The Piratez Mod!

[yrizoud]

f the plunder can be carried, no need to kill everybody : get in, take it, and get out.
A nice change from a typical recovery mission.

[Dioxine]

Thanks! It worked! Sort of, at least Some photo material from testing (but not many new enemies, I had no time to actually test the game at any lenght yet):



The Traders' trained dinosaur with incendiary missiles (ripped from tftd) - assigning the weapon worked, however the AI isn't using this unit very clevelry... well, it's just a stupid dinosaur



Traders' Engineer, based on Luke83's sprite;



The unique experience of finding oneself on the other end of a HWP's barrel. And here's the problem: the weapon works when I MC the tank (PSi Str lowered for test purposes), but 1) the engine fails to draw the turret, 2) more puzzlingly, the game crashes when the AI tries to fire the gun (presumably; I have no idea what causes the crash, except it only happens when AI has these tanks, and while I've seen them moving around, I haven't witnessed them being fired by the AI).
Oh, and in the background, Mercenary Commando, based on Warboy's (?) Dark Mutons with added jetpack and a more human-like face (not pictured).

[Mr. Quiet]

Ahoy! Never seen anything like this. I googled rogue trader and Warhammer came up. Your theme is really unique to me though

Swabbie is so funny! Can't wait for you to add more dialogue. It'll be most interesting!

[Fox105iwsp]

What happened to your enemy HWP? >_<  it lost it's turret, did you assign one?

The only time I get this is when I forget or deliberately set no turret, like my SWS (The turret is in the wrong place >_< )

Can't wait for your mod, how did you set new enemies for the terrorsite? I would like to make Cult of Sirus/Exhault attacks missions that xcom has to respond to.

[Dioxine]

The work is progressing slowly onwards, I've resolved the issue with crashes (caused by Mutons, not their tanks, as it turned out). Next stage: making new UFOs for the factions to fly... Here's a couple of screenshots:

[Mr. Quiet]

Wonderful!!

[Dioxine]

I've been working on the inventory pictures for the enemy factions, here's today's crop:



Classic Civilian made flesh - here working as a Church of Sirius Neophyte;



Academy's Security Guard;



Academy's high-ranking member - as of now, Medics, Engineers, Espers (leaders) and VIPs (commanders) are all using it;



Academy's low-ranking member.



Church's heavy trooper.



Church's Reverend - Leader/Commander, not sure as of yet.



Traders' Rep (Leader).



Trader's Engineer.

[Fox105iwsp]

Cool, more Girls ^_^ and other good stuff, can't wait till your mod is done 

[Dioxine]

A major milestone today - new UFOs constructed and introduced, along with new missions and loadouts, which will allow to more closely tie the danger and reward to the faction attacked...

[Mr. Quiet]

You are really up to something big. A mod like this would really bring the masses in.

Are you also going to change the color of the ships so they match with the factions? I'm sure this is on your to-do list.

[Dioxine]

Making new tilesets is a lot of work (of which I have no shortage), also many ships still have to be shared between factions. But eventually, yes. At least the new ships will have their own interception pictures (eventually with a faction's logo displayed, for visual ident)

[Mr. Quiet]

Can't wait to see more ship interiors. I'm very excited to breach them later on!

[robin]

Amazing concept. And amazing the amount of work you're doing.

[Mr. Quiet]

I have a suggestion. When innocent bystanders are roaming around, killing more than a few of them would help further increase infamy, but at the same time, you're increasing the number of government authorities showing up on your next raid, aside from the faction. So if you want to take the risk, you use this method to increase infamy, but expect a dedicated Government agency against you very early in the game whose budget will increase as you're giving them reason to. If you're careful with civis and only rob them, they will be much slower to act.

Anyways, I'm dying to see more progress!

[Solarius Scorch]

I had a go at the current (unreleased) version and I'm telling you: it's brutal. Battles are hard and unfair. You'll love it.

Also WHY WON'T THOSE SECURITY GUARDS JUST ^&*#^* DIE WHEN HIT, WHY