Nevermind... http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1171631441

Dang it, this was my favourite class in LW2. Guess it's no go for WOTC.

Don't bother with it til it's fixed. I'm salty right now, but I do appreciate the effort. Thanks for the work, just hope you can fix the problems.

This mod is AWESOME! I wish I could say that. I planted X4 in the middle of a group of Chrysalids, and when I got away to blow it up... "NO TARGETS AVAILABLE"?!?!@?!?!?!?!?!! And because of that bullshit, a good squadmember died.

GOOD MORNIN' VIETNAM

where did you get the hat?

why do I have something called ghost bersker as a class

Just a reminder that a lot of us would love a WoTC update. I love love love this class and would love to play it again in WoTC.

I look forward to this coming to the Expac

I hope to see a WOTC update :)

The specop class is the only class mod I (personally) feel adds real value to LW2. Now that I'm stuck with 4 classes in WotC, I'm seriously missing this one. I'm hoping this, and the supporting mods (re: silencers) get the WotC treatment sooner than later to save me! :)

I cannot promote the spec ops class past the first teir. It is just blank. Is their a way that this can be fixed on my end. Im playing with the Alien Hunter DLC. I do not have any long war or long war 2 mods installed.

The [LW2] i added when long war 2 came out to indicate its *compatible* with LW2. Removed it now since it seems to confuses people who don't like to read mod descriptions.

Hi dude ! Which one work without LW ? Both say that they require [LW2]Spec Ops Combat Knive

so spec ops class no longer works properly, i can no longer do pramotions beyond major or even the first pramotion eather, they just are blank

@Musashi, there are a few vanilla mechanics for concealment which I think are nonsensical and limit the effectivness of concealed troops. Can you modify the ability mechanics so that throwing smoke grenades, mimic beacons, proximity mines, and battle scanners (if it does) does not break concealment? I don't know if you'd want to include offensive grenades as well but I feel like the covert classes could become much more useful, especially early game, if they can throw smoke or mimic beacons without losing concealment. What do you think?

@Desmiles
Probably the one with LW2 in the title.
Just a hunch.

Seriously? @Desmiles

you have 2 mods spec ops. what work with lw 2?

i realized that i never use the X4 skill... the fact it requires me to have action points despite being a free move makes it very hard to properly use, since i need to spend 1 point to get close, plant bomb, then spend a point to run the frick away, and a lot of the time the enemy either runs/walks away or the rest of my team kills them

plus the fact that i cant even blow myself up even if i wanted to since i need to wait till the next to turn to detonate charges :^/

would it be possible to make X4 not require you to have AP to use it and let me blow it up in the same turn? like, be able to do a yellow move and plant X4 in the same turn? or do a blue move, plant x4, run and detonate it in the same turn?

My character is always revelaed when using abilities that say he will reamain concealed, why? Also goes for "silent kill" ability with the knife, even if i don't attack when i use it wonce the cloke animation is done my character is spotted no matter where he is

Hey, is there a way to edit the files, or something more skillful that I am missing, so I can get in, kill silently and then get out alive and still concealed, as just a captain? Oh and the enemy have Dark Event Vigilance! LOL

Just wanna give a thumbs up here for this class mod - I just recently got back playing Xcom cause all other AAA titles this year were kind of a letdown - I cant really tell you how much fun I had playing my specops guys (a playstyle I allways wished the ranger would come close). If you dont know this mod yet - I´d highly recommend this mod as it give a scout that packs a punch and lets things get really close and personal :-)

@Musashi, did you ever consider giving this class the option of carrying a pistol only? The advantages to carrying a pistol and no primary weapon would be and increase in movement and a greater decrease to detection radius. I don't know if it is possible but it would be fun to create a soldier, along with the covert ops armor mod, that operates almost completely undercover and has a detection radius close to 0. Also, any luck making the throwing knife item stack in the inventory? Thank you!

No

do you need this class to use stuff like the silencer or combat knife?

No problem, am happy to help.

thank you so much Yamino ! just like you said, set the ghost effect to false in the "XComCombatKnifeMod.ini" for combat knife mod fixed the problem for me. no more holographic cloaking effect, yay!

In case of the Combat Knife it would be "XComCombatKnifeMod.ini", since I think this class doesn't have a corresponding .ini itself. Judging from the description, he doesn't have the Silent Takedown-Skill, but the knife does...if I'm not wrong here.
Just checked and the exact line would be: SILENT_TAKEDOWN_SHOW_GHOST_EFFECT=true

In the case of the Katana-Mod, the corresponding .ini would be "XComKatanaMod.ini", same line. (the Ninjatō from that Mod has the "Silent Takedown"-skill as well)

won't be able to test now, i have to go out and do some stuff, will test it out later today after i got back

@ Yamino i have no idea, what's the name of the ini? i will try it

continued from last post:

3rd aspect:

visually, and most importantly, this holographic look actually produces a visual glitch on any soldier that is visually setup using the invisible head mod.

lets use the awesome garrus vakarian mod by kexx as an example. to setup garrus you have to use the invisible head mod to get rid of the default human head, and put turian head in.

now after silent takedown holographic effect wears off the next turn, garrus will have a default human face sticking out from underneath the turian head, for the rest of the tactical battle. it will only get back to normal after he returns to base. i tested this out with multiple characters, not just garrus, they all have the same issue.

because of these 3 points, i hope you will get rid of the holographic cloaking effect for silent takedown all together.

love your mods, cheers!

@Jill Sandwich: Can't that be deactivated in one of it's .inis? At least the Knife- and Katana-Mods by Musashi have a line with "GHOST" in it, where you only have to change the "true" after the "=" at the end to "false".

hello musashi:
i have been using this class mod for a while now, really love it, so much fun to play and the detection mechanism is brilliant, also the extra covert gears are awesome as well.

i just have one small issue: can you please please get rid of the "holographic" cloaking visual after the soldier activates the silent takedown? there are actually 3 aspects regarding this:

1st, it's completely unnecessary. player already pressed the button to activate silent takedown, there is no need to remind us that the ability is active.

2nd, visually, frankly speaking, it's a mess. now normally silent melee takedown should be an awesome looking cinematic scene, with your badass soldier wearing awesome looking armor stabbing an enemy in the back! now all these awesome visual is covered up by this horrid holographic look, all those awesome details of those armors won't show up.

due to character limit, 3rd aspect will be in next post.

Awesome class, i'ts really fun and immersive to play with it, congrats :)

I'd like to propose you a french translation for your mod, i translated names and explanations of the perks in the .ini file and it works. If i send it to u, it is possible to add it ?

ah ok, awesome , thanks :D

Yes you can. AFAIK all classes can use smg.

a quick question, can you use smg with this class ? or it's assault rifle only?

Update
Toggle UI on/off in ini
Fix reload makes UI disappear
Fix Suspicion Level not decreasing
Your suspicion level resets to 0 when you kill the last member of a pod and no other enemy saw/sees you this turn (Unconcealed squad members included).

@liltimmy
Yes i am using perfect information myself.

is it compatible with perfect information?

the ui disappears after loading a savegame :( don't know my sus level anymore

V 1.2 Introduced global suspicion level and UI for suspicion

Change to Silent Takedown:
If you dont take down an enemy in melee your concealment breaks at the end of the round,

Really fun class

Some crazy shit is possible when the stars align, like for example if you get reaper and you upgrade your knife with a piece from Grimys loot, there's a 90% melee damage when stealthed mod, this makes your knife attacks do ~25 damage

With 25 damage you oneshot most enemies in the game and with speed PCS, Wraith suit and and SMG you have enough mobility to run around and l=kill everyone in 1 go, doesn't matter even if you have a mod that increases the pod size by 3 X :D

Is Silent Takedown intended solely as a melee attack? I can use it to sneak past people at the moment.

Have to say a Ghost Specops is Perfect with a Bolt Caster.

I was just finding with another mod (spectre), that if I had an smg, civilians had no radius, and aliens had like, 4 tiles.. I might just reduce that. 2 to .1 :)

I was just finding with another mod (spectre), that if I had an smg, civic had no radius, and aliens had like, 4 tiles.. I might just reduce that. 2 to .1 :)

Thanks heaps :D

By the way, I found that if a Colonel with ghost successfully killed a target, the other people killed enemy in this turn with one shot can also remain conceal, is this normal?

It reduces their detection radius by 20%. The formula is (1-DetectionModifier)*DetectionRadius.