Current Version 027
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openxcom.mod.ioVideo Installation Instructions:
https://youtu.be/U-mhVSI9rbELatest OXCE is required to install prior to play the mod
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Changelog:
Update 06-11-2020
- Fixed Adamantium components incorrectly requiring a Prison instead of the Forge
- Fixed Arbites' armor overview codex article not showing up for them but showing up for the Sisters of Battle
- Fixed both Heavy Stubber articles showing up for Arbites when only one is purchasable
- Fixed Godwyn De'az Bolter not being locked to just the Sisters of Battle
- Increased height of base defense maps to 4 (mostly cosmetic)
- Added two craft skins for the Arbites' Vulture (requires OXCE from 1 Nov 2020 or later to function)
Update 31-10-2020
- New features require OXCE v6.7.2
- Added Arbites as a new playable faction!
- Added two new terrains
- Polar maps now have 'death trap' tiles
- Limited throwing range for all grenades (both player and enemy) to 20 tiles
- Enabled melee weapons being able to damage terrain (only for 1x1-sized units and not on a diagonal)
- Reduced size of battlescape maps for Ork vehicle encounters
- Reenabled some cutscenes that were accidentally disabled
- Added missing recoil/strength required lines in codex articles
- Added codex help articles for globe icons, following enemy craft, turret destruction, and terrain destruction
- Editing pass on codex article text in general
- Fixed Sister of Battle standard and repentia armor codex articles being visible to other factions
- Fixed the Traitor Marines from the month 1/2 terror missions not being researchable
- Fixed validation crashes for running on newer OXCE versions
- Fixed some maps blocking exits from the Chimera
- Fixed crashes when shooting down Ork vehicles
- Fixed some tyranids missing weapons on the space hulk mission
Marines Content:
- Master of signal sprites corrected
- Signal armor now provides airstrike
- Librarian sprites corrected
- Nerfed chapter banner
- Fixed sideoperations mission 8
- Chapter corruption now depends on chapel and librarian research so those don't get locked out once you corrupt your chapter
Sisters Content:
- Fixed dominion armor ufopedia sprite
Guard Content:
- Added carapace armor for Commissars
Update 08-06-2020
- New features require OXCE v6.5.3
- Sisters of Battle added as a playable faction
- Renamed Psi Skill to Devotion and Psi Strength to Psychic Ability for new Sisters' mechanics
- All Commander-rank Chaos Marines can unlock the final story research, not just the Traitor Marines
- Added recoil penalties for firing weapons with not enough strength
- Added strength requirements for melee weapons
- Added muzzle flashes to all bolt weapons
- Added vapor trail effect to plasma, melta, and flamer weapons
- Added human-sized bolters
- Added hellpistols as a MC laspistol
- Added stub rifles, gave to chaos cultists as appropriate
- Rebalance of some weapons' weight values
- Reduction of some enemies' strength values to reduce grenade spam
- Reduced chances of the month 1 Ork base spawning more Ork bases
- Moved enemy missions that shouldn't happen at friendly Guard Outposts to their own mission zones
- Servitor's armor repair now always hits but repairs a random amount
- Cleanup of some manufacturing categories
- Fixed palette for base defenses firing screen
- Fixed Winged Daemon Corpse listOrder
- Fixed crashes due to terror missions occurring in ocean regions
- Fixed recovering sacrificed civilians as the wrong items
- Fixed Ork craft interception window sprites causing crashes
- Fixed Chaos Cultist base spawning/missions causing crashes
Guard Content:
- Added Armored Column as a craft with Leman Russ MBT
- Rework of Chimera craft map
- Fixed Tanith Medic armor using the Tanith Scout armor item
- Fixed the IG's heavy bolter using the Thunder Hammer hand sprite
Update 20-02-2020
- New features require OXCE v6.3.4
- Added short cutscenes for mission briefings as an auxiliary mod
- Updated and unified colors for Geoscape UI
- Added the ability to pick starting faction at the start of the campaign
- Flattened difficulty to make the faction selection possible
- Removed Hobbes' terrains, replaced with some new ones
- Updated terrain mission terrain by Dioxine
- Update to Russian translation by Omich0629
- Updated terrains for Cultist and Traitor Guard bases
- Cultist, Ork, and Traitor Guard bases conduct new and more missions from the start of the game
- Added multiple tiers for Cultist and Traitor Guard bases
- Added a few new unit sound clips for female marines and orks
- Updated some craft weapon icons
- Small Battlescape UI updates
- Fix for crash on chaos plasma missions manufacturing
- Fix for Ork Waggon turrets not being destroyed sometimes when shot down
Guard Content:
- Fix for Commissar sounds files on same index as some unit response sounds
Marines Content:
- Two new Sideoperations Missions
- Advanced Scout camouflage now switches variants for all terrains
- Added Master Crafted Hammer, Power Sword, and Stormbolter, with sprites by Firaa
- Fix for Assault Bikes being damaged when dropped in Droppods
- Fix for Thunderhawk maps
Update 11-10-2019
- Added unit response sounds, requires OXCE 5.6.3
- Included Russian translation by Omich0629 and RamoZ-101
- Map fixes and updates
Marine Content:
- Minor updates to chapter change mods
Guard Content:
- Fixed Sentinel Autocannon range being too short
- Fixed craft turrets failing to spawn when too close to an exploded power source
Update 03-09-2019
- Fixed missing traitor guard flamer and cultists sometimes having no weapons
- Fixed certain IG missions crashing due to bad regions definitions
- Fixed stray pixels on stubber hand sprites
- Fixed crash in basescape due to missing single Droppod sprites in Blood Angels and Imperial Fists mods
- Fixed Commissar's inspire ability damaging armor
- Codex cleanup for craft weapons and auxiliary units
- Added labels to all craft weapon slots
- Chaos weapons don't prevent base facility pieces from exploding in base defenses
- Orks have Killa Kans to defend their bases
- Orbital Bombardment manufacturing now requires Naval Communications to be unlocked
- Updated minimap sprites for all terrains to better match the tile sprites
- Removed some pillars in hangar facility's maps to make them more accessible to large units in base defense
- Re-translated altitude strings for craft to match both air and ground craft
- Ground-based player craft cannot directly attack high-altitude enemy craft, but doesn't affect hunter-killer interceptions
- Updated Chaos Dreadnought/Plasma sprite
Guard Content:
- Added Advanced Sentinel variants with extra armor
- Standard Sentinels now have an open-top sprite and other graphics
Update 02-07-2019
- Added an article that explains Strategy choice that pops up at beginning of the game
- New, harder final mission
- Separate final mission for the Marines' Chaos Path
- Added a "Hangar" mission to test out crafts' deployment
- Autopistols, Autoguns, and Heavy Stubbers now damage a small amount of armor
- Added a stomp melee attack for Sentinels
- Enemy turrets and some heavy weapons soldiers can now shoot at targets spotted by other enemies
- Enemy armor no longer scales with difficulty
- Traitor Guard and Chaos Cultists no longer spawn on typical Chaos Craft
- Traitor Guard and Chaos Cultists have their own separate sets of weapons
- Added a flamer and grenade launcher for the Traitor Guard
- Added Chaos heavy stubbers, shotguns, and sniper rifles
- Changed the Chaos Priest to be an assassin (sprites to come later maybe?). High Priest remains as-is.
- Map for Razorback in the battlescape
- New sprites for some terror unit weapons
- More ambient sounds
- Minor cosmetic and terrain fixes
- Fixed smoke grenades being counted as tainted artifacts
- Fixed crash on wrong sprites for base facilities
- Fixed typo on IG missions causing crash
- Fixed some crashes and 0-cost new bases related to the globe rework
Marine Content:
- Blood Angels chapter change mod now available
- Updates to Imperial Fists mod
Update 12-04-2019
- Updated text colors for New Research and New Manufacturing menus
- Changed bolts and heavy auto shells to do less armor damage but have some armor piercing
- Fixed bolts having too low stun damage
- Increased damage and range on Heavy Bolters to better match lore
- Bumped up damage on Assault Cannons and Autocannons to match Heavy Bolter changes
- Changed Storm Bolters and Assault Bike Bollters to use the (0-100% roll)x2 damage model instead of (0-200% roll) to better represent firing two bolts to the same location
- Increased armor damage of lasgun/laspistol power cells, but still less than version 012-017 levels
- Enemies should make the aimed/snap/auto decision better based on the weapon they're using
- Enemies with weapons that have a max range should prefer to move closer now
- Added max ranges to Meltaguns and Multimeltas to help the AI use it better
- Fixed the INFO section for Blight Rockets causing a crash
- New campaigns now actually start in the year 40k
- Traitor Guard soldiers no longer deploy with laspistols
- Added Traitor Guard Outposts as a new kind of enemy base
- Added a Chimera for the Traitor Guard
- Added an Ork Encampment as a new kind of enemy base
- Added Grots to the Orks' deployments, sprites by b
- Added the Grot Blasta as an Ork weapon
- Fixed Stormravens, Dreadnoughts, and Centurion Warsuits being researchable/manufacturable for the Imperial Guard
- Edited the globe to make it look less like Earth
- Added Codex articles for the rare Bolters, Boltpistols, and Lasguns
- Added a Master Crafted Grav-Gun
- Added some missing Codex strings
- Improved some Codex images
- Fixes for Imperial Fist armors and sprites
- Added a map in the Codex help section for the new globe
Marine Content
- Removed manufacturing of HWP-type dreadnoughts
- Chapter Corruption now grants corrupted marines as a new soldier type, but prevents recruiting loyalist marines and manufacture of loyalist armors
- Added a transformation from loyalist marine to corrupted marine
- Added armors for corrupted marines to correspond to the loyalist variants
- Added a Chaos Thunderhawk Transport
- Added a Chaos Shrine as a base facility
- Added new base sprites for each type of Thunderhawk Transport
IG Content
- Increased cost of Psykers and Stormtroopers to 2 honor badges
- Increased number of badges granted by Psyker and Stormtrooper research from 3 to 4
- Fixed Veteran Guardsmen losing their rank after being promoted to veteran
- Fixed not being able to research Autocannons for the battlescape
- Fixed Sentinel/Missile being too weak against lasers and incendiary weapons
- Fixed Mounted Weapons being too weak against lasers while taking no stun or smoke damage
- Added Chaos Autopistols and Autoguns
- Added Stubbers and Chaos Stubbers
- Changed Riot missions to use Stubbers and Chaos Autoguns instead of Imperial Autoguns
- Fixed one standing direction of Commissar not having black boots
- Added boots to Ogryn battlescape sprites, fixed arms clipping over arms for Ogryn Carapace and Bullgryn armors
- Hellguns and Hotshot Volley Guns now have infinite instead of recharging ammo
- Added cosmetic variants of Advanced Carapace armors for Storm Troopers, sprites by Bait4Fate
- Added new missions for supporting the PDF or Space Marines assaulting a Chaos Outpost
Update 08-02-2019
- More string cleanup and editing by TheDeparted
- Spellcheck by IvanDogovich
- New sprites for lasgun/laspistol power cells
- Added Lucius, Voss, and Vostroya Pattern Lasguns to the list of randomized weapons in ruins maps
- Separated rare lasgun map blocks from rare bolter/boltpistol map blocks
- Fixed the auto-equip function breaking how "charge" deployments like droppods or grav drops work
- Fixed the craft tilesets being set on fire too easily
- Fixed race appearances by mission type
- Fixed mission scripts that would generate an extra mission per month
- Fixed LOFTemps in the Grav Drop deployments that would allow spotting of units
- Armor repair (Support Servitor and Techmarine Servo Arms) now automatically repairs the side with the most armor missing by percentage, no matter the side you use the ability from
- Built-in/special weapons should now show properly on the INFO screen for armors
- Added codex text for the Lascannon and made it exclusive to Marines Strategies
- Added a script for crewed weapons emplacements and a codex article to explain it
- Warmap tileset more real
- Fuel map depot more real
General balance changes:
- Reduced the armor damage for standard lasgun and laspistol clips
- Rebalanced plasma weapons to fill more of an anti-heavy infantry role
- Plasma pistols have reduced range and clip size but much more power
- Plasma rifles have increased power but reduced clip size
- Heavy plasma now has a small AoE radius that drops off quickly, and increased range and clip size
- All plasma weapons are more rare and expensive
- Added Chaos Boltpistols, and replaced some equips that had plasma pistols with them
- Heavy Bolter has increased clip sizes, faster auto and snap shots, and an increased kneeling bonus
- Increased the cost of heavy bolter ammo and missiles
- Reduced the cost of krak grenades slightly
- Reduced incendiary damage modifiers for large (2x2) units all-around
- Reduced dreadnought susceptibility to laser weapons
- Set resource costs of MC Bolter Ammo to match the clipSize
- Increased the adamantium cost of lascannon manufacturing
- Added an adamantium cost to manufacturing meltaguns
- Added adamantium costs to manufacturing craft weapons
- Reduced the points penalty for losing Guardsmen
Marine Content
- Techmarine now has both hands free
- Crozius Arcanum now can melee attack
- Sorcerer staff with snap shot
- Eldar light with snap shot
- Apothecary narthecium with melee attack
- Support Stormtalon weapons have fixed movement and more TUs/energy
- Stormeagle map, comes with 10 crew and 2 pilots
- Chapter Heraldry in Codex (simple yet)
Guard Content
- The Long-Las now changes color slightly when loaded with the hotshot ammunition
- The Marauder now requires researching Warp Drives and Power Sources
- Psykers now require High-tier Requisitions
- Updated Commissar sprites
- Added a High-tier Requistion research for the IG endgame
- Added the Gorgon superheavy APC
- Added stims to guard medics
- Added missing storage size and sell price to handheld autocannon
- Added a guard variant of the handheld lascannon, changed the mounted variant to use the new ammunition but with lower reload cost
- Removed ability for sentinels and mounted weapons to kneel
Update 17-01-2019
- Changed Chimera on outpost map
- Added Accatran Pattern Lasguns to the list of randomized weapons in ruins maps
- Fixed explosions being able to propagate through the front of Chimeras
Marine Content
- Signal Armor Correction
- keepCraftAfterFailedMission for Thunderhawk transport
- Imperial Fist sub mod
IG Content
- New sprites for Tauros Lascannon Turret, corpse sprite for Tauros Grenade Launcher Turret
- Added a new recurring mission to rescue stranded PDF Forces from their downed Valkyrie
- Added a new map for the PDF Outpost Defense to give the mission some variety
- Small tweaks to the first PDF Outpost Defense Map
- Pushed back appearance of Raptors and Traitor Marines on PDF Outpost defense
Update 10-01-2019
- Statstrings moved to auxiliary mod, turn on and off by activating/deactivating the mod from the options menu
- Testing new script to change overweight penalty to remove energy instead of TUs
- Added an assistance article to provide a short explanation of the new mechanics
- Terminator weapons retain the TU penalty in addition to the new energy penalty when overweight
- Guard Heavy Bolter no longer removes energy on kneeling
- Corrected and edited many of the mod's strings (credit to TheDeparted)
Marine Content
- Updating GEO for stormraven
- Updating Craft image stormraven
- Inquisition Full arc
- Grey Knight´s
- Scout Armor color corrections
- Small fixes
IG Content
- Fixed morale gain from executing traitors, broken due to last version's update
- Changed Craft Quad Autocannon again to differentiate it from the (renamed) Marine's Craft Assault Cannon
- Added the Marauder Destroyer as a mid-tier fire support interceptor.
- Added Sanctioned Psykers as a late-game soldier type, with a number of different disciplines and abilities based on choice of armor.
- Added hand-held autocannons.
- Added the first of a set of monthly missions, an outpost defense after you've completed training.
- Added the script that forces hits on the front armor as long as the shooter is in within diagonally in front of the target to the mounted weapon armors.
- Added an article to explain how to execute traitors with Commissars.
- Added articles to explain Officer and Veteran promotions.
- Added deployed bipod sprites for Heavy Stubber when kneeling
- New article images for Craft Multilaser, Quad Lascannon, and Quad Autocannon
Update 28-12-2018
- Ork Strings Fix
- LOS for chaos psi
Marine Content
- Bike armor Fix
- Honor Assault armor Fix
- Stormraven turret
- GK Stormraven
- Goggles by layer
- Centurion face fix
- Ufopedia fixes
- Mission 7 fix
IG Content
- Added photon flash grenade as a mid-tier tool for assaults
- Added Carapace medic armor
- Updated medic inventory image, battlescape sprites, and armor preview
- Updated Taurox map and turret images
- Updated how the Commissar's traitor execution functions, limited to only IG units
- Fixed drawing routines for IG armors
