For nearly a year I've been reduced to playing on an XBOX because I couldn't afford a PC that would run LW2 smoothly. Fixed that this weekend, and I gotta say your mod makes LW2 really bitchin'. Thanks!

i'm guessing this would conflict with second wave?

is there a list of mods that had LW2 compatibility and got WotC updates or due to the timeline appear as though they did since they no longer work or otherwise cause game crash. I am having, its like a ton of bricks it really is. I dont have the skill to do what i am having to do in order to keep My X-COM 2 LW2 working. I have given up on my prior savegames. and (for the thierd time) complete reload of game, all mods, My docs. All of it short going through the windows 10 registry and doing a find and find next search for all files dlls and every possible problem on this machine. I am not fimiliar with win 10 enough to do that. but have relayed it to convey my otherwise Tch ability and Yes this past 2 months have sucked as what Rear is getting at. This Blows. not your fault Scuba steve i wish the rest where as thoughtful

WOTC Compatible versions of my A Better' MODS have been released!!!

A lot of additions were made by WOTC that made upgrading a few of these a bit more tedius.. I'm looking at You, A Better Arsenal!

Thank you all for your patience. In the interest of getting these out ASAP I didn't get to do the full amount of play testing that I would like. Please send me your feedback. (please refrain from commenting that these mods are too OP as that is their intent. That said, if I didn't dile back the LITE versions enough then pass those notes along.)

--- A special thanks to reCLUsive7 for sponsoring this work.

Links to new mods:

+ A Better Start for WOTC | A Better Start for WOTC(LITE)

+ A Better Rookie for WOTC | A Better Rookie for WOTC(LITE)

+ A Better Arsenal for WOTC | A Better Arsenal for WOTC(LITE)

Like what Force2reckon just said, I've gotten a little screwed over due a couple of modders updating the current mod to wotc, instead of setting up another submission for a wotc version and it's godawful to have to deal with.

Absolutely, Force2reckon. If I merely update the mods in place they will still get trumped by the DLC. There will be 6 new WOTC compatible versions of my mods in both full OP and lite.

One bit of advice I've seen, don't **update** these mods to WotC, post the new WotC compatible versions as new mods and like, link to them here, because there are still quite a few people using the old stuff and we wouldn't wanna break people saves xD

Also no prob man.

Of course. I'll be creating a full OP and Lite version of each of the 3 mods.

well if you manage to port it over to wotc, do please a lite version and grats

Just had awesome subscriber gift me the DLC so that I can get these mods updated. You can thank, reCLUsive7 for his sponsorship of the update of these mods. What a crazy cool XCOM gamers community we have!

An additional shout out goes to Spartan A291 and Force2reckon for their generous offers to pick up the DLC for the cause as well.

I expect to get WOTC compatible version of this mod within the next 2 weeks.

Thanks for the great offer, Force2reckon. That's a huge compliment and a way generous offer. I've gotten a similar comment on another thread and responded before I read your offer. If that falls through I'll reach out to you if the offer still stands. Thanks again for your generousity.

@Scuba Steve
would you be adverse to someone buying the DLC **for** you?
Not saying I love your mods or anything but. If it's just the price sticking for you I'm more than willing.

sorry, too cheap right now to buy the new DLC at it's current price. Once it gets reasonable I'll pick it up and update my mods to work with it. I really appreciate the interest and request for me to do so.

are you gonna make a WOTC version? and maybe retroactive?

the quick progression from what I found has everything to do with the time scalers for research and engineering. The lite versions have these tweeked back some but still faster than vanilla.

did you ever find out if seting bUseFullXpSystem=true stops the super quick prgression

Is that Novislav Djajic in the thumbnail?

Thanks for ur effort. Is there any way to shut cooldown and xp rate boosts down or change it to default? I only wanna change their stats a little, can't make them too comfortable XD

I haven't used those mods myself so I can't say. What I can tell you is that my mod changes the ini files for soldiers and abilities so depending on when those mods were released their mods or mine will win out in the loading order. Personally I have yet to get one of those load order managers to work for me.

So, I guess this wouldn't be compatible with any of the mods that add Not Created Equal or Hidden Potential to the game? Thanks for this mod, btw.

I'm glad you made this after it being requested, my dude. This mod is the ultimate thing that gives people the ability to play the game how they want.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862320796

I still find this to be too OP, especially the ability cool downs and xp. The only things I would like changed are; HP, Mobility, Dodge and Will and only by a tiny smidgen. But apparently you can't min-cap Dodge at 0 without screwing up the point buy pool or so I've read. Nor could I find dodge as a value, or even any of the variant numbers from not created equally, only the base stats. :/ Might someone help me with that plz?

thank you making a lite the regular one was just to op

Updated the mod to include (LITE) boosts to the rebel soldiers in Haven missions.

great! thanks a lot

Yep. It will work with vanilla. The LW2 changes are just ignored.

Will this work with vanilla? i kinda want lite versions for vanilla

I am realizing that I could have bumped the stats on the rebels in your Havens for when you have to hunt down the faceless among them. Any feedback on whether this would be wanted or should I create "A Better Haven Op" ?

The stat bumps are best at rookie diff and then step lower with each greater diff level. As this is the LITE version the difference between rookie to impossible are typically no more than 1 to 4 points. Attributes that are percentage based are 10% to 30% lower.

@ScubaSteve Just curious if you could comment on how much difficulty changes with this mod along with the other Lite Versions.

Yep, all of the mods work without LW2 installed. Only the original versions of my mods won't work when LW2 is installed (see table above in the description).

Sweet, thanks. Also, sorry to be a bother, but does the mod work without LW2 enabled?

very good question. I wondered what that parameter did. Even the DefaultGameData_XpData.ini has that set to false so I'm unsure why it is even there. If I had to guess it would think what you are thinking and figure it overrides all the custom settings in that file. Maybe sometime I'll chase that value down in the code with the SDK tool.

Does UseFullXpSystem=true undo this mod's changes to the xp system or am I totally wrong?

That's what I was looking for :). I really like the LITE versions of your mod's. Thanks !

This is a nice balance between vanilla LW's 'these people have never held a gun in their life' and your previous mod's literal supersoldiers. Thank you very much for making this!

Thsi is exaclty what I was hoping for! Thank you!

Thanks a lot for making these light versions! Haven't tried them yet, but they appear to be just right for making LW2 playable at the highest difficulties.

Great work, thanks once again.

Great stuff, thx

Thanks Hans! I appreciate the great community and feedback.

You the man, thanks Steve