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[LW2] A Better Rookie (LITE)

Lightly Buffed soldier and other player types' abilities, characteristics, growth, and more.

Commander we know you have been away and before you start thinking that we spent all of our time scavenging wind turbines to build our flying cave base we wanted you to know that we have been dabbling a bit with bioengineering.

Our rookies come from the solid stock of our orginal XCOM gene-modified and psi-trained soldiers and then trained up and made ready for the day you returned to once again wage war against alien forces.

This mod, created in the same vein as "A Better Start" starts your rookies out with more mobility, HP, offense (aim), defense, and WILL (they have the WILL of Gods... no more will PVT. G. PILE piss his pants because he got shot at after stepping off the Skyranger). (WILL is bumped up from 0 to 40 which still allows for the chance for PVT PILE to wet himself at the site of blood.)

*This mod works at all gamelevel difficulties.

An LW2 compatible version of "A Better Rookie"

The changes made span 4 different ini files including the soldier skills, character stats, LW soldier skills, and xp data. As requested this version reigns in the increases to hp, mobility, etc.

• Character Stats - All of your men, women, and sparks have greater health (+1 to +2), mobility (+2 to +3), offense, defense, WILL (set to 40), crit, etc.
  
• Soldier Skills - cool-downs and charges have primarily been tweaked so that you can use abilities more often during an engagement. (lite version does not have any 0 cooldowns. cool downs that were 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 are now 1,1,2,2,3,3,4)
  
• XP/Rank - the criteria for promotion has been reduced so that you can climb the ranks faster and unlock those awesome perks. (lite version makes allows for faster climbing but not as fast as non-lite version)

This mod was my attempt to answer the numerous requests to tone down the OP'ness of my original mods. However if I still haven't hit the mark for what some players may want for this mod the following are the instructions to modify this mod and set the stats to the values that work for you.

To change the stats to the characters (soldiers, sparks, central, shen) edit this file:

To change the stats on the skills and perks edit these files:

To change the stats to the xp earned and rank requirements edit this file:

If you are an old pro at editing ini files of your favorite mods and you know the trick on how to make sure your changes survive the mod author's future updates please note that copying this mod's files to your local XCOM game directory it will disable the mod. The reason being that the load order for mods are as follows: core game > DLC > local mods > workshop mods. This means the LW2 workshop mod will get loaded last and override all of your local mods that change the same values. The only way to get around this is to also copy the LW2 mod into your local mods folder...still no guarantees this will work. My advice is to save your changes to a file else where and then just copy them back after any future updates occur.