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Modding => Help => Topic started by: The Reaver of Darkness on December 08, 2017, 03:39:49 pm

Title: Can I make HWPs able to accept more than one ammo type?
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on December 08, 2017, 03:39:49 pm
I want to have Alien Grenade-tech rockets that can be installed in the basic rocket tanks. Can this be done? I tried just putting them in as I would have expected, I added the items and included them in the compatible ammo list, but I can't load them onto the craft with the new ammo. The game seems to think they must be loaded with the first ammo type on the list.
Title: Re: Can I make HWPs able to accept more than one ammo type?
Post by: ohartenstein23 on December 08, 2017, 07:07:50 pm
I don't think this is possible, but you could make manufacturing projects that convert the rocket tanks quickly to the better rockets and back.

Otherwise, using OXCE+ I've had success converting HWPs to a soldier type, making it easier to manage their ammunition.
Title: Re: Can I make HWPs able to accept more than one ammo type?
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on December 08, 2017, 10:55:29 pm
Maybe at some point I should turn my HWPs into "soldiers" so they can be a chassis with gun-swapping capability, as well as more than one ammo type for some guns. For now I just added a new tank--I realized it actually makes sense because now there's 2 mid-game tanks to go with 2 early and 2 late.

That's some food for thought. Thanks!
Title: Re: Can I make HWPs able to accept more than one ammo type?
Post by: ohartenstein23 on December 09, 2017, 01:37:27 am
 Here's my mod for making HWP 'soldiers' (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5655.0.html), if you want to take a look.
Title: Re: Can I make HWPs able to accept more than one ammo type?
Post by: SteamXCOM on December 24, 2017, 11:59:08 pm
You could mod the tank to carry two different types of weapons, HWP tractors does that as well as the mod I learned it from :
      HWP tractors
      https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5691.0.html
      [UFO]S.A.R. HWP/AI Mod V.0.60 (XCE+ needed)
      https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5643.0.html
Title: Re: Can I make HWPs able to accept more than one ammo type?
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on December 25, 2017, 01:01:33 am
Thanks. Robin's Apocalypse mod also does the two tank weapons. I found that recently.