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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #960 on: November 02, 2020, 02:26:26 pm »
your "Rook on D6" make invalid move for rook :P

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #961 on: November 02, 2020, 03:08:28 pm »
your "Rook on D6" make invalid move for rook :P

And he promptly died for this transgression! :)

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #962 on: November 02, 2020, 04:13:06 pm »
Some more research being done. It seems no more missions will show up for this month. May be another Durathread factory.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #963 on: November 02, 2020, 04:51:52 pm »
And the monthly Durathread raid shows up.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #964 on: November 02, 2020, 05:18:34 pm »
your "Rook on D6" make invalid move for rook :P

It is a rather unusual place for a rook, but it can get there in a few moves, after the board is ... ahem ... cleaned up a bit.

And he promptly died for this transgression! :)

The mission was a resounding SUCCESS!
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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #965 on: November 02, 2020, 11:28:15 pm »
Turns 1 and 2. Great position, but I have to ruin it anyway.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #966 on: November 03, 2020, 12:46:55 am »
Turns 3-4.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #967 on: November 03, 2020, 10:52:41 am »
Turns 5-6. Ok, not enough troops and not enough firepower for now. This one was a good set up though. If I didn't let my soldiers Reaction fire I could have stayed in the dark without the Sniper-Spotter stuff.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #968 on: November 03, 2020, 10:59:42 am »
The runaway.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #969 on: November 03, 2020, 11:04:14 am »
Some more research done. I am finished with the Farmers for now. Our donor friends will be happy.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #970 on: November 03, 2020, 12:08:54 pm »
Yay, a new month. Not bad.

I will start attaching a save for a backup.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #971 on: November 03, 2020, 12:35:11 pm »
Team for some strange creatures.

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #972 on: November 03, 2020, 12:42:52 pm »
Turns 1 and 2. This is a fairly annoying set up with too much corners near the start. I don't see where I could simplify though.

EDIT: Lack of really powerful explosives shows up.
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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #973 on: November 03, 2020, 10:57:29 pm »
Sadly, but suddenly, the "prtsc" button stopped working with the Linux Version of OpenXcomEx in full screen mode so a few turns got lost until I realized that something is amiss. Noting really fun was lost though. A Mongorn walked up to the crew, the dog somehow failed to bark it to motionlessness (huh, this is a real world that spellcheck recognizes) and instead bit it to death. Will try the Windows version with wine. It might even work.

I recently updated to Ubuntu 20.04 (why, just why) and, uhm, I updated something else since midday so some parts are misbehaving (working as the developers intended) as usual.

If the above makes no sense, I blame my English and love for long sentances.

EDIT: Problem resolved by using F12 for screenshots, but now GIMP refuses to draw red on the picture and defaults to some weird colors. So uhm, not really resolved. Ahhh, the majestic world of computer problems. See pic 1 below. I tried drawing the arrow red as usual.

EDIT2: The above problem is resolvable by going in the menu Image->Mode->RGB. It was set to Indexed so I presume the game saves screenshots in the format that it uses. But I am not sure I want to make that many more clicks for every picture.

EDIT3: Nope, restarting doesn't fix it. But using wine did the trick.

EDIT4: Sadly, the X-COM way of solving problems (with High Explosive and Large Rockets) will not work. I would like to try, but don't have real life access to it. :D
« Last Edit: November 04, 2020, 12:00:28 am by tarkalak »

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Re: X-Com Files Mod, Superman, Ironman-ish
« Reply #974 on: November 03, 2020, 11:58:04 pm »
OK turns 5 to something. The rest of the mission should be pretty boring.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong? - said Murphy and fell into deep though, because he was a reliability engineer and answering this question was his job!