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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: October 16, 2024, 07:50:41 pm »

My main base is plagued by repeated missile strikes.
I have multiple other hideouts already running, but it still pisses me off.
What can I do to stop them comming? Rush certain research/mission?
What base defenses are best counter to missile attacks?

Multiples cannon defenses.
Also work inside the base, against base invasion and tedious base defense missions.

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XPiratez / Re: Bugs & Crash Reports

« on: August 13, 2024, 12:29:03 am »

It's not about fuel type. It's a "car" race, not "interplanetary dropship" race.

But the scorpion, which is faster than the Firefox and look like a flying murder machine is fine...

Anyway, I scrapped that Firefox after paying twice it's price in fuel in one month, and now I have a Prowler cannon in my inventory.
Since it's a built-in weapon of the Firefox, not available through other means, it's feel like an oversight.

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XPiratez / Re: Bugs & Crash Reports

« on: August 04, 2024, 09:12:06 pm »

I can't send the Firefox on a aircar race mission. That should be possible, since it's a craft that run on dollaros nekomimi nuclear batteries, and not on hellerium.

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N6 03-Oct-2023 Zany Cats

« on: December 08, 2023, 11:31:24 pm »

I just find base defences to be the most annoying type of missions

I agree, and that's why you need to build defenses in you base. A few flak cannon, and hop, free fireworks above your base.
And if they manage to survive the first phase, you still have big turrets inside your base ! Blowing up your ennemies, theirs dogs, your turrets and sometimes yours gals !

Seriously, build defenses in every base, it's really help with those tedious missions. The fastest base mission is one that don't need to be done.

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: September 25, 2023, 09:02:52 pm »

Laser or plasma, when using guns.

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XPZ Strategy/Tactics / Re: Fighting against the traffic, tips?

« on: September 19, 2023, 10:30:09 pm »

Shoot down every flying thing you can down, except civilian and govt ship (Or eat the malus for doing that).
Especially the ratmens (Very slow craft, but stay for a long time one the map).

Of course, you need an armed craft (Aircar, Daredevil, or even land craft like the convoy or the battle cab !) for that, a weapon AND ammo (Most likely, 14mm, but LMG or HMG work against ratmens). So you need to plan for that.
Don't forget brainers, cause they help you get new shinny weapons, and also give you score (And money).

Also, try to unlock missions as soon as possible. More missions = more opportunity for loot / score.

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Brutal AI / Re: [SOURCEMOD] Brutal-OXCE 7.5.1

« on: August 24, 2023, 02:42:28 pm »

I've been using GitHub for years but I'm still not proficient in using it. Especially when it comes to things I've never done. These were the first two Pull-Requests I've gotten, so I didn't know what the proper way of doing it was.

I also thought I need to first merge it before I can try it out and then maybe report what I found.

You can checkout the branch of the pull request, that way you don't need to merge on master.
Github will tell you if the branch require a modification before merging.

And, I don't know if it is available on the public part of github, but you can propose a modification directly on github / add comments on the pull request.

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XPiratez / Re: WTF is "Capture Aurora" mission?

« on: August 17, 2023, 08:51:59 am »

A word of warning about tanks : Anything explosive will be either useless or really dangerous for your stuff in the third part.
Also, you can say hello to the princess with a tank. You need to 'remodel' her house a little for that.

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N5 07-Jun-2023 Shadow Descent

« on: August 14, 2023, 02:10:59 pm »

I don't have upkeep problems. It just I have never enough money.
Between the plasma defenses, the high-level armors, the high-tech buildings, money disappears really fast.

Save is linked if you want to have a look.

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XPZ Strategy/Tactics / About the first lunar mission with humanists

« on: August 13, 2023, 10:43:14 pm »

So I finally managed to finish the first humanist mission on the moon, and I wondered what kind of strategy peoples used for this mission ?

• I tried to do it with carbon armors, got absolutely rekt by multiples hanabu / warp cannons.
• Tried with a laser hovertank with low-tech ammo. Not enough power and it exploded as soon as the shield went down.
• Tried with a gnomedisc with 2 rockets launcher (because of the purple shield / rockets), It was better until I discovered I couldn't reload the disc.
• Say fuck it, waited until I had moloch armors, XEC Archer with emp ammo, Hologal Pad, nukes and Blaster Launcher.

The last try was the good one.
Launched a few hologals, slaughtered the hanabu with the XEC. Turn out hologals work really well as bait / ennemies indicator, and are nearly immune to plasma / warp damage.
Then, I exploded the surface buildings and anything that moved until I could access the subterranean part of the base, where moloch armors really shinned as tanks. (I had no experimented repentia gals, but a lot of experts catgirls working as support)

But the moloch armors are red codex exclusive. So it is not doable this way if you're not a red codex user. (And also, I probably destroyed a good part of the loot)

My question are, how did you managed to clear this map ? And when ?

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N5 07-Jun-2023 Shadow Descent

« on: August 13, 2023, 10:04:54 pm »

Getting Scented Message 2

A lot of search topics:
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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N5 07-Jun-2023 Shadow Descent

« on: August 13, 2023, 12:48:39 pm »

I just got an outrageous event : (See Attachment)
And I must say : How dare they make me pay taxes ?

How can we call ourselves pirates if we pay taxes ?
How can I call myself a captain if I let such an affront unpunished ?
Especially when I'm short on money.
What the point of all those explosives sitting in the cave ?


Anyways, there is something wrong with this event. It's clearly the government stealing you, putting you in deep shit (I never have enough money, even after 45 months), and you can't do anything except suck it ? Why I can't make a 'friendly visit' to the taxman, and explain to him and his office why being too zealous at work is a bad idea for your health ?
Even if the price for such an action is a -5k points mission and a big stash of govt fine for every wall I destroyed.

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Brutal AI / Re: [SOURCEMOD] Brutal-OXCE 7.2.3

« on: August 11, 2023, 04:09:02 pm »

Hey Xilmi,
In 5 years I haven't seen ANY blaster launchers shots from OXCE AI. All these guys with blaster launchers (mind-guided missiles) were just decorations to punch them and collect stuff. This solely is an advancement worth mentioning.
Bad the thing is: all mods are balanced around some enemy units being decoration instead of real competitive power.
Just in case.

Aliens (or in my case, Academy Pionners) DO use blaster launchers. I have been blasted today. But I think they use it like a rocket launcher, not like a GUIDED rocker launcher.

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: August 04, 2023, 04:25:38 pm »

On the upper floor of the ennemy lab, just left of the elevator, a fake wall is present, with at least one zombie.
Try hitting walls with an axe. (And don't forget that you may need multiples hits).
There should be no hidden section on the cavern part of the map.

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XPiratez / Re: Bugs & Crash Reports

« on: July 25, 2023, 01:34:10 pm »

I sent a squad on a "Devil's reef" mission, including a ghost using the revamped vampy armor.
I ended with a naked gal (Nudist (SEA)) with a body, despite the briefing saying I could use the vampy armor.