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Hey. Is Captain Log #1 accurate? I've got all the techs required but not Captain Log #1. I'm in May/JuneThat seems to be an oversight in the compilation file, !!Bounty Hunting!! is also a required research. The full list of requirements is below:
Is there a way to turn off only the background sounds / ambient noise that I'm not seeing? I usually play while watching something else and a few maps have loud, intrusive sounds (the one the immediately comes to mind is the morning maps) that aren't tied to gameplay that I'd like to silence so I can hear the game and other things I'm doing. Been searching the forums for about an hour and not seeing anything, and figured it would be better to post here than make a new thread.Since those ambient sounds are played from specific sound files in the resources folder, you can try replacing them with blank ones that have no actual audio. That will completely remove all of the ambient audio from the missions, to my knowledge. I did a quick test and it seemed to work without issue. This might not be the best solution, but it's quick and easy to do.
How does one even fight Star Gods? I know how to deal with shielded tanks and expect Sectopods to be similar if tougher. But the Star Gods themselves? Oh vey.My general advice would be to forget about using melee against the Star Gods (both Guardians in red cloaks and true SG's in grey cloaks) unless you're using a gal with very high melee (135+) wielding a very high base accuracy weapon, since they have an absurdly high melee dodge. The Guardians have the worst dodge at ~78 with no back penalty, and the true SG's are even more evasive. Spears and two-handed axes can still work since they hit from beyond melee range.
In my world, they have established an outpost quite early (month 14 or thereabouts), which receives plenty of supply runs. This give me the opportunity to try my hand at them every so often. My ranged weapons appear to be weak, my melee attacks never seem to connect, but worst of all, I can't even see the guys until I've almost walked into them.
My weapons are bound to get better with time, but I have no idea how I'm supposed to deal with their stealthiness.
I think "Highwayman Scout Quad" armor should be made more adequate to its appearance and pedia description, i.e. "vulnerable to fire and explosions", instead having 50% and 75% resistances, which in combiantion with good armor makes it nearly invulnerable to almost any early ranged weapon. Its only weak point is 115% to stabbing, which is weird. Its massive TU: 250 is weird as well, as well as deadly: after crossing of couple of hangars space it will still be able to do several bursts of autofire.With the scout quads, and 2x2 units in general, since they occupy 4 tiles on the battlescape any area of effect weapons i.e. explosives will hit them 4 times. So effectively the scout quads take 0.75 * 4 = 3 times damage from any explosives that get through the armour. You can tell if an enemy is a 2x2 by looking at the analysis tab in their examination Pedia entry, if they are then their size will be listed as 2 near the top.
Last night I get another sudden difficulty spike, then very young agricultural base, located in deep of amazonia jungles, was attacked by "small" band of highwaymen (36), including dogs, flamethrowers, fucking incendiary SMG and 3, yes THREE at once, aforementioned vehicles. So spotted one of these on first turn of combat, I decided to reload back by few days and bring on help of local peasantry a couple of strong melee fighters from homebase, equipped with... rapiers (pikes can suit better but who knew when). They make the job, yes, but at cost of many reloads and hours of playtime, because of sewers phase was extremely tedious.
Cult manors should only appear in cities, right? There's one that I can't seem to find despite having my agents patrol everywhere in Europe.As far as I can tell, that's in Oslo, Norway.
If anyone knows how to figure it out, this is the latitude and longitude data.
lon: 0.17749998492782332
lat: -1.0384709049366261
What am I missing for buying theIt can't be purchased at all.OICW"zeerust carbine"?
Tech viewer has ZEERUST CARBINE (i) as unlocked, but I can't find it in the store.
I didn’t get oneYeah, it's very easy to accidentally destroy the newspaper item. It will always be held in the inventory of one of the enemy leader units (i.e. humanist leader, ratman lieutenant, spartan lieutenant etc.), so try to avoid using explosives against them or around their corpses. Although, only humans will have a copy, Deep Ones and Dark Ones aren't very interested in reading I guess.
I've noticed tha on some gournd assoult crash recovery missions - mostly supply ships - these appera to be turn-timed in a number of 10, once turne expire there is a debriefing screen and my vessel if forced to leave, why it is? In the briefing game tells nothing, it the same gournd assault briefin screen.There is a warning about this in the Pedia entry for supply ships, but I think that's the only explicit mention of there being any kind of time limit, and it doesn't mention a specific length of time:
Why this is so?
Supply Ships are used to fly regular supply runs to enemy Secret Bases. They are fast and hard to get once they manage to get close to their Base, but should yield significant booty (especially Hellerium) with only moderate risk, if we work fast - they're rigged to explode.
Hi! I've been having an issue with captain's rank not advancing beyond Brigand.The event triggers fine for me when the next month comes up, so I don't know why it doesn't appear for you. Looking at the save, it wouldn't have triggered on previous months (July-September), since you didn't meet the score requirements.
In this save I have Our Culture and Who's Who researched, and the month ends with a 6.3k score, which should fulfill the requirements for Rogue.
I'd be grateful for some help here as the campaign is blocked on this.
Is it possible to shoot down ninja hoverbikes? I'm pretty sure I did that randomly on my first or second playthrough, but now I'm on my fifth and it doesn't seem to be possible in this game version. 14mm and 25mm weapons blow them to bits every time. I tried mounting a secondary light machinegun to tickle them to death once the shield is knocked out by a bigger weapon, but that didn't work either.It shouldn't be possible to get a crash site from the ninja jetbikes. They're set to huntBehavior 1, which makes them fight to the death instead of fleeing or crashing at low health. That may have been possible on previous versions of XPiratez or the OXCE engine though. According to the ruleset reference before OXCE v6.5 UFOs on huntBehavior 1 could be shot down instead of fighting to the death, but I can't confirm that personally.
Couple other things I couldn't figure out.The training caps listed in the dojo description only apply to Gals. Other soldier types (e.g. Peasant or Lokk'Naar) will generally have their training and max stat caps lower than those numbers. There's not really an easy way to tell in-game what the training caps are, but they're around 70-80% of the Max value listed in the "Soldier: [TYPE]" entries in the "Yer Fightin' Crew" section of the Bootypedia.
I had a loknarr training in a dojo for several months before it said their training was done. But their melee skill was only 65, the description of the Dojo says it can only train melee up to 100. Is the description just wrong or is something else the cause?
Secondly, I get how camo works but daytime camo seems to be almost useless because even regular humans can see across the entire map. What's the actual sight range for normal humans and gals during daytime?
How exactly do Sniper/Spotter traits work? I reread the related articles from Bootypedia every time I reach the moment in my campaign when enemies start consistently shooting/throwing explosives/firing rockets at me out of nowhere, but I am still not sure I get it right. Does it mean that every time a Spotter sees any of my soldiers (or is killed by one of them), all enemies having a "Sniper" trait will see this soldier for the set number of turns and be able to shoot at her wherever she is and wherever she goes? Even if it is night, there is no direct line of sight and she is half a map away in the middle of a cloud of smoke?There's more detailed discussion elsewhere on the forum, you can use the search function to find that, but the general idea is that when Spotters see or are attacked by any of your units they mark that unit for a certain number of turns (1 to infinite depending on the spotter 'rank', Basic to Master). Snipers have a random chance each turn of deciding to attack any marked unit they have line of fire to with either direct fire guns or thrown grenades, the chance increases with the sniper 'rank', Basic to Master.
Is there a different way you're meant to get theTo my understanding, there's 4 ways you can get one.these days? Because I remember getting them every odd space mission last time I played but now I've gone on about a dozen and none have shown up. Have I just been really unlucky?Spoiler: