X-Chronicles Release, v.1.6

[Mathel]

Rifts still tend to appear outside of my range, even before Internationalization.

This is the third one that appeared in Europe in this game. This one is the westernmost yet.

Correction: It's actually in Africa. But they all spawned outside of the range of my Ospray.

[Nord]

I hope i'll check it all in this year.

[Mathel]

Another thing: Recovered Phoenix Ashes are not researchable, even though the Phoenix ashes research topic exists according to the Tech Tree Viewer.

At Experienced difficulty, buying a Protector costs $28 000, but it sells for $30 000. This is nice, but probably not intended.

Tile boundary in front of Mustafa Kalender seems to be impassable, for no obvious reason.

Motion Scanners, similarly to Protectors have a greater sell price (54 000) than buy price (45 500).

[Nord]

Version 1.6 is up.
Changelog:
- OXCE 8.0 ready;
- minor bugfixing.

[Meridian]

Thank you, looks good.

With low priority, try to turn off "Lazy loading", which will show you some more errors that can be fixed later.

[Mathel]

Savages are doing rituals in Antarctica.

[Nord]

Savages are doing rituals in Antarctica.

Poor polar researchers...
Thanks, i'll check.

[Mathel]

So Celatids can shoot new Celatids. OK
If a new Celatid lands on an occupied tile, it is shoved onto the nearest unoccupied tile. OK.

This tile can be a fully enclosed one. Bad.

I had to use Debug to find this Celatid, since exploring the whole map did not reveal it.

[Solaz]

Hadn't tried the newest version but when I last had a run it seemed that alien nests get out of control very quickly for a new player, especially if you get the progression tech for them too early or don't know to shoot down every flyer.

If possible I was thinking that it could have a reduced spread rate depending on difficulty or ramp up over time.
Even a 1 time event that the council yells at you with a score loss but clears up hives if you let them get out of control with like 10


Also when Xcom gets the tech to go global, unlocking all starting nations weaponry while your still barely into magic would make sense to me

[Nord]

Hadn't tried the newest version but when I last had a run it seemed that alien nests get out of control very quickly for a new player, especially if you get the progression tech for them too early or don't know to shoot down every flyer.

This was balanced multiple times. Some people thinked that nests spread too fast, some - that too slow. Right now it is a medium speed. (Maybe uncomfortable for both... )

Also when Xcom gets the tech to go global, unlocking all starting nations weaponry while your still barely into magic would make sense to me

Saw it in your playthrough. Interesting idea.

[Mathel]

Getting hit in the shield of your Psion Suit causese anti-training in Mana.

The last Ghost Hound is below Sebastian Olsen. If you have Abduzoir Abdurakhmonov stand in a fire and end the turn, then kill the Ghost Hound, he loses 5 max Mana at the end of the mission. If you kill the Ghost Hound without it, he does not.

[Nord]

I know, this apply only to those, who has reached maximum mana pool. Maybe the script can be improved to not confuse players... I'll think some more.

[Solaz]

Had another idea that it could be cool to have rare soldiers appear while recruiting that either had bonus starting stats or boosted training caps.
So that either way they can have a unique buff over the other soldiers (like maybe they rolled a +10 boost to melee acc so its 10 higher than the normal max)

This could be explained with them being naturally gifted in mana and their body using it, but not to the point of being a full psion.

Mostly just an idea to give a small boost in early game and they could even loose the buff when transformed into psion when it's not as impactful anymore

[Mathel]

I've got a complaint about the topic Common Spells.

It is too RNG dependant for being a mandatory research.

You've got to fight and kill (not capture) an enemy mage or priest. Ironically, this makes them worth more dead than alive once you have exhausted their mandatory living topics, but on it's own, it wouldn't be a problem.
You have to hope they drop a Magic Book (14% from Priest, 12% from Mage, let's say 13% average).
You have to hope that the Magic Book doesn't turn out to be a Rune Book (79%, 10.27% cumulative)
You have to hope that whatever book it gave you will give you common Spells. (starts at 4/17=23.53%, 2.42% cumulative, limits to 4/4, 10.27% cumulative).

So you will have to probably go through at least 20-ish dead magi/priests to get it. Which doesn't sound that bad, but you also need them alive for plenty of topics, and they are somewhat rare.