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Took them from alien dead bodies, of course. :-)But I haven't encountered any aliens with vibro weapons yet. I got the research option from a calcinite autopsy, which is how it was in vanilla - and gives the impression that it's alien-inspired human tech.
Just as sonic weapons and other alien stuff.
I don't have OpenXcom 1.0 (it's 7 years old!)I edited my post with new info before you replied.
I tested both OpenXcom Extended 7.0 and OpenXcom Extended 7.0.19... and they both work fine.
There hasn't been any change in that part of the code for years.
Please don't make me upload more video proofs.
If you want to continue this (very likely pointless) discussion, please provide some evidence.
I'm not sure but I think that is the gimmick weapon made for ClosetYeti's TWoTS Let's Play series. He has a recurring character named Axe who does only melee and dies a lot. The axe was supposedly just a thermal tazer with a unique graphic and text.CostBuy - that's what was missing! The axe is a pretty pointless addition to the X-Com shop, I admit, but it makes me happy
If you want to make an item available for purchase, you have to set a non-zero costBuy. If there is anything listed under requiresBuy, then you will need to have completed research projects matching all string names in that list in order to be allowed to purchase the weapon.
Most of the surface weapons are there for fluff. I'm pretty sure the best surface weapon is the X-Rifle which you can get access to very quickly, maybe the Plasma Rifle but the aimed mode restriction really hinders it.A bit too quickly, I think. When I retrieved and researched the AKM, I thought "great, now I don't have to suck on the surface anymore!" But researching that unlocked the option to research common weapon acquisition, which allowed me to purchase X-rifles. I never used AKMs in combat.
My megamod Reaver's Harmony has a solution to this, though it's a bit complicated. The simplest thing you can do is to useWait a minute... I thought this is how it was originally? So when I have been playing vanilla, all the damage I've inflicted which has fallen short of downing the UFOs, has amounted to a bag of beans?Code: [Select]lessAliensDuringBaseDefense: true(not nested).
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This makes it so that if base defense facilities deal, say, 43% damage to the ship, it will have about 43% less aliens dropping into the base.
That's not an issue of 'realism' or suspension of disbelief though, that's more a 'game mechanics' optimization style reason. My original post is about justifying the in-universe logic for those things, not whether it is competitive with other features.But that's what I was doing - justifying it by in-game logic, rather than viewing it through a lens of realism. I see three suits of armours where one suit combines the benefits of the other two, and in-game logic dictates that it also combines the disadvantages of those other two.
Like, you can still bring it up (that's the purpose of this thread) I'm just not sure it's a big enough issue it warrants a change to the game itself, rather than you simply tweaking it so it suits the way you feel it should be handled. I've had similar feelings about such in XCF and XP myself, but it's more about me than about the games. In other words, I see it as a 'me' problem, not a 'game' problem.Yes, well I saw it differently. I spotted something I figured was an error, and so I reported it in the appropriate place. Just because I fixed it in my personal copy of the game, doesn't mean it's fixed for others.