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[WOTC] More Dark Events: Enemy Abilities

This mod adds 14 new Dark Events, each of which gives a specific group of enemies a new ability. I highly recommend using this mod with the Second Wave Option Grim Horizon active or using the config option to make these Dark Events permanent without Grim Horizon to ensure they're more than a minor annoyance.

ADVENT:
• ADVENT Targeting Uplink: After an ADVENT soldier hits a target with an attack, all nearby ADVENT soldiers gain bonuses to aim and critical chance.
  
• ADVENT Defensive Tactics: When an ADVENT soldier dies, all other nearby ADVENT soldiers gain bonuses to defense and dodge.
  
  Robots:
  
• Electromagnetic Shielding: While armored, all ADVENT robotic units are immune to stun and freeze effects and gain increased hack defense.
  
• Adaptive Servos: All ADVENT robotic units receive improved adaptive actuators. After losing all armor, they gain bonuses to mobility, aim and defense.
  
  Vipers:
  
• Malicious Instincts: All Vipers receive bonuses to aim and damage on attacks against targets suffering from Burning, Poison, Acid, or Bleeding.
  The damage bonus only applies to direct attacks, not damage-over-time effects.
  
• Mutated Glands: All Vipers deal increased damage with abilities that deal poison, acid, fire or psionic damage.
  
  Sectoids:
  
• Solace: All Sectoids gain the Solace ability, shielding themselves and nearby allies from all harmful mental effects.
  
• Battle Premonition: All Sectoids gain the Battle Premonition ability. Units with the Battle Premonition ability do not trigger reaction fire. While healthy and unimpaired, they receive massive bonuses to dodge and defense.
  Lowering the Sectoid's health below a certain threshold or disorienting / stunning them will remove the dodge / defense bonus.
  
  Berserkers:
  
• Intimidating Presence: All Berserkers gain the Intimidating Presence ability, lowering the aim, mobility and will of all organic enemies in their vicinity.
  Does not apply to robotic units or soldiers who are immune to mental status effects.
  
• Unstoppable Force: All Berserkers gain the Unstoppable Force ability, making them immune to poison, stun, Chryssalid poison and mental status effects.
  
  Mutons:
  
• Combat Hardened: All Mutons gain the Combat Hardened ability, making them highly resistant to explosive damage and critical hits.
  
• Close Combat Specialist: All Mutons gain the Close Combat Specialist ability, granting them a free reaction shot with their primary weapon at any visible enemy within four tiles who moves or fires.
  
  Chryssalids :
  
• Eviscerate: All Chryssalids receive large bonuses to aim and crit chance when attacking wounded targets. Melee attacks against organic targets heal the Chryssalid for a percentage of damage dealt.
  
• Nimble Claws: After hitting an enemy with a melee attack, Chryssalids gain bonus mobility. After taking damage, they gain bonus dodge.

Almost all values can be configured and all Dark Events can be made permanent even without Grim Horizon in: and These files can be found under the path:
Additional Dark Events may be added at a later point and the values are subject to change as I attempt to make these as balanced as possible.

If you want to report a bug or have suggestions on how to improve the balance of this mod, please use the appropriate discussion thread.

This mod should now work with [WOTC] EU Aim Rolls.

The mod is highly compatible with mod-added enemies from your favourite mods, such as:

• The Hive
• A Better Advent
• ADVENT Custodians
• Bio Division and many more.
• If you find a mod that isn't compatible, let me know and I'll make sure it is.

This mod is compatible with pretty much any other Dark Event-related mods, such as:

• [WOTC] Grim Horizon Fix - This substantially improves the Dark Event UI.
• Remove Dark Event (Grim Horizon Lite) - In case you want Dark Events to have real consequences, but not irreversible ones.
• If you like this mod, check out my other Dark Event mod More Dark Events: Enemy Stat Boosts.

This mod should be safe to add and remove during a running campaign. No guarantees though.


ChrisTheThinMint for brainstorming some ability ideas.
Iridar & RealityMachina for their code snippets I took "inspiration" from.
The CX & X2 Modding communities, especially Iridar, Mr. Nice, Musashi and robojumper for answering every single one of my dumb questions!
dotvhs for some icons parts from New Target Icons I used for the Berserker abilities.
Xylthixlm for XModBase and XPerkIconPack.
Mister Gruffle for helping me out with some custom ability icons and for his entertaining Youtube series that gives me new ideas for mods.