Enhanced Name List

Main goals:

* To improve immersion with names from every country represented in-game.

* To correct some of the original naming mistakes.

* To provide a larger pool of available names and avoid repetition between campaigns.

* To help players who have trouble coming up with names for soldiers.

* To add more realistic options for those into roleplaying.

Features:



LATEST UPDATE

Instructions:

XCOM Enemy Unknown

Vanilla version

XCOM Enemy Within

Vanilla version

XCOM Long War

LW version

Notes:



* Notepad++ recommended.

* Be sure to save within Unicode encoding when making changes to the text file as to retain all the special characters.

* Every time the game is updated, either through Steam or by installing a new version of Long War, you'll have to replace the original DefaultNameList.ini (see instructions) with this modified list to keep using it.

Uninstalling:



FAQ:

Acknowledgments:

* Revamped name lists with thousands of new and more accurate names and surnames.* Popular names from the 70s, 80s and 90s included (when sources available) to account for soldiers' ages in 2015/2016.* Different transliterations of names included for variety.* Diacritical marks included for more authentic national identities.Several special characters aren't supported by the English version of XCOM EW. Those were replaced by the corresponding letters in the Latin alphabet to avoid invalid entries.---(July 10, 2015 - Final): v2.0 was supposed to be final but two major corrections were necessary.ENL [LW] final should work with all future versions of Long War (including its final release).* Old Irish Gaelic surnames replaced with their modern anglicized versions -- thousands of surnames added.* [Vanilla] Spanish soldiers will now be pulling names from correct array (Es).* Light revision and fixes made across the board.---: Download theand extract to Steam/SteamApps/common/XCom-Enemy-Unknown/XComGame/Config, overwriting the original DefaultNameList.ini.: Download theand extract to Steam/SteamApps/common/XCom-Enemy-Unknown/XEW/XComGame/Config, overwriting the original DefaultNameList.ini.: Download theand extract to Steam/SteamApps/common/XCom-Enemy-Unknown/XEW/XComGame/Config, overwriting the original DefaultNameList.ini.Simply go to your Steam Library, right-click XCOM Enemy Unknown, choose Properties, Local Files tab, then Verify Integrity of Game Cache. This will return the original DefaultNameList.ini to your XCOM Config directory and remove this list. Please note this returns the game to its "vanilla" state, which means any other custom modification will also be removed.---A: Because of very common surnames and weighting purposes. By repeating those surnames the name generator is more likely to pick them.A: Several names are both forenames and surnames so there is a very slim chance the name generator will work that way. This should rarely happen though.A: Yes, it is compatible with LW B15 and later versions.A: No, because only the DNL.ini is changed, which can be safely overwritten after LW is updated. No INT files were modified either.A: For some reason certain characters and diacritical marks aren't recognized in the tactical game but they are still displayed correctly in the strategic game (mission control, debrief, barracks). If that bothers you too much, you can always rename the specific soldier and manually replace the diacritic (e.g. ž by z or zh).---Thanks to JohnnyLump and Part Time Commie for bringing more naming customization tools to the table, and the Long War crew for a whole new gameplay experience of the original XCOM EU/EW.The LW version of the name list is distributed in accordance with the following LW policy:* You have unrestricted permission to distribute alternate ini files for players to install.See permission & credits.