XCOM 2
More Random Backstories
Gaming Geek  [developer] 5 Mar, 2016 @ 8:54am
Grammar and typo thread
If you spot something I screwed up on, let me know so I can fix it!
Last edited by Gaming Geek; 6 Mar, 2016 @ 7:21am
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StylePengu 9 Mar, 2016 @ 7:07pm 
I've noticed several typos.

The "conspiracy blogger" backstory uses the plural pronoun "they" instead of the singular pronoun "he/she." It's a bit disconcerting. This might also be an issue with other backstories, though I haven't checked.

A few of the backstories also use "Advent" instead of "ADVENT." The latter way of writing it is much more common, so I'd recommend standardizing this for the sake of consistency.
Last edited by StylePengu; 9 Mar, 2016 @ 7:08pm
Gaming Geek  [developer] 9 Mar, 2016 @ 7:16pm 
Hm, the Advent thing is likely due to combining stories from other people. I was checking to make sure there were no spelling or major grammar problems, so that one completely slipped my eye.

I missed that in Conspiracy Blogger? ...damn it, that's one of the first ones. I swore I caught all the early bugs. ...wonder if that was an old save I overwrote when I had to restore from backup?

Thank you! I'll fix these for the next update!
StylePengu 9 Mar, 2016 @ 8:57pm 
Found some more typos. Hope this helps...

-- The "underground shelter community" backstory only uses male pronouns instead of both male and female pronouns.

-- The backstory that begins with "A new recruit of XCOM's during the invasion..." should have a "when" instead of a "before." Also "that area" can be rewritten as "the surrounding areas" for less subject ambiguity.

-- The backstory that begins with "When (Country) surrendered, they did so out of necessity..." should have the punctuation written inside the quotation marks.

-- The backstory that begins with "After the aliens destroyed EXALT's headquarters..." should have a space before the parenthesis.

-- The "New New York" backstory should have quotation marks around the sentence "New New York. Whose ♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea was that?" to show that it's a quote by the soldier rather than part of the report.

-- The backstory that begins with "When the Avenger veterans speak of..." has the word "capitulation" capitalized when it should be lowercase.

-- The backstory that begins with "[Name] wanted a better life growing up in[Country]" does not have a space before the country name.

-- The backstory that begins with "'Four dead and my pulse is still under 80...'" should have the punctuation inside the quotation marks. Also double quotes would be recommended instead of single quotes.

-- The backstory that begins with "News of a small group of dissidents..." should have the punctuation inside the quotation marks. Also "they" can be replaced with "the group" for less subject ambiguity.
Last edited by StylePengu; 10 Mar, 2016 @ 6:17pm
harlequin565 10 Mar, 2016 @ 3:01am 
Just a note - in case you weren't aware. I used single quotes when quoting in the text because double quotes signifies the end of the backstory and cuts the rest off.
Dragon32 11 May, 2016 @ 4:50pm 
Typo here:

;Time Bomb
strCharacterBackgroundMale[49]="<XGParam:StrValue1/!FirstName/> is a time bomb waiting to explode. He has psychotic urges and strong desire to kill. He was recruited after he rescued XCOM operatives during a mission gone bad.<br.As long as we point him at our enemies, we should be okay."

That last <br> is missing the greater than symbol, or whatever it's called.
Dragon32 26 May, 2016 @ 12:01pm 
Backgrounds 37 and 38 have "XCom", every other instance of XCOM is all capitals. I'd suggest changing 37 and 38 for consistency.
Gaming Geek  [developer] 28 May, 2016 @ 12:23pm 
Was this on the latest update? ....damn, something must have reset them.

Oh. *facepalm* Right, I fixed that in the old file but I was working on a old external txt file this time.
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