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New designs are always possible, if time consuming. I'm not opposed to them.:3
Unless Solarius is nice enough to package it up for you, or if he took another mod and incorporated it, which is a portion of the content but definitely not all of it, your best option is to look through the rulesets and steal what you can.
Luckily, the rulesets are very well organized and the strings are coherent so a simple find tool in many text editors can work wonders. I think MIB is already a mod for the vanilla game that you could find, but searching the rulesets for MIB, brings up most of it.
I literally cannot imagine that. Or care.
Unfortunately mods won't work with XCF, unless they are general mods (meant to work with anything) or made specifically for XCF.
Of course, a mod can be edited to make it compatible.
Both solutions are (sort of) already there: the INFO button and the item filters.
First of all, you are grossly overestimating X-Com's firepower. 5 planes don't make air forces. 100 men don't make a ground army.
Officially, X-Com is something like glorified FBI, with access to military equipment. This does not make them an army; if nothing else, they're about 1000 times too small. And the Council would never, ever agree to give them more military rights, even the factions which support X-Com.
In practice, X-Com is a special forces unit at best, with some auxiliary stuff like fighter planes.
Still, this is not really on topic. Your question was about adding some heavy guns to the game. And to this I would say, yes, possible, if they're not too broken.
I don't really know what to say to an argument that M.A.G.M.A. weapons are trash when in my opinion they're uniformly best out of almost all firearms in the mod (with some exceptions like the Arasaka 3000).
But having said that, I have just overhauled M.A.G.M.A. pulse weapons this week. Further changes are possible, I am considering some reshuffling of their guns availability (pulse weapons earlier, something like the Auto-Cannon later, etc.).
Maybe a litte, yesBut primarily, I don't think they're done badly as they are. The mod has seen several incarnations of these weapons already and since I settled on this one, then I consider it best.
It's very hard to do miniguns justice while not making them too broken.
Agreed, see my comment above on the pulse weapons. Also I added new clips for them, which should make them more attractive.
Sort of; if anything, they lack good soldiers, due to how their society works (maximum stunting of personal development and accruing experience). Therefore their idea is to think of their troops as biological robots with as good raw physical stats as possible and armed with weapons optimized for idiots. (There are exceptions and other variables of course, I'm generalizing here.) So a standard issue alien weapon is supposed to be easy to operate and allow obliteration of enemy with sheer brute force.
I can add E-115 proximity grenades, no problem. It's just that very few people use this kind of stuff, so I kinda never remember.
We could. I'll add it to the to-do list, too.
My day job...
I can think of something.
Ever heard of things like battle fatigue?
Ever been to a psychiatric ward?
Ever (actually) read Lovecraft?
Already done. in the latest github commits it's called sanity.
That would work, we could have X-Com ID cards to wave in front of a civilian
If we ever go down this route, then I absolutely agree.
I totally get ya
Feel free to present a model or something, I'll be interested, but no promises. Building the current model was a lot of work and I rather like it.
Actually I'm having some thought about emphasizing the readiness status as less "combat fatigue" and more "mental damage from contact with the supernatural". You know, Cthulhu style.
What I'm thinking of is leaving everything as is, except on missions with no "supernatural" enemies (aliens etc.) you don't lose Readiness. This can be done by applying an effect every turn which adds +1 Readiness, thus cancelling out the loss.
Bear in mind it's a just loose idea for now.
