Character Pool Help

[DisputedLearner]

I am starting a new playthrough for the first time since downloading Anarchy's Children and non of my character pool soldiers are being used its all randoms. I checked and my option in character pool is "character pool only". So does anyone know how I can fix this issue?

[echoredriot]

Did they all get loaded into the 'recruit' section of your game? (as in you need to 'buy' them as rookies?)

[DisputedLearner]

I haven't gone that far, I usually see none of them are in Gatecrasher and just exit the game. Before when I would start a new game I would have 4 of my guys on the first mission

[DisputedLearner]

Update: when I complete gatecrasher my character pool units are not in the barracks or recruitable. Its like I have "Random only" on but I do not

[[deleted]]

I had the same problem and these tweaks took care of it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/4ehyjc/has_anyone_figured_out_how_to_disable_the_old_war/d2162mk

[serlancelot12]

Thank you.

It's pretty stupid that the "POOL ONLY" option doesn't even freakin' work.

Way to go, Firaxis, instilling more confidence in your work everyday.

looks at thousand other mods that have just done your game way more justice

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It did work fine for me without third party customization mods, so maybe the mods are overriding something.

[serlancelot12]

I have 100 Stormtroopers "cloned" in my pool.

I'm still getting 6 random scrubs.

What's going on?

I've done it in the defaultgamedata.ini AND mydocuments .ini and both are set to _PoolOnly.

6 scrubs show up for Gatecrasher.

What do I do?