Saturday, February 09, 2019
2019-02-08 Update for War of the Chosen DLC
Ok, so I have to admit I'm a bit of a lazy person, especially when life starts getting difficult. I actually started working on an update to my XCom 2 fix for the War of the Chosen expansion over half a year ago. Unfortunately I never quite got it to the finished state that I had envisioned before I lost interest (in pretty much gaming entirely), and because of such I never posted any update on here (only provided a WIP version on the Geforce 3DVision forums). I still have not had time to take another look at this fix, but it had fixed about 90% of the broken effects, and gotten a few experimental features working fairly well, so I'm going to put my perfectionist ego aside for now to provide a link to that version on here, and hopefully in the near future I'll get back to completing this for a version 2.0 update.
In addition to adding compatibility for WotC, one of the biggest changes/additions to this fix is that I've set up some convergence and HUD depth presets that are automatically triggered based on what's happening on screen. Previously you would have to either play entirely with low convergence (to prevent your eyes from splitting when the camera would automatically change from isometric view to the targetting/action cam views), or you would have to change between various convergence settings manually, which due to the frequency thereof really detracted from the enjoyment of the game. Now all this happens automatically. Unfortunately this game did not make it easy for me to implement these features, so it's not entirely perfect in implementation in some cases and situations and also requires some additional work to setup properly (ie. need to run an Autohotkey script for the best effect), but I found that it made the game a much more seamless and enjoyable experience when it works (which should be most, if not all the time)
Instructions (see new features instructions in red below)
1.	 Download fix here: Version 1.9
2.	 a) Extract archive to game location that contains XCom2.exe, which is in the XCOM 2\XCom2-WarOfTheChosen\Binaries\Win64 folder for the expansion or \XCOM 2\Binaries\Win64\ folder for the base game
3.	 b) (Optional) Install Autohotkey (google for this) and run the MouseWheel.ahk script included within this fix. The script will rebind your mouse scroll wheel as the T and G keys on the keyboard, which are the default keys for zoom in and zoom out. It is best to have this script running (and to have the zoom in and out game bindings on the default T and G) in order to use my zoom convergence adjustment. Alternatively, you can just use the T and G keys on the keyboard, but it's not as good as using a mouse wheel.
4.	 Game settings: the only setting that's mandatory is to set AntiAliasing to FXAA or Disabled. I also highly recommend turning off Dirty Lens, which causes ugly lens flares. Remaining settings to taste and performance, some people have reported huge gains by lowering certain settings, so be sure to test with different settings if you're not getting a smooth experience.
5.	 Zoom convergence adjustment: In order for this to work best, any time you start taking your turn commanding your troops, first zoom all the way out until it stops zooming and until the convergence stops adjusting. Once you reach here, now the zoom and convergence will be in sync for the rest of the turn, and whenever you zoom in and out from here the convergence will match it to be the ideal convergence for that amount of zoom level (and look awesome). This also works and applies to the Avenger base view.
Known Issues:
•	Reflections are unfixed
•	Some lighting in underground/interior levels are off
•	Gun flashlight reported broken by some users
Special Thanks to:
•	3DMigoto team for all their hard work, of course!
•	EverAwake, whom started working on this game first, and provided me with his WIP to start with when he found out I was willing to work on this one
•	Necropants for testing the fix and helping to locate additional broken effects
•	The rest of the Geforce community for keeping me motivated to see this one through to completion
Like this fix? Fixes take a lot of time and effort, so donations are always welcome and appreciated!
Paypal: www.paypal.me/DShanz or send to rshannonca@gmail.com
Posted by DJ-RK
