Giovanni
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That's great news! I would totally buy a sequel to Xenonauts!
That would finally let me play the game with a fresh start, not already knowing exactly what is going on under the hood
Too bad I can only be a backer this time, back into the development team were good times :')
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Hi,sorry for late reply, yes it did happen after autoresolve with multiple air fights,generaly game was not working properly, i had few crashes when trying to exit game.I had problems with updating game through steam (downloading pathch 0 bytes etc.), and I tend to overwrite same savefile very often.I have several savefile done one ingame month earlier.
I'll look at them, thanks!
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I'd really need some more info about this bug to solve it..
Did anything unusual happen before you found out this bug? Some air combats (autoresolved/manually fighted)?
Do you happen to have a savegame from earlier in your gameplay (with all human aircrafts)?
Thanks!
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It contains the steam api dll, but does it actually need Steam installed to play? Afaik the steam dll is only used for the Steam Workshop mod uploader.
Yes, it requires the steam api dll to be present on the same folder as the executable, but this is only used if you want to use the Steam Workshop to sync your mods.
It should work fine without having Steam installed!
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Took some days, but finally fixed it! will be fine in next release
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Fixed, thanks for the report!
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Wasn't that always the case? Soldiers gets shot by Alien in Alien-Turn -> took damage and got a bleeding wound. -> Alien-Turn ends -> Player-Turn starts -> bleeding damage is applied -> time to stop it.
Yes, that was happening before this change. Now the event order is:
Soldiers gets shot by Alien in Alien-Turn -> took damage and got a bleeding wound. -> Alien-Turn ends -> Player-Turn starts -> bleeding warning is shown -> time to stop it -> (at turn end) bleeding damage is applied.
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There's not much to explain about it other than what you guys already know I think. Bleeding simply occurred at the start of Xenonauts turn like it always was before instead of at the end like Chris said. I wish this was something easily recordable or reproducible, I would show it to you. And yes I updated to this version before playing.
You sure is the bleeding that actually happened at the beginning of the turn? the message still appears at the beginning of the turn (in fact with this update it should read "soldier X will take Y damage at end of turn") but the HP decrease is done at the end, right after you click the end turn button
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Sorry to bring the bad news but the bleeding issue is still persisting for me
Can you explain the issue? (better if you post a thread in the bug forum, so we don't go offtopic here)
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I expect I've just fixed this for X:CE 0.31RC2 (1e56c128dbf4228b9b06ee86b931133a394737b0).
Fix also cherry-picked to xenonauts v1.5x, thanks llunak!
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Ok, I've found the issue. Just for information, did you sell or had a Shrike shot down recently in the game?
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Probably a random behaviour then. I'll playtest it a bit more, if I don't see any bugs/crashes (apart from long alien turn times) I'll drop the issue. Thanks for the report anyway!
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The savegame is not crashing for me, it just takes a really long time to complete the alien turn (took 224 seconds in my PC). Could you try leaving it 5/6 minutes to complete the alien turn, to see if it finally ends?
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yeah, most of us have known that for ages now. like years.
so... why not bite the bullet and open up development to all platforms, simply by adding a link to a standard ftp site here, and encouraging people to post mods on Nexus?
someone will end up developing a nice little mod manager all on their own, and you'll get a ton more feedback than just relying on steam.
win win.
why keep banging your head against this wall? Sounds like you're engaging in a kind of Concord fallacy to me.
While still not friendly from an API point of view (so it's a problem for developers, more than for end users), Steam does a good job in terms of hosting mods, that is why we're using it.
If you had to implement the whole system on your own, you had to provide an hosting space/web server and to manage the mod download manually (via plain http requests), which is a lot of work for little gain. Not to tell that an entire system developed on our own would cost a lot of implelmentation time and would be more likely to have security pitfalls and bugs.
Steam does its job just fine: you have a web interface (available both on browser and inside Steam) in which you have the mods list, you can see mods description, pictures, discussions, ratings and change notes. And you only need to press the "subscribe" button to always have the updated version of each mod available to the game. So what are the problems with it (despite obiouvsly having a steam license for the game and launching it via Steam)?
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Max is right of course - I just wasn't aware this might be something within your (Goldhawks) responsibility instead of Steam's.
Generally, the behavior of Steam (or the game launcher) regarding the workshop objects (mods and map packs) is very unclear and unintuitive for the user. To point out what I mean, I'll describe my user-experience here.
Please note that I never used Steam workshop before...
First of all, after I subscribed to various Workshop objects (mods and map packs), there was no indication that Steam is downloading anything. But somewhere I had seen the hint that a start of the game might be necessary, so I started the game launcher out of Steam.
I didn't see any mods in the list under "Modding Tools" nor did I see any download progress bar, so I was checking the Steam workshop pages again and after a while closed and reopened the launcher.
This time I had one mod in the list, which I could install and activate.
I waited around five minutes to see if more mods would show up in the list, but nothing happened.
So, I closed the launcher again and started it again via Steam.
Now I had a second mod in the list, which again I could install.
Ok, I thought, Steam seems to do the downloads in the background and the launcher obviously isn't updated in realtime if downloads are complete, so I closed the launcher and waited a while (which normally should be sufficient to download some hundred MBs), so that Steam could complete all its hidden downloads.
But when I opened the launcher, I again had only one new mod in the list.
So I was repeatedly closing and opening the launcher - always giving some seconds (up to a minute) to do the download - and each time I had the next mod in the list.
Don't know if this was just coincidence, but something like a progress bar would be great!!
Ok, second issue I want to report (not to say: complain about
) is that there seems to be no pop-up information for new Versions of a mod. I understand that it's maybe not a good idea to have an automatic installation, because of incompatibilities, but a hint about the availability of a new version would be great.And a minor one:
If you have activated a mod/map pack and then close the launcher again without actually starting the game, it will forget the activation and you need to repeat the procedure.
So hopefully there is something you can do about these issues. Even though it is more a comfort thing...
Thanks for the report. I was aware of the missing feedback to the users (except the multiple mods download, which is a bug), I just didn't have time to fix it before putting it up on the experimental branch.
In the development version (will be shortly the definitive stable version) I already added the 'download in progress' mods to the list, so you'll be able to see which mods are downloading. Unfortunately Steam APIs are not that much user friendly and I can't read the download progress while a download is in running.
The multiple mods bug is also fixed, now downloads are queued and downloaded correctly.
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I just took care of this, will be fixed in next version!
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Confirming the issue, I've just fixed it in our codebase. Will be fixed in next release! Thanks for the report.
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This is really odd, but after some testing I've come to the conclusion it's only about files naming. If you put all the content of maps/ (both folders and files) in lowercase, everything just works fine.
Proof: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54854483/Random%20Map%20Pack%20-%20Farm%20Edition.zip
This is weird, considering that the bundled map names contain both upper and lower case letters. Also, if you move the (original, not the lowercased ones) mod files into the assets/ folder everything just works fine..
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If you could attach here/email me/host somewhere the broken map pack you're talking about that would make it easier to spot the problem!
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Doesn't seem to be working, then, as I was using v1.52 (couldn't have been an earlier version as this was the first time I transferred to v1.5x and I verified files a few times over the weekend so it should have been up-to-date).
Probably wasn't recompiled before releasing it on steam then. I will tell Chris, will be fixed in next version. (Probably preview image will work too)
Also (completely random point) thank you to whoever set the quick battle start-up to automatically place the player base before loading GC.X:CE guys
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Having a go at uploading a mod now. I've noticed that in the mod uploader it won't let me add in new lines (i.e. the return key does nothing and copy-pasting text with extra lines doesn't work). Is this intentional?
No it wasn't. But should be fixed if you're using the mod uploader bundled with v1.52
EDIT: Also, I just uploaded a mod which the uploader said was done successfully. But I can't find it on the Steam Workshop page and when I use the uploader to go to it's Steam Workshop page it says it can't be found. I guess I have done something wrong - any idea what?EDIT 2: Sorted it. Apparently I needed to log into Steam using my regular internet browser.
The browser should automatically open on mod upload completion. Another cause not letting you see it is if you've not accepted the Steam Workshop Legal Agreement. You have a warning for this if you're using the latest mod uploader tool.
So, a thing I have learned: the folder name for a mod needs to match exactly the name that is given to the mod in its modinfo file, otherwise it won't work.It might be worth putting this somewhere for modders as it's kept me busy for a few hours trying to work out.
I was already planning to fix this by separating mod name from source folder.
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no, fail. it is NOT fixed in 1.09, which is still the only official version for sale.
medals are actually awarding exactly ZERO bravery points. let me repeat that, ok? MEDALS ARE NOT AWARDING ANY BRAVERY POINTS AT ALL. NONE ZERO, ZIP, NADA.
clear?
it's NOT FIXED.
you want savegames to see for yourself? I'm not running any mods, using the GoG version I bought last week.
the ONLY bravery points I see, are the two that seem to be automatic on first promotion (or first mission, hard to tell), and any that are awarded for getting panicked during a mission.
that's.
it.
Dude please, calm down. It may be just an opinion, but it's not the worst thing in the world if your soldiers don't get bravery bonuses right now. So no need to shout (caps lock) and insult myself.
Anyway, when I say "it's fixed" I mean that I took care of your bug report, I found the problem and I fixed it in our codebase. These changes do not become a public build until Chris explicitly releases a new version.
I'm sorry I did take this for granted, but you really should not yell at me if the problem doesn't immediately disappear.
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C'mon people, let's see some more mods on workshop. Giovanni needs bugs to squash!
It's really worth saying that steam workshop works great even with translations, so users can simply subscribe to a certain translation in the workshop page instead of downloading it and unpacking it manually over the game folder.
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As a former member of the team, I know personally how much passion Chris and the whole team at Goldhawk are putting into the making of Xenonauts.. I sincerely hope that the general public will be able to feel it too and reward you guys with a solid pledge!
Let's go get funded now!