Psi Ops Solace is BADLY broken

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trihero
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Psi Ops Solace is BADLY broken

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Version 1.2
cosmetic mods

1) It doesn't extinguish mental effects like it says it does. I allowed a drone to disorient one of my soldiers, who was out of range of my psi's solace, then I walked my psi within range, and it did not remove disorient.

This appears to have been around for a long time, according to this user's comment half a year ago against sectoid's disorient

https://forums.2k.com/archive/index.php/t-4283815.html

2) It causes ridiculously severe lag, especially during the alien turn. I suspected this for a while due to joinrbs comments in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tckACDIHCGU

But then I really began to get a feel for this in 1.2 when I started to test psis seriously. First, I noticed that whenever I took my three psis on a mission (like supply raid), the enemy turns would go EXTREMELY long, like three MINUTES even on a "light" mission. Exactly like joinrbs described, the pods would scamper one at a time instead of simultaneously.

Second, I noticed whenever I did similar missions without any psis, I didn't notice any extreme lag on enemy turns, and the pods scampered simultaneously for the most part.

The nail in the coffin is I did a little bit of science - one of my psis happens to not have solace. I brought only that one psi on a HQ raid, and voila - no lag, and pods scampering simultaneously. In addition to this: I was able to issue commands during the psi ops turns while other people were moving, which I couldn't due with psi ops who have solace.

Solace is SEVERELY bugged - as a PSA I would say to other users - don't learn it, because it causes unbearable lag, and doesn't extinguish mental effects (at least disorient) as it says it does.

Does anyone know of a console command to remove solace from my psis? Or where the ini settings are for psis? I want to remove my psis with solace and redo them, I'm pretty pissed not only does the skill not do what it says, but makes the game unbelievably laggy.
dstar3k
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Re: Psi Ops Solace is BADLY broken

Post by dstar3k »

trihero wrote: 2) It causes ridiculously severe lag, especially during the alien turn. I suspected this for a while due to joinrbs comments in this video
Just out of curiosity... IIRC, there's a graphics option called something like 'high resolution translucency'; if you disable that, does that affect the performance hit?
trihero
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Re: Psi Ops Solace is BADLY broken

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I have everything set to minimum graphics already, so no it doesn't help.
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