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Covering Fire: Applies Aim Penalty To Targets

This mod adds a configurable aim penalty that is applied to the targets when a soldier with the Covering Fire ability takes a reaction shot. By default, the Covering Fire ability will apply a -10 aim penalty on the target of reaction shots for that turn - exactly the same as it's setup in Long War 2.

I really like this buff to the Covering Fire ability introduced in Long War 2 and wanted to translate it back to vanilla XCOM 2. In doing so, I discovered some implementation issues that needed to be improved for mod compatibility within Long War 2 as well.


So why would you want to use this if you are already using Long War 2, which has this effect built in? There are a few reasons, but the most important one is mod compatibility.

LW2 only implements this effect against a specific list of abilities (mostly those shown above). If you are using class or item mods with custom reaction fire abilities, they will not receive the aim penalty effect from Covering Fire.

This mod reimplements this effect to pickup any ability with a standard hit roll flagged as reaction fire. There are a few config arrays to handle any reaction abilities that don't fall into this category, but in most cases, mod-added abilities will be covered.


Firaxis for a mod-friendly game. Pavonis Interactive for LW2 and the original implementation. Xylthixlm for his Template Mod examples and help applying the effect from an event trigger.

(See Change Notes for previous versions)

2.00:
• Reworked implementation to automatically pickup most mod-added abilities without requiring entries to be added to the config arrays
  
• Added experimental option to allow enemies with the Covering Fire ability to apply the aim penalty to the player's soldiers (untested - requires enemies to use the same Covering Fire ability and I'm not sure if that is the case or not)
1.00:
• Initial Release