Bugs, crashes, typos & bad taste

[Kozinsky]

I just started a fresh build with Resound, Music, and expanded markers and I seem to have bug where I get free ranks of certain medals every mission. 

They are:
Stormtrooper
Aquanaut
Dreamwalker
Horizon Walker
Infiltrator
Space
Spelunker

Every agent on the mission gets a rank every mission.

Looks like you're using an old version of OXCE, or playing through OXC at all.

[Scamps]

Vampire castle. Dude in an inaccessable area. (unless intended  :'( )

[Solarius Scorch]

Vampire castle. Dude in an inaccessable area. (unless intended  :'( )

Not intended... Thank you, fixed.

[Scamps]

Shogg Village, item pile is sometimes outside exit tiles.
(Not that I intend to retreat...)

[Solarius Scorch]

Shogg Village, item pile is sometimes outside exit tiles.
(Not that I intend to retreat...)

Thank you, fixed.

[CrazedHarpooner]

Terrain RURAL2 has no script property, so it will run the basegame's DEFAULT script whenever that terrain is used and the deployment doesn't specify its own script. It'll work, but some of the terrain's blocks never get used in that script, like the size 3 block.

[Kozinsky]

Armor "STR_XCOM_SEEKER_DRONE_ARMOR" has "spriteInv: XSEEKERDRONE", but in extraSprites there is no "XSEEKERDRONE" sprite:

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armors:
  - type: STR_XCOM_SEEKER_DRONE_ARMOR
    spriteSheet: SEEKER_DRONE.PCK
    spriteInv: XSEEKERDRONE

extraSprites:
  - type: XSEEKERDRONEM0.SPK
    singleImage: true
    files:
      0: Resources/FactionsPack/Freelancers/inventory_SeekerDrone.png
  - type: XSEEKERDRONE0.SPK
    singleImage: true
    files:
      0: Resources/FactionsPack/Freelancers/inventory_SeekerDrone.png

[Solarius Scorch]

Terrain RURAL2 has no script property, so it will run the basegame's DEFAULT script whenever that terrain is used and the deployment doesn't specify its own script. It'll work, but some of the terrain's blocks never get used in that script, like the size 3 block.

Ahh, right. Thank you.

Armor "STR_XCOM_SEEKER_DRONE_ARMOR" has "spriteInv: XSEEKERDRONE", but in extraSprites there is no "XSEEKERDRONE" sprite:

This is not a bug; what is a bug is that it says "XSEEKERDRONE0" instead of "XSEEKERDRONEF0", causing a crash.
Thanks for bringing my attention to this... And dammit, that's a crash inducing bug. :/

Both issues fixed on GitHub.

[Mathel]

"Strange Lifeform: Zombie" tend to have a higher enemy count than "Zombie Infestation" missions. At least on highest difficulty.
STR_ZOMBIE_INFESTATION_MEDIUM has up 24 hostiles at default difficulty.
Menwhile, STR_MONSTERS_HUNT_LOTS_{environment} can have up to 49 hostiles at default difficulty.
(According to ruleset reference, maximal numbers for default difficulty are minimal numbers for highest)

It just feels weird when a so called "infestation" has lower numbers than what I get called to without it being called an infestation.

[Solarius Scorch]

"Strange Lifeform: Zombie" tend to have a higher enemy count than "Zombie Infestation" missions. At least on highest difficulty.
STR_ZOMBIE_INFESTATION_MEDIUM has up 24 hostiles at default difficulty.
Menwhile, STR_MONSTERS_HUNT_LOTS_{environment} can have up to 49 hostiles at default difficulty.
(According to ruleset reference, maximal numbers for default difficulty are minimal numbers for highest)

It just feels weird when a so called "infestation" has lower numbers than what I get called to without it being called an infestation.

It's not just about numbers, also about enemy quality.

Some monster hunts have more zombies than the infestations, true; but mostly they have less.

[hairybert]

Not sure if this is a bug, reporting it anyway.

After destroying two ghosts (bug eye ghost and/or spectral entity) with a flame glove, the agent is still listed as "no experience" by Ctrl+E.

[psavola]

Not sure if this is a bug, reporting it anyway.

After destroying two ghosts (bug eye ghost and/or spectral entity) with a flame glove, the agent is still listed as "no experience" by Ctrl+E.

Flame glove trains PSI SKILL. If I'd have to guess, the agent's PSI skill is still zero and can't learn improvements to PSI SKILL yet. I don't know if you should still get experience for secondary stat gains, though. So I guess this would be more of an OXCE question rather than a mod issue.

PSI skill is a special case among the stats, because in vanilla even unsuccessful attempt at PSI attack gave you experience. But I wonder if anyone has considered how a "firing weapon" that trains PSI skill (but does not require PSI skill to use) should behave.

[Amoebka]

Landing shots trains PSI skill, using the same breakpoints as firing accuracy (12 hits for max rolls). Misses do nothing. If you haven't unlocked soldier's psi skill in psilab, they don't train it, and won't get secondary stats either, unless you do something else that trains a primary. Seems intentional on the OXCE part.

[Allan Stark]

X-Com Files 3.4.1
OXCE 7.14
Veteran's level, no any other mods/tweaks/cheats.

Firast of all, this mod is really amazing, this is probably the best thing I've played in the last 5 years or more, it's even strange that I discovered it so late (I played the original XCom back in the late 90s).

2/10/1999 and mission "MiB Attack on a M.A.G.M.A. Base"...
Seriously? Your 6 agents can only have something like M16, taser cannon, holy beads and pepper spray vs MiB Heavy Troopers equipped super-duper alien rocket launchers with a splash on a quarter of the map.
This mission can only be completed by cheating, and the penalty for ignoring it is 1500 (!), which is approximately equal to grinding ALL missions for a month...
The same goes for MiBs attacks on your bases in 1999.
I was already forced to restart the game after two months of play, when they successively destroyed my two main bases with all their contents, and I did not yet have the technology to shoot down their dropships.
Laser technology is completely useless against MiB Shock Troopers, instead of starting the mission, you can just not bother the player and display a message about the loss of the base.
Missions to capture regular cultist bases (not HQs) also become quite funny at some point due to the looping generation of military reinforcements, my personal record is 85 killed enemies per such mission and apparently this is far from the limit.
I used mortarmen en masse (like 3-4 per such mission) and one of them managed to destroy 11 enemies in one shot.

[rkagerer]

I noticed according to the Wiki, Scoped Hunting Rifle is missing the Trooper commendation, while it's predecessor the Hunting Rifle has it.  Was that intentional?

EDIT: Also, I think Alien Food is incorrectly tagged as Components.