Overview
A quick guide to unlocking subraces
The easy way to unlock Playable subraces
When you encounter a mission to revive a race, stop when you get to the final step before colonizing the planet , then save and exit to game title screen and alt tab out. ( you can get the race revival missions to trigger by destroying a few races in a sector, one of the remaining races will give you the mission to revive an random race to be its ally , it might be more common if one race is at war with many others)
Next navigate to C:UsersYourUserNameAppDataLocalDroxOperative2Userchars
and sort files by recently modified , the 7 most recent should be:
- x.map
- x.wld
- x.pwl
- Global.sav
- Global.sts
- x.chr
- x.his
(x will be different depending on your character and sector names)
Copy and paste these files to a different folder on your desktop then tab back into the game and complete the quest by colonizing the planet. The race that revives can be a random Young race, a normal race or one of the subclasses of the normal races.
Sometimes the race will die instantly because the planet isnt habitable for them (water species on a desert planet ect ect) if you unlock a subrace this way it will still count even if they die instantly.
Either way save and exit back to title screen and alt tab out of the game again. Then copy the old save files from the folder on your desktop and paste them back into the drox operative chars folder allowing them to overwrite and replace.
Now you can tab back into the game and complete the race revive quest again , you wont lose any subraces you unlock this way even if you revert to the old saves and you can do it repeatedly until they are all unlocked.
Doing it this way is a bit cheesy but there is probably an even easier way to just edit the files themselves to give you the unlocks but i couldn’t find it , comment if you know.
List of subraces and how to unlock them the hard way
I’m not sure what triggers most of the rebellions, i play on “very fast pace” scenario setting so most planets are afflicted with genius paranoia , radiation leaks , civil unrest ect. Some systems will have modifiers like lots of mutants spawning in this sector , which seems to help.
Forcing a rebellion using propaganda usually resulted in generic rebels for me (for example Shadow rebels), *these are now a new subclass see note below*, i had more luck just allowing things like sabotaging to cause instability or allowing genius paranoia to linger while keeping the race alive until the special rebels show up (for instance mutants or clone subrace). Leave a comment if there’s a mistake or you found the methods to unlock that I’ve missed.
*note on “rebels” These are the new subraces for all classes, simply support a rebellion by spreading propaganda on planets for the major races (human , dryad , hive ect,) until the riots turn into civil war , then look for the red circle with a question mark on the map screen of the area you just spread propaganda in. This is the location of the rebel ship, go to them and complete their quest and it might cause the rebels to “split the empire”. You might need to complete multiple rebel quests and they dont always succeed in causing the empire to split.
Human subraces
- Ape: Support genetically modified ape rebellion on a human planet (don’t bring supplies to suppress the mutants just ignore them until a rebellion starts then support the rebels. make sure they are ape rebels and not generic rebels)
- A.I. : You will see a quest related to rogue A.I,, instead of helping to get rid of the A.I. look for a rebel ship on the map , perhaps related to computer virus on planet or genius paranoia
- Justice : Human will ask you to suppress rebels clamoring for justice ; instead support the rebels
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Dryad subraces
- Mutant : Race description mentions radiation leak so sabotaging a planet might work then support mutant rebels or wait for a galaxy that has “more mutants” as a map modifier
- Talon : Monster race not playable
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Utopian subraces
- Cyborg : Only found this by resurrect a race quest but might be related to genius paranoia
- Legion : Monster race
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Fringe subraces
- Ultimate Weapon : Resurrect a race mission , perhaps genius paranoia or “help with research” can trigger them.
- Genetic Soldier : Support a rebellion of genetically modified citizens rebels
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Hive subraces
- Genetic : Support genetically modified citizens rebels
- Overlord : Monster race
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Drakk subraces
- Clone : Support clone rebels , might be triggered by genius paranoia
- Drakk Cortex Hybrid : Resurrect a race mission , perhaps related to having drakk and cortex be allied or at war with each other
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Lithosoid subraces
- Asexual : Resurrect a race mission or spread propaganda to start civil war
- Xenophobia : Don’t cure xenophobia on lithosoid , eventually rebels will show up (monster raids or boss monsters can sometimes spread diseases like xenophobia, galactic flu ect)
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Cortex subraces
- Telepath : Support rebels , perhaps caused by genius paranoia
- Cortex Brunt Hybrid : Perhaps related to genius paranoia or having the two races allied or at war
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Shadow Subraces
- Zombie : Don’t cure zombie plague on shadow planets
- Paranoia : Don’t cure genius paranoia on shadow planets
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Brunt Subraces
- Pirate : Ignore missions mentioning piracy, or even weaken a planet and lure the pirate into attacking, i unlocked this race when a pirate attacked a planet.
- Barbarianism : Don’t cure insanity on brute planets
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests
Scavenger Subraces
- Reaper : Don’t cure insanity on scavenger planets
- Infection : Don’t cure galactic flu on scavenger planets
- Generic Rebels Spread propaganda until civil war starts then look for rebel ships and complete their quests