The archive contains the game + X-Com Files + EP modpack.

Before unzipping, be sure to DELETE any previous version of the modpack.

Saves are located in XCOMuserx-com-files, move them from there before deleting the old version.

Launch the game through OpenXcom.exe.

If you have issues with screen freezes, enable VSync — vertical synchronization — in your graphics card driver settings. If the freezes persist, change the image filter to HQx.

All other settings are within the game. However, they are already set up AS NEEDED, and at most, you may need to adjust the graphics — resolution, sound perhaps. It is RECOMMENDED NOT TO TOUCH the settings of all built-in mods.

Brief overview of the modification at the link:

I will briefly tell you what changes my modpack introduces.

To start, the basic X-Files was a very unbalanced mod in the late game. Due to the increased amount of available equipment, you could complete medium-difficulty missions in one turn and the hardest missions in 2-3 turns. This modpack regulates this aspect both ways: you can use expensive crafted equipment for this or go through the usual way. In the original, such equipment was much easier to obtain, but its effect was weaker, and some effects increased the already excessively high level of micromanagement in the game.

The modpack offers a new, enlarged, and optimized inventory, balanced leveling and transformations, stricter weapon tier separation, a variety of armor, reduced micromanagement, crafting of almost any components, and much more. With the modpack, you can turn any agent into Flash, Superman, and Batman in one — you will no longer have one-armed, one-eyed cripples panicking at the first shot, as it was in the original. It may seem that the modpack significantly simplifies the game, and it does, but not for the "Superhuman" difficulty. At this difficulty, all the benefits provided by the modpack are absolutely necessary, and at other difficulties, it makes the game more enjoyable and easier without making it casual.

The modpack is not built on the latest version of the X-Files mod, so those familiar with this mod might find something missing or significantly changed. As for the first, nothing can be done, as new versions expand the already excessive amount of research, offering nothing particularly useful. The second has been optimized through a long process and numerous playthroughs so that the player does not get stuck with no progress and not knowing what to do next.

You will find and craft extremely cool weapons and equipment. You won't worry about overflowing warehouses or base module slots. After researching something, you will most likely be able to craft or even buy everything related to it. All consumable bonuses are improved, and debuffs are reduced. In general, you will find it interesting — considering that your opponents can also partially use the benefits of this modpack.

P.S. It may seem that you are getting some goodies earlier or later than you should. That you haven't dealt with the first bum factions yet, and various cyberwebs, syndicates, and ozirons are already coming at you. That you have a lousy biohazard suit, the only one in which you can storm a battleship in dimension X. That you unlock a bunch of weapons and/or armor, but have no idea where to get the components for their crafting, or that ammunition is somehow not included with the crafted weapons. That you have already researched all possible menageries, but mutant missions still appear. And much more. So.

I can't fix and balance everything. Moreover, if I change everything mentioned above, it will no longer be the X-Files mod. It will be something new "based on" the mod. Not that I'm trying to avoid this, but I'm not striving for it either. The chain is very simple: I PLAY, I see "something is off", I fix it. And here I believe that the oversaturation of the original mod played a cruel joke on the players — yes, you can build an Avenger to fly to Mars, and you get messages about cattle abductions, while heavy alien destroyers are flying in the sky. There are an enormous number of "arcs" in the mod, and even considering that I ruthlessly removed requirements for all secondary things that the player might not "proc" or encounter for a long time — there are still a lot of loose ends. At a glance, if you count — mutant beasts, zombies, red dawn, black lotus, exalt, cult of Dagon, cyberweb, syndicate, Osiron, UAC, hybrids, shogg, aquatoids with all their factions — and that's not the whole list — and unfinished arcs: golovans, blight, luchadores, stormtroopers... The small and insignificant in the original mod cult of Apocalypse. Again, that's not all. I can't balance every faction. There will inevitably be something strange somewhere. Somewhere you may get research and items beyond your current level, and somewhere else — you'll get things you no longer need. There's nothing I can do about it — I'm still working on fixes, and new versions of the mod will be released. But I doubt I'll ever fix everything.

P.P.S. If anyone wants to take and correct the textual descriptions of items that do not match their characteristics — I would be very grateful and will add it to the mod with author attribution.

Change Log:

1.0. Modpack release. There are so many changes compared to the original X-Files that it's impossible to remember them all. And even if I did remember, writing them all down would take so much space that no one would read to the end. But I'll roughly sketch out what I remember:

- Complete overhaul of base modules: construction time, number of slots, requirements.

- Complete overhaul of aviation: more unified weapon slots, slot fixes, speed, fuel balance, etc.

- Complete overhaul of aviation weaponry: up to the last blaster weapon, everything else has its pros and cons.

- Complete overhaul of non-standard equipment: crafting possibilities, parameter balancing.

- Complete overhaul of standard equipment: tons of balances, clearer tier separation (without labels), where the player is offered to choose what to use.

- Complete overhaul of armor: lots of balances, adding new ones where there were "empty spots", some unification.

- Complete overhaul of transformations: disabling bans, tons of parameter balancing, adding reset (no longer needed, as the rank assignment mod is connected).

- Complete overhaul of agents' starting parameters and maximum parameters for each type (species? race?) separately.

- Adding several new weapons, armors, equipment, and items in general, and also removing several useless items. I would have removed more, but I'm lazy.

- Added many crafting recipes, including those that allow selling crafted items for profit at any development level. In the original, all such things were removed, and there was no money farming from crafting at all.

- Text descriptions have been changed for everything made.

- And a huge pile of other changes that don't fit into any of the above categories.

1.1.

- Fixed requirements for unlocking research topics regarding the "Network" of enemy factions.

- Fixed alien deployment sets where throwing disks and electro-whips were extremely rare.

- Added new crafts for zombie-parasite and deadly disk.

- Balanced top-tier weapons of promotion levels 1-2.

- Rebalanced all throwing weapons in the game: replaced fixed range with more realistic behavior.

1.2 — 1.3.

- Fixed some research that required ridiculous conditions to unlock.

- Fixed research access levels that opened later than the player needed.

- Hammer's ability to go on undercover missions disabled — that's what the Land Rover is for.

- Added some "lost" crafts for various corpses, though not for all, as there are many corpses in the game.

- Added "Ninjutsu" transformation, which requires Cyberweb plans, ninja manuscript, and vampire knight corpse research. Provides a random boost to most characteristics.

- Added crafts for "processing" Cyberweb techno-adepts.

- Some research switched from Promotion 2 to the first.

- Removed impersonatron — a research pointlessly extending the chain.

- Added disassembly craft for golovan debris, growing of explosive organ, and acid bolt.

1.4.

- Balanced laser and plasma weapons: more diverse barrels and clearer tier separation.

- Minor fixes to category-names-descriptions.

- Rework of the UAC launcher: the cluster-fragmentation warhead no longer damages the environment (damage type change) and does not cause smoke.

- Balancing of the MAGMA tactical grenade launcher: ammunition cost increased, HE added hellish environmental damage, number of charges increased from 6 to 12.

- Fix for cortexiphan: no longer requires psi characteristics for injection, does not "wound" the soldier, and can be used consecutively as many times as desired.

- Rebalancing of turbo laser and turbo plasma weapons.

- Reworked Starfighter.

- Rebalancing of Mystic transformation.

- Fix for deployment sets when aliens ended up with X-Com Psi-distorters.

- Semi-nerf of X-Com distorters, added aiming mode, removed flat rate TU, reduced experience for sanity, lowered damage and accuracy modifiers.

- Fixes for aviation weapons like cannons.

- Fix for useless "Storm Spear" missiles, switching crafting from elerium to zrbite with terramite.

- Transition of Firestorm to missile armament.

- Light rebalance of "Pike" missiles.

- Buff for elerium shield for aviation.

1.5.

- ALL or almost all enemies and neutrals have had their HP doubled. It was too easy.

- Rework of plasma and blaster aviation cannons: plasma (100 charges) now charges not with elerium, but with batteries for 10 charges, crafting one unit costs 2 elerium. The blaster has 20 charges, and each shot consumes 1 unit of elerium. The characteristics have, of course, been rebalanced, including for other missiles and aviation cannons.

- Fix for overestimated psi-vision range in assault armor and balancing of the thermal imager.

- Repeated fix for some aviation weapons. Reduced firing speed of the blaster aviation cannon and some missiles, increased for some others.

- Rebalance of research for studying plasma and blaster weapons. Plasma and blaster aviation cannons now have parallel research, one does not require the other.

- Synthetic suit and light energy armor added for undercover missions.

- Rebalance of transport for all types of missions: Viper is now suitable not only for a single mission, options for Iron Fist increased, the former swamp crawler (in my version, all-terrain vehicle) added to most options, combat crafts removed from space missions.

- Slight nerf of assault armor and rebalance of its resistances.

- Removal (possibly not complete) of specific bonuses from transformations to armor. The bonuses from the transformations themselves are enough.

- Rebalance of three late-game armor types to provide choices with pros and cons for each: Assault armor is relatively versatile and allows flying, plus it's the only one with psi-vision. Shock armor is more protected but without flight and psi-vision, while Juggernaut armor has the highest protection and resistances at the cost of reducing important agent characteristics.

- Ability to craft the Starfighter after unlocking the Tormentor and some other things.

- Ability to craft the mysterious skull after studying it.

- Fix for researching the Mrshan rifle, late-game armor branches, distorters; fix for the production of distorters, components for T.E.C. production; fix for some characteristics of some weapons.

- Added crafting of the UAC "Executioner" machine gun and its ammunition.

1.6

- Update of the executable file OXCE 7.12 -> 7.14 from the BrutalAI mod. New options (BOXCE) added and translated in the game settings. It is recommended not to touch them, they are already configured.

- REMINDER. The entire text in the game works perfectly only with the RUSSIAN localization. In any other language, you will see technical inscriptions instead of the correct translation in some places. Even in the Russian localization, technical or English inscriptions are POSSIBLE.

- BrutalAI has its own minor glitches: when using the psi-amp, it will always show 0% chance — this percentage is intended for throwing chance. The auto-combat setting in the agent options will not work without enabling auto-combat in the game settings (disabled by default).

- Added Garage — a 1x1 base module designed for small transport. The all-terrain vehicle is NOT considered small transport, only wheeled vehicles can be in the garage.

- Fix for the research sequence of the spectral scythe and psi-distorter.

- Fix for the quest alien brain: now you can get it by clearing the alien base without the mandatory wait for the mission on the Moon. Only alien bases — not hybrids, not T'Leha.

- Nerf of speed serum and jet: significant increase in sanity and morale consumption, reduction of charges from 4 to 3 for the jet. Components for crafting the Jet have been changed.

- Removed sanity and morale restoration effects from all medkits. Only specific items (stimulant, painkiller, golden dragons, nobelon) restore these parameters.

- Added Auroxin-X: a late-game drug that restores a bit of morale and a lot of sanity. Can be crafted. Requires Olympianism to unlock.

- Changed requirements to unlock the Jet: requires Proteanism.

- Changed the Lunar Program Control Center: more scientists and engineers, works as a radar for the entire globe with a 1% detection chance.

- Fix/nerf of the range and chances of all radar modules, except the hyperwave decoder.

- Returned the surfboard and allowed the purchase of the Storm.