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[WOTC] Prioritize Right Click Melee Fix

There is an interesting issue where the right mouse click shortcut in the UI would cause units to move and melee attack with a skill that is NOT the desired or expected skill.

The most glaring culprit of this interaction is when using [WOTC] Nonlethal Combat and right-clicking an enemy with 3 or less life using a Templar.

Without this mod, the Templar will run up and activate Stunning Strike.

With this mod, the Templar will run up and use Rend.

The algorithm that Firaxis wrote for finding a melee move and attack skill was perfect for the vanilla version of the game. It found the first ability on the unit that met the criteria and used it. Problem is, they were never expecting a unit to have more than one of those skills.

This mod updates that algorithm using a Highlander hook to now look in Shot HUD Priority (aka, from left-to-right on the ability bar in the bottom) and uses the first ability found. So now it will always be consistent with how a melee skill is chosen instead of based upon which skill was added to the unit last.

• X2WOTCCommunityHighlander v1.26.3

This mod should be compatible with everything.

It is ONLY required if you are running mods which add multiple moving melee attack skills to a unit under your control. If you do not have any mods that do that, then you can run your game without issue and ignore this mod.

• The Highlander folks for working with me to get the necessary hooks in place to allow this fix to be done!