XCOM 2
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SQUID BE GONE!
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Feb 11, 2021 @ 3:18pm
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SQUID BE GONE!

Description
Once upon a time on your shell screen...

There is a mystery bug around for a very long time.

Its hillarious, its scary, it comes and it goes and there was no cure to be found!

The bug i am talking about is part of countless reddit posts and is already a meme, a legend and synonymously for modding overuse.

The bug we all know has as many names as screenshots of it exists. Someone, i forgot who, called it

THE SQUID BUG

I like this name so this mods battle cry is "SQUID BE GONE!"

Boring, serious and technical informations

The source of this bug was unknown for a long time.
A year ago my fellow modder and friend E3245 was the one, who brought to my attention that a possible cause of the bug is
that some cosmetic mods fail to add a unit pawn animset to their armors, which is used to adjust the position of visible inventory items to the proportions of the armor (e.g. so swords on the back dont float in the air).
So i made this mod, thats addes the games default armor animset to all cosmetic armors that are missing it and gave it to some people for testing but never released it.
Recently i was reminded about it by this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/comments/le2yy3/psa_if_you_make_cosmetics_dont_forget_to_assign_a/ ,
so thought its time to finally put it out there.

FAQ
Q: Does this mod finally get rid of this bug once and for all?
A: To be completely honest with you: i don't know. The feedback of the testers suggests that it greatly reduces the occurences of tentacles but some testers reported they had some rare squids despite the mod, so there is probably another undiscovered reason that turns xcom soldiers into spaghetti monsters.

Credits
E3245 - for the hint that lead to this mod
NeIVIeSiS - Workshop Preview Image
86 Comments
northwolfteam Jan 19 @ 10:53pm 
Thanks for your mod.
This bug still came out once, but let's put it down to a margin.
kazuya0010 Aug 9, 2024 @ 10:11am 
Thanks for making this mod
NexusPlayer64 Jul 3, 2023 @ 3:23pm 
Thanks for dis, the sight of a horrifying disfigured creature in my downloaded shell maps was freaking me out!
crono May 6, 2023 @ 9:40am 
Great !! Thanks.
Chonkems Feb 12, 2023 @ 9:59pm 
now, tell me why one would ever wish to not see the majestic squid in it's natural habitat?
xendax Dec 19, 2022 @ 2:57pm 
@Dragon32
Thanks!
Dragon32 Dec 19, 2022 @ 1:45pm 
xendax Dec 19, 2022 @ 1:06pm 
With this mod loaded running RPGO, I still get the squid if my psionic soldier uses Soulfire with the Soul Steal perk. Something about the animation for the soul steal seems to bring on the squid.
Dęąth Viper Oct 19, 2022 @ 11:38am 
Just finished a campaign with about 685 mods, this one included, and had no major issues! Thanks for putting this up.
kishkuma Sep 20, 2022 @ 10:43pm 
I was so tired of my characters turning into chaos pretzels. Thank you so much for this mod!