@zin yes

Sweet mod! Does this apply to enemies as well?

Strange.. i have quite different vision of this, i'm sure high cover should be HIGH cover and so to give even triple bonus to defence (15 vs 45). Why? Is it very tactical when one doesn't have to bother his head anymore about choosing where to hide when EVERY cover is safe and relieble? A player should always be forced to look for a better cover, not just clicking mouse button at any place on a map. And yes, remember Low cover is NOT just this 20 vs 40 of high one, Low cover already provides the most important thing - it gives protection from FLANKING shots, what else do u need from it?? For "other things" pls follow to - high cover.

What a GEM

thank you for this. cover vanilla is so bad that its best to just insta kill enemy with all out grenades than to use cover.

Cover is actually useful， and this is the key of tactics. I don't want my late game to be somekind of Dps match ，that is boring，thank your mod！

Thank you, this has balanced my game very well.

@Tim_ Your cover setting changes definitely change the tactical layer. Much appreciated!

I just completed a WOTC campaign with 104 mods including this one. It all went well. Love this mod -changed the cover settings from 20/40 to 45/65 myself in this last run, as I like cover being really worth it (and really worth destroying!).

This mod is amazing, and a must have, it makes cover actually useful. This works both ways, and it remains fair, for it while someone is safer in cover, they have to do flanking attacks to increase their chances of hitting the enemy units that also use cover.

This totally gets my thumbs up and favorite, as it makes the game more fair without making anything unbalanced.

Me: "I don't need this mod, I'll uninstall it for my next run"
[Half my squad gets insta-killed through cover by an enemy MEC and Priest in the same turn]

And here I am again.

@Hyun Yah

this mode also affects the aliens?

Just completed a WOTC campaign with 63 mods including this one. All ran perfectly. I like this mod, I will use it again.

This mod makes cover a lot more reliable and the game less frustrating on the higher difficulties.

So thanks for that man, love ya!

Is it possible to make a mod where cover behaves similiar to LW2?
High Cover = Better Defense, but lowered aim.
Half Cover = Better AIm, but light defense.

@CastleCard Thank you!

@Vaultwulf Yah, just change the lines with the +'s on them.

Quick question...

I am using Advent Advengers New Weapon Range table and would like to tweak the cover values to his reccomended 35/50 cover values. Can I just tweak these values in your mod's XComGameCore.ini file. i.e. +LOW_COVER_BONUS=35 +HIGH_COVER_BONUS=50?

What changed?

Also remember the 20 aim bonus from your Height advantage is reduced by an extra 5 with the full cover and an extra 10 with anyone in low cover including this mod.

Still favorited and liked <3

Yeah they should work together because most mods just add in their bonus and don't overlap.

If you want you can do it yourself, it's in DefaultGameCore search for UnitHeightDisadvantagePenalty, I have mine set to -15 (And have applied the effects of this mod to LOW_COVER_BONUS & HIGH_COVER_BONUS.

My reason was upping High Cover to 45 makes Height Advantage worse than High Cover, which I don't believe is worth the risk.

@Persicus They both work together.

can I use this with the higher ground +10 bonus mod? or it will conflict?

@Black Raven I actually forgot that was a mod because I'm subscribed to that mod to lol. I can't update the mod right now, but I will be able to Tuesday.

Any chance of adding the -10 to hit people on higher ground like it used to be in the old XCOM game? this guy done it for vanilla X2 but not updated for WotC... https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=666874717&searchtext=height

:3 :3 :3

@Castle: and we all know Flanking is a really good idea in WoTC since you can get AP for it.

thanks times 3

i always used your three mods before wotc (cover bonus, more starting soldiers, and flashbang)

@Diablo™ ( music ) Everyone gets the bonus. It makes flanking, or getting close much more important.

does this affect advent/chosen too?

@Vaeringjar Low=20, High=40

what are the vanilla values?

good stuff, thanks