Are there any good guides "how to mod" ?
Sure, it's here:
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Ruleset_Reference_OpenXcom_Extended_Plus_(OpenXcom)
I'd like to see something more done with the Slave mechanic, perhaps more thorough indoctrination procedures? So Slave Maids become Slave Maidens who I don't know believe in their work so do better? Squires turning into Yeomen is already good, but I'd feel them being more the start for forming you're own spy network or pureblood mercenary organization/front would be cool. And slaves/workers being necessary for certain research and production projects, particularly for building bases, you need X amount of slaves to dig out the base, and perform maintenance and stuff.
Mission critical equipment should also be informed, for example ratmen rodeo should have hammer or pickaxe as "Required" equipment just in case they get stuck behind terrain and cant escape.
A hammer "required, critical" for ratmen rodeo, really? Most walls there are so weak they can be destroyed by buckshot or weak pistols. Please, don't ask me to insult players' intelligence like that, because I won't do it.Maybe a little insulting but there is a point to mentioning how really useful terrain breaking is to the new player. I certainly would never send out any craft without one. Like no climate control in your car, not required but certainly makes things better.
Probably relatively trivial stuff:
-randomized stat caps not just for freaks, but for everyone, freaks are more extreme
-tamed farbag (perhaps codex locked?)
-secure freight type mission for all major factions
-second tier undersea and orbital missions with less trivial oposition
-high end outfits for lokk’naars
-minor bonuses to stats (and other things) for condemnations
-tamed chryssalid
I'd love to see the Mecha Hitler for humanists. (Since you already have doom and Wolfenstein models) even a tamable giant mech like thing like that but I don't think dioxine would go for it. But for real, would love to see the final bosses to the ID factions for their factions... Though, a cyberdemon sounds scary...
Hitler suit sounds like an obvious choice when we move to higher tier Humanist missions, bah, the current Supersoldier is inspired by exactly that.
Imagine spending all your ammo killing that lobsterman, only for an archvile to wander by and resurrect it back up.
There cannot be a cyberdemon because of hard unit height limit of 23 pixels.
Aside from fetish what purpose should the suit fulfill?
It could have an inbuild 'whip' to hit foes (bio-source (stun)damage).
What kind of stats should it provide? How much inventory? Research-path?
Grabbing and pulling things closer doesn't work with this engine, we're not a Viper from X-Com2.
Also, not sure if this is a bug but the tiers of purchasable components seems off. Currently, I can't buy optronics (even though I researched optronic smuggling?) but I can buy slave AIs and disassemble those. I can't buy integrated devices either, but I can make those out of optronics. Similarly, you can't buy heavy power couplings but you can buy reticulan fusion drives and disassemble those. And so on. If this is intended, it adds busy work for no real discernable reason ("why did I make 200 optronics again?").Optronic Parts require Market of Wishing (very late end-game tech).
pls, - what about implementing the force shields ? (various types :
- for ships (vessels, and vehicles)
- big ones - for whole bases, (even whole planet)
- and smalls, personals - for persons, 4 gals & soldiers, npc´s..
Already done.
Already done.
Already done.
It is overbuilt, but I wanted to have the "ultimate craft" to be truly ultimate. It might make more sense once diverse endings are implemented.Well, it's too slow to be used in air combat - most of the powerful ships don't slow down that much. Or maybe I'm just to impatient to wait for it to finally arrive. ;)
More sea missions are surely coming, what with the mention of aquatoids and the fact that sonic rifles and sonic cannons are implemented but don't drop in the main game yet. It's just a matter of waiting, I mean we did eventually get snakemen.Sonic Rifles can be gotten in Hell Cruise.
Armorwise:
more armor types for lokk’naars
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-some way to tell if an enemy can see me. It never feels that camouflage is working
-camouflage never seems to work
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A menu or pop up that shows:
Things you should have researched.
Lasers are bad against the academy,
New Xcom isn't Xcom. It's a result of "let me hold your hand I do the micromanagement for you" and a f*cked up combat system.
Forget what the reboots tries to be and fails doing so. This is the real Xcom.
-some way to tell if an enemy can see me. It never feels that camouflage is working
-camouflage never seems to work
All this and no discussion yet of Xenonauts?
"Is-seen-by-enemy" indicator would be too much, but "is-standing-in-darkness" indicator would be good.
It all about the right tool/damage type for the situation rezaf, getting through the game with only one weapon for all situations is not the way its designed.
It's not about wanting to use "one (type of ) weapon". I have a pretty broad range of stuff, starting with Bows and some projectile smallarms (I never use them, really) to Laser Pistols, Rifles and then Assault Lasers, all sorts of grenades and explosives, Mortars and Bazookas, still some Shotguns (the Laslock Shotgun is especially versatile) and a couple of melee and stun weapons (I also hardly ever use)... I threw out most other stuff, because most of it just is pretty useless.
I just mentioned the Assault Laser because at least it CAN bring down those enemies in the end. I would expect specialized weapons to do their job - noone should survive being hit in the face by an anti-tank rifle. Sadly, X-Com has no physics, otherwise the victim should be killed by being thrown around alone, but ... yeah, this weapon is regularly shrugged off by Marsec Bodyguards.
The Heavy Slug Thrower sounds like it should have some oomph, but it reliably under performs despite massive TU consumption.
Grenades? Mortar fire? Explosives? Specialized projectile weapons? None of that stuff works.
I CAN work my way around it 75% of the time, but it just server to drag out missions.
And this is just one area of the mod. I really love that there's so much stuff in XPiratez (even though not all of it suits my taste), but there should be much more "gating". I should not have the Stone Axe, Javelins, some Musket variant, a Laser Rifle and a Plasma Pistol all available as research projects at the same time. $0.02 and all, sure.
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At least in your example you sound like your expecting to rapidly kill one of the top 15 sturdiest enemy units types with weapons that barely exceed there armor in avg damage. Alot of the more difficult foes take several gals at once or multiple turns to kill. Once everything starts getting armored and shielded your rarely gona one shot anything even with the strongest late game tools. This is by design, if you want one shots and quick tactical battles this is the wrong game for em.
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Heh, see, this is why I wrote initially I realize it's a pipe dream. There's always people wearing the "deal with it" glasses and no matter how crazy something is, they'll defend it with "go join the other toddlers if it's too much for you".
Do I expect to be able to kill an enemy the game literally throws at me by the dozen in one shot? I certainly do not.
Do I expect him to fall if I use the best tools available to me with a dozen gals, all concentrating fire on that one enemy? I certainly do.
Dioxine ever decides to transfer over to Xenonauts I'll follow for sure.
It'd be a-ok if we only saw one of 'em guys once in a new moon, but even medium sized vessels sport half a dozen or more of them.
Another option would be to have more gating, i.e. you transition between enemy types only at a time when you are reasonably prepared.
4) how about ancient firearms, like a (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombard_(weapon)), a possible "early" version of the mortar? may be unlocked with the blaxk market, and supposed to be oitdated when gals learn to manufacture assault cannon? or even a gatling machinegun, an early black market machinegun?
That is complete bullshit my friend and you know it. Farming Supply Ships does not count as normal experience.
Well if you farmed supply ships by accident, you're in a minority :)
I think this is a mentality issue. Most video games today are structured that you will nearly always face a situation that you can solve/win.
But what's so bad about having a possible solution when facing a situation?
But what's so bad about having a possible solution when facing a situation? Even in the original X-Com you usually had some means to deal with situations most of the time.
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I found poisoned dagger to be the most reliable solution to Marsec Bodyguard problem.
how the hell would be cool a pistol ispired by galaxy express 999 anime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Express_999)? Man that pistol drives me mad! Also a bit more train involvement in the game may be cool..o was think about a mission named "train robbery"
or "train assault" set in a train station, using some of the TFTD terrains containing railroads should be fine, some train sorites may be found here in this forum (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5097.msg94876.html#msg94876)...#fantasies (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq-b_iNrQaQ)
(man im reaaally getting old...)
edit: sry by accident i rrmoved the post! here it is but i lost the links!! Recovered samples here,
enjoy! (https://www.google.it/search?client=ms-android-samsung-ga-rev1&biw=360&bih=329&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=II9xW4HQMLHClwS_gaS4Dw&q=galaxy+999+pistol+and+rifle&oq=galaxy+999+pistol+and+rifle&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.3...7272.10426..11671...0.0..0.0.0.......0....1.1tstJeT0zwM)
though i was not an eager fan, i enjoyed the tv series broadcasted by italian local tvs in early '90, well actually i thought it would very nicely fit into the game framework/theme :) And yes, also even some Captain Harlock stuff, since he was a pirate!
i detect Leiji Matsumoto´s Animes & Girls[/i] fan ! :D :P 8)
..and pls add into X´Piratez Game also Haarlock, Pirate Captain, & his Miime ;D 8)
(..and Maetel, too :-*
I see someone else likes good animes too. However, if we have to add stuff, why not add Monkey Island things (if they aren't already)? S :)tuff like Swordfighting insults, a three-headed monkey unit and the like, I mean.
hej, lets add & implement into Piratez game everyone´s favourite tv-shows, /pc-game, /movie stuffs! :p ;D lůl
hej, lets add & implement into Piratez game everyone´s favourite tv-shows, /pc-game, /movie stuffs! :p ;D lůl
a couple of missions more from which player may "obtain" among loot young ubers and/or castway gals to recruit them avoiding the black market
The option to let brainers and runts fight for you during base defence will cause massive problems in the later stages of the game.
A production-base can hold around 400-500 runts. So 400-500 controlable characters sharing available spawning points with your HWPs AUXs and normal gals AND opposition-spawns.
I call this will make the game crash once the spawn-points run out.
Even if it works, you can just body the intruders with your runt-army now.
Locking Brainers to RNG and somewhere deeper into the mutant-alliance bounty-system (aka even more RNG to screw the unlucky over) will bone the unlucky players.
200k $ is a lot of bucks so just give the player the option to invest loot-money to get research going.
3 brainers is an improvement to the former 2 starting brainers but hard-locking the user behind RNG to get more brainers and RNG to spawn rescue missions is nuts.
On higher difficulties (4+) you'll run out of time before the small scientist staff can do breakthrough for important techs to save your bum against random crackdowns.
may be also interesting to add an option "brainers and runts fight if base is attached", self explanatory
The option to let brainers and 400-500 runts fight for you during base defence will cause massive problems in the later stages of the game.
Locking Brainers to RNG and somewhere deeper into the mutant-alliance bounty-system (aka even more RNG to screw the unlucky over) will bone the unlucky players.
3 brainers is an improvement to the former 2 starting brainers but hard-locking the user behind RNG to get more brainers and RNG to spawn rescue missions is nuts.
On higher difficulties (4+) you'll run out of time before the small scientist staff can do breakthrough for important techs to save your bum against random crackdowns.
You mean treating brainers as stackable (as in "they show together in inventory") support units? Hhhmm, might even work. I dunno if the game engine can deal with this in an elegant way, though.sry, I meant more an option like "wounded fights if base attacked"
I'm not thinking bounties, I'm thinking plain ol' "research something and you can buy from the black marker" pretty much like unlocking purchasable weapons.i think im in, won't make game even more harder, provided that it is in the rearch topics right of the start of a new game.
I beg to disagree. In my campaign I refused to recruit gals from the market, instead relying on rescues. And while it's slow to build up a set of 15-ish non-wounded gals, it's doable and (IMHO) enjoyable.don't know, i always sucked at piratez but personally on jack sparrow for me that would make a game virtually impossible!
And heck, if you don't like RNG to impose a limit on the brainers, another option would be to change the shakeup ceremony so it takes a castaway gal and it spits out a brainer gal. (normal shakeup: your uber hand → escaped lunatic gal; resurrection thing: dead gal → ghost gal; brainer shakeup thing: escaped lunatic gal + money → brainer)
If you excuse me my lack of knowledge of the game internals - are the intensity of the crackdowns defined by time, by score, or by research done? AFAIK research acts as a gateway to bigger enemy ships spawning, so it should be possible to not have big crackdowns until having done mid-game research.
Remove brainers from the black market. Then put some missions to rescue brany gals, which one could recruit as brainers in the still.This would make an early game grind even more mandatory. It's very hard to die to civilian weapons once you get Warrior armor. I'd rather see early missions phase out way more quickly.
I don't think one more type of troops is gonna help much.
Actually, I'd like to propose something different:
Remove brainers from the black market. Then put some missions to rescue brany gals, which one could recruit as brainers in the still.
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I would also like if Dioxine would consider the three starting brainers to be in the airbus from the beginning, even if that means starting with just three combat gals (and a parrot).
I mean, right now the three starting brainers have successfully triangulated an unknown signal, planned a precise de-orbit maneouver, actually piloted a space station through such a maneouver, survived atmospheric reentry without a reentry vehicle.... but they don't have any starting knowledge about hyperwaves, geography, life support systems or flight aerodynamics?? That very specific part of the xpiratez canon seems bogey to me.
More chances to get Shadow Orbs. The idea to customize your ships with tools is nice, but right now they drop so rarely that it goes pretty unused.If you can take on battleship/bombers midgame, than this is not really midgame. Losing 2 out of three fully kitted ships of your own, just to take down dedicated military vessel, would be a sweet spot, imo.
Of course, what would be really sweet is having equipment slots for aircrafts - so instead of taking up a weapon slot, you get a fifth/sixth slot for STC or other equipment. Probably not supported by the engine, though. :(
And speaking of ship combat - a fast and expensive bullet-sponge would be welcome during mid-game. High HP, high speed, quick repair, and no weapons as trade-off. The more powerful enemy ships tend to be the fastest ones, so it takes forever for a Crab/Kraken (or even a Dragon, for that matter) to catch up — if they manage at all.
More chances to get Shadow Orbs. The idea to customize your ships with tools is nice, but right now they drop so rarely that it goes pretty unused.
Of course, what would be really sweet is having equipment slots for aircrafts - so instead of taking up a weapon slot, you get a fifth/sixth slot for STC or other equipment. Probably not supported by the engine, though. :(
And speaking of ship combat - a fast and expensive bullet-sponge would be welcome during mid-game. High HP, high speed, quick repair, and no weapons as trade-off. The more powerful enemy ships tend to be the fastest ones, so it takes forever for a Crab/Kraken (or even a Dragon, for that matter) to catch up — if they manage at all.
If you can take on battleship/bombers midgame, than this is not really midgame. Losing 2 out of three fully kitted ships of your own, just to take down dedicated military vessel, would be a sweet spot, imo.Given the replacement cost and time for a fighter, I disagree. Cruisers, Destroyes, Corvettes, Frigates, Bombers, Heavy Gunships - you see dedicated military vessels too often to keep up with replacing your downed fighters at that cost.
A production-base can hold around 400-500 runts. So 400-500 controlable characters sharing available spawning points with your HWPs AUXs and normal gals AND opposition-spawns.
I call this will make the game crash once the spawn-points run out.
2. Who said the station was not equipped for emergency landing? And that does include autopilot and re-entry vehicle.
We don't put thermal shielding on everything (much less on ISS modules), so I have my doubts that the traders' guild would make the whole station out of plastasteel as opposed to plain old aluminium. They have to protect their profit margins, you know.The Brainers come from an Academy station, not a Guild one. The Academy is prone to overengineering, so let's go with the "they found the emergency re-entry subroutine in the station's control code and triggered it" explanation. ;)
The Brainers come from an Academy station, not a Guild one. The Academy is prone to overengineering, so let's go with the "they found the emergency re-entry subroutine in the station's control code and triggered it" explanation. ;)
And the academy just happened to leave a perfectly good, functional & overengineered station on the hands of some not-totally-trustable Uber gals, completely unsupervised? :o And on top of that, the emergency reentry subroutine is able to calculate a reentry maneouver in order to land in a precise spot? (instead of just applying retrograde thrust and landing wherever is closest to their current orbital path)
It's just hard for me to accept that. :-\
They have star-god tech.
The engine at least has you covered there. If it runs out of spawn points with more soldiers to place, it just doesn't place them. We're just not likely to see this in effect in XPiratez . . . so far.
The starting brainers were researching a dead, drifting piece of space junk. Suddenly, the STR_MENACING_HULL sparks to life, plots a reentry trajectory, and crash-lands right next to the hideout (probably still attached to parts of the space station/space tug/salvage vehicle they used to reach there). Maybe the brainers were sent into the derelict as guinea pigs.
Cue a scripted mission to rescue the friendly brainers from a tiny band of roving ratmen. This allows to put information in the mission briefing, e.g. "We heard this crash, and the faces of three Uber gals showed up in some of the hideout screens asking for help. They look brainy but not beefy. If we rescue them they might help us understand things around."
Yeah, this would need terrain assets :( and I don't know if the game engine can spawh a mission right on top of the hideout :( and every new game would need to grind this :( but this would explain the brainers and the menacing hull much better than a bootypedia article IMHO ;D
1) You cannot disable purchase of Brainers, so they need to appear pre-game start;You can set the price to 9999999999 dolaroes or something, if you want to go with recruited-only brainers.
They don't even bother to give weapons to the people that are supposed to catch the clearly armed and dangerous escapees, so the teams have to bring their own. That might be infighting though, as they don't really want Dr. X to succeed.
Anyhting that competent gunsmith with access to simple tools can manufacture makes sense. Which is why the "homefront rifle" is still around.
actually i like the idea of old guns in 2601 , maybe just some more may have modified to resemble real life counterpart?
Anyhting that competent gunsmith with access to simple tools can manufacture makes sense. Which is why the "homefront rifle" is still around.
I`d like to see in the training-screen (Dojo), which base the training screen is refering to.
Often the window pops up, keeping telling me, that someone doesn`t have to train anymore, but game doesn`t tell me, which base that does take place.
Hey, in the new 0.99J5 now temple raids needs to be approached on foot.
The queue is not my problem. I simply don`t know, for what base the window pop ups.
It would be great, if hot areas would inflict less stun damage or even none, when arriving, when it is dark.
In th opposite cold areas could get even more cold, when arriving in the night. but be warmer in daylight.
I`d like to see one more thing:
To see, how many points I get from research and downing a UFO.
It would be great, if hot areas would inflict less stun damage or even none, when arriving, when it is dark.
In th opposite cold areas could get even more cold, when arriving in the night. but be warmer in daylight.
I`d like to see one more thing:
To see, how many points I get from research and downing a UFO.
Points on research, if take longer, give you more points.There's no relation between research length and points awarded.
2. This is really too much, just fucking check it YOURSELF on the graphs, or make yourself an excel sheet, jesus man. I could divulge that information in the pedia texts (for extra effort), but it would be retarded to do so. Why are you obsessing over such trivialties? Can't you fucking just play the game? Can't you stop wasting forum space and other people's time with your endless stream of dumb requests?This is a thread for requests on stuff wanted to be seen in pirates. I`m totally right in possible ideas here. You can ignore my proposal, if you don`t like it.
It would be interesting if slaves and peasants wouldn't suffer from heat/cold (as much), as they are not dependent on hellerium and should be like our enemies inthat regard. But I doubt that is possible either.
This is really too much, just fucking check it YOURSELF on the graphs, or make yourself an excel sheet, jesus man. I could divulge that information in the pedia texts (for extra effort), but it would be retarded to do so. Why are you obsessing over such trivialties? Can't you fucking just play the game? Can't you stop wasting forum space and other people's time with your endless stream of dumb requests?
And where do you live ? Under the rock?(https://lxnt.wtf/oxem/builds//cat-popcorn.gif)
It was request for new feature, and it has nothing to do with bitching about the original xcom quirks.
Why there is ANAL button?
And Vikings weren't pirates, despite what name suggest. They were raiders.
Why there is diary of every gal, that allows to track every mission in the game?
Since scores in order of 30k or 40k were not possible in OG,
I am assuming that you have greatly expanded list of events that cause gain/loss of points.
Modders can't add new features, you'll need to ask devs for that.
@Vansi,
Thank you for supporting. Why don`t you join us on discord-chat?
Just type "discord" into the search section und you will find us all.
You will find out, that in the chat many things get better communicated. Give it a try!
Thank you for invitation, but I have to respectfully decline. First, my spoken english is rather bad.
And it is shame, that on Piratez forum there is no "General Disscusion" thread.
Yet some other vehicles remain unmanned, like my favorite: The Howitzer Tank. In this recent version, the aux machine gun was without ammo. Do I need to load MG ammo crates in the craft when using this tank ?
It is a transitory phase, as most vehicles will be eventually converted. The machinegun currently doesn't work.
Something I noted was the Car or Tank armors don't increase the HP of the wearer. And if the unit is injured the soldier is out until recovered. I would imagine some increase is feasible. Mostly to account for some hand weapons that can ignore some armor, which is a mechanic I believe intended to affect soldiers body armor, not these vehicles (think thickness or density). Is it intentional to be that way?
The game mechanics appear to use the soldier's original energy (?) to compute the number of shots the unit can fire. It's very often I shot a couple of times and then the energy is out while there is plenty of TUs left. I use said unit as minelayer, drop previously active choke/stun grenades, or so.
Of course it's intentional. The complete overhaul of tank resistances was due to this.
It doesn't use soldier's original energy. It is one of key features of my vehicle system, just like with the Bike. TU's represent "drive time" while Energy represents "gun time"
Also, regarding the current progress:
I see. Thanks for the clarification. I have to plan my strategies around this. My original comment was because I had a Tank 85 mm driven by a Lokknar, and she took health damage by a guy firing a SMG (I forgot which one but one that fires bullets that ignore armor a bit). Maybe it was a odd RNG, or it was something else.
Between high armor and Piercing resistance, how is it even possible?
Now, my comment is, if it makes sense the wearer of said armors (Car or Tank) should receive a nominal increase in HP (say 20 HP for cars and 40 HP for tanks) to account for machine degradation (not armor) when hit. It's not like when the armored beastmaster loses her armor and stays naked on the battlefield. Although that mechanic: the tank shells dissolves and the pilot is in the middle, all in underwear, would be fun to see. :)
How the game mechanics of a battle aftermath would treat the soldier with injuries whose remaining HP still is greater than the original HP?
Well it would be, but it's impossible for 2 key reasons:
1) The original unit counts as killed regardless if a new unit is spawned;
2) The new unit is always hostile.
It doesn't matter how many HP were left, only how many HP were lost. So HP increase will end up in longer hospital times. I could increase it by token 10-20, but I am unsure, as it would eg. decrease the advantage in resilience Gals have. Circumventing this healing problem is possible, but is a major pain in the ass and I prefer to keep it simple.
1] Take Down the Watchtower >> Take the Outpost...Out? Imagine a remix of the watchtower and the warehouse. Basically the warehouse mission, but the tower is bigger, has slits to shoot out, it has a perimeter fence, and the troops inside are a bit heavier. Imagine they also have a static cannon even. Same idea, different difficulty level.
6] Cash-in-transit heist. (Perhaps a low-level mission, used for raising cash in the early days...?) An inside informant has given us solid info about a government convoy carrying taxes. Between moving the cash from the local municipality to the air transport dust-off site, it is hauled by road. This would be a good chance for us to do a bit of "fund-raising" for our ventures. The informant is one of the convoy security team. We agreed to not kill him, but we'll need to take him hostage so that he has a plausible story (if the informant survives the battle, you get a special prisoner who can be processed in a special way, perhaps providing some interesting research topic before being let loose).
If moving map tiles was possible, I'd have done it long time ago...
sorry, yap, im now just reading thet long Dune seria ( ~~20 books totally| )
There is, actually, a mod in Dune thematics which was abandoned by a Creator :(
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,2957.0.html
Can I just float this idea...
If a mission like a Mansion Invasion is supposed to be a heist, it might be cool to have a data-gathering/planning stage beforehand.
Robbing/enslaving high ranking faction members and those peons involved in keeping them safe could drop a piece of loot called [Faction] Mansion Info. (e.g Church Priests and higher ranks, Matrons, Exalts and the Warmaidens that are supposed to keep them safe could drop Church Mansion Info).
Gather enough info on a faction Mansion together and manufacture a "Mansion Heist Plan". Once that is researched, a one-off mission to attack a particular mansion is flagged to happen in the next month. That way, the players get an idea of what kind of enemies they are going to face.
This can be expanded on by offering the players many ways to conduct the Mansion Invasion. Just pulling numbers out of the air here, 10 units of Mansion Info makes a "Sneak,Grab and Run" plan that limits the mission to a small infiltration-equipped team and a strict time limit. 20 units of Mansion Info and a monetary cost (bribes) and the player manufactures a "Sneak, Hold and Run" plan that allows for a larger vessel and more time. 40 units and huge bribes and the brainers have found a way to jam any outgoing signals coming from the mansion (no time limit because the "cavalry" won't arrive) and an approach route for a party fully armed and equipped for war. This way the player has the option to go for many mansion invasions with limits or one big score.
I don't have time to sink it into this rather large sidequest expansion you're proposing, but you know how it goes... Have an idea, want it to happen, make a mod for it yourself. If it's good, it will be included.
Did anyone mention Zrbite(we have some Zrbite-powered crafts seen crashed underwater) as a high-powered Hellerium substitute? Or something like this.
Hard to find a place for Zrbite. It's just elerium equivalent for TFTD which is in fact a reskin of original X-com. If we have hellerium, then why do we need Zrbite? Maybe for sonic weapons, or something. Expect that in future updates (probably).
Maybe hellerium is a combined Zrbite and elerium?
i want Lysbeth as (alike) character in Piratez!Why don't you just rename one of your gals? Or even all? You may even change her look by RMB on her when equipping.
Just a quick though: the ol' family (ol' revolver, ol' shotgun, ol' carabine) seems to be missing of a last one: ol' rifle ;D it may be the current flinlock rifle to be renamed like that?
Efit: oh and please may the x-bow be a bit faster? '(less TU to fire and reload)
A little suggestion about flintlock guns and black gunpowder - If they all use "self-made black gunpowder", then all "primitive firearms" shots must produce a cloud of smoke at muzzle. So, when a group of gals fires flintlock salvo - they shoul produce some cloud)
Well for now we must resign to a conclusion that Uber Wheat just doesn't produce that much smoke :)Uber Wed, yeah )
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Why Star Gods would "attack" earth if T'leth were here from 65 million years? We know that they knew about T'leth.
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I see, enemy fighters sometimes try to intercept your crafts. Nice ;)
When your craft(especially transport one) passes near some enemy secret base - closer than 500 or 1000 km from it - what if this base launchers this faction's fighter craft to intercept you? yhis means you'll have to travel more carefully(avoid strong fractions base) or provide fighter support to your ground operationd.
When your craft(especially transport one) passes near some enemy secret base - closer than 500 or 1000 km from it - what if this base launchers this faction's fighter craft to intercept you? this means you'll have to travel more carefully(avoid strong fractions base) or provide fighter support to your ground operations.
Will we somewhen meet (and capture ;) aquatoids?
In Piratez lore, X-Com lost, they never destroyed that brain under Cydonia, which means signal was never sent.We do not know exactly. We surely know, that "knights of Cydonia" even reached Mars when "battle was already lost", but what happened there...
We do not know exactly. We surely know, that "knights of Cydonia" even reached Mars when "battle was already lost", but what happened there...
During my first play, I anticipated that they("knights") have accepted the brain's proposal and are "ruling" the Solar System alongside with him. In fact, they should be, his mind-controlled "elite spec-ops" vat-grown clones of x-com operatives' bodies.
About aquatoids... maybe, another 600 years on the bottom of the ocean and full-scale nuclear war shattered T'Leth and creatures sleeping inside started to awaken - but only few.
The fact that we indeed see Triscene further approves theory about short war between Ethernals (mainly forces under their command) and T'Leth. T'Leth tech was captured, not all of it, but enough to get dinosaurs.I don't think they Will ever fight. They are both on the one side - The Empire. AFAIK, T'leth presents on Earth much longer, than The Martian base. I suppose, this "city" is Just older and obsolete(by Star God's means) conquest-colonisation tool. And its commander is second-in-command to martian brain. So, it activates and starts "conquest procedure" when his supreme commander becomes non-functional.
About the use of T'leth weapons and tech - almost every modern-day country keeps lots of obsolete weapons in reserve storage bases.
We are talking about weapons that are not decades old, but at least centuries old and obsolete by millions of years.You have lots of them, good stack of Zrbite ammo and they work almost as good as you - so why should you not use them?
Sry, what do you mean by "passively M.C'ing"?
The pieces from this pack which I liked are already included.Gotit, i don't lose any hope to see a couple more tracks; for bith geoscape and battlescape mode. Over and out :)
just 1quick & sudden idea - that *Professor Moriarty´s "sniper rifle, from Sherlock Holmes, (mostly from the, today already older, 1986 -tv-series )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a94mNfmZ1gc
Some weapon ideas I had.
Lucky Star (bounty prize, likely from Zaxx)
1x2, Wt 6/9
Snap, 27% TUs, 77% accuracy
Star Clip (1x1), 7 rounds, 14 Piercing damage
Star Gold Clip (1x1), 7 rounds, 20 Piercing damage (requires research, Gemcraft, and Alchemy?)
Inflicts 0-1000% of the ammo's listed damage.
"The weapon of choice for high stakes gamblers, who, not coincidentally, are among the only people capable of affording it. Despite firing low powered ammunition, it has been known to kill Power Armored soldiers in a single hit."
Splattershot (Pilfered from enemies)
2x2, Wt 8/12
Snap, 25% TUs, 75% accuracy
Aimed, 55% TUs, 110% accuracy
Auto (x5), 50% TUs, 45% accuracy
Ink Tank (1x2), 20 rounds, 50 poison damage
Venom Ink Tank (1x2), 20 rounds, 85 poison damage (must be researched)
Hypervenom Ink Tank (1x2), 20 rounds, 140 poison damage (needs more research than the Venom Ink Tank)
"This weapon was built by (and is used almost exclusively by) the Inkling race, it fires highly toxic blobs of ink at enemies. Inflicts massive damage against unprotected flesh, but has difficulty penetrating armor (Enemy armor is 150% of its normal strength against this weapon), and is completely useless against tanks or other robotic life forms.
Pack Laser (Built and researched by the Pirates, early energy weapon)
1x3, Wt 20/50/25
Snap, 30% TUs, 72% accuracy
Aimed, 65% TUs, 105% accuracy
Pack Laser Backpack (2x3), 255 rounds, 48 Laser damage
Pack Laser Battery (1x2), 25 rounds, 48 laser damage (requires Laser Weapon Batteries)
"We know how those fancy laser weapons are built, but not how to build them ourselves. We figured we would change that. The Pack Laser employs minimal use of exotic components, although this does come at the cost of making the gun large and quite bulky. The biggest hurdle (and namesake of the weapon), was figuring out how to power it. All attempts at developing a battery for this weapon have failed, so instead, we effectively made a Small Ship Engine into a backpack and hooked the Pack Laser up to it. It weighs a ton, but on the bright side, you don't have to worry about carrying spare ammunition."
Excellent idea!,
but rather weight [20, 85, 25], ~as "80" is for big Laser Backpack "Battery" (respectively little enhanced reactor), made from that improved (and yet down-sized) Small ship engine (reactor)
thus; ~
Laser^pack @Backpack : size (3x4), 360 rounds, 56 dmg per pulse
or:
480 rounds, @ 48 damage /
/250 rounds @ 68 dmg
^^ Tatras! :p
Praga V3S for the win
It'd be cool to see the eurosyndicate more developed and fleshed out in the future versions. Fighting cyborg corporate agents using high tech weapons ala Syndicate and Syndicate wars would be great, and it wouldn't take that much new stuff to make it happen, since there's already a healthy dose of eurosyndicate weapons in the game. It could work as an alternate way to get your hand on eurosyndicate weapons, other than the contract.Why even take the deal if you get markslaser just for contacts. Lock it up behind the deal.
Piratez need a lot of things but another basic bitch firearm with slighly different stats is not one of them. Hell, some of the high end Marsec guns don’t even show in the game, despite them having code and sprites and everythign since forever.
It'd be cool to see the eurosyndicate more developed and fleshed out in the future versions. Fighting cyborg corporate agents using high tech weapons ala Syndicate and Syndicate wars would be great, and it wouldn't take that much new stuff to make it happen, since there's already a healthy dose of eurosyndicate weapons in the game. It could work as an alternate way to get your hand on eurosyndicate weapons, other than the contract.
Why even take the deal if you get markslaser just for contacts. Lock it up behind the deal.
You're really boring, Linux.
*OICW"
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_Individual_Combat_Weapon )
As much as I like ideas like the OICW and rifles with grenade launchers, I don't think there's a good way to add them to openxcom, since its essentialy one gun with two different kinds of shots, and AFAIK, there's no way to use two different kinds of ammo on the same weapon.
As much as I like ideas like the OICW and rifles with grenade launchers, I don't think there's a good way to add them to openxcom, since its essentialy one gun with two different kinds of shots, and AFAIK, there's no way to use two different kinds of ammo on the same weapon.
I'd humbly ask; a it more of coherence: crackdowns on piratez base should be lead by enemies player he had dealt before and/or have hurt, not factions that were not encountered before, that would be nice especially for the dark ones, unless player has researhed/done something to activate their presence; and i've noticed they always are more numerous than he other attackers, as in "nightmare" difficult in real doom!!? :o
That just happens (On the first 18-24 months) with the major factions. The minors ones, like dark ones, ratman, etc, tend to be marauders, and as such, they are looking for places to plunder. I think is kind of coherent right now. Major factions should not bother with another band of outlaws, but minors are all the time trying to find a place to take advantage of it.
Why?
You don't care about it if you met them before, you just go out and loot and pillage. So why shouldn't others do the same?
BUt daark ones are just a common huma riff-raff, at least i think, they spawn from nowhere; there shoud be something special regarding them :-\They're beings from hell. Their raids make sense both from a lore-perspective as well as from a gameplay one.
At least right now seems that Deep Ones are appearing as soon as Sea Transport topic is researched, i really wish im not wrong.
You are wrong. And if you weren't it would be dumb, you don't create reality with your research, you confront it out in the field.
But after that the dark ones basically disappear.
How hard is it to convert doom sprite into OXCE one? We are still missing mancubus, arachnotron, revenant and lost soul. (the bosses are too large, archvile and pain elemental have powers unsupported by OXCE)
Another lil' idea: armored car - used by ratmen/highwaymen/ghoyls mutant progoms - may become a spartan exclusive - and may be replaced by a sidecar? May be less though, the armore one semms more suitable to spartans because of its military feeling. :)Erm, don't the ratmen/ghoul bandits already have an armored car? A pretty lame one at that, too, which is totally apropriate IMO.
Erm, don't the ratmen/ghoul bandits already have an armored car? A pretty lame one at that, too, which is totally apropriate IMO.
I do agree that spartans could use some armor on their side, though.
The idea was to give ratmen some even less armored/techno vehicle😅
The really shitty vehicle, to be precise. Whereas Spartans could use these Humvees and BMP's (in the middle between). There is actually a mod with a heavy load of tanks.
The idea was to give ratmen some even less armored/techno vehicle😅
Why? The stuff they get is reasonably low tech already.
Btw. @Nicolinus ~~ I noticed you also (same as me) are also big fan of Leiji Matsumoto's anime series
( Galaxy Express 999, & Galaxy Railways,
(and at least ten more others tv-series..)
Some odeas for a space mission onspired by 1994's System Shock? At that time i owned a very basic 486 with no cd rom😭😭 and i regret not to have played that game :'(
ah sorry,
just only small tribute to classic anime series and stuff, and hand-painted anime creator, writer, and regiseur (film-director)
*Leiji~verse; nice article
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Leijiverse
(..heh, *The Ring of Nibelungen", ~ Reiji "borrow" ("lean") also that old, classic Old European, Germanic Saga (legend), too.. ; D :p lol
But I like most both the *Galaxy Railways, and G.Express~999
Actually, Maysha (https://www.google.com/search?q=galaxy+999+maisha&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjijOzakOHgAhXpShUIHaxhDewQ_AUIDigB&biw=1536&bih=728&dpr=1.25)may provide inspiraiton for a possible outfit. As fore sidecar a couple of draft mdels here (https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.shutterstock.com%2Fimage-vector%2Fvintage-bike-sidecar-hand-drawn-260nw-295755701.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shutterstock.com%2Fimage-vector%2Fvintage-bike-sidecar-hand-drawn-vector-295755683&docid=Qv1-jyTwyV7Q3M&tbnid=RmgzQSuM8AKvpM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjOvaTgj-HgAhXhzoUKHSNKAGwQMwhiKBQwFA..i&w=260&h=280&client=firefox-b-d&bih=728&biw=1536&q=sidecar%20computer%20graphic%20sprite&ved=0ahUKEwjOvaTgj-HgAhXhzoUKHSNKAGwQMwhiKBQwFA&iact=mrc&uact=8) and here (https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.shutterstock.com%2Fimage-vector%2Fvintage-bike-sidecar-hand-drawn-450w-295755683.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shutterstock.com%2Fimage-vector%2Fvintage-bike-sidecar-hand-drawn-vector-295755683&docid=Qv1-jyTwyV7Q3M&tbnid=zS77AlnBXQIz7M%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjOvaTgj-HgAhXhzoUKHSNKAGwQMwhEKAMwAw..i&w=450&h=470&client=firefox-b-d&bih=728&biw=1536&q=sidecar%20computer%20graphic%20sprite&ved=0ahUKEwjOvaTgj-HgAhXhzoUKHSNKAGwQMwhEKAMwAw&iact=mrc&uact=8)
The Princess is only one.
Sorry, Maisha it's her name in the italian edition
One thing I always thought would be cool in xcom games, but that I don't know if its even possible to implement in OXCE: have certain missions have a kind of trigger in them, a kind of condition that once satisfied, would "unlock" a special mission on the map, that wouldn't otherwise normally spawn. Then you could, for example, do a mission with a special condition tied to a kind of switch in the map, that once activated, would give you, say, coordinates to a secret enemy base, which would then spawn as a mission on the map if you activated that trigger.
Personally, I would consider hacking a bit too 'techy' for piratez, but I guess adventure can be had in different ways.
Idea for a craft weapon.
Hyperdeath Missile (Needs Hellerium Explosives, other missiles, maybe Red Codex exclusive?)
Damage: 10000
Range: 60km
Accuracy: 255%
Reload: 100ms
Shots: 1
"The new definition of overkill. This monstrosity is guaranteed to obliterate any craft we fire it at, no matter how big it is. It leaves behind nothing to salvage, but if you really, really, REALLY need an enemy vessel destroyed, then this is what you want. The range is too short for the attacking craft to escape the blast radius, so they are destroyed as well."
Idea for a craft weapon.
Hyperdeath Missile (Needs Hellerium Explosives, other missiles, maybe Red Codex exclusive?)
Damage: 10000
Range: 60km
Accuracy: 255%
Reload: 100ms
Shots: 1
"The new definition of overkill. This monstrosity is guaranteed to obliterate any craft we fire it at, no matter how big it is. It leaves behind nothing to salvage, but if you really, really, REALLY need an enemy vessel destroyed, then this is what you want. The range is too short for the attacking craft to escape the blast radius, so they are destroyed as well."
While you do have a point about the relative availability of materials, the gyro autogun is not total outclassed by the smartgun, it might not get as much damage, but it is both more accurate(65%/70% vs 60%/60%) and longer base range in both snap and auto modes(22/22 vs 20/15), as well as marginally faster to fire.
The last upgrade of the autogun does have one unique ammo and in the right hands is one of the highest accuracy multi shot snap/rapid fire style guns.
Great ideas, now get to work! (or wait years until I have the time to do it myself, that is) ;)I wouldn't even know where to start.
You could instead duplicate the entirety of SS current mentions/objects/strings with "nicer" title, and then have only one batch presented. But that means duplicating and editing hundreds of references and strings for cosmetic impact. Most of these items are hand made one at a time.
Too Microsoft. :P
Hmm, a new uniform for your pirate, a US Marine based uniform of stylish blue, and getting Melee Shoot and STA bonus, so I can have my sabre armed marines charge a poor sucker and plunge it into his chest.
Designer Pets (requires Broken Church Beastmaster)
"In addition to the creation of genetically engineered monsters, the Church also partakes in the breeding of exotic pets, both as gifts to it's high ranking members, and to be sold for a pretty penny. The Beastmaster politely instructed us on how we could do so ourselves, but we need both Medical facilities and vacant beast storage to do so. Gestation takes some time, and no matter what creature we breed, we always get a litter of six new units upon project completion. All creatures are statistically superior to their more common equivalents, and have additional psionic abilities."
Leads to Designer Dog, Exotic Bird, Majestic Cat
Designer Dog
"The best traits of both a Blood Hound and Guard Dog rolled into one, with a supersonic bark that damages armor and causes enemies to panic."
Exotic Bird
"A majestic flying creature. Has incredible vision, even at night, and can detect enemies through walls to some extent. NV:30, Sense:6"
Majestic Cat
"The most beautiful pussy that ever lived. It's can boost the morale of multiple soldiers at once, and it's claw attacks ignore 90% of enemy armor.
Majestic Pussy'foot Cat
"The most beautiful (*pussyfoot*) pussy that ever lived. It's can boost the morale of multiple soldiers at once, and it's claw attacks ignore 90% of enemy armor.
Majestic Pussy'foot Cat
"The most beautiful (*pussyfoot*) pussy that ever lived. It's can boost the morale of multiple soldiers at once, and it's claw attacks ignore 90% of enemy armor.
If you want OP units just make them yourselfes.
Btw, there is no such thing as a critical hit in X-COM.
Lore wise, is it something stablished on the moon? Some lunar missions can be cool.Humanists hidden bases are sure to be hidden on the dark side of the moon and somewhere in what have been called Argentina centuries ago.
Seconding that its a bit weird having male soldiers still called "slave soldiers" even on the "Boyz" path.Boys don't have this sweet abbreviation:
Uh, I honestly hope you're joking on not getting the symbol. Here's a hint, it tends to be linked to an iron eagle or a canted oddly shaped cross. Also skulls.
Just can't tell with some people.
On a note of things I'd like to someday see in here, high tech pirate gear could be fun, we're supposed to be space pirates, right? So why do we go away from the outfit so quickly? :'(
Uh, I honestly hope you're joking on not getting the symbol. Here's a hint, it tends to be linked to an iron eagle or a canted oddly shaped cross. Also skulls.
Please, any chances to use that Preceptor Apollyon's AKMS in the mod to replace the curresnt sprite for homefront rifle? (clik) (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,7378.msg117262.html#msg117262)