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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« Last post by RSSwizard on Today at 06:27:34 am »

Did you perhaps not put good pilots on it?

The only stuff that shows up early game that it can actually catch up with are Zeppelins and those Ninja Prop Planes, and bandit Armored Cars.

Best gals I had by month 3-4 only had like +15% acc and maybe +10% dodge as pilots. And that's pick of the litter. Actually does good hits on a ninja prop plane and only takes about 1/3 damage capacity but then the enemy plane just runs off.

By the time I just got Aircar... I now also have a Double 25mm cannon from a landed cutter, and ive got a peasant sniper with good +Acc as a pilot. So thats why I asked WTF is the point of the Heli when I basically just skip past it now.

Good note about the glamour, I hadn't noticed that. Range sucks but it can be shipped to a base closer to the crash/mission and maybe reach it that way (can the damn gun be used on the ground?). Reminds me a little bit of the 40k meme of the commisar ordering the tank to get closer so he can hit them with his sword.

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« Last post by Delian on Today at 02:09:13 am »

Did you perhaps not put good pilots on it? Little Bird can stand up to most early game vessels. Bandit Car, Bandit Wartruck, Highway Convoy, Sandcrawler, Rogue Courier, Highwaymen Hoverpod, Black Helicopter, etc... probably also Bandit Zeppelin with two weapons and good pilots. I think Necroplane is too strong for it, and Ninjas will obviously wreck it. Anyway, put XTRA ARMOR on it if your pilots are crap and only use CHEM-TANK if you got no choice.

The main benefit of Little Bird is the hidden 12x Glamour that you get on ground missions with it. This glamour also gives up to +144 additional mission score. Well, assuming you can finish those missions before the glamour decays.

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« Last post by RSSwizard on Today at 01:34:20 am »

What exactly is the purpose of being given the Little Bird with a built in chaingun... it cant stand up to anything that shows up st the beginning of the game...

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XPiratez / Re: rss sprites, the legend continues

« Last post by RSSwizard on Today at 01:07:20 am »

sometime relatively soon ill be making a simple mod that replaces Deep Ones with Tasoths from tftd. It'd just be cosmetic but there would be a (harder) version that would also upgrade their stats too (eg, 125 health, high reflexes, good TUs)

edit - maybe of little use but the assets converted to ufo/pirates palette, until I jimmy them together as a mod, also the die sound effect (in 11khz x 8bit format). Kinda wip thing.

[Spoiler]

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The X-Com Files / Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste

« Last post by Jimboman on Today at 12:43:55 am »

This is true, but the alien abduction missions in XCF have been redifined to have objective: 3 which makes it a site spawning mission and those follow their own rules by what I've understood, rendering the regionWeight irrelevant for this particular mission. I believe the issue lies in that REGION_NATASHA_MOROZOVA_HIDEOUT defines 2 missionZones for reasons unknown to me, perhaps WIP or from an old idea that got discarded, but as far as I could see, the 2nd zone (missionZone 1) is not actively used anywhere, yet for abduction site spawning purposes it's considered valid, at least until it has to spawn the UFOs and then it encounters the issue of no zone 5 (typical UFO entry/exit zones) defined for that region.

The fix in this case should be simple enough if nothing truly requires that missionZone 1, deleting the dash for said zone and allow for its missionAreas to be consolidated into missionZone 0 and thus, the region will no longer be a valid target for abductions.

Currently defined region

Spoiler:

Code: [Select]

- type: REGION_NATASHA_MOROZOVA_HIDEOUT
    missionZones: # European and American mountains, and Ural
      -
        - [142, 142, -73.5, -73.5, -317]
        - [93, 93, -84.5, -84.5, -317]
        - [213, 213, -80, -80, -317]
        - [118, 118, -72, -72, -317]
        - [44, 44, -68, -68, -317]
        - [163, 163, -66, -66, -317]
        - [82, 82, -63, -63, -317]
        - [61, 61, -67, -67, -317]
        - [129, 129, -67, -67, -317]
        - [160, 160, -63, -63, -317]
        - [36.34, 36.34, -68.47, -68.47, -317]
        - [44.81, 44.81, -67.02, -67.02, -317]
      -
        - [158, 158, -55, -55, -316]
        - [105.7, 105.7, -53.87, -53.87, -316]
        - [89, 89, -58, -58, -316]
        - [57, 57, -62, -62, -316]
        - [51, 51, -64, -64, -316]
        - [35, 35, -62, -62, -316]
        - [46.91, 46.91, -60.85, -60.85, -316]
        - [137.64, 137.64, -51.39, -51.39, -316]


Consolidated into single zone

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Code: [Select]

- type: REGION_NATASHA_MOROZOVA_HIDEOUT
    missionZones: # European and American mountains, and Ural
      -
        - [142, 142, -73.5, -73.5, -317]
        - [93, 93, -84.5, -84.5, -317]
        - [213, 213, -80, -80, -317]
        - [118, 118, -72, -72, -317]
        - [44, 44, -68, -68, -317]
        - [163, 163, -66, -66, -317]
        - [82, 82, -63, -63, -317]
        - [61, 61, -67, -67, -317]
        - [129, 129, -67, -67, -317]
        - [160, 160, -63, -63, -317]
        - [36.34, 36.34, -68.47, -68.47, -317]
        - [44.81, 44.81, -67.02, -67.02, -317]
        - [158, 158, -55, -55, -316]
        - [105.7, 105.7, -53.87, -53.87, -316]
        - [89, 89, -58, -58, -316]
        - [57, 57, -62, -62, -316]
        - [51, 51, -64, -64, -316]
        - [35, 35, -62, -62, -316]
        - [46.91, 46.91, -60.85, -60.85, -316]
        - [137.64, 137.64, -51.39, -51.39, -316]


Thanks, I'll try this fix and see if it works.

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The X-Com Files / Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste

« Last post by Jimboman on Today at 12:40:33 am »

I had a crash with that as well with the 3.4 version from github and openexe 7.11, no mods.

I went into my savegame and deleted all references to 'Natasha' missions and that sorted it.  It hasn't returned in three or four game months since then.

Maybe a holdover from something being changed?

You won;t believe this, but literally an hour or so after I posted that I had the same crash and 'repaired' it in the same way.  It's not game-breaking as I delete the missions from the save, it's just a little annoying.

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40k / Re: [ADDON] ROSIGMA

« Last post by Slaanesh on May 20, 2024, 11:42:39 pm »

Greetings Everyone. Owing to an exceptionally convenient error message, I am able to submit an exemplary "live alien item definition is missing" bug report. #9a1c72cc-1e59-45c1-bad2-71b5e81e2

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The X-Com Files / Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste

« Last post by CrazedHarpooner on May 20, 2024, 10:18:39 pm »

Very strange. I understand very little of this, but I suppose the MOROZOVA region should not be used to spawn random abduction missions, because its regionWeight is undefined in regions_XCOMFILES.rul which should default to 0. Maybe OXCE is bugged somehow, you have a corrupt mod copy or some other mods are messing up by introducing non-zero regionWeight. Or I'm missing something, which is also entirely possible.

This is true, but the alien abduction missions in XCF have been redifined to have objective: 3 which makes it a site spawning mission and those follow their own rules by what I've understood, rendering the regionWeight irrelevant for this particular mission. I believe the issue lies in that REGION_NATASHA_MOROZOVA_HIDEOUT defines 2 missionZones for reasons unknown to me, perhaps WIP or from an old idea that got discarded, but as far as I could see, the 2nd zone (missionZone 1) is not actively used anywhere, yet for abduction site spawning purposes it's considered valid, at least until it has to spawn the UFOs and then it encounters the issue of no zone 5 (typical UFO entry/exit zones) defined for that region.

The fix in this case should be simple enough if nothing truly requires that missionZone 1, deleting the dash for said zone and allow for its missionAreas to be consolidated into missionZone 0 and thus, the region will no longer be a valid target for abductions.

Currently defined region

Spoiler:

Code: [Select]

- type: REGION_NATASHA_MOROZOVA_HIDEOUT
    missionZones: # European and American mountains, and Ural
      -
        - [142, 142, -73.5, -73.5, -317]
        - [93, 93, -84.5, -84.5, -317]
        - [213, 213, -80, -80, -317]
        - [118, 118, -72, -72, -317]
        - [44, 44, -68, -68, -317]
        - [163, 163, -66, -66, -317]
        - [82, 82, -63, -63, -317]
        - [61, 61, -67, -67, -317]
        - [129, 129, -67, -67, -317]
        - [160, 160, -63, -63, -317]
        - [36.34, 36.34, -68.47, -68.47, -317]
        - [44.81, 44.81, -67.02, -67.02, -317]
      -
        - [158, 158, -55, -55, -316]
        - [105.7, 105.7, -53.87, -53.87, -316]
        - [89, 89, -58, -58, -316]
        - [57, 57, -62, -62, -316]
        - [51, 51, -64, -64, -316]
        - [35, 35, -62, -62, -316]
        - [46.91, 46.91, -60.85, -60.85, -316]
        - [137.64, 137.64, -51.39, -51.39, -316]


Consolidated into single zone

Spoiler:

Code: [Select]

- type: REGION_NATASHA_MOROZOVA_HIDEOUT
    missionZones: # European and American mountains, and Ural
      -
        - [142, 142, -73.5, -73.5, -317]
        - [93, 93, -84.5, -84.5, -317]
        - [213, 213, -80, -80, -317]
        - [118, 118, -72, -72, -317]
        - [44, 44, -68, -68, -317]
        - [163, 163, -66, -66, -317]
        - [82, 82, -63, -63, -317]
        - [61, 61, -67, -67, -317]
        - [129, 129, -67, -67, -317]
        - [160, 160, -63, -63, -317]
        - [36.34, 36.34, -68.47, -68.47, -317]
        - [44.81, 44.81, -67.02, -67.02, -317]
        - [158, 158, -55, -55, -316]
        - [105.7, 105.7, -53.87, -53.87, -316]
        - [89, 89, -58, -58, -316]
        - [57, 57, -62, -62, -316]
        - [51, 51, -64, -64, -316]
        - [35, 35, -62, -62, -316]
        - [46.91, 46.91, -60.85, -60.85, -316]
        - [137.64, 137.64, -51.39, -51.39, -316]


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Brutal AI / Re: Brutal-OXCE 8.5.3

« Last post by panzer on May 20, 2024, 09:22:03 pm »

Hi Xilmi. There is such a suggestion: add reaction shots when opening doors (maybe as a switchable option).
 The fact is that enemies, especially with aggression 0, really like to ambush behind doors and it would work if the fire trigger worked. It looks something like in screenshot 1
Of course, they will be killed due to the lack of a rocket shot, since the right to the first shot is always with the one who opened the door.
Knowing this, I will just ambush a little to the side of the door and thereby kill the enemy anyway.Screenshot 2
 That is, the absence of a fire trigger when opening doors almost always works in the player's favor.

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Brutal AI / Re: Brutal-OXCE 8.5.3

« Last post by Xilmi on May 20, 2024, 09:04:30 pm »

not sure - bug it or feature - but alien missile always fly into craft, even if target is far away from it
here is the save with start of human turn
shoot from the tank in any direction and press "end turn"
alien rocket will fly into craft, will out, and will fly to the tank

That's extremely bizarre and I'm actually quite baffled.
It seems like somehow there's something weird with the pathfinding.

For unlimited waypoints it only looks weird but without unlimited waypoints something nonsensical like that will clearly eat up waypoints unnecessarily.

I fear I have to debug into the depths of pathfinding to figure out why that happens. Compared to that the issue with the missiles getting stuck at the ramp looks rather trivial.

Edit: I think that actually both the issues you mentioned are related to flying-units. It seems like it cannot properly path to stuff that isn't reachable to non-flying-units. I will check this with Floaters. Maybe it doesn't really get that the missile can fly above ground when the alien that's shooting it isn't able to.

Edit 2: Yeah, Floaters have no issue shooting something on the roof. So it's somehow tied to whether the firing unit can fly. oO

Edit 3: Found it. There's a function called. "validateUpDown" in the pathfinding. It used the movement-type of the unit. I changed it so that it now will always consider missiles as being valid to go up and down the same way as flying units. When I fix it, the missile takes a more direct way and you also can be targeted on the roof.

I also have an idea to improve the AI's amount of waypoints so that it will need less in the future but that's some redoing of some algorithms and I haven't done it yet.