Great mod!

Im looking for mods wich makes the game harder because I am using RPGO
So I have 2 question :

1 : Is it compatible with LWOTC ? If yes, does it play well together ?
2 : Basically to confirm : Is this mod really making the game harder?

what a vital mod

anything works. I put 10 for convenience

Do the weights on each month have to add up to 10 or can I use different numbers when editing the config?

e.g. (Diff1 = 9, Diff2 = 8, Diff3 = 2, Diff4 = 1) would mean 10% for hard and 5% for very hard

Appreciate the info. Thanks for your help.

there are no guerrilla ops in CI, those all turn into infiltration or assault missions / chains

Hi again @h4ilstOrm, I don't suppose you would know if there is any point affecting guerrilla ops if using Covert Infiltration Mod?

I have this mod and your Covert Infiltration version to give better variation in mission difficulties already, so I'm thinking the changes in EU Style Strategy Pacing affecting mission difficulty are redundant. I know those two are not your mods, and you may not have the answers, but I thought I would ask just in case you have some insight.

Regardless, thanks for your help and the information so far.

This mod doesn't affect guerrilla ops, as it says in config.

Those work differently and get assigned various difficulties without mods already. EU style pacing changes the vanilla values for that.

Hi @h4ilstOrm, could you tell me, does this and your Covert Infiltration variant do the same as part of this mod?

EU Style Strategy Pacing
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2851542705


These are two lines that I'm referencing from that mod that may be doing the same as yours, but in a different way.

+GuerillaOpMonthlyDifficulties=(Month=1, CampaignDifficulty=3, Difficulties[0]=1, Difficulties[1]=2, Difficulties[2]=1)

ImpossibleMonthlyDifficultyAdd[0]=0

1,2 maybe one pods worth depending on what stage of the game you are at and assuming no other mods. once you have other things as well it starts to get muddy

h4ilst0rm hello!

Can you please tell me how much difficulty is reduced with this mod?

What a very nice mod! :D

Ah, that's awesome, thanks both of you.

the Alternative Mod Launcher has a convenient config edit option for these sort of small edits as well.

@Chontawood
I think this will help you find it
https://www.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/wiki/wotc_modding/mod_folder/

Where in XComGame.ini should I be looking to configure the default settings? Thanks.

Lifesaver of a mod. XCOM's always been amazing to me in the early game but grindy and dull in the late game once every mission becomes super difficult.

Seems to be working fine so far. Thanks.

I believe that mod is just config changes to make missions spawn more often, which should work just fine with this.

Do you reckon this would be compatible with Mission Mania? That mod doubles how often tactical missions spawn, but I'm not sure if that modifies the same systems as this mod does.

Oh nice thx for the response! This will be perfect to attempt level some weaker soldiers since many of my A team have been injured and abducted

I believe it should be, that mod does its thing with custom sitreps and doesn't alter how the missions are spawned.

@ImLinkn hiya was just wondering if were you able to figure it out if this mod is compatible with Lightweight Strategy Overhaul?

Thank you so much. I have been tortured by the difficulty mechanism for so long. I even have to play a round of game for more than one hour even in Rookie mode. This mod will save my gameplay!

Should work mid campaign, won't affect missions that are already spawned.

Is this mod saved games compatible?

Damn this would be amazing if it was totally compatible with CI. I just got squad wiped in June and having every mission be Very Difficult was getting boring; my rookies were useless. I wanna restart with this mod but CI is just too gamechanging to remove :\

Based on a discussion I had in CI discord at one point, it does not for the majority of the missions.

Have you tested whether this is CI compatible yet?

Thanks H4ilst0rm for letting us know =)

Just a heads up.
If you have adjusted your configurations you will need to do it again. I added an option to give specific missions their own weights e.g. never get "Easy" retaliations and as a byproduct I did some restructuring for the config which will wipe any changes you might have done.

This simple mod is so important!

Not exactly, its hard to explain without going too deep into technical detail... Some modded missions will work out of the box, some might need adding to the config and worst case this mod just wont affect them but there shouldn't be any adverse effects.

So it should be taken as it won't effect mod added missions unless added to the configs, and won't effect missions that have custom logics.

Thank you for swift reply. Great work BTW, love anything that increases variance in the campaigns.

It depends, if the mod adds to existing mission sources it should work, if it creates a new mission source it will not work without adding it to the configuration, and it might not work even then if there is some custom logic at play somewhere.

@h4ilst0rm - does this effect mod added missions?

I have not tested with vanilla, you can try it but I wont be making in compatible if it doesn't work.

Mod looks like it would be nice cause it definately sucks loosing high level people late game and not really given a chance to level up a new character. Does anyone know if this mod works in Vanilla?

Sorry if this is a stupid ask but, can this mod be used for both WOTC and Vanilla?

Sounds great, thanks

It might, you should test it. I don't know how exactly it does its thing: if it only uses the special sitreps then they probably do work together but if it also changes something under the hood how the missions spawn they might not work together.

@h4ilst0rm How would your mod work with Lightweight Strategy Overhaul?

@SlayerOfKings It should, but only for newly spawned missions.

@Dex For scanning site spawned GOps it might actually work. Regular GOps are generated as a set of 3 with set difficulties, i.e. 1 difficult 2 very difficult at the end which I feel is fine and its done differently on code side so the function I patch does not affect GOps

Would this work in an ongoing campaign?

I saw in the ini that configuring G.Ops is different. How do they work? Scanning sites plus makes you complete a G.op for a POI reward instead of just getting it and being able to make those vary in difficulty would make my campaigns a lot more fun.

This is fantastic, thank you!

Yes!!! Totally correct, the missions do feel very stale over time. Some easy missions to mix things up are very appreciated! Thank you!

Thanks for the mod, I've been hoping for feature like this for a long war-ish campaigns for very long time.