When one buys a PCS upgrade at the Black Market, one can only see the name of it; it's only after purchase, at the stage of equipping it, that the game tells us what it actually does.
What PCS upgrades are available, and what do they do?
What do the various PCS upgrades do
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Found a post on the XCOM subreddit from one of the Long War devs, Amineri:
I should clarify how this works.
The AWC doesn't give a random chance to gain an ability on each level-up.
What happens is that each soldier gets a single AWC ability rolled for either when the AWC is built (for existing soldiers) or when the soldier is obtained (AWC already built).
The AWC ability is randomly pulled from "cross class abilities" -- not a list, but configured with a boolean in each ability.
The AWC is stored along with the level at which it will unlock. When the soldier reaches that level (or returning from first mission if already there), then the ability will be unlocked.
Source: I looked at the code, and the LW Officer mod stores the officer abilities in the same AWCAbilities array.
So, from this, it seems the answers are, 1, a random selection from "allowed cross class abilities", and yes, but see this question.
The survivor of the old war is simply a regular, normal recruit, but wearing an XCOM Enemy Unknown outfit. This is based of a developer's tweet here:
The soldier has a randomized name, will be equipped with "Resistance Warrior Kevlar Armor", and will have a unique bio, e.g.:
A survivor of the old war, Min Ho was a ranking officer within X-Com when the organization fell. He is rumored to have survived the ill-fated pre-war X-Com operation later referred to as the "Kiryu-Kai Disaster".
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From what I understand, each PCS has three variants: Normal, Advanced and Superior. Each tier is better than the previous one. Within each tier there can be some small variation. E.g. in the picture below, you'll see three Superior Agility PCS that have different Dodge stats.
This is a list of all the types available in the vanilla game: