- swapped parkour on Commando for bandolier
- Commando and Winter Sentinel now both have armory only perks explaining that they have full vertical movement (Aka dont need ladders)
- fixed toxi and tesla blades being accidentally free

Fixes:
- Fixed Maim on Naja

Schematics conversion:
Reminder: These are squad upgrades that make things infinite and removes them from the armory - this will significantly reduce bloat of items.
- Andromedon Acid blob now use schematics
- Desolator incendiary blob now use schematics
- Desolator rad dust sprayer now uses schematics
- Warmaster psi rifle uses schematics

Cosmetics:
- Blob launchers now use underbarrel imagine for progression so its visually distinct

Taipan:
- Swapped Entwine with Dead Cutter, because Taipan cannot actually bind, why ? I dont know, Reshi's Taipans cannot do it either so i just roll with it.

- hotfix for broken taipan tree
- some change to gamestate that does something, i dont know what, i was told to just remove it

Internal mechanics changes:
- further fixes to vipers

HARRIER OVERHAUL:
- Massive overhaul to the Harrier, gains a mortar secondary which can be used to bombard enemy targets, brand new tree with multiple custom perks.
- New secondary weapon (its the mortar, upgrades with advanced weapons on 1/3/5 tier, upgrades in damage and range, at beam tier, get +1 AOE)

Viper Commando:
- Huge overhaul, utilizing the new sockets, gain proper primary and secondary weapon and new tree of abilities, special thanks to Merist for working on this...masterpiece.
- Lowered force level requirement for Commando from 6 to 4.
- Mobility moved from squaddie to baseline, stats changed to be Ranger like

Gatecrasher:
- Harrier is now exempt from Gatecrasher because now he rapes Advent really hard to a point where i feel sorry for them.
- Muton Hunter and Prowler now enter gatecrasher

New grenade:
- Sonic grenade, for now its Harrier only, perk only grenade, but in future ill turn it in to a synergy weapon that is usable even by XCOM troops. This light weight grenade lets out a shrieking shockwave that rips apart matter on a molecular level, causing rupture, bleeding and enviromental damage.

Synergy arsenal:
- Toxiblade can now upgrade to beam tier
- Tesla blade can now upgrade to beam tier

Perks:
- Swapped all Maim for Merist version
- Swapped Battlespace for Eagle Eye for high tier xcom places, battlespace remains on lower tiers

Synergy weapons:
- All items now display their stats first, fluff and lore follows.

Taipan:
- Gets return fire baseline

Viper Commando is disabled from being rewarded till we rework her

Internal mechanics changes:
- All aliens but Sapper and Mamba are exempt from having their hack score manipulated by NCE, atm this might not do anything but it will work in near future
- Swapped out how Sectoids get their grenade animations to use the same mechanic as mutons n sneks
- No more infinite bluey frost rifles
- X-pad for hacking is now yanked from ayys, it was an eye sore regardless

Prowler/Stalker rifle:
- Damage now matches with other sniper rifles

Vipers:
- Vipers can now use sockets properly, meaning Viper Commando in near future wont need Requiem Legion anymore
- Marauder rifle stands out in the armory more with cyan colour.

Heroic aliens:
- You cannot get duplicates, no matter how you meta game. Thanks Iridar, your Bounty Hunter had the solution i learned from. Ronar, you better savour the moment, cuz the fun stops now.

Two massive fundamental changes

1) Rescue alien operation is now INFILTRATION, aka no instant start mission, cope and seethe, but it had to be done, this has few results:
A) It no longer becomes unplayable mess in late game if you play with requiem legion
B) Sitreps can happen to it
C) Overinfiltration and under infiltration happen
I further lowered the time needed for the covert operation, given it has to be infiltrated.

2) Winter Sentinel rework
The long awaited, Winter Sentinel rework, packed to the brim with custom perks made by Merist

Prepare for this class to get nerfed, over, over and over again because its brand new essentially
Bolt casters also do more damage than before and no longer penetrate armor, they shatter it instead

- Cleaned up my mess, warmaster no longer is gimpled, properly patched up some things

Rolled back an update, i am too tired to fix the new issues after 12 hour long day shift with another one right after it, ill fix this shit during the weekened when i do have actually time and willpower.

Winter Sentinel:
- Steroids have been confiscated due to too many complains from Bradford about geometrical issues of deploying the Winter Sentinel to combat via the Skyranger, Sentinel wows to have a rework very soon.
- Given the roid rage that followed, WS covert operation is disabled until WS is reworked

Viper Marauder:
- New tree and new gun, the marauders cryo rifle, deals slightly less damage but has bigger magazine and applies bitterfrost on hit

Viper:
- Readjusted tree

Covert Operation:
- Standardised covert op time to 6 days, no more 3-7 day long covert operation (wtf Kiruka), also added more time before it expires, this is a patch for the future where this mission gets completely replaced by a proper infiltration mission

Aliens:
- Abjurer is disabled till its reworked to not bring shame to the family
- Faceless is disabled till i figure out what to do with this shitter
Harrier:
- Has armor piercing back

Armory clutter:
- Converted marauders new rifle and warmaster psi ripple rifle to use schematic system, more will come in future, these will, once done, heavily lower the clutter
Muton Trooper and Frost Bomber
- Removed duplicates of xcom row perks

Taipan:
- Thanks to Merist, this ability no longer chokes up if you melee a faceless, it also has proper dialog depending on what happens.
Targetting Icons:
- Thanks to Styr for providing optional targetting icons 2020 support for EPA, does nothing harmful if you dont have that mod.