Stukovs Medal Bonuses – Open XCOM Commendations

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Author: Stukov81-T.TV

Last revision: 8 Jun at 18:13 UTC (1)

File size: 2.13 MB

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Description:

An addon for Custom Soldier Medals that gives your medals mechanical weight. Award commendations through the medal UI, then apply stat bonuses via console commands.

• 65 OpenXcom-inspired medals – A complete replacement medal library with thematic military commendations
• Stat bonuses – Each medal provides small, flavorful stat bonuses matching its theme
• Optional automatic awarding (experimental) – Medals can be granted automatically at mission end when a soldier meets configurable conditions (kills, missions, wounds, healing, and more), with an on-screen notification. Off by default; opt-in via config.
• Trade-off medals – Some medals have negative stats reflecting their nature (e.g., Crimson Heart: +3 Will, -1 Mobility)
• Combat Intelligence medals – Five medals can boost your soldier’s Combat Intelligence tier
• UFOpedia integration – Full lore entries with historical quotes for each medal (requires WOTC UFOpedia mod)
• Fully configurable – Edit XComMedalBonuses.ini to customize all bonuses

• Custom Soldier Medals (Required) – The base medal system
• Lifetime Stats Redux (Required) – Used for stat tracking that drives several features
• WOTC UFOpedia (Optional) – For encyclopedia entries with medal lore

1. Award a medal to a soldier using the Custom Soldier Medals UI
2. Open the console (~) while viewing that soldier in the Armory
3. Type: AwardMedal Medal Name (quotes optional)
4. To remove bonuses: StripMedal Medal Name
5. To see all medals: ListMedals

Instead of awarding every medal by hand, you can let the mod grant medals automatically when soldiers earn them. This is off by default — the mod works exactly as above unless you turn it on.
To enable: set bEnableAutoGrant=true in the config.
When enabled, qualifying soldiers are awarded the matching medal(s) at the end of a mission, the stat bonus is applied automatically, and a post-mission notification names the soldier and the medal(s) they earned.

• Conditions are fully configurable — set the threshold for kills, missions, healing, damage taken, time served, and more.
• Not all 65 medals have auto-conditions yet; this is an ongoing addition. Medals without a condition are still awarded manually as before.
• Multiple conditions per medal are OR, not AND — if a medal has more than one condition, it’s awarded when any one is met (a medal is only ever awarded once).
• Notifications can be turned off with bEnableMedalPopups=false.

• Combat Excellence (9) – Kill performance medals
• Tactical Excellence (12) – Combat technique medals
• Capture & Restraint (3) – Non-lethal takedown medals
• Psi Warfare (3) – Psionic combat medals
• Valor & Survival (6) – Damage taken medals
• Medical (3) – Healing and support medals
• Mission Participation (6) – Service record medals
• Special Operations (2) – Night mission medals
• Base Operations (2) – Facility assault/defense medals
• Exceptional Performance (4) – Outstanding achievement medals
• Service & Leadership (5) – Long service medals
• Posthumous Awards (6) – Memorial medals

• Bonuses are intentionally small (+1 to +3 for most stats)
• Medals are flavor, not power spikes
• Some medals have trade-offs to reflect their nature
• Combat Intelligence boosts are rare and valuable
• Ability Points are permanent (cannot be stripped)

• Requires a new campaign for the medal library replacement
• Safe to add mid-campaign (bonuses work, but you’ll have the base mod’s medal names)
• No script overrides – purely additive

Edit XComMedalBonuses.ini to customize bonuses. Available stats:

• Medal concepts inspired by OpenXcom commendation system
• Quotes from Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Napoleon, Churchill, Shakespeare, and more

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." — Napoleon Bonaparte