Overview
This is an old request from the player community to the Devs…Do you want to have more Spanish-speaking country soldiers in your army? Or Commonwealth-only? Arab-United Anti-UFO Forces?Now it’s possible!
PREPARE XCOM FOR MODDING
(Windows only): make sure your XCOM game is installed outside the “C:Program Files” (or “C:Program Files (x86)” on 64-bit Systems) folder.
Reason: Windows (since Vista) considers “Program Files” folder trees to be restricted areas and will revert all the changes any mod makes to a saved “shadow” copy.
It’s explained better in the “Installing Games on Windows Vista+” wiki article:
http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Installing_Games_on_Windows_Vista%2B
FIRST STEPS
1. Download PatcherGUI[www.nexusmods.com] from XCOM NexusMods
2. From this MODs collection: XCOM Interface and Gameplay Tweaks[www.nexusmods.com]
download only this one: [color=white]Soldier Nationality Probability for EU and EW[/color]
(it’s the 28th of the list or so… You can use more of them, but I only explain this one in this Guide)
The compressed file contains 2 txt files:
[color=white]NationalityProbabilityInstall-EU-EW.txt[/color]
[color=white]NationalityProbabilityTweak-EU-EW.txt[/color]
3. Extract PatcherGUI wherever you want.
4. Extract the txt files from the compressed file. Put them inside the [color=white]“Mods”[/color] folder of PatcherGUI.
5. Open PatcherGUI.exe
6. Only for the first time, you’ll need to configure PatcherGUI:
-First line + first button “Browse”: “Path to XCOM:EU or XCOM:EW”, click on it and search your actual XCOM installed folder:
- For XCOM EU mods:
Select the “Path-to-SteamLibrarySteamAppscommonXCom-Enemy-Unknown” folder - For XCOM EW mods:
Select the “Path-to-SteamLibrarySteamAppscommonXCom-Enemy-UnknownXEW” folder
(“Path-to-SteamLibrary” is a placeholder for the actual path to your SteamLibrary folder location, for example, “D:SteamLibrary” under Windows.)
Now you’re ready to install mods.
APPLY MOD
7. PatcherGUI second line “Open mod file” + second “Browse” button:
Select [color=white]NationalityProbabilityInstall-EU-EW.txt[/color]
8. Press the “Apply” button to install it.
9. After that, select [color=white]NationalityProbabilityTweak-EU-EW.txt[/color]
PatcherGUI will load it and display its contents in it’s simple text viewer/editor:
… and a bunch of code lines with countries at the end. Now we will change their numbers to our liking!
CHOOSE COUNTRIES
We will see these line codes:
Those BYTE numbers are the weight for that country. Weights are not probabilities! Probability = weight/sum_of_all_weights. (If you count them right now, the sum is 98).
10. Change corresponding BYTE value to set country weight.
I changed all the numbers to 0 except Spain, to 100.
11. After changing numbers, click on PatcherGUI’s [color=white]“Save”[/color] Button. A message should say: Patched succesfully! Close everything and run XCOM.
So my next batch of Rookies were from my country! Yay! I can role the game now with family and friends!
[link] [link]LATEST NEWS!: The country weight WORKS for the original rookies at Base AND First Operation within a New Game if you don’t activate the Tutorial (The 4 Rookies from Tutorial still being North American, Russian, Japanese and Argentinian).
EXAMPLES
All the other countries with BYTE=0. Not included Venezuela and Colombia, they are shown as USA soldiers, not implemented finally at XCOM.
All the other countries with BYTE=0. Not included Pakistan, they are shown as USA soldiers, not implemented finally at XCOM.
All the other countries with BYTE=0.