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Weapon Tier Overhaul for War of the Chosen (Add Coil and Lasers anywhere)

To make this mod work you have to follow these steps:

1. Open XCom
   
2. Open Mod Options (Mod Config Menu)
   
3. (Optional) Change Settings how you want
   
4. Hit Save and Exit
   
5. Restart XCom

If you skip steps 2 or 4, the mod won't take effect.
If you skip step 5 after doing step 4, the game will crash.


This mod allows you to add coil guns and/or laser guns at any tier level you want.
So, want laser weapons to come before magnetic weapons? Now they can.
Want coil guns to come after plasma? Easy to do.

Well, there are a few limits:

• You can only put them in the weapon research path
  (Modular Weapons -> Magnetic -> Elerium -> Plasma).
  So, you can't set, for example, Muton Autopsy as a requirement for Coil guns.
  
• You can add Coil and Laser research as new requirements for projects, but you cannot change existing requirements.
  For Example:
  Add Lasers as requirement to Plasma -> Yes
  Remove Elerium as requirement from Plasma -> No
  Add Powered Armor as requirement for Plasma -> No
  
• Coil and Lasers both require Modular Weapons. You can add more requirements, but you can't remove this one.

Weapon stats, research costs (including time), and build costs are all fully editable in the Configuration Files. I'll go into more detail about this below. For those of you who don't know how to edit .ini files, don't worry, it's easy.

Simple. I made that MCM Configurable. Just open up the "Weapon Tiers" page in the MCM and change the settings as you desire.

And don't worry: it's programmed to automatically uncheck boxes if you're about to break things.
For example, say you set Lasers to require Elerium, Coils to require Lasers, and Elerium to require Coils. Running with these settings would make it impossible to get Lasers, Coils, or Elerium. However, the mod will cut the loop so you can still research all three techs. How it cuts the loop will be determined by the order you checked the boxes, but you will see the boxes change on your screen, so you can always tell what you are going to get.

First, don't worry so much. It's actually pretty easy. I literally spent more time on making this user friendly than the rest of the mod.

Second, what you get if you don't change anything is the Long War 2 five tier set-up:
Conventional -> Lasers -> Magnetic -> Coil -> Plasma

Weapon stats for all 5 tiers have been set at the LW2 levels. In general, this means Magnetic and up are stronger than vanilla, but take longer to get to. Faction, Alien Hunter, and SPARK weapons have also been changed to reflect the changes to Magnetic and Plasma tiers. If you play with these settings, I'd still recommend A Better Advent or similar mod to make things tougher, especially in the end game.

No. If you want to put both Coils and Lasers right after Modular Weapons with no other requirements and nothing dependant on them, that would work perfectly well.

Easy, follow these simple steps:

1. Research the required Tech in the Lab
   
2. Build the guns in Engineering
   
3. Equip them on your soldiers in the Armory
   
4. Kill some filthy Xenos
   
5. ???
   
6. Profit

And absolutely no sense of shame.

First: DO NOT USE NOTEPAD. NOTEPAD IS TERRIBLE AND WILL SCREW UP THE FORMATTING ON EVERYTHING

That said, just follow these steps:

1. Go to [Steam Directory]\SteamApps\workshop\content\268500\1275622993\Config
   
2. Find the config file you want to change. I have a list of files and what they affect below.
   
3. Open the file with the text editor of your choice. I recommend Notepad++[notepad-plus-plus.org] (note: Not just Notepad, there is a big difference).
   
4. Make the changes you want. It should be pretty obvious what everything does.
   
5. Save changes and close the file.
   
6. Restart XCom.

It is a good idea to make a backup copy (in a different location) before making changes. If you make extensive changes, you may also want to make a backup copy of the changes you made.

List of Configuration Files

• XComEditor - Don't touch this. Doesn't change anything.
  
• XComEngine - Don't touch this. Doesn't change anything.
  
• XComGame - Don't touch this. Doesn't change anything.
  
• XComGameData_WeaponData - Changes stats on Conventional, Magnetic, and Plasma weapons including Alien Hunter, SPARK, and Faction weapons. If you want vanilla stats on everything, just remove this file.
  
• XComLW_SMGPack_WotC - Change stats on Conventional, Magnetic, and Plasma SMG's. Remove for vanilla stats.
  
• XComMCMDefaults_WTO - Sets the default values for the MCM settings. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing. Can bypass the research loop safety measures by changing this.
  
• XComWTO_Techs - Change how much the researches cost and how much it costs to build the weapons.
  
• XComWTO_Weapons - Change stats for Laser and Coil guns.

Requirements

• Mod Config Menu - Get it. Use it. You can probably force the mod to work without it, but I make no promises and won't help you do it.
  
• Long War SMG Pack for WotC - Soft requirement. You need it if you want SMG's. Mod should function without it.

Incompatabilities

• Long War Laser Pack - WotC - Redundant. You don't need it and having it will probably screw stuff up.
  
• Coilguns for War of the Chosen - Same as the laser pack.

The mod should play nice with everything else that doesn't mess with the same stuff.

Do what you want with it. If you use Pavonis's stuff (the coilguns and laser guns), give them credit.

Coil and Laser gun were created by Pavonis Interactive.