Re: The X-Com Files - 3.3: Mysteries Ancient And New

[flanker84]

Great mod, installed immediately after reading the change list!
I`m struggling with commendations:
1) do "master of..." and "bane pf..." bonuses stack in case I gain level1 for weapon/race A, level2 for weapon/race B, and so on?
2) I would suggest making the "master of ..." requirement 10X less and leaving "gunner", "sniper", etc as it is; the logic is following: your soldiers get better with a particular gun faster than becoming overall better in a weapon class, making "master of..." level 10 possible to obtain, because now it is not, as you change tier levels faster than killing 500 enemies with a particular gun.
3) what is the difference between "Flat Stats Change" and "Stat Bonuses" in commendations descriptions?
4) "bane of..." - i`d also suggest decreasing 10X, as it is also impossible to get 500 kills of one enemy race, same for "warden of..."
I played extensively last time without losing agents and couldn`t get to decent levels for these commendations, maybe someone could advise how to change this, so I can do it myself?

[Bonakva]

1) Yes
2) It's going to be greasy.
3) I don't know what you mean.
4) It's going to be greasy.

Soldiers are already because of these awards have inflated stats. And if you lower the conditions on these recurring awards, the soldiers will be imbalanced

[flanker84]

thank for your reply

reg 3) - I mean description in the new wiki for this great mod, for example for the "gun kata" commendation: https://xcf.trigramreactor.net/master/article/STR_GUN_KATA

*I`d like to kind of a role play, so I`d like ajust commendations, if I change the numbers in commendations_XCOMFILES.rul will it work?

[Bonakva]

In some mods, when selecting vehicles, you can see the possible radius of flight, depending on the fuel. How do I enable such a feature in X-files?

[Mathel]

3) My guess is as follows
Flat Stat Bonus affects the stat as is and is limited by the stat's maximal value.
Stat Bonus is tacked on top of whatever the stat happens to be, ignoring maximal stat. Commendation bonuses work this way.

[the nomad]

In some mods, when selecting vehicles, you can see the possible radius of flight, depending on the fuel. How do I enable such a feature in X-files?

Isn't that already in? I can see it with crafts who has limited range.

[Bonakva]

oh, question solved. I pressed "R."

[flanker84]

Bug report: researching "Mateba Autorevolver acquisition" doesn`t show ammo in popup screen and doesn`t allow to buy it

[krautbernd]

Bug report: researching "Mateba Autorevolver acquisition" doesn`t show ammo in popup screen and doesn`t allow to buy it

There is a separate bug thread for reporting exactely this, best post this there instead.

That aside, research for the Mateba and the Judge/Kludge is messed up at the moment. Purchasing either gun deosn't actually require Magnum acquisition (or the gun specific acquisition for that matter), but buying the ammunition does. On top of that both the AP and the shotgun ammunition only become available if both Mateba&Kludge acquistion as well as shotgun aquisition have been reasearched. I don't think this is intended.

[Solarius Scorch]

Since this was mentioned several times: I also prefer to assign a small number of scientists to a project. Not necessarily just 1, but I think 10 is a bit too many, unless it's a major project with the cost in triple digits. (Or when I'm out of researches, of course.)

Sol, maybe we should make the hangars roomy or small hangars in 1 cell? Very strange that 1 car takes a hangar for the plane. I understand that the game convention, but still...

Multiple hangar types are currently unsupported, or at least not in a satisfactory way.
Think of it as having a huge garage for your awesome ride. Pure swag.

Sol, I discovered the UNEXCOM mod. Some of the weapons have amazing tracers. What a beautiful thing that is. Please implement something like that in your mod. These tracers are amazing.

There are many awesome mods out there, and I stole quite a bit of material from them when I was a rookie... But now I'm trying not to.
But okay, what exactly do you mean by tracers? Particle trails left by projectiles?

That aside, research for the Mateba and the Judge/Kludge is messed up at the moment. Purchasing either gun deosn't actually require Magnum acquisition (or the gun specific acquisition for that matter), but buying the ammunition does. On top of that both the AP and the shotgun ammunition only become available if both Mateba&Kludge acquistion as well as shotgun aquisition have been reasearched. I don't think this is intended.

Thanks, indeed it was bugged - both guns had too lax requirements for purchasing them. Hopefully this fix is good enough.

[SMA]

Bug report:
[INFO]   MCD COPTER object 53 has invalid DieMCD: 64
[FATAL]   A fatal error has occurred: Unit generator encountered an error: item set not defined

[Solarius Scorch]

Bug report:
[INFO]   MCD COPTER object 53 has invalid DieMCD: 64
[FATAL]   A fatal error has occurred: Unit generator encountered an error: item set not defined

Yeah, you're right, thanks. Fixed.

[Bonakva]

Sol, doesn't your mod have a script like FTA?
So that in the first turn the enemy has less AP

But okay, what exactly do you mean by tracers? Particle trails left by projectiles?

yep

[Solarius Scorch]

Sol, doesn't your mod have a script like FTA?
So that in the first turn the enemy has less AP

No. You usually land your big ass aircraft in the middle of an enemy base, why would they be unprepared???

yep

Maybe... It's a controversial solution, perhaps one day.

[Juku121]

No. You usually land your big ass aircraft in the middle of an enemy base, why would they be unprepared???

Because a) not every cultist sleeps with their gun under their pillow, boots on and dynamite pack in hand; b) they don't know where exactly your big-ass craft will land and will thus have to 'spend TU' to catch up with it; c) it's terribly random in execution and quite a few people find it not fun.

Edit: The one thing this feature does is provide a distinct challenge of "They got you in their sights, now what?" Unfortunately, the same could be said about 'pod' management in NuCom. Both led to rather boring solutions (pod creeping or stay put if in closed craft/pop smoke and pray/abort)./edit

It's a controversial solution, perhaps one day.

What's so controversial about it? It's complicated, but I haven't seen anyone really rail against tracers and saying "Tracers? Never! I will stop playing [this mod] if there are tracers!"


It'd be better if you just said "It's my mod, I like it how it is and that's the way it's gonna be!" or "Too much work!" instead of coming up with strange justifications.

In any case, there's a mod for this, and even StarvingPoet's extra tweak on the next page.


If I were you, I'd head off any further such discussion by making a list of XCF submods and certain other mods (sounds are already linked, Arsenal, Medical, Ratatat, this, maybe the 'pact country recovery' change, probably more), and put a Solarius' Seal of (Dis)Approval next to them.