Alpha Protocol: Agent Mike Thorton Squadmate (WOTC)

THIS IS FOR THE WAR OF THE CHOSEN EXPANSION

This mod adds models for secret agent Mike Thorton from Alpha Protocol as soldier armour, with an added custom head (requires the Community Highlander).

The creation of this mod was inspired by the Alpha Protocol Mike Thorton Voicepack mod by PsyCHo, which is obviously a recommended companion mod.

Support has been added for robojumper’s Add Part Names mod, which enables the torso, legs, and arm armour parts to be properly labelled with their name in their relevant sub-menus.

I highly recommend the use of RealityMachina’s Wear Armour on the Avenger (for WotC) mod. With the use of that mod your soldiers will wear whatever armour you have equipped them with inside the Avenger, rather than the underlay outfit they wear by default. You may also wish to use Mertius’s SWR Full Crew Avenger WotC mod to increase the numbers of soldiers wandering around between missions. Make sure to follow the instructions regarding reinitialising your settings to make it take effect.

Unfortunately there will not be a legacy/base game version of this mod. This is due to the inability to hide the default soldier teeth and eyeballs with an invisible head and no option for adding fully custom head models. Plus it’s just too much of a pain to support two completely different versions, especially for a version of the game I no longer play.

The custom head is available under Race 0.

There are some optional extras available as decorations: a wristwatch intended for use with the casual shirt outfit (tends to clip, hence why it was split out), torso pouches for the combat and utility armours, a torso pistol holster for the stealth armour, and an undershirt for the casual shirt outfit which plugs a gap when using a vanilla X2 head.

The textures are not the best. Although the sources are (surprisingly) 2K for the most part, they were made for a traditional Blinn/Phong shader so there is a lot of baked lighting that is difficult to remove that cause unsightly dark patches under PBR.

The head model has a rather unfortunate UV seam right down the middle of the throat. Despite my best efforts, X2 makes this a hard edge which is noticeable in close-ups. I’m not sure I can do anything to fix this, besides recreating all new UVs, which would be an absolute last resort.

Due to some poor weight translation on my part between the source AP rig and the X2 rig, there will probably be some bad deformation and clipping during certain animations. I’ve tried to correct this as I have noticed it, but I probably missed some instances and/or made a bad job of fixing it. Report anything noteworthy and I may try to rectify it, if possible.

The mod makes use of the Highlander’s added functions for a given head to suppress selection of certain body parts. In this case, the head will disable selection of hair and beards, since the vanilla ones do not fit Thorton’s head model at all.

Original mesh and texture content derived from Alpha Protocol. All rights belong to Obsidian Entertainment/Sega.

Pictures feature Pavonis Interactive’s LW2 coil guns from KnaveOfSpades’s Coilguns for War of the Chosen mod. Content not included in this mod.

Enemies in some pictures are from DerBK’s A Better ADVENT: War of the Chosen mod. Content not included in this mod.

The addition of a custom head made possible by the X2WOTCCommunityHighlander. This mod wouldn’t be practical without it.

I learned a lot by poking through the contents of other people’s mods, such as Kexx and Dor, to see how things worked, as well as reading various tutorials and forum/Reddit posts by the likes of E3245. Many thanks to them and the rest of the X2 modding community for their help, direct and indirect.

Try my other XCom 2 mods.

For War of the Chosen:
SW Alien Head Pack 01: Twi’leks soldier head/hair customization mod.
SW Alien Head Pack 02: Zabrak soldier head/hair customization mod.
SW Alien Head Pack 03: Cantina Denizens soldier head customization mod.
SW Alien Head Pack 04: Scum and Villainy soldier head customization mod.
Old Republic HK Droids soldier body customization mod.
Ashley Williams Squadmate soldier body customization mod.
Alyx Vance Squadmate soldier body customization mod.
Exoskeleton-less Heavy Armour soldier body customization mod.
Terminator T-800 Endoskeleton soldier body customization mod.
Alpha Protocol: Scarlet Lake Squadmate soldier body customization mod.

For the Legacy/Base Game:
SW Alien Head Pack 01: Twi’leks soldier head/hair customization mod.
SW Alien Head Pack 02: Zabrak soldier head/hair customization mod.
SW Alien Head Pack 03: Cantina Denizens soldier head customization mod.
SW Alien Head Pack 04: Scum and Villainy soldier head customization mod.
SW Alien Voice Pack.
Old Republic HK Droids soldier body customization mod.
Old Republic HK Voice Pack.
Ashley Williams Squadmate soldier body customization mod.
Alyx Vance Squadmate soldier body customization mod.
Exoskeleton-less Heavy Armour soldier body customization mod.