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[WOTC] Compression Phaser Rifle

Adds the Compression Phaser Rifle from the Star Trek franchise. By default, the Phaser Rifle is added as a Tier 4 Assault Rifle. After you research Plasma Rifle, you can perform the Phaser Rifle research, and then purchase a Squad Upgrade in Engineering to upgrade all your Plasma Rifles to Phaser Rifles. However, the mod is very configurable, and there are many different ways the Phaser Rifle can be integrated.

The Phaser Rifle, quite obviously, is intended to be a direct upgrade to the Plasma Rifle, dealing more damage and having more versatility.

The Phaser Rifle has three Power Settings:

• Stun Setting - deal no damage to targets and the environment, Stuns and Disorients "normal" targets, "large" targets are only Disoriented. Enemies that are normally immune to Disorientation will not be affected by neither Stun nor Disorientation.
  
• Kill Setting - standard lethal attack.
  
• Maximum Setting - with this Power Setting, all attacks will require extra Action Point and Ammo. Attacks performed at this Power Setting deal 25% more damage and disintegrate enemies on kill. Disintegrated enemies' loot is destryoed and they cannot be used as targets for Raise Dead.
  
• Power Settings should properly affect all shoot-style abilities, like Rapid Fire, Killzone, Chain Shot, etc. As long as these abilities apply the weapon's bonus effects.

In addition to the Power Settings, the Phaser Rifle has two bonus firemodes:

• Wide Beam - available at Stun and Kill settings. A short range cone attack that applies the effects of the current Power Setting. Killing Wide Beam deals 50% damage of the normal attack.
  
• Scoped Shot - available only at Maximum setting. A long range sniper shot, able to engage enemies at Squadsight ranges.
  
• Both of these abilities cost extra ammo.

• X2 WOTC Community Highlander is required.

This mod overrides the UITacticalHUD_Weapon class in order to correctly display the increased Ammo Cost at different Power Settings. This makes the mod incompatible with any other mod that would override the same class. Since this is not a critical feature, you can resolve this conflict by removing this code from XComEngine.ini:

The Power Mode switching is a new and experimental feature, and in order to work correctly with all the various abilities, the mod makes a lot of blanket changes to them. These changes should only come into play if the soldier is equipped with a weapon that is capable of switching Power Settings, but you never know. So please make sure to report any weird behavior, like abilities costing a wrong amount of Ammo or Action Points.

Mods that make other similar sweeping changes to the same abilities can potentially break how Power Settings are supposed to function, but worst case scenario, the ability will just not cost the extra Ammo / Actions it's supposed to.

For example, there was one such incompatibility with Mitzruti's Perk Pack and Chimera Perk Pack that we had to resolve, since both of those mods replaced the Action Cost of the Overwatch ability with their own.

• The Phaser Rifle cannot proprly take advantage of abilities that require a special Action Point to activate, such as Grimy's Traverse Fire. To be fixed.

More Star Trek weapons/characters/ANYTHING?
No plans for any more Star Trek things in the foreseeable future.

Power Settings for other weapons?
Technically possible, but not something that can be done without extra code. I might add the possibility if there is enough interest.


The mod is highly configurable through:

• XComPhaserRifle.ini is responsible for Phaser Rifle's stats, its Weapon Category, abilities attached to it, etc.
  
• XComPhaserRifleIntegration.ini determines how the Phaser Rifle is integrated into the game. E.g. what schematic/research/proving grounds project unlock it, whether it's a standalone weapon, or if it is an upgrade for something else. The Config folder includes several text files with examples of alternative integration. For example, you could make Phaser Rifles craftable one by one with a Proving Grounds project.
  
• XComPowerSettings.ini determines the effects of different Power Settings, damage multipliers, which Power Settings allow using Wide Beam and Scoped Shot, Action Costs and Ammo Costs.

Compression Phaser Rifle model by JackofBlades1313, originally made for a Fallout 4 mod[www.nexusmods.com], used with the author's permission and blessing.
Textures and model ported to XCOM 2 format by Lord_Poncho57.
Research and Proving Grounds images by NeIVIeSiS.

DO NOT reuse this mod's assets without explicit permission!

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