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  1. Well not really, it just feels a bit boring that you can't decide whether to sell them or not. Just a bit more choice for the players. They do need revamping though, since as you say they're not really useful and quickly get to the stage where you just sell them anyway.
  2. The ammo counter change was because of the secondary vehicle weapons, it was the best place to put it without having to completely remake the UI. I tried an alternative method first involving editing the 2h weapon panel to be transparent over the ammo count for the secondary weapon, but for some reason that particular .png didn't work with the mod system and just used the original .png. I'll look into making the Androns a bit more defensive in UFOs. When it comes to alien weapons I don't want to mess too much with them since the AI uses them, but perhaps lowering the accuracy penalty is worth doing. Maybe introducing something that lets you convert X amount of alien weapons into alloys/alenium is something worth trying? That gives them a bit more usage and would give an incentive to hoard them.
  3. It doesn't matter. They should merge properly in both cases. Edit: Preferred to below though, Steelgonads names of the world will delete some edits XXP does if put above. The others shouldn't do something like that though.
  4. This might interest you @Charon. I figured out what was causing problems with the Ultimate Ambient Sounds mod. It was the use of multiple ambient sound sets, which I used for looping sounds and flyby airplanes/UFOs. I've created a LITE version which only uses one ambient sound set per tileset and the crashing has reduced dramatically. It's still possible to trigger random crashing sometimes if you load/save a lot (triggered the first crash after loading/saving maybe +10-20 times in a row), but it's much better than before and I never triggered crashing when transitioning from GC to the Geoscape.
  5. Good to hear. I've put a disclaimer in the first post so other people will know about it as well. EDIT: There is now a LITE version available that has vastly reduced crashing.
  6. Do you have the Ultimate Ambient Sounds mod installed? It's prone to cause crashing for some people, so try uninstalling it.
  7. The L key toggles the secondary weapon/left hand weapon by default. The secondary weapons for vehicles uses the same function. I tried editing the UI to work like when infantry use 1H weapons but vehicles seem to be hardcoded to use the 2H weapon mode UI. Pressing L to toggle the secondary weapon still makes it work though.
  8. Fine by me. Do note that I also added two new soldier selection buttons and color correction to the combatguiexport.lua script as well.
  9. By default the ammo counter for the secondary weapon is hidden when using vehicles since it's a scrapped feature. I had to move the positions of the primary and secondary weapon ammo counters to bypass it.
  10. Yeah, there's no UI/functions for it but it could be possible if it was added in an X:CE update. I also figured it out by reading some old threads on the forum, but I still had to edit the UI to fix the ammo counters.
  11. You can change the primary weapon like normal but the secondary weapon is limited to 1 weapon per vehicle that cannot be changed. You use the primary weapon like normal and the secondary by pressing the L key on your keyboard.
  12. Thanks and yes it's possible to give the vehicles secondary weapons, but I had to edit the UI (combatguiexport.lua) to make it possible to see the ammo for the secondary weapon. There is also a bug with secondary weapons that causes them to crash if they are combined with singleshot weapons. The workaround is to use burstfire instead with a shot count of 1. It's also not possible to change the secondary weapons, but you could create different versions of the same vehicle with different secondary weapons.
  13. XXP is intended for players who want a vanilla like experience but with some new additions and changes, expanding upon Xenonauts without straying too far from the original. XXP adds 3 new alien types, 10 new weapons, 4 new aircrafts, 4 new UFOs and 1 new building upgrade. All new additions have been made with the intention of each having its own purpose and they all come with Xenopedia artwork and writing imitating the tone and quality of the original entries. The gameplay has been rebalanced/changed in many different areas as well ranging from: Geoscape balance when it comes to the air war vs the ground war | The ground war should be bit more relevant for making money and boosting relations. UFO landing frequency and duration has been drastically increased so you have the option to initiate GC missions without the need for air combat. Crashed UFOs have also been modified so that alien technology and the crew receive damage in the crash, resulting in less alien tech to capture. Each vehicle has been given its own unique abilities | Vehicles now have positive and negative aspects to diffrentiate them more. Hunter - Scout and utility vehicle equipped with various rockets and a secondary machinegun. Scimitar - Infantry support tank equipped with a laser/plasma/MAG cannon and a secondary scatter laser. Also has the ability to drive through buildings and various objects. Hyperion - Artilery vehicle equipped with a laser/plasma/MAG cannon and a secondary cluster rocket system. Also has the ability to drive over water. To use the new secondary weapons you press the L key by default. The old laser/plasma/MAG cannons have also been altered somewhat to diffrentiate more as well. More rocket types have been added | Smoke rockets and more vehicle rockets as well. Stun gas has been changed to damage on contact | No more getting damaged once and then being invulnerable for the rest of the turn. Dropship range and capacity has been altered | Charlie range decreased and Valkyrie range increased. All dropship have a 2+ capacity increase and the Valkyrie can now carry 2 vehicles. AI Changes | Caesans are now more tactical and sneaky, make use of cover and stick together more. Sebillians are now more afraid of fire. Androns will "camp" less, be more aggressive and can crush through walls. Harridans will no longer fly around aimlessly towards the heavens like heathens only to get picked off by snipers. Armour and HP rebalance for aliens | Armoured aliens other than Androns and Drones now actually use armour values, adjusted the HP for various units as well. Weapons rebalance | Weapons adjusted for the armour and HP changes. Plasma and MAGs have been changed so that Plasma does more base damage while MAGs have much better armour penetration (mitigation), making them more effective against highly armoured units. Xenonauts Armour changes | Buzzard made into a recon/sniper suit capable of nightvision and has an accuracy boost, at the cost of smaller viewing arc and thus now requires the live capture of any Harridan unit and can no longer be unlocked by defating drones. Small nightvision boost was added to the Sentinel and Predator armours as well. The Sentinel armour has also been changed to incorporate a counterpsionic system and thus now also requires the live capture of all Caesan psionic units to unlock for research. Lastly, the Predator has received a small armour boost from 70 to 75. Alien crew changes | Harridans and Wraiths have been made into main races instead of being support races for the previous 3 main races (Caesans, Sebillians and Androns). Every main race except the Praetors have been given their unique support race. Praetors now only appear in Battleship and Dreadnought UFOs, and now receive a crew that is mixture of all the other alien main/support races. UFO changes | All UFO types gradually appear instead of completly replacing previous UFO types. UFOs on research missions will land more often and terror missions/base attacks have been increased in frequency as well. Scout missions now slightly increase the main alien ticker size for every minute they are active on the Geoscape. Different missions have specialized crews, for example construction and supply missions have more non-combatants and low level units, while base attacks and terror missions feature more high level units and support races. Alien Base changes | Now grow independently in size rather than being given a fixed sized as the invasion escalates. Discovery changed from automatic discovery to 95% approximate location and 5% automatic discovery every 3 days. Alien Bases no longer damage funding and instead increases the amount of max UFOs by 2. Alien Bases now feature mixed main race units with drone support and more non-combatants. Praetors no longer spawn in alien bases. Alien Weapons are now captureable | No longer auto sold but their accuracy penalty has been increased from 50% to 75%. And many other misc changes and additions | Funding damage/bonus adjustments. Starting soldier stats changed from minimum 35 to 40. Retakeable Xenonaut Bases activated (72h time limit). Dropship RNG survival rate increased when crashing over land. Armour changed to reduce suppression by percentage. Sell captured aliens on the black market. And more...! For more detailed changes check out the changelog included in the download. IMAGES: DOWNLOAD: Nexusmods Also available on Steam Workshop. INSTALLATION: Download and install the latest version of Xenonauts: Community Edition. Download and install the latest versions of the the Tropical and Swamp Tileset and Xenonauts Fix Pack (the ones included with X:CE are outdated). Install XXP and put it at the top of your mod list. Activate the following mods included with X:CE: [xcebalance], [xceextramaps], [xcesettings], [Skitso's Ultimate Megamix Map Pack 2000], [Skitso's Improved Tile Art Pack], [Skitso's Alien Base Booster Pack], [Restored Community Map Pack], [Random Map Pack Farm Edition], [Random Map Pack Desert Style], [Random Map Pack Arctic Collection], [NewCars], [Khall's Tundra Tileset], [Khall's More Portraits]. All other mods included with X:CE should be disabled. Optionally download recommended mods and place them below XXP in your mod list. Make sure you don't have any incompatible mods activated (check the compatability section below). Clear your internal scripts folder. For example: [C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Goldhawk Interactive\Xenonauts\internal\scripts\] or [C:\Program\Steam\SteamApps\common\Xenonauts\assets\mods\internal\scripts\]. Simply delete the scripts folder there. Start a New Game! RECOMMENDED MODS: Hold The Line! | Psionic Rebalance Geographic addition | Adds more cities No click sound | Sanity Booster SteelGonads Names Of The World | Adds many new soldier names and nationalities Ultimate Ambient Sounds LITE | Gives the Ground Combat missions more ambience COMPATABILITY: This mod is not compatible with X-Division or other overhaul mods, Kabill's Tactical Armories or other ground combat and weapon rebalance mods, Armored Assault or other vehicle rebalance mods, Skitso's Sounds of Pain or any other mods that edit human death/injury sounds and any mods that add new armours. UI/script mods that edit _basebuilt.lua, sequipview.lua, combatguiexport.lua and combatguiexport_large.lua must be merged manually or their changes won't apply. Mods that change the art style of the soldier faces must overwrite or disable the new female afri05/06 and asi05/06/07 faces, or you will get vanilla art style faces mixed with the replacements. You must also disable the new Sentinel armour graphics or add faces to it, or you will get headless soldiers when wearing the Sentinel armour in the equip menu. Custom weapons should be compatible (as long as they don't edit the research requirements of existing entries) but balance with XXP can't be guaranteed. XXP also includes variations of some mods that have been edited and merged into XXP. Do not use the following mods with XXP: Better Armour Graphics Unique Teleport Sound More Civilians and Local Forces Furies, Terror, and Dreadnoughts Oh My Lore+ Saracen Reborn Armoured Assault Extended Weapon Descriptions for Fighters KNOWN ISSUES: Jellynoid slime tiles in some cases floating in the air Creepers being able to move through 1x1 gaps If you find any bugs/issues please report them in this thread or PM me. CREDITS: zzz1010 - Original Creeper Pack mod which was edited, rebalanced and slightly redesigned to create the new Creeper. Max_Caine - Max_Caine's Warehouse mod which included the original Toxic Goo Launcher, Firewall and Glitterglass Grenade which were all edited and rebalanced. Drone Strike Package which included the Smart Weapons, Drone Aircrafts, Attack Frigate UFO and Drone Carrier UFO. These were all edited and rebalanced as well. Many Xenopedia entry texts that were edited in various ways. Ferry Susanto - Toxic Goo Launcher, Firewall and Glitterglass Grenade artwork. Bogdan Bungardean - Drone Aircraft artwork. Marwan Islami - Smart Weapons artwork. skaianDestiny - Vehicle alienium/plasma/fusion rocket artwork which were reworked for the new vehicle rockets. Kabill - Inspiration for the vehicle and dynamic UFO changes. Also the Unique Psionic Attack and next soldier button graphics. Axiomatic - Inspiration from the UFO and crew diversity mod. The "Furies, Terror, and Dreadnoughts Oh My" team (SkaianDestiny, Kabill, Dpelectric, Langy and Ilunak) - original versions of the Assault Lander and Dreadnought that were edited and slightly rebalanced. [Tribe] Lorebot - Inspiration from the Saracen Reborn mod which was edited and slightly rebalanced. IgnusDei (Francois Cannels) - UFO Xenopedia artwork. HenryPonciano - Various Xenopedia artwork. LordJulian - Jackal Armour Graphics. Skitso - Inspiration for dawn/night color correction among other things. Ilunak - Next Soldier UI button .lua script which was merged with XXP's .lua script. chuumink (Henry Wirawan) and unrealsmoker - Local Forces Xenopedia artwork. Di-To - Disappoint Xenopedia artwork. Lightgemini - Improved Projectile Particle effects which were edited. Deathlock - Giant Slime sprite which was edited and converted to Xenonauts. Lore+ team (Max_Caine, a333 and Henry Ponciano) - Lore+ art and Xenopedia entries which were slightly modified. Buzubuzu - "Extended Weapon Descriptions for Fighters" which was edited to be compatible with XXP and also fixed a Xenopedia bug related to the ReplaceItem() function and the wrong name and graphics for the Fusion Missile. PepeXP - Inspiration for my version of the cover icon overhaul. I was not able to get in contact with all content contributors but I hope it's alright that I used your content to create the Xenonauts X-pansion Pack. Thanks to everyone in the Xenonauts community who contributed with content in some way, which all helped make this mod come to fruition. This mod wouldn't have been possible without all of your previous efforts! You're the best! SPECIAL THANKS: Toby - For being humble and initially gifting me Xenonauts, thus paving the way for the creation of the Xenonauts X-pansion Pack. X:CE team - For making most of the changes possible to implement and still keeping Xenonauts alive. X-Division team - Various insight that helped with the development of the Xenonauts X-pansion Pack. Doctopus - For all the great feedback and bug reports. ...and YOU! - I hope you'll enjoy the XXP and if you have any questions or feedback feel free to PM me or post in this thread.
  14. Loads maybe 20% and then stops. As I said the game doesn't freeze or crash, just stops loading.
  15. It seems that alienbases won't work with custom races designated in races.xml in UFOcontents. It results in an infinite loading screen (the game doesn't freeze/crash). The custom races work as intended with UFOs. To replicate: Remove ceasan/sebillian/andron in races.xml in UFOcontents/ with modmerge delete. Add new races in races.xml in UFOcontents/ and create maps/UFOcontents for the new races, i.e alienbase.small.newrace in maps/alienbase/BaseMaps/ and in UFOcontents/. Start an alienbase mission and receive an infinite loading screen.
  16. I'm not sure if giant maps will break the game but they give worse performance on weaker systems. I test maps by utilizing one of the new tileset groups added by X:CE and editing the tileset/town mask to only spawn that tileset. There was a method to force specific maps according to old threads on the forum but I couldn't get it to work in the latest versions of Xenonauts.
  17. Sorry for the late reply but I will upload it this weekend on steam workshop/nexusmods.
  18. Probably not 100% since I get random crashing every now and then with no mods activated, but much better at least.
  19. There's a version of the Tropical and Swamp tileset on nexusmods/steam workshop without the ambient sounds. You should also disable the forest ambience mod included with X:CE since it also has some in it.
  20. This has now been fixed and will be included in the next update for the Xenonauts Fix Pack along with some fixes to roofs with the same error in other tilesets as well.
  21. The late January release has been delayed because of the Scimitar's ability to drive through buildings being tied to the Xenonauts Fix Pack 1.4 update I'm working on, which aims to fix the many mapping/tile errors related to buildings. I haven't been able to playtest much because fixing the building errors is taking quite some time, so I'm wondering if there's interest in me releasing a beta version exclusive to the forums and have you guys help me with playtesting? Aside from the Scimitar thing it's feature complete but there's a bunch of things I haven't had the chance to test properly like the balance of the new UFOs, weapons, aliens, alien crews, the redesigned alien bases and so on. EDIT: Well, I guess delaying the release until I get the Xenonauts Fix Pack ready won't hurt from the look of things. I'll refrain from giving an ETA again, but I've gone through half the tilesets when it comes to fixing the buildings.
  22. If I understand correctly those spots act like ground tiles letting harridans "stand" there and use their weapons? I might try fixing the UFO tile/mapping bugs in the future but I'm currently busy fixing the many building bugs which is taking quite some time.
  23. Thanks for reporting this. I'll try to find the roof tile responsible for this.
  24. Got a fix for this and the similar buildings on desert and tundra maps in the next Xenonauts Fix Pack update.
  25. This bug is caused by some "ground tiles" (all tiles that are designed to be walked upon) not correctly using the damage overlays that ground tiles are supposed to use. Ground tiles are hardcoded to always block LOS and z-level movement in all tile states (default, damaged and destroyed) because they're not meant to be destroyed normally like other tiles, and instead have damage overlays applied to them. You can properly destroy ground tiles by collapsing buildings, but there's some bugs with the whole building destruction system that can cause buildings to not collapse. I'm working on fixing the building destruction system for the next Xenonauts Fix Pack update, along with this particular issue with some ground tiles having faulty settings for their damage overlays. The "invisible" reaper zombies might be related to a bug with the collapse system and ground tiles. Sometimes collapsed ground tiles create a weird tile state that causes units entering it to become "invisible" (only visually, they're still treated as normal). I couldn't figure out what causes it and it happens randomly. It's probably a bug in the code itself, so there's nothing I can do to fix it for the Fix Pack. In my experience that particular bug should mostly affect flying units though and they become visible again after touching a ground tile.
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