Question about soldier gender

[Rahl]

Is there any way to change the recruits gender chance? I personally prefer to see more males and I'm usually swamped with females. My entire roster besides 3 are females (out of 40) and that's very immersion breaking and I don't like it. I'm playing Long War with EW. Are there any options in the ini files containing anything to do with gender chance? Thanks!

[Sticky Wicket]

You can make up your own soldiers (including their gender) and then if you set up an option option to include them in the roster pool they will appear in your game.

[SamBC]

Originally posted by Princess of the Force:

You can make up your own soldiers (including their gender) and then if you set up an option option to include them in the roster pool they will appear in your game.

This is the EU forum, not the XCOM 2 forum.

[asd]

Did you do .ini edits before? It should be in one of the .ini files!
The files are contained here:
SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown\XEW\XComGame\Config
You don't have to touch most of them! For most of the things in the game, you'll only need the file DefaultGameCore.ini if you want to change them. I couldn't find the value that dictates the chances of a soldier being male/female, but I'm so sure that you can change it! Maybe if you look around a bit, you'll find it...

[Rahl]

I've checked through the .ini files but couldn't find anything pertaining to gender. From what I've read online and experienced the ration is like 90 to 10 female to male in EW, which is outrageous. Definitely kills immersion. Thanks for the feed back though!

[SamBC]

Originally posted by Clayton The Dissident:

I've checked through the .ini files but couldn't find anything pertaining to gender. From what I've read online and experienced the ration is like 90 to 10 female to male in EW, which is outrageous. Definitely kills immersion. Thanks for the feed back though!

No, it isn't, it's just very random so you sometimes get games like that, and then people who focus on such things remember those occasions over others because of the emotional impact - it's a common source of bias in recollection, we remember things more vividly if they made an emotional impact, and if we remember something more vividly we think it happened more often than it did.

Like I'm sure I didn't spend every dang Saturday afternoon in DIY stores when I was a kid, but it sure feels like I did.

[Rahl]

"Focus on such things", this thread is about to be like the other one where people started ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about sexism lol. I figured out how to do it with PatcherGUI anyways. Thanks all!

[Not Shogun Melon]

It's random. Although for some reason I tend to get more females than males. Could,just be me. Seems a little odd tho

[Danny]

They should add the ability of soldier customisation of Xcom 2 to Xcom EU and Xcom EW. ^^

[Rahl]

If anyone needs to know how to change the ratio I figured it out!

[Danny]

Originally posted by Clayton The Dissident:

If anyone needs to know how to change the ratio I figured it out!

Don't leave us hanging!
Just tell us. ^^

[keithjf82]

I've found I tend to get more men than women, to the point where I thought the game was weighted to represent near-future real-world militaries. This might be partly because I keep trying to aim for the achievement for an all-female squad, sending the women out to level up first, and causing a higher casualty rate among them.

[runequester]

"Immersion breaking" in a game where cyborg space marines fight invisible squid monsters?

[runequester]

Also these questions are super kid stuff.
The original game from the 90s had the same distribution and nobody ever moaned about it, because we understood that the game drew upon popular scifi, animation and comic books.

How did we go wrong and raise a generation that is so easily rattled that a few pixels makes them shiver and shake?

[Rahl]

Rest assure it has nothing to do with gender or sexism or whatever white knight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you're spewing lol. I like to see fewer females soldiers it makes them cooler and more elite just like modern day armiers, imo.