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Thanks Chris for this new monthly Update. Sounds good again like all Monthly Updates before. Yes, it have many Jobsites left, but I personaly think that the new Beta-Version V.21 will be an big Hammer for all of us with many Refits, Improvements, cool tested Stuff like the Orbital Bombardement etc. and secret Stuff we don´t know yet. Therefore I can wait longer, dosen´t matter how long it took. I personaly can´t understand why the People don´t wanna have Quality. Like some on Steam, which have only Newspapers in their Brain [one of them is blaming UFO 2 ET too, which is there in the Base-Game-Variant]. Instead they wanna have Quantity and then they are disappointet if they have to use 20+ Patches and buy Minimum 5 DLCs which make the Base-Game-Quality and 6+ DLCs to get an Refit in the Base-Game-Quality. You and your Team are doing a great Job and I´m happy to be a Part of the Founding- and Beta-Testing-Crew. That the Game looks finaly better then in the Protoype-Kickstarter-Pictures [which is the same since longer Time for U-Boat], is fully natural. If you need for an perfect Base-Game 1 or 2 more Years incl. Cloesed-Beta, Open-Beta and Early Access, then take the Time. It´s better to have an Game with Quality, high sellings and lesser Patches, like the UFO 2 ET-Devs / new XCOM-Devs did it in the Base-Game-Variant, then to have a 2 or 3 Year programmed Quantity Game, which is unplayable.
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Yes. Yes, I am dumb and failed to read the very first line. <Facepalm>
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Am I being dumb, or has this not actually been uploaded to Steam yet?
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These are a lot of quality of life changes; every time I think you and your team impressed me, you one up it in the next update. Though I have a couple of questions. First, how are you guys going to handle harder/easier difficulties? Are you going to buff/debuff enemy stats depending on the difficulty or are you going to make the ai smarter and more cunning on higher difficulty modes? Secondly, do you think that the ai is ready to beat cheese tactics used by several of the closed beta testers that can trivialize maps (like how CaptainSPrice uses a lot of soldiers to gang up on one alien with reaction fire, killing it before it can shoot) or does it need a little more work to beat these tactics? Thirdly, how much will these alien special abilities affect gameplay? Will the abilities be used sparsely and will be a rare issue for the player to encounter or will the abilities appear pretty prominently and be a major part of the tactical gameplay? Again, very much looking forward to more announcements in the future. Also I'm looking forwards to more discussions about these topics; I feel that they have died down a little as of late.
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[v20.1] CTD on alien base mission
InBetweenNames replied to InBetweenNames's topic in Xenonauts-2 Bug Reports
Thanks! Didn't realize I could get to an older auto save... will have to try that out! -
We're now at the end of July and it's time for my monthly update. There's been no public releases this month (the stuff we've been working on has taken us off in some unexpected directions), but we'll resume those next month. This month we've spent a fair bit of coder time improving the tactical AI. It now has a much better understanding of the battlefield and the weapons it is equipped with (certainly better than the X1 AI did) and is ready for some combat balancing next month. We're also planning to look into some "advanced" behaviours as part of this, whether it be squad behaviours that allow alien units to move and fight as teams or unit-specific special abilities (e.g. you could imagine a large Sebillian having something akin to the XCOM Berserker ability where it moves a couple of tiles towards anyone that fires a shot nearby). I think making the aliens feel more intelligent and the different species feel more distinct would give the game a lot more character! We've also worked on various other aspects of gameplay. Performance on the Geoscape has been improved significantly, and we've implemented difficulty settings (although I need to balance the campaign properly before I make them too different from one another), and we've revisited the soldier medals and finished implementing them. We've also had support in the game for Landed UFOs for quite some time, but someone on the forums pointed out recently that UFOs weren't actually landing. I spent a bit of time looking into that and the coders fixed some related bugs, and now UFOs are landing like they should. Rather a lot of new art assets have been added to the game as well. The last of the remaining Xenonaut armours was modelled up in 3D and sent off for rigging today, so I expect all the final Xenonaut 3D models to be in the game by the end of August - you can see a couple of the designs in the images in this post. There's also been a new alien model added to the game, the Cyberdrone. This was previously a big white sphere but now actually has a unique design. There's now at least one 3D model for all of the aliens in the game, and we're going to turn our attention to making the different variants distinct from one another (so you can better tell an elite alien from a standard alien of the same species, etc). There's also new 2D art. We redesigned the Gauss weapons and have new 2D art for that entire family of weapons, as they could previously be quite difficult to tell apart and the art wasn't as good as some of the other weapons in the game. We've also added the top-down art for the two advanced dropships (as seen when arranging your troops inside them on the Aircraft screen), and as the 3D tiles are already complete we just need to paint the background art on the Soldier Equip screen for those and then they are done. That should be done next month too. Finally, we've brought back a freelance artist who was working with us on improving the look of the ground combat tiles. The quality of the ground combat environments still varies wildly from the dockyard maps we used in the Steam Demo which I think look pretty great through to biomes like Arid or the American Town which I think look rather less great. We'll be working hard on retexturing some of the less attractive assets to bring them up to final quality, and we'll also be adding the final destruction states to them too. It might take a few months for this to bear fruit but I think you'll see quite a big improvement in the way the game looks when it does! Oh, one more thing on the art front - the new UI art style also continues to develop. Hopefully next month you'll see the new main menu screen and it's various sub-panels in the game (the start new campaign screen, load game screen, etc). Maybe even the new topbar too if things go well. Aside from the gameplay things, there's also been some time spent on technical stuff. We're continuing to work on translation support, but that hit a speedbump this month because we had previously been linking items / projects together via their name (e.g. when specifying which item unlocks a Research project). Unfortunately this system falls apart once the name becomes a value that changes based on language, so we had to rewrite quite a lot of code relating to that too. But hopefully next month translation support will be finished too. So yeah, that's what we've been working on this month. It's been a busy month. I had intended to be working on the actual game balance but I got pulled into all the stuff listed above. Fingers crossed I can get back onto it next month though!
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[1.65/X.CE V0.35.0] X-Division 1.00 Beta (1.00.11c)
Ruthless Reuban replied to Charon's topic in Completed Game Mods
No idea about that, works for me. May be older version of Xenopedia or Palu's shining Xenopedia is inactive. -
Immersion of realism broken when soldiers do too strange actions
odizzido replied to oldgamer's topic in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion
I think it's a shame that the switch to a 3d engine didn't also come with a redesign of how firing works. If I am playing an FPS game and shoot a gun with a 5 degree cone and there are objects in that cone then the chance that I hit that object is whatever % of the cone is taken up by the object. The % chance I hit the target is whatever amount of the cone is taken up by the target. I really do wish that this game did that instead of the current 0% chance to hit that hay stack that's in the way but 40% chance to hit it if you take one step back. -
Alien lethality possibly too high?
odizzido replied to Jet Jaguar's topic in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion
Personally I like making choices that matter. If armour does nothing then it's not a choice which makes it pointless beyond being a beginners trap. That's no fun for anyone. I am not saying if armour is good or not, I've not played the game in a while so I don't know. I am just pro-choice. -
[1.65/X.CE V0.35.0] X-Division 1.00 Beta (1.00.11c)
ShadowFox replied to Charon's topic in Completed Game Mods
I am not sure if this has already been mentioned or if there has been a fix already made, but there have been several "Research topics" that once researched have no text for them in the X-pedia The picture below shows what I mean. So... has there been a fix for this or did I install X-division incorrectly or what? -
Alien lethality possibly too high?
DREADNAUGHT replied to Jet Jaguar's topic in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion
You are missing the point, lethality is to high even with latest armor. Meaning one shot one kill, thats the issue. -
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[1.65/X.CE V0.35.0] X-Division 1.00 Beta (1.00.11c)
Ruthless Reuban replied to Charon's topic in Completed Game Mods
Try to use different resolution when launching game. Small base operator and outpost operator are same alien. Game uses mostly small base operator. Alien base have (always have, I think) medium base operator and interrogating him should also unlock small base operator interrogation. Landing ship may contain landing ship operator, but (possibly?) not always. Not sure about that one. Landing ship operator unlocks data hacks (probably that Caesan data hack 5) that may unlock Plasma rifle MK3. All operators unlock data hacks that are not critical but "nice bonus". -
[1.65/X.CE V0.35.0] X-Division 1.00 Beta (1.00.11c)
Felis replied to Charon's topic in Completed Game Mods
Hello I have some problems with the game. On manufactures screen I can't press the lowest production buttons, becourse they behind "manage construction" button. (screen) How can I resize/change their position? On phase 2 I didn't found Outpost operator, both Alien Outpost and Base had small base operators, nor landed Landing ship or outpost immediatly after Landing ship take off. Is it critical for research? Also I didn't get caesan data hack5 and don't have plasma rifle mk3. But I've got all aliens exept outpost operator. -
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Alien lethality possibly too high?
Ninja replied to Jet Jaguar's topic in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion
If they change it I would prefer that to be done on difficulty settings. The game should be as realistic for players who want to experience the realism of facing a high probability of dying, because they were shot with a plasma rifle from a highly advanced alien lifeform prior to developing the technological capability to mitigate such weapons destructive prowess against the frailty of human flesh. The early game danger creates the intense atmosphere that creates the immersion that most of us appreciate about the experience. -
If you buy something, much more an Blue-Ray one, which can use both (DVDs and Blue-Rays). Some of the good nostalgic Movies you don´t get on the Stream-Services (Netflix, Prime, Disney+ etc.). Sky is an Alternate, but if you use all Parts it can be very expensive. I know that, because I use all 3 Streaming-Services for Series, Movies, Dokus etc. and Sky Sports for Motorsport.
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I am being introduced to buy a DVD player, I see that not many people use DVDs anymore, but I see that if I sell it to someone else, I will regret it. Do you think I should buy this machine again?
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Worst case scenario you have to change the binary, but the XCE team announced their last version will very most likely be the final version released, and best case scenario you would find something in the moddable files, but i dont know anything about that.
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Regardless of my knowledge of Xenonauts' code, there's still the problem in Community Edition where a 100% hit chance is not an automatic guarantee that a shot will hit the intended target.
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Thank you for acknowledging the problem, and that it will be corrected in a future build.
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That is a strong argument.
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I applied the same modification of making it possible to get 100% hit chance to vanilla, and made shots that state that they have 100% hit chance. Never had a single shot that had 100% hit chance hit anything other than the target in vanilla.
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How did you test that vanilla doesnt have that kind of behaviour ?
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By this I mean how do I change how the game determines what a shot hits. For those who don't know, XCE makes it so that, when a weapon is fired, the game first checks if the shot hits any obstacles between the shooter and the target, then it checks if the shot hits the target. This is the opposite of vanilla behavior where the game first checks if the shot hits, then, if it misses, it checks if the shot hits any obstacles. I want to know how to revert this change because I modded my game so that it's possible to get 100% hit chance, and it frustrates me that, in XCE, I don't actually have 100% hit chance when it says I do.
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That´s not unusual in Beta-Versions. But if a buildable Shield / Shieldupgrade were already in, then that Bug have to be corrected for the next big Version.
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The same problem with the rocket launcher. It has no upgrades
