@ Dragontoast - Lost targetting is defined by a seperate config in a different value, and affects all things on eTeam_Lost. That variable is 80:20 in the base game, to attacking XCom vs Anything Else.

That variable modified to a percentile where XCom is one faction out of X (X = Total number of factions in playthrough), the Lost, and anything on their team, will split their attacks between other factions, enemies and entities far more fairly, and according to their own situtational self-interest.

Changing the Lost to a team other than eTeam_Lost may also break things that require that team to be present, and will have no effect on preplaced encounters that place specific units on specific teams during tactical.

@Dragontoast - this sort of change would actually be somewhat clunky, since it'd cause Lost to be "allied" with other eTeam_One factions if both spawn. Which is mostly Hive and MOCX I think, but still...

That being said, it's been a while since my last campaign, but I could have sworn Lost didn't ignore eTeam_One or Two? Or maybe it's an AI thing, I use modded AI files so mine might be more unshackled.

As for uploading a mod like that - I hardly support the ones I already have on workshop, so I don't really feel like adding another one. But you could upload it yourself, Alternative Mod Uploader that's on workshop will let you do that without need for touching modding tools.

I edited the config to not change EncounterLists or Translations and exclusively change Lost spawns to eTeam_One from eTeam_TheLost.

This actually fixed an issue with the Lost faction ignoring raider factions like https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1774066942

Would you consider uploading a fork of this mod with just the Encounters.INI without the Resistance OPS Encounters segment?
It greatly enhances the Raider Factions and Lost interaction.

@Malek Deneith - In theory, if there was an 'Advent Hive Beacon', you could then just set it as an equivalant ability in the AI so that you didn't need to really mess with the AI itself, and it would just use the ability instead of the original after swapping the two with use of a third mod =)

Yeah, I know, that was part of my personal solution :) The other was using AI to prevent Advent-Hive summons now that they'd always be a detriment. To give Advent-Hive a way to keep their current summon status while making Feral-Hive only summon ferals one would need to create second copies of the abilities that pull from their own list of encounter spawns. (Originally I thought you'd also need second copies of enemies but now that I think about it, it could be done by just adding the new abilities and then some AI work to dictate which gets picked based on unit team)

@Malek Deneith - That's fair enough. Thank you for answering to preempt the next wave of Steam sale users doing so.

You can change the spawning of Advent AI teams by changing either team the encounter spawns to, or changing the encounter list the ability draws from for spawning.

For instance we rigged the Hive Queens call, like all other 'calls', 'beacons' and 'signals', to draw from an encounter list so they sometimes, mistakenly, attact the attention of those they didn't mean to :)

Thank you for answering the design questions, it's always good to understand why a person took the direction they did when making their art :)

@LeyShade

Yes, ELR should be able to handle this idea too, but at the time I wasn't using or even familiar with it, so I went about it the old fashioned way. If I ever do a clean-up of this mod I'll likely look into doing it ELR way, but for now it works and I'm on an XCOM cooldown period so to say, so it won't be happening soon.

As for AI, I actually were able to implement what I needed in my personal copy of this. The problem is that "what I needed" was removing ability of Advent-aligned Hive to summon at all. That is the limit of what can be done with AI and config edits here. And it is something that could be seen as unwanted change by players, hence it's not included in mod. To do anything better actual code would be required, and that was beyond my plans. Especially since the only solution I could "code" would be hacky as all hell.

Question: Why didn't you just use encounter list replacer and then it wouldn't be an issue?

Also, if you need assistance with editing the Hive AI, just ping us a DM with what you need and will see if can do it remotely for you over weeked =)

I mentally justify chryssalid infighting as them being from different hives.

I play WITHOUT the lost, or TIMERS, and having tried this it makes a good change from the lost, so i shall carry on with it. I have removed all defence and dodge from them, and given them armour instead as i use a mod that gives more defence and dodge, the more armour pips you have.

"Is it balanced" "wheeze gif"

Best mod description XD

Unless I'm mistaken Enemy Reskinner just changes how the units look. So you'd still be fighting the Lost, just ones that look like Chryssalids. Which is fine if you want that, but not the point/idea behind this mod.

I just thought, would it be possible to make a much more "lite" version of this simply by using Enemy Reskinner Redux to reskin the Lost into Chrysies?