XCOM EU Slower panic level increases

[Lizardianguy]

Hi, I decided to start playing Xcom: Enemy Unknown again yesterday and after a few hours of playing (with Marathon mode turned on) the game quickly reminded me of why I stopped playing it: It's literally impossible to keep panic levels from escalating ridiculously, even at the lower difficulty settings. This was exacerbated by the fact that I was in marathon mode and the final straw came when, despite succeeding in every mission and shooting down every UFO and doing everything right, I ended a mission in a country at panic level 3 on a continent with another country that was at panic level 4, just to see four other countries get to mass hysteria at the same time. Right before the end of a month. And that was despite rushing satellites and satellite uplinks.

 

So, I came here looking for a mod that would fix what is definitely a load of crap, and all the mods that "fix" this also do a bunch of things I want nothing to do with (also, your guns now do this and this, and the aliens now explode when they die, and your captains now look like clowns, etc). I want a mod that does nothing but, say, make it so that the panic levels only increase in the countries you don't respond to during abductions, not on entire goddam continents.

 

Thank you very much.

Edited February 27, 2013 by Lizardianguy

[johnnylump]

Interested in doing a little modding yourself? What you're asking for is pretty easy to accomplish; the mission-panic settings are in the file DefaultGameCore.ini. You just need to follow the instructions on modpatcher to get your changes in the game.

Edited February 27, 2013 by johnnylump

[Lizardianguy]

<p>I'm guessing it has to do with one of these values:<br />

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PANIC_ABDUCTION_COUNTRY_EASY=1<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_COUNTRY_NORMAL=1<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_COUNTRY_HARD=1<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_COUNTRY_CLASSIC=2<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_CONTINENT_EASY=1<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_CONTINENT_NORMAL=1<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_CONTINENT_HARD=1<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_CONTINENT_CLASSIC=1<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_THWARTED_CONTINENT=0<br />

PANIC_ABDUCTION_THWARTED_COUNTRY=-3<br />

<br />

Do I just set the CONTINENT values to 0? Will that make it so panic won't increase across the continent for the countries I don't respond to?<br />

<br />

EDIT: Nope. Tried it, doesn't change a thing.<br />

EDIT 2: I may have modified the wrong file. Trying again.<br />

EDIT 3: Nope. Modifying those values does nothing, for some reason.</p>

<p>FINAL EDIT: Okay, now I understand how modding this game works. After modifying these values and using modpatcher, it does work. Thank you very much.</p>

Edited February 27, 2013 by Lizardianguy

[johnnylump]

Glad to hear you got it working! There's plenty of things to mine in DefaultGameCore.ini to come up with interesting variants on vanilla. Just remember you'll have to put the changes in place again after any patches or game updates.