[COMPILATION] Final Mod Pack (FMP)

[Jaynestown]

Any tips on expanded research for the FMP?  I think I'm using an outdated version (1.9.7) but I didn't want to update and potentially screw up my saved game.  I'm on Difficulty 3 in 2018-09-15 and I'm at a standstill in tech.  I pay 100 scientists to interrogate one live alien a month then tell me we've learned nothing of interest. 

I'm using Personal Armor which can't do much against all the Heavy Plasma I'm starting to see.  I'm hoping to get to Power Suits somehow and whatever other armors might have been added.  But the troops are starting to lose hope...

Various additional spoiler-y information on my situation:

Spoiler:

I've captured multiple leaders, engineers, and medics, which are the classes that appear to bottleneck most of the tech.  But at this point engineers are just giving me stats on various ships.  I am just starting to see a few Mutons but only in missions with Gazers as the main enemy. There has been a base full of Gazers in the Antarctic like... forever, but I've been unable to pop it because my Gauss Weapons are insufficient.  So I can't get in there to stun everyone with my Stun Rods, Dart B, or Gas Grenades.  That seems like the obvious solution (try to capture a Commander).  Though I'm fairly sure I've interrogated one before and we didn't learn much.

This compilation is amazing by the way.  I am just now getting into it, obviously.  But seriously well done.  This used to be my favorite game as a kid.  I even remember the commercial.  "Wow!  I nailed that alien!"

[Word on the Wind]

I can't speak for anything further back than 2.1, but my understanding is all of the good stuff is blocked behind leader interrogations and the Alien Data Slate which some of them carry (And indeed you need to interrogate leaders in order to get the tech to research the slate.). Having Alien Electronics from Cyberdisc wrecks I think also contributes.

[Solarius Scorch]

Engineers are your main target for technical stuff like plasmas, since they're easiest to bag. And Medics for the biotech. Navigators are about as useful as in vanilla.

And yes, this is the best game ever in the whole world.

[Jaynestown]

Thanks for the replies!  It sounds like I need more leader interrogations since I have data slates but haven't been able to research them yet.  That's probably the major stumbling block.  I will get right on that (like, loading the game up, sending my men to their deaths right now).

Thanks again.

[Aidan Pryde]

Just a Question as I just finished my first playthrough.

How do I get to discover/research/use the weapons/equipment those Ethereals on Mars use?

I've never seen it before. I found out something about the "Inner Circle" but nothing more.

[Solarius Scorch]

It's only possible if you intercept, shoot down and beat a very rare ship. Otherwise these weapons are Cydonia-only.

[Garich]

Hello, guys!

Here is some crash in OpenXCOM FMP. Will be glad if it will be fixed

[Lord_Kane]

Hello, guys!

Here is some crash in OpenXCOM FMP. Will be glad if it will be fixed

Try updating to the newest nightly. if that fails try updating to FMP 2.2c and if that fails try starting a new campaign. (with the updated nightly and FMP) 

[Solarius Scorch]

I can't see your screen, just the error message, but I suspect it's the problem from 2.2b with a missing texture for African/Asian deserts. Please update the mod to 2.2c.

[Word on the Wind]

Hey Solarius, Just found another UFOpedia gaff. I researched a Salamandron Terrorist and didn't get their entry. I poked about and found that the research ruleset has both

Code: [Select]

  - name: STR_SALAMANDRON
    cost: 0
    points: 50
    needItem: true
    listOrder: 9913And

Code: [Select]

  - name: STR_SALAMANDRON_TERRORIST
    cost: 110
    points: 50
    needItem: true
    destroyItem: true
    unlocks:
      - STR_ALIEN_ORIGINS
Meanwhile the UFOpedia entry looks like this.

Code: [Select]

  - id: STR_SALAMANDRON
    type_id: 7
    section: STR_ALIEN_LIFE_FORMS
    requires:
      - STR_SALAMANDRON
    image_id: UFOPEDIA_IMG_SALAMANDRON
    text: STR_SALAMANDRON_UFOPEDIA
    text_width: 158
    listOrder: 9355
So a bogus entry for the Salamandron interrogation exists and the UFOpedia is looking at that to fire instead of the proper entry. I even went in there and changed the UFOpedia's target and it was on the list as it should be.

[Solarius Scorch]

There aren't any bogus researches here, but indeed there is a bug - the STR_SALAMANDRON_TERRORIST entry should have this line:

Code: [Select]

  lookup: STR_SALAMANDRON
The same problem exists for the Holodrone.

Updating the mod to 2.2d right now. Thanks for the notification!

[Garich]

There aren't any bogus researches here, but indeed there is a bug - the STR_SALAMANDRON_TERRORIST entry should have this line:

Code: [Select]

  lookup: STR_SALAMANDRON
The same problem exists for the Holodrone.

Updating the mod to 2.2d right now. Thanks for the notification!

Everything works. Thank you
Now the map correctly load.

I have attaches the save which crashes. There is Marshall goes to UFO crashsite.

[Lord_Kane]

It loaded fine here
I am using the latest nightly + FMP 2.2d.

[Jaynestown]

Is there any way to view the resistance of alien units to various damage types?  I was surprised that didn't show up as part of the autopsy the way resistance shows up for armor research.

[Solarius Scorch]

Is there any way to view the resistance of alien units to various damage types?  I was surprised that didn't show up as part of the autopsy the way resistance shows up for armor research.

It's a bit of work, but yes, it's doable - in a way.
You can create armour entries for alien units, which work and look the same as your armours in the Ufopaedia:





Something like this?