Thank you, I've seen other syndicate name mods on here but they were always like silly ones. This is what I want. Btw, do you think it'd be possible to reactivate those other syndicate types that didn't make the cut and went into sick games like you mentioned? That could be cool!
I'm not sure if it would be possible or not. It definitely wouldn't be as simple as reactivating them the same way I did the names though. Really, all I found that was left of them is a few unused icons, and the fact that each name is tagged with a "CrimeType" (e.g. CrimeType01, CrimeType02, etc.) that can be linked to the icons' filenames by looking at the leader names associated with each one and figuring out where they seem to match up.
There aren't any objectives linked with them as far as I could see either, and for some of them it would be hard to assign them. Would the cut "Drugs" syndicate be meaningfully different than what we got for Big Pharma? What about Psy-Ops and "Truth", whatever that was? (The names imply something along the lines of obscuring/distorting the truth or spreading disinformation for political gain, with names like "The Hate Monger" and such, while old Psy-Ops took a more chemical-sounding approach) Those were merged together, and in most cases Cyber Crime was also placed into Psy-Ops, making it the second heaviest category in vanilla! I moved a lot of the old Cyber Crime names into Espionage since it was pretty slim, and usually fit better imo.
It's my personal theory that syndicate types weren't linked to objectives at the time when these were cut, but that's just my assumption based on memory of some old trailers :p
3 comments
Btw, do you think it'd be possible to reactivate those other syndicate types that didn't make the cut and went into sick games like you mentioned? That could be cool!
There aren't any objectives linked with them as far as I could see either, and for some of them it would be hard to assign them. Would the cut "Drugs" syndicate be meaningfully different than what we got for Big Pharma? What about Psy-Ops and "Truth", whatever that was? (The names imply something along the lines of obscuring/distorting the truth or spreading disinformation for political gain, with names like "The Hate Monger" and such, while old Psy-Ops took a more chemical-sounding approach) Those were merged together, and in most cases Cyber Crime was also placed into Psy-Ops, making it the second heaviest category in vanilla! I moved a lot of the old Cyber Crime names into Espionage since it was pretty slim, and usually fit better imo.
It's my personal theory that syndicate types weren't linked to objectives at the time when these were cut, but that's just my assumption based on memory of some old trailers :p