MEC movement increasing abilities Kinetic Strike/Advanced Servomotors

[Nolanoth]

I have tried messing with these, but alas... I failed miserably yet again.

 

I was trying to nerf both of these abilities. Remove the Kinetic Fist/Strike movement increase completely by setting it to 0 and make the Advanced Servomotors icrease the movement factor just by 1 point. XCOM units are simply too good. The extreme mobility and a ton of HP just allow the player to abuse flanking... Add additional passive/skill defense and people simply start replacing regular trooper's with MEC units all the time. Could anyone please help me find what I'm looking for?

[Amineri]

There was no in-game system to make "weapons" (basically anything equippable that isn't armor is a "weapon", including things like SCOPE and nano-fiber vests) grant extra movement so it appears to have been sort of 'hacked in' by Firaxis.

 

They did so by hard-coding a bunch of special mobility increasing effects into XGUnitNativeBase.GetMaxPathLength.

 

Advanced Servomotors:

    if(GetCharacter().HasUpgrade(122))
    {
        if((IsATank()) || IsAugmented())
        {
            iMaxMobility += XComGameReplicationInfo(class'Engine'.static.GetCurrentWorldInfo().GRI).m_kGameCore.3;
        }
    }

Kinetic Strike module :

    if((IsAugmented()) && GetInventory().HasItemOfType(22))
    {
        iMaxMobility += XComGameReplicationInfo(class'Engine'.static.GetCurrentWorldInfo().GRI).m_kGameCore.4;
    }

[Nolanoth]

Is there any way to simply disable them? By replacing

HasUpgrade(number??? like 0?)

or something? The number of extra movement points must be there somewhere too.

 

And actually now that I think of it I guess this could be also useful:

HasItemOfType(22))

Change the number to 1 or something like that. It would simply disable the extra moment from Kinetic strike right?

 

If I understand it the code says something like this:

 

If the character has augmentation (is a MEC) and has kinetic strike module (Item Type 22) in the inventory, then give him extra movement points.

 

Correct?

 

Then if this item was 0 (no idea what item would it be) the the MEC would have no extra movement.

 

Or am I simply totally wrong?

Edited December 18, 2013 by Nolanoth

[Amineri]

If you want to disable the extra movement change the value to 0. All the extra junk is some left-over code from how the Unreal Engine compiler handles constants, I think.

 

So to remove extra mobility from Kinetic Strike Module, change:

    if((IsAugmented()) && GetInventory().HasItemOfType(22))
    {
        iMaxMobility += XComGameReplicationInfo(class'Engine'.static.GetCurrentWorldInfo().GRI).m_kGameCore.4;
    }

to:

    if((IsAugmented()) && GetInventory().HasItemOfType(22))
    {
        iMaxMobility += XComGameReplicationInfo(class'Engine'.static.GetCurrentWorldInfo().GRI).m_kGameCore.0;
    }

At the end of the big long line of hex for iMaxMobility += should be a "2C 04" which should change to "2C 00"

[Nolanoth]

Found it. If anyone else is interested it's:

 

1F 32 00 00 00 2C 04 16 07 8C 03 1B E2 43 00 00

 

For the Kinetic Strike Module.

 

I've also decided to leave the MEC upgrade just the way it is and adjust the progression in the ini file. I've settled for a 12 basic movement + 3 from the upgrade. It should be enough for a walking tank.

 

Thanks for all the help!

Edited December 18, 2013 by Nolanoth