Base Will is capped at 100 - intended?
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:22 pm
Hi everyone,
I am in the middle of tweaking some psi abilities so they scale with Will for my mod and I noticed something odd.
So I know Will was capped in Vanilla and apparantly this didnt change with LW2. But is that actually intended? Will is already kinda weak, and having a high Will Rookie via NCE gets devalued further if most soldiers reach around 90-100 Will in the end anyway. If I understand the math correctly, every soldier gets about 8 Will per LevelUp (Vanilla XcomClassData.ini: GlobalStatProgression=(StatType=eStat_Will,StatAmount=4,RandStatAmount=9,CapStatAmount=100)). Then depending on the class, a soldier gets a bonus amount for the first two rankups (between 6 and 10). This means from RankUps alone a soldier gets between 70 and 74 Will on average. Now remember that an average soldier already has 25 Will from the getgo so this amounts to about 95-99 Will. I would suggest we get rid of the 100 Will cap, so high Will rookies have at least something going for them.
I also noticed something odd for the Will stat displayed in Soldier Lists: the displayed amound in the soldier list is a bit lower than the actual Will amount (as seen in the Armory Screens) for some soldiers. I highly suspect, that the soldier list doesnt take the Bonus Will that shaken soldiers received into account.
I am in the middle of tweaking some psi abilities so they scale with Will for my mod and I noticed something odd.
So I know Will was capped in Vanilla and apparantly this didnt change with LW2. But is that actually intended? Will is already kinda weak, and having a high Will Rookie via NCE gets devalued further if most soldiers reach around 90-100 Will in the end anyway. If I understand the math correctly, every soldier gets about 8 Will per LevelUp (Vanilla XcomClassData.ini: GlobalStatProgression=(StatType=eStat_Will,StatAmount=4,RandStatAmount=9,CapStatAmount=100)). Then depending on the class, a soldier gets a bonus amount for the first two rankups (between 6 and 10). This means from RankUps alone a soldier gets between 70 and 74 Will on average. Now remember that an average soldier already has 25 Will from the getgo so this amounts to about 95-99 Will. I would suggest we get rid of the 100 Will cap, so high Will rookies have at least something going for them.
I also noticed something odd for the Will stat displayed in Soldier Lists: the displayed amound in the soldier list is a bit lower than the actual Will amount (as seen in the Armory Screens) for some soldiers. I highly suspect, that the soldier list doesnt take the Bonus Will that shaken soldiers received into account.