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Scorpiova Feb 5, 2016 @ 5:05pm
VIP and Dark VIP.
Hey there,

Doing up a squad of characters in the character creator. Love the fact that we have this!

But I am wondering what the boxes for "can show up as VIP and Dark VIP" anyone know what those are? And what happens if they are set as those.
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Thariorn Feb 5, 2016 @ 5:07pm 
I guess it's mostly used as a substitute for the otherwise randomly generated VIPs in missions.

Maybe also for Mp?
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Gray Feb 5, 2016 @ 5:08pm 
Can be VIP means they will show up in missions as people you have to rescue / escort. Can be Dark VIP means they turn up as people you need to capture or assassinate.
Last edited by Gray; Feb 5, 2016 @ 5:08pm
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Jason Eroge Feb 5, 2016 @ 5:09pm 
is that the reward for the quest XD means you get that character when you do those missions as the reward XD
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Scorpiova Feb 5, 2016 @ 7:37pm 
Originally posted by Jason Eroge:
is that the reward for the quest XD means you get that character when you do those missions as the reward XD

That would be cool. I wonder how it works.
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RainingMetal Jun 15, 2016 @ 2:54pm 
Probably bringing this topic back from the dead, but I have one character set as "Dark VIP", but I've yet to meet him on an enemy VIP mission.
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Algol Jun 15, 2016 @ 5:47pm 
Originally posted by RainingMetal:
Probably bringing this topic back from the dead, but I have one character set as "Dark VIP", but I've yet to meet him on an enemy VIP mission.
Eventually you will. It's all RNG, your chars are added to the pool of otherwise randomly generated chars that appear as Dark VIPs. Doesn't mean you will instantly encounter your char specifically.

Just putting that out there, remember that your chars as scientist/engineer VIPs will still have the scientist/engineer outfit, not the one you created.
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RainingMetal Jun 15, 2016 @ 5:54pm 
Still, that doesn't answer the fact that I get the soldiers and good VIPs in my pool immediately.
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The Sen Dog Jan 29, 2017 @ 1:14pm 
Originally posted by RainingMetal:
Still, that doesn't answer the fact that I get the soldiers and good VIPs in my pool immediately.

When you make characters in the character pool, there is an option to tell the game to use your charactets, randomly generated characters, or both, if you have both, your first squad will be 50/50 half of you soldiers will be your own created ones and the other half will be randomly generated.

If you use only the character pool, you will need to have enough custom soldiers to last the whole game, each soldier and VIP can only appear once, if they die they do not appear again later in the same save, if you run out of custom characters, the game will automatically switch to randomly generated characters,

In order to get your own VIPs to show for certain you will need to have the game set to 'character pool only', however if you have already run out of custom soldiers before a vip mission, the game will still choose from both your character pool and a randomly generated VIP.

In short in order to guarantee your own characters you will need to make quite a few soldiers, as in the amount you expect to use through the entire playthough.

Remember if you use all your soldier's or VIP's before the end of campaign, the game will start throwing in random characters as well.
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Mister Veeg Jan 29, 2017 @ 1:36pm 
VIP: Rescue targets (the scientists/prisoners/etc you get in council escort missions)

Dark VIP: Neutralize targets (the advent dudes you punch out and then steal. Or just shoot.)
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