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Title: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: new_civilian on September 15, 2016, 11:48:24 am

Well, the decision to release this mod came rather abruptly so It does not even have a real name yet. Niculinux and davide forced  ;) me to release my personal TFTD mod, which was never intended to be shown to the public. BUT as I did not want to release anything (even unofficially) without giving people their deserved credits, I opted to make it a public release. Especially after I invested over a hour trying to track back all the makers of the mods I used....


About the credits: I know/feel that thy are not entirely complete despite my best efforts and I know I did not ask anyone for permission beforehand, so if you think I forgot anything and or you don't want me to release something from you, tell me so please. I will honor your rights, no matter what.

That said, here the readme, it also can be downloaded below:

"My_TFTD_Mod" v.1.02 16th September 2016

This is a complete rework of TFTD, be aware of that and don't expect to play it like you would normally play TFTD.
READ the NEW Ufopaedia entries. This goes for ALL entries, they all have been redone. Some more, some less.
READ THEM or you will maybe wonder what is happening.
Only US-English fwiw.

This mod is meant to be a starting point for other modders to make their own TFTD mods, just use what you like and delete the things you don't like.
There are some cross-references in the files and the folder structure is not fully optimized, but It works rather well.
It was originally a personal mod and was not meant to be released, but I had to find some way to host all my dozens of TFTD resources in a way that beginner modders could use.
Davide and Niculinux then gave me the required push to do so.

Recommended Options:
Use the nightly exes (openxcom_git_master_2016_09_04_2223.zip and newer), no Extended exe or 1.0 release.
Do not use ufoextender accuracy unless you are completely masochistic.
Use the fixed starting base layout, it is optimal, really. That and I made some changes which that option disables (no containment etc).
Everything else is optional.

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Ok, here a brief overview, a detailed list is impossible to do. The mod is mostly done now, except for bug-fixes.
Feel free to snoop through the RUL files, it saves me from describing every change.

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New weapons, new aliens, new USOs, new crafts, new graphics, new sounds, new equipment, new buildings, new terrains, new maps and a complete rework of the core game.
I still tried to stay as close to the original TFTD feeling as much as possible, but also tried to make it more flexible and interesting. Of course not all that was done by myself.
See CREDITS section below the long text-block.

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More details:

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All weapons+tanks work on land and underwater.

Alien bases and artifact sites (both level 2) are smaller.

The TFTD combo-patch has been applied.

I added a new shader (dot-n-bloom-sharpened), i use it, but it might not be your taste.

All skills are capped at 100 or lower, no more e.g. stupid 120% accuracy. All weapons have adjusted accordingly, i made this to ease balancing.

Most things (aliens, weapons, crafts etc) have been renamed, their role changed and or have been rebalanced. And I mean that. READ THE UFOPAEDIA ENTRIES. Dart pistols have 5 auto-shots, gauss 4, sonic 3 btw.

Most item graphics have been redone. Many other graphics, too (UI, terrains, aliens, weapons). And sounds.

Aliens do have a more logical weapon load-out now. I especially made e.g. the Disruptor Launcher and Stun Launcher one-handed to allow the aliens to use them along with drills (so they get no accuracy penalty). Things like that. They all have inventory screens (when controllable)

All Aliens now have a melee attack, some stun, some zombify, some poison. (not usable by the player )

The PSI system has been COMPLETELY redone, Aliens have better defenses, some are immune, so PSI is not all you need.
Your soldier Psi skills now have lower caps. Psi is still good.

I added a lot of new aliens, alien variants and alien colors. They will however (with the Exception of the shark-like carchorodons) not appear as full races, but they will appear in rare cases ALONG the normal races. Some will appear only in the final mission or special locations.

I added a human enemy race, the SORESO corporation (see official XCom time-line). They have the same armor the player has, which can be hard if you play on superhuman as the AI gets an armor bonus then. No researches here, though, just sell the soldiers you capture (if!)

The zombies and tentaculats have been reworked. Zombies do not spawn tentaculats anymore. They can zombify you and civilians. They appear (rare!) as a surface terror race.

I added A LOT of new weapons and equipment. Again: Read the Ufopaedia entries. Some rare alien weapons can not be recovered and used. On purpose.

I added new tanks, a new walker unit and some drones. The drones can be freely equipped!

I added new armors, changed the existing ones. Some have different colors to choose from (ion + Mag Ion)

Some new civilians. Female soldiers and civilians now have female death-sounds.

All (most?) new available TFTD terrains and maps have been added.

Crafts and their weapons have been completely reworked. Some added. They all have item limits. All can carry troops. Within limits of course.

You can recycle some sonic ammo types and stuff from USOs into Zrbite and some corpses into Aqua-Plastics (where mentioned in the Ufopaedia or where it made sense). You will need these additional resources.

The inventory has been redone along with its TU system. Hands swapped, less TU-Usage, different space, style.

Some sell-able loot-resources have been added. (Gold, Iridium, Elerium) They are found randomly on some maps.

Some new facilities have been added, the original ones completely redone. -> Ufopaedia!

Game difficulty is now more balanced, resources are VERY rare, especially ZRBITE, you can not build Aqua-Plastics.

Gauss is better and now really works well as a mid-game weapon. And you get a lot of new other things to experiment with and level the playing field.

I added all available new USOs and then some.

There are new soldier types available. The sectoid-soldiers come with own unit graphics. The Enforcer-soldiers have a custom inventory.

Research has been completely redone, now there is/are a more logical order and an actual tech-tree. No more dead-ends. No more rare aliens required for early and essential research.

All underwater missions are now dark or very dark, just like it should be in a real deep sea setting. the flares are stronger (and lighter) to compensate a bit for that.

All stuff you find in USOs/bases now has a purpose and is required in the tech-tree, some (Psioline devices) are required to build things.

Alien supply ship missions have a timer (to make base-milking less valid)

XCom base defenses end after 30 turns to your favor. I did this to avoid boring and endless alien hunts.

A few other missions have timers, too. Beware. Simply don't dilly-dally too much and you should be fine.

The aliens do not have the cheat-like ability anymore to know where you are automatically after turn 20 (was original game behavior).
They still get a PSI-Cheat when you killed all but 2 of them, allowing them to use their MC attacks w/o seeing you.

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Notes: (contains spoilers)
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Get Psi as early as possible, it will take a lot of time to get those psi units combat-ready. In the beginning you can only use panic attacks. (the sectoid-soldiers)
The first PSI-Amp needs line-of-sight, the second one doesn't, but comes much later. And is slower. They are both VERY EXPENSIVE to build.
Collect the Mind-Probes. Do NOT sell them. You will need them to build Psi-Amps (MC_Disruptors). And Psioline devices. And you will need them to scan aliens.
Early psi-tree:
Live Terror-Unit->MC-Lab->sectoid-soldiers with built in psi-panic attack (no LOS)-> later: mc-reader->mc_disruptor mk 1-> much much later mc_disruptor mk 2 (After Hammerhead)
For the final research you can now capture either a Tasoth Commander, a Carcharodon Comander or a Lobsterman Commander, making it a bit easier to find one (originally only the Lobsterman Commander was able to unlock it). Commanders can be found in Alien bases and Dreadnought USOs.
If you do not have a mind-probe to identify them, take a very close look at them, I gave them all a custom skin. They will not stand out a lot, so you will have to look really good...

You will most likely NOT have enough resources for everything. Choose and skip things you do not absolutely need. You can use different tech/tactic/strategy ways to win the game now.
Use only 2 or so PSI-Units, they are no longer all you need.

Enforcer (Cyborg) Aquanauts are too heavy to fly/float, but they have very good physical stats to compensate and are immune to mind-control attacks.
Sectoid Aquanauts are capable (within limits) to fight both as regular soldiers AND as psi-units. Later, better and more specialized troops appear, but they are worth their money.
Psyker Aquanauts can not wear armor (Sectoids, too) and are terrible soldiers. However, they can psi-attack more often than other soldier types (including sectoids) AND are the psi-strongest units.


To-do:
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-My new "muddy sea" terrain is not as good as I want it to be... let's call it  a low priority W.I.P.
-bugfixes if found, see UPDATES section below
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Known default exe bugs:
A minor research glitch: Comes from the default exe, not my fault. It will not cause any problems and you will probably never see it (One alien corpse appears in the "You can now research:"-text even though it is already researched. It will however never appear in the real research list again, only in this text...)
Another default exe-glitch: You can overfill your alien containment sometimes, even if you use the limit-containment-option.
I reported both bugs a long time ago, but nothing happened yet. Oh well.

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Credits:

Here the main ones i know of for sure:

-Warboy1982, hellrazor, Caleb13 -> combopatch and MANY other things
-Illamasquas -> Many Files from his TFTD Rework mod
-Orbz, Xenowiper -> MANY Files from their TFTD mods
-TFTD Extended facilities by Blank
-Files from Blank's More USO mod an Teeming USO's mod
-Parts of Blanks TFTD Terrain Expansion
-Xops' Carcharodons mod + ideas from his inventory screen look
-Files/ideas from Roxis231's Enhanced reskin of TFTD craft mod and TFTD Research mod
-Files/Ideas from Mackus' Mixed Crew and Tasoth Commander mod
-Files/Ideas from Jukebox's sound mods
-Ideas from trollworkout's TFTD-UFO Equipment mod
-Files/Ideas from bulletdesigner's UN mod
-Files from tyran_nick's Disruptor mod
-Files/ideas from Emong's Hybrid-Soldier mod
-Cooper's smoke mod
-Files/Ideas from Liberation's NoTritonInBaseDefense mod
-Files/Ideas from Simon's Better TFTD Aliens mod
-Files/ideas from Simon's X2ResearchPatch mod
-Files/ideas fromjackstraw2323's War of Shadows mod
-Files/ideas from Trollworkout's Stealth Armor mod
-Ideas from redv's psi-war mod
-Ideas from ReaverOfDarkness' psi investigations
-Ideas from niculinux's TFTD suggestion threads
-Ideas from Surrealistik's TFTD suggestion threads
-Ideas from KiethSomataw99's TFTD suggestion threads
-Ideas from Orz's TFTD threads
-USO maps from strategycore (Luchian Deurell, Sam Jeffreys, Gizamaluke)
-Ufopaedia.org for every possible and impossible information about everything XCom-related
-Ideas from Morgan525's TFTD Extender

and many many more. I do not seriously think I can find/post/remember them all.

I sadly did not keep track of every mod I used. as I never intended to release this mega-mod.
Still, I spent one hour trying to find and credit everyone here as i felt kinda shabby not doing that.
Yes. One hour for the credits above. o.o
Can't blame me for not trying.

Anyway, hf!

All my files are free to take. Credits are always nice to get, but I can still live w/o.
Remember that many files in this mod are NOT my files, though.
civilian aka new_civilian sep 2016
At the moment I am working on an offline PC system and only have access to the Internet 3 or 4 times a week,
so do not expect posts, updates and answers to arrive right away. I am working on a solution, though.

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version 1.0:
original "public" release
update 1.01:
Changed the new Enforcer graphics due to a bug.
update v1.02:
corrected odd Enforcer armor appearance. (missing arm and see-through belt anyone?)
moved a rmp-file to correct folder.
corrected Psiodrone move-sound.

Interestingly all bugs so far were from things that I added short before/after the public release of the mod,
initially intending to make the mod more complete. I (hopefully) learned from my mistake and will not rush shortly tested things
into my mods anymore. Especially as the unreleased older version of the mod ran w/o the slightest problem for many months.

Download here: https://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=51264649009503422130
Screenshots here: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4157.0.html

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Sidenote: I am not able to update/maintain this mod properly due to a lack of a constant internet connection and a lack of time. However, I consider it done and complete, so that's not a major problem. Feel free to post addons here, thank you.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod
Post by: niculinux on September 15, 2016, 05:01:24 pm

S-U-P-E-R!! So any volunteer? Please don't even think about me  ;D

Edit: needs testing to see if it'gonna work in linux OSs.

Edit 2: If any, i'd really beg some good will user(s) to make a list of every mod already published on this forum and included in "MyTFTD mod". Actually it's a cool name for the mod, because implies everyone may uodate and custom it  ;D so yeah i consider the "official" name!

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod
Post by: davide on September 15, 2016, 05:27:05 pm

Good! I will try this mod soon  :P

Do you remember  because you did not include full Blank's terrain expansion mod ?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod
Post by: new_civilian on September 15, 2016, 08:35:18 pm

davide: I ran into some problems with one terrain (iirc the Commercial Urban), that's why I left it out.

Quick Update:

One of the very latest changes I made to the otherwise really long-tested mod were the Enforcer armors and guess what: They were somewhat faulty.

Sigh, I hate last-minute changes that mess up my mods....  ;D

Sorry for that. They looka bit  different now.

And yeah, that's what it actually is: A base for further modding, so My_Mod it is.   :)

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod
Post by: davide on September 15, 2016, 11:55:58 pm

Thanks

I will check for any update

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod
Post by: niculinux on September 16, 2016, 12:01:59 pm

I gave a very very quick shot, and finally the dart and gun rifle are really of some use! Personally, did not like the same damage on piercing that the gas cannon and the hydroget have, but whatever  :D I wondering if it may be even possible to have separate damage fon surface and underwater, but probably that would be an openxcom feature, if it might be possible even to  implement it  :)

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod
Post by: new_civilian on September 16, 2016, 01:01:04 pm

Quote from: niculinux on September 16, 2016, 12:01:59 pm

I gave a very very quick shot, and finally the dart and gun rifle are really of some use! Personally, did not like the same damage on piercing that the gas cannon and the hydroget have, but whatever  :D I wondering if it may be even possible to have separate damage fon surface and underwater, but probably that would be an openxcom feature, if it might be possible even to  implement it  :)

The gas-cannon has no armorpiercing ammo anymore, not sure what you looked at (it actually does stun aoe damage now).  ;)
It actually is a grenade-launcher now, compared to the straight-fire auto-gun like jet-cannon, so the two weapons are not directly comparable.

And yes, the feature you want is not possible w/o an exe change.

I updated the mod to v.1.02 btw.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Jokerke12 on September 16, 2016, 04:43:37 pm

I can't download it :'( Both Chrome and Firefox detected viruses.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: SIMON BAILIE on September 16, 2016, 06:20:45 pm

Yep I got the same message that there's some kind of virus or malware on v1.02.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Hobbes on September 16, 2016, 06:33:15 pm

Quote from: new_civilian on September 15, 2016, 11:48:24 am

Some sell-able loot-resources have been added. (Gold, Iridium, Elerium) They are found randomly on some maps.

ICYMI: according to game lore Elerium (and Alien Alloys) become inert upon contact with seawater, which is the reason to justify why both can't be used underwater and why you're stuck to dart guns when fighting on land

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: davide on September 16, 2016, 07:09:38 pm

Quote from: Jokerke12 on September 16, 2016, 04:43:37 pm

I can't download it :'( Both Chrome and Firefox detected viruses.

I force Chrome to take the file ...
I unzipped it without infection ...

(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRnhZgcc8U5MRQJrJhY2HBX8hZux--jLrL-OtOGJtYMdpX5VQG)

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Jokerke12 on September 16, 2016, 08:01:03 pm

Quote from: davide on September 16, 2016, 07:09:38 pm

I force Chrome to take the file ...

How do I do that?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: davide on September 17, 2016, 12:00:15 am

Quote from: Jokerke12 on September 16, 2016, 08:01:03 pm

How do I do that?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: new_civilian on September 19, 2016, 12:32:38 pm

Quote from: Hobbes on September 16, 2016, 06:33:15 pm

ICYMI: according to game lore Elerium (and Alien Alloys) become inert upon contact with seawater, which is the reason to justify why both can't be used underwater and why you're stuck to dart guns when fighting on land

That's why i tis dirt-cheap (compared to Iridium) in the mod, it's inert and useless, but still of scientific value (*makes things up quickly*)  ;D
Maybe rename it Inert Elerium, that's a good idea!

Oh and I wasn't fully satisfied with the Enforcer soldier armor, so I finally got around to remove the backpack completely. File is attached here, simply replace the ones in the mods UNIT directory.

Fwiw, a virus should be impossible as the file contains no exe or comparable filetype, maybe the filehost causes some problems?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: HunWarrior on October 07, 2016, 04:08:12 pm

Thanks a lot for this mod! Excellent work!

TFTD is my favorite X-Com game because of the Lovecraftian feeling. I am in April in the game. I like very much what I have seen so far. New terrain and new USOs are great.
Initial setup is excellent. No more boring "sell the dart weapons and craft gas cannons, buy gas cannons and 15 scientists, etc." kick off protocol because everything in the
starting setup is usable.
I love the multi launcher, AP ammo looks so cool. Great idea about the gas cannon.
Balance seems good so far. (Genius difficulty)
Zombies almost beat me in a ship terror mission.  :o First I thought they are inferior opponents but I lost 9 aquanauts in the mission.
First I thought the always nighttime underwater missions are overwhelming but I do enjoy them.
Good ideas, good implementation.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: niculinux on October 08, 2016, 02:42:31 pm

Well only thing missing is a nice youtube playthrough, since there are a few of TFTD with mods.....:)

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: new_civilian on October 10, 2016, 03:45:27 pm

Thanks a lot for the (very welcome) feedback! And sorry for not replying earlier, my modding batteries are empty, need to recharge. :)

The TFTD part of OpenXCom is still not as stable and or moddable as the UfoDefense part, this lead to some problems when doing this mod:

1. Hair- and Face-coloring on custom armor does not work. If you REPLACE an existing armor, fine. Anything else will lead to always blonde/caucasian soldiers.  My solution: I added helmeted armor variants (or hidden/stealth)

2. The game CTD's after the defeat of the Sleeper if you edit the last mission in ANY way. My solution: I added a hidden followup mission, enabling the animation again. Bad Sideeffect: The endgame statistics screen is messed up and you need to Alt+F4 outof it.

About the look of the "Enforcer" armor: I am open for replacements.  :-)

hf!

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Yankes on October 10, 2016, 08:59:17 pm

Quote from: new_civilian on October 10, 2016, 03:45:27 pm

1. Hair- and Face-coloring on custom armor does not work. If you REPLACE an existing armor, fine. Anything else will lead to always blonde/caucasian soldiers.  My solution: I added helmeted armor variants (or hidden/stealth)

You need enable this like in normal armors
UFO: https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/blob/master/bin/standard/xcom1/armors.rul#L31
TFTD: https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/blob/master/bin/standard/xcom2/armors.rul#L77

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: new_civilian on October 11, 2016, 12:43:57 pm

Back then when I made the armors (some month ago) I did that and it did not work. I haven't changed anything armor-wise later, so I can't test it atm. That and I have a bad case of the flu and my head feels like sugar-cotton  ;D ;D

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Greg956 on October 13, 2016, 05:36:58 pm

Why not to release it on OpenXcom mods site?)

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: drages on February 15, 2017, 05:18:34 pm

Hey! It's a nice big mod.. just i found some little mostly visual bugs.

- Orca and shark missiles fires like beams at air fight. Gauss too..

- The gauss weapons look weak. No auto fire for rifle and there is no different types of them like snipers..

I did not get any different weapon even i start to see very big ufos. I did not start to sonic weapon research line, but before that there is no other weapons rather then defaults. Maybe 1-2..

I did not see any human enemies too..

Am i too early for that kind of new things?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: new_civilian on February 21, 2017, 06:13:55 pm

Quote from: drages on February 15, 2017, 05:18:34 pm

Hey! It's a nice big mod.. just i found some little mostly visual bugs.

- Orca and shark missiles fires like beams at air fight. Gauss too..

- The gauss weapons look weak. No auto fire for rifle and there is no different types of them like snipers..

I did not get any different weapon even i start to see very big ufos. I did not start to sonic weapon research line, but before that there is no other weapons rather then defaults. Maybe 1-2..

I did not see any human enemies too..

Am i too early for that kind of new things?

Sorry for not being around, I no longer play/use OpenXcom. Or actually any computergames at all. Getting too old I guess.  ;)
Here answers to your questions, though.

The missiles use the beam mechanic to avoid the dreaded "last-missile-always-misses" bug.

The Gauss weapons (and all other weapons) were completely changed. Play the game for a while and you will see that they are not weak. It is not recommended to compare them 1:1 to their TFTD original counterparts, this is an entirely new game/mod. Think of it as a Conversion.

Also: There ar amximum range settings for different weapons, rifle = 40 making it snper-ish

There are only a few completely new weapons. Most of them are late-game.

Human enemies are VERY rare for a reason: They use the default human armour which makes them VERY difficult enemies on higher levels.

To sum it up: Forget your old TFTD tactics/weapons/tricks, this mod is a complete rebuild. It starts with e.g. the gas cannon being a arc-firing grenade launcher now and doesn:t stop there.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: davide on February 22, 2017, 08:58:05 pm

Quote from: new_civilian on February 21, 2017, 06:13:55 pm

... Getting too old I guess.  ;)

...caring guy here are a bunch of old people   :o ::)  8)

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Dr.Crowley on March 17, 2017, 09:54:19 pm

Hmmm... Dart Stun ammo has the same sprites as ordinar ammo. Maybe I should change it for myself.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Sheff on April 13, 2017, 10:01:33 pm

Can anyone redownload the file to another host? The one in the head is down saying 'connection refused' or something like that.

Or any clue how to download it other way?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Dr.Crowley on April 15, 2017, 02:07:32 pm

Damn, I deleted original archive a long ago. Here is zipped mod from my "mods" folder - I hope it will help:
Download me! (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1jLMtnoVs6aOU1hNm5XcHV3bVk)

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: FastForward on May 16, 2017, 07:56:59 am

I got all my roockies annihilated on mission 1, day 1 by aquatoids with M.C.!
And these weakling aquatoids can kill an unarmored soldier with built-in melee. In 1 hit!

* I don't like the way you renamed the standard equipment. It's standard, I get used to the old names.
* I also don't like the new torpedo launcher, the original one looked more "real"
* The new soldiers type, bionic, veteran, psyke etc cost too much money for too little gain.
* Too much stunning equipment: capturing aliens is too easy from the start.
* The "roach" is overpowered, being small render it a difficult target and a perfect scout in the open and, after the field is clean, arm a couple of these little drones with stun rods and they can clean the interior of any USO in a few turns, it kill the game.

A little glitch: when doing ancient USO (the squared and organic type) I often recover "Sonic Blast Clip" (STR_BLASTA_SINGLE_CLIP), but there is no research topic for this object. Maybe you wanted this SINGLE_CLIP to be unrecoverable.

All the rest is perfect, hard but doable, no weapon cluttering and the sounds you choose are very nice.
I'm just at month 3 but I love this mod.
Thank you new_civilian

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: niculinux on June 21, 2017, 02:58:30 pm

Quote from: new_civilian on September 15, 2016, 11:48:24 am

Download here: https://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=51264649009503422130
Screenshots here: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4157.0.html

As of now, download link is broken, while the screenshots one works. Pleas consider Mediafire or another service? In the meantime, we may use Dr. Crowley's dropbox (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1jLMtnoVs6aOU1hNm5XcHV3bVk/view) :D

Thanks again, new civilian!

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: new_civilian on August 24, 2017, 02:13:42 pm

Quote from: FastForward on May 16, 2017, 07:56:59 am

I got all my roockies annihilated on mission 1, day 1 by aquatoids with M.C.!
And these weakling aquatoids can kill an unarmored soldier with built-in melee. In 1 hit!

* I don't like the way you renamed the standard equipment. It's standard, I get used to the old names.
* I also don't like the new torpedo launcher, the original one looked more "real"
* The new soldiers type, bionic, veteran, psyke etc cost too much money for too little gain.
* Too much stunning equipment: capturing aliens is too easy from the start.
* The "roach" is overpowered, being small render it a difficult target and a perfect scout in the open and, after the field is clean, arm a couple of these little drones with stun rods and they can clean the interior of any USO in a few turns, it kill the game.

A little glitch: when doing ancient USO (the squared and organic type) I often recover "Sonic Blast Clip" (STR_BLASTA_SINGLE_CLIP), but there is no research topic for this object. Maybe you wanted this SINGLE_CLIP to be unrecoverable.

All the rest is perfect, hard but doable, no weapon cluttering and the sounds you choose are very nice.
I'm just at month 3 but I love this mod.
Thank you new_civilian

Sorry for the lack of updates and answers, I retired as a a modder a year ago. But here my thoughts about your topics:

-I renamed the weapons as most have a different role/behaviour in my mod
-Everyone has a different taste, my main goal was to make everything more centered and in-theme unlike the original graphics (well, some)
-The gameplay of my mod was intended for small (8 to 10 people) forces, the prices are adjusted accordingly
-The roach is VERY fragile and it costs half of a standard grunt. That and they can not carry a lot, i felt that was fair enough...

Anyway, thanks for your posts and keep on playing!

Yours truly,
new_civilan
(retired modder)

p.s.: niculinux, if you want you can take over this mod, i give you full permission for everything moddish that comes from me.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: raziel_malakai1981 on October 04, 2017, 04:50:13 pm

broken download link :(

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on October 05, 2017, 06:01:52 am

Have you read all of the posts? If not, do it. One of them has a proper download link

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Miranori on November 22, 2017, 09:39:37 pm

Hi, I would like to ask about tech tree.

I have Gauss pistol for long time (maybe 9 months in game) and now is comming Carcharodon/Tasoth and this is hell (5-7 shoots to kill). So what I need to gauss rifle or sonic weapons?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Dwarmin on November 22, 2017, 11:28:09 pm

From what I can remember of the research tree, you should be able to research the gauss rifle right after the pistol and the clip. It's possible you are not playing on the right version of XCOM...? I don't remember having this problem myself, I had gauss rifles in time to fight the Carches and Tasoths.

Sometimes updating fixes things.

It seems you need to finish the entire gauss tree and research gillman/aquatoid corpses to unlock zrbite and gauss defenses. Once you have those you should unlock sonic tech.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: niculinux on November 23, 2017, 01:13:30 pm

Tryed the mod with the openxcom_git_master_2017_11_09_0437 nightly and encountered the clipsize -1 bug (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5566.msg88774.html#msg88774) which this time prevents the mod to start. Hopefully, the fix provided by Nord (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5566.msg88840.html#msg88840) shold work with it, i don't have tested it.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Miranori on November 23, 2017, 08:58:30 pm

Thank you for help - I enabled mod "gauss weapons without ammo".
Now I turn OFF this mod and I see gauss pistol clip in research .....
Thank you

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Miranori on January 06, 2018, 10:43:47 pm

First time I used Gauss Blaster, and there is something wrong - see in picture (soldiers are not visible , only weapon).

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: R1dO on January 07, 2018, 04:04:59 am

From the looks of it i suspect something is wrong with the weapons image pixel corresponding to the assumed alpha channel.
The black pixels do not correspond to index 1 of the 8-bit graphics (counting from 1).

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: SIMON BAILIE on January 07, 2018, 01:18:29 pm

I've seen this on a few mods, mostly old mods. Is there any way to fix this? Below is an example of a mod where this happens, played on oxce+ 3.9c of 10/10/17. In this case the xcom enforcer works okay but is just visually screwed up.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Meridian on January 07, 2018, 01:40:23 pm

Quote from: SIMON on January 07, 2018, 01:18:29 pm

I've seen this on a few mods, mostly old mods. Is there any way to fix this? Below is an example of a mod where this happens, played on oxce+ 3.9c of 10/10/17. In this case the xcom enforcer works okay but is just visually screwed up.

The sprites are wrong:
1. the palette is slightly wrong (for example index 255 is "white")
2. the color index used for background transparency is wrong... it should be index 0, but currently index 254 is used (see attached)

After the sprites are fixed, and respect openxcom palettes, it will work fine.

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Miranori on January 08, 2018, 08:52:39 pm

Thank you for answer Meridian, so its neccessary to fix this mod , is n't it?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: davide on January 06, 2019, 02:32:24 pm

I found the old original mod zip file

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Unmadesoldier on November 09, 2019, 09:09:48 am

Link for mod doesn't work. Alternate link please?

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: Meridian on November 09, 2019, 12:38:03 pm

Quote from: Unmadesoldier on November 09, 2019, 09:09:48 am

Link for mod doesn't work. Alternate link please?

one post above yours

Title: Re: [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02
Post by: davide on November 10, 2019, 02:22:03 pm

 :o ;D ;)