It also bothers me that when Vipers bind you, their colleagues can gun you down without having a chance to do friendly fire to them.

Since you are taking suggestions, I would like to add my vote for a WOTC port of this.

Not yet

Has this been updated for Wotc yet?

flashbangs irl aren't just visual though, they are sound and shockwave too

I wonder how easy it would be to make it play something like the shielding your eye animation or something when in the radius.

maybe so but the in game animations do not reflect that and it bothers me

Actually, it's fairly realistic - I'm told a flashbang is possible to shield oneself from if you know it's coming.

I will update my mods soon do not worry

Tested and confirmed not working with "War of the Chosen". Crashes the WotC and shows the "Hello Commander" error message.

no problem

That looks like the right place for it to me. Thanks, Vortex-Pixalation

Fixed

AFAIK, game text goes in the localisation files with the appropriate language's extension (.INT for interational English, .CHN for Chinese etc.)
I'll check it out next time I'm in game. Could be a while as I got distracted by Dwarf Fortress.

huh? I thought that was where It was supposed to go, if it doesn't work let me know

Havn't tried in-game but it looks like the update added the text to Config\XComGame.ini

Not sure if that will work.

Update released

Will try updating today... sorry life got in the way

ah so I should be able to update the mod with that in the Mod's .ini and override gothca, thanks for the help I am unsure when I will get to it but I will

Haven't checked all cases but this seems to have worked for me.

I added the following text into the blank Steam\SteamApps\workshop\content\268500\748756564\Localization\XComGame.int

;Place localized text in this file
[FlashbangGrenade X2GrenadeTemplate]
BriefSummary="The Flashbang Grenade disrupts and disorients targets in a very large radius, inflicting significant offensive penalties."
TacticalText="<Bullet/> Flashbang grenades don't do damage, but disorient and disrupt targets in a large radius.<br><Bullet/> Warning! Friendly squad members will also be affected."
ThrownAbilityHelpText="Disorient all hostile and friendly targets in the affected area."
LaunchedAbilityHelpText="Disorient all hostile and friendly targets in the affected area."

Ah my bad didn't even consider that, never modded those before.. I'll try to look into, I haven't been very active in the mod Community Recently

Really great mod, small thing though. Some of the ingame descriptions for the Flashbang (e.g. when selected in the Armory) still says that it doesn't affect friendly troops, from XComGame.int:
BriefSummary="The Flashbang Grenade disrupts and disorients enemies in a very large radius, inflicting significant offensive penalties."
TacticalText="<Bullet/> Flashbang grenades don't do damage, but disorient and disrupt enemies in a large radius.<br><Bullet/> Friendly squad members will not be affected."
ThrownAbilityHelpText="Disorient all hostile targets in the affected area."
LaunchedAbilityHelpText="Disorient all hostile targets in the affected area."

not sure I can do much about that I am afraid, seems like an incompatibility

Been using this mod with LW Perk pack and noticed that friendly fire is gone if you pick perk Sting grenades.

@talemore

XCOM EU and XCOM 2 don't have a ballistic's simulation for unit targeting.

well It may be possible but I would have to look into it

Is this something you can fix by making flashbangs go through 1/2 cover?
I don't think anyone want to remake every map in the game with cafe tables.

shockwaves are blocked by objects in real life, getting behind something would protect you, now a cafe table, no lol

If you put a flashbang next to a 1/2 cover, the grenade effective radius will be blocked by line of sight. This 1/2 cover was a table, those small tables you see in a café. You get dumb by playing xcom2

closing your eyes... to a flash bang, you realize what actually disorients you isn't the light, it is the concussive blast ...

So your team know that you will use Flashbang and just close eyes maybe?..

that is what we call a visual glitch get over it, if the guns really shot like that then the game wouldn't make any sense, you need to get over your self, a lot of games don't actually have physical bullets but in many of those games the lore states that guns can't penetrate that far, but sometimes they do due to wonky hitboxes, you can't use visual glitches as confirmations, that is like seeing a photoshopped picture and say "oh it must be real look at the picture"

1 sheet of paper= 1milimeter
1000 sheets of paper = 1 meter
The gauss rifle in xcom long war is meant to be the equal of the magnetic weapons used by the advent. It was written that the bullet went through the test dummy and burrowed itself 5 meters of bunker concrete. One tile in xcom is 1,5 meters. You would be able to shoot through at least 2 tiles with a magnetic rifle.
The old ufo/xcom/rebelstar games had bullets who could kill your own soldiers, the bullets actually existed and stopped moving forward when hitting a wall. In xcom2 the bullet will hit the wall and then continue through the walls and kill the target, no matter how many walls there are inbetween the shooter and the target. It doesn't matter if it's a convential or magnetic: all firearms in xcom2 can shoot through the walls.

I know what those rifles are capable of, they wouldn't go through several walls plus a car, heck if you put 1000 sheets of paper in front of it or so it will stop the thing

It's a Sabot Round. big enough Caliber Armor piercing round would go through most things like that. It's not like that round is going several miles either. a .50 cal AP round is going to go through bodies, carbon fiber and brick like they're paper at the usual engagement ranges in XCOM.

that is kind of nonsensical

Reason i like Divine Lucubration's Sniper Mod's Sabot Round. that's a Sniper round that WILL go through anything in the way, meaning it can quite hilariously, go through three troopers, a wall, a car, that civvie on the other side of the map..

@yeah vortex, i find it amazing that when alien fire at you and there are 2 other beings in front that the beam goes past them and hits you :P I know it is a game. But Firaxis wants us to treat it like a real Tactical situation... oh well i guess it is a bad as not givings us shivs or at the very miniumn deployable shivs like turrets

It's more the idea that when you shoot, everything in that line will be able to get shot, just like the line you make with I.E flamethrower, except that the closest target, will be the target who will get shot because it will be calculated to be cover and everything behind cover will be protected by the object in front of the subject.
This for example would make a flanking on two soldiers only be able to hit the target who stands closest since the second will be protected from line of sight, though in xcom2 line of sight stretches beyond one tile, more like 1.5tiles in all directions. Very annoying when standing behind 3 walls and the enemy flanks you from an angle that visual is impossible.

So you could hit allies the same way as environment destruction? That'd be about as frustrating as when a sniper misses from half the map away, hits a car and blows up your SPARK. The idea might have been to discourage firing into melees but the RNG sends missed shots just about everywhere. The random car explosions a hundred metres from the battle is often testament to that.

If you desperately wanted that I suppose you could code a system where whenever you miss a target it rolls for damage against nearby enemies but the firing animation wouldn't line up. Your soldier would miss, the plasma beam would fly off somewhere to the left and the soldier next to the Muton you missed would just drop dead.

I think he meant more of a system where, if a unit is close to the target, say within a few tiles, there was chance that upon missing you could hit the unit a tile or so away from the target

Also, you know how irritating it is when every time you shoot you have to tab through all your mind controlled aliens and hacked MECs (which, being closer, are easier to hit) every time you shoot with anyone?

Imagine tabbing through your whole squad every mission too.

fair enough, but it would definately add a new realm of possibilities to the game if it was

see that is a bit harder, as weapons aren't aoe based, when you click the fire button it calculates hit or miss on the target nothing more, it may be very hard or near impossible to allow friendly weapon fire

what about weapons fire for both sides?