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Seams a nice idea, but be careful, getting out of flat floors changes both the programming and gameplay. I mean maybe it is just a little improvement to the game that requires a lot of resources to implement it. I love the timeline of the game, but I agree that the game doesn’t use the setting at all. The world is divided at that period and picking up staring sides NATO or USSR seams the right idea. Fighting the war in separate sides until the aliens beat the shi*t out of you, or a major event happens (let’s say at the middle of the game progress) then founding X-Com and sharing NATO and USSR resources, funding, manpower, research progress, bases and technology. I can’t imagine the USSR or USA waiting for the X-COM to defend their airspace at the first stages of the invasion, it just feels out of place. Also the ICBMs could be shown in the game. Imagine if the planet is surrounded by UFOs but they can’t enter the atmosphere yet because they are adapting, the right move for NATO or USSR is to launch all those ICBMs towards UFOs. Maybe it just would be translated into the game with an event entry, saying that “we launched 100 ICBMs to the space but 95% of them were shot down by UFOs defenses” and showing a nice art picture of the event. Also, the SR-71 could be a good reconnaissance plane to overcome the lack of radar arrays at the beginning. I also love the idea of patrolling the skies. Maybe using refueling on flight or landing on a random military base (not X-Com base) to refuel. And I would like to mention also the submarines, which were, after ICBMs one of the most feared weapon at the time. I know they are almost useless on an alien invasion… but they would be also the last survivors in case of total annihilation. Can you tell us why? I love 1979, it seems the perfect time for an alien invasion. The game itself is an alternate timeline, why adding an alternate timeline starting point paradigm? Totally agree, 3D portraits always look so cloned Simply the best idea I read so far, but I just reviewed the first four pages...

Thank you PaulJay, awesome addition, they had become the standard equipment for my soldiers.

First of all, congrats for the mod you have done. I've been playing it for a week now and experiencing all the bugs mentioned here, the game has a tendency to crash after big explosions, and that is somewhat annoying, specially when setting up a perimeter around the dropship with C4, and demolishing everything on the path to the UFO entrance But I would like to report a bug which crashes the game but can be worked around: -When I'm working on the project corvette dissembling (which take up the space of an hangar) if I go to the aircraft equipment tab the game crashes no matter what. When the project is finished the bug is resolved.