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  1. Charon
    Its unlikely that you dont have any of thosethings not researched, but yes, a new game is totally issue free, as is a save without the researches in questioned completed.
  2. Charon
    Ofcourse it does. If you have anything researched regarding those antimatter technologies they will get locked forever. Research is never save game compatible.
  3. Charon
    Redundant not quite, as you still need to raid a light- scout- and corvette UFO to unlock it as soon as possible. I think this is the only example where gameplay and Lore is tightly tied together, as we can not allow the player to get access to antimatter technology before talking to our little rebel. It is on of the set cornerstones for X-Division and Paul is the red thread that goes all the way from the beginning of the game to the very endgame. It is quite important. Edit: Antimatter Technology fills quite an important role to "beat" the praetors, but gameplay wise we didnt want to tie it to tightly to the endgame research, because of its high requirements. So while you could play through the game entirely without antimatter technology it is implied that the language knowledge of Paul, his scientific knowledge about antimatter, and ultimately his advancements once he sees ancient weapons for the first time is what makes accessing and beating the final base possible. A small but necessary step, without beating the aliens would not quite be possible. It is also implied that our little rebel is what "unlocks" antimatter, and makes it produce- and harvestable.
  4. Charon
    You need XCE for X-Division.
  5. Charon
    @PALU Thank you for your oppinion. But can you look into the file and see if you see exactly the same thing as i do ? Sometimes 2 pair of eyes can see more than 1, and i have messed up that research quite some times so i would require assistance in that field of expertise.
  6. Charon
    I have to apologise, it seems like i keep messing up the antimatter tech. I noticed that Researches.AntiMatterTechnology actually requires Researches.AlienDarkTechnology, which is actually nonsense because Researches.AlienDarkTechnology is a deep Phase 2 technology, while Researches.AntiMatterTechnology is all about Phase 1. At the same time Researches.BasicAntiMatterTechnology missed that requirement, which is ofcourse not how it should be. I moved the Researches.AlienDarkTechnology from the Phase 1 Antimatter to the Phase 2 one, where it actually belongs to. researches.xml This doesnt mean the research is broken, it just may get accessible way later than intended. Fixed. @PALUcan you give me a second oppinion that now everything is at it should be ? Every Antimatter needs all Data Hacks for its phase + Dark Technology for Phase 2, Advanced Dark Technology for Phase 3, Ancient and Advanced Ancient Technology for Phase 4 + an invisible trigger in form of the corpse of the next phase + some basic technologies of the current phase.
  7. Charon
    As a rule of thumb have as many spare soldiers as your dropship can take, but at least 16 soldiers. With this you have a full team ready when your main team gets wiped, and also have the maximum soldiers in case of a base attack.
  8. Charon
    While what you say might be true, think about that capturing stuff and androns are the 2 biggest factors in the game. Suppression might be applicable to most situations, but for the more dangerous ones it is not. Reapers, Xenomorphs, androns, robodogs and roboreaper are all unsuppressable. So while the use of the SHOCK feature is singular, the situation you can use it in is many. Capturing units alive is not a small part of the game, in fact its what the whole game revolves around. You can apply SHOCK to discs, tanks and androns as these are the most dangerous enemies in the game. So all in all it is but a niche feature.
  9. Charon
    Any changes require a lot of crossover work with other entities and people. Every time we change the shock effect @PALU will have to add the additional information. Im always open to suggestions ofcourse, but if those kind of things make it into a commit or not is something else entirely. I dont know if apDamage would even work on aoe based weapons, but i dont see the necessity to apply them to grenades and rockets. For Phase 1 you have shotguns and smgs, and since it is an tutorial that is enough for the player. Phase 2 has shock weaponry and Phase 3 has Electron Weaponry. Since i deliberately gave them quite good stats recently there is no equivalent weapon category for Phase 4 ( eg. it doesnt matter if they are slightly too strong for their phase, since Phase 4 puts them into perspective again, and Electron Weapons for slowing down enemies is viable even in Phase 4 ). In Phase 4 the strongest SHOCK weapons are shotguns and SMGs again, which should give a slight higher value than before. If you need to capture a Praetor alive -45 tu for the next turn can be invaluable, among other uses. If we spread the SHOCK feature too much we are undermining the outstanding features of other weapons again, which is not the goal. We dont wanna make the shotgun weapon better by applying a new feature and then give this feature to everything else as well. So i would just say we need to complete a whole development cycle with the current changes before making any more of them = we need statistical data on the current ones.
  10. Charon
    The Xpedia entry for the armour has a right panel where the stats are listed. If you are talking about the current status of your armour during battlefield conditions i would say that falls under the uncertain conditions of war, which you will have to deal with. Some things can be known ( like the armour values before the mission ) and other things are uncertainties which you will have to work with as such. Having the skill to manage uncertainties in your life is a great skill to have, and extrapolates well from within the game into your life, if you know that you can do that.
  11. Charon
    They know everything. The things you mentioned + how much your armour degraded, what items you are carrying ( although i dont think they factor it in ), the rank, hp, tu, moral, sight angle, sightrange, tiles in sight ... and more, i think. Just think about it, if they wouldnt know your rank, how should they target higher ranked soldiers ?
  12. Charon
    @PALUIf you want a perfect solution you can simply describe the coverage angle as the angle which the weapon covers to the left and the right. Thats the technical reason for it anyway, the arc gets calculated once to the left and once to the right, and this is why 180 degree equals 360 degree.
  13. Charon
    Please do so. I particularly dont like entries describing 180 degree coverage as "you can shoot while you fly away from the target". While this is technichally correct, the 180 degrees are more than misleading. Transfer costs are 10% of sell costs, we cant set them differently unless we change the sell prices, which i am not sure are unbalanced.
  14. Charon
    @PALUThere is something bugging me. Can you check on all of your aircraft entries where you describe weapon arcs and correct them ? The firing arc degrees are always doubled. So a weapon with an 180 firing arc has complete coverage, while 160 degree means 320.
  15. Charon
    @Solver Bug report the post above. @PALUSome nice aircraft you have there.
  16. Charon
    @Mr. Mister Im not sure what would look good but maybe this can help you: If you want it in blue you can either manipulate it yourself, or ask @drages if he still has the blue one lying around somewhere.
  17. Charon
    @PALU knows the same as in have interrogated @Mr. Mister What do you need an .ico file for ? Do you know what an .ico file is ? The start up screen already uses this image: Dont you like it ? We have a lot of art lying around, but i think @drages has all rights on the art for X-Division. I would need to know what you use it for before i post any kind of non-published art.
  18. Charon
    @PALUThe Scout UFO entry has 2 white spaces at the beginning of the second paragraph. which we believe @Mr. Mister #OrderofThings Dont worry about the order so much. Apart from very small details everything is thought well through. After your first mission your team researches the captured UFO automatically in a timeframe of 0 - 24 hours. After these kind of preliminary results roll in your forge gets set up ( since you dont have any alien parts to work on yet anyway ), and in the next 24 hours you get the report about it. Sounds sound to me. I think you are getting a bit ahead of yourself here. Firstly, the autopsy reports and the class analysis reports come from 2 different internal departments inside of your organisation, so their information can overlap, dublicate and/or add to each other. You could tell this from the different art style. but you dont necessarily have to. Secondly, just because it is an Xpedia entry doesnt mean your organisation all of sudden is blessed with knowledge by god. They make mistakes, they make assumptions and they can change terms depending on the way the invasion progresses. Information will get revised, reconfirmed, dismissed, overwritten and overhauled throughout the game, depending on your path through the game. So just because they are for now called non combatants doesnt mean they wont get better defined as the campaign goes on. Just keep your chin up, your brain activated and form your own oppinion. As the head scientist said, thats the only effective weapon you have . Also just because things are not plainly explained to you doesnt mean they dont exist, or have a coherent structure . Dont worry about me, i only answer as much as i want.
  19. Charon
    The game code doesnt support it. For unknown reasons the torpedo entry cant be unlocked at the start of the game, so i had to add it to a research. They are not not unlocked, only the entry isnt. So you can think about all 3 entries as a dossier about your current military assets, lying on your desk simply as a reminder and as welcome to the game. I dont think that is out of place, once you realise those things dont get unlocked.
  20. Charon
    There is. It is kept where the original Ambient Forest mod was originally located ( and it will change depending on whether XCE changes the order or not ).
  21. Charon
    Thats intended. You gotta bring enemies down to their last stage before you kill the second last enemy on the map, otherwise they use an emergency teleport out.
  22. Charon
    There is an explanation in the Xpedia for this. Uff .. you make me work. Fixed this for the 4 relevant races. Vanilla bug. Either you get the icon or you get the autoloot. And autoloot seems to be far more important than the icon.
  23. Charon
    You are a crazy bastard. Always pushing to the rim. Yeh, i know that it is not undetectable, thats also what i do. I count the number of sounds i hear and try to judge based on my evaluation if the situation has become more dangerous all of a sudden. If i hear psionic waves and dont see any rings i can also "assume" something has teleported somewhere. Sometimes the aliens just teleport from one UFO level to the next, and its a false positive. Sometimes you literally dont turn around and they eliminate you from the back. The point i am trying to bring across is that it is based on SKILL, otherwise you will just have to check your six every turn ( and lose TU with that in the progress ). Sometimes a false positive can be come a correct one and they just teleported further away. In a nutshell if you remove the teleportation sound altogether your remove a gameplay element depending on skill, or a good ear. Im not trying to remove skill elements from X-Division, but rather increase it, so that you can factor out luck on a statistical level as much as possible. Edit: Once you have a tired evening you will soon realise what the difference between counting rings, and not being able to count rings, is. The mods which you should be able to deactivate/activate through the installer are the "COM - Ambient Sounds" and the "COM - Ambience Forest" ones. They seem to work on my end.
  24. Charon
    @Mr. Mister The Ready to Install bug was simply the installer calling for the wrong variable. The Easy Airgame bug was a call typo of the string for the registry. Fixed. I also fixed some additional spelling typos along the way. X-Division 1.00.10 Update.exe Can you do me the favour and check if everything works as it is supposed to ?
  25. Charon
    Ssshhhh ... Fixed . I will look into it, but that may take a little while.
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