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Hostile Territory

Not everybody wants to join XCom!

This mod adds hostile human military forces with the same abilities and equipment as XCom. Run missions despite getting blown up by grenadiers, sliced up by rangers, and shot up by sharpshooters, while gremlins are healing them up.

Latest update: April 21, 2016. Added mini-bosses with unique loot! See the change notes page for details.

If you like the mod please remember to give it a thumbs up, so I can get the fifth star!


The bad news is, this mod conflicts with Instant Avenger Menus. The good news is, this mod includes Instant Avenger Menus! As long as you follow the below steps, you can get the effect of IAM without loading it. Disable IAM in the mod launcher, and then check My Documents/My Games/XCOM 2/XComGame/Config/XComEngine.ini. There must be only one line that mentions XComHQPresentationLayer:

+ModClassOverrides=(BaseGameClass="XComHQPresentationLayer", ModClass="HT_HQPresentationLayer")


When you activate the mod, you will see a new research project: Decrypt Hostile Communications. Complete this, and you will see a new mission button in the geoscape which is a Hostile Territory Mission. Each time you complete the research, another mission will be added to the geoscape. For these missions, all the enemies will be human; no advent or aliens will appear.

There is a youtube video with a basic tutorial in the sidebar. It is not very polished, but it shows the basic steps and some snippets of the gameplay. The snippets show my squad using very bad tactics and getting killed a lot, but the point of the video is to show the enemy abilities in action. It is not as deadly as this video makes it look!


* Reinforcements are Advent, not human. I could argue this is a feature: if your battle continues for too long, then Advent is called to investigate.

* For enemy specialists, the gremlin sometimes trails behind them, or temporarily remains hovering around an enemy who was just healed. This is cosmetic; the gremlin will catch up after some time.


You can adjust the intel and time cost, as well as the enemy force levels in the ini file:

steamapps/common/workshop/content/268500/665546898/Config/XComHostileTerritory.ini

The intel cost, research cost, and duration of the mission before expiration should be easy to understand. If you prefer, you can set both costs to zero, and set the duration to a large number. Completing all these missions will allow you to get mission rewards such as scientists or engineers very quickly. If you make the missions free, please do not complain the mod is unbalanced!

You can also adjust the force levels to make the enemies easier or harder, but this will require some explanation. The enemy leaders have four varieties: corporal (CPL), lieutenant with conventional weapons (LT_CV), lieutenant with mag weapons (LT_MG) and captains (CAP_MG). The enemy followers are the same, but also including rookies. Forcelevel is an integer from 1-20 representing how strong your enemies are supposed to be; this increases during the game. The ini file allows you to determine which enemy leaders and followers should appear at each force level. You can make the mod easier by keeping the lower power enemies through higher forcelevels, or make it harder by allowing higher power enemies to appear at lower forcelevels.

The ini file contains these parameters:

LT_CV_LEAD=6
LT_MG_LEAD=11
CAP_MG_LEAD=16

This means that LT_CV will appear when the forcelevel is between 6-10, LT_MG from 11-15, and CAP_MG at 16 or higher. The lowest leader CPL will appear from 1-5. To make the mod easier, you can increase these numbers by 1-2 each, so that the more powerful leaders will come slightly later. The similar idea applies to follower levels.

As I get more playtest feedback, if most people feel the mod is too easy I will lower the breakpoints, or raise them if people feel the mod is too hard. In the meantime, adjust to your taste and let me know what you found.


Currently, all the mission objectives are the same as those in the unmodded game, such as hack workstation, rescue VIP, etc. In the future I plan to add different objectives and build sequences of missions. This way, the outcome of one mission will affect which future missions or objectives are available. Stay tuned!


* Grenade launcher and gremlin heal by swinka6666 @ nexus