[[1.65 + XCE 0.35]Rank Insignia from Xenonaut's uniforms]

re-uploaded the mod due to the hack

[[1.65 + XCE 0.35] Xtended Soldier Backgrounds]

Mod has been re-uploaded

[[1.65 + XCE 0.35] Xtended Soldier Backgrounds]

I'm currently at work but I'll try and reupload it tonight.

[[1.65 + XCE 0.35] Xtended Soldier Backgrounds]

On 12/13/2021 at 6:39 PM, EurekaSeven said:

Bit of late, but That really helps a lot with my own research on Warsaw Pact elite forces that can be mentioned in Xenonauts Universe. Thanks!

Though I'm little bit curious, as you've listed a lots of less known conflicts that a PACT personel might involved into, but you never mentioned the Operation Danube aka Prague Spring in '68. It was one of the biggest depolyment involving almost all of the Warsaw Pact countries and also includes special opeartions and sabotage (e.g. Spetznaz caputure of Ruzyne Airport), so I'm guessing it could be one of the most common combat experience for a PACT soldier during the period. I'll say REFORGER might also be an available experience for US soldiers as it includes exercises dealing with a possible Soviet invasion against Germany. 

If I recall correctly, at the time I didn't include Danube as there was minimal combat but feel free to add it in your personal copy, it's pretty easy to do. Reforger, as you say, were exercises only so didn't count in my book.

[[1.65 + XCE 0.35]Rank Insignia from Xenonaut's uniforms]

Just giving this a cheeky bump as I've updated it for 1.65 + XCE 0.35. Enjoy :)

[[1.65 + XCE 0.35] Xtended Soldier Backgrounds]

As this mod seems to have died and appears to be unavailable, I've decided to re-release it. I've converted the mod so it can be used in the Mod manager.

This does not incorporate any of Ogaburan's changes so this version is as it was for V.22 (pre-1.0).  I haven't added any flags for XCE. I probably won't do any more work on this mod, I'm just making it available again.

Download link is at the bottom of the post. Enjoy

Original text below:

The purpose of this mod is to expand on the backgrounds of Xenonaut grunts, add more names, and to add some more nations.

Parts of this mod have been incorporated into the official game: *denotes nation that comes with the vanilla game.

The nations included in the mod are:

NATO:

United States*

United Kingdom*

Canada*

West Germany*

Greece*

Spain*

Italy*

Portugal

Norway*

Netherlands*

Denmark*

France*

Belgium

Turkey

Iceland

Western Allies:

Australia*

Malaysia

New Zealand*

Japan*

South Korea

Warsaw Pact:

Soviet Union*

East Germany*

Hungary*

Bulgaria

Czechoslovakia*

Romania

Poland

Communist Bloc:

Vietnam

China

Cuba

North Korea

Non-Aligned or Neutral Nations:

Rhodesia

South Africa

Israel

Egypt

Sweden*

Finland*

Ireland

Brazil

Nigeria

Kenya

Morocco

Philippines

Indonesia

Mexico

Thailand

Chile

Argentina

Austria

Switzerland

Yugoslavia

I've also expanded most nation's available regiments and/or made them more "elite". This represents the nations giving the Xenonauts their best of the best.

The combat experiences are all historical wars from the 60's and 70's that a soldier's nation was involved in but you will get the occasional non-historical result due to there being no relationship between a soldier's age and previous combat experience when they are generated. e.g you might get a 21 year old veteran of Vietnam.

Here's the full list of nations with units and possible experiences:

 

NATO:

United States

Units:

Army Special Forces (AKA The Green Berets)

Airborne

Navy SEALs

Marine Force Recon

Army Rangers

Experience:

Vietnam

El Salvador - Special Forces only

Angola - Special Forces only

Laos

Dominican Republic '65.

Korea '66-'68

Cambodia early '70s

United Kingdom

Units:

Special Air Service

Parachute Regiment

Royal Marines

Special Boat Squadron

Experience:

Aden

Northern Ireland

Dhofar- SAS only

Borneo

Canada

Units:

Canadian Airborne Regiment

Royal Canadian Regiment

Royal 22e Regiment (for French-Canadians)

Experience:

Cyprus (UN Mission during Turkish Invasion 1975. Airborne only)

West Germany

Units:

GSG 9 - Anti-terrorist unit of the Federal Police

FSLK200 - Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol(LRRP) unit

26th Fallschirmjager Brigade - Paratroopers

Experience:

Mogadishu - GSG 9 only

Greece

Units:

ETA - Special Paratrooper Unit

MYK - SEALs equivalent

Raider Forces - Rangers

Experience:

Cyprus

Spain

Units:

Unidad de Operaciones Especiales - Special Operations Unit (SEALs equivalent)

Grupo de Operaciones Especiales - Special Operations Groups

EZAPAC - Special Operations Unit of the Air Force

Experience:

Equatorial Guinea

Spanish Sahara

Italy

Units:

9th Parachute Assault Battalion - SAS equivalent

COMSUBIN - SEALs equivalent

RIAM - Air Force Special Forces unit

Portugal

Units:

Comandos - Commandos

Cacadores Especiais - Rangers

Corpo de Tropas Paraquedistas - Paratroopers

Experience:

Angola

Mozambique

Portuguese Guinea

Norway

Units:

HJS - Special Forces

MJK - SEALs equivalent

Netherlands

Units:

KCT - Army Special Forces

BBE-M - SEALs equivalent

Korps Mariniers - Marines

Experience:

Moluccan Terrorist Crises - BBE-M only

New Guinea - Marines only

Denmark

Units:

Jaeger Corps - Army Special Forces

Frogman Corps - SEALs equivalent

Sirius Sledge Patrol - LRRP unit of the Navy that patrols Greenland

France

Units:

1er RPIMa - Marine Special forces

13e RDP - Special Forces

Commandos Marine - SEALs equivalent

GIGN - Anti-terrorist unit of the National Gendarmerie

Experience:

Algeria

Zaire

Belgium

Units:

Paracommando Regiment - Paratroopers

1st Company ESR - LRRP unit

Experience:

Congo - Paracommandos only

Turkey

Units:

OHD - Army Special forces

SAT - SEALs equivalent

Experience:

Cyprus

Iceland

Units:

Icelandic Coast Guard

ISVL - Icelandic Special Forces unit formed after the Iceland Incident (Fictional)

Western Allies:

Japan

Units:

1st Airborne Brigade

Australia

Units:

Special Air Service Regiment

Royal Australian Regiment

Experience:

Vietnam

Malaya

Borneo

Malaysia

Units:

Grup Gerak Khas

Experience:

Malaya

Borneo

New Zealand

Units:

1st Ranger Squadron, NZSAS

Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment

Experience:

Vietnam

Malaya

Borneo

South Korea

Units:

Special Warfare Flotilla - SEALS

Marine Corps

Special Warfare Command - Army Special Forces

Experience:

South Vietnam

Border Actions

Warsaw Pact:

Soviet Union

Units:

Spetsnaz GRU - Special forces

Group Alfa - Anti-terrorist unit

Airborne VDV - Paratroopers

Experience:

Afghanistan

Ethiopia

Sino-Soviet border

Vietnam - Spetsnaz only

Hungary

Units:

37th Air Assault Battalion

East Germany

Units:

KSK-18 - Combat swimmers(SEALS equivalent)

40th Fallschirmjager Battalion - Paratroopers

Diensteinheit IX - Anti-terrorist unit of the Volkspolizei

Feliks Dzierzynski Guard Regiment - Elite unit of the Stasi

Experience:

Angola

Congo

Ethiopia

Mozambique

Czechoslovakia

Units:

22nd Airborne Regiment

Bulgaria

Units:

68th Special Forces Brigade

Romania

Units:

161st Paratroop Regiment

1st Mountain Hunters Brigade

Poland

Units:

4101st Paratroop Battalion - Special unit of the 6th PAAD

WOP Highland Brigade - Mountain troops of the border guard

7th Naval Assault Division - Naval Infantry

6th Pomeranian Air Assault Div. - Paratroopers

Experience:

Workers' Rebellion - 1970 Pacification of striking workers in coastal cities

Communist Bloc:

Vietnam

Units:

Dac Cong - Special forces

Experience:

Cambodia

Laos

Sino-Vietnamese Border

Vietnam

Cuba

Units:

Tropas Especiales - Special forces

Experience:

Angola

Ethiopia

Syria

North Korea

Units:

Special Operation Forces

Experience:

Border Actions

China

Units:

Marine Corps

15th Airborne Army

Experience:

Paracel Islands

Sino-Soviet border

Sino-Vietnamese border

Non-Aligned or Neutral Nations:

Rhodesia

Units:

Rhodesian Light Infantry

1(Rhodesian)Special Air Service Regiment

Selous Scouts

Experience:

Rhodesian Bush War

South Africa

Units:

1 Reconnaissance Commando

32 Battalion

44 Parachute Brigade

Experience:

Angola

Namibia

Israel

Units:

Sayeret Matkal - Special Forces

Shayetet 13 - SEALs equivalent

Yamam - counter-terrorism unit of the Israel Border Police

Experience:

Yom Kippur

Southern Lebanon

Entebbe - Sayeret Matkal only

Egypt

Units:

Task Force 777 - counter-terrorism unit

Saiqa Commandos - Special Forces

 

Experience:

Cyprus - Task Force 777 only

Sinai

Libya - Saiqa Commandos only

Sweden

Units:

Fallskarmsjagarna - Parachute Rangers

Kustjagarna - SEALs equivalent

Experience:

Congo

Finland

Units:

Erikoisjaakarit - Special Jaegers

Ireland

Units:

Army Ranger

Experience:

Congo

Lebanon

Brazil

Units:

Paratroopers Brigade

GRUMEC - SEALs equivalent

NuCOE - Special Forces unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State

Experience:

Dominican Republic

Araguaia

Nigeria

Units:

Special Boat Service

31st Airborne Brigade

Experience:

Biafra

Kenya

Units:

20th Parachute Battalion

General Service Unit - Paramilitary unit of the Kenyan Military and Kenyan Police

Experience:

Shifta War

Morocco

Units:

Commandos

Experience:

Western Sahara

Zaire

Philippines

Units:

Special Forces Regiment

Special Warfare Group - SEALS equivalent

1st Scout Ranger Regiment

Experience:

Anti-guerrilla operations

Indonesia

Units:

Kopassandha - Army special forces

KOPASKA - SEALS equivalent

Experience:

East Timor

Western New Guinea

Kalimantan

Mexico

Units:

BFP - Paratroopers

Infanteria de Marina - Marines

Thailand

Units:

Royal Thai Marine Corps

UDAU - SEALS equivalent

Experience:

Laos

Cambodia

Southern Thailand

Chile

Units:

Comandos

Buzos Tacticos - SEALS equivalent

GOPE - Special force of military uniformed police

Experience:

Tierra del Fuego

Argentina

Units:

APCA - Special operations force of the Argentine Marine Corps

Halcon 8 - Commandos

Experience:

Tierra del Fuego

Tucuman

Austria

Units:

Jagdkommando - Army special forces

GEK - Counter-terrorism special operations tactical unit

Switzerland

Units:

Grenadiers - Army rangers

Fsch Gren Kp 17 - Parachute Reconnaissance Company

Yugoslavia

Units:

63rd Parachute Brigade

12th Naval Infantry Brigade

Special Thanks:

ResFu

for helping out with the Polish names and units.

jamoecw

for U.S. unit experience.

llunak

for correcting Czech names and adding Slovak names.

steelgonads

for correcting Portugese names

 

Xtended Soldiers.zip

[Xenonauts 2 - Public Build Date Set]

On 30/09/2016 at 3:12 AM, Chris said:

The first build will be a simple test build - a combat mission between eight Xenonauts with basic armour and the starting weapons from X1 (shotguns, rifles, sniper rifle, LMG) and roughly six Psyons (formerly Caesans). The battle map will be an outdoor forest map with no UFO; it'll just be a straightforward deathmatch between the two sides. There will be strong similarities with Xenonauts 1 in the first build, which is intentional - we want to reassure people that we're not planning to dumb things down for X2 despite moving to 3D, and because assets from X1 make excellent placeholders until we create the new X2 assets to replace them. That said, the sequel is not simply a remake of Xenonauts 1 in 3D ... we just want to make a fun and playable foundation for the game based on the first game before we start changing things up. After all, it's much easier to test a new or altered mechanic if it is embedded in a working game and you are able give it a proper playtest.

I think an Evil Alien Shed is in order.

[I need ideas for realistic base names and locations.]

I usually chuck my first base in Greece, as it covers the most land mass, and name it Sparta.

[Xtended Soldiers Backgrounds]

I like the mod. But when I install the mod some of the Nationalities don't show up and instead are replaced with #####. It's starting to bug me is there anything I can do to fix this?

The only mods I'm using are Oppressive UI, Realistic armors, new ranks, and some new maps.

Are you using the download link from this thread? If you are, that is an old version and you need to go here: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/10970-v1-07-Xtended-Backgrounds-Mod-(v0-7)

I no longer develop the mod and Ogaburan has taken over the reins so that thread is where you should look.

[Small feature request - incoming soldiers]

Would it be possible to have soldiers that have been hired but have not yet arrived appear on the soldiers list? I ask this as the current game I'm playing, my troops are dying like flies and I find it very hard to keep track if I've hired troops or not when I need to replace dead troops as there is currently no way to check.

The most straightforward implementation I can think of is to have the hired soldier appear on the soldier management list as soon as they are hired but have their assignment as "ETA-2 days" or something like that. It would be nice to have the ETA count down as well.

[[1.65 + XCE 0.35]Rank Insignia from Xenonaut's uniforms]

These are rank symbols inspired by the insignia on the Xenonauts uniforms from the title screen. Install using the mod launcher.

 

 

new_rank_images.zip

[[V1.09]Skitso's Ultimate Megamix Map Pack 2000]

I vote for no, as it'll make for more tactical choices if the scout is suddenly made immobile.

[Memorial Wall - Help Needed]

I would keep the British flag for all the respective home nation and the gurkhas as that is the flag they previous served under.

[[v1.07] Xtended Backgrounds Mod (v0.7)]

My somewhat arbitrary values are not based on population

I'm not sure what the values are now but in the original mod the values were based on political lines and from game lore that said that Xenonauts were primarily a Nato and warsaw pact organization. USA and Soviets were chance 10, Nato and Warsaw Pact nations were 8 iirc, Western allies and communist bloc were 6 or 4 iirc, all other nations were 1. If a nation had a sizable minority I usually assigned them a 1 as well.

[Memorial Wall - Help Needed]

Also have you checked out this mod for Open X-com: Soldier Diaries 1.0.

Something like this for Xenonauts would be awesome..

[Memorial Wall - Help Needed]

Only ones I can think of would be the countries Ogaburan added in Xtended background. (The mod he based it one got added to the game I believe however? So only nations he added [iran last time I checked] would be needed) But since its a mod you could argue that those flags dont have to be done now, or by you either.

I added a lot of new nations to Xtended Backgrounds after Goldhawk incorporated an earlier version. Ogaburan has added Iran and split the British up into the different Home Nations since he's taken over. Maybe have a template so modders can add their own flag.

But I do think a generic United Nations flag should be done if as nothing else but a default/fallback flag if one wasnt defined for a given nationality.

This idea gets my vote..

[[v1.07] Xtended Backgrounds Mod (v0.7)]

I'm away from my pc at the moment but You'll probably find it's also due to there being 2 instances of the regiment name being in strings.xml.

When Goldhawk incorporated an earlier version of my mod into the game, all they did was append them to the end of the file and not delete the old ones. My guess is when ogaburan updated strings.xml he probably overwrote the original regiments and left the appended ones in.

[Cities]

Try the tool in this thread: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/9872-Tool-Xenonauts-geographic-tool

The google maps part of the tool no longer works but you can still manually enter coords to get desired result.

[Custom soldier]

I do too. A pity she usually only last 1-2 missions.

[Sub-map Editor needs a fix for 768 widesceen users]

The sub-map editor layout needs a re-jig for us 1366-x768 widescreen users (which is the resolution for most laptops)as there are a few buttons that are not accessible due to being cut off. The grey box shows what is visible to us. Could GH or the community coder fix this?

[[v1.07] Xtended Backgrounds Mod (v0.7)]

Oh well, seems like an awful lot of crappy work.

Bulk Rename is your friend.... makes renaming lots of files so much easier.

[[v1.07] Xtended Backgrounds Mod (v0.7)]

One way you could get around it is renaming the custom faces to nor, afri, asi etc, and increase the face pool that way..

[Modular UFOs - Discussion and Suggestions]

Those pictures remind me of the Evil Alien Shed...

[[v1.07] Xtended Backgrounds Mod (v0.7)]

Nicely done. For the record, Ogaburan has my permission and blessing for this mod.

Ogaburan, check your PMs

[Calling all Modders: Producing A List of Active Mods]

Xtended Soldiers Backgrounds

Currently at V.22 e5. An earlier version of the mod was partly incorporated into the game. I usually update every couple of experimental builds or so but has the files for users to update it themselves. I will update for it for 1.0.

Modifies strings.xml, soldiernames.xml and soldiernamesfemale.xml