One more bug/feedback: exalted custodian are still able to fire their guns after having had their weapons disabled by the psionic attack.

One suggestion: the metion battlesuit jetpack animation is just the guy "jumping". Since there is already an animation with the jetpack fire going off, I think it would be a much better fit for it.

part of me hopes for an animation mod from this mod if you use the Dedicated Pistol slot mod Shields

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so i'm trying to add an armor upgrade slot to the metion battlesuit. however i'm not sure hwo to do this without the name of what the item is in game. (different mod called Armour Upgrades) what is the item called in the code?

here's the line of code i need to modify... or add to
+NonWeaponUpgradeSlots = (TemplateName = "KevlarArmor", NumUpgradeSlots = 1)

so i'm assuming i need to replace "KevlarArmor" with MetionBattlesuit and then jsut add a line in the config to add slots to it. however modded armor sometimes has a different name internally.

in my experience, "Protect Data Interceptor Device" missiosn are impossible with Exalted Custodians. they will disregard any other target and just one-round the device the moment their pod is triggered

Playing LWOTC ModJam, I encountered one of the full Exalted Grandmaster pods on turn 2 of the Avenger Defense mission (the thing the Chosen does when their knowledge bar is full). 3 Custodian mini bosses with 65hp and 8 armor each, plus another 6 weaker enemies or so in the pod. Forget it. I’ve put up with too much eyebrow-raising behavior from this mod already at this point, and this finally earns the uninstall and load an earlier save treatment. It didn’t help that some bug (I assume) was making them all weirdly invisible, but honestly even if I could have seen them properly it wouldn’t have made much difference.

How do I reduce the amount of cosmetics from this mod that shows up on my rookies?

these guys shouldn't be harder than the actual boss level enemies in the game. there's nothing even tactical about the exalted, they do a million different things, are immune to everything, and don't even worry about cover, because they can just literally walk up to wherever i am because of their absurd health pools, and then i get to sit there and watch them take 6 shots on me, where any single one will just about one-shot even a max rank soldier.

The spawn rate of these mobs is ridiculous. Once they start appearing they quickly become by far the most common mob in the entire game.

I play on Legendary Beta Strike and the 3 custodian pods are just a huge slog to kill. It seems like only "cheap" tactics like repeaters and mimic beacons are effective against them. And then it's just a matter of using mimic beacons and stasis until the repeaters finally proc.

I gotta agree with the others. It's just to much. I love a challenge but fighting those guys just made me tired. They're more of a slog to fight than the Sectopods and I'm using the Very Angry Sctopod mod. I'm not saying to completely change them but they need to be tweaked.

Hello Claus! Thnx for amazing mods!!) May I ask how rewards for hunting couriers work? I played WOTC and now LWOTC. In both campaings I never got some e[traiordinary loot from couriers

The standard custodians are... Barely reasonable-ish(?) to fight against. The grandmasters? Oh, god. OH, GOD. An absolute slog to chew through their health while they pull enough abilities to outfit an entire alien pod out of their asses.

Would be a fun challenge for strong mods if not for their absurd health and the fact that they usually come in threes.

Agree with Nikitaw99 and Hawk. I got 3 of these in one mission where I also had to kill a general muton and sectopod + elite footsoldiers and 2 teleporting enemies with my B team, because it was a low profile mission. You can guess what happened next. I don't even think my A team could've pulled it off (maybe with hardcore savescumming, but that's not fun!). Would have been great to have a configuration panel where we could play with their spawn numbers and frequencies.

Have to disable the mod now, which is sad, because they look awesome. I do see myself returning for another run if the configuration panel or something similar is applied in the future.

@Ekko i'm using both but also LWOTC and mod jam, idk if mod jam makes this mod and bio division compatible

Very good mod, may I ask, is this mod compatible with Bio Division 2.0? At the same time, there are enemies with shields in that mod

Is there a way to get anything in this mod via console?

How to unlock the Battle armor?
And I don't have ADVENT Exalted Custodians autopsy project to research, was that normal?

I also think damage and healt are ok, just make them never appear as more then one or max 2. Also should they not appear so often. A Specialised Elite unit is not everywhere to be seen normaly.

Yep way to overpowered. Will deactivate this mod again. I think they look great and are also fun to fight when alone. But as Minor Boss like enemy.

But every mission 5 of them drop. Thats not balance. While beatable no fun you can only grind them down. I mean one of them is way stronger then a choosen.

These look sick but way too overpowered for regular enemies; I've only seen the regular Custodian so far and it's got more health and armor than even the sectopod I found in the same mission. And now I check this page again and see there's stronger variants...

And as if to make a liar outta me, I gave it one more "ol college try" and it inexplicably worked, go figure!

Now I can inflict the horrible pain of downloading this mod vicariously unto my xcom soldiers, bahahahaha!

For some strange and yet-to-be-determined reason, I've been unable to download this mod. I had initially downloaded the battlesuit and shotgun mods, then I saw they were part of this (larger) mod... so I unsubscribed from those and [attempted to] download this one instead and I keep getting a "start-stop-start" download that flicks between starting and stopping ad nauseum.

I've googled and yt'd all the go-to solutions for workshop downloader not doing its thing (short of re-installing steam/xcom 2), from clearing cache this and switching download region that but nothing seems to work.

I gave up and went back to the battlesuit and shotgun mod, resubscribed and they downloaded without issue. :S

When steam seemingly gave up it eventually said in red "Manifest Unavailable" where it ought to of said "Completed".

IDK... :(

I want to try this mod but i agree with most people post saying you should make a light version with nerfs to enemies across the board. Mainly the damage they deal, i think the health is fine. I dont think no enemy in the game should be able to one shot max level soldiers.

Please make an alternative mod that has a nerfed version, these are just way too op to even use.

Ok, so whenever a custodian attacks and it hits, my game crashes, cant tell if its like that with all new enemies or just the basic one because i never let them attack in the first place. I got lucky and started a mission with one custodian of my own and it doesnt matter if my one or the enemy one hits its mark it crashes the game.

Playing right now and I can see the Metion cosmetics so it should work regardless :)

I cant see the mod in the AML laucnher, I also searched the ini folder for latest added file and so on. I have also subscribed/unsubscribed and cleared my folder but no success

Any ideas what might be wrong?

@Beastwolf1 Agree. Turned off the chosen in my new LWOTC campaign as this mod totally nails the boss fight experience. Everything else seems mediocre. Excellent mod. Works with LWOTC with Mod Jam. Not sure if it works without Mod Jam

These things are much better boss fights than the chosen or the rulers.

so does this mod include the metion customization aswell or is that seperate?

@wag so in other words using something like the super soldier class mod along side this one (as well as maybe a better advent) should keep things balance?

@solargus Mod Jam.

LWOTC?

For people saying they are too OP - these are challenging enemies meant to increase the difficulty of the game. They can be hard to deal with, but they are meant to make you fight differently and use mobility as your advantage. Also, they fit perfectly with mods that increase squad size or boost X-Com soldier performance in some way., and especially fit right in with A Better Advent mod

They are super cool and hive nice animation, but I think they are too op. Or maybe that's your intention? They are even deadlier than Sectopod and gate keeper, and have too much health for playing on timer missions where you have to kill things fast.

I never noticed these guys don't appear until force level 16, same FL as sectopds. Kind of weird the Mk1 and Mk2 appear at the same time.

Yes, way too OP. They are more annoying than challenging.

They are cool, but too OP for casual players. Had to remove them from my game

is there a command to get the corpse

@Steven777 Every enemy needs a weakness. Especially ones this powerful.

Custodians are so cool looking.

More health than the Chosen, huh.

Edit the characteristics of the shotgun (I believe that it is quite weak) \Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\2094672450\Config (XcomMetion_Shotgun.ini)

any way that I can get those shields? I want to equip it for my soilder

These guys or at least the first variant I met are really weak to mind control.

I've been using this mod for a while and it's been incredibly fun and great. For some reason, I feel like I never see the Courier spawn, and also feel in certain playthroughs, some items don't ever appear despite me having done all the autopsies (i.e. the braincord and the shotgun).

I'm sure it's because I'm running over 100+ mods along with this - but does anyone know if there's an easy way to fix this?

Awesome mod. Truly challenging enemies. Animations and appearance are badass. Gear earned from research is great. Well done!

From the mod maker:

"Exalted Custodians and Grandmasters will always appear together as a boss pod(like Sectopods and Gatekeepers)"

Honestly, I'd take either of those pods over those Exalted. At least those pods are vulnerable to to EMP bombs! Heck, I'd consider taking on a Sectopod Prime over the Exaltted and SP's scare me!

;)

Anyway, once again great job! This will probably be my last X-Com 2 campaign and this mod is making this run quite the epic!

Well, the mod maker did note this under "Suffering is Fun" but wow, those Exalated are NO JOKE!

I alpha-struck a pod hard and all three were still standing and twice critted one of my best grenadiers while he was in full cover and as armored as I could make him without being a Mec!

Sadly, no bleed out but right to the memorial.

*sigh*

Just watch out if you use this mod. Watch out... and use Mecs or Sparks as meatshields. I have learned my lesson.

BTW, this is not intended as a criticism; excellent work on the mod! When I get some more resources, I plan to check out the new items and hope to enjoy them.