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IDT Modding Hub / Re: Reaver's Harmony Megamod - A Massive X-Com Expansion

« on: March 16, 2023, 05:47:25 am »

The new version can be downloaded from the mod portal - https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/reavers-harmony-megamod

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to add this link to the first post, I think it is not there. But apparently most people know about the place and find the necessary mods there is not a problem.

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Work In Progress / Re: [WIP][MOD][OXCE] From the Apocalypse 0.22.2

« on: March 14, 2023, 11:00:36 am »

Today I downloaded the latest version of this mod (0.22.2) and when trying to run it found that the Russian-language text in the game is not displayed, instead it shows the internal codes of strings.

When checking the file mod found the cause - the wrong name of the file with the Russian localization. When I changed the file name from "ru-RU.yml" to "ru.yml", then the text output in the game came back to normal.

Perhaps the reason is that I play on Android and the computer version of the game designation of the language "ru-RU" is acceptable.

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OXCE Support / Re: Want to take out Men in Black and Improved Living Quarters in Final Mod Pack

« on: March 03, 2023, 11:28:36 am »

What Meridian says is true mainly for base living quarters. Unwanted objects are not difficult to remove. Corrections to the text of the mod will be minimal.

But the Men in Black will be a bit tricky. They have a lot of missions, prescribed in different files mod. Need to find them all and remove.
But that's not all. The Men in Black must have some place in the exploration tree FMP. And it's quite possible that without encountering these enemies once, without researching them and their equipment, you may not be able to access any other meaningful research.

When creating a large mod, each part of the mod is assigned a role. And sometimes simply removing something will leave too big a hole in the gameplay.

But I can't say unequivocally. In the Final Mod Pack I played a long time ago and one of the very old versions. I don't remember the details of the research.

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Released Mods / Re: Kronos 913 mod 2.0

« on: December 22, 2022, 06:23:35 am »

Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps I should have searched the Internet for information about it myself, but for some reason I thought it was something fictional.
Although I noticed a lot of references in the texts, but to "fictional" - to various books, games, and movies.

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Released Mods / Re: Kronos 913 mod 2.0

« on: December 21, 2022, 02:39:45 pm »

Did another check of the correctness of the Russian-language text in this mod. The typos I found are in the attached file.

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Released Mods / Re: [FULL MOD] Awesome Guns (an awesome modification of the OpenXcom game)

« on: December 02, 2022, 09:23:29 pm »

Unfortunately, the usual OpenXcom has not been ported to Android for many years. I don't use a computer to play the game.

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The X-Com Files / Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste

« on: November 30, 2022, 11:04:11 am »

Eh, you use complex idioms that are difficult for me to understand, because I am not a native English speaker.

"Snake eyes" is gaming slang synonymous with bad luck. It comes from the fact that when you roll two game cubes, if each of them will fall on one, then on their upper faces you can see points. Two cubes - two dots - two eyes. This is the worst possible result of such a roll and it was given its own name - "snake eyes".
Similarly, in OpenXcom, as well as in any other game where randomness plays a big role, a permanent failure for the player is possible - it's infrequent, but it happens.
P.S. I don't know English, but this phrase is found in literature, and not only in translated English.

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Released Mods / Re: [FULL MOD] Awesome Guns (an awesome modification of the OpenXcom game)

« on: November 29, 2022, 07:17:18 am »

So it works with warnings or it does not work?

In my options.cfg file I had the ignoring of most mod errors enabled (oxceModValidationLevel: 1). This allows mods with errors to run, but does not protect against crashes during the game.

Now put the standard level of verification mods (oxceModValidationLevel: 2) and OXCE with Awesome Guns on refused to start.

Unfortunately I don't know exactly how OXCE works and what needs to be done to fix the mods.

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Released Mods / Re: [FULL MOD] Awesome Guns (an awesome modification of the OpenXcom game)

« on: November 29, 2022, 06:21:49 am »

When running with Awesome Guns enabled, OXCE 7.8 gives quite a few warnings in the log.

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Suggestions / Re: Research progress bug?

« on: November 27, 2022, 01:06:12 pm »

There was a similar discussion about how research status is displayed before, though I wouldn't have been able to find it quickly.
As I recall (though I could be wrong) one of the main arguments for the way things work in the game right now was this. Estimating the state of an ongoing study cannot be completely accurate. Scientists can't measure how much of the work they've already done and how much remains to be done. All they have is a rough preliminary estimate. In the game, this is known as the cost of research and is specified in the game or mod code. That's why all further progress estimates are based on it. However, the actual progress of research can be both shortened by an unexpected breakthrough and, conversely, delayed due to unforeseen advance difficulties. This is modeled in the game by the randomization of research costs. But the scientists themselves cannot know about this deviation. Therefore, they are unable to take it into account in their assessment of the study's progress, which they report to management.
Therefore, knowing exactly how much is left until the end of the study, from the point of view of realistic gameplay, is cheating.
Maybe I'm wrong in some details, maybe I put my own understanding of the problem into this explanation, not the same as the others. But the fact is that this issue has already been discussed and most likely more than once.

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Released Mods / Re: Kronos 913 mod 2.0

« on: November 22, 2022, 09:09:07 am »

I found a few more typos in the Russian-language text. This time I put the remarks in a text file, which is attached. It is all in Russian, but you seem to understand it.

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The X-Com Files / Re: Getting the EXACT SAME map in two different missions, down to enemy placement

« on: November 14, 2022, 07:17:17 pm »

The text of the question can be understood to mean that only the first choice of either of the two options yields the same result.

I discovered that regardless of which mission I do first, they both have an identical map and enemy placement is exactly the same.

Apparently the game was saved before selecting one of the missions.
Not that two battles in a row are the same.
But only the one who asked the question can give an unambiguous answer.

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OXCE Builds & Ports / Re: [Android BUG] Cannot start game if ANYTHING is in the Mods folder.

« on: November 11, 2022, 10:41:52 am »

There is one possible reason for this behavior of OXCE for Android.

It is very convenient to put mods in the folder directly in the zip-archive without unpacking it. But it is very easy to make a mistake and download such an archive with a mod that will cause exactly the described error when launching the application. Often inside the archive is not a folder with the mod, and directly in the files mod, including metadata.yml. In this case, to avoid the error, you must first unpack the mod (in the folder designed for it), and then re-archive it in the zip file. And then the application will consider that it is a properly formed mod, and will not bring up the data import screen.
So you have to be careful not to put unchecked archives in the mods folder.

As an example I can show you one of the last times I had to repack a mod downloaded from this forum - from the thread https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,10849.0.html

But if the same mod packaged in the archive correctly, then no problems at startup will not be.

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XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: November 06, 2022, 03:54:50 pm »

Im not aware of there being a mod for it, it has to do with an engine limitation because that's how the X-Com: Ufo Defense game works.

For this there is a mod that works with scripts and changes the TU of all enemies, but only at the beginning of the battle.

https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,7308.0.html

Somewhere over there in that thread is a more interesting variant of this mod, which reduces TU not equally, but randomly. It's more realistic that way.

As for how to make that mod compatible with X-Piratez, it's best to change the value in the metadata.yml file «master: "xcom1"» to «master: "*"» Then the mod will be available in any variant of the game - UFO, TFTD, X-Files, X-Piratez and so on. And since it is not tied to specific types of enemies, it should work everywhere.
However, I haven't checked.

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Released Mods / Re: Kronos 913 mod 2.0

« on: November 05, 2022, 02:03:01 pm »

I was interested in this mod and hope that it will only get more interesting in the future. At least for now, this rebalancing allows you to go through the original game, but in a slightly different style, rather than an over-expansion with the addition of a lot of new content.
But looking through the Russian-language text I noticed several typos. I think it is better to correct them right now.
Here they are:

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  STR_EASY_PSIONIC_UFOPEDIA: "При помощи развлечений пришельцев мы можем начинать проводить пси-тренировки для солдат. Однако, для того чтобы более детально изучить эту технологию, нам нужно захватить живого пришелься с пси-способностями""живого пришельца"

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  STR_HOVERTANK_ROCKET_UFOPEDIA: "Хотя мы и не можем воссоздать управляемые ракеты пришельцев, тем не менее, наши учёные смогли разработать ракетную боеголовку, которая превосходит все земные, исползуя эллериум-115. Теперь, ракетная установка стала отличным дополнением к обычному лазерному ховертанку"

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  STR_EL_HAND_ROCKET_UFOPEDIA: "Хотя мы и не можем воссоздать управляемые ракеты пришельцев, тем не менее, наши учёные смогли разработать ракетную боеголовку, которая превосходит все земные, исползуя эллериум-115."In both cases "используя эллериум-115"

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  STR_HOVERTANK_STUN_UFOPEDIA: "На этот танк установлена метательная установка пришельцев. Тяжелая броня и встроенный мозговой сканер позволят пробираться в гущу противников, чтобы взять живьём нужного врага. А для самообороны, в арсенале есть гранаты поражающего действия. Для полного снаряжение, ему нужно по 8 оглушающих и тяжелых гранат, а так же 30 лёгких гранат.""Для полного снаряжения. But I think the right thing to do would be "Для полной зарядки"

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  STR_SUPER_RIFLE_UFOPEDIA: "Дальнейшая обработка сплавов пришельцев позволила создать винтовку, которая может стрелять снарядами от тяжелой пушки. Помимо этого, в конструкцию винтовки добавлено крепление для лазерного пистолета, превратив ее в универсальное оружие. Внимание: для того, чтобы в бою иметь втроенный лазерный пистолет, необходимо добавить лазерный пистолет в снаряжение!""чтобы в бою иметь встроенный"
P.S. To normally see my own corrections I had to turn off auto-translation in my browser (I read in Russian), otherwise Google translates them from Russian to Russian and twists everything.