robojumper’s Squad Select
For a War of the Chosen version, please see here
My personal take on a vanilla Squad Select Screen! Completely built from the ground up!
The very basic idea is that all slots are arranged on some kind of ellipse and you can scroll (infinitely in either direction) when you have more than 6 soldiers to send.
Features:
- User Interface for more than 6 soldiers. How many? There’s no limit!
- More intuitive with built-in overview!
- More information: PCS’, Health, Abilities (Shows You The Skills), Stats, Armor, Primaries, Secondaries, Pockets…
- Bad Math and 3000 lines of code!
- 100% controller compatible!
- Configurable with Mod Config Menu, but also standalone!
- Includes a squad size setting!
Not included:
- A fix for spawn points when you use more than 9 soldiers. See recommended mods below.
Known Issues:
- Armory Screens reachable from the Squad Select Screen have a Hotlink to Geoscape. DO NOT CLICK IT. IT CAN CAUSE THE GAME TO LOCK UP. This is something I can’t easily fix.
How do I increase my Squad Size?
It has a built-in way of choosing the squad size, either via MCM or via the local config file.
If the built-in way of modifying squad size breaks with your setup, you can disable it in XComGame.ini
Recommended Mods:
- Mod Config Menu , if you want to have a UI for config.
- Larger Spawn Points by -bg-, if you want to have more than 9 soldiers.
- Instant Avenger Menus by Ketchi, if the camera swoops take you too long (or lag too much).
Incompatible with:
- Most mods that change the Squad Select Screen, including, but not limited to
- Long War 2 (dedicated version here! )
- LW Toolbox (some functionality included)
- ShowMeTheSkills and variants thereof (functionality included)
- Upgrade Reminder (functionality included)
- Larger Starting Squad (functionality included)
FAQ:
- Will there be a LW2 version?
- No. Here!
- How do I increase my Squad Size?
- See above.
- Why does this not include a Spawn Point fix?
- I wanted to make it as compatible as possible. Since other mods are addressing this issue, I didn’t add it.
- I don’t have MCM. How do I configure the mod?
- Start the game once. It will create a file: "C:/Users/%USERNAME%/Documents/My Games/XCOM2/XComGame/Config/XComrobojumperSquadSelect_NullConfig.ini". There you can adjust the same values exposed to MCM.
Thanks:
- Highbob for ShowMeTheSkills, ideas of which I borrowed
- LeaderEnemyBoss for ShowMeTheSkillsRevived, ideas of which I borrowed
- DerBK for ABA2, because the mod is balanced around 6-8 soldiers. Without it, this mod wouldn’t exist!
- xylthixlm for helping me with some math.
- All other modders who had to hear my random ramblings about the mod and provided feedback
- .vhs for upgrade icons and the thumbnail. It’s great, don’t you think?
