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

Before extracting, make 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 experience image freezes, enable VSync in your graphics driver settings. If the freezes persist, change the image filter to HQx.

All other settings are within the game. However, they are already configured PROPERLY, and you will only need to adjust the graphics — resolution, sound, maybe. It is RECOMMENDED NOT TO TOUCH the settings of all built-in mods.

A brief overview of the modification can be found at the link:

I will briefly describe the changes made by my modpack.

First, the base X-Files was a very unbalanced mod in the late game. With the increased amount of available equipment, missions of medium difficulty could be completed in 1 turn, and the most difficult ones in 2-3 turns. This modpack regulates this moment in both directions: you can either use expensive crafted equipment for this or proceed in the usual way. In the original, such equipment could be obtained much easier, but its effect was rather weak, including some effects that further increased the already absurdly high level of micromanagement in the game.

The modpack offers a new, expanded, and optimized inventory, balanced leveling and transformations, a stricter division of weapons into tiers, a variety of armor, alleviation of micromanagement, crafting of almost any components, and much more. With the help of the modpack, you can turn any agent into a flash, superman, and batman all in one — you will no longer have one-armed, one-eyed cripples panicking at the first shot, as was the case in the original. It may seem that the modpack significantly eases the game, and it does, but not for the "Superhuman" difficulty. At this difficulty, all the benefits provided by the modpack are absolutely necessary, while 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 may feel that something is missing, and some things have changed significantly. There is nothing to be done about the first, as new versions expand the already excessive number of research options, while not offering anything particularly useful. The second was a long process and was optimized through numerous playthroughs so that players do not get stuck in the absence of progress and do not understand what to do with it.

You will find and craft incredibly cool weapons and equipment. You won't worry about warehouse overflow or slots in base modules. After researching something, you will likely be able to craft or even purchase everything related to it. All bonuses for consumables have been improved, and debuffs have been reduced. In general, you will find it interesting — considering that your opponents can also partially benefit from this modpack.

P.S. You may feel that you are receiving some goodies earlier or later than you should. That you haven't dealt with the first bum factions, and already various cyberwebs, syndicates, and ozirons are crawling in. That you have a crappy bio-protection suit, the only one with which you can storm a battleship in dimension x. That a bunch of weapons and/or armor is opening up for you, and you have no idea where to get the components for crafting them, or that ammunition is somehow not included in the crafting of weapons. That you have already researched all possible beasts, but missions with mutants still appear. And much more. So.

I cannot fix and balance everything at all. 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 am trying to avoid this, but I am not striving for it either. The chain is very simple: I PLAY, I see "something is wrong", I fix it. And here I believe that the oversaturation of the original mod played a cruel joke on players — yes, you can assemble the Avenger to fly to Mars, while you receive messages about cattle abductions, while heavy alien destroyers fly in the sky. There are a huge number of "arcs" in the mod, and even considering that I ruthlessly removed requirements for all secondary things that a player may not "provoke" for a long time — there are still many tails left. Roughly counting — mutant beasts, zombies, red dawn, black lotus, exalt, cult of Dagon, cyberweb, syndicate, oziron, UAC, hybrids, shogg, aquatoids with all their factions — and this is not the entire list — and unfinished arcs: golovans, taint, luchadores, stormtroopers... Minor and insignificant in the original mod is the Apocalypse cult. Again, this is not everything. I cannot balance every faction. Somewhere there will definitely be something strange. Somewhere you may receive research and items that exceed your current level, and somewhere conversely — you will receive things that are no longer useful to you. There is nothing to be done about this — I am still working on fixes, and new versions of the mod will be released. But I hardly think I will ever fix everything.

P.P.S. If anyone wants to take and correct the text descriptions of items that do not correspond to the characteristics in the description — I would be very grateful and will add it to the mod with authorship attribution.

Change log:

1.0. Release of the modpack. There are so many changes compared to the original X-Files that it is impossible to mention them all. Even if I remembered them, in text form they would take up so much space that no one would read them to the end. But I will still roughly outline what I remember:

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

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

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

- Complete overhaul of unconventional equipment: crafting possibilities, balancing parameters.

- Complete overhaul of standard equipment: tons of balancing, clearer division into tiers (without markings), where the player is offered to choose what they will use.

- Complete overhaul of armor: a lot of balancing, addition of new items where there were "empty spaces", some unification.

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

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

- Addition of several new weapons, armors, equipment, and items in general, I will also add the removal of several useless items. I would remove more, but I'm lazy.

- Added many crafting recipes, including those that allow selling crafted items for profit at any level of development. In the original, all such things were removed, and farming money from crafting was non-existent.

- Text descriptions were changed for everything done.

- And a huge number of other changes that do not fit into any of the above categories.

1.1.

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

- Fixed deployment sets of aliens, where throwing discs and electric whips were extremely rare.

- Added new crafts for zombie parasites and deadly discs.

- Balanced top-tier weapons of 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 idiotic conditions for unlocking.

- Fixed access level for research that opened later than needed by the player.

- The Hammer has been disabled from going on missions undercover — there is a Land Rover for that.

- Added some "lost" crafts for various corpses, even so — not for all, there are a great many corpses in the game.

- Added the transformation "Ninjutsu", for which plans of the Cyberweb, a ninja manuscript, and research of a vampire knight's corpse are required. It gives a random boost to most characteristics.

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

- Some research has been switched from Upgrade 2 to the first.

- The impersonatron has been removed — a research that senselessly increased the chain.

- Added crafting for disassembling golovan debris, growing an explosive organ, and an acid bolt.

1.4.

- Balancing of laser and plasma weapons: more diverse barrels and clearer division into tiers.

- Minor fixes of categories-names-descriptions.

- Overhaul of the UAC launcher: cassette-fragmentation warhead no longer deals damage to the environment (type of damage replaced) and does not cause smoke.

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

- Fixed cortexifane: no longer requires psi characteristics for injection, does not "injure" the soldier and can be used consecutively as many times as needed.

- Balancing of turbo laser and turbo plasma weapons.

- Overhauled Starfighter.

- Rebalancing of the Mystic transformation.

- Fixed deployment sets, when aliens had X-Com Psi distorters.

- Half-nerf of X-Com distorters, added aiming mode, removed flat rate OD, reduced experience in sanity, reduced damage and accuracy modifiers.

- Fixed aviation weapons of the gun type.

- Fixed useless "Spear of Storm" missiles, switched crafting from elerium to zrbite with terramite.

- Translated Fire Storm to missile weaponry.

- Light rebalance of "Pike" missiles.

- Buffed elerium shield for aviation.

1.5.

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

- Overhaul of plasma and blaster aircraft guns: plasma (100 charges) now charges not with elerium, but with 10-charge batteries, crafting one unit — 2 elerium. Blaster has 20 charges and each shot consumes 1 unit of elerium. The TTX, of course, has been rebalanced, including for other missiles and aircraft guns.

- Fixed excessive psi-vision range in assault armor and balanced thermal vision.

- Re-fixed some aviation weapons. Reduced the firing speed of the blaster aircraft gun and some missiles, increased it for some others.

- Rebalanced research for studying plasma and blaster weapons. Plasma and blaster aircraft guns now have parallel research, one does not require the other.

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

- Rebalanced transport for all types of missions: Viper is now suitable not only for one single mission, options for Iron Fist have been increased, former swamp vehicles (in my version, all-terrain vehicles) added to most options, combat crafts have been removed from space missions.

- Minor nerf of assault armor and rebalancing of its resistances.

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

- Rebalanced three light types of armor to provide choice and pros and cons for each armor: Assault armor is relatively universal and allows flying, moreover, it is the only one with psi-vision. Shock armor is more protected but lacks flight and psi-vision, while juggernaut armor has the highest protection and resistances at the cost of reducing important agent characteristics.

- Crafting of Starfighter possible after unlocking the Tormentor and some other things.

- Crafting of the mysterious skull possible after its study.

- Fixed research of the mrrshan rifle, branches of light armors, distorters; fixed production of distorters, components for producing TEC; fixed some characteristics of some weapons.

- Added crafting for 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 game settings. It is recommended not to touch them, they are already configured.

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

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

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

- Fixed the sequence of spectral scythe and psi-distorter research.

- Fixed the alien quest brain: now it can be obtained by clearing the alien base without mandatory waiting for a mission on the Moon. Only alien bases — not hybrids, not T'Leha.

- Nerf of speed serum and jet: serious increase in sanity and morale costs, reduction of charges from 4 to 3 for the jet. Changed components for crafting the Jet.

- Effects of restoring sanity and morale have been removed from all medkits. Only specific items (stimulant, painkiller, golden dragons, nobelon) restore these parameters.

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

- Changed requirements for unlocking the Jet: requires Proteanism.

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

- Fixed/nerfed range and chances of all radar modules, except for the hyperwave decoder.

- The surfboard has been returned and the purchase of Storm has been allowed.