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  1. 29 minutes ago, Chris said:

    You just need to copy across the contents of the folder "/My Documents/My Games/Xenonauts 2 Editor/" into "/My Documents/My Games/Xenonauts 2/" and they should all come back.

    Yeah, I figured that out last night lol.  I just thought I would let y'all know in case anyone else got it.

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  2. I definitely like the decoys idea (though they should be a tech tree thing that you have to research for different kinds of enemy weapon).  It would also be good to have cloaking tech once you have the stealth armour. Similarly, it would be good to be able to research things equivalent to the modules for soldiers (like advanced targeting, better radar allowing multiple target engagement at once, cybernetic integration that improves certain stats, maybe drones that have extra cannons or something).

    Pilot experience should absolutely be a thing - and I would love to see a "rescue mission" to recover the pilot (which could be a timed mission to get to them with a medikit within a certain number of turns, defended by cleaners who are looking for them to kill/abduct them).  Would that be a possibility @Chris

    I think pilots should be assignable and hireable, like the soldiers are.  So you could assign good pilots to your best fighters for the best chances of winning battles.  Experienced pilots would get perks like more evasive manoeuvres (or quicker recovery from the last one), able to go faster, as well as maybe a general "less chance to be hit" and higher "chance to land a hit" perk to stats. 

    Finally, I think that it would be good to have multiple levels, with the lower levels having terrain that you could "hide" behind.  That is probably a bit too hard to do, but it would make the air combat a bit more interesting - I find it a bit of a bore at the moment so almost always go with autoresolve.  

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  3. I think there's meant to be pros and cons to the accelerated vs laser weapons. The laser machine gun is more powerful but doesn't hit the broad side of a barn. But the differentiation between the two types isn't clear (you can compare stats, but I've never wrapped my head around what the difference is between them)

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  4. 29 minutes ago, DaviddesJ said:

    Although this is a small thing, I'd also like to be able to change the initial facing of my soldiers. Or at least have the ones who are positioned next to the side doors just have their initial facing  always be out the door? That would seem more natural than facing forward.

    You can. Right click on them in the drop ship view in the aircraft menu

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  5. 8 hours ago, Chthon said:

    Come to think of it, I don't think I was trained to fire the M249 in a kneeling position at all, let alone a standing position unless it was mounted. I was trained to either fire it prone, or with it mounted and me in a seated or standing position. Of course if it's mounted, it could not be moved freely.

    I'm not sure where Chris is coming from with it being used to clear buildings as that is not a common use for a squad automatic weapon.

    Edit: Upon searching, I've seen images of rail mountings for a forward hand mount, but at a 17 pound weight for the weapon unloaded, compared to the M4 which is 7.267 pounds loaded with sling, it is not very reasonable to expect someone to hold it unsupported in a standing position. Every picture using the forward grip show them in a supported position, e.g. in a trench, or fox hole, not in a building.

    Add to the fact that it's length is 30.75 - 36.25 in. with a collapsing stock, something that was not available when the weapon was first created, or 40.75 in. otherwise, and an M4 is 29.75 inches, it is also more unwieldly in a tight space.

    I still remain skeptical that it was ever used to clear buildings, but rather used to lay supporting fire for squads.

    Exactly. It's a fire support weapon to keep the enemy's head down while the assault fire team crawl up on their belt buckles to deliver some L109-shaped good news. 

    As an aside I learned recently that they've binned the crow cannon off. But that the SA80 A3 is Gucci kit and even doesn't get cases stuck in the ejection chamber every third round  the minute it's over 25°C, there is a speck of dust kicking around or right at the moment you're trying to breach a building. And that's assuming the magazine didn't fall out. 

  6. Large weapons like sniper rifles and heavy guns are not meant to be fired from a standing position.  I know I lost the argument back around V17 about introducing the prone position to increase accuracy and make troops harder to hit (I still think that combat missions would be much better if it was so, but hey ho!), but I really think that these weapons should have an accuracy penalty if not fired from a crouch.  I think the sniper rifle should also have a reaction penalty (with pistols having a reaction effect bonus) especially at short range.  One does not simply take pot-shots with, for example, an L115A3 because it has a long barrel and weighs a ton (making it hard to bring it to bear on a target in a hurry), and has a girt big scope on top that is useless at short range.  Similarly, a Gimpy is not amenable to quickfire use.  So ain't no alien getting a quick cap in his scaly green ass!  

    I think these kind of changes that will put some clear water between different weapon systems and will make more of a difference to how you use/equip troops for a mission.  And give some variation to combat missions -  you will have to do a bit more thinking. 

    That's my tuppence-worth anyway.  What do other people think, especially those who have recently joined the tester community?

     

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  7. 2 hours ago, Chris said:

    I guess we could add another button on the Soldier Equip topbar that says "Go to Soldier Arrangement" or something, but that's not a simple change because these special versions of the screen shown before the mission have quite a bit of unique code. But I can note it down as something to look at in Early Access if lots of people think it would be a worthwhile suggestion.

     

    Yeah, that is kinda what I originally thought would suffice and would fix the issue in a way that keeps everyone happy lol

  8. I just took down a medium UFO in the US with Phantoms from Africa and was on my way back to base, and had a random CTD.  

    Edit: can confirm it is repeatable.  If it makes a difference, I took the $200k rather than sent a dropship after downing it.  It crashes as the fighter group get about 2/3 of the way back to base. 

    Edit 2: If I take out the two fighters that turn up then it doesn't crash (see manual save)

     

     

    output.log auto_strategy_before_intercept-106.json

    user_will_it_still_crash-14.json

  9. 2 hours ago, Chris said:

    What do you mean exactly by "you could arrange the troops in the dropship", though - do you just mean you'd be brought to the dropship section of the Aircraft screen so you can arrange the placement of soldiers in the dropship? Or do you mean arranging the order of your soldiers in the hotkey list? Or something else?

    Ohhh, as in arrange them in the dropship in the grid. For example I put 2 snipers and a MARS at the tailgate and a heavy on either side door, and spread everyone else out accordingly.  See what I mean?

    And @Chthon is right - I've been a tester since before Jesus was born, and until literally today I'd always thought that once a dropship was airborne you couldn't change anything.  That said, it certainly isn't obvious and would be better if it was done after you've done the "equip your troops" screen - that is just logical UI.

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  10. 5 hours ago, Chris said:

    It's also possible to physically arrange people within a dropship on the Aircraft screen even if it is airborne, if that's relevant?

    Wait, what?  How???

    I didn't know that, but I was referring to what happens when you click on a downed UFO or base etc, and you choose to send the dropship, then you get taken to the load out screen to make any changes to the troops.  It would be best if, after that screen, you could arrange the troops in the dropship.

  11. 11 hours ago, Melee said:

    Description:  Adding a new production item and moving it to top of queue doesn't always stay at top at after changing to other base areas.

    What Happened:  Angel was building at base Alpha, laser rifle was next in queue which had prior work done on it.  When Angel finished it was transferred to base Bravo and another Angel was queued and moved to top of queue above laser rifle. Switching to research and then back to engineering, laser rifle was back at top of queue.  After putting Angel back on top and switching to other base areas multiple times, Angel remained at top of queue.

    user_day_53_manual_save_2-80.json 390.54 kB · 0 downloads

    Yeah, thanks for adding this one.  I kept meaning to do it and forgetting lol

     

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  12. 39 minutes ago, Chris said:

    Hmmm. Where did the alien shot actually land though? Did it hit the guy on the door that shot at the alien, or somewhere in the hull of the chinook between the two soldiers?

    It wasn't the Sebby taking the shot - it was the guy at the side door shooting at Sebby. Guy in pink circle was suppressed despite being inside the lander and miles away from the bullets. I've noticed it a few times since. 

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