That article is good stuff. The toolset they are providing is actually far and beyond what even Civ 5 has and that mod scene is so active it will literally continue to burn hot for at least another 3-4 years.
Their respect for Long War is well deserved and the mod's influence is clearly resonant on the existing community of players. There won't be a LW from the same team in XCOM2, but it's hard not to think that people who want to get 2000+ hours out of XCOM2 won't have good options to do so.
Referring to regular aimed weapons like rifles. OG X-COM let you shoot wherever the eff you wanted, and you would sometimes do so in order to alter structures or terrain for your advantage. I can see an option for modders to add in things like anti-materiel rifles to the game so that you can target structural weaknesses and points on buildings to generate cover and/or alternate means of insertion/extraction.
JL and Amineri are deciding not to work modding XCOM2 I'm guessing? Would rather do their own original project?
Also wow, I was hoping for pie-in-the-sky level of modding for XCOM2 but holy shit, if you can rewrite the entire ruleset and bring back TUs or let you just willy-nilly free aim fire your weapons on the terrain? That is extensive.
By the way, for anyone interested and has the PC version of Enemy Within, come join us in the
Long War thread.
Sorry not familiar, what are time units.
It's like Action Points kind of system (Fallout 1/2, Wasteland 2, etc.) where each unit has a certain number of time units and actions consume a certain amount. So if you have like 40, moving a tile might cost 1, aimed shot might cost 8, reloading 4, crouching 1, going into your bags 4, etc. Any points left over go into reaction fire.
