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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 3.2: The Colors of Sin

« on: January 29, 2024, 02:02:42 am »

Solarius, did you implement Ksennis massive sound expansion extensively?  Were the sounds usable? I'm especially curious about the death-cries. Did you include a lot?  How did you like the quality?

X-Files Resound Mod:
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,8870.0.html

Reason I'm asking is I liked how the older engine versions handled the Sectoid death cries. When I threw a grenade into a group of Sectoids years ago, the engine played multiple death cries, which sounded like a very satisfying chorus.

Unfortunately I checked the Sectoid FX in Resound and found it uh.. well, rather no comment on that.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.1: Swarm Tactics

« on: December 15, 2021, 08:57:59 pm »

Eh, what Solarius Scorch said makes sense and is simpler.  I just should have read it more closely the first time.   

And not really sure X-com need another possible rival out of the gate to come down on them given they already have so many challenges they face.  And I would imagine some on the council might turn a blind eye to smuggling since it helps X-com do their job.  Not everyone is against them.   I mean its not that the idea of 'Government attacks X-com' is necessarily a bad idea (I brought it up in the 'no advent' thread) but I think it is a matter of implementation.
[..]

XCOM lore showed us there will be governments, who will completely succumb to the Alien Agenda. Look at whole continents and islands today becoming totalitarian in a way that suggests that aliens are now mass-texting the governments, what dictates to make, what tyrannical mandates to do.  So any country lost to the aliens could and should organize raids on XCOM bases.
Even governments that are in the process of being taken over could command a couple eager generals to organize Black Merc Ordinator Raids on XCOM bases citing ANY reason. They don't really need a valid reason: illegal trade would be as good an excuse as any. Or "Ooh! You are hurting our Holy Space Brothers! Die!"

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.1: Swarm Tactics

« on: December 12, 2021, 07:44:38 pm »

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EDIT:
Version 2.1 has been released!
[..]
EDIT 2: I forgot to release the submods too. Reuploaded the mod with the submods.

Would you please do an update to these percentages?

Cult of Apocalypse: 90%
Men in Black: 35%
Black Sun: 10%
[classified]: 4%

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 2.1: Swarm Tactics

« on: December 12, 2021, 07:40:33 pm »

Illegal Trade in The X-Com Files
I have an idea:

The thing with illegal purchases is that I'm not sure how you would differentiate that from 'legal' purchases, since it would still be purchased through the same menu in theory.    There also should be some potentail risks/downsides with that approach since its not as reliable as the 'proper' channels.
[..]

I think the governments should sniff out that you are dealing on the black market with [highly] illegal goods. Then the governments should organize a raid on the XCOM-base citing laws forbidding illegal combat-drug/weapon/stuff trade.
An initially inconspicuous government gunship appears on radar: it does a few turns as if searching for something, then heads to your base to carry out a full raid. Your base location was easily spotted by the government using GPS trackers placed into those illegal shipments, which dealings of yours undercover investigators were following for some time..

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OpenXcom Extended / Re: OXCE (OpenXcom Extended) main thread

« on: November 27, 2021, 06:52:35 pm »

Center on Enemy X red rectangle doesn't remain red after switching to new unit in
 Extended-7.1.7-19e41cbc3-2021-11-25-win64.7z
Is it the variable
  oxceEnableSlackingIndicator: true

or probably caused by this:
  oxceRecommendedOptionsWereSet: true

Is there an INI variable that can switch this function back as it was originally?

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - M2 28-Sep-2021 Shadow Robots and Immortal Amazons

« on: October 12, 2021, 01:21:00 pm »

Please stop posting it on the main X-Piratez site on ModDB without my consent. I deleted it.

I was under the impression I'm enhancing the game experience by slaving away hours on this mod to name the soundtracks and uploading. You showed me VDBombers mod, how to do it on moddb, even saying "Don't embarrass yourself." 
So I tried.

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - M2 28-Sep-2021 Shadow Robots and Immortal Amazons

« on: October 12, 2021, 01:35:08 am »

Possessed Lobsterman has empty inventory. Should have natural weapons: CLAW ATTACK.
Currently I can only walk with it..

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OpenXcom Extended / Re: OXCE (OpenXcom Extended) main thread

« on: October 09, 2021, 06:00:58 pm »

I would like to request a shortcut to transfer everything from the left to the right (at once on keypress "X") on the Transfer screen, please:

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - M2 28-Sep-2021 Shadow Robots and Immortal Amazons

« on: October 08, 2021, 01:03:16 am »

Super Mega Music Pack
Thanks to Dioxine and Meridian I made this into a proper mod.

Fully compatible with:
- VDBomber's Music Pack for XPiratez

Description:

170 new named music tracks for X-Piratez, The X-Com Files and similar mods. Hand picked epic score from the best composers. Jukebox shows unique names for all Battlescape and Geoscape soundtracks.

Download links:

1. https://www.moddb.com/mods/x-piratez/downloads/super-mega-music-pack1

2. https://openxcom.mod.io/super-mega-music-pack

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - M2 28-Sep-2021 Shadow Robots and Immortal Amazons

« on: October 04, 2021, 03:51:53 pm »

Assemble Your Own Aircraft!

Modular interceptor idea.

+ Crafts have a "soldier-inventory".  The main Ufopaedia craft art may be the background / in place of the "paperdoll".

+ The "hands" slot here means  weapon ports. We can put guns there and fill them with various ammo if needed or we can put a pack of rockets there 

+ "backpack" / "legs" / "belt" areas are replaced with
Tech Expansion Ports: there we can put shields, extra armor plating, stealth coating / radar absorbing-diffusing paints and various Laser Booster Packs, which are extra one-shot / two-shot energy batteries allowing stronger laser fire (just like when a race car receives a nitro boost)

+ STC slots are shown as well, where by hand we can put various tech from a selection, which is displayed via the "armor-selection" window.  Or we can drag & drop everything into the slots from the bottom item window showing airplane parts sprites.

Aircraft Rotary Guns / Swarm rockets could receive various  ammo upgrades, where the bullets are laced with Hellerium / Molecular Acid / Depleted Uranium / Warp Energy [laced ammo] acting as Anti-Matter when it hits enemy ships

Mind-EMP Ammo / Brainwave-Neutralizer: There could be a new aircraft weapon, which randomly or by a % bypasses armor / shields and doesn't damage enemy ship hulls or shields, but completely disables enemy pilots by freezing their brainwaves / flattens their nerve-signal activity. As a result of using such a weapon, the enemy ship crashes, but largely remains intact (no weapon damage received). But the crew will be in a mental state of having been severely dazed / stunned / zapped / brainwave-nullified (placed into Temporary Coma). One or two survivor barely conscious if the game needs a live alien to keep the Battlescape going. So they'll need couple turns to become somewhat fight capable.   Droids / Guard Robots / Terminators are immune to such Brainwave Nullifying guns.
(Weapon type: disabling enemy pilots)

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - M2 28-Sep-2021 Shadow Robots and Immortal Amazons

« on: September 30, 2021, 04:36:11 pm »

Syberia base continues to be found after I found the first one and the savegame contains:
  - STR_RUSSIAN_FILES_STAGED
  - STR_RUSSIAN_FILES

and this:
  STR_RUSSIAN_FILES: 1
  STR_RUSSIAN_FILES_STAGED: 1

Is this intended?

I'm finding my second mysterious Syberia base.. :/

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OpenXcom Extended / Re: OXCE (OpenXcom Extended) main thread

« on: September 29, 2021, 06:48:22 pm »

TRANSFER screen shortcut request:

Right after finishing a mission I can ship the looted equipment to my research base. Can we please have a shortcut key "X" on that screen that transfers all equipment from the left side to the right side, so everything can be shipped to an other base (not where my ship is from) at a flip of a switch?
Thank You!

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - M1 29-Aug-2021 Violent Laser Battle (...)

« on: September 28, 2021, 04:02:00 pm »

Maybe I'm a noob, but the "Immersive" install seems broken. I get a "End of map not found" error on load, which makes me think the formatting for the music list is busted? And I don't know what the proper formatting should be in order to fix it. Could you take a look?

Fixed. Since Mod.io clears text formatting in its description, I just uploaded my two actual RUL files which retain the correct formatting. Any long music lists in those files (look for GMTACTIC in Piratez_Factions.rul) can be copied over to your latest version of the mod.

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OpenXcom Extended / Re: OXCE (OpenXcom Extended) main thread

« on: September 27, 2021, 11:07:50 pm »

Doesn't happen to me. Can someone confirm?

Found it!
F9  -  on quicksave reload touch buttons disappear.

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OpenXcom Extended / Re: OXCE (OpenXcom Extended) main thread

« on: September 27, 2021, 08:13:17 pm »

Touch buttons keep disappearing = Unselected

Clicking on the ≡ I can turn on Touch buttons display. It works for ~two of my soldiers, then when I switch to the next one, the touch buttons turn OFF.   

Is there a way to force these touch buttons to be displayed for the remainder of the battle?  OXCE 7.0 for XPiratez.  Is this a bug? 

I tried to upgrade to one of the latest OXCE nightlies, but unfortunately the latest versions give a nasty ARMOR definition bug when XPiratez is trying to load, so it doesn't load at all..