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krumiro 9 May, 2016 @ 7:20am
Predator Armor as Raw Material for EXO/Spider Suits
At first I liked this option thinking that EXO/Spider Suits were "upgrades" of the Predator Armor... but then I realized that Fireaxis seems to not make that assumption...

It seems that you can build EXO/Spider Suits even without having completed the Predator Armor Squad Upgrade (I remembered because I actually did on my Campaign)... In fact the "Plated Armor" Research project unlocks simultaneously EXO/Spider Suits Proving Ground Projects and Predator Armor Squad Upgrade suggesting that the 3 items (EXO, Spider and Predator) are all 3 upgrades from the base starting campaign armor (suggesting therefore that the first 2 are not an upgrade of the third)... the first two only costing 1 elerium core to be built upgrading a standard starting campaign armor.

What do you think... Spider/Exo come from Predator or not?

ps.
Your mod has instantly become my favorite one ;)
Last edited by krumiro; 9 May, 2016 @ 8:18am
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Anisotropic  [developer] 9 May, 2016 @ 4:16pm 
Well, if you researched Plated Armor, you would have to be insane to not buy Predator ASAP. No one is going to buy 6 EXO/spider suits instead of buying the armor upgrade.

So while it was not strictly required, I think it was assumed for balance.
Proving ground armor acts as an upgrade in practice, so requiring the armor keeps the balance similar. I think if you removed that you'd have to increase the cost to compensate.
(You can remove that req., actually, by removing the ModTech lines in the config)

ps. Good to hear! :)
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