Name list

[Boj'ana]

So I figured out how to change the name list but all my troops in first squad atleast ( i tried to abort rather than just finish the mission it wouldn't let me) have the same name. If anyone knows how to fix this I would appreciate this.

[Amanoob105]

You're asking how to customize your troops? Did you even think to try the wiki?

Or just look though the menu options on the troop screen?

Sorry to be so blunt about it, but what you asking is not in any way hard to figure out.
How you managed to "change all their names" to the same name without figuring out how to "change their names"....

It would be nice to find out that all the falt here is mine and I've just completely misunderstood everything you've said here.

[Boj'ana]

As I said at the beginning I wanted to change the name list so all the troops I start with and all the ones I recruit have names I would prefer. As in the name list in the game files. Not customizing them in any way once the game has started. I would like to fix this issue so that I have no problems in any future games.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by Jobst:

As I said at the beginning I wanted to change the name list so all the troops I start with and all the ones I recruit have names I would prefer. As in the name list in the game files. Not customizing them in any way once the game has started. I would like to fix this issue so that I have no problems in any future games.

So, you changed them in the very files.....

Ok, now what you say makes sense. Sort of. Is it to late to tell you that there was no need to do that and the game already came, as defalt, with the option to do that in the game itself?
Once though the first mission all your troops can be called whatever you want (and if you have the right DLC, whatever colour you want. Imho, that DLC was worth it just for the fedora).

To fix it you should just be able to do it by validating game files;
https://inxile.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004662908-Verify-game-cache-files-Steam-
Anything that wasn't 'as it was when first loaded onto the computer' should be seen as an error and corrected. Same thing normally happens when ever someone does this to the game after modding it.

[szmind]

Originally posted by Jobst:

So I figured out how to change the name list but all my troops in first squad atleast ( i tried to abort rather than just finish the mission it wouldn't let me) have the same name. If anyone knows how to fix this I would appreciate this.

I assume you have edited the DefaultNameList.ini. If all soldiers received one name you must have somehow changed the first part of entries - to the left of "=". It states e.g.
"m_arrAmMFirstNames=..." and it should stay so for every entry in a given section (nationality). If you deleted entries for a certain nationality all soldiers of that nationality have no pool to draw from and will be assigned a random from American names pool. If there is only one entry for m_arrAmMFirstNames=... all soldiers will get that name.