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[WOTC] Randomized Enemy Pod Formations

This mod alters the mission schedules so that every normal pod has a large rectangular patrol zone they can spawn and wander around in. No longer will two thirds of the map be barren and never used. This will greatly increase the variation in how enemy pods are placed, rather than always being along the 'line of play'.

Current size: Most patrol zones are 80 wide, 48 deep. Vanilla varied wildly, but the average is something like 24 wide, 6 deep. Includes an optional Doubled version as well for free-range ADVENT.

While it isn't actually required, this is very much intended to be combined with random enemy movement, a mod which disables much of the line of play ruleset. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1129017531&searchtext=

Another highly recommend mod is Dynamic Pod Activation, which is a little like LW2 yellow alert in that it helps activate pods that are out of visible range. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131829513

Compatibility: Incompatible with any mod that changes XComSchedules.ini. As far as I know no other mods do yet. A Better Advent is fine. Mods that add new schedules should be fine, such as RealityMachina's new mission types, but they won't be affected.

Note: the enemy is supposed to hunt you after you complete the objective, but if they don't and the last pod has wandered off to some corner, there are console commands to activate them: AISetAllToRedAlert, or AISetAllPodsConvergeOnMissionComplete true may work too. Or x2forceallunits visible to see them.