Exalt Mechanics (WIP)

Exalt first shows up a few months into the game (insert a more specific date here), arriving with a cutscene and a small credits sabotage.

Unlike vanilla or LW1.0, Exalt attacks do not automatically reveal a cell, so keeping up with scans is of upmost importance. LWR provides scan reminders that are perfectly accurate, so simply scanning when reminded will always find an Exalt cell. Scans cost 200 credits (modified by campaign length).

Exalt cells can be left alone for a while (insert more specific details here), but will eventually perform a debilitating attack if you wait too long.

Attacks can have the following effects:

Sabotage: Steals credits (can go into negative credits)
Propaganda: Causes panic increase in some country
Hack: Increases research time on an ongoing research

An average campaign will have approximately 15 Exalt missions and the Exalt Base Assault, but this amount scales up or down with the campaign length.

Exalt Deployment

The quantity and quality of the EXALT pods generated during covert ops depends on the current AL and what kind of mission spawned. Any pod that has a + sign next to it will gain an extra exalt unit of of the same tier for every 20 Incursion Strength above 100 (for example, an IS value of 146 will lead to 2 extra regular or elite exalt soldiers to the biggest pod depending on AL)

Extraction

Alien Level	Pod #1	Pod #2	Pod #3
1-3	2 soldiers+	N/A	N/A
4	3 soldiers+	1 soldiers	N/A
5	4 soldiers+	2 soldiers	N/A
6	5 soldiers+	3 soldiers	N/A
7	3 soldiers+	1 elite soldier	N/A
8	4 soldiers+	1 elite soldier	1 shiv
9	5 soldiers+	2 elite soldiers	1 shiv
10	2 elite soldiers+	2 elite soldiers	1 shiv
11	3 elite soldiers+	2 elite soldiers	1 shiv
12+	4 elite soldiers+	2 elite soldiers	1 shiv

Data Recovery

Alien Level	Pod #1	Pod #2	Pod #3
1-2	3 soldiers+	2 soldiers	N/A
4-5-6	4 soldiers+	3 soldiers	1 shiv
7-8-9	2 elite soldiers+	2 elite soldiers	2 shivs
10+	5 elite soldiers+	2 elite soldiers	3 shivs

Exalt Missions

Info on Exalt missions can be found here.

Exalt Units

Info on Exalt units can be found here.