XCOM EU Additional Nations

[Guest deleted2159825]

All,

 

I'm unsure if this will be the first mod request for XCOM at the Nexus, so I'll point to something that seems to prominent in the minds of many observers: representation by more nations in the rank and file of XCOM. I've been lurking in the 2K forums for a few weeks, and this seems to be a popular sentiment.

 

There are a number of countries not included in the forthcoming release which would enrich the range of XCOM's troop nationalities and naming (this is just a cursory, non-comprehensive list, no offense if I neglect your homeland):

- Poland

- Turkey

- Ukraine

- Finland (Jouko Ahola)

- Portugal

- Jamaica (I would name someone Bob Marley)

- Indonesia

- Thailand

- Denmark

- Philippines

- Czech Republic

- Pakistan

- Romania

- Algeria (could include Berber names)

- Hungary (Keyser Söze, anyone?)

- Vietnam

- Cuba

- Croatia

- Iceland (Magnus ver Magnusson!)

 

Again, these are just countries I gleaned from the GDP list in Wikipedia. Make of it what you will.

[Soulzityr]

I would love for Poland to be included :) Countries included though would mean also changing up the satellite max and their conferred bonuses to stay balanced.

 

Also, any countries added in should also have their flags appear on soldiers :)

[PepprmintButler]

... Countries included though would mean also changing up the satellite max and their conferred bonuses to stay balanced.

 

Also, any countries added in should also have their flags appear on soldiers :)

 

I believe the request is for more countries of origin for the soldiers, so that means we need the flags indeed (plus names for the generator).

That does not mean more countries on the council of the XCOM initiative ; in the vanilla game you already have soldiers from Ireland or Belgium (first ones that popped to mind) which are not members of the council. So no, there would be no change to satellite numbers or balance, it's purely a cosmetic mod.

Or did I get it wrong ..?

 

Supposing I am understanding this right:

Soldier origins and names are picked from XCOMNamelist.ini. which looks as follows :

; ------------------------------------------
; -------------- SPANISH -------------------
; ------------------------------------------

m_arrEsMFirstNames="Alfonso"
m_arrEsMFirstNames="Bernardo"

m_arrEsFFirstNames="Alicia"
m_arrEsFFirstNames="Yolanda"

m_arrEsLastNames="Garcia"

(variations snipped for length)

 

Changing names is trivial and has been proven to work in the "finding the first step" post.

Adding countries and their flags seems a bit trickier though, but clearly feasible (unfortunately not by me, I have none of the skills /sadpanda)

 

IMHO it would be nice, but I'd rather have UI and gameplay mods before the cosmetic ones...

Edited October 11, 2012 by PepprmintButler