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OpenXcom => Open Feedback => Topic started by: Raven_2012 on October 10, 2015, 05:12:04 am

Title: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: Raven_2012 on October 10, 2015, 05:12:04 am: I just bought X-COM UFO Defense and I heard about OpenXcom, now should I just go with 1.0 or do the Nightlies? I ask because 1.0 came out in 2014 and there may be some fixes that came out since then. Plus I will be getting Terror From The Deep soon.

I am using the current Nighly as of this post, Oct 10 2015

Also is there a master changelog for nightlies somewhere? I only see the limited ones on the OpenXcom site. I always love reading through changelogs.
Title: Re: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: Roxis231 on October 10, 2015, 06:55:44 am: 1.0 is probably OK for UFO, but TftD will only run on the nightlies at the moment.

If you are useing the Oct 10 nighty, you should be OK... but then again, it's your choice which one you use.
Title: Re: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: Warboy1982 on October 10, 2015, 07:13:00 am: nightly.

https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/commits/master

that's serving as the changelog until we actually update the changelog.
Title: Re: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: Raven_2012 on October 10, 2015, 07:26:30 am: Quote from: Warboy1982 on October 10, 2015, 07:13:00 am
nightly.

https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/commits/master

that's serving as the changelog until we actually update the changelog.

Thanks for the changelog link.
Title: Re: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: Raven_2012 on October 10, 2015, 07:30:29 am: Quote from: Roxis231 on October 10, 2015, 06:55:44 am
1.0 is probably OK for UFO, but TftD will only run on the nightlies at the moment.

If you are useing the Oct 10 nighty, you should be OK... but then again, it's your choice which one you use.

1.0 would be more stable, just don't want to miss out on some fixes or additions to UFO, since the stable build was a while back. I really don't know if the nightlies still contain stuff for UFO. But at the same time with nightlies, with fixes there could come up a bug that might break game or something. I am going to go with the nightly, only thing I notice was when I selected a few new video display filters, they wouldn't load and game would CTD.
Title: Re: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: Warboy1982 on October 10, 2015, 07:47:32 am: nightlies contain UFO and TFTD and a lot of fixes and improvements over 1.0, furthermore, 1.0 is not "more stable" as a lot of the bugs that were in that release have since been fixed. we're simply lazy with releases, but we'll be making the push for one soon.
Title: Re: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: Raven_2012 on October 10, 2015, 08:19:53 am: Quote from: Warboy1982 on October 10, 2015, 07:47:32 am
nightlies contain UFO and TFTD and a lot of fixes and improvements over 1.0, furthermore, 1.0 is not "more stable" as a lot of the bugs that were in that release have since been fixed. we're simply lazy with releases, but we'll be making the push for one soon.

Thanks for reply and answers, I will get started on a play through soon.
Title: Re: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: 7Saturn on October 12, 2015, 02:36:39 pm: And not to mention: Current mods usually are done for nightlies. That's in fact the main reason, why I stick with it, albeit there might be bugs introduced and later fixed.
Title: Re: New to XCom, Should I Go 1.0 or Nightlies?
Post by: Solarius Scorch on October 16, 2015, 08:25:59 am: While broken nightlies happen (though very rarely), they are normally as stable as the 1.0. There's really no reason not to use them.