xcom-2
I know that there is a random chance to get some loot from enemies when you kill them. However, many of my soldiers don't have modded weapons due to not having found enough.
Other than looting, is there any other way to get weapon mods? Can you build them?
It seems logical to me that XCOM should be able to build a scope for a gun but I've not seen anywhere to do so.
After getting your squad together, if you rename your squad member in the customization settings, if you change the name to a specific name the game will make it a "special" XCOM hero. There are two others you can get as XCOM heroes, all discovered through the default.ini configuration settings:
;SUPER SOLDIERS!!
;Sid Meier BodyPartTemplateConfig=(PartType="Head",
TemplateName="Supersoldier1_M",
ArchetypeName="Head_Supersoldier1.ARC_Head_Supersoldier1",
Gender=eGender_Male, Race=eRace_Caucasian, SpecializedType=true)
;Beaglerush BodyPartTemplateConfig=(PartType="Head",
TemplateName="Supersoldier2_M",
ArchetypeName="Head_Supersoldier2.ARC_Head_Supersoldier2",
Gender=eGender_Male, SpecializedType=true) ;VanDoorn
BodyPartTemplateConfig=(PartType="Head",
TemplateName="Supersoldier3_M",
ArchetypeName="Head_Supersoldier3.ARC_Head_Supersoldier3",
Gender=eGender_Male, SpecializedType=true)
So basically, you just need to rename your squad member to either:
In order to get an XCOM hero!
For reference, Peter Van Doorn is a famous NPC you can rescue in XCOM: Enemy Unknown.. Sid Meier is a famous developer who is the creator of the Civilization series and director of Creative Development for Firaxis Games. Beaglerush is a famous XCOM streamer and youtuber.
The presence of Buffs / Debuffs can be seen in the lower-right of each units' selection icon. For enemies, this is the icon you get when you have sight on them. For your own units, this is in the lower left, by their name.
Hovering over this icon will show what buffs/debuffs are currently active.
Best Answer
Weapon mods can not be built. But:
Another thing you can do which doesn't give you more weapon mods per se but increases their availability is getting the continent bonus which allows you to remove mods from weapons and put them on different ones.
Also keep in mind that when a soldier with a modded weapon is injured, you can temporarily equip them with an unmodded weapon to make the modded weapon available for another soldier. So you don't need enough mods to mod the gun of every soldier, only enough for a full squad.