Hello all,
I'm big into 'Starring as'...
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It's a term I've used for a long time for something I always find myself doing since I started playing video games: placing my friends in the video games I play. It didn't matter what it was, Final Fantasy, X-Com, Football games, Baseball games... Whatever. It didn't matter. If it had a cast of characters that I could somewhat relate to my friends, they'd get named after them.
Now, many a time I wouldn't be given the option to name the characters or players. So, ever since I was about 15, I started using hex editing tools to change the names, change the dialogue and make the statistics and attributes and such of the characters match the person they represent.
In fact, I've taken it so far as to edit some old games to make a whole side large storyline in the game involve my friends, and reference a story my friend wrote back in high school.
I think it's just because I dig my friends and if I'm having some epic adventure, saving the human race from Sectoids, Scrapping our way to the superbowl, or anything else... Who else would you want along with you, but your friends?
...So in order to facilitate this in OpenXcom, I put together a little yaml generator for creating soldiers. It comes with a xlsx spreadsheet to use with it. Just enter your soldier's values into the sheet, feed the sheet to the generator, then copy the generated YAML into your save file and your soldiers will be in the game next time you load the game.
Not sure if it will be handy to anyone else, but I thought I'd push it out there.
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