mod for more aliens? without other changes

[djhoerauf]

are there any mods that maybe double the number of aliens without other major changes?

 

also is there a save game editor? wouldn't mind adding another 10 hp or so to each soldier. just think the 5 or so is minimum.

 

[Amineri]

I recall that bokauk was working on a save game editor, but it didn't get very far as best I can tell. There was some extremely limited functionality.

 

I'd worked on a mod that increased the number of possible aliens per pod from 3 (in vanilla) to up to 9. The link to the forum post is here : http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/992479-increased-pod-size/

 

Unfortunately it's not particularly easy to make into a stand-alone mod as it requires some substantial reworking of the XGStrategyAI class in order to specify how many aliens should be present on various missions.

[johnnylump]

Rather than increase the maximum number of aliens per pod -- starting from vanilla, it is easier to simply mod the number of aliens per mission while increasing the number of pods at the same time, so the number of pods >= the number of aliens * 3. You may run into a limit of the number of alien pods that will spawn on a map, though.

 

You'll need to learn to hex edit, but this should be doable by simply changing constants. Get UExplorer and explore XComStrategyGame.upk, specifically the XGStrategyAI class and the Determine*Squad functions, and you'll see variables like "iNumAliens" and some kind of pod counter.

 

This was one of the first mods I made, but there isn't a separate mod that I know of that does ONLY this.