Are there any ways to edit soldiers perks/skills to the way you exactly want?

[aspen_099]

In XCOM 2 I can open a notepad and edit some stuff there. I've been looking around for this game but there's nothing.

There's also a save editor but as far as I know it is very outdated and doesn't work.

I can also do savescumming/console commands to RNG my way to the desired soldier but that's way too time consuming.

Any ideas?

[Just me n my pc...]

I have not seen any way.

[LucusTheDestroyer]

The TLDR of my response is: "There's no text file that you can simply edit, but depending on what you're looking to achieve, there are some ways you could manipulate it via the game's modding tools. Otherwise, not really", but I recall you asking about this on my Custom starting squad mod, so I'll give a bit more information on the technical details:

Outside of a few unique characters (i.e. the tutorial characters), character generation in Phoenix Point is done via copying a default template (for the case of the Phoenix recruits there's 1 template for each class) and then randomising things like the name and customisation options to make distinguishable soldiers. Third row perks are randomly taken from a "pool" of available perks regardless of whether it's a tutorial or default character.

TFTV does quite a lot under the hood to manipulate that third row: expands it to a full row of perks (rather than only 3) where some of them are dependent on soldier class, others on which faction the soldier is recruited from, and the last few are random again. It requires quite a lot of "case-by-case" programming and would probably serve as the closest template for making adjustments to the third row.

If you're looking to be able to dynamically pick which perk each individual soldier gets (e.g. via some sort of drop-down menu in-game with multiple to pick from) then this is what I meant by "not really", as you'd need to delve much deeper into how the UI works and overhaul quite a lot of it. However, manipulating the pool(s) of available perks or manually setting the perks for a new recruit based on some condition(s) would be feasible, but it's still a lot of work to implement.

[aspen_099]

Originally posted by LucusTheDestroyer:

Would it be easier for me just to edit the starting squad?

I don't need to edit every soldier.

I just want a single personalized squad that I am personally invested in.

[LucusTheDestroyer]

Maybe a little? A lot of the programming work would be similar, but the tutorial characters at least have distinct templates that you can filter for.

You could create new templates to use for generating your starting squad (TFTV does something similar, while I only access the existing tutorial and generic templates in my custom start mod) and then manually adjust the units generated from those templates, but it's a lot of work, especially if you wanted to release it as a mod on the workshop.

[aspen_099]

Originally posted by LucusTheDestroyer:

You could create new templates to use for generating your starting squad (TFTV does something similar, while I only access the existing tutorial and generic templates in my custom start mod) and then manually adjust the units generated from those templates, but it's a lot of work

I use TFTV.

I practically never played vanilla PP.

How do I go on about starting?

[Grimm Peaper]

If you are looking for specific personal traits, there is a mod to choose which perks a class will get called “choose personal traits” on nexus mods.

[aspen_099]

Originally posted by Grimm Peaper:

Like I said, doesn't work. Too outdated.

[Grimm Peaper]

Originally posted by aspen_099:

Originally posted by Grimm Peaper:

Like I said, doesn't work. Too outdated.

I use it right now. Works in both steam and epic versions. It is on nexus mods called “Select Class Traits”

About this mod
Change what Personal Traits you get for each class of soldiers.

This mod will let you select through Modnix / Config which personal traits you want each class of soldier to be able to get. You can either change only some classes, change some skills for certain class, or disable some skills completely.

[aspen_099]

Originally posted by Grimm Peaper:

Is it compatible with TFTV?

[Grimm Peaper]

Originally posted by aspen_099:

Originally posted by Grimm Peaper:

Is it compatible with TFTV?

I have not tested that.

[LucusTheDestroyer]

No; Nexus and Steam Workshop mods can't be used together.

[aspen_099]

Originally posted by LucusTheDestroyer:

No; Nexus and Steam Workshop mods can't be used together.

Yeah, I just started editing the github codes. I managed to reduce the unecessary perks/skills to reduce unwanted RNG chances.