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More ABA Guest Enemies For LW2
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Tags:  Alien, I Can't Believe It's Not Aba, Please Don't Bug Derbk About Issues From This Mod
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Adds in the Codex and Andromedon variants from ABA2 to LW2, since those two enemy types seem to be infrequent with LW2 installed.

Specifically what's added are:

Codices

ADVENT Codex - lacks the ability to psi bomb, but can holotarget enemies she fires upon.

Codex ICE - with better aim and (if Alien Hunters is installed) a boltcaster equipped, this Codex's ready to ruin your day with a well placed shot.

Codex Bomber - this Codex absolutely loves psi-bomb, psi-bombing you even on reveal. (This may cascade badly with LW2's yellow alert system, I'll need reports on how that works.)

Codex Splitter - this Codex likes splitting upon first contact. She does this because she can regen HP, so I highly suggest taking care of the clones before they can start healing and make your life hell to go through.

Codex Nullifier - like a normal Codex, but she has Stasis. She'll try to knock out your highest ranking soldier as soon as possible.

Andromedons

Prometheus Suit: it's like a regular andromedon, except it specializes in burning you all alive.

(And in LW2, burning prevents you from using guns instead of being unable to melee!)

Since this variant is a bit weaker than normal andromedons, it has been bumped up a bit in how likely it can appear as a pod leader or follower, so hopefully you should get an Andromedon type appearing on a salvage mission.




Full credit to DerBk for A Better Advent 2, I just took some assets and scripts and compiled a working version for LW2.

Installing this mod will most likely require an .ini refresh, look here for more information.
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31 Comments
Caliell Mar 21 @ 11:09am 
am having problems with story progressions. Codexes that appear are not eligible to be Skulljacked. I am just unlucky or something else?
tmonahan23 Jan 24 @ 8:56pm 
omg the splitters... seem to have no cool down for their splitting... its like they are cockroaches?!
Garr Incorporated May 29, 2017 @ 4:29pm 
@Anatorax
The ayys are at least mean. They let their small Chryssies kill people and then put the blame on us! Bastards! :yawp:
Anatorax May 29, 2017 @ 11:37am 
@Garr
Got it. Slightly weird (I try not to hurt civvies), but makes sense thematically. Thanks for clearing it up!
Garr Incorporated May 29, 2017 @ 1:32am 
@Anatorax
Firstly, Chryssalid Crawlers are from the Long War: ABA Guest Enemies. Secondly, it IS intended, as long as I remember. I have already asked this question to DerBK ages ago.
Anatorax May 28, 2017 @ 10:39pm 
Are Chryssalid Crawlers supposed to randomly attack civilians after being activated? I am in my 3rd mission and encountered 3 Crawlers. Two ran after my soldiers and one decided to slaughter civilians nearby. Is that the expected behavior?
EviLEddiE May 20, 2017 @ 4:39am 
Great work @RealityMachina! Although I managed to proceed with my campaign after temporarly disabling the mods adding custom Codices, this will definitively help those in the same situation I was in.

I did also notice the following in the LW2 1.3 Release Notes:
- Increased Andromedon, Cyberus, Chryssalid appearance weights. Chryssalids can happen a little earlier.

And as most of us know, the Cyberus is the internal name for the Codex. So I guess that there will be no more shortages of Codices appearing when needed...
Garr Incorporated May 20, 2017 @ 1:10am 
Now Codices will be skulljackable?
Wow. That's a word...
RealityMachina  [author] May 19, 2017 @ 7:56pm 
Figured out how to replace conditions on stuff without doing the stuff I mentioned, thankfully: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=929030780
EviLEddiE May 1, 2017 @ 10:33am 
Thank you for the quick reply @RealityMachina :-)

I'll be temporarly disabling the mod to get a regular Codex to appear, since the Codices in general only have appeared in 3 or 4 of my total of 80-90+ missions so far in my LW2 campaign (and not a single one of the regular Codex)...

And speaking of LW2, I am dreading the 1.3 update to come along and spoil my campaign - having learned that my savegames made with the Steam Workshop version of LW2 1.2 aren't compatible with the manual install/NexusMods version. Loading any Geoscape savegame crashes with a Virtual Function error at the loading screen(s) - and while a Tactical savegame can be loaded, it crashes just after the mission is complete. So my plan of bypassing the update by having 1.2 manually installed will not work out :-(

Guess that I'll just have to get that Codex skulljacked ASAP in order to reach the endgame phase and complete my campaign, before 1.3 is released...
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