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War of the Chosen

NOT war of the chosen!
NOT WotC!

Is this a bugfix or just a change/improvement?

I learned about this mod from a great Breakthrough analysis/guide [www.vigaroe.com].
So thanks for the great mod and thanks to that excellent site for pointing me to it.

Hi all. I would like to install this MOD but I see that it shares the SPARK rifles upgrade with [WOTC] Trainable Sparks (and other Buffs), which I also happen to use. Would the installation of both mods double the buff on SPARK weapon breakthrough (+1 +1)? Did some of you use both and see what happens? Thanks.

Is it possible for this mod to affect tactical layer? Asking because I have an issue that dosen't check the "kill remaining aliens" checkbox and forces me to evac.
https://www.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/comments/hs7jyy/kill_the_advent_generalhack_the_security/? link to the modlist and launch.log

Works mid-campaign?

Are these breakthrough/upgrades retroactive?

i.e., if I built the Alien Ruler Armors first, and then the relevant armor breakthroughs showed up and I researched them, will the bonuses be applied to the Alien Ruler Armors?

I just checked and the error Dragon32 reports is present in some of my log files also.

Been going through my launch.log after a couple of missions. Spotted this, no idea if it's a problem or not:
[0138.15] Warning: Redscreen: CleanupPendingGameState called with a NULL game state!
Stack:
Script call stack:
(Default__X2DownloadableContentInfo_SPARKWeaponBreakthroughs) X2DownloadableContentInfo_SPARKWeaponBreakthroughs::AddMissingCat
(Default__X2DownloadableContentInfo_SPARKWeaponBreakthroughs) X2DownloadableContentInfo_SPARKWeaponBreakthroughs::OnLoadedSavedGameToStrategy
(XGStrategy_0) XGStrategy::UpdateDLCLoadingStrategyGame
(XGStrategy_0) XGStrategy::LoadingGame

@Prominent Penguin — I haven't seen any SPARKs in the DLC yet, but I haven't completed Legacy Ops. Since there is no strategic layer to the DLC and you therefore can't do any research, I'm not sure there are any breakthroughs to worry about.

assumably, this works with the tactical legacy dlc right?

Does this stack with the "More Breakthroughs" mod for SPARKs? (do they get the bonus from heavy weapons breakthroughs on top of the heavy autocannon breakthroughs?)

Why does your description of this mod say "I kind of Regret Making Metal over Flesh Redux" cuz Sparks are fine in WOTC? You really think they keep up?

thank you great mod one of thosae that fixes what devs should have put in game in first place. thx for picking up their slack man :)

Is it possible to safely remove this mod after getting armor breakthoughs?

@RealityMachina Thanks so much for all of your mods and fixes! I highly suggest you add basic pictures to your fixes/;mods so people see something that grabs their attention (in addition to the current pic). Seeing a thumbnail of your script/code isn't very exciting to most people. :)

I don't think there is a medium armor breakthrough (or I didn't get it in my entiere playthrough and so the Icarus armor won't be getting any upgrade.

Can this mod be added mid-campaign?

Great work

Would it be possible to make a similar mod for ShardGauntlets as well? It also seems to be missing?

It should now.

Cool thanks. One question tho : is it retroactive (eg: if we already get cannon breakthroughs before installing the mod) ?

Thank you for updating this mod! Hope you have a great day!

Much needed, essential mod! Second the comments about including modular cannon and maybe a new breakthrough for medium armour (yay feature creep!) and maybe one for SPARK chassis?

modular cannon (extra upgrade slot) break through is not supported! Hope you will fix that!

thank you for your mod!

Thanks :) It's kind of crap there's no breakthrough for medium armor, but that's out of scope for this

Great! Subbed and thanks for the fixes!

good mod!!!

Yeah it'll ignore the missing rulers content.

Quick question: If I have the SPARK DLC but not the Rulers DLC, will this mod act weird and break my game? Or will it simply ignore the the missing rulers content and apply all spark tweaks normally?

...sure why the heck not

Can you do this for the Alien Hunter items? Heavy armor breakthrough doesn't affect RAGE, for example.

Huhn, interesting. Apparently those breakthroughs work differently than I thought. I thought you'd assign an "archetype" to the breakthrough and it added it's effects to everything of that archetype.
Well, teaches me to assume when dealing with stuff I don't understand.

Hey, if you didn't make Metal over Flesh Redux, someone would have made something similar (and probably worse).

@Julian Skies

Actually no, I completely forgot about the slot breakthrough, I only added support for the weapon damage breakthrough.

Fix coming shortly.

@Gong-Gle-E
This mod makes so that the Cannon breakthroughts apply to the SPARK ones, so if you get the Modular Cannons breakthrough then the SPARK can get +1 slot!

great mod!

could you made 1 more?

i think sparks need to add additional weapon mod slot breakthrough.

without*

Half the mods that alter game code are gonna look the same. No clue why Mr. Nice is bringing it up. The two mods don't even do the same thing.

@Mr. Nice: you know, might also be a good idea to realize even if reality's copying your code, and that's not ncessarily the case, he actually puts stuff up as standalone, with needing extraneous crap along with the mod, and makes sure it's clearly explained.

You literally just copy-pasted the previous intro to your shaken scars mod despite the fact that Shaken is no longer tied to getting wounded, and actually had to be told to change it.

For what's worth, RealityMachina, I think that the Metal Over Flesh mod is really, really important for the SPARKs, buff or no. Why? It adds... flavor and feel to them.
The faction classes have a special feel to them because they're more AP-dependant than the base classes. With that mod the SPARK has a special feel to it due to being able to be upgraded like a machine can be. So don't regret making that mod!
Also hooray for this mod, thank you for making it.
And thank you Mr. Nice for also making YOUR mod since it does other things as well, i'll take both thank you.

...why did you think I brought up the whole "it looks like we modified the same Firaxis condition" thing? Of course it's going have the same white space, it's the same darn script we're modifying!

right down to the white space, right, I sent you a friend request if you want to talk, as I said. Plus of course the timing of release.

Dude I just copied the expansion pack code and modified it for my needs, it's funny we had similar ideas close to each other but actually looking at your mod, it's not exactly the same, just similar because it looks like you modified the same condition.

Which isn't surprising because what we would've needed is editing the weapon types condition to handle multiples, so the end result is going be...editing the vanilla weapon type condition to handle multiples.

"Collaboration" involves asking first and giving due credit mainly. It got settled amicably enough the first time, but there was a clear understanding left there about asking first. He still has a friend request if he want's to take it private. He's online.

@ Mr. Nice Honestly who cares? Even if he did rip off your code "detail for detail", it's just a mod. You aren't gaining money or donations, so honestly what are you exactly losing? The idea behind most modding communities is collaboration anyways. I mean, if there's two mods out there that do the exact same thing, then the only thing it's doing is just being redundant which isn't exactly a crime.

I'm just curious what you are so worked up about.

Nice work!

You could just about justify the last time because I hadn't ported that mod to WotC at the time, this time, an hour or so after mod publication...

Well well,
ripping of code again?

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133858760&tscn=1505250495

It's exactly the same code for adding spark weapons to the cannon breakthroughs.

YES!