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Color Class Icons

Like a vault of old movies after Ted Turner finds them, color has been added to a bunch of class icons. All of the base game classes are here, including PsiOps and SPARKs. Most of the popular class packs and several individual class mods have also had updates -- over 300 classes and counting, see below. Don't worry about the mods you aren't using, the game will just ignore the settings for classes that aren't loaded. Safe to add or remove mid-campaign.

There is an overall color scheme based on class role, but not enforced too strictly. Some elements just look better with the "wrong" color.

• Yellow: Explosives
  
• Blue: Close range
  
• Magenta: Long range
  
• Green: Healing
  
• White/Gray: Technical or mechanical
  
• Red: Fire based
  
• Orange: Tanks
  
• Olive green: Suppression and/or lots of fire
  
• Brown: Support

Class packs listed below. The full list of mods (including all the individual class mods) is found here.

There is also A Spreadsheet[docs.google.com] with all the icons found in this mod or Color Class Icons: Amalgamation Classes.

Standard classes

• All base game classes, including PsiOps and SPARKs
  
• LW2 Classes and Perks
  
• Alpha's Class Pack
  
• (Alpha's) Shiv Mod
  
• Shadow Ops classes
  
• Drumax's Class Pack
  
• XCOM: Gears Tactics Class/Perk Pack
  
• Richard's classes
  
• Playable Aliens and Viper Class Overhaul
  
• Playable Rulers
  
• Playable Chosen
  
• Chimera Classes*
  
• TacFor Classes
  
• Buildable Units
  
• LW Mecs As Sparks
  
• Nordo's New Soldier Classes
  
• Several individual class mods

*There is a controversy around this mod, but it is supported here.

Long War

• Long War 2* / Long War of the Chosen default classes, with some color options in the config
  
• LWOTC class overhaul
  
• LWOTC Proficiency classes
  
• LW2 and LWOTC Shadow Ops classes
  
• LWOTC Playable Aliens
  
• DeadGuy's Class Pack for LWOTC
  
• Buildable Units (inherits the "Standard class" settings)
  
• Tedster's LWoTC Class Overhaul (inherits from LWOTC default classes)
  
• Jeow's Infantry Classes
  
• Several individual class mods

*Unverified in pre-WotC version, but assumed to work

RPGO

• RPG Overhaul Universal Soldier bronze helm
  
• All base specializations and custom class icons, including some color variations (see this post for a list of all custom class icons)
  
• The base Proficiency class and Amalgamation icons added to the custom class icons
  
• Shadow Ops and Much More pack
  
• *RPGO Proficiency classes
  
• RPGO TacFor specializations
  
• RPGO Valkyrie specializations
  
• Several individual specialization mods

*Released after this mod and will normally reset their specialization icons back to default versions. See this post for clarification and workarounds.

Proficiency classes

• Base classes from Proficiency Class Pack, including a different default for the sapper (see the thumbnail above) and an option to change it back to the color grenadier icon
  
• Proficiency SPARK classes from Project LASER, automatically switches to a "do not use" icon for the vanilla Spark
  
• Proficiency Irregular classes: Brawler, Electroraider, Harasser, and Wanderer
  
• Knox's proficiency classes: Commander, Rocketeer, Pharmacist, Shock Trooper, and Warden (using the DeJanker icon, plus an optional version that uses the PsiOps icon as the background)
  
• Knox's proficiency SPARK unit pack
  
• Dark classes (captured MOCX)
  
• Lord Abizi's Anguish class pack
  
• Project LAZOR : A Proficiency Sparks Rebalance
  
• Several individual class mods

Amalgamation

• Amalgamation icons have been moved to Color Class Icons: Amalgamation Classes

Not included
These already have color icons by default

• Reapers, Skirmishers, and Templars
  
• Field Alchemist, proficiency class version
  
• Proxian Soldiers
  
• Rusty's Psionic
  
• Iridar's Bounty Hunter
  
• Dark (captured MOCX) Faction Classes
  
• LWOTC Psion
  
• *Proficiency Drone Pilot
  
• Various Requiem Campaign classes

*Requires this mod, no configuration for it needed here

Feel free to request new or changed icons. Just know that this is project being done in my spare time, so no expectations for how long (or maybe even if) it will be done. I do understand that one or two classes being monochrome feels like something is missing, so I'll try to do as many as possible, especially the more popular classes. So far, new requests have usually been created within a few days.

Not verified in the pre-WotC version, but it should work there. It also should be compatible with any other mods, including others that modify class icons (although only one will "win" for any given class). Safe to add or remove mid-campaign.

Some are custom built by me, but most icons used here are color versions of other modders' (or Firaxis') work. I have not spoken with all of the other modders, but I did get permission from the ones I did talk to. If anyone would like me to take their work down or make changes, let me know on Steam or Discord. Special thanks to Rusty Dios who let me use the icons from his Psionic class for the base game PsiOps class (and as part of the Dark PsiOps class) and the atom icon from his Alchemist class.