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XCOM EU/EW MOD: Change Nationality Probability for New Recruits

By Odin in Valhalla

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!

Award

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Odin in Valhalla
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Category: Characters, Classes, Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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Updated

4 Mar, 2016 @ 9:56pm

5 Mar, 2016 @ 8:34pm

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Guide Index

Overview

PREPARE XCOM FOR MODDING

FIRST STEPS

APPLY MOD

CHOOSE COUNTRIES

EXAMPLES

Comments

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-SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown" folder
For XCOM EW mods:
Select the "Path-to-SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown\XEW" 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:

MOD NAME: Nationality Probability Tweaker AUTHOR: wghost81 aka Wasteland Ghost DESCRIPTION: Adjust soldiers nationality probabilities. Change corresponding BYTE value to set country weight. Weights are not probabilities! Probability = weight/sum_of_all_weights. Default weight values are set to vanilla values. You may set non-zero weights for Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, Venezuela, Colombia and Portugal, but since game does not fully support these, you will get default (USA) names and flags on soldiers uniforms.

... 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:

REL_OFFSET=0x43 BYTE=6 // USA REL_OFFSET=0x57 BYTE=3 // Russia REL_OFFSET=0x6C BYTE=2 // China ...

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!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=638134692

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=638134774

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

Spanish-speaking countries

REL_OFFSET=0x153 BYTE=33 // Spain REL_OFFSET=0x1E6 BYTE=33 // Argentina REL_OFFSET=0x1FB BYTE=33 // Mexico

All the other countries with BYTE=0. Not included Venezuela and Colombia, they are shown as USA soldiers, not implemented finally at XCOM.

Commonwealth of Nations

REL_OFFSET=0x81 BYTE=8 // UK REL_OFFSET=0xD5 BYTE=16 // India REL_OFFSET=0xEA BYTE=16 // Australia REL_OFFSET=0x17D BYTE=16 // Canada REL_OFFSET=0x210 BYTE=16 // SouthAfrica REL_OFFSET=0x24F BYTE=16 // Nigeria REL_OFFSET=0x2E2 BYTE=8 // Scotland

All the other countries with BYTE=0. Not included Pakistan, they are shown as USA soldiers, not implemented finally at XCOM.

New Hansa

REL_OFFSET=0x57 BYTE=11 // Russia REL_OFFSET=0x96 BYTE=11 // Germany REL_OFFSET=0xAB BYTE=11 // France REL_OFFSET=0x225 BYTE=11 // Poland REL_OFFSET=0x2B8 BYTE=11 // Sweden REL_OFFSET=0x2E2 BYTE=11 // Scotland REL_OFFSET=0x2F7 BYTE=11 // Norway REL_OFFSET=0x30C BYTE=11 // Netherlands REL_OFFSET=0x321 BYTE=11 // Belgium

All the other countries with BYTE=0.

2 Comments

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orionmestizo 5 Mar, 2016 @ 7:07am

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centinel_fire 5 Mar, 2016 @ 6:49am

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