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I'm a bit curious though.I'm seeking to complete a V1.9.8 Genius difficulty run with Iron Man setting on before moving on to the latest FMP version and attempting a higher difficulty.
Why would you need the old v1.9.8?
I'm curious what has changed in the game from retail to this.
"All DOS versions of X-COM have a bug which causes the difficulty setting to revert to "Beginner" after the first combat. XcomUtil and several other utilities can be used to fix this bug."
Why would you confuse people with a fix for an obsolete version?That was not my intention, I'll edit my previous post to attempt to mitigate the chances of that by highlighting that the attached .rul is out of date.
Please use the newest FMP version instead; the fixes are already included.Normally that would be the best option and I do intend to play V2.3b through as well later, but a the moment I need the old V1.9.8.
/home/NAME/.local/share/openxcom/modsWhen the mod portal was facing issues, I feared the worst and ran a web scraper to grab every file I could just in case the worst happened. And well, it did.The result is I managed to collect all the downloads before they were forever lost. Originally I was gonna save this for migrating to the new portal after careful curation, but given the delays on that front and repeated requests for lost mods, I decided to provide them here:
https://openxcom.org/download/oldmods/
This is an archive of all the working downloads on the www.openxcom.com portal as of 10th October 2017. Only files that were publicly available were archived, any files that were deleted by their authors or unavailable due to server issues will still be lost. In case of duplicate filenames, you will have to figure out which one is the "correct version". Checking the Date Modified might help, although it seems old files all had their timestamp wiped in a server move in 2016.
DisclaimerAny mod authors that want their old work removed just let me know.
- This is a last resort for the sake of preservation. Only use these mods if there are no other public versions available.
- All files are provided as-is with no support or associated mod page. Any form of documentation or instructions will have to be in the files.
- The contents may be broken, corrupt, outdated, or otherwise a non-functional mess, with no guarantee of support from the original authors.
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Alien Reproduction enabler for OpenXcom
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Description:
Simple addon to OpenXCom to allow access to the alien reproduction research topic, by changing some map data.
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to install:
simply extract to your data folder (e.g., X:\OpenXcom\Data)
add the following line int the rulesets section of your options.cfg:
- Reproduction
*note: for now,you need openxcom 0.9 with the latest git build -> http://openxcom.org/index.php/git-builds/
Options.cfg can be found from your documents/OpenXcom folder.
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- type: U_BASE
data:
- MCDIndex: 29
specialType: 6Only downside for modders is that now "Image not found" errors will only occur in-game, instead of right at the start. If this is a concern, you you can go back to the old loading by setting "lazyLoadResources" to "false" in options.cfg.
BREAKING CHANGE INCOMING
SupSuper merged my PR that change how OXC handle negative indexes and common surfaces for all mods.
This mainly affect `bigSprite`, where OXC use negative indexes for terror unit weapons. Right now they are now invalid, game will reject mods that use them. Only exception is `-1` but it now mean no-sprite not terror weapon sprite.
If your mod still need this surface there are still available but under different syntax:Code: [Select]bigSprite: { mod: master, index: 61 } # under this we have old "-1" sprite, 60 is "-2" etc. for UFO, XCOM2 have different offsets because it have more surfacesThis new syntax allow you to access resources of other mods (work for sound and other shared surface sets too).Code: [Select]bigSprite:
mod: MyOtherMod #id of mod from `metadata.yml`
index: 120
Old syntax still workCode: [Select]bigSprite: 120and is equal toCode: [Select]bigSprite:
mod: current #alias for current mod
index: 120
Example of change I made to make Final mod pack to work with this new version:
https://github.com/Yankes/Final-Mod-Pack/commit/bdad8bb33713577259d0f36a779d50da295a9dd3
some additional changes:
added `ignoreInBaseDefense` from OXCE as some mods used negative index to limit usage of items.
if you exceeded `reservedSpace` for your mod, game will fail to load.
One stupid Question how did the indexing of bigSprites now changed?Negative indexes are not allowed anymore.
And how do i have to change the indexes in my mod so that things loads normally?QuoteQuote from: hellrazor on June 14, 2019, 07:32:15 pm
"And how do i have to change the indexes in my mod so that things loads normally?"
1/ Easier method: Copy the terror weapon bigob sprites into your mod and give them positive indices.
2/ Easy method: Reference the existing terror weapon bigob sprites from xcom1 as described by Yankes above.
You can create copies of the options.cfg file for different sets of mods as that's where the list of mods you have active are saved. Then you can runCode: [Select]openxcom.exe -config "/path/to/folder/containing/the/config/file"
to run different configuration files. Note that you need to put the file in a separate folder, as the game assumes the path passed to it is a directory containing the file, not the file itself.