Thank you for the mod! I like fighting the chosen but it always frustrates me when I have to deal with any hero that comes up. I like running with a standardised team composition but the heroes throw that right out the window. Different or unwanted skills I have no choice in taking and I have to bring them on certain missions when a normal solider would fit in better.

Sometimes the animation can be a touch jank, eg, a hero doesn't know how to hold a grenade launcher correctly, but simply having them be able to wield and train up similarly to my normal crew is well worth it!

Can you please make other Standard Progressions for the three heroes?

oh, uh, ok then.
it would be nice to have a version where their gimmicks stayed because i do still like their gimmicks. reapers are my personal favorite and was surprised they lost their gimmick.

@Ostar29 This mod exists for the exact purpose of mostly removing that uniqueness if used.

i feel like the faction heroes should still feel unique in that way

can you give the faction heroes their gimmics back because i liked the reaper's stealth gimmick but its gone now

Can you create skill trees for three hero classes?

Just subscribed to this, but was wondering what, if anything, will happen for Chosen weaknesses. I assume if I no longer have any "Templar" soldiers, if a Chosen rolls weakness to Templars, nothing happens.

Or has this been taken in to account?

I tried this mod a few times, but everytime the soldier animation is bugged and they keep using the standard weapon animation when the shard is equiped.

I tried with and without this mod:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2405138536

there seem to be a typo on the XComRPG.ini
+AbilitySlots=(AbilityType=(AbilityName="BloodTrail")), ApplyToWeaponSlot=eInvSlot_PrimaryWeapon))
there's an extra )) after the BloodTrail

I wish they had all their skills available by using two or three ability lines instead of one. You'd still need to invest twice or thrice more to get everything so it wouldn't be unbalanced.

@Aether It makes them into not-really-faction heroes anymore. It turns them into more standardized units for RPGO.

So this mod makes the faction heroes weaker? For example my reapers don't get shadow anymore.

@ReshiKillim thank you for answering, will uninstalling the mod fix this issue? and is it possible to modify the mod files to make it possible to enable the mod mid game? if yes I will look into the files myself.

@CuteSkull The midcampaign install of the plugin is the problem, this mod makes some significant changes to the Faction units, and trying to convert the units mid-campaign will break them.

Subscribing to this made reapers in my ongoing campaign go nuts, not I cant equip them with anything, also I cant make them learn any abilities. anyone know what could be wrong and how to fix it?

I would like to use this, If it didn't remove the Skirmishers from being edited in the Character Pool

It doesn't seem to work when using the random classes second wave option, the class has all trees even with the option active

@溯昔言 Technically no, they can be configured in if you wish, but they are not accessible by default. Functionally, this mod creates new Specializations based on the Faction Heroes, and converts Faction Heroes into Universal Soldiers that function mostly identically to standard RPGO Soldiers.

Have all other skills been removed？

Is there a way to create Faction Heroes at Character Pool like before? I used to load specific soldiers I build in the Character Pool for each faction, since before with the 'soldier type' option one could choose the Faction, but now the all Factions vanished from there.

...oh, this was the one thing keeping me from trying rpgo... I might have to try it now, lol. Appreciated

@Tommyc434 That's probably from some other mod's doing, it normally doesn't drain focus afaik. This mostly just ports them as specs, rather than changing the abilities much, especially parry

Thank you for the mod - I've been having a lot of fun with these specialisations baked into RPGO! Question - is the Templar's Parry ability meant to drain a point of focus? For some reason it's doing so in my game.

Thanks for this mod! Do you think this will work with the Proficiency Class pack along with the Proficiency Class Plugin: Reaper mod using the RPGO and Proficiency Class pack bridge?

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007470262

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1864618184

Just trying the mod today running with the Commander's Choice SWO, I started with a Skirmisher faction hero, went into their soldier abilities after Gatecrasher because I wanted to see their specializations, and it showed me the specialization selection screen with... every single specialization at once, with a bunch of random ones already locked in. It's higher than the usual max limit too, and it won't let me press the continue button to even confirm the current selection. I can quit out of this screen, but like... What the hell do I even do with this guy now? https://imgur.com/a/ApjlKlc

@Raidar V Yes, it is.

The ''Volt'' skill in the Crusader skill tree needs Focus to be unlocked which means I can't train it.

Is this a compatibility issue ?

For maximal compatibility reasons this mod does not contain any code that touches the core Character Customization UI functionality, but there is a mod that DOES solve that issue, and that Mod can be found Here

@Jokerke @Hassanrokhri31

Same problem here. Once a rookie is promoted to squaddie, I can no longer change their nationality.

I cannot change nationality of all soldiers (it says cannot change on faction hero)
All soldiers are affected

oh ok
Excellent mod by the way
Made the game a lot more fun

@hassanrokhri31 That's not actually a class icon as far as I can tell, that's the Skirmisher Unit Icon, which, like the Reaper Unit Icon, and the Templar Unit Icon are bound to the Unit types, as they use different Units than regular soldiers.

So it's a little confusing, but there's a few things that would mark a Resistance Hero unit, which works slightly differently from standard RPGO Soldiers due to technical limitations in that they can't get base promotion SP as they start as Squaddies, but gains more SP over rank ups than regular soldiers with the same combat int/etc for end net positive.

For all major purposes they are Universal RPGO Soldiers, but there's a few small differences. Skirmishers are really easy to tell apart though, given the non-human heads.

Do you know about fix?
I am confused as I have already removed the previous mod

I used this mod before then I unsubscribed and added your mod
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2961018013&searchtext=drumax

But layout and class icon remains from that mod and cannot be changed
https://imgur.com/a/hFvnRAm

But in squad select and during mission this icon appears which can be changed using rpgo
https://imgur.com/bAVQqYz

ok thanks

@hassanrokhri31 Shouldn't cause any issue, aside from the possibility of a few little mistakes in regards to which selection you make, depending on setting, as the internal name is quite different and thus should not have any problems with conflicts

https://imgur.com/a/iIXIiiq

Another Specialization exists with the same name 'Assassin'
(from "Rpg overhaul - Shadow ops and much more" mod)

Would this cause issues?

amazing mod

@ReshiKillim
Ah, got it. Thanks

@Grammarsalad It doesn't technically include the Proxians in the changes added by this mod, that was sort of my being derpy and forgetting I had screenshotted them in as well, as it'd mostly butcher the charm of them by removing all their fancy abilities (which wouldn't visually work properly with other soldiers)..

Though, in RPGO's XComStatUpgradeUI Config file, Proxians can be added to the units that benefit from the Purchasable Stats system.

Bonus points for including Proxian. I was kinda bummed there isn't a proficiency mod for it

Nice! I was thinking of installing rpgo, but didn't because the hero classes were untouched.

I take it that this doesn't touch sparks, though?

@Jokerke The Armory/Strategy layer Attitude for Templars is not something that will affect the tactical layer animations, and is not something I will not attempt to address, as it's a hardcoded feature in the Templar Character Generator, and not something I'm willing to touch in this mod.

As for the Faction Soldiers not getting SP on squaddie rank, is not something I can directly fix due to technical limitations, would create game-breaking problems with how the replacement of the necessity of Faction Soldiers on some Covert Actions with a Universal Soldier requirement works, however, as a workaround, I'm adding a configurable per rank boost to SP gained for Resistance Hero units.

Two more things:
1) Templars only have their default animation regardless of primary weapon (at least in the barracks, I've yet to see them on mission). Most likely all Templars only have the "Templar Attitude" by default, and they lack the option to change it in Customization.
2) Faction soldiers don't get SP despite being Squaddie rank when they join. RPGO does give regular mission reward soldiers (Squaddie or above) the appropriate amount of SP when they join.

@Jokerke, Base game issue that has now been addressed.

Reapers don't have a Utility Item slot.