Hi cristao, first of all, thank you very much for all your effort in the reports, it helps me inmensely and i really appreciate it:
yeah one of my todo list is to streamline and put up all the strings, names, and descriptions, it helps me a lot to get those reported as im sure i missed a lot.
about the "sudden crashes" prior to mission starts, this is in someway related to my botched implementation of the CMP community patch, that was one of the very first changes i made on the mod so im pretty sure i made a lot of mistakes on it, im already in conversation with EFRENSPARTANO (one of the authors of the cmp )to figure out how to fix this, until then i ask my sincere apologies to any unintended problems caused by this, i still had to update the description in the first page to recommend players to excercise cautiion by making a save prior to start landing (the map selection is RNG based) so 99% of the time it works flawlessly, but in that 1% it happens to crash....but still i havent found a pattern to discern where this happens and thus pinpoint any solution.
this must be put on priority list, i was meddling with sprites of alien inventories and might forgot to backup (thanks for your fixing, i'll add this to the next patch before i resume the work with sprites)
yes, the new transport ships changed names (and apareances completely), there it seems i dont changed every instance on the ufopedia where they might be named, will be fixed proptly, thanks for the catch.
about the live aliens, thanks i will investigate further.
THANKS a lot for this, i was changing and streamlining names of xcom equipment and it seems i forgot to double check some changes , very appreciate for finding this, this will be added to the patch.
this is related to the CMP patch, guess is related to same problems i exposed above
obs 1): codex missions are intended to reeplace terrors mission, so "theoretically" they could happen once per moth (aprox) BUT there are some conditionals and rng intended so they happen in a rythm of two or three PER YEAR, this might be a case of bad rng luck, but at the very same time this might be a signal some numbers are off, i'll check this again. Technically you "dont need" the keys to win (after all you must destroy it to complete the mission), but you must be sure ALIENS FAIL those missions (so its valid to rush in, explode it, rush out if you can safely clean the entire map site)
obs 2): i cant replicate this problem, i can find the ufopedia article for the armored (the purple ones with a lightbulb on their foreheads, the green "armored ones" are actually their standard version now) just between the muton berseker and the roacher entries, the line in the ufopedia.RUL file is 2448 so it seems to be correctly. i'll try to check this again in a new savegame if possible tho.
obs 3): yes, in the original mod, the power armor (the last tier) used to be able to float, the problem with this is that it made every other armor redundant and was way TOO good on everything so they were stripped of this ability and gave the skystrike a niche to stay relevant (i might be biased cuz this one its my favorite desing made by XOPS ) im currently working on editing fluff text and gave lore reasons for this changes, i might create an improved version that float and stuff but it would need a lot of balance and work in the spritesheets (in which im casually not very good at) so for now i think this might be the solution
obs 4): power suit shouldnt be able to be equipped, manufactured or used (it overlaps with the power armor both in aesthetics, functionality and intended niche) this was an oversight of my part
obs 5): same thing as above, the "vainilla" ships shouldnt be usable as their intended use is overlapped by the modded designs (also i have to comment both the goliath and the heracles will see changes on their appearance and map configuration, this however its not something im completely cappable of do by myself, and the person who'll help me with this is busy on his mod so there is not a clear ETA for now)
I will pause playing this for now. I am currently researching the few remaining techs for Codex Stage 3. There is a bit of work to be done. So far it has been mostly a beautiful experience. I look forward to playing it further once it is further along.
Again thanks a lot for your kind words m8, i really appreciate it. i have been learning a lot helping resurrecting this mod so its an continous process, i was very busy with IRL responsabilities but managed to sort them and can finally spend more time with this project, i know i have said this earlier in this thread (with not avail) but expect a new version to be posted soon, and im wishing to heard your opinions.
Cheers
