So... is there any way to prevent armor from mods from appearing on soldiers by default?

[Robbie922004]

Got quite a few armor mods installed and they're all great, but I can't for the life of me get them to stop spawning on rookies/soldiers switching to armor they haven't equipped. They've got sliders just like Anarchy's Children and Alien Hunters, but just like those two sliders, they don't work at all. That is, regardless of whether or not the slider is all the way down, soldiers still spawn with AC/AH items (and now modded stuff in the case of soldiers).

 

As much as I love having the option to give my dudes Halo armor or XCOM EU armor, I'd prefer to have soldiers still spawn in with default armor and then let me customize from there.

 

I can't even find where the sliders for mods appear in the .ini files and it seems like regardless of whether or not I uninstall/reinstall mods, it remembers where I had the slider set to. I'd like to clear that out as well and set everything back to default if anybody knows how.

 

Thanks!

[Hyperplexed]

its a built-in feature implemented on the patch before the Alien Hunters, I havent looked into it, but my guess is that it works by reading the DLCName on the INIs. Those mods you are talking about, are probably not properly setup on the INI. Here's an example of how it should look:

 

+BodyPartTemplateConfig=(PartType="Torso", DLCName="XSoldier", TemplateName="XSoldier_PwrMed_Std_A_M", ArchetypeName="XSoldier_PoweredHeavy_GD.ARC_SldPwrHvy_Std_Torsos_A_M", Gender=eGender_Male, bVeteran=false, ArmorTemplate="MediumPoweredArmor", CharacterTemplate="Soldier")

[kexx456]

I've done something similar, not wanting certain elements to appear on my rookies. I did the following:

 

1. On the Content.ini, I went into each individual item I didn't want for my rookies, and set bVeteran to true.

2. Don't remember if it's in GameCore.ini or GameData.ini, but I changed the Veteran Rank Level from 3, to 1.

 

Thus, I get all customization items rather quickly, after just a single mission, but, for those gatecrashers, rookies and recruits, those options are not viable. Solved my issue.