Is there a way to force generated soldiers to always be drawn from my character pool?
So the character pool feature in XCOM 2 is really cool, since it lets you store a bunch of soldiers which will then be used to populate the random recruits you see. The only thing I'm wondering, though, is if there's a way to ensure that when a the list of initial and recruitable soldiers is made that those pool soldiers will always be chosen in place of the random recruits (provided there are any available).
Is such a thing possible?
Best Answer
This is no longer required, since they added options to the character pool menu in the latest patch. See here.
Yup, it's possible, and really easy to do too.
Open up \path\to\steam\SteamApps\common\XCOM 2\XComGame\Config\DefaultXCOMGameData.ini, and then find the following lines:
InitialSoldiersCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_Mixed
RewardUnitCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_Mixed
...
RecruitsCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_Mixed
Update these values to the following:
InitialSoldiersCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly
RewardUnitCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly
...
RecruitsCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly
Changing all of these values to CPSM_PoolOnly will ensure characters will always be drawn from your character pool if available, but will revert back to random generation if there's no unused soldiers in the character pool (source).
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Can Appear as Soldier allows for characters to potentially appear wherever there is an opportunity to recruit soldiers. This includes mission rewards. Can Appear as VIP lets characters to appear as Resistance VIPs in the rescue missions given to you by the Spokesman.How does character pool work XCOM 2?
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This is now a Steam workshop mod for this: Character Pool Only
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