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How does the mod run when compared to vanilla?

That's probably too broad of a question to meaningfully answer. We turned off one vanilla optimization setting because it was causing LOS through walls and ceilings, so missions may load a little slower. We did a very significant rework of what the game archives and that sped up savegame loads massively (as they were getting big with all the stuff we added).

johnnylump wrote:because it was causing LOS through walls and ceilings

Is this the bug where aliens see / attack you through visibly solid walls / ceilings? If so this could be my favourite change right there - number of times I've taken cover by a 2 story wall and something on the wrong side of a sloped roof 2 buildings over somehow sees me through 4 walls and a floor! Do I take it this can that really be fixed by a mod?! I'd love this for the base game.

OhGod wrote:

johnnylump wrote:because it was causing LOS through walls and ceilings

Is this the bug where aliens see / attack you through visibly solid walls / ceilings? If so this could be my favourite change right there - number of times I've taken cover by a 2 story wall and something on the wrong side of a sloped roof 2 buildings over somehow sees me through 4 walls and a floor! Do I take it this can that really be fixed by a mod?! I'd love this for the base game.

I can't promise this is a 100% effective solution but it does seem to help a lot. This mod makes that change for vanilla: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =844147782

Oh now that is a god send, you people are miracle workers

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Game seems to stutter a lot at loading missions and Avanger and loading times seem slightly longer (but that's to be expected and it doesn't really bother me; BTW hitting Caps Lock to speed up return from a mission still works ), but otherwise runs smoothly both in tactical and in Avanger.

Three suggestions for improving performance via menu options:

1) Disable V-Sync
2) Disable "Bloom"
3) Set AO to "Tile-AO"

4) Match your Graphic settings within the PC hardware capacities. Low-Res might be ugly but it helps.
5) Video-Card == most recent Driver.
6) Ram + SSD + solid Windows infra-structure + Turbo mode(s) via external Utilities.