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Offtopic / Re: Alien psionics - how does the game determine whether or not it can attack me?

« on: March 06, 2015, 03:54:14 pm »

I'm pretty damn sure that in vanilla, they'd target your entire team as soon as they saw any member of your team.

I haven't tested OpenXcom extensively yet, but it seems to be similar, with the psi attacks happening far behind the front line against soldiers I thought weren't spotted.

I'm really torn here - turning on psi line of sight basically removes enemy psi from the game (They choose to fire their weapons over using psi, I guess), and keeping it off means I have very little defense against psi and must resort to cheap tactics to work against it.

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Fan-Stuff / Re: Haiku

« on: March 06, 2015, 12:48:20 pm »

How to become brave?
Take a grenade and blow up
All your new rookies!

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Suggestions / Re: Flanking gameplay mechanic

« on: March 05, 2015, 10:14:46 pm »

True. You guys make good points.

I just come up with these ideas post them here but I like that everyone is engaged giving lots of points. This is not about making OpenXCom like EU2012 but improving OpenXCom using lore friendly mechanics. Some ideas may work some may not

Think about it. You had an idea. A good idea. An idea that is so good that it is, effectively, already implemented.
You just failed to realize how it was already implemented, that's not a big deal.
So thanks for your idea.

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Suggestions / Re: Flanking gameplay mechanic

« on: March 05, 2015, 09:40:37 am »

So, shortly put, OpenXcom has a strong flanking mechanic where you do additional damage (And considerable amounts of it, considering how armor works) against flanked enemies, and an enemy you are currently flanking will not shoot you for dancing in his face.

Sounds like a pretty solid flanking mechanic.

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Playthroughs / Re: Oh Shit Moments - Why i love XCom :>

« on: March 05, 2015, 09:36:31 am »

The amount of active sectopods is too damn high!

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Playthroughs / Re: Let's Play OpenXcom: Up Close and Personal!

« on: March 02, 2015, 08:15:22 pm »

Nice update, good work on those ethereals.

I've found that turning psi line of sight on means that aliens basically never use psi. Though my own experience with it is kinda lacking too.

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Fan-Stuff / Re: Haiku

« on: March 02, 2015, 05:27:48 am »

A terror mission
Do we face cyberdisks or
those damn chryssalids?

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Troubleshooting / Re: Men In Black alien retaliation crash (Android)

« on: March 01, 2015, 12:24:30 pm »

It's probably still the scout drone, that thing crashes my base defense missions too.
(Despite otherwise working fine and being a nice little tool.)

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Open Feedback / Re: UFOextender accuracy issues.

« on: February 28, 2015, 06:07:43 pm »

Here's what I observed.

The chance to hit is an estimate on the low side. Your actual chance to hit is larger.
The game (I assume) first rolls to hit the target.
If it hits, it hits.
If it misses, the game then determines where the miss goes. The game basically creates a cone in front of your unit and determines where in the cone the shot goes. The larger your original hit percentage, the narrower the cone is.
The shot can veer off course up and down and left and right.
The shot then flies from the gun until it hits something or leaves the map. It can hit it's original target or something else in it's path.

So if you try to shoot at something right next to you, that unit probably is in the 'miss cone' anyway, so you'll hit anyway.

It is also a bad idea to take low-chance shots if your own units are in the vicinity.

Image to explain more.

Note: This is based on my own observations of the game, so I may be completely wrong.

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Fan-Stuff / Re: Haiku

« on: February 28, 2015, 07:44:49 am »

Due to the heroic acts of panic berserk shooting, the last floaters dies in agony and pain.
Squad Wiped - but Missions Successful.

This is no haiku
Which is the point of this thread
So can you rephrase?

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Suggestions / Re: a new item flag that limits item fuctionality / map type

« on: February 28, 2015, 07:30:18 am »

This is an interesting concept. Seems like it has a lot of potential.

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Fan-Stuff / Re: Haiku

« on: February 23, 2015, 12:10:12 pm »

All my friends are dead
Only one floater remains
I better panic.

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: February 21, 2015, 10:02:23 pm »

That seems to work.
Let me try an even cleaner clean install.

Nope, with the cleanest install I can manage of the 1.0 milestone, I can't get the legacy mod to work.

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Open Feedback / Re: Tank line of sight issue

« on: February 21, 2015, 12:51:01 pm »

Thanks!

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Work In Progress / Re: Flamethrower ideas

« on: February 21, 2015, 12:23:00 pm »

I think it's fine that armor doesn't work against flame throwers. Especially alien armor, which is mostly hardened skin.