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@ADVENT Avenger
Aw man, thats the best compliment I could have got. Thanks!

@GauravDas I think I'm going to actually sub to yours instead ha!

A pleasure sir

So I made my own Bladestorm Customization mod with a few additional options.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=869566977

Thanks a lot for getting me started on modding.

I havent kept the source of any of my stuff, feel free to scavenge it.

Hey, I was just wondering if it is possible to add a config to prevent Bladestorm from critting.

I think setting bAllowCrit to false should do the trick.

Thanks chief

Been playing around with Shinobi quite a bit, and I feel this mod is still needed. By the time you have Bladestorm you can't kill anything even if it decides to move into your threat range. Makes Bladestorm a real dud perk.

I remember seeing that once when i was experimentally screwing around. I dont remember how to reproduce it. You can simply turn it off if you have problems, it should fix your game. No permanent damage.

So with LW2 + this mod, something is triggering that is causing Bladestorm to have crazy long range. It's at least 6 or 7 tiles. I thought it might be interfering with Close Combat Specialist, but it's definitely not that.

It was really simple to implement. You're welcome.

Thank you so much for making this mod. With the mods I'm playing right now it's essential that bladestorm actually does something, instead of being almost useless like in the vanilla game.

Yessir all configed in the INI file

@xronisf: Since it doesn't say anything about MCM-compatability in the description, I'd guess that it's in an .ini of the mod.

Do i choose 1 or 2 in the options menu ? Or during battle?

Thanks boss

Thank you, your mods are great BTW.

Yes

Okay to subscribe to this in a current play through?

You could increase the range with mods

Does the game offer ways to make melees actually have more than 1-tile radius? I'm imagining Close Encounters from LW, but the only ability like it in X2 is bladestorm, limited to 1 tile sword.

If you want to know the default game behavior of Bladestorm without mods in vanilla xcom2 its no crit, reaction penalty on aim, triggers on move and attack

The description already has all that information.

can you list in your description what bladestorm does exactly for comparison to how your mod changes bladestorm

Well, good luck with it either way! As I say, probably a muc simpler option somewhere.

That, or as a civilian action as those are all reactionary moves to alien or xcom actions, but NO idea where those are.

Sounds like something that's outside my coding power at the moment, but you never know.

Only idea I had for inserting it after the opponent attack would be to hijack the AlienStrategyActionTemplate and basically insert Bladestorm as an action on it and the soldier a an AI with alien targets with it's own conditions; but no idea how plausible that is. Mainly depends if the conditions already have useful things like when to act and aren't hard-coded for Aliens vs XCom, but can have targets selected.

If it works, would mean it's a post-event reaction to the previous move/attack, rather than a reactionary attack.

Take a LOT of work to make sure it's all there though - probably easier ways, I'd hope!

Uck, sucks to work with :( Probably why they made it movement-based so it'd trigger before anything else could - how annoying! All the more respect for getting the mod advanced to this stage.

Bladestorm is not aware of the type of attack or damage done. It listens for an attack then triggers regardless. In fact is so dumb theres special code to prevent deadlocks with mutons

Wonder if Bladestorm ever actually gets passed the incoming damage or not. I assume not, or it'd be a cinch to adjust it to work properly. Anything else involves screwing with the AI damage system, which is a nuisence, unless there's anything that other abilities can trigger to prevent all damage.

Haven't seen it, but I'm not surprised.

Did you come across the bug that people've reported; being that Bladestorm will trigger, attack, sometimes even kill, but then the original aggressive damage towards the player will happens, even though the unit should be dead?