Battlescape development

[Zharik1999]

Or even floaters? I know they will bring a lot of bugs. We have even floating sectoids but I really can't wait to enjoy playing against floaters.

[Daiky]

floaters are in the game already, but there is no "story" in the geoscape to trigger them, it's hardcoded to sectoids now. When the geoscape stuff is implemented, the rest will probably be ready too.

[luke83]

cool , so what are you planning next? Are all map types done yet? Maybe some Armed Civilians  ?

[Daiky]

I recently found a copy of the book "Art of Game design": https://artofgamedesign.com/
it's really a great book, so in my free time I'm going to read that.

And other than that I'll just play openxcom a bit and see what is missing and then implement that missing part. I'm going to check if personal armor works in battlescape, I think not. So that might be next.

Doesn't armed civilians work already? I never tried, I don't know what happens when you put a weapon in a civilians' hands :p Probably doesn't work.

[luke83]

They work when there xcom solders but i have never tried to make normal civilians armed, i assumed there would be some special rules required within the Ruleset not to mention some AI upgrades Download a sprite set and let me know

[moriarty]

do the civilians have arm sprites for holding weapons?

[luke83]

my civilians do, i reworked the x-com solder sprites to handle them, i just need to tell  openxcom to use them somehow

[Daiky]

damn, personal armor already does work perfectly in battlescape I'll implement the destruction of items on the ground by explosions today.

[hsbckb]

damn, personal armor already does work perfectly in battlescape I'll implement the destruction of items on the ground by explosions today.

How about unconscious soldier killed by fire?

[Daiky]

according to ufopaedia items, uncluding corpses don't take damage from fire.

[moriarty]

that's true for the original, but should it really be that way? 

IMHO, unconscious soldiers taking no damage from fire is a design flaw, and should be corrected... they should also be able to receive stun damage, and explosions shouldn't affect them as items, but as soldiers/aliens.

heavily armored guy falls unconscious from a stun bomb, simple grenade goes off and completely wipes him off the face of the earth (or mars, for that matter )?
seriously?

[Daiky]

I wouldn't know if it's a bug or intentional, lets move it to the suggestions forum?
In openxcom bugs are fixed, but the "rules" should not be changed, unless it's optional.

[Daiky]

My Battlescape TODO-list for this month in the order it will be implemented. We'll see how far I get :p

items:
- psi-amp
- melee weapon
- mind probe

alien life forms drawing:
(there is certainly an overlap between some of them)
- floater
- reaper
- snakeman
- chryssalid
- zombie
- muton
- celatid
- silacoid
- sectopod

ai:
- psi attack
- melee attack
- smarter grenade throwing
- smarter blaster launching
- take cover

alien life forms special abilities:
- reaper bite (probably just a melee attack)
- Chryssalid/Zombie mechanics
- Celatid acid spit
- Silacoid ground burn

missions:
- alien base
- mars

- bugfixes
- suggestions

[michal]

Cool Lot of work for one month, but also lot of new features

[luke83]

If you get all that done in 1 month i will send you a Gift as a thankyou