[[V8.41 - Ground Combat] - Shooting a dead alien]

If possible, try and remember exactly what you did to cause the bug and post it up here. It's difficult for us to work out what's causing it otherwise because it doesn't normally happen

[Pre-UFO Research Options Thoughts]

Well I think the idea about UFO analysis might still be the strongest candidate. It makes sense from a lore point of view because there's lots of UFOs popping up everywhere instead of just one that appeared 20 years ago. That means there'll be a lot more tracking data to play and experiment with.

This would quite easily lead into a way to refine the radar signals in order to get an idea of the size of the UFOs (and whether they have escorts or not). This would also be a good scene-setting project from the lore point of view - the basic premise is that the UFOs are vastly superior to human interceptors but are poorly suited to aerodynamic flight, which makes them vulnerable. If we explain that early then it plugs a bit plot hole right from the opening.

So that's one possible research project. Ideally we'd want another two.

[Improving the graphical representation of Soldier Stats]

I have thoughts. The main problem is making the various stats distinguishable from one another, correct?

I think the problem is making an instantly clear representation of the ability of the soldier - at the moment it's hard to see if the soldier is good or bad because everything is represented numerically at the moment.

[[V8.41 - Ground Combat] Hunter Pathing]

How do you mean broken walls? I don't quite get what you're driving at here.

[[V8.0 Geoscape] Soldiers' Missions/Kills stat not updating.]

Hmm, obviously we never got around to updating this.

[[V8.41 - Ground Combat] Incorporeal Xenonaut]

Test this in the next build to see if it's still happening. I hope not.

[[V8.41 Geoscape] Battlescape load screen not working correctly.]

So it goes Geoscape >>> Combat >>> Combat Briefing screen? Or no combat briefing screen? If the latter, are you clicking the mouse? I think that cancels the combat briefing screen.

[Pre-UFO Research Options Thoughts]

Yeah the idea is that they keep going until they expend all their damage. Not implemented yet but it's on the to-do list before the beta.

[What features would you like in the Funding Thermometer?]

Not quite sure I follow your logic, Nemeo - the idea's just an extension of the current pre-order structure, which is you pay now and the game will be better for it. This is just providing specific instances of how the game will be better if sufficient numbers of people buy it and we can raise that amount of money. And giving people the option to donate extra if they want to.

If the funding thermometer gets hit, everyone gets all of the features in the intial release of the game and I imagine the majority of there revenue would come from people buying the game by donating either $20 / $30.

[Pre-UFO Research Options Thoughts]

There are railguns in the game, they're just more advanced technology. Mostly because projectiles that go through walls and then keep going are fun, but not something you put in the early game.

[Main Menu GUI inspiration?]

I think I played F-15 Strike Eagle and I seem to remember the Wing Commanders had something a bit like it - but in many ways it's just extrapolating from X-Com and XCOM.

X-Com had art in the background of the menu, mostly to stop it looking like a horrible spreadsheet. The new X-Com is trying to look like a strategy game by having a base you walk around in and talk to the rest of the team, and I imagine it'll all change visually as you go through the game and unlock new technology. I thought that was a good idea, so I stole it.

That and the previous GUI style (the one currently in the game) seems to have gone as far as we can take it. I've tried on numerous occasions to make it look prettier, but I can't seem to make it work. Hand-painted art can look so much more colourful and attractive while also being more immersive. The challenge is just integrating all the information into it and keeping it intuitive.

Plus, it's just good to be different sometimes. Gives the game a lot more of a wow factor if you do something unusual.

[[V8.41 Ground Combat] Grenade activation crash.]

This bug is fixed up the the dev version so should work fine in the next update.

[Downloading the latest version of xenonauts.]

Yup, I probably forgot to update the front page - if you were playing V8.3, you wouldn't have been playing it for very long before it dumped you to your desktop. I'll be releasing another update over this weekend and hopefully I'll remember to name it correctly this time!

[[v8.3 Ground Combat Load] CTD when ground combat loading]

Thanks Crow, I'll have a look at that. The Grenade bug is fixed at our end now. We'll be releasing another update over the weekend that should fix the vast majority of the reported crash bugs.

[[V8.41 - General] Wounded Soldiers]

Aha, those saved games should be useful. Thanks to both of you.

[Improving the graphical representation of Soldier Stats]

You'd get more compactness with "Stat Name: <stat bar> <stat number>" rather than the number being on top of the bar.

I think in terms of colour, it'd be better if each bar had its own distinct colour rather than each one being a mishmash. More like the X-Com version really. I'll concept something up later.

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[[V8.0 - Ground Combat] Edge of Map Quirkiness]

Think this is fixed in the dev version.

[[v8.3 Ground Combat Load] CTD when ground combat loading]

That's just strange. One more test - try arming all your soldiers in the Chinook with assault rifles before you attack the crash site. If there's a crash that isnt' registering in debug mode it's often due to the soldier equipment.

[What features would you like in the Funding Thermometer?]

Two other ideas floating around in my head:

1) Geoscape AI Allies - At the start of the game, you only have one base and therefore can only protect part of the world at once. In order that part of the world isn't lost while you're powerless to protect them, it'd be good if each region had at least one NPC airbase in it that sent fighters out to engage the UFOs. These bases would be targeted by alien forces (maybe that's where the airborne terror sites could come in) and wouldn't scale up as the invasion did, so in a few months they'd almost certainly be destroyed. However it might buy you enough time to establish the Xenonauts wordwide and take the aliens on properly.

The second idea was for something we could do around the project - an art book containing the best artwork of the project and some information on the artists themselves. The idea is that premium pre-orderers would get it at cost, while it would be on sale at $10 more than that for everyone else. I'd have to look into the price for it (it may well not be worth it), but the one thing this project does well is the 2D art and it'd be good to start offering Premium pre-orders some kind of benefit...

[[V8.41 Geoscape] Load game with a crashed UFO crashes the game V 8.41]

OK cool I've passed the save game onto the programmer.

[[v8.3 Ground Combat Load] CTD when ground combat loading]

Odd. Is it a new crash site each time or a save game?

Please try running the game in debug mode - this should automatically load up a ground combat mission after a couple of days of in-game time. See if that loads up OK?

[[V8.41 - Ground Combat] Scatter Laser Causes Crash]

Ah that's not meant to be in the build. I thought removing it from the vehicleweapons.xml would stop it from getting equipped, but obviously it's just crashing the game instead...

[Master Bug Thread.]

I'm going to add a list of bugs here that we've decided are low priority and can wait until the beta to fix. Stability is important but it's more important to get the new features in that fix the relatively minor ones. Sathra, perhaps you can consolidate these into your existing list so we have a big old to-do list when beta arrives?

BUG – If you try to sell a captured item (for instance, Alenium) on the Stores screen, the game will sell an extra unit of it every time you do it. It does not do this for manufactured items.

- Keybind menu has no OK button.

BUG - If a soldier goes into battle with a two handed weapon equipped and is over his weight limit, when the mission ends (if he still has the weapon equipped) on the Soldier Equip screen he has double the weight penalty to his APs that he should have (what he had before the battle). If you unequip and then re-equip the weapon in his hands, it reverts to what it should be.

BUG - If two research projects finish at the same time then the game only loads up one in the Xenopedia. On leaving the Xenopedia the first time, it should load up again showing the next piece of completed research.

BUG - Save game in-game dates are always a month too late – a save game made in June will display the time of August in the save game information.

BUG - If you start a game, exit the campaign, then start a new campaign, vehicles are still getting consecutive numbering from where it ended in the previous campaign (the starting vehicle is Hunter-003).

BUG - If you set one of ‘Select Vehicle’ hotkeys and change it to Control + <number> then when you exit the menu and reload it again afterwards, it is changed to Shift + <number> instead.

BUG - Sorting by ‘Armour’ on the Personnel information screen doesn’t work.

BUG - Clicking on any block of text (for instance a research item description or the Course Data block on the Personnel screen) makes it turn orange for some reason.

Also these two should be fixed now - although its tough to check the latter as the inventory screen just crashes for me when I load it:

- Dropped medipack uses Assault Rifle ground item image.

- Starting mission with AP penalty due to encumbrance, dropping items to reduce weight has no effect on total AP.

[[v8.3 Ground Combat Load] CTD when ground combat loading]

OK, let's see if we can help you out. Firstly, are you sure it's a crash - the GC is notorious for taking a long time to load because we haven't got a texture atlas yet. Secondly, have you brought a flamethrower to the battle?