Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste

[Aldorn]

I suppose this is the cause why sometimes in base defense missions aliens spawns in living quarters, storage areas, or some other "safe" areas where they certainly should not spawn.

I'm not sure if I recall seeing this in XCF in particular, but in other mods at least.

I confirm, I have this issue in my mod when I play in Superhuman-Demigod

For modders, I noticed something interesting (potentially, experienced modders know this already, but as I discovered it on my side...): I had an issue in my mod regarding base defense, where not all the aliens were able to spawn. And I noticed that those who were missing were systematically the 2x2 terrorists.
I tried to change the order of ranks (when declaring aliens in the alienDeployments section), and specifying first the commander, then immediately the terrorists (then leaders, engineers, navigators and medics, and finally, soldiers) fixed this issue

Now I still have the issue where aliens are generated in the Workshop, but from what I just read here from Meridian, this means there is no way to avoid it.

[psavola]

Now I still have the issue where aliens are generated in the Workshop, but from what I just read here from Meridian, this means there is no way to avoid it.

Can't you just fix this by adding more spawn nodes in better areas like hangars? I have done zero map editing, but I suppose that should be possible.

[Whatever]

That's possible in vanilla too.
Enjoy your free target practice.

Possible - yeah. But I never had it happen constantly. Now it does. Just happened again. 3rd time out of maybe 4-5 times I got the port map.

EDIT: If you compare this screenshot with the one I attached on my post on the previous page, you can see that it keeps happening on the same "tile" or whatever it is called. One of the preset chunks of the port map has an unaccessible area with a spawn in the middle.

[DarthTheIII]

I don't know if its still the case, but the exalt hq used to have a tile like that, an enforcer spawned in an enclosed room on the map edge and it was very painful to find

[Solarius Scorch]

I just added an extra door, this should alleviate the problem, at least partially.

EDIT: also made a hole in the fence

[Whatever]

These doors and that hole would prevent every instance of stuck enemies I've encountered on this map. Thank you!

[AndyFox]

Version 3.7.2, en-GB.yml:

STR_OPENXCOM: "The X-Com Files: v. 3.6"

[Solarius Scorch]

These doors and that hole would prevent every instance of stuck enemies I've encountered on this map. Thank you!

Actually, I got a bit chewed out about this change... Turns out these doors shouldn't be there. But I found another issue (and solution): some nodes shouldn't be spawnable, but they are.

I rolled back this change and fixed the spawning, so it should be fine now.

Version 3.7.2, en-GB.yml:

Oh yeah, right... en-GB is a thing that exists in this mod.

[testpilot24]

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[30-03-2025_01-18-59] [INFO] D:/games/OtherGames/Open XCOM/OXCE X-Files/user/mods/XComFiles/Ruleset/HitFX-basic.rul: Supressed Error for 'STR_WIZKID_TURRET': This unit has a corresponding item to recover, but still isn't recoverable. Reason: (the first 'corpseBattle' item of the unit's armor is marked with 'recover: false'). Consider marking the unit with 'liveAlien: ""'.
Still getting that errors in log. This is normal? If i understand them correctly you can not recover some robot after battle.

[DarthTheIII]

The word "the" before outer space is uneeded.

[DarthTheIII]

Some of the floor tiles on the hybrid embassy are not getting revealed, unless these random tiles are supposed to be black.

[CrazedHarpooner]

If you're talking about the tiles around the selected soldier, they may appear to be unrevealed terrain, but they're very dark dirt tiles. Was there multiple big explosions around that area?

[DarthTheIII]

I think I killed a large alien drone there with a rocket, so that's probably it.  Thats some pitch black dirt

[DarthTheIII]

The underwater city map has the issue where you cannot see or shoot an alien standing above you on a lift.  A long time ago I made a report about this same issue on a USO mission.  I think it was a problem with vanilla TFTD lifts.

In the save, there is an alien in the lift next to the selected soldier, and I could not see or shoot it

[DarthTheIII]

Not sure what you did to fix it, but I assume it's the same problem