LWoTC - First Mission / Commanders Choice

[Vulpes]

Really trying to get my first LWoTC campaign off the ground. Would like to be able to choose promotions. Tried my first mission yesterday, not a single soldier had a promotion. Just tried using the second wave plus mod which has a commanders choice option. Only one promotion after the first mission, and it got auto selected as a technical.

I have never not had a full squad of promotions after first mission. Is this normal? Is there a better way to be able to ensure how the first round of promotions all get assigned?

[TwinuX]

Sounds a lot like something is going horribly wrong, just from the starting squad not all getting promoted.

Are you running any other mods, workshop highlander perhaps? Also try deleting everything in your XComGame\Config, it might ensure the mod loads correctly.

[Vulpes]

I just reran gatecrasher again without that Second wave mod that includes commanders choice. same result, only 1 promotion (soldier w 3 kills.) Will delete configs and report back.

[Vulpes]

Cleared config. Not a single promotion this time (no single soldier 3 or more kills.)

Only mods I am using are ones I saw DerAva using in his LWotC playthroughs.

[TwinuX]

But what mods are those? A lot of mods need to be modified on our end to play nice with LWOTC. RPGO, for example, needs a lot of config changes to ensure stuff works correctly, causing issues otherwise.

Also make sure you are running the LWOTC-included Highlander and not the Workshop Highlander. LWOTC needs a modified highlander build to support stuff like the XP system changes, which the Workshop highlander lacks for now. The latest builds of LWOTC (Dev 21+) comes with an up-to-date highlander, which will be compatible with all current mods.

[Vulpes]

Hey Twinux,

I am using X2WOTCCommunityHighlander. This is my first time using AML, so there probably is a user error in here somewhere. I appreciate the help. If you notice any redundancies or red flags please let me know.

Installed mods include
WOTC Additional Icons
WOTC Bond to Header
WOTC Cost Based Ability Colors
WOTC Extended Personnel Info
WOTC Free Reload Anytime
WOTC Gotcha Again
WOTC Instant Loot
WOTC Less overwatch lock ups
WOTC Loot Mind Control
WOTC Mod Config Menu
WOTC Revert Overwatch Rules Change
WOTC Sats on new promotion screen
WOTC+classic Reliable Smoke
WOTC+classic Tactical UI KillCounter
Better Second Wave Mod Support
Blackmarket Usage
Evac All WOTC
Expanded Callsigns and Nicknames
Extract Corpses WOTC
Instant Avenger Menus WOTC
Long War of the Chosen
More Cities WOTC
Pause Scanning WOTC
Show more buff details
Simple True Concealment
Tower Detection Fix WOTC
Upcoming Events WOTC
WOTC Enhanced AOE Preview
WOTC robojumpers squad select
WOTC Second Wave Plus (have toggled this on and off to same end result, only interested in Commanders choice functionality)
Yet Another F1

[TwinuX]

None of those mods seem like they'd cause problems here, so a couple of questions regarding LWOTC and the Highlander;

Which version of LWOTC are you using, and what is AML reporting it's filesize as?

Stemming from that; if you are using the latest dev builds (Dev 21+), the Highlander included with LWOTC should be "[BETA] X2WOTCCommunityHighlander".

This will functionally replace the WOTC Workshop highlander in-game, but make sure the workshop highlander is disabled, or they will conflict.
AML will complain about missing dependencies for various mods. Ignore that warning, they work fine with the beta highlander enabled.

[Vulpes]

I think you're onto something. And this is where I might sound stupid, so bear with me.

on AML, i have both [BETA] X2WOTCCommunityHighlander (18.7MB) and also X2WOTCCommunityHighland (18.7MB). Theyre flagged as duplicates, and I dont know how to remove one without the other. First time AML user.

In terms of LOTWC itself, AML says last update was 12/9 and the file size is 2.97GB

[TwinuX]

AML should have a checkbox to the left of the mod's name, try disabling just X2WOTCCommunityHighlander.

As for LWOTC, it sounds like the mod files itself should be fine.

[Vulpes]

Originally posted by TwinuX:

AML should have a checkbox to the left of the mod's name, try disabling just X2WOTCCommunityHighlander.

As for LWOTC, it sounds like the mod files itself should be fine.

So whenever I do that, it would uncheck the BETA one also saying theyre duplicates. So I just went and deleted the non BETA one, but am getting "missing dependencies" on two other mods now (WOTC Extended Pesonnel Info, and Extract Corpses WOTC)

Will do gatecrasher again and test it this way. Im actually a huge fan of the extract corpses mod even if its a bit easy mode, to me it doesnt break lore. Will report back, thank you TwinuX

[Vulpes]

Ok we are up and running. And Commanders Choice works too I was just unfamiliar with the interface. Thanks so much TwinuX!