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mattprice516 wrote:There are 2 kinds of retal in LW2:

First kind is like vanilla: kill a bunch of dudes on the map before they kill your dudes and every surviving dude will be in the Haven afterwards.

Second kind is new: go rescue your dudes while ADVENT endlessly drops dudes and then evac all the rebel dudes and soldier dudes and the dudes you evacced will be in the Haven afterwards.

mattprice516 wrote:That's odd. Did you evac all of the rebels as well? This was one of the retals where reinforcements drop constantly, right?

Devon_v wrote:

mattprice516 wrote:That's odd. Did you evac all of the rebels as well? This was one of the retals where reinforcements drop constantly, right?

I got nine rebels out on the Skyranger. The aliens shot one. All of the aliens seemed to have all been on the map from the start, there were no drops, but the objectives were "Rescue as many civilians as possible" and "Evac all XCOM operatives".

If I was supposed to hold the haven, that's not what it told me to do.

Edit: When the aliens shot the one guy, the evac objective remained "9/10", should it have updated to "9/9"?

johnnylump wrote:

Devon_v wrote:

mattprice516 wrote:That's odd. Did you evac all of the rebels as well? This was one of the retals where reinforcements drop constantly, right?

I got nine rebels out on the Skyranger. The aliens shot one. All of the aliens seemed to have all been on the map from the start, there were no drops, but the objectives were "Rescue as many civilians as possible" and "Evac all XCOM operatives".

If I was supposed to hold the haven, that's not what it told me to do.

Edit: When the aliens shot the one guy, the evac objective remained "9/10", should it have updated to "9/9"?

That's not working as intended; saving a guy should actually save the guy regardless of whether you sweep or not. Sweep should just save everybody's who is still alive on the map. We're working on it.

NotSoLoneWolf wrote:I also have a quick question about the Retaliations - On the "save as many civs as possible and clear the map of ayys" type, why don't we get their corpses, like other Kill all enemy forces missions?

And while JL is here, where in the LW2 files is the code for whether you get corpses or not specified for each mission type? At first glance it seemed to be X2TacticalGameRuleset, but that only collects the corpses, not determines whether they should be collected.

//LWS : Corpses and other auto-loot bucket only retrieved on tactical victory
	if( BattleData.AllTacticalObjectivesCompleted() )
	{
		// 7/29/15 Non-explicitly-picked-up loot is now once again only recovered if the sweep objective was completed
		RolledLoot = BattleData.AutoLootBucket;
	}

; RETALIATION Missions
; Modified 3/15/2016 by tracktwo/LWS
;  - Removed the explicit civilian rescue strategic objective.
;  - Use custom mission map Obj_LWTerror containing updated kismet for new mission objectives.
;  - Triad setting allows recovery of friendlies but not corpses at mission end
;----------------------------------------------------------------
+arrMissions=(MissionName="Terror_LW", sType="Terror_LW", \\
	MissionFamily="Terror_LW", \\
	MapNames[0]="Obj_LWTerror", \\
	RequiredPlotObjectiveTags[0]="Shanty", \\
	RequiredPlotObjectiveTags[1]="LargePlot", \\
	MissionObjectives[0]=(ObjectiveName="Sweep", \\
		bIsTacticalObjective=false, bIsStrategyObjective=false, bIsTriadObjective=true), \\
	MissionObjectives[1]=(ObjectiveName="Rescue_T1", \\
		bIsTacticalObjective=false, bIsStrategyObjective=true, bIsTriadObjective=false), \\
	MissionSchedules[0]="Retaliation_D1_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[1]="Retaliation_D2_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[2]="Retaliation_D3_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[3]="Retaliation_D4_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[4]="Retaliation_D5_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[5]="Retaliation_D6_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[6]="Retaliation_D7_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[7]="Retaliation_D8_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[8]="Retaliation_D9_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[9]="Retaliation_D10_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[10]="Retaliation_D11_LW", \\
    MissionSchedules[11]="Retaliation_D12_LW", \\
	MinCivilianCount=0, \\
	CiviliansAreAlienTargets=true, \\
	CiviliansAlwaysVisible=true,\\
	AliensAlerted=true, \\
	MaxSoldiers=8)

NotSoLoneWolf wrote:Wow, how did I miss that?! I looked in that file, but I guess I didn't realize the connection with the TacticalObjectives variable. Thank you very much!

In addition to setting Tactical to true, should I be setting Triad to false, or leave it as is?