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Work In Progress / Re: Two-layer X-Com base (with surface facilities)

« on: May 04, 2015, 12:24:32 am »

There was a discussion about 2 stage base defense and the idea was to switch: first stage would still be the original mission, with second stage being the assault on the Battleship that brought the aliens.

Is there an echo in here?  I just said that, lol

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Work In Progress / Re: Two-layer X-Com base (with surface facilities)

« on: May 03, 2015, 11:59:47 pm »

Going on that vein, what about having two stages?  Starting in the indoor stage then during stage two chasing the surviviours back to the ship to finish them off?

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Work In Progress / Re: Two-layer X-Com base (with surface facilities)

« on: May 03, 2015, 11:11:48 pm »

I approve of this... I really do.  This must happen!  I break stuff all the time on my install, so I'd be happy to help test this if and when you do get it working.

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Work In Progress / Re: Two-layer X-Com base (with surface facilities)

« on: May 03, 2015, 11:02:26 pm »

idk, maybe it would stick around.  if the crew is so large, it would have to hang around because it's only got two unloading gates and they only have so many TUs per turn... so the base would have be a whopping seven layers high if you do that.

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Work In Progress / Re: Two-layer X-Com base (with surface facilities)

« on: May 03, 2015, 10:47:19 pm »

I think it's a really cool idea and I'd love to see where it goes... I don't really have any "help" to offer though... I'm more skilled w/ making weapons than I am w/ making tiles, lol.

What about having a surface level complete w/ a very large to explore?  There'd a BUTTLOAD of aliens, you'd have to boost the size landing parties by like 50% at least imo if you do that.

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Work In Progress / Re: Plasma Shotgun

« on: May 01, 2015, 06:02:53 am »

Updated this today, just added new sprites.

Credit to Dioxine (Alt Shotgun 4) and Bloax (Alt Shotguns 2, 3, and 5!)

*IMPORTANT*
THIS MOD IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MODS THAT CHANGE THE DEPLOYMENT TABLES!

THIS MOD IS NOW INCLUDED IN MY WEAPON REWORK AND EXPANSION MOD!  DO NOT USE TOGETHER!
*IMPORTANT*

Versions:
0.3
- Added Optional Sprites

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Work In Progress / Re: Alloy Weapons

« on: May 01, 2015, 05:59:25 am »

Updated this today, so it's ready to integrate into your mod, Arthanor, or anyone else that wants to *glares at hellrazor*

Credit to Dioxine for new Assault Cannon and Alloy Assault Cannon sprites!

You can click here for the mod!

Versions:
0.2
- Added new sprites

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Work In Progress / Re: Weapon Rework/Expansion - Version 0.8

« on: May 01, 2015, 05:56:32 am »

Okay, so this has finally been updated again.  I'm going to include the last version in addition to this update because I didn't post it on the forum when I did it.

*IMPORTANT*
THIS MOD IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH OTHER MODS THAT CHANGE THE ALIEN DEPLOYMENTS!
*IMPORTANT*

Compatibility:
Hobbes Terrain Pack 3.4.1

Sprite Credit to Dioxine (Plasma Sniper Rifle and Alt Shotgun 4) and Bloax (Alt Plasma Shotguns 2, 3, and 5!)

You can click here for the mod if you wanna play it.

ChangeLog:
0.3
- Weapons rebalanced (again)
- New weapons added (Plasma Shotgun, Plasma Sniper Rifle)
- New sprites added
- Weapons now in correct order in the UFOpadia and Inventory
- Added Compatability for Terrain Pack Nightly
- Rebalanced Alien Deployments

0.2
- More bug fixes (all weapons should work now!)
- Special thanks to Warboy for his assistance on bug hunting.

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Work In Progress / Re: Alloy Weapons

« on: April 22, 2015, 05:45:26 pm »

Sure, you can integrate it if you like.  I'll try to get an updated version of it posted soon so that Dioxine's Auto Cannon models are included in it.

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Work In Progress / Re: Plasma Shotgun

« on: April 22, 2015, 02:06:25 am »

I think it's awesome that you guys want to help out by making sprites for me, but I don't really like the design choices that have been presented so far.  There's elements in both weapons I like but there's more elements I dislike.  I know I could mix-and-match on my own in my art program, but I really like seeing what you guys come up with.

I'm NOT refusing your help, I'm encouraging you to keep working on your ideas.  It's kind of I'm a military company and you guys are outside contractors assigned to deal with a problem you've been presented with, lol.

Good luck ^^

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Work In Progress / Re: Plasma Shotgun

« on: April 21, 2015, 10:15:26 pm »

Well, the nice thing about having a bunch of sprites lying around is that players can pick the one they like best ^^;

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Work In Progress / Re: Plasma Shotgun

« on: April 21, 2015, 09:20:24 pm »

I like the version w/ the shroud.  It looks too human without it imo.

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Work In Progress / Re: Alloy Weapons

« on: April 21, 2015, 08:28:47 pm »

OMG!  That looks so amazing!  Thank you so much!  When I post the next update for my mod I'll be sure to include it.

If you (or anyone else) were wondering what I was trying to "emulate" for the new autocannon, I used the beam gatling gun from Gundam Unicorn.  *bit of a weeb*

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Work In Progress / Re: Plasma Shotgun

« on: April 21, 2015, 07:46:51 pm »

Fortunately I am very experienced in working within a palette, what with originating from the doom community and all.Haha, yeah I've kind of grown into the habit of pushing the boundaries of how stupidly detailed a small sprite can be.


Here's a slightly nerfed, polished and paletted version.

That looks better for sure.  I'll play with a little bit in game and see how I feel about it.  In the mean time, how'd you like to help me on some of my other projects that involve spriting?  I've been looking for a decent artist.

EDIT:  I just tried it in game... you need to use the correct colour pallet otherwise you get the "pallet" bug where colours get randomly assigned to it.  I believe Solarius linked the correct pallet in his post.

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Offtopic / Re: Introduce yourself

« on: April 21, 2015, 06:44:20 pm »

I haven't really introduced myself around here yet, so I might as well.

I'm chaosshade, X-Com veteran of 21 years... wow it's been a long time... anyway, I hated 2012 because it axed too many things I loved about X-Com and OXC was a breath of fresh air!  Steam's DOSBox version is okay... but OXC really shines.  I love the fact that it's the original game but virtually all the bugs are fixed now!  I can't wait for TFTD ^^

I've been modding on and off for a few months now and I'm pretty comfortable with YAML and adding new stuff.  I've had some successes and some dismal failures, but I'll get the hang of it.  I'm not a great spriter so making new Battlescape itesm becomes very time-consuming for me, but I'll get the hang of it eventually... or I can beg someone in the community *laughs*