I don't know if the mod still works; I was never able to get the editor working again after TLP, so if it doesn't work, then I can't fix it.

As for the Breakthroughs themselves, turns out there's some limit--possibly hardcoded--on how many you can get, so you're not going to get all of them.

is the mod fixed? Also, are the breakthroughs supposed to happen at random but all are eventually guaranteed, or are they supposed to be on the research list available at any time?

Don't know, and probably not.

Cam you add this mid-campaign and is it LWOTC compatible?

This mod actually gives me a reason to want to build a lab since the breakthroughs slow down regular research. I like having so many breakthroughs in my game even if it puts me behind in tech overall. Great mod.

If you can, I either don't know--or can't remember--how to; this mod just affects the global chance for a Breakthrough.

Just a question, can I remove specific breakthrough tech from the game? Some of them are op and i don't like to see them show up, such as magnetic weapon.

Editor's broken, or I've broken it. Maybe both. I'll make a TLP version of this mod when--or if--I can fix it.

In the meantime, in case you want to emulate the effects of this mod yourself, here's the settings you have to change.

Open XCOMGameData.ini in "XCOM2 War of the Chosen\XComGame\Config".

The numbers in square brackets are the settings by difficulty. [0] is Rookie, etc. You only need to change the settings for difficulties you intend to play on.

Change MaxInspiredTechTimerHours from "504" or "672" to something mad like "504000".
Change StartingBreakthroughTechTimerHours from "336" or "504" to "0".
Change MaxBreakthroughTechTimerHours from "840" or "1176" to "0".

The first setting makes Inspirations all but nonexistent.
The other two ensure that even the briefest of standard research (aside from instant autopsies) projects will give you a Breakthrough.

I just took another look at the Strategy Tuning ini that is in the Steam folder, not the one in the My docs folder, and found found the following quote at the top:
"To override a strategy stat for a particular difficulty level add a new section below for the difficulty selected using the section format"
This is followed by this: [{BaseTemplateName}_Diff_{Difficulty} X2CharacterTemplate]
This means that it actually is possible to adjust both time and resource requirements for all projects on all difficulties via the Strategy Tuning ini.

By the way BreakthroughLaboratoryModifier=0.75 means having a lab makes breakthroughs take 25% less time, which is why some people may find that breakthroughs take too long to be bothered with without a lab. You can tweak the two values for the Resistance Order and Lab Bonus.

Thanks Avenger. I see what you mean about the Inspirations; for some reason I thought messing with the Max timer line would do the job. Ah well, I'll make the description more accurate; I only really know how to do .ini changes at this point.

Thanks for the code, regardless.

To disable completely Inspiration timers you would have to override the core game function

private function ResetInspiredTechTimer()
{
local int InspiredTimerHours;

InspiredTimerHours = `SYNC_RAND(`ScaleStrategyArrayInt(default.MaxInspiredTechTimerHours));
InspiredTechTimer = GetCurrentTime();
class'X2StrategyGameRulesetDataStructures'.static.AddHours(InspiredTechTimer, InspiredTimerHours);
}

And change it to something like this

private function ResetInspiredTechTimer()
{
local int InspiredTimerHours;

InspiredTimerHours = 99999999;
InspiredTechTimer = GetCurrentTime();
class'X2StrategyGameRulesetDataStructures'.static.AddHours(InspiredTechTimer, InspiredTimerHours);
}

Correction,

InspiredTimerHours = `SYNC_RAND(`ScaleStrategyArrayInt(default.MaxInspiredTechTimerHours));

This means that Inspirations arent disabled, they will just randomly take between 1 and MaxInspiredTechTimerHours, which isnt disabling. You could get another inspiration technically.

Isn't that the chance for a Breakthrough to occur? Not exactly needed if so with this mod. :P

Also the breakthrough Lab modifier is just below the lines you change yourself:

BreakthroughLaboratoryModifier=0.75

I just did some looking around, and found four lines in the Game Data ini that start with ResearchProject_TimeScalar. My bet is that the game finds the time scalar for the selected difficulty, and then multiplies it by the time it finds in the Strategy Tuning ini to get the research time.

Unfortunately, ZyF, that's only for Legendary difficulty, which means the timer for the other difficulties is coming from somewhere else, perhaps even hard-coded along with whatever line of code stops scientists from afffecting them.

The best I could do would be to halve the numbers (or remove the lines? I dunno) to make them take five days. You'd have to ask someone with more experience with the editor if they know how to get at the default values.

@ZyF IDK about making that possible, but I do know that the time they take can be changed in the Strategy Tuning ini.

I'll have a look through the .ini files and see what I can come up with.

Could you make the breakthroughs benefit from lab/scientists?

The fixed 10 days makes most breakthroughs too time-intensive to be viable.

I just made a mod that changes the criteria for instant autopsies to 10,000 corpses.
That do you? ;)