What is the general consensus on the Long War mod for XCOM? I

It adds some cool stuff and even fixes some issues with the original, but takes a lot of liberties adding a shit ton of stuff that it thinks is fun but just isn't. It's a bloated mod that thought doing everything would be the coolest thing ever.

>>322208895

Thanks for your insight. That does seem to be an impression I'm getting. Trying to do too many things at once. I mean, some of the quotes talk about how it's "basically a free expansion" and when you're talking about a small team adding that much content, you're asking for trouble.

>>322208329
It's a fantastic mod adds tons of new features and I absolutely love it. That being said it sounds like you have not even completed a vanilla EW playthrough. Finish classic ew game then attempt a normal LW run.
and remember break los

>>322209991

Yeah, I haven't done a normal EW run yet. I think that's the best option, as EW adds a ton of stuff, and that'll most likely keep me interested for a long time, and then doing a LW run will get me interested with even more new things.

>>322208329
>It seems Long War tries to offset this, but I really don't like RNG bullshit "difficulty."


Exactly my opinion for the mod.

I know that the mod is popular, it has some good ideas, but in the end, it's trash and waste of time.

It takes the RNG bullshit to a whole new level.

A good mod would be one that completely removed the RNG mechanics from the base game while still making it challenging.

>>322211497

Well, I did read "all of their changes are in the .ini" so if there's a way to reset it to the default game's RNG values, that'd be nice. I mean, even the base game had its bullshit, but adding more bullshit is not a good idea.

Also, how much of an impact does that "Cinematic Mode" make?

Those of you saying LW adds more rng are clueless. The only way you might be able to say it adds rng is the enemy perks. Either way if rng squad wipes you your playing wrong.

>>322212604

What about shit like decreasing rocket launcher accuracy to like, 45% tops, and make it based on your distance from the target?

>>322212756
It doesn't decrease rocket accuracy, it makes the soldiers aim effect rocket accuracy. your boot rocketeers might suck but promote him some give him a scope and a carbine and he'll make pinpoint shots. In fact it reduces rng as misses just mean the rocket deviates believibly from the target, not the 10% chance to fly off into space in vanilla.

>>322213215

Ah, see now this I like and is a much better description than I saw in a thread a couple days ago. In fact, that sounds great and makes a lot of sense.

>xcom is an elite squad of the world's best soldiers
>long war makes it so that they can't aim across a car park

The early game of LW is trash (every fight takes forever) and the endgame is also trash (enemies get loads of HP so everything takes forever)

But the midgame's really fun


It's like those elder scrolls total conversion mods where someone has the nexus of a good idea but then ruins it with all the extra shit they add to it