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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1440 on: October 16, 2018, 04:34:07 pm »
INFO would work, but I don't have access to any screen with that option for the missile. When clicking it with the middle mouse button on the base inventory or sell screens, nothing happens (no item data screen comes up). Nor is it present in the UFOpedia.

It should be available from the relevant launcher page. In the upper right corner you can select the relevant ammo.
I don't know what exactly you have researched, so no idea if it's a bug or a simple misunderstanding; but please try the above first.

On a different issue, something is slightly wrong with the "Cult of Apocalypse City Riot" missions. There are four kinds of people present on this map: XCOM, police, Cult of Apocalypse, and some civilians. Either the civilians are wrongly flagged as enemies, or they are persons who should be called "Cult of Apocalypse" rather than "Farmer," "Ganger," and so forth. These civilians are hostile when the missions begins. Or, if all this is working ok, maybe modify the mission briefing a little to say:

Yes, some people who look like civilians are considered enemies here, and some aren't. This is the whole point of the riot: the cultists managed to incite some citizens to riot, and now they are attacking the police and other civilians.

The Cult of Apocalypse instigated a riot, and many average civilians were swept up in the frenzy. A regular battle broke out between these factions and the local police. Many casualties are reported on both sides. We must intervene and regain control of the area before the military gets involved, or our reputation with the Council will suffer. To abort the mission return X-Com operatives to the transport vehicle and click on the 'Abort Mission' icon.
I like it, it's very helpful!

I want to ask, is it planned to improve the interior of the X-com base? A very interesting idea in the Terminator mode, where the base has aboveground and underground parts. I understand that this is a great job. If not, then you can ask to increase the number of levels on the base from 2 to 6?

It's doable, but very time-consuming, so I will only do something like this if there is a substantial gameplay gain from such a change.
I've always wanted a surface part of the base, but I feel that we don't have enough code features to do it in a satisfactory and meaningful way.

There is a proposal to make a change to the mudranger. In its current form, it is useless. Maybe increase his radius, but move to a later stage of the game?

It is only useless to those who have not solved The Riddle of Steel. :)

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1441 on: October 16, 2018, 06:32:44 pm »
It is only useless to those who have not solved The Riddle of Steel. :)
What is the riddle? But if this is just a joke I agree with improving the mudrander, it's just so trash.

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1442 on: October 16, 2018, 07:09:12 pm »
What is the riddle? But if this is just a joke I agree with improving the mudrander, it's just so trash.

If course it's not a joke.
Why would I put a completely useless craft in the mod? :-\

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1443 on: October 16, 2018, 09:57:14 pm »
If course it's not a joke.
Why would I put a completely useless craft in the mod? :-\
I thought it was just more of a meme transport which serves no purpose but to troll people tbh.

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1444 on: October 16, 2018, 10:01:02 pm »
I thought it was just more of a meme transport which serves no purpose but to troll people tbh.

No, I hate trolls.


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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1445 on: October 16, 2018, 10:20:41 pm »
No, I hate trolls.
Ok so what do you need to make the craft any good? The airborne version? And what exactly is the riddle?

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1446 on: October 16, 2018, 11:17:55 pm »
The riddle of steel is a somewhat famous aspect of conan the barbarian. The question is "what is the riddle of steel?" At first conan thinks it's his fathers masterwork weapon, then he realizes that the ability to command the utter devotion of others is stronger, but he eventually realizes neither is true strength, but that force of will is what matters. 

It is a fanciful and nerdy way of saying "where there is a will there is a way."


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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1447 on: October 16, 2018, 11:38:21 pm »
It is a fanciful and nerdy way of saying "where there is a will there is a way."
s/will/whip/g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y&t=67

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1448 on: October 17, 2018, 10:47:25 am »
I just dowloaded openxcom_xfiles_0.9.6c.zip, unzipped to new folder with X-Com, and I am not able to run the game. From openxcom.log:
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[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] Data folder is:
[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] Data search is:
[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] - C:\Users\ME\Documents\OpenXcom\
[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] - D:\hry\OpenXcom_XFiles
[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] - D:\hry\OpenXcom_XFiles
[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] User folder is: D:\hry\OpenXcom_XFiles\user\
[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] Config folder is: D:\hry\OpenXcom_XFiles\user\
[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] Options loaded successfully.
[17-10-2018_09-40-41] [INFO] SDL initialized successfully.
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] SDL_mixer initialized successfully.
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] requested file not found: openxcom.png
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] Attempting to set display to 640x400x8...
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] Display set to 640x400x8.
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] Loading data...
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] Scanning standard mods in 'standard'...
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] Scanning user mods in 'D:\hry\OpenXcom_XFiles\user\mods'...
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] no master already active; activating xcom1
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] Mapping resource files...
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] Resources files mapped successfully.
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [INFO] Loading rulesets...
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [WARN] disabling mod with invalid ruleset: xcom1
[17-10-2018_09-40-42] [ERROR] failed to load 'UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-Com: UFO Defense'; mod disabled for next startup

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1449 on: October 17, 2018, 03:08:25 pm »
I just dowloaded openxcom_xfiles_0.9.6c.zip, unzipped to new folder with X-Com, and I am not able to run the game. From openxcom.log

Since nobody else has this problem, I would say: bad installation.
Please try again.

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1450 on: October 17, 2018, 06:32:08 pm »
Well it's even xcom1 having the bad ruleset, and that's part of the standard package from the nightlies, and is always included as part of the package of this mod. That's what makes it really odd. Too bad there aren't more details about what's causing this.

If a complete reinstalled doesn't work, is there debug option at the command prompt level to give more details in the log?

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1451 on: October 17, 2018, 07:37:29 pm »
By "unzipped to new folder with X-Com" what do you mean?  What do the contents of your OpenXcom_XFiles folder look like?  Do you have other openxcom installations on this computer?

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1452 on: October 17, 2018, 07:40:45 pm »
Also maybe a stupid question but did you copy original game to Xcom Files?

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1453 on: October 17, 2018, 09:49:47 pm »
The another computer, the same OS (Win10, 64bit, cz), the same error.
  • Dowloaded openxcom_xfiles_0.9.6c.zip from https://openxcom.mod.io/the-x-com-files [md5 = 8228c204afa40464b369eeb1a88768eb] [sha1 = ed3753b6c286cf59da84a6e254af87a5e55f49c7]
  • Extracted to new folder OpenXcom_XFiles
  • Copy content of original X-Com to the folder UFO (The same procedure I have done many times with different versions of X-Com and Piratez)
  • Run OpenXcomEx.exe (Openxcom extended 5.1 2018-10-7) and obtain the error
  • Runnig OpenXcomEx.exe as admin doesn't help.
  • Previous X-Com v. 0.9.4 runs normally.
  • V. 0.9.6 works with the old OpenXcomExPlus.exe.
  • Running the game from system disk (C:) doesn't help.
  • Running the game from user's documents folder doesn't help.
Solved: I can run the mod with the later OpenXcomEx.exe (Openxcom extended 5.1 2018-10-14) from https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5258.0.html
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[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] Data folder is:
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] Data search is:
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] - C:\Users\ME\Documents\OpenXcom\
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] - E:\HRAC\OpenXcom_XFiles
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] - e:\HRAC\OpenXcom_XFiles
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] User folder is: e:\HRAC\OpenXcom_XFiles\user\
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] Config folder is: e:\HRAC\OpenXcom_XFiles\user\
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] Options loaded successfully.
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] SDL initialized successfully.
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] SDL_mixer initialized successfully.
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] requested file not found: openxcom.png
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] Attempting to set display to 640x400x8...
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] Display set to 640x400x8.
[17-10-2018_19-20-15] [INFO] Loading data...
[17-10-2018_19-20-16] [INFO] Scanning standard mods in 'standard'...
[17-10-2018_19-20-16] [INFO] Scanning user mods in 'e:\HRAC\OpenXcom_XFiles\user\mods'...
[17-10-2018_19-20-16] [INFO] Mapping resource files...
[17-10-2018_19-20-16] [INFO] Resources files mapped successfully.
[17-10-2018_19-20-16] [INFO] Loading rulesets...
[17-10-2018_19-20-17] [WARN] disabling mod with invalid ruleset: xcom1
[17-10-2018_19-20-17] [ERROR] failed to load 'UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-Com: UFO Defense'; mod disabled for next startup
SAMPLE.CAT not found
« Last Edit: October 17, 2018, 11:04:43 pm by Bartojan »

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Re: Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste
« Reply #1454 on: October 18, 2018, 12:29:53 am »
I had the same problem on win7.  I had a brainwave and downloaded the latest 5.1 (2018.10.14 I think) from the openxcomplus thread and copied the whole thing into the xcomfiles directory (overwriting everything) and now it works great.

Edit: I replied before seeing your edit, and looks like you had the same idea. :)
« Last Edit: October 18, 2018, 12:31:34 am by Jimboman »