How to increase Squad Size via .ini edit, also side effects

[袁銀-ゆん-Yun]

I thought I can share this with anyone who is still unaware of this (its on the game page), you can increase your squad size to a infinate amount in any mission by going to

C:\Users\(Username)\Documents\My games\XCOM2\XComGame\Config

from there find XComGameData and open it with Notepad. From there Ctrl+F and find this line:

m_iMaxSoldiersOnMission

Edit this line by changing the number at the end, e.g "m_iMaxSoldiersOnMission=6",
this will make the game send out a squad of 6 soldiers each time, +1 or +2 if you buy the increased squad size in the tactics center.

To sum up, the total amount of soldiers you can bring in a mission is the # in the m_iMaxSoldiersOnMission as the minimum squad size, and a total of 2 more from Tactics Upgrade for a max of #+2 Soldiers.
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Side Effects

Aside from the obvious increase in squad size, if you set the game to send 6 soldiers as default minimum, a side-scroll bar will apear in pre-mission preperation screen, that pans to the left and right, and allows for a total of 8 soldiers to be prepped on screen.

If you set the number to anything greater then 8, you will have to manually prep additonal soldiers in the armory section, as the game can only display 6 solders on pre-mission screen.

On Mission, if set to 8 man squad max (counting the tactics upgrade), dropship cutscenes will play normally, but you will occasionaly see one or two soldiers in T pose at the landing site, these guys are the 7th and 8th soldiers.

If you set values to 8, and gain +2 soldiers from tactics school (total 10 soldiers), the game will bug, and each missions you will start without dropship cutscene, and you will spawn ON top or NEXT to your objective, often you will have aliens a few tiles away (you can overwhelm them) just out of vision range.

If you set values to 10 and over, the game will bug the same way as above, but every soldier after the 10th one will spawn seperated (often far away) from the group, stacked on top of one another, the worse of this is, if this is a VIP mission your VIP may or will glitch outside of the map, and you can not select him or her, causing you to fail or give up.

To Sum up quickly

Value of 6 or less: Game plays normally, may have some T posing soldiers in dropship Cutscenes if max squad is 8.

Value of 8: Game plays normally until squad size is over 8, Game skips Dropship Cutscenes if more then 8 soldiers. Will Spawn on top or next to Objective. Must manually set soldiers gear beyond 6th member in Armory.

Values over 10: Game will Bug on missions, breaks VIPs missions. Game skips Dropship Cutscenes, VIPs traped outside of map with no way out and no ability to control them. Soldiers beyond the 10th member spawn in diffrent locations otherwise spawn on top or next to Objective.

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You can reset the game to normal by using the value 4 (default) in the max soldier line.

[jackdude180]

well I thought that was an intresting read, thanks for shareing

[76561198322429733]

I tried this too a few months ago with the same frustrating results.

Just get the Long War Toolbox Mod. It will give your game an option to increase your squad size from 4 to 12 without making your vanilla game buggy.

[Black Raven]

Originally posted by Meowser The Terrible:

Just get the Long War Toolbox Mod. It will give your game an option to increase your squad size from 4 to 12 without making your vanilla game buggy.

Don't work for some, tried toolbox myself, worked for one mission but my 2nd mission would never load, I get the sky ranger landing intro the n black screen... Took me while to figure out cause but it would only load when toolbox was set to 4 default

[Pacific_FX]

Thanks for sharing that. It's a pity you can't really go over 8, I wanted to give the feel of the DOS games where you could just swarm the aliens with 20+ highly skilled killers

[mk11]

Bad necromancy.

There are mods that support much larger sizes.

[Pacific_FX]

But I prefer editing files than using mods :)

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Sunsetter:

you could just swarm the aliens with 20+ highly skilled killers expendable bullet-sponges

Fixed for you.

Also, with this level of thread-necromancy, you must give the Chosen Warlock a run for his money.

[=IcB=|Whiteboy|]

Like was said, only works for 1 round. And I tried the Toolbox mod and now the game just wont start. Says error trying to load tbmod. That was about the last hope I had to make this game fun.

[Kismette]

Originally posted by mk11:

Bad necromancy.

There are mods that support much larger sizes.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2360829219
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1122974240
along with:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=667104300

Some folks say they couldn't get them to work but still works for me and it's not just for 1 round.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3011426660

[=IcB=|Whiteboy|]

Originally posted by =IcB=|Whiteboy|:

Like was said, only works for 1 round. And I tried the Toolbox mod and now the game just wont start. Says error trying to load tbmod. That was about the last hope I had to make this game fun.

Finally got the ini one to work. Can only get it to work with vanilla though. Gonna try a couple others and hopefully thatl work.

[=IcB=|Whiteboy|]

Originally posted by Kismette:

Originally posted by mk11:

Bad necromancy.

There are mods that support much larger sizes.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2360829219
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1122974240
along with:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=667104300

Some folks say they couldn't get them to work but still works for me and it's not just for 1 round.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3011426660

Thank you for posting this. Gonna check it out.

[mk11]

You also need

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1166873208&searchtext=allow

[Kismette]

Originally posted by =IcB=|Whiteboy|:

Thank you for posting this. Gonna check it out.

Sure thing!

Originally posted by mk11:

You also need

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1166873208&searchtext=allow

Oops! Yes ty, that one too. I forgot, but good thing it's also mentioned on Robo-Squad Size Enhanced Mod page.