X-Chronicles Release, v.1.5

[varajo411]

Solaz played XCOM Chronicles a while ago and he was clearing the surface and deep 4 leveled nest. He thought it would have more levels so he rushed his soldiers to the room with hole in it to abort/finish the mission in an attempt to get to the next level. Naturally he lost the mission live on YouTube as level 4 of the nest is the last level and to win it it requires the player to kill or stun all enemies.

His complaint is that the information page does not say it is the last level and made him confused, he had to redo the fourth level as he had luckily a backup save
It totally floored me when he realized that he lost in the stream but I agree with him, it should be clear for the player that when they reach the fourth level of the nest that it is the last.

[Vakrug]

Did he pressed "abort" button, then "confirm" without reading the text? There should be warning about "0 people in entry zone, 0 people in exit zone, X people outside".
I also didn't know that you have to clear the last level. Often it easier to just kill them all.

[Meridian]

That's a recent change in OXCE.
https://github.com/MeridianOXC/OpenXcom/commit/25e5545e59fc1ad7148c849e3052e8493c9fa10f

I will write a separate post about what it is and how to handle it.

We will also change it from an error to a warning (for a limited time) to give modders time to migrate.

Hi Nord,

I forgot about this, but the new deadline (1.1.2025) is nearing, so it would be good to prepare the ruleset for the upcoming validation.

I counted 1 error in TWoTS and 138 errors in X-Chronicles.

Afftected file in TWoTS is alienDeployments.rul

You can change this:

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  - &KEY_PIRATES
    data:
      - alienRank: 5
        lowQty: 4

to this:

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  - &KEY_PIRATES
    ignore: DUMMY
    data:
      - alienRank: 5
        lowQty: 4

It gives OXCE a hint that KEY_PIRATES is not a real entity and it should not try to load it as a separate object.

Affected files in X-Chronicles are:

alienDeployments.rul
alienMissions.rul
armors.rul
items.rul
soldiers.rul
terrains.rul
units.rul

Easiest way to search for them is probably searching for string "- &", but check by eye too, maybe there are false positives.

You can also see this validation in the log file.
All those entries that look like this:

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[14-09-2024_11-18-31] [INFO] Supressed Error for 'Mod': Obsolete (to removed after year 2025) operation Missing main node at line 100
[14-09-2024_11-18-31] [INFO] Supressed Error for 'Mod': Obsolete (to removed after year 2025) operation Missing main node at line 452
[14-09-2024_11-18-31] [INFO] Supressed Error for 'Mod': Obsolete (to removed after year 2025) operation Missing main node at line 963
[14-09-2024_11-18-31] [INFO] Supressed Error for 'Mod': Obsolete (to removed after year 2025) operation Missing main node at line 1381
[14-09-2024_11-18-31] [INFO] Supressed Error for 'Mod': Obsolete (to removed after year 2025) operation Missing main node at line 1982


[Nord]

Ok, will check. Thanks.

[Solaz]

Did he pressed "abort" button, then "confirm" without reading the text? There should be warning about "0 people in entry zone, 0 people in exit zone, X people outside".
I also didn't know that you have to clear the last level. Often it easier to just kill them all.

When you get to the room with the hole it still says " (X amount) Units in target exit." if your standing on the glowing floor.

Had it said 0, it would be more obvious you cant use that exit anymore.

[Nord]

Sorry, dont have enough internet right now to watch stream.
I still can check for terrain bugs. What kind of surrounding was there? (Blue crystal, green slime, etc)

[Solaz]

Sorry, dont have enough internet right now to watch stream.
I still can check for terrain bugs. What kind of surrounding was there? (Blue crystal, green slime, etc)

It was basically the same as floor 3 with light blue flooring and crystals around, I just thought it was deeper since it was the first big nest I was clearing and all the others had a queen.

[Nord]

Ok, so they were in target exit and then disappeared after abort mission was pressed?
Upd.: found it. Yes, pretty... inconvenient.
Right now i can only add description to this level's briefing.

[varajo411]

Hello everyone, I have written a webnovell inspiered by my experience in playing xcom chronicles, much of the stuff is original with the help of chat GPT to help me write the story.

Nord, I would like to upload my story to the internet, the only things I has taken from your mod is some ufopedia articles information and the alien creatures you describe in the game. For fomality sake I would like to get your permission to proceed.

[Nord]

Sure, why not.

[Nord]

Version 1.5 is up.
Changelog:
- fixed funding rise in early game;
- decreased cost of scientists per 5000/month;
- powered up invader ships;
- mana-depleting amulets now cause stun when mana=0;
- fixed many Ufopedia articles;
- fixed healer power hit with weapon in backpack (OXCE newer than 7.15 required);
- prepared for new OXCE (>7.15);
- fixed dwarf research unavailability for those who fear golems;
- minor bugfixing;
- minor balancing for easier game;

Thanks to _Solaz for his playthrough.

[Mathel]

Trying X-Chronicles again, XChr 1.5, OXCE 7.15.0 . The game crashed to desktop during a Goblin Terror.

Last save, log, and message attached.

Specifically, it happened when I moved a soldier next to the passenger door of the van, but I am not sure if that is the cause.

[Meridian]

Specifically, it happened when I moved a soldier next to the passenger door of the van, but I am not sure if that is the cause.

Invalid LOFTemp somewhere.

[Meridian]

Also, there is one more forgotten node without ignore: DUMMY

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[23-12-2024_12-21-44] [INFO] Supressed Error for 'Mod': Obsolete (to removed after year 2025) operation Missing main node at line 1484

in soldiers.rul, close to   - &CONJURER_MAGISTER_KEY

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Also, for OXCE 8.0, the following changes need to be done:
- remove trailing whitespace from all ruleset files
- add missing colon after femaleLast in Belarusian.nam
- add missing quotes in Polynesia.nam ('Akamu)
- change FixRadius: 0.0 to FixRadius: 0 in items.rul

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and, if not much trouble, change the files visible on the attached screenshot from UTF-8 BOM to UTF-8: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=12367.0

[CrazedHarpooner]

Invalid LOFTemp somewhere.

It appears to be the moped nearby. I only need to turn the soldier in their current position to face east directly at the bike and the crash will occur. The crash only happens at certain angles and positions tho.

Both sections of the vehicle have invalid loft records for UFO's loftemps.dat and I don't see x-chronicles providing its own version of the file.