Thank you not only for a config file, but one that is also easy to understand. I have squad size mods so being able to both have enemies scale with me properly *and* have full control over how many spawn is a godsend.

Both will be OK, if this mod didn't work with them there'd have been a lot of comments.

Also want to know about better advent and campaign plus

And can we use this with Better Advent and Better Campaign Plus?

Hello ! I'm at broadcast tower now and I want this mod now to play with maximum soldiers to give them a real ending !
The pods are automatic when we DL this or do we have to change things ?

It'd be awesome if there was a way to make the pod size increase multiplicative instead of additive, i.e. fMultiplyBy=2.0 instead of iNumToAdd=x

@Prysak 𒉭
As the Description says, it's disabled in Chosen chambers

would this work with Populated Chosen Chambers or A Requiem For Man: Strongholds Standalone?

there are so many ways to set up an xcom2 modlist I really can't answer that

defaults are sensible and a lot can be customized

FL 20 is where the game normally ends. I'm not sure if you can command it higher to refresh the mission so I recommend setting it to 19 and back to 20 after

@Anakin
Waterworld is the final mission

Enabling the mod right before might not work because the mission exists for a long while but hidden, Console command to change forcelevel i.e. to 19, preview shadowchamber, command back to 20 should make it refresh.

Excluding all other missions but the last one is a bit silly, but should work too.

@Anakin
I'd try just enabling it before you load into waterworld. Otherwise it'd be a right faff to edit the .ini to exclude every other mission type.

can we use this mod only in the final mission?
I want a hard difficulty because i want to bring almost all my soldiers (12 in total)
whats your recommandation?

OK thanks have done that now. I have been using this mod for years, cannot imagine playing without it.

Default setup only goes to 20 where it normally ends. Easy to change if you go read through the configuration file.

If the force level goes above 20 will that affect this mod?
I was in the the late game of LWOTC and the FL went to 21 and pod sizes reverted to vanilla.

I just wanted to say the comments in your XComDABFL.ini are well documented and easy to comprehend. Thank you!

Aha. Thankyou.

by "more thematic" you mean more duplicates? anything above 1. it is used as a multiplier so for example if it set at 2 first advent trooper might get picked with a spawn weight of 20, but once that happens its weight is multiplied by 2 i.e. becomes 40 which makes it twice as likely to be selected again

What number would I want to use for fDuplicateUnitFavourFactor to get things more thematic? I've no idea what would count as a large or moderate change.

hmm just to be sure,if I just want the more diverse pods without them increasing,do I disable those 4 lines and thats it? or should I just change the numtoadd to 0 or chance to 0

+AlienPodSizeRules=(iMinForceLevel=5, iMaxForceLevel=20, iChance=50, iNumToAdd=1)
+AlienPodSizeRules=(iMinForceLevel=10, iMaxForceLevel=20, iChance=50, iNumToAdd=1)
+AlienPodSizeRules=(iMinForceLevel=15, iMaxForceLevel=20, iChance=50, iNumToAdd=1)
+AlienPodSizeRules=(iMinForceLevel=20, iMaxForceLevel=20, iChance=50, iNumToAdd=1)

I will cheat this crap, but it is a nice addition and good work!

I like it but it really makes things hard. I doN't know if it happened because of this mod but during a retaliation mission civilians took around 2 more shot per turn than usual (while also having a Chosen on the map).
If it's related to the mod I'd suggest rechecking it, it really speeds up the mission (had to run out of cover with my soldiers for the last pod in the hopes that they target me).

Does the specific setting for the Advanced sitrep in the configs, set the max number of enemies in those pods? For example, if I change the number to 3 that´s the number of enemies in each pod with that sitrep.

@Styrium I mean its an interesting test fr

oh bother okay, guess i 'll try to kill a gatekeeper with a squad of rookies and see how badly it goes! thank you both

correct. this mod only ever alters pod followers

@Styrium
'iForceLevelOffset' is used to adjust the force level of followers
So looks like pod leaders aren't affected, Sectopods and Gatekeepers are pod leaders in the base game. I guess Primes are set-up that way too.

I'm having issues with configuration for specific sitreps. I have the Low Profile Sitrep set up like this:

+SitRepModifiers=(TargetName="LowProfile", bExclusion=false, iMaxEnemiesInPod=3, iForceLevelOffset=-6, iEnemyCountOffset=-3) - My unit count rules are kind of op

But the issue is the force level offset doesn't seem to be applying. When the game rolls for encounters for the mission it's rolling for enemies like Gatekeepers or Primes, that shouldn't be able to be spawned in FL 14 (20 with the -6 offset) , even with the defaut +1 -2 offset from this mod.

I'm unsure if it's a compatibility issue, but I don't have any other mods that modify enemy spawning on guerilla ops to my knowledge.

@ArnNied: nothing because the roll is hardcoded to 100, so everything above 99 is an automatic success. If you want 2 or more rules at the same force level, you can do it, see the duplicate rules section. For example your 120% would look like this at FL 6:

.AlienPodSizeRules=(iMinForceLevel=6, iMaxForceLevel=20, iChance=100, iNumToAdd=1)
.AlienPodSizeRules=(iMinForceLevel=6, iMaxForceLevel=20, iChance=20, iNumToAdd=1)

what's the effect when seeting iChance above 100? one of the old (might be deprecated) incease pod mod has an interesting implementation. I forgot which mod it was, it's been a long time.

so:
80 = 80% chance of adding an enemy to a pod
100 = Guaranteed of adding an enemy to a pod
120 = Guaranteed of adding an enemy to a pod, but make another roll so 20% will add an additional enemy (so total 2, 1 from guranteed, another 1 from 20% roll)

If memory serves me right Muton Brigade has an "Increase pod size by 2" effect in addition to making em all mutons

So unfortunately, for some reason on sitreps that favor a certain enemy type. Like in my case "muton brigade" this mod blows the pod size way out of proportion unlike on normal missions.

Here's an example of the absurdness of it:
https://imgur.com/a/dbnIPho

Just a suggestion: Would be cool to be able to set MINIMUM and MAXIMUM number of enemies in pods. Every time I encounter a pod of 3 I just get kinda disappointed but I don't want to overblow the big pods haha

@Death Viper Yeah it’s in the recommended mods section and says it should work fine.

Will this mod work with this?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3034030070

@Phoenix
No idea, never messed with that. I use this mod for the diversity.

@Dragon32 Ok thanks for clarifying that. Also do you know if I change the value of fDuplicateUnitFavourFactor=-1.0 will it make the diversity the same as base game? If so, what value would I need to make it?

@Phoenix
Yes, the game will skip any text after a semi-colon

@Dragon32 I need to uncomment it too right?

@Phoenix
If you set bExclusion to false then it will be included.

Also, to make it so this mod doesn't affect the last mission I uncomment ;+MissionModifiers=(TargetName="DestroyAvatarProject", bExclusion=true) right? Do I need to set bExclusion=true to false too?

I prefer the rules of this mod over IPSBFL but I personally don't like having the pods be more diverse. Is it possible to change it in the config somewhere to disable the pods being more diverse but keep the increase of pod sizes? I tried looking through the config but I'm probably dumb and don't see it.

@DeBlue
Re-read the Description.

I get the error message saying this mod and the DiverseAlienPods(Wotc) are incompatible but it says in your description that they aren't?

check Rather Incoherents Universal Enemy Compatibility Patch

It would be cool if this mod also added a feature to overwrite weight levels for each enemy template, so we could tweak the spawn rate individually.

From what I saw in the config files, its not able to do it, right?

And if not, do you know if there is any mod that allows for such thing?

this mod does not affect the Chosen