Rastien

As the mod suggests it's worth turning off second wave feautres as these can skew the game's balance alot as your experiencing with the lazer rifles. I recently managed to finally upgrade my sqaud with 3 lazer rifles and the increased accuracy is a god send they do around 4-6 damage which consistantly deals with enemy's in soft cover with around a 60% hit chance :)

Last night is probably the single most unlucky turn of events i have ever experienced in xcom and my god did i cry bullshit at the screen. Chain of events as follows: 3 Floaters discovered 2 in cover but pretty much hugging eachother 1 further back but out of cover. Heavy shoots a rocket at the 2 grouped missed. Okay 90% isn't gaurenteed fair enough it happens. Sniper takes a 80% chance shot at the one out of cover missed okay that's a little irritating 2 high chance events missing. Rookie runs up close but in cover for a 86% chance to hit a floater misses. By this point i'm pretty pissed. Move my last assault guy next to my rookie and in cover 96% chance to hit with his shot gun.... missed >____> my friggin wig was i mad they counter attack kill 2 out right causing panic next turn they pick off the other 2 Admitly i probably made some bad choices and felt it was a safe gamble but holy s#*! was this infuriating!, due to having my 3 strongest soliders trashed i got severly crippled and had to drop out this campain (it was about 1.5 months into a classic mode game)

Quick question once the mod is applied can i continue running it online? i just like to have the steam overlay so i can see when friends come online and i can chat to them :)

Got to say i'm loving this mod so far, playing classic iron man with this mod on. The difficulty is defiantly ramped up and i'm gonna be in for a long slog with this mode which i'm exceptionally excited about! usually i have been breezing through missions on classic but with this mod on i'm literally scraping to survive and not due to shitty rng lying in favour of the AI :D I lost my entire sqaud on one of the first few abduction missions in... brazil maybe? basically the construction yard level floaters took the high ground 3 stories up in a ruined building and i couldn't deal with them, made a fair few bad choices and suffered for it badly! The fact soliders are injured for so long, has so far been a lot of fun for me.It means i have to rotate my troops and really take care of them as having my best sniper out of action for 60days is painful also means that i'm keeping my strongest troops out of the field and saving them for missions where i really need my A-Team out. Finally on this note i'm actually quite keen to get recruits into my sqauds from the rewards of abduction missions! something i never had any need or interest in doing before :D The ship combat is a lot more fun to and an actual challenge rather than UFO awesome free resources! quite often they now escape and i gotta work hard to shoot them down! All i all I'm loving this mod so far and the actual fights themselves the AI seems to behave in different way to the standard game, they are a lot more aggressive i have to try and stand back a bit and let them run into over watch etc. etc. So yeah AWESOME MOD loving it :) it's s*** like this that makes me proud to be a PC gamer with a strong modding community.