Bug report.

Having played the same mission twice, it appears that there is a game freezing bug, I believe may be being caused by The Lost attacking the Ethereal, and the Ethereal trying to reflect?

I used the Lost Lure on the Ethereal which pulled a number of them into him. Also I play with Lost having Bladestorm and poison attacks if that helps.

To be clear again, the freeze happened both times many turns into the mission and only when a Lost attempted to melee the Ethereal.

no, the AI breaks before they get a chance to do anything or even get hit by anything, from what i can tell it happens from as soon as the mission starts and multiple squads with varying abilities all get the same result

An ability that maims ir confuses opponents? Those can break ai too

I did not no

did you use a shredder rocket on them?

encountering a bug where the ethereals only use their first ability when alerted, but then stand completely still and do nothing for the rest of the encounter ultimately going down without a fight, been aware of this issue for awhile now but nothing i have tried works and testing it is annoying due to how rare these things can be, help would be appreciated

@mayrenise123
Edit XComEncounterLists.ini

how can I change the force level they appear at??

This appearing at force level 16 is a bit too much, should be absolute endgame (20+) :)

@N30 THAT WOULD BE SICK!!! PLEASE!!!

They don't attack my troopers or use any skill in any mission,just like statues,what's wrong?

Would it be possible to make a playable version of them

Would it be possible to prohibit the spawning of this Ethereal with a Chosen?
I had the assassin and the ethereal both active at the same time in one mission.. Everyone survived and we completed the mission (hurray mindshield), but it was really, really nasty.

@Tarian O annwn, If you're not satisfied with this version, I recommend you check out Lalup's Ethereal overhaul which rebalances them and nerfs their ability to summon reinforcements.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3046846024&searchtext=ethereal

Fun mod, a nice enemy to challenge you. That said, the fact it could summon more of itself is a deal-breaker.

@Hunkules Not as is, no.

Is it possible to mind control an ethereal?

The Mod [WoTC] Encounter List Cleaner might help

the biggest danger is Waterworld

@mimiji2121
Maybe. Missions are created some time in advance, with their enemies. So if you remove a mod and a mission spawns that had already rolled this enemy then it'll crash on load.

I've half a thought there's a mod that will help with that but I forget the name.

Can I remove this mod mid-campaign?

EvilBob22, thank you!

Short answer: Yes.

I double-checked the code to be sure, and it's in there: "CharTemplate.bIsPsionic = true;"

I apologize for a very dumb question with a supposedly obvious answer but I haven't found one in description or the comments. So, are Ethereals tagged as Psionic units? Meaning, are they meant to receive more damage from Warlock's Disruptor Rifle and Templar's Volt ability?

Say what did this new update do?

This is a really gret mod, otherwise. Clearly difficult, too, but without being impossible. And as others have already said, encountering one as a field commander was a nice surprise.

@DukeBurger I'm replying to an old comment (so you might have found since then but at least it might be usefull for future users) :
I've observed the same case with reinforcements acting as soon as they arrived, and was also playing with yellow alert with defensive actions for reinforcements.
I'm not sure yelow alert considers ethereal summons as reinforcements, because the workaround I found was to make all units take defensive actions in yellow alert configuration (and not just reinforcements). Of course, with this configuration, the pods encountered in the field will now only defend instead of sometimes shooting at XCOM (so this is a choice to make).

I didn't even realize it did that. Nice. It doesn't always replace the General though, it's added to the pool of potential enemies that can be the "Field Commander" at higher force levels. If you have the Requiem Legion, you'll see some of those enemies acting as Field Commander at low to mid force levels sometimes too.

I'm liking this mod, but maybe also give people a warning that it would also replace the standard advent general when a general assassination mission comes up. My squad lived, but they need therapy... a lot of therapy.

Cool

@Dragon32
I fixed it. I kind of just unchecked and rechecked the boxes to enable the mods and that seemed to work.

@Unkind_Ocean208
Are you using any AI mods? This mod's behaviours are uniquely named so shouldn't get overwritten by another mod but maybe you're using a mod that (for some reason) renames behaviours from the vanilla game.

currently having an issue with the Ethereals where they use their beginning ability upon being alerted, but then don't do anything else. any obvious mistake I'm making? I've re-downloaded the mod and seen the problem occur in multiple different scenarios so my little brain is stumped.

Hehe, fun enemy.

My first encounter with them was in a tunnel mission where I had to extract a VIP, right after I had finished upgrading my soldiers to the magnetic tier.
My specialist opened a door after engaging in combat with the first pod and immediately saw the Ethereal on the other side with a bunch of mutons, I just closed that door and waited a turn on the other side of the wall. Good thing I had brought my templar along to deal with that thing, although the reinforcements were really really tough.

Only negative thing I have to say about this mod is that the reinforcements might be a little too overwhelming especially if you play with double enemy count, otherwise excellent all around.

Can confirm. The animation issue is fixed. Thanks again.

Great. Thank you. I'll let you know

@p6kocka Should be fixed with the new update to The Extension Mod

Thank you for updating your mods for LWOTC. ONe question. I am using the mod Proxian Soldiers by RustyDios. This unit has got a teleportation abilty which uses its OWN teleportation animation. But somehow, the Proxian Soldier uses the teleportation animation from your mod The Ethereal Restoration. Can you restrict your animation for using it strictly by Ethereals ONLY?

there is one firaxis spaghetti that leads to II
enemies of mods recently added (after your last win/loss screen i think) will get forced on you no matter the spawn weightings

Absolutely love the animations and concept of the mod, the rare appearance of the rare Ethereals themselves. However. I have had a few issues.
I. Like others, I've found the Our Will Be Done ability dropping turn one to be ... a little excessive.
II. Though I'm sure I could change this in the config files with a little monkeying, I've been encountering these guys way too often. Like, more common than Sectopods.
III. Our Will Be Done can summon another Ethereal. Who can also use Our Will Be Done.
IV. See point III. as I feel like it needs that emphasis.

I might see what I can do to resolve these things on my end in the files, but I think it's fair to point this out to people who might also be considering installing the mod. Great enemy and always provides an 'oh shit' moment when they turned up, but after they show up seemingly every other mission it's not quite as effective.

Just had my first encounter with the Ethereal, love the fact that the Ethereal is back but the multiple reinforcement pods at the beginning of engagement is very over powered. Even worse when high level enemies are being spawned in and in some cases flanking my soldiers. The best enemy mods are tough but fair and I have a bad feeling that this might be too imbalanced that its not fun which defeats the purpose. If the reinforcements was scrapped or nerfed it would be way better.

@RustyDios Ive set yellow alert to only allow defensive action when reinforcements spawn but whenever a Ethereal summons them they are allowed to take offensive actions

That doesn't sound like it's from this mod ... maybe something in your YellowAlert/LWotC settings ?

Would you consider adding an option to disable Reinforcements Getting the ability to act when they spawn?

Folks, you can edit the ini to turn down some of his Stats, to make it "easier" on you, hell even I have done such I have no shame in such, while you can't edit the powers, you can reduce their HP, Armour Value, etc.

Hey, I translated this mod into Korean. I want you to add this file to this mod.

{LINK REMOVED}https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kz5UDksM7ioisd-b1T0HMXYfe5ZPaDRB/view?usp=sharing

This mod is amazing, but a easier version would be nice too. They always end my game when they show up in legendary difficulty.

lol if you dont read dont bitch simple kids

What's reading? 😑

@Bigun .. i don't think it is a good idea to insult other people, especially if those people put up amazing content for free.

Reshi also calls it "A harder war" and mentioned in the description that this is a very tough mod. But have you even read the description?