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A Harder War: The Ethereal Restoration

This mod is a collaborative work between me and E3245, who's awesome modeling and texture work made this mod possible. Some of the Animations are from Enemy Unknown, Others were done by Yours Truly. All assets in this mod are free for use in other mods, just please give credit due where it is due, and I hope you all enjoy this mod.


The Ethereals have returned as a rare boss enemy at high forcelevels, intended to be a challenge for players who have reached the end game.


The overall mechanics of the Ethereals are designed to be similar to those of the Long War Ethereals, but with some differences to make things more a bit more challenging in XCOM 2, given the higher availability of damage output.

Aside from the Classic mechanic of Returning Fire against missed shots, their abilities include Mind Control, Null Lances, Dimensional Rifts, and more! But not a whole lot more.


Be Merciful to your soldiers or your campaign. Take actions upon being damaged. Provide Epic Techs and Loot, this is purely an enemy mod. Come in very scary groups of Ethereals, the image is just them posing menacingly for a photoshoot. Share their ADVENT Burgers.


The Ethereals, in the base state of this mod, are balanced on the assumption that you are running a heavily modded campaign, and are intended to be a challenge in the Endgame under the assumption that you are playing a campaign that has been heavily modded. If you are playing a campaign that is scant on XCOM-friendly mods, it may be prudent to adjust the Force Level requirement so that they're less likely to spawn in before you finish your plasma tier weaponry research. Or possibly to adjust their HP value, depending on what all mods you're running.


There is now an Extension mod, which adds an Ethereal Autopsy + Carcasses + an Item that can be built using them.


Nothing that I'm aware of that's incompatible. Now works with Long War of The Chosen!