Mythical Duck (known as pmprog on our forum) is doing OpenXcom let’s play on Youtube using latest git version of OpenXcom. The most interesting part is that all soldiers are named after people involved in project. So if you want to see who is still alive or already dead 😉 go here:
Official forum thread:
Let’s Play OpenXcom Forum Thread
Watch and spread a word 😉
That’s right folks, we’re nearly there! According to the development schedule, all we’re missing to hit that landmark (as of right now) is Cydonia, and to my understanding , that is being worked on as I’m writing.
As we near completion of this development cycle, we have found it necessary to add a further external dependency to the project, the SDL_image library.
By including this, we now have the means to import many common image formats, which opens the door for future modding capability.
What this means for developers:Â You will need to download and add the extra library to your deps folder in order to successfully compile.
What this means for the rest of us: NOTHING! OpenXcom should continue working in exactly the same fashion as it did before the addition.
Starting off his debut in the community with a very different version of OpenXcom, he followed up with sending a lot of valuable contributions to us (read: an absolute fuckton of code), including:
The team deliberated on this matter carefully, and we decided such intense passion and effort for the project should not go to waste. So everyone welcome Warboy1982 to the OpenXcom team! We hope he enjoys his stay here and becomes a valuable member of the project. 🙂
I’m sorry babe, but it just wasn’t meant to be. While I once grew fond of your sleek graphical UI, your apparent lightweightness and your simplicity of  use, the fact of the matter is you’ve changed. You’re a mess. You let yourself get inflated with ego and bloat, tried to hide your real nature to appease to those mainstream boys and keep pretending everything’s alright when it’s all falling apart on the inside. I’ve gotten fed up with your demand for updates that just end up bricking my VM and your frustrating and maddening new Unity interface that just led me to hunt down lengthy workarounds to deal with it. It’s over, we’re true. Now that Debian girl, hmm…
On a related note, Linux downloads have been updated, and an Ubuntu package introduced thanks to Knapsu. Enjoy!
Version 0.4.5 is officially out! This version is so fully packed with all sorts of fixes that some even grew into improvements and new features. We guarantee you will not experience another crash ever again, or your money back. 😉
Updated Windows downloads are now available, other platforms/versions will follow shortly (yes I will make a proper tarball…). Here’s the full changelog:
New features:
Bugfixes:
Thanks to everyone liking us on Facebook, keep spreading the word!
I’ve hooked up the site to Facebook now, so hopefully every future update will be automatically posted there too.
To celebrate the renewed interesting in XCOM with the new released title, v0.4.5 is coming this week! And we need your help to get us there!
Testers: Test the hell out of those Git builds and make sure no completely horrible serious fatal mind-bending bug sneak past us this time! Remember, the more info you give us about the bug (what you were doing, how to reproduce it, etc), the better chance it has of getting fixed!
Translators: OpenXcom supports a variety of languages, and some new text has been added to 0.4 and 0.4.5 so translations are falling out of date! If you are a native speaker of any of them, please help out by reviewing and updating them, it only takes a few minutes. Here’s a list of out-of-date languages (marked as Incomplete) and recently added text. Feel free to post a new thread if none is available.
Package Maintaners:Â Let me know if you wanna be contacted when the source for 0.4.5 is ready so you can get all your stuff prepped ahead of time. WARNING: I might add a new dependency. Watch this space.
Everyone Else: Keep anxiously waiting!