How to get other advanced shields? i can't find any tech upgrades for the primary ballistic shield

@Inerael I am having tons of fun with the Warp Warden, it's a very groovey psi/shield defender type that brings a ton of shield to the squad.

Looks great ! Does someone know a good Shield bearer class mod ? I am on LWOTC but none of my classs can wear shield :(

I am also having trouble finding shields for the sparks. I've got all the way up to T3 shields unlocked. I've done most, if not all, of the researches. I don't see any Proving Ground project for them, and I can't build them in engineering. When I filter by category for spark_shield, I see nothing listed in engineering. I can use the shields with normal soldiers just fine. Is there any known conflicts that would prevent just the sparks from using the ballistic shields, or am I missing a step to get them unlocked? Thanks.

BUG: SPECIALIST VS GREMLIN RANGE VS SHIELD LOGIC CTD

Specialists still think they can hack at any range when equipped with a WOTC ballistic shield, this leads to an immediate crash to desktop as the game overloads on the logic and thinking simply not being there for a non-existent GREMLIN unit.

Any mods that address this issue for WOTC in the meantime?

@Sest [WOTC] Iridar's Resizable Armor can not moving weapons

why i can not see the shields for sparks?

i think this mod integrated into LWOTC check their credits

To John wick himself, I cant find either.

Is the mod dead? cant find where to get/build/buy the shields and cant tweak XcomLW_Overhaul.ini because i dont see it in the mod folder. Using LWOTC 1.1

Where can i find the shield i cant see it anywhere im on lwotc

Where can I find the ballistic shield in the seventh image?????

Weird, animations, stats and even skills applied by paladin class works perfectly fine, but only with CV model. both BM and MG models are not seen by my game and can't be consoled in. Sucks to use shiny powered armor with rusty board. Any suggestions how to solve this?

Why can't I equip the shield showcased on the seventh image as a ghost template? Even turning off all filters, I can't find the damn shield. It should be there regardless of my tech level.

does this work with true primary secondaries?

This doesn't seem to work with True Primary secondaries

It seems the Alien Hunters Crossbow is a little broken with the shields as it goes full auto and just fires a bunch of projectiles whenever used with it. Would love if it could be excluded. For now I've just made the shields only usable with pistols, smgs, bulpups and swords.

Fix for spark shield for LWOTC, Look at @Lemistios for the soldier fix.

Add code to XcomLW_Overhaul.ini

+ItemTable=(ItemTemplateName="SparkBallisticShield_MG", Slots=3, Starting=false, Infinite=false, Buildable=true, RequiredTech1="PlatedArmor", RequiredTech2="", SupplyCost=70, AlloyCost=3, CrystalCost=5, CoreCost=1, SpecialItemTemplateName="", SpecialItemCost=0, TradingPostValue=35, RequiredEngineeringScore=40, Tier = 179,PointsToComplete=300, InventoryImage="img:///WoTC_Spark_Shield_UI.Inv_Plated_Shield")
+ItemTable=(ItemTemplateName="SparkBallisticShield_BM", Slots=3, Starting=false, Infinite=false, Buildable=true, RequiredTech1="PoweredArmor", RequiredTech2="", SupplyCost=100, AlloyCost=5, CrystalCost=5, CoreCost=1, SpecialItemTemplateName="", SpecialItemCost=0, TradingPostValue=35, RequiredEngineeringScore=40, Tier = 179,PointsToComplete=300, InventoryImage="img:///WoTC_Spark_Shield_UI.Inv_Powered_Shield")

this mod very cool for my tank class

Shields are making arms & legs disappear. Is there a fix?

it seems the animation won't play when using shield bash..anyone had this before/got a fix? Using True Primary Secondaries (Beta) if thats perhaps a cause?

seems like there's a bug with Lost Tower mission : the BIT is replaced by a shield for the SPARK, softlocking you from completing the mission.

Cool looking mod but there's a weird bug when using the shield. The soldier loads into a mission and then can't move at all, ever. They don't see the movement UI grid and just can't do anything.

Cannot equip anything but basic ballistic shield (normal soldier, don't have any Sparks or augmented soldiers).
I have basically finished the tech tree, the option to research or build improved shields has never appeared. Playing with Amalgamation + Covert Infiltration + 5 tier weapon system.

is there a way to disable the aim debuff on specific shields?

@closh+ thanks for the fix, worked fine for me, not been using any shield class due to this when not using Long War.

I found the solution in the Christopherodd's discord server, download this mod:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2526466048

@Lemistio any idea where to add those changes when NOT using LW...???

there seems to be a bug that causes soldiers that are able to normally use swords in they're secondary slot(default ranger or modded classes), to not be able to use swords as their primary with the shield in secondary, and apparently the sword is labelled as Sharpshooter only, right.

need help plz

I'm just copy pasting old comment from 2020 because it solved the tier 2 and 3 not appearing for me - copy this to XcomLW_Overhaul.ini somewhere under item config

+ItemTable=(ItemTemplateName="BallisticShield_MG", Slots=3, Starting=false, Infinite=false, Buildable=true, RequiredTech1="PlatedArmor", RequiredTech2="", SupplyCost=70, AlloyCost=3, CrystalCost=5, CoreCost=1, SpecialItemTemplateName="", SpecialItemCost=0, TradingPostValue=35, RequiredEngineeringScore=40, Tier = 179,PointsToComplete=300, InventoryImage="img:///WoTC_Shield_UI.Inv_Plated_Shield")

+ItemTable=(ItemTemplateName="BallisticShield_BM", Slots=3, Starting=false, Infinite=false, Buildable=true, RequiredTech1="PoweredArmor", RequiredTech2="", SupplyCost=100, AlloyCost=5, CrystalCost=5, CoreCost=1, SpecialItemTemplateName="", SpecialItemCost=0, TradingPostValue=35, RequiredEngineeringScore=40, Tier = 179,PointsToComplete=300, InventoryImage="img:///WoTC_Shield_UI.Inv_Powered_Shield")

Bruh fix the MG/BM shields not working

can you add this mid save

bro everyone is complaining of the spark shields MG and BM not working in the mod.... when will u fix this ?

Same only T1 shields show up, they don't appear in research rewards, even console command adding T2 and 3 doesn't work, its almost as though they aren't in the game at all.

I can build kinetic shields after i researched magnetic, but i can only equip tier 1 shields. The soldier does not see / find the tier 2 shields, ONLY tier 1. I don't understand what i can do to fix this. I am using the mod true primary secondaries, instead of primary secondaries. (using Amalgamation classes).

Upon Armor upgrade, I Can't seem to get a tier 2 or 3 On Sparks.
Can't see Spark Shield tier 2 and 3.

Changed up my load order because this was coming before True Primary Secondaries. But still doesn't fix the issue. Ran a console command to manually give myself BallisticShield_MG 1, but I still can't pick it for my Phalanx class.

Everything seems to be working great for me, but as I progress down the science tree no new class of shield comes up. Stuck at tier 1. In the description it says "unlocked at medium / heavy armor". Is that supposed to mean plated / powered?

The shield points and providing cover to allies does not seem to work with True Primary secondaries, if a patch could be made to allow this, this mod would be absolute top tier.

can someone make this mod work with true primary secondaries?

if it works in a similar way to hunker down, does the shieldwall make you get 10 (the vanilla 30 -20 from the modded effect) defense and 50 dodge total?

That should be no problem. Your mod launcher might report some missing dependencies, but you can ignore that. You could probably play this without any primary secondaries mod, but that would limit shields to shotguns and assault rifles.

I know you haven't replied for years but I'm just checking in about switching the required mods to the newer Primary Secondaries

Wait, will there be a MEC that uses an ADVENT only tier 2 shield?

Apparently I am the dumbest person on Earth. As I am unable to find any way to test this even with console commands, and cannot find the answer anywhere.
With these shields, is the character holding them still being flanked with full penalties when in the open?

@none100p strangely I don't even have a XComLW_Overhaul.ini in that location

so for those complaining about this not working in lwotc, and mg/bm shields not being available:

open xcom lwotc mod config files, usually at this path for steam users:

path to steam folder\workshop\content\268500\1416242202\Config\XComLW_Overhaul.ini

search for "TemplarBallisticShield_MG", TemplarBallisticShield_BM, those normally next to each other, copy-paste those twice and switch template names for copied lines to
ItemTemplateName="BallisticShield_MG"
ItemTemplateName="BallisticShield_BM"

ItemTemplateName="SparkBallisticShield_MG"
ItemTemplateName="SparkBallisticShield_BM"

Those should add build options to your engineering, shields normally located at weapons tab, hf XD

the sparks i mean

it is not working on my end maybe you update the mod i olny get the standard one

Is it possible to set this in a utility slot as well? I'm having issues where, as a secondary weapon for a ranger or melee weapon user, the weapon being in a primary or utility slot, will not activate their skills based on melee weapons.