The Shanty map's wildfire area is no fun at all. All destructible, sparse cover feels dreadful and you can't see anything from the black ash with blackened trees.

Did some testing, this mod seems to cause some heavy framerate drops on certain maps when you zoom out, such as the underground tunnels. Loaded up a tactical save with and without the mod running, saw a difference of around 20-25fps. Without has a mostly locked 144fps, with the mod has it constantly going up and down around the 120fps range.

Some of these will rarely cause consistent crashes, particularly in city maps. If a mission generates with one of these you will have to skip it.

Not sure where to report this, but it seems the Cave and possibly Alien Base maps are bugged. Fog of war in them does not disperse even when moving. Save and reload did not fix the issue.

Line of sight is unchanged, but player-side the fog of war isn't disappearing. I checked my mods and this was the most recently updated.

Bug has only occurred for me in infiltration missions (Covert Infiltration/Strategy Overhaul). Will update if bug occurs outside of them.

@Skorius42 there is a known problem with the Avenger defense mission with the combination of Quick Soldier Info and Psi Overhaul. Are you using those mods?

hey guys is there anyway to fix the crash on avenger defense mission, it dosent matter how many mods I have that mission always crashes for me ( never with no mods), is there a way to prevent this crash, like I dont care if I play that mission with no paracels or extra plots as long as its playable (I hardly have any mods that directly affect the mission yet idk y it keeps crashing

Thanks
(srry dont know where else to post this x)

@Frizzeldian12 you're under every map he posted

Just finished a campaign with about 685 mods, this one included, and had no major issues! Thanks for putting this up.

Some information I forgot to mention. The crash occurred when I used whiplash on an Andromedan Shell. This has happened before when I use a ripjack ability such as justice or wrath.

I think this mod has a chance to cause crashes when using ripjack abilities. Looking at my crash log, these two lines seem the most relevant.

[3649.06] Warning: USkeletalMeshComponent::InitArticulated : No PhysicsAsset defined for Plot_ABN_Gather_Waterfront_TLE.TheWorld:PersistentLevel.XComWeapon_974.SkeletalMeshComponent_21815 with skeletalmesh FX_Weapons_Shared.Weapon_Dummy
[3653.76] Log: Crash Detected: Dumping C:\Users\Camden\Documents\My Games\XCOM2 War of the Chosen\Binaries\Win64\..\..\XComGame\Logs\XCom-DESKTOP-FOUOTKD-CL469133-2022.10.02-14.56.01-Crash\XCom-DESKTOP-FOUOTKD-CL469133-2022.10.02-14.56.01_Minidump.dmp

Thankfully it's not common enough to be a big issue.

Starting in 2022 Eclipsezr started making that large pack into smaller parts.
This has done two things;
-The smaller mods are easier to manage
-The smaller mods contain bugfixes over the large package

I would suggest moving to using the smaller mods :)

Could you please fix some bugs in your map mod?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1905701378

They are amazing, but quite unusable
Maybe for a donation?

Thanks for information @LeyShade Will check any similar ones and fix it on next update.

[1833.88] Warning: Redscreen: Found SpawnRestrictor with a null volume: XComSpawnRestrictor Plot_CTY_MdObj_Mixed_Voz_1C.TheWorld:sm_IceCreamShop_EP_115.XComSpawnRestrictor_5

Causes CTD on mission load after Cinematic, before the game can autosave. If the parcel above is commented out in XComParcels.ini there is no ongoing issue. This issue is the same for the equivalent piece in the original pack.

Makes the maps so much prettier -- thanks!

@Dragoon so that just means Resistance Warrior Pack required for some assets, but XCOM 2: Reinforcement Pack is useless no matter what. If you already have the other DLC inside that pack. So that should be removed.

@SMmania123
eclipsezr [author] 2 Nov, 2021 @ 11:35pm
may pop up as missing textures ingame. I used some cosmetics of minor DLC for props on mannequins.

@eclipsezr I don't think XCOM 2: Resistance Warrior Pack, and XCOM 2: Reinforcement Pack
are necessary, for this to work. The first one is just character cosmetics, the second is just a bundle of the exact same DLC already required for it to work.

Can confirm this was giving me a crash on mission start in LWOTC, as soon as I uninstalled it and the UPK (also unbound the save from them too if that matters), the mission loaded perfectly.

Been testing these with LWotC
Haven't been able to get any from your standalone mods to show up yet, but everything from this pack is working great

Just don't put your evac down on the tunnel/subway tile with the water on the floor, cause it will place evac just above the water, and it won't count as a place your soldier can stand in

do these include parcels from your more recent standalone mods?
doesn't look like it, but thought I'd check to make sure

@pablo The Firaxis Launcher is borked for modded WOTC and often won't show mods that you've installed. Happened when they released Chimera Squad. Switch to the Alternative Mod Launcher, it'll save you a lot of headaches. It also comes with the added benefit of making old vanilla voice-packs functional in WOTC without much if any work on your part.

they say this is the only parcel mod compatible with LWOTC

do i really need all the DLCs?

Hey man, fantastic work you've done here I love it. But I think this mod is the one crashing my LWOTC campaigns. I'll come back with an updated comment if that wasn't the case but I really do hope this one isn't the one causing problems cause DAMN I love your maps!

Why isnt it showing in the mod selection in the Firaxis launcher?
Anyway, great job!

@Arena I just updated this mod,should be fixed.
Lastly brought back two more parcels
(Advent Jail found in Slums) (Sewer/Water treatment found in Shanty Missions)

Working fine with LWOTC. Thanks a lot to have differents maps just with yours parcels

It sucks this needs the reinforcement pack dlc.

This shouldn't interfere with This Mod?

In some maps a starway to noghing (like subway map) spawns and makes no sense

@SpeCt3r1995
Yes, map mods can be added mid-campaign. Removing them mid-campaign can cause problems mind.

Does this work mid campaign? Should, right? The new parcels would just be loaded the next time I start a mission?

I love you and your job, damn i wish there were more map mods for this game

yattaze

@Arena Thanks, next update of this will tackle into fixing that!

@willieshat You can?but may pop up as missing textures ingame. I used some cosmetics of minor DLC for props on mannequins.

@Dragon32 Yes, Thanks for all the work you done in Xcom Modding Community in General

As for questions regarding working on LWOTC: I have not tested it, but i can't think of any reason of not being able to work.Only thing would be if vanilla objectives were heavily edited.If other map mods out there work with LWOTC i dont see why this one would be any different.Yet i don't recommend it using it on LWOTC ironman mode to be safe.

Hey eclipzer I love your maps. I think there may be an issue with one of the map parcels objective tags.
The problem seems to be with this parcel definition:

+arrAllParcelDefinitions=(MapName="md_TankDepot_EP", eSize=eParcelSizeType_Medium, \\
arrZoneTypes[0]="Commercial", arrPlotTypes[0]=(strPlotType="Slums"), \\
bHasEntranceS1=true, bForceEntranceCount=1, bAllowNonObjectiveOverride=true, \\
ObjectiveTags[0]="Recover", ObjectiveTags[1]="Hack", ObjectiveTags[2]="ProtectDevice", \\
ObjectiveTags[3]="DestroyRelay", ObjectiveTags[4]="Civilian", ObjectiveTags[5]="NeutralizeCommander", bAllowNonObjectiveOverride=true)

It looks as though the bHasEntraceS1 line should be an objecttags array entry. I'nm not sure what objective key should be used or if it should be commented out?

The alertness mod launcher, not the buggy vanilla one

I misspoke, I meant the "Manage Mods" feature in the Launcher.

Then play CI instead of LWOTC.

Not compatible with LWOTC, wrong textures are observed on maps.

Any chance that Anarchy's Children isn't a hard requirement? I'm not running that DLC and I'd still love to adds these amazing parcels.

@djconner
Not sure what you mean by "Missing Mods". Steam is notoriously rubbish at downloading stuff these days, try exiting and restarting the client.

I'm subscribed, but can't see this in "Missing Mods" unless it's there under a peculiar name, but I don't think it is. Haven't had this problem before (while using many, many mods.) Anyone know what might be going on here?

props to the mod author for the area that looks like something out of alien vs predator.

@Vaultwulf
Thanks for the nice words.

Maps packs have a bad history with LWOTC, but map/parcel maps is something that would be sorely needed for it, since this is a modern release, does it work with LWOTC ?

for lwotc?

@Dragon32 You have got to be the most helpful member of this community! You have been answering mod questions for years. Thanks for all of your contributions over the years.

@eclipsezr
Good to see you back!

@Vaultwulf
Yes, the parcels will just be added into the pool the game pulls from when building maps.

Thank you so much for your map packs! I'm also curious if this is safe to install mid-campaign?