For those of you who have not yet downloaded the Steam demo, go do it now!
For those who have, I have a present for you.
DHX, a member of the 2k forums, threw together this.
What is it, you might ask? Well, while it's true that the demo is, ordinarily, extremely restrictive, the devs made the insane choice to leave the game files open and unencrypted. What this means is that the demo can be modified like crazy.
This particular editor (which has been declared safe by Trend Micro and Malwarebytes, so it's probably ok, especially since it's so small and simple) lets you adjust the enemies that spawn in the second mission (some spoilers in that it lets you choose between all of the enemy types, including late game ones that have yet to be revealed officially), the number of soldiers you can take on the second mission (from the base 4 to the max 6), and the difficulty. And thank goodness for that, because the difficulty of the second mission is fixed on Easy in the demo (first mission is completely scripted), and the enemies have weak stats and severely restricted AI.
Also keep in mind, be careful when browsing the game's files yourself. They include things such as game videos. From simple things like alien autopsies to (apparently, have avoided them like the plague myself) endgame cutscene spoilers. I haven't checked, nor am I going to, that is a prize I want to have to earn.
Edit: Not all aliens seem to spawn properly (some I tried just kept the default aliens), but a lot of them do. Further note, Cyberdisks frelling owned my 6 man squad on Classic. Alien grenades suck.
Make sure you run the demo before using the editor, as the editor changes some files which aren't created until the demo is actually run.
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