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Modding => Work In Progress => Topic started by: Reaper on January 04, 2015, 01:13:30 pm

Title: HardMod Version 0.13 Beta
Post by: Reaper on January 04, 2015, 01:13:30 pm
This is HardMod.
(Sorry for bad English)
Base idea is more difficultly gameplay, adding some mods (without fanatism), and good balance.


1.Global strategy
 - Less income from defeated aliens.
 - Less income from production.
 - Less score from alien artifacts
 - More penalty to killed xcom agents/civilians.
2. Air combat
 - AA missiles is unaccuracy, but it is better that nothing
 - AA gun has most large damage potential, but you must have very hard interceptor to use it.
 - Beams is good, but Plasma use elerium as ammo and you must produce ammo for laser cannon.
 - Smaller UFOs moves faster, that big UFO.
 - Small UFO evades fights. Shootdown small/medium scout is it big problem now.
 - You must use few interceptors to shootdown UFOs larger than scout. No more overkill with one cool craft.
 - Refueling with jet fuel. No more free patrols.
3. Weapons.
 - More cost of all weapons, except tanks.
 - Rifle, AutoCannon and Heavy Cannon removed.
 - Included: Light Minigun (from Minigun mod), SMG, Assault Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Inc.Grenade, SSRL (from EqualTerms),
M79 (M79 GL mod), Field Medic Pack (from Advanced Medikit mod), Bandage and Stimulator (from X-Piratez)
 - Use "UFO Extended Accuracy" option! All weapons has effective range.
3.1. Light weapons.
 - Light Minigun use at medium range (20-25). Shots 10 bullets twice per turn. At least one from 20 bullets hits.
 - SMG - close-medium range. Small damage, but fast fire. Autofire - 5 rounds.
 - Assault Rifle. Medium-long range weapon. Good accuracy, but not so much damage power.
 - Sniper Rifle. Long range weapon. Has large penalty when firing closest than 20 tiles (5% per tile). Very good accuracy and power. (125%, 80 AP)
 - M79. Long range. Arcing shot. Poor accuracy, damage and fire speed. Light support weapon.
3.2. Heavy weapons.
 - Single Shot Rocket Launcher (SSRL). 3 tile radius explosion. 100 HE power. Kills cyberdisk with 2-3 hits.
 - Small rocket like SSRL now. Has 120 HE power.
 - Large rocket has 100 HE power and big explosion radius (?7-8 tiles)
3.3. Lasers
 - Heavy laser has clip for 5 shots and elerium-powered clip for 10 shots (2 elerium).
 - Laser rifle and pistol has elerium powered clips for 20 and 25 shots (2 elerium per clip).
 - Lasers useful at all ranges.
 - Lasers has good damage power.
 - All lasers, except heavy, use elerium as power source, because humans can't do compact energy sources.
 - Heavy laser it is really good anti-tank weapon
3.4. Plasma
 - Little better that humans gunpowder weapon by accuracy.
 - Standart damage power.
3.5. Tanks
 - Tank/cannon use explosive rounds (30x, radius 2, power 80), with brust fire by 3 rounds.
 - Tank/RocketLauncer also has brust fire by 2 rockets. Has 12 rockets.
 - You can modify this tanks to artilery mod. They get arcing shots, but lost ability to auto fire, and some accuracy and fire speed.
 - You can construct any tank from chassis (base/alloy) and tank weapon (cannon/RL/minigun/laser/plasma/blaster)
 - Hovertanks can use only rocket/blaster launcher and laser/plasma, because flying units don't like high recoil from cannon/minigun
 - You can construct sectopod with rocket launcher/laser/plasma.
4. Armor
 - Humans Combat Armor. Heavy. Weak soldiers can't use it.
 - You can upgrade Combat Armor. Alien Alloys make armor bit lighter.
 - Personal armor has -3 penalty to max carry weight, but +10 bonus to bravery.
 - All suits has less armor. They add penalty to combat abilities, but give bonus to physical abilities.
5. Aliens
 - More health.
 - More armor.
 - More accuracy.
 - More grenades.
 - More aliens.
 - More tanks.
 - More hardcore!!!
6. Research
 - Lasers from large to small (Laser cannon->Laser Pistol). Laser rifle and laser pistol require elerium, because humans can't make compact energy source
 - You can make Raven interceptor from alien alloys.
 - If you want make hovertank, you may research cyberdisk autopsy. Also you need Heavy Plasma with clip.
7. Production
 - Corpses of xcom agents must be buried. You can produce coffins for it...or explode corpses on battlefield
 - You can recover any armor from corpses.
 - You can repair tanks, but not tank weapons.
 - You can't use high alien technology and produce alien weapon. But you can do something with it.
 - You can make plasma tank weapon from heavy plasma and ammo for it from heavy plasma clips. With blaster launcher - similarly.
 - You can make hovertank chassis only from broken cyberdisks. You can't repair it, because he already make from shit and sticks.
 - Plasma beam from 5 heavy plasmas.
 - Fusion ball launcher from blaster launcher and bomb for it from blaster bombs and elerium
 - Elerium from plasma clips, alien grenades, stun bombs and blaster bombs.

Included content from mods:
EqualTerms, Minigun, Air combat rebalanced, LaserClips, and, may be, other. Thanks you, guys, for your work.

Good comparability mods:
Luke Extra UFOs, Terrain Pack.

Complected work:
- Include alloy tanks (and possibility to replace armor) (DONE)
- Rebuild tech tree for alien containment (DONE)
- Separate tank chassis and tank weapon for production (DONE)
- Add bombs for small launcher and scatter plasma (medium support weapons) (DONE)
- Rename plasma caster -> scatter plasma (DONE)

Future plans:

- Disassemble tanks to chassis and tank weapon
- Rewrite categories in manufacture
- Perl based build and test system (for easy balancing)
- Rebalance
- Fix ufopedia
- Dart rifle
- Stun grenades
- Repair tank weapons
- Equip tanks like soldiers (experiment)
- Add smoke bombs for tanks
- Add few dropships/interceptors from mods
- Test all it

0.12b
Fix few bugs with strings.
Fix one bug with tank build and i forgot manufacture record for sectopods.
Balance:  Scatter plasma: 70 damage, 40 accuracy, 55% tu, 7 shots, range - 18.
Fix crash with field medipack
0.13b
Fix: CYBERDISK -> CYBERDISC
Fix: BLASTR -> BLASTER
Balance: Light Minigun tuAuto 45%->55%
0.14b (from future)
Balance: Stimulator tuUse: 25->15
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.1 Beta
Post by: Reaper on August 14, 2015, 09:00:43 am
Update for latest builds.
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.1 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 25, 2015, 09:34:21 pm
Thank you Reaper! May we get some screenshots?
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.1 Beta
Post by: Reaper on August 26, 2015, 10:27:41 am
Screenshots:
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.1 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 26, 2015, 11:05:04 am
Thank you! Some more questions:


1) I wonder if it may work in linux, maybe you know?

2)  Hey, have you ever considered to use the laser reskin mod (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,2533.0.html). I myself made the sprites of clips, but need to be properly implemented :)

3) Is the mod compatible with any other?
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.1 Beta
Post by: Reaper on August 26, 2015, 11:21:37 am
1) I wonder if it may work in linux, maybe you know?
Debian oldstable. All ok.

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2)  Hey, have you ever considered to use thelaser reskin mod]laser reskin mod (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,2533.0.html). I myself made the sprites of clips, but need to be properly implemented :)
I'll see it. Thanks:)

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3) Is the mod compatible with others?
Generally yes. I use mods for ufos, terrain pack and fastramp. Because mod change balance including new content may looks not nice. If this mod have more priority (lower in mod list) i think all be ok, or not so bad :)
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.11 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 26, 2015, 11:28:33 am
Hey, thanks for the laser, i'd look forward in the next version ;D

Sorry i forgot >.< since this mod is the only one afaik relased in a double version, 1.0 and nightly, what (if any) are diferrences between those?

in the end, to give more visibility to the mod, please update it to the mod portal (https://www.openxcom.com/)  ;D

edit: typos!
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.11 Beta
Post by: Reaper on August 26, 2015, 11:40:00 am
Sorry i forgot >.< since this mod is the only one afaik relased in a double version, 1.0 and nightly, what (if any) are diferrences between those?
Lot of tanks, assemble tanks/hovertanks/sectopods from chassis and tank weapons, plasma caster and elerium bombs for small launcher, field medipack, stimulator and bandage, 2 early armor (combat/alloy combat), research aliens only after examination room, alien container after alien food, rebalance and fixes. Ufopedia is broken. Don't open it.
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in the end, to give more visibility to the mod, please update it to the mod portal (https://www.openxcom.com/)  ;D
I don't know. So many bugs..
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.11 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 26, 2015, 01:42:57 pm
Lot of tanks, assemble tanks/hovertanks/sectopods from chassis and tank weapons, plasma caster and elerium bombs for small launcher, field medipack, stimulator and bandage, 2 early armor (combat/alloy combat), research aliens only after examination room, alien container after alien food, rebalance and fixes. Ufopedia is broken. Don't open it.I don't know. So many bugs..

Guess it may be better wait the final relase of openxcom 2.0.. Yummy, i'd like to give a shot with the 1.0,  in the meantime for next version, i'd suggest the rebalance planned. :)

edit: along with YET more UFOs (https://www.openxcom.com/mod/yet-more-ufos) (according to portal dtill copatible with ox 1.0) and a version of Hobbe's Terrain Pavk still compatible with ox 1.0 (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,2047.msg50558.html#msg50558), if i will be able to get my hand on x_x.

edit: the 1.5 version of the terrain pack still avaiable on this forum, for those interested, see the very last link above, hope it still might be compatible anyway...
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.11 Beta
Post by: Hobbes on August 26, 2015, 05:36:58 pm
a version of Hobbe's Terrain Pavk still compatible with ox 1.0[/url], if i will be able to get my hand on x_x.

Dude, I posted the 1.0 version just for you, not for general distribution. If it is going to be used on other mods then I'll simply remove it.
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.11 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 26, 2015, 06:46:01 pm
Dude, I posted the 1.0 version just for you, not for general distribution. If it is going to be used on other mods then I'll simply remove it.

Ah...i was simply give a try in conjunction with hardmod, not advice modders to inclide it in ther works, but whatever. Thamks as always. :)
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.12 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 27, 2015, 03:14:04 pm
OK, tried the mod with openxcom 1.0 but it's buggy as hell!!!

With the following .rul activated the game will start, as posted in the attached screenshots, but still research is amess, please note that at the very beginning got strage items in the research menu. Ufopedia is broken and researchi "New improved interceptor" (having disabled alla craft and research .rul) game still will crash.

The attachements are quite explicative, but thanks anyway for the mod! Hope next version to try it ;)

Edit: if i activate reserach and/or craft and thank stuff game won't even open :,(
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.12 Beta
Post by: hellrazor on August 27, 2015, 06:07:29 pm
OK, tried the mod with openxcom 1.0 but it's buggy as hell!!!

With the following .rul activated the game will start, as posted in the attached screenshots, but still research is amess, please note that at the very beginning got strage items in the research menu. Ufopedia is broken and researchi "New improved interceptor" (having disabled alla craft and research .rul) game still will crash.

The attachements are quite explicative, but thanks anyway for the mod! Hope next version to try it ;)

Edit: if i activate reserach and/or craft and thank stuff game won't even open :,(

This mod already uses the new Mod file structure which was enforced with a nightly somewere back in May.
It is logical that it is incompatible with the outdated OpenXcom 1.0 Milestone Version.
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.12 Beta
Post by: hellrazor on August 27, 2015, 06:19:01 pm
btw Reaper,
You have some Typos in your Ruleset, check your Blaster Launcher stuff.
I also advise using a texteditor which allows for autocomplete (notepad++ or gvim), to avoid those errors :)
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.12 Beta
Post by: Reaper on August 28, 2015, 07:55:12 am
openxcom 1.0
Only night builds.
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.12 Beta
Post by: Reaper on August 28, 2015, 08:00:06 am
You have some Typos in your Ruleset, check your Blaster Launcher stuff.
STR_BLASTR_LAUNCHER
instead
STR_BLASTER_LAUNCHER
Thanks for help.

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I also advise using a texteditor which allows for autocomplete (notepad++ or gvim), to avoid those errors :)
I use Kate write BLASTR and do autocomplete everywhere :)
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.13 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 29, 2015, 11:17:46 am
You're welcome!

You're welcome!

Testin with nightly 2015_08_27,  only bug found it is about the screenshot attached. Sadly, tryed with Hobbes Terrain Pack (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,2358.msg50738.html#msg50738) (3.7) an YetmoreUFOS (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,2973.msg50629.html#msg50629) (0.6) and probably are also here some quirks, new terrain seems not appearing in the maps, plus at the end ao a mission i was prompted to sell stuff in excess, but buttons won't show up (!!!) see screenshot. Don't know may be not related to ohter mods, i've seen sometimes the hardmod entry disappears from the ox mod menu :/

As for suggestions. i'd change sound for the assault rifle and the smg, for replacement, may have a look at soundbible.com  here for ARs (https://soundbible.com/tags-assault-rifle.html) and here for SMGs (https://soundbible.com/tags-submachine-gun.html). Nasty website!!!!!  Also since terrain pack atm does not support very latest nightlies, i'd advice also to include some more terrains (not too much) never stood the vanilla ones :D would also fine! But not that important! <3 For some more resource look also here (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3924.0.html)

Edit: Hobbes Terrain Pack link missing!

Edit 2: the selling excess problem persist also if i save/reload.
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.13 Beta
Post by: Reaper on August 31, 2015, 05:35:08 am
About bugs:
1. Ufopedia is broken. You may get segfault.
2. Not bug, but feature. To much items from battle and to small storage space.
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.13 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 31, 2015, 09:22:32 am
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2. Not bug, but feature. To much items from battle and to small storage space.

Yes, but since buttons won't show up i cannot do anything, even selling so i'm forced to shut down the game :,( as in the screenshot above
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.13 Beta
Post by: Reaper on August 31, 2015, 12:16:46 pm
Yes, but since buttons won't show up i cannot do anything, even selling so i'm forced to shut down the game :,( as in the screenshot above
Storage items over limit. You must select items to remove from storage (86:80 - All items size:86 Free storage space:80). Or set "Storage limits for recovered items" to "NO" in Options->Advanced>Geoscape
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.13 Beta
Post by: niculinux on August 31, 2015, 03:37:34 pm
Storage items over limit. You must select items to remove from storage (86:80 - All items size:86 Free storage space:80). Or set "Storage limits for recovered items" to "NO" in Options->Advanced>Geoscape

I think i'd go for the second one, because once the screen above appears i can do absolutely nothing. Probaly may be that option is already active and is likely to with the mod. As soon i'll have time gonna try, thanks :)
Title: Re: HardMod Version 0.13 Beta
Post by: SteamXCOM on September 04, 2017, 07:29:55 pm
Build another base and have it as your storage depot. 
I ran into the same issue where on that screen can only "end task" and get out of the game.
However, if you have another base, you can reload, go to the transfer screen and remove any overages without item loss or toggling the storage limit options.