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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.3: Rise of The Cultists

« on: March 30, 2022, 08:59:16 pm »

Update: I deleted everything and redownloaded it all fresh and it seems to have worked.  I'm not sure what happened exactly, but it's all good now.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.3: Rise of The Cultists

« on: March 30, 2022, 07:56:44 pm »

Shadow events only happen if you're considerably behind schedule with the cults and also do not participate in cult suppressions. They were introduced specifically to incentivise players to get of their asses and do their job as Earth defenders.

Rethink your playstyle and plan for better global coverage.

How fast am I expected to do this exactly? I'm often getting these events one after another in rapid succession without ever getting any cult suppression missions popping up. Like, even in the images that I just posted the second and third events were both Shadow of Exalt and they occurred within three and a half hours of one another on the same day.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.3: Rise of The Cultists

« on: March 30, 2022, 07:54:08 pm »

This is odd because i cant remember Shadow of the Cult events at all, isnt this the Grim Ritual site, Gopniks dream, killing intend etc.. ?

Those shouldnt be draining THAT much points, let alone at once in one month in the early game that it can destroy you if you are doing well on other missions, like there is something that is missing here.
You know that NOT accepting missions does drain points ? Because such low scores so early in the game are really weird, those are "I skipped terror missions" number. Or if you accidentally researched too many archs at once and you have too many missions from different archs with massive penalties on too many of them/you cant actually play these because they are too hard for your tech level.

There is something wrong with your game, because in no way i hell you could be defeated even before meeting your basic staff

In the games that I played, I did miss missions simply from not having enough cars to hit them all before they despawned, but I hit as many as I could.  I started a new game and screen grabbed each time one of these events appeared along with the in-game time and date for one in-game month.

You can find the events in the mod folder as well in {OpenXcom/mods/XComFiles/Ruleset} (Windows) file title 'events_XCOMFILES.rul'

The one for Exalt looks like this

name: STR_EXALT_SHADOW
    description: STR_EXALT_SHADOW_DESCRIPTION
    background: EXALT_BACKGROUND.SCR
    regionList: [STR_NORTH_AMERICA, STR_SOUTH_AMERICA]
    city: true
    points: -300
    timer: 20
    timerRandom: 43500
    interruptResearch: STR_EXALT_NETWORK

I'm considering just purging my PC of all things related to Open Xcom and just redownloading all of it, but before I do that I wanted to make sure that this was an anomaly and see if anybody else was experiencing something similar.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.3: Rise of The Cultists

« on: March 30, 2022, 01:12:10 am »

Hey, I was wondering how to get around the Shadow of (Cult name here) events.  I've done a few runs at varying difficulties, but I've never made it past six months because this event is constantly occurring and draining all of my points away.  I ran a game on beginner yesterday and lost in two months with scores of -2500 and -1700.  I'm hitting as many missions as I can, and I'm scoring in the positive on those missions, but there's no way that I can make that many points that fast.  In fact, today I started a new game and got hit with a Shadow of Exalt event before I had met all of my starting staff.  Is there some way that I can turn down the rate at which these types of events occur, or lower the number of points they drain?