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Birthdates [WOTC]
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Birthdates [WOTC]

Description
Increases the range of birthdates soldiers can get, and sets reasonable age ranges for specific backstories or soldier classes. Skirmishers are no longer born well before the invasion.

The default age range is changed from 25-35 to 18-50. Backstory-specific age ranges can be configured in XComBirthdays.ini - this will work for custom bios as long as its index as known.

Changes black market descriptions to show personnel backstory as the description, this can be disabled in the ini.

No overrides. It will work for any language, and is not compatible with anything that changes character backgrounds in the same UIs, or modifies the header+bio format that this mod expects.

Note that it doesn't make any changes to how the game generates soldier bios, just overwrites them before you can see it. Any characters or backgrounds generated where the mod doesn't or can't anticipate them will still be 25-35.


Base game version can be found here
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Dęąth Viper 19 Oct, 2022 @ 11:39am 
Just finished a campaign with about 685 mods, this one included, and had no major issues! Thanks for putting this up.
Splinter 27 Aug, 2022 @ 6:10am 
Cool, thanks for the info!
Cato 22 Aug, 2022 @ 7:32pm 
I believe Dragon is correct. 'WC_PhotoReBooth' - it breaks quite of lot of inter-mod functionality.
Dragon32 22 Aug, 2022 @ 12:31pm 
@Splinter
IIRC that's one of Zyspisilon's (sp.?) mods. The one that gives you posters telling you how many supplies you got and the like. They changed the date format but didn't bother to mention it.
Splinter 16 Aug, 2022 @ 5:13pm 
I can't tell if it's this or 'WOTC Even More Backstories' but it seems to be both? The date of births are only showing up as JAN-01, no year listed.
dskdev 12 Apr, 2022 @ 8:26am 
ok, just tested it in the actual game and it works. in the character pool, it does not
dskdev 12 Apr, 2022 @ 8:20am 
this mod just doesn't appear to work. No one I've created in character pool has a backstory outside of 25-35, even when specified in the configs to be outside that range
=[NK]= Col. Jack O'Neil 8 Nov, 2021 @ 1:01am 
Thanks :)
Cato 7 Nov, 2021 @ 2:33pm 
This mod is an optional (yet recommended) item for EMB. It is not a dependency.

If installed EMB will use this mod to set custom date ranges for certain stories.

EMB will also patch this mod to recognise 'Non-Skirmisher Hybrid' class types.
=[NK]= Col. Jack O'Neil 7 Nov, 2021 @ 5:20am 
Hey Cato, you've said the patch is included in even more backstories, but AML has this mod listed as a dependancy. Is this needed, or is it included into backstories?