War Of The Chosen Mods

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XCOM 2’s newly-announced War of the Chosen is far bigger than previous DLC for the game. In fact, it’s twice the size of Enemy Within, the sole expansion for XCOM 1. So large is it that Firaxis considered calling it XCOM 3 instead.

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“We definitely talked about that,” lead designer Jake Solomon told Polygon. “We have a lot of features that could have been the basis for a sequel, but for us a sequel also requires an entirely new narrative.”

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It’s surprising to hear that the only thing stopping War of the Chosen from being XCOM 3 is a new plot, but it also makes sense. XCOM 2 gets its identity, and half of its key mechanics, from being a guerilla story – it’s the primary thing that distinguishes it from the organised resistance of the original game.

War of the Chosen has a Shadow of Mordor-style Nemesis system and a bold new approach to factions. But it’ll still be same story of daring raids and costly escapes.

War of the Chosen; Refine with tags (separate with spaces). This mod will modify all default weapons to have three upgrade slots and exposes the weapon upgrade variable in 'XComModWeaponSlots.ini' for easy customisation. Long War 2 is a significant overhaul of XCOM 2 aimed at giving players the feel of running a worldwide guerrilla war.

“We’re very systems-oriented and so, for us, this is an opportunity to make a new experience, a new game,” Solomon added. “But we’re not going to totally replace the narrative.”

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen will be out on August 29th. The very same as its genre-mate, Mario + Rabbids, in fact.

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This is an attempt to port the Long War 2 (LW2) overhaul mod for XCOM 2 to the Warof the Chosen (WOTC) expansion. The scope is limited to getting the base LW2 experienceworking, but not necessarily balanced. If WOTC features severely unbalance the game andcan be removed, they will be.

Building and running the mod

Building and running this mod requires several steps:

War Of The Chosen Mods

  1. The media assets (video, graphics and sound) are kept as a zip on Dropbox.Download that file and unpack it into this project's LongWarOfTheChosen/Content directory.

  2. Either clone my fork of the X2WOTCCommunityHighlander repositoryor download the lwotc-dev branchfrom GitHub.

  3. If you have cloned the repository, switch your clone to the lwotc-dev branch.

  4. Follow that project's instructionsfor building the highlander. In particular, make sure you copy the files in the highlander's Src/XComGame/Classes to the WOTC SDK's Development/SrcOrig directory, as described in the Building Against the Highlander section.

    I recommend that after building it in ModBuddy, you cook a release of it. That's because the cooked version runs much more quickly than the noseekfreeloading version. Alternatively, use the highlander's build script, which will build and cook the highlander.

  5. Set up the following environment variables:

    • XCOM2SDKPATH — typically steamappscommonXCOM 2 War Of The Chosen SDK
    • XCOM2GAMEPATH — typically steamappscommonXCOM 2XCom2-WarOfTheChosenDon't put these paths in quotes.

  6. Run the build-lwotc.bat file that you find in the root of the LWOTC project.

  7. When the build has finished, launch XCOM 2 WOTC and select both X2WOTCCommunityHighlander andLongWarOfTheChosen mods

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. If you just want to raise issues, please do so on GitHub,preferably including a save file if possible.

War Of The Chosen Mods

If you wish to contribute to development — and this project will rely heavily on such contributions — then pleaselook through the issues and if you want tackle one, just leave a comment along the lines of 'I'll take this one'.If you find you can't complete the issue in a reasonable time, please add another comment that says you're relinquishingthe issue.

All contributions are welcome, but bug fixes are extremely welcome!

Acknowledgements

  • Track Two, who has provided a huge amount of advice and insight that saved me lots of timeand ensured certain bugs got fixed at all.
  • The folks behind X2WOTCCommunityHighlander.
  • All the folks in XCOM 2 modders' Discord who have answered my questions.
  • All the authors of the mods that are integrated into this port:
    • robojumper's Squad Select
    • Detailed Soldier List
  • The Long War 2 team for producing the mod in the first place!