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Egir

16 Oct, 2023 @ 10:25am

Character Pool management questions

I have created, as most of us, a sizeable pool of cool characters, and as a 'plan B' and archiving geek who keeps copies of everything he can, looking for answer to the following two questions:

1. Where in the game files are the biographies for my characters llocated? What I am looking for is the texsts themselves, which I could, say, copy-paste.

2. In that file, cuold I edit the text directly, instead of doing it from within a game? E.g., could I copy the bio I have for John Smith to Jane Doe?

3. How do I save my character pool, in case my PC gives up? (I am hearing some murmurs on boot on occasion, so don't want to take any chances).

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Iridar

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19 Oct, 2023 @ 9:07pm

1. In the Character Pool File, which you shouldn't edit directly, as it's very likely to break it permanently.
2. Once again, don't touch the file. What you can do is use my Appearance Manager mod, which has the option of copying biography from one soldier to another on the Manage Appearance screen.
3. Copy the ..\Documents\my games\XCOM2 War of the Chosen\XComGame\CharacterPool\DefaultCharacterPool.bin file.

Last edited by Iridar; 19 Oct, 2023 @ 9:12pm

Dragon32

20 Oct, 2023 @ 7:22am

I've never tried it and it may not help but, after backing up the .bin, you could try this
https://github.com/Shaosil/XCOM2CharacterPoolUtility

Egir

21 Oct, 2023 @ 4:20am

Thank you both!

@iridar

Got you. I don't want to fiddle with it so much as I want to, primarily, find the relevant texts and save them independently, in case back ups do not work. This is because I occasionally bring in characters from others' character pools, but then change those to suit my own play style or modified visuals. So, I need to have a record somewhere of those changes in a format easier than a set of screenshots.

I know of the virtues of the Appearance Manager, and it is on the list to play with. ;) The functionality will certainly help juggle things.

Last edited by Egir; 21 Oct, 2023 @ 4:39am

Egir

24 Jan, 2024 @ 1:16pm

Questions... questions.

Like many, I am downloading mods from Steam by pressing the 'subscribe' button. They then download to the Mods folder via Steam, and then the AML activates them. So far, so good.

But now that I have become very dependent on them, I want to guarantee that I don't loose them if, for example, a modder is banned and his mod page is taken down, or something else happens.

What do I do to save duplicates of these mods separately? Is it enough to go to the 'Mods' folder and copy the folders for individual mods, to save them on, say, an external HDD? Or do I need to also do something else?