Thank you!

Yes, this mod series is incompatible with LWotC.

Would it be safe to assume that the A Better (x) series of mods are incompatible with Long War of the Chosen, given the sweeping changes both make?

I've ben poking at LWOTC + (ABA/ABM/ABDLC) and Ive been getting a lot of crashes.

Unfortunately I'm dumb (well ok, under-educated) and struggle to understand the log file that AML spits out, and nothing that I've been able to parse has specifically pointed to incompatibilities.

That said, almost all of the mods I'm using are ones that youtuber Marbozir has in his current LWOTC streaming series, with the exception of a few UI stuffs, the A Better (x) mods and Diverse Aliens by Force Level (WOTC). It of course could be that last one, which I'm going to look in to, but since I happen to be on the comment page for your stuff DerBK I figured I'd put the question out to you/community

This is the mod launcher i have been using: https://www.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/comments/7joq13/alternative_mod_launcher/

Not sure what others are out there or what issues they have.

Hi, im trying to run this collection using the ModLauncherWPF.exe approach and am getting a red screen with errors. Should i be using the new launcher?

was pretty good until I got to the mec prime and it was 1-shotting every soldier I have every time it was hit at all. had to unsubscribe.

No idea at all, that's completely out of my wheelhouse. That's for sure not caused by my mods, i wouldn't know how to do that if i tried :D

I could use some advice. When I've the mods running there's no sound for the game, is there a good workaround for this?

@DerBK

Recently returned to the game and just wanted to give a shoutout to you for your exceptional work in the A Better Everything ensemble. I very much like what you've done with it and the add on packs you recommend are equally worthwhile (top marks to robojumper and others too, this is all top flight stuff.).

I am noticing some challenges in getting it to work reliably, which is what usually keeps me away from mods in general. I did notice that I think it may have been the Lost and Abandoned mission being turned on that oddly disabled things like Squadselect and Icons down stream.

I've just wiped my config directly and reinstalled everythign from scratch to see if I can get a few things back online again. I know you're retired and playing Elite (Also been an Elite pilot of some time myself; I miss my Type 10 star brick...), so from one Commander to another, thank you for your work on this great mod pack. o7

Hm, looks to me like parts of the ABB Content folder is missing or not recognized by the game. Rest of the ABB mod looks to be present though.

Try unsubbing and resubbing to ABB, so Steam will redownload it.

If that doesn't fix it, go through step 1 of general troubleshooting as outlined here: https://steamproxy.net/workshop/filedetails/discussion/1126623381/1736588252390966814/#c1736588252390967330

If that still doesn't fix it (and i would be very surprised to hear that), tell Steam to verify the integrity of your XCOM2 installation.

If that ALSO doesn't fix it, i am out of ideas.

thanks for the quick reply. I am only using your "A Better Everything" list of mods, nothing else. I've researched Laser (i believe) + built them. I've taken two screenshots ingame, maybe those help you?!
https://steamproxy.net/id/fantomato/screenshots/?appid=268500

I don't know what those placeholders are about, those are not from my mod.

How it's supposed to work: Laser weapons (and coilguns) are unlocked for research early, but you do need to build a proving grounds to actually research them. once you get that research done, you will be able to build individual guns at Shen's.

Hey, great mod, but does anyone knows, why (quite early in the game, just built 3 rooms) i am getting Laser Weapons, but they are not appearing. It seems they are working, but they are showing up as placeholder images in the inventory + no 3d models. The squad just has invisible weapons ...

Hey DerBK, I was recently updating my mods, A Better Start / Rookie / Arsenal to work with Long War of the Chosen (LWOTC) and in an inadvertent search I came across your awesome set of mods. Nicely Done Sir! Way back when I started A Better Start I was just looking for an easy button overhaul of the start of the game that lead to breaking things out and then creating new versions for LW2, WOTC, and now LWOTC. Folks liked my mods but they were too OP so I then created LITE versions of all of mine. What I really like about your work is the greater attention you paid to keeping a good balance as well as you went deeper with more specif improvements broken out in each of your mods.

I just wanted to give you a shout out and would like to add links to your work in the comments of my mods. Let me know if you are cool with that.

Scuba Steve's A Better X mods

Cheers!

Redownload the ABA mod, i guess.

I keep crashing whenever the game tries to spawn an enemy. I think its a sectoid because the crash log keeps saying that the game failed to load bettersectoid.upk. However when i went to the directory location the folder does not exist. Any advice?

No

LWOTC?

very well.

I am semi-retired from modding. Meaning i am still around to answer questions here and to shitpost on modding Discords, but i currently have no plans for more active dev work.

any upcoming content for aba or abb? just curiuos. i like your mods

Not really, without some detailed info there's not really much i can say. Does it crash on entering the mission, crash on leaving the mission, crash during the mission? Did you check the crash logs or go through the standard Troubleshooting steps ?

What i can tell you is that i am very sure that there are no hard crash bugs left in any of my mods, so it should either be some sort of mod conflict or something that is installed wrong. Chances are, the ini deletion as described in the link above will remove your issues. If not, deeper digging may be required.

I'm on the month of July and a retaliation mission keeps crashing on me, any ideas?

Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for making these mods available to the community!

Actually, it's the other way round. You need to use an action to move, and to move only. So Run and Slice or things like Icarus Jump do not count, you need to do a regular move.

question on impulse skill - it states "improved aim and crit chance if you used an action to move this turn." Does a regular move count as an action or is this only count if you used run and slice?

Oof. I didn't think to check the tooltips on spectres before he vanished. Did not realize you made them permanently invisible even as they shoot at you. That's rough.

If you want to use the "ABA: Better DLC" plugin, you will also need Alienhunters and Shens Last Gift. If you don't have those, just leave out this mod.

ABB:TLE needs the Tactical Legacy Expansion. If you don't have that, either leave out ABB or use the pre-TLE version of the mod from my Workshop.

The rest only needs WotC.

Is War of the Chosen the only DLC required? Or do you need other DLC?

These are great mods, thanks for your hard work

That was my thought. Really appreciate the quick reply.
On my way back to enjoying this fantastic collection of mods. Cant wait to see what you come up with next.

Not sure where you read that because voice packs are, just like you expected, no issue at all.

Some say that if you run a bajillion of them, they can have a performance impact on weak machines, i suppose.

How is this collection regarding voice packs? Most voice pack reviews make me worried the game will implode lol. Also, if voice packs are ok to add, can this be done mid game? Thank you.

Honestly, voice packs seem like they would be one of the easiest things to mod into a game. Not sure why I read so many problems with them. Thought I would ask.
Absolutely loving every aspect of "A Better Everything". Thank you DerBK for the amazing experience.

True.

There are some more things i want to do with Better Missions before i add it to this list, like extensions to mission mechanics, more unique Alien Generals and some balance adjustments.

Things is, i didn't do any modding for the last weeks, got sidetracked by PoE, Borderlands and other stuff. We'll see when i feel like it.

My guess would me that it gets added to the list once it leaves the 'beta' status.

Will 'Better Missions' be part of this collection?

Some quick ways to tell would be starting Gatecrasher. A Better Barracks changes the way that armor works, so your soldiers should all have one pip of energy shield. A Better Campaign adds new enemies to Gatecrasher, for example a Medi Drone and an ADVENT Gunslinger.

I'm new to this mod and installed it but how do I quickly know if I'm actually playing it vs regular War of the Chosen?

I'm guessing the new classes are designed around New Promotion Screen. I saw my specialist can only choose between the hacking stat farm ability, or... hacking enemies. So that doesn't seem to make too much sense like that :D I hope it still works just fine if I enable it mid campaign.

From what I see it's a very high quality collection. The classes are very interesting after playing base LW2 only. Nice work.

I tried the things you listed but it still keeps crashing, it made it to the intro logos this time tho.
Here is the crash log. http://prntscr.com/oprx9a
It's probably some weird game-related issue, since the game worked fine a few weeks ago with plenty more random mods installed.

That's a generic XCOM crash that could be everything, not even something related to the actual game. It just means that the game crashed.
I actually have not seen that screen in a long while, it used to be more common on old versions of the game.

The debug message there says something about ABA:DLC. You do have the DLC, right?

In any case, i am very sure that this modlist works without any problems.

Suggestions: Do this first: https://steamproxy.net/workshop/filedetails/discussion/1126623381/1474222595301114193/

If after that the game still fails to load, let Steam verify the game files, might be something wrong on that end.

If it still fails to load after that, check the log files. Details here, in my FAQ .

Doesn't work, I keep getting this error when trying to launch the game. http://prntscr.com/oppmp1
The only mods I have installed rn is this A better everything package. Anyone know why?

Thanks :) Enjoy!

Just wanted to pass you some praise. This collection is awesome work! Feels really well-balanced. Read about this collection on Rock Paper Shotgun this week and wow! You've knocked it out of the park! Thanks! I'm loving it

I wonder if it is possible to turn off the enemies increased likelihood of destroying cover?

in wotc

not to be a bother but i would like a lot more health for the X-com units thx

Update:
I just removed the somewhat junky Chosen Tweaks mod from this collection and replaced it with the far superior A Better Chosen.

OK Thank you. I'll try that in the next campaign. Rgds

A Better Barracks won't, but the rest will work.