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Thanks for your thoughts. We've got our agenda set these days, but I'll keep these ideas in mind. Best, John

No question at all whether we can pull that off. No question at all.

Modding limitations prevented us from reaching that level of fidelity, I'm afraid.

Some people have had trouble if Steam and the game are on separate hard drives but they have been able to fix it (not sure how) -- if you're sure LW's files are in the right place (among the base-game files), then I don't have any further ideas. It's certainly possible some AV software blocked patch...

Excellent.

There may be an issue with crossing saves from modded campaigns from Macs to PCs and back, but that's outside of our ability to troubleshoot, as it's in how the games handle mods, not the mods themselves, so I'd recommend you send in a support ticket to 2K. One player has said using Nexus' versions ...

I assume you're going through the Steam Workshop? I'm afraid that process is automated and we don't have to do anything for it to install as long as the mod is constructed correctly (which it is, given almost everyone has gotten it to work). If you're setting LW_SMGPack in the launcher, then it's in...

It's under here somewhere:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content

We have some ideas, but we can't say for certain what else may be forthcoming. We'll announce anything else we might be doing.

There isn't an alien "pool" that works mechanically like the character pool does, but you can make your own aliens and have them fight in campaigns -- when our mod is distributed, it will show what's necessary to make that happen.

Thanks y'all! As for more mods ... we'll see. We'll certainly be around to answer questions on the tools and help the community get rolling.

Now that PAX South announcements are out of the way, we're freed up to talk about modding tools and capabilities -- so if anyone stopping by has any questions, ask away and we'll do our best to answer.

We'll try 25 per page.

@ Wargate

It's possible. I'm a little worried the UI may have too much going on to work on that kind of platform, but we're not ruling out mobile platforms at this point.

It's just not possible for the mod to work on Tablet OSes, sorry.

boysunshine wrote:hey congrats! Are these mods only going to be available for the PC launch or for consoles as well? Thanks!

To my knowledge, they haven't announced they are doing a console port of XCOM 2.

Hey Drak, great seeing you again. We can't say anything else until Pax South at the earliest, but I'd point you to and endorse this preview from Firaxicon a few months back: Link. I think the modding-specific stuff is around the 22-minute mark.

Yes, TI has had to slow down while we worked on this, but it's ultimately made us a *lot* smarter about the ins and outs of game development.

Thanks! We're setting up some XCOM 2 specific forums on the site right now -- we'll be able to provide more information during and after Pax South.

(From our news page) Long War Studios announced today that it has partnered with Firaxis and 2K Games to provide multiple mods for XCOM 2 that are planned for release when XCOM 2 launches on Feb. 5. Details on mod content as well as XCOM 2's modding tools will be available when LWS design lead John ...

With the caveat that this is all tentative, our general intention is to have a singular win condition (or a couple of variations) but, as time and budget permits, allow alternate play modes, such as a sandbox no-alien-invasion campaign where the goal is to simply compete with other factions (strippe...

Moved to troubleshooting ...

I don't know what else to advise. Random crashes don't suggest a problem with the code, which would tend to create reproducible crashes. I would recommend testing your hardware, updating drivers, running virus scans.

Did you run the troubleshooting steps?

THESE ARE THE LONG WAR INSTALLATION TROUBLESHOOTING STEPS. THEY ARE ALSO IN A FILE INCLUDED IN YOUR INSTALL. These were developed for PC versions of Long War. I can a separate sticky with Mac/Linux install and troubleshooting steps if we ever have any made available to us. Before posting here, we as...

We're definitely planning to have sound and music, but that's about as far as we've gotten.