don't need this one.