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those are warnings, not errors. they're completely normal and mostly harmless.Ok, managed to build it in a separate directory. Is there any way to set it to use custom data folders in Linux? I never liked the Linux way of scattering the data all over the place.
Well, even trained soldiers are green at the start and become veterans later. I had a discussion about it with a game developer that served as a medic in military and he told me that according to research people change physiologically when they win fights - for example testosterone increases. Veterans are also less likely to die after receiving the same wound than green soldiers, so HP rising is justified to some point.I checked the manual and apparently X-Com has "the world's finest pilots, soldiers, scientists and engineers". Which would imply that realistically, these guys should be statted-out like special forces soldiers. I think there are tens of thousands of them around the world, so realistically, it would be possible to recruit only from elite units without ever being in danger of the recruit pool drying up.
Though yeah, it's weird that they can become more powerful than alien species engineered for combat.
Agreed with Sturm's logic on soldiers' stats, "training" or "lack of training" are relative things, and a civilian seems to be the only watermark available. True, this makes it hard to explain how your soldiers turn from "trained" to "superheroes"... Anyway this discussion always comes back... It's a matter of personal opinion really.Well, even trained soldiers are green at the start and become veterans later. I had a discussion about it with a game developer that served as a medic in military and he told me that according to research people change physiologically when they win fights - for example testosterone increases. Veterans are also less likely to die after receiving the same wound than green soldiers, so HP rising is justified to some point.
And here, my friend, our opinions differ.Stats don't support the theory about lack of training.In my world, supported by evidence (starting stats), these guys are hardly trained soldiers, they're field agents that take up weapons. Few of them seem to have had significant military training, no?
- type: MALE_CIVILIAN
race: STR_CIVILIAN
stats:
tu: 35
stamina: 65
health: 30
bravery: 80
reactions: 30
firing: 30
throwing: 50
strength: 20
psiStrength: 5
psiSkill: 0
melee: 50- type: XCOM
minStats:
tu: 50
stamina: 40
health: 25
bravery: 10
reactions: 30
firing: 40
throwing: 50
strength: 20
psiStrength: 0
psiSkill: 0
melee: 20
maxStats:
tu: 60
stamina: 70
health: 40
bravery: 60
reactions: 60
firing: 70
throwing: 80
strength: 40
psiStrength: 100
psiSkill: 16
melee: 40I made a mod once for TFTD which adjusted the armor multipliers for terrain so that different weapons did altered damage to them. For example I lowered it for Gauss and AP so human weapons wouldnt put holes in walls. Raised it for Explosives (for everyone actually) because I lowered explosion damage across the board (to decrease explosion size). Raised it for Sonic so that way sonic shots would almost always melt walls.By the way, from what I've recently read, it's easier to knock down a building with a blast of an explosion than to kill a person. Overpressure that is sufficient to collapse most of buildings would just burst eardrums of 1% of people affected by it.
It knows of your position after turn 20! Cheating AI!Even worse, OpenXcom has a cheating player that uses special abilities that the AI doesn't have like thinking, predicting situations, coordinating and using tactics which breaks the game.
I hope this is not replicated in OpenXcom
A turn limit for ending a battle seems logical to me.More like 12,5-25 minutes.
Since Xcom is in a human world, 150 turns or 2.5 "hours" of game world time, would mean reinforcements arrived or say an airstrike on the position, thus terminating the game on the player side if at least one unit survived.
While I understand Warboy's stance that it's a debugging tool, and that's how many people use it as well (pretty much all coders and modders), it is actually a fair point that it looks to a casual player like a game feature, not a debugging tool.Casual player? I often play New Battles for fun. Also, base defence being a mess makes it worse for testing some stuff.
tanks will only appear if there are enough spawn nodes for them. by default your battle save will have more soldiers than can be deployed. you'd need to alter your battle.cfg save and reduce the number of soldiers in it. as for the layout, changing the "starting base" with a mod is simple, you can even copy/paste one from an existing saved game. as for bad implementation and horrible experiences with 1 of every item... it's a debugging tool, it's designed for functionality that _I_ need. adding one of every item is necessary because of mods, if a mod adds an item, it needs to be added to the base so that it will show up in the item list as allocatable to your craft. it's hooked up to be functional, sometimes things are necessary, no matter how horribad you perceive them to be.The name in menu is "New Battle", not "Debug Mode, No Fun Allowed".
@Sturm: There are pros and cons. I played UFO in English for many years, so personally, I do not need a Polish translation at all. However, not everyone is enough fluent in English, and may just want to understand some details, e.g. in the ingame Ufopedia, for curiosity (I know such people). So, don't be egoistic, think of others as well. Besides, the original game was available in 3 languages from the very beginning. If in 3, why not in 30? English is a kind of modern Esperanto, OK, but why national languages should be worse? I only wish the translation should cost less time and effort. But it does... hence this discussion.I'm thinking of others. Game translations have created a generation of people who learn English in multiple schools and still can't use it. Reading stuff in the language one learns (with help of a dictionary) is a great way of increasing ones vocabulary.
OK, but why national languages should be worse?Because they aren't the language in which the work was written? Not to mention that apparently translators may be too busy pushing their own agenda to faithfully translate the work.
You are right and wrong with the term "karabin szturmowy" (anyway, there is no even the least reason for capitalizing it, such a spelling manner looks like littering our language with foreign spelling customs). Indeed, the newest norm does not have it. Such a term can be met in the literature, however (so, you are wrong thinking there is not such a military term). As it is absent in the norm, and at the same time it is a word-for-word translation of the international term, we may call it popular. Terminological (military, industry etc.) norms, unlike the orthographic norms (or to some degree, language or orthoepic norms) needn't be the one and only law. All depends if a term inconsistent with the norm is widely used or not.When someone writes assault rifle in English they use the military term, not slang and it should be translated with a military term, though. US Army apparently recognizes and defines the term of "assault rifle". "Karabin szturmowy" is a slang name like for example "assault weapon" in English. Literature is of highly varying quality and some (most?) may be written by people without education basing on articles from the internet. I can't find such a thing as "karabin szturmowy" in Encyklopedia Najnowszej Broni Palnej (written by people with actual military education), for example and someone with authority seems to be policing the Polish Wikipedia to also not use the term.
On the other side, I understand that for a person who deals with military things, using an unnormative terminology may be thorny.
As far as I know, no hand weapon may be called "armata" in the modern language. So you may be wrong in this point.More precisely, it's the authors of the game who are wrong, which should preserved in translation as there's no such a thing in English either. There are no weapons categories of heavy cannon and auto-cannon applying to hand weapons. If such weapons (X-Com "heavy cannon" and "auto-cannon") existed they'd probably get called grenade launchers or something like that or would receive some fancy new name.
"Ciężki laser" would be acceptable but "ciężka plazma" woud not. "Plazma" means a state of matter, not a weapon (shortening of "broń plazmowa" to "plazma" is a slang). Such a translation may appear as thorny for a physicist as thorny is "karabin szturmowy" for an expert in militaries.It's because the game uses of a mixture of horrible nerd slang and (often mis-applied) military terminology. Both should be preserved to preserve the authenticity of the work. Yes, it includes Bomba Wysadzacz and Wyrzutnia Wysadzaczy or a similar abomination
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