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[WOTC] Less Overwatch Lock Ups!

"Less Overwatch Lock Ups!" is a bugfix mod, to hopefully cut down on "soft locks" during complex overwatch/reaction fire situations, and also when a solider is revealed by enemy movement.
A "soft lock" is when the game doesn't crash as such, but is stuck showing a single moment in "time". If you've experienced this, then you know that sometimes the game "frees" itself after some time, but other times freezes until you give up and quit. If it's the problem with the Reaction Fire Sequencer or the wait on "nothing", then the lock won't happen at all. For the other fixes, the intial freeze will almost certianly still happen, but the game should be more likely to free itself.

• 'X2ReactionFireSequencer' No longer marks all shots by the same shooter against the same target in the same sequence as "started" when the first shot starts, this stops the later shots from starting at all!
  
• 'X2Action_WaitForAnotherAction' will Tme Out after 60 seconds and stop waiting regardless.
  
• 'X2Action_WaitForDestructibleActorActionTrigger' will not wait at all if it is set to wait on "nothing", which would otherwise lock it indefinitely. A similar fix was made to 'X2Action_WaitForAnotherAction' in the October Patch.
  
• 'X2Action_WaitForDestructibleActorActionTrigger' is also given a 60 second Time Out.
  
• 'X2Action_MoveDirect' will not wait for the "Stopping" animation triggered when it Times Out to finish.

it is possible to free visualization "soft locks" with a console command, and I don't promise that this mod will deal with all possible visualization problems!. To enable the console, add -allowConsole to the command line/launch options. The actual key to drop the console varies with regional keyboard variants, but with a US keyboard is is the tilde key (~) above the tab key, with a UK keyboard, it is the apostrophe/@ key.

Instructions

• Type X2DebugVisualizer at the console.
  
• A pretty(?) UI overlay should appear, for you, the important thing is the "Clear Hangs" button in the top Left. Click it!
  
• Type X2DebugVisualizer at the console again to clear the visualizer debugging UI overlay.

Overrides:

• X2ReactionFireSequencer
  
• X2Action_WaitForAnotherAction
  
• X2Action_WaitForDestructibleActorActionTrigger
  
• 'X2Action_MoveDirect

These are quite technical classes, and it is unlikely that they will be overriden for non bug fixing reasons. Nonethess, this mod will not be compatbile with mods which override any of these three classes.

• WOTC Compatible (non-WOTC versions also exist if appropriate)
  
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