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Modding => Released Mods => The X-Com Files => Topic started by: Niewiem on April 17, 2018, 10:16:50 am
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Lately I got back to playing as I have a little more time. Started new game on latest version and it is going far better than last time. I even managed to get one small ufo landed and won with loosing only two people (half of the squad :D ).
I have a question though - how can I get better labs than one in XCOM HQ? Is it in some research? I have done quite a lot of those and did not find any yet :(
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Never mind got to Bio Lab yesterday :)
This walkthrough seems to be going much smoother than last one where I had medium UFOs and those darn spike boars at the beginning :P
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Many thanks for the interest, and good luck with your playthrough! :)
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Hi Solarius
My walkthrough is going really good (at least I think so) :)
I have small question:
I am still using public vans but for quie some time I have private cars reseached. What is difference between private and public car? I cannot find any info on that in ufopedia.
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Private transport is faster than anything else at this stage, but only takes 2 people.
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Argh how much armor does vampire knight have?
I am trying to kill it for last half an hour trying stunning, shotguns, pistols of different variety, even great sword that he dropped when pannicked...
I am running after him and have one or two attack every 3-4 turns when he switches direction - soon I will be out of ammo completly.
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Do you have daggers? I assume undead aren't going to take stunning damage easily, if at all. I haven't encountered a Vampire Knight, but unless it has an intrinsic weapon, you ought to be able to stab it until it goes down, assuming you have lethal melee weapons.
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Just noticed that you do have a great sword, at least. can you corner him, stop him from running?
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Tried to do that but he is actually just a bit faster than my agents...
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Got HIIM - took me more than an hour or shooting everything and hitting when I can but he even got stunned :D
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If this is supposed to be a recorded game, might I suggest speeding it up and Yakety Sax or something?
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This is not recorded in any way :) I am just playing for myslef and made this topic to ask any questions/put concerns in one place :)
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Electric damage is a must if you wish to capture advanced zombies, so bring Stun Rods if you have them.
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I have electric clubs and taser pistols for stunning - he whitstanded 16 shots from pistols and like 30 hits from clubs before I switched to deadly force :P
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Completly not connected to the mod itself but:
I was watching a bit of Starving Poets LP as I am much farther than him and saw that he checks how many pellets from shotgun hit opponent. Can anyone tell me how he does that? :D
Like in 1.44.26 of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QJv82KgN5E&index=3&list=PLnh8c5HMxAXtF-kFcpP9Svs_3EYN0lXsx
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Can anyone tell me how he does that?
Ctrl+H
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I have electric clubs and taser pistols for stunning - he whitstanded 16 shots from pistols and like 30 hits from clubs before I switched to deadly force :P
You ought to have bulkier stuff than regular pistols by the time you're fighting knights, or you'll know pain. Failing that, explosives always work.
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You ought to have bulkier stuff than regular pistols by the time you're fighting knights, or you'll know pain. Failing that, explosives always work.
True... And so does fire.
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Had only one mission with a knight.
Yesterday I got to research high explosives and some black ops stuff(cannot buy yet though) so will be a lot more potent :D
Right now I am using Shotguns and Magnums mostly
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Had only one mission with a knight.
Yesterday I got to research high explosives and some black ops stuff(cannot buy yet though) so will be a lot more potent :D
Right now I am using Shotguns and Magnums mostly
You should get into Promotion 3 ASAP, if you're not already, followed by doing MAGMA missions until you can buy their stuff. Alien Alloy ammo is a must by that point.
Thankfully, manufacturing said alloys gives you lots of money.
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I am not even at promotion 2 yet...
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I am not even at promotion 2 yet...
I'm surprised you lasted long enough with such subpar gear, unless you were unlucky to stumble upon a knight somewhere. As far as I know, Follow the Zombies is required to spawn Knights, so by then you should have Promotions enough to use explosives. Also, extra advice: Be sure to at least destroy 2 of the cults before the end of the 1st year if you don't want to be overwhelmed.
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Had some hard missions due to a lot of enemies but managed to do most of them. Only had to run from Spiked Boars :D Follow the Zombies? Is that the mission where you meet infectors for first time? If so I did it without much trouble - most zombie missions were fairly easy for me... The one where I met Vampire Knight was some mission with Army - there were a lot of soldiers fighting zombies :)
I am also playing only on veteran level
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Had some hard missions due to a lot of enemies but managed to do most of them. Only had to run from Spiked Boars :D Follow the Zombies? Is that the mission where you meet infectors for first time? If so I did it without much trouble - most zombie missions were fairly easy for me... The one where I met Vampire Knight was some mission with Army - there were a lot of soldiers fighting zombies :)
I am also playing only on veteran level
Veteran is the third difficulty level, right? I think you were (un)lucky enough to have a rare "terror mission" variant where civvies of three different tiers (civilians, police and military) fight against monsters. I only had like one mission so far, so I don't know what can happen here. Clearly though units of high-tier can show up, which can complicate things a lot.
On the plus side, if you can defeat Knights, you can defeat anything below that level monster-wise.
Boars are easy once you get proper anti-piercing armor (aka the Armored Vest outfit and later the Alloy Vest). Also, incendiary grenades and fire in general works against all monsters, including aliens.
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Yeah it is third difficulty level
I only defeated knight becasue he panicked and dropped his weapon - otherwise he would kill my whole squad without even blinking :P
I just got some new armors but currently I am out of cash :/
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Uh, I wasn't aware that Knights and above can panic, good to know I guess. As for money, try building workshop and mass producing Durathread/Alien Alloys, especially the latter, as soon as you're able to.
While in X-Files you're no longer allowed to mass-produce laser weapons to sell them to totally-not warlords for profit, instead you do the same with "safer" alien tech. Win-win situation! :)
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I begin with 0.8.6 and now i'm playing with 0.8.9. I'm at april 2001. I've researched the 82% (1270). I have 530 millions. I've accomplished 622 missions and captured 1655 aliens. But I'm stuck with cyber war missions. Nothing to research, no new missions. I can't get the dimension X. There is any techtree where I can see what I'm missing?
Thanks for all this work!
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Hi guys I got back to playing this again :)
But after downloading newest version and trying to load a save I got error about mods not avaiable and when I check there is only Xcom Files in options/
But in earlier versions there wera a lot of other mods like alines pick up weapons and similar small mods.
Is it all right to load this save game or did I do something wrong?
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Yes, I removed all vanilla mods, since they didn't work anyway.
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ok thanks
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Hi again :)
Should I be getting mission "black lotus party" after I researched "terminate black lotus"?
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ok thanks
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Hi again :)
Should I be getting mission "black lotus party" after I researched "terminate black lotus"?
If it's the same month, then yes.
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I think I need to wait for ability to dig through walls...
I got missions "ooze infestation" and tried it 3 times - 2 first times I was not able to find even one enemy, on third try I had most of the map uncovered - stunned 2 oozes and again last one was inside wall without any means to access it :(
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In Meridian the Hunter mission
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Holly molly
I just had my squad wiped out in landed hunter-killer UFO.
It was mutons + some alien flying rocket tank.
I was not even able to dmg it... I used like 20 plasma granades and i do not even know how much laser rifle shots. How much armor does this thing have!?
Might try again today - I will take some more and better explosives :D
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Holly molly
I just had my squad wiped out in landed hunter-killer UFO.
It was mutons + some alien flying rocket tank.
I was not even able to dmg it... I used like 20 plasma granades and i do not even know how much laser rifle shots. How much armor does this thing have!?
Might try again today - I will take some more and better explosives :D
Well, since you're asking...
100 armour on all sides. :)
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Ooooookay :)
So Laser Rifle even on 200% roll does nothing - need to take some other weapons too. I actually tried shooting it from every side as well as from below ;D
Thank you for answer
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You cannot move to part of dimension-x base that my mouse is pointing. I dont know if it is possible to spawn enemy in the place that you cannot reach :D
BTW I really like this map design :) reminds me of something like stargate :)
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You cannot move to part of dimension-x base that my mouse is pointing.
Would you have a save?
BTW I really like this map design :) reminds me of something like stargate :)
Thanks, I'll let Dioxine know - he made them :)
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Sadly already overwritten :( will provide if this happens again :)