[COMPILATION] Final Mod Pack (FMP)

[Kato]

ENGLISH, WASCALLY WABBIT! DO YOU SPEAK IT?

[godar]

Google translate help for you.

[Yankes]

Google translate help for you.

For you too, even more as you are one and there is many readers.

[Kammerer]

Google translate help for you.

Truth to be told, Kato is Russian, just like me. However, this is an international forum, so publicly we all speak the language conceivable to the vast majority of the forum visitors. If you don't care about others, why should they even care about your opinion? Moreover, this mod's author doesn't speak Russian, not even to a degree, so whom are you talking with when publishing these huge posts then? Even if the author machine translates them, he will hardly get any idea from your writings, as you don't adapt your language at all, although I have to admit that DeepL does a surprisingly good job here. Finally, most of your ideas-complaints go way beyond the scope of this mod as they require heavy engine modifications. So if you want things like alternate endings and changing map building mechanics, better move these suggestions to the OXCE section of the forum.

[godar]

What the ship in the picture?
And yes, sectoid commander in my right hand...

[Chuckebaby]

What the ship in the picture?
And yes, sectoid commander in my right hand...

I believe it's the large Harvester.
Spoiler alert..
Aliens will shoot (and drop down) from the 3rd floor ship door in the captains quarters.

[godar]

- An old mistake that has not yet been fixed - if you have built a sufficient amount of anti-missile defense to fight off a battleship, then after its destruction above the base, knowledge of the base's location is not reset and the battleship continues to arrive at it regularly every week until either the base is destroyed or  the base will not be defended during ground assault with the help of infantry and armored vehicles.  Unfortunately, to verify this fact, more than 10 air defense buildings had to be built, which took up a decent chunk of the base.  This means that this method of defense is still ineffective.
- Celatids and Cerebreal fly, but the anti-gravity module cannot be removed from them, since they are of natural origin and these aliens are small in size.  Whether it is possible to blind an anti-gravity module from two anti-gravitational glands of these aliens is still unknown, but I would like to try.
- A large harvester is difficult to board because it only has one ground entrance.  In this case, a good solution would be to use a dog or rocket tank to open doors and repeatedly detonate the elevator shaft.  Undermine until there is no one to approach and then you can begin to capture.  if the commander came out, then it is worth putting him to sleep and taking him out of the UFO, otherwise he will simply be blown apart by the next explosion.  It is also better to actively use the brain probe to determine the rank of aliens, so that you can capture medics and navigators.  Whether there are engineers on this ship is unknown.  I also did not find out if it is possible to capture the ship from above through the roof using flying armor or hovertanks, but it is worth trying to check this.

[Solarius Scorch]

What the ship in the picture?

It's a Lab Ship.

- An old mistake that has not yet been fixed - if you have built a sufficient amount of anti-missile defense to fight off a battleship, then after its destruction above the base, knowledge of the base's location is not reset and the battleship continues to arrive at it regularly every week until either the base is destroyed or  the base will not be defended during ground assault with the help of infantry and armored vehicles.  Unfortunately, to verify this fact, more than 10 air defense buildings had to be built, which took up a decent chunk of the base.  This means that this method of defense is still ineffective.

I believe it's a function of the game engine, not the mod... I could modify this, but it would only work in OXCE, not vanilla. (I'll probably do this anyway.)

- Celatids and Cerebreal fly, but the anti-gravity module cannot be removed from them, since they are of natural origin and these aliens are small in size.  Whether it is possible to blind an anti-gravity module from two anti-gravitational glands of these aliens is still unknown, but I would like to try.

But they don't use anti-gravity modules...
Well, maybe Cerebreal larvae do.

- A large harvester is difficult to board because it only has one ground entrance.  In this case, a good solution would be to use a dog or rocket tank to open doors and repeatedly detonate the elevator shaft.  Undermine until there is no one to approach and then you can begin to capture.  if the commander came out, then it is worth putting him to sleep and taking him out of the UFO, otherwise he will simply be blown apart by the next explosion.  It is also better to actively use the brain probe to determine the rank of aliens, so that you can capture medics and navigators.  Whether there are engineers on this ship is unknown.  I also did not find out if it is possible to capture the ship from above through the roof using flying armor or hovertanks, but it is worth trying to check this.

Not sure what you mean - is the UFO too hard to assault? Not worth it?

[godar]

 - The flying laboratory is not difficult for boarding, there is just a special tactic when conducting it, and I told it, that is, this is an experience and not a complaint.
 - In addition, I was asked to translate my notes above into English, which I did.  I hope that now they will become clear to you.
 - Well, I noticed that the hybrids use a single-cell drone with a laser cannon on board and I can even stun it and capture it, but then ... I can't make anything like a cyberdisk out of it in the workshop, but an employee on the X-forces side  com.  that is, there is no analogue of a reconnaissance drone with a laser rifle on board.
 - A discrepancy was noticed between the models of the ships of the hybrids and the real buildings from which they attack on the map.  I see spaceships when attacking and it seems that I am attacking flying islands with castles located on them.  There is a proposal to depict them in the pictures when attacking by fighters.  It will look like an Easter egg - a reference to one of the versions of the game, where the bases were located on such flying islands - Laputa.

[godar]

another oddity - for the production of an anti-gravity module, I need the corpses of flyers.  I have these flyers, but alive - 5 soldiers.  They are not researchable because I already have a opened flier.  When selling, I will receive only the money and not the module.  I go into the prison and try to kill these 4 soldier flyers by selecting them as unusable samples, but - they do not die, they simply disappear without the appearance of the corpses of the flyers.  That is, they are killed very skillfully - without leaving corpses as building material for workshops.

[token]

Hello, first and foremost thanks oh so much to all the contributors, this did MORE than breath new life into an old game.  So many of the mods are things my friend and I dreamed about and wished for when we played this game so many years ago.

That said, I went through a heck of a time capturing an MiB psi ops person two times, but both times they are not taken alive and thus I cannot make progress with psi research.  I have psi labs/training but can't use mind probes.  Is this a feature or a bug?

[Solarius Scorch]

- The flying laboratory is not difficult for boarding, there is just a special tactic when conducting it, and I told it, that is, this is an experience and not a complaint.

Sure, I get that.
As a side note: there's a certain type of player who considers Lab Ship the hardest shit in the mod... But it really depends on your tactics.

- Well, I noticed that the hybrids use a single-cell drone with a laser cannon on board and I can even stun it and capture it, but then ... I can't make anything like a cyberdisk out of it in the workshop, but an employee on the X-forces side  com.  that is, there is no analogue of a reconnaissance drone with a laser rifle on board.

Maybe some day. I have some sprites, it's only a matter of work.

- A discrepancy was noticed between the models of the ships of the hybrids and the real buildings from which they attack on the map.  I see spaceships when attacking and it seems that I am attacking flying islands with castles located on them.  There is a proposal to depict them in the pictures when attacking by fighters.  It will look like an Easter egg - a reference to one of the versions of the game, where the bases were located on such flying islands - Laputa.

I hope to just make it work better However, it's pretty hard in vanilla OXC.

another oddity - for the production of an anti-gravity module, I need the corpses of flyers.  I have these flyers, but alive - 5 soldiers.  They are not researchable because I already have a opened flier.  When selling, I will receive only the money and not the module.  I go into the prison and try to kill these 4 soldier flyers by selecting them as unusable samples, but - they do not die, they simply disappear without the appearance of the corpses of the flyers.  That is, they are killed very skillfully - without leaving corpses as building material for workshops.

Indeed, I see the problem... But I'm not sure what to do. The only solution I can think of is adding a lot of manufacturing projects to turn living aliens into dead aliens, but it's not very elegant, and also rather grim.

Hello, first and foremost thanks oh so much to all the contributors, this did MORE than breath new life into an old game.  So many of the mods are things my friend and I dreamed about and wished for when we played this game so many years ago.

Many thanks, in the name of the whole community!

That said, I went through a heck of a time capturing an MiB psi ops person two times, but both times they are not taken alive and thus I cannot make progress with psi research.  I have psi labs/training but can't use mind probes.  Is this a feature or a bug?

Hmm... I can't see anything wrong at a glance, would you have a save?

[token]

Sorry went well past by now, this FMP is so addicting!  I got past the research block so I guess it was just me not capturing the right people.  But are the MiB psi people part of the research tree?  Can they be taken alive?  In my game even though I stun them, they show up as dead.

Off topic/rant.  I open up visual on UFOs out of muscle memory and this one time there was a gold colored UFO (envoy mission I believe).  So excited to shoot it down and check it out... did not catch I was just off a coast and over water.  Damn...  I guess these missions are super rare?

[Chuckebaby]

Sorry went well past by now, this FMP is so addicting!  I got past the research block so I guess it was just me not capturing the right people.  But are the MiB psi people part of the research tree?  Can they be taken alive?  In my game even though I stun them, they show up as dead.

Off topic/rant.  I open up visual on UFOs out of muscle memory and this one time there was a gold colored UFO (envoy mission I believe).  So excited to shoot it down and check it out... did not catch I was just off a coast and over water.  Damn...  I guess these missions are super rare?

Yeah those envoy ships are like easter eggs. There's a lot of cool stuff that can be found on those ethrals. It can't be reproduced, but it can be salvaged and reused.
As far as the MIB, yes the MIB coordinators can be caught and interrogated.

[token]

Yeah those envoy ships are like easter eggs

Is there anyway to get them to spawn on purpose?  I'd really like to catch one.  So upset I shot it like inches off a coast line.