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Work In Progress / Re: [UNIT] Phaser Race - WIP

« on: March 14, 2015, 03:50:36 pm »

Very cool, stuff!  Everytime I read up on this, I can't help but think of "Predator" movies.  I think this alien helps round out the pantheon of aliens found in pop culture these days.   Well, no one has done ET yet  

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Playthroughs / Re: How to Film X-com for Free?

« on: March 14, 2015, 03:00:15 am »

i enjoyed scripting in bash is easy and intuitive

That's one thing about "intuitive".  It's different for everyone.  I do not find it intuitive myself.  Of course, I'm not a master of the command line (not a newbie by any stretch either), but I think in code easier.  I feel "hampered" when I have to start using bash after working in python for so long. If I need to drop to command line, I use envoy instead.

Kudos to you though if it's intuitive for you, and I admire your skill

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Playthroughs / Re: Let's Play OpenXcom: Up Close and Personal!

« on: March 14, 2015, 02:42:22 am »

Finally caught up! Man... what a ride so far!  Again, fine job by the SoldiersOfEarth crew fending off the floater horde.

Now, I'm watching Meridian to keep my LP fix going

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Playthroughs / Re: How to Film X-com for Free?

« on: March 14, 2015, 02:25:22 am »

I like a lot of things about linux... bash is not one them    Give me a real language anyday! (#!/usr/bin/python)

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Suggestions / Re: power facility that is req for other facilities to operate

« on: March 14, 2015, 02:20:06 am »

I understand the concept, but I personally feel it would be one more thing to juggle when there is enough to keep tabs on.  Base space and money already feels scare especially early on and this sucks up more real estate.  I wouldn't be upset if it was an optional "mod" though, but that sounds like quite a bit a work to put support in the game for it.

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Offtopic / Re: OpenXcom and Tactical RPG's

« on: March 14, 2015, 02:16:21 am »

 Thanks for the discussion.  All good food for thought

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Released Mods / Re: [GRAPHICS] Improved Hand Objects (complete)

« on: March 13, 2015, 07:21:02 am »

This is another little mod so full of WIN!  In many ways, it is the little things that matter sometimes.

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: March 13, 2015, 07:17:16 am »

I get the same crash on startup.  My res is 1440x900. 

I'm also having trouble getting the nightly up and running.  The earliest nightly I can download is 3/3/2015.  I noticed the nightly for this mod is almost a month older than the oldest nightly.  I tried run it, but got some yaml errors with the xcom rules.

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Playthroughs / Re: Final Mod Pack Lets Play

« on: March 12, 2015, 06:13:10 pm »

PFC JG reporting for duty, sir!

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Work In Progress / Re: [WEAPON] - Chemical Thrower + TOXI SUIT (check inside )

« on: March 12, 2015, 06:10:32 pm »

At some point a "Modders Handbook" might be nice too, pointing folks to yaml checkers, falko's tools, pckview, mapview,  info on sprites and pallettes, ruleset references, etc.

Cheers, Ivan

Yes, this would be so great.  It's quite painful looking through tons of threads and the wiki to get good info on modding.

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Work In Progress / Re: [ALPHA][WIP] Rise of the New Order

« on: March 12, 2015, 07:01:45 am »

I'll throw out a couple....

Neo-Russo Hegemony

Nippon-Han Conglomerate

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Offtopic / Re: OpenXcom and Tactical RPG's

« on: March 11, 2015, 09:30:51 pm »

Okay, maybe my definition is still too open-ended:)  Your point is well taken.  Xcom feels more "simulator" to me personally than RPG in some ways with a strong focus on tactical battles, and less "high adventure" of RPG style games that also have battles.

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Open Feedback / Re: Sniper Rifle mod is missing from mods page

« on: March 11, 2015, 09:25:47 pm »

BTW, thanks for the link.

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Offtopic / Re: OpenXcom and Tactical RPG's

« on: March 11, 2015, 07:47:58 pm »

Understood.  That's why I posted in General Discussion, not as a "suggestion" or "feature" request.  It's more of thought experiment, and it would require a bit of code changes.   I analyzing the actual combat part of the game that seems pretty well implemented.

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Open Feedback / Re: Sniper Rifle mod is missing from mods page

« on: March 11, 2015, 05:53:00 pm »

Yeah, noticed that too, because I want to give it a spin without downloading some of the bigger mods that have it.