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Released Mods / Re: [SOUND] High Quality Sounds

« on: July 04, 2014, 01:01:26 am »

I'm pretty sure all of XCOM's original sounds are from a sound library. The same one Doom uses, I think. Therefore it would be possible if someone got their hands on that library to make a high-quality soundpack of the actual original sounds.

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Suggestions / Re: What you have done here is a work of art

« on: June 18, 2014, 10:28:31 pm »

Armors already have a weight value, don't they?

And the problem with per-soldier weight is that then you can't bring extra equipment to leave on the Skyranger then, plus it doesn't make much logical sense when ignoring game constraints

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Suggestions / Re: What you have done here is a work of art

« on: June 18, 2014, 10:00:02 pm »

I disagree, I think the weight should be based on craft. Of course, soldiers would reduce how much weight is available since they also take up space.

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Suggestions / Re: Some suggestions and ideas

« on: June 18, 2014, 09:58:34 pm »

What I'd like to see is when moving an item in the inventory screen during a battle, if it displayed how many TUs it costs to move to a location, next to its name

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Suggestions / Re: What you have done here is a work of art

« on: June 18, 2014, 09:32:07 pm »

The 80 item limit was a limitation more than a feature. Here's my rationale behind this conclusion:

• In the base defense, the game has the same 80-item limit, but there you'd just arbitrarily get the first 80 items in alphabetical order. This behavior should NOT be re-implemented.
• It was based on number of items, irrespective of their size. This indicates that it was because they had a limited array to store items. It would be much more logical as a game mechanic to base it off of weight or size.
• This would make all crafts have the same amount of storage space, which doesn't make much sense.

But, I do agree that there should be some limit.
If it was re-implemented, it should be based on weight, because a pistol clip should not take the same amount of space as rocket launchers. I also think each craft should have their own amount of storage (Firestorm < Skyranger < Avenger). Otherwise what's the point of the "Space Available" field if it's infinite?

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Open Feedback / Re: New to OpenXCom, would like to provide Roland MT-32 captures

« on: June 17, 2014, 03:02:54 am »

If you pack up the project files and host them, I'll help you cut them properly for looping. A lot of tracks seems to have a bit missing off the beginning, and others like INTRO1/2 are cut wrong.

Here's the tracks that need re-doing:
-GMINTRO1 and 2 (the end of 1 is put into the beginning of 2, you can probably just cut and paste it back over)
-GMINTER (The beginning is moved to the end, could probably just be re-cut)
-GMNEWMAR (Seems to have a lot missing, if you have a longer recording I could just re-cut it)

The following are fine but seem to have a tiny bit cut off the beginning:
-GMENBASE (very slight)
-GMINTRO3
-GMWIN (This isn't meant to loop so it doesn't really matter)

The rest are fine.

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Open Feedback / Re: Softer "Warning" voice from the Intro no longer available?

« on: June 15, 2014, 10:51:47 pm »

Do you have "INTRO.CAT" in your Data\Sounds folder?

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Open Feedback / Re: New to OpenXCom, would like to provide Roland MT-32 captures

« on: June 15, 2014, 10:22:29 pm »

There's two Geoscape tracks, and they don't play sequentially (it loops the same one). The first time the game goes to the Geoscape it will play GMGEO1. Once you do a mission and come back, it should do GMGEO2, and so on.

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Suggestions / Re: Geoscape Zoom Levels and Smoother Interception Transition

« on: May 26, 2014, 08:02:16 pm »

In this case it just looks smooth because it's going through the zoom levels very quickly (because it IS CPU dependent)

Though I agree that it would be nice to make the zooming incremental.

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Open Feedback / Adlib emulation accoracy?

« on: May 13, 2014, 10:14:53 pm »

While I must say having the emulator built in is awesome, it seems to play certain instruments a lot differently than a real SoundBlaster (and even DOSBOX) does. I know there are differences in general between emulation and real hardware (and even between two copies of the same sound card) but this is pretty blatant

I think it has something to do with the fact that games were able to modify timbres of instruments for Adlib, maybe this functionality isn't being supported?

Here's a comparison for the most obvious example (GMMARS/debrief screen):

Soundblaster recording
DOSBOX recording
OpenXcom recording

The bass/guitar sample in particular is a lot softer and smoother in the SoundBlaster version, and overall the SoundBlaster/DOSBOX version is a lot more pleasant to hear. Other songs really aren't that bad, but this track in particular is way different.

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Suggestions / Re: Aspect Ratio [letterbox] in options

« on: May 13, 2014, 10:05:57 pm »

maybe we could have something to cover up black bars atleast? wouldn't be the worst idea ever

Like what? a PSX-style background image?

I don't think that will work out, because it would have to work for many different resolutions with different sizes and scaling.

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Suggestions / Re: Aspect Ratio [letterbox] in options

« on: May 08, 2014, 06:15:17 am »

The resolutions are provided by SDL, which means it's the resolutions reported by your own system.

If pixels are non-square even with aspect ratio scaling on, then it's an issue with your monitor/video card settings.

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Released Mods / Re: (Release v.1.0) Terrain Addons

« on: May 05, 2014, 04:12:46 am »

Any chance that you could get screenshots of the new map blocks?

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Open Feedback / Re: First person view

« on: May 02, 2014, 06:30:41 pm »

I really don't think a transition for 3D would be that bad for X-Com. Every tile sprite could just get its own model. The only problem is it might be hardware-intensive to render hundreds and hundreds of models at once.

Otherwise though, I think just having models that stick to X-Com's fairly simplistic object shapes and textures should look fine. For example, the textures for the soldier models could be based off of their inventory paperdoll.

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Suggestions / Re: [GAME OPTIONS] Remove some "Advanced Options"

« on: May 02, 2014, 06:28:31 pm »

Agreed.