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Can you summarize shortly the Air Combat change?

Ok, thanks!

A few suggestions or comments on this. 1. Grenades should not be blocked by a doorway that I'm just behind (Ouch). 2. Grenades should be able to clear low obstacles that I'm near and only be blocked by low obstacles near the landing target. High obstacles should always block. Not sure how to make a rule about fences though. A high fence should be clearable if near the apex of the trajectory I suppose, but might be hard to implement. 3. Maybe could be able to throw a grenade through a window with some sort of chance of failure based on throw skill.

Xenonauts: DEFCON

The model that all of these types of morale systems embody have some gameplay problems that readily explain why they are disliked, but if there were a way to design a better morale mechanic it would need to avoid the pitfalls. -When you are winning you don't care about it, and when you are losing it makes things harder. -A panicked soldier takes away the control from the player, probably also when you need it most. -Another resource pool to manage. Or, constantly draining the resource to put the player under time pressure is not fun. Presumably I'm already losing resources as time goes on without an additional layer. -Morale as an RPG mechanic (raise w/experience) doesn't make sense and also makes it so that you can still play a losing game for longer without any hope of catching up, as you can no longer hire and field an effective team. In order for a morale mechanic to be an acceptable addition, it would need to be able to provide a benefit when you need it. IRL, morale does not always work like a simple multiplier. What if an officer could choose to boost stats for a short period of time on soldiers nearby, either once or periodically? What of certain brave individuals who seem to become more fierce the worse the situation? Those are possibly some ideas. But if it is implemented as discussed, it will not be fun and most likely one of the first things to get modded out.

I would like to see a map that focuses on mostly indoor fighting, with either the city or industrial tile set. A large building with several levels and a few large open spaces like an entryway forum. Maybe it should be a terror mission since you'd not need a place to put the alien UFO. Ideas: City: large business building City: Mall Industrial: Chemical processing/shipping facility

Ha, that one guy smoking a cigar.

I don't quite get what a drone assisted rifle is like. Seems like just a OP regular rifle or something. I'd like to suggest that maybe we could get droppable auto-turrets, a la Aliens. You could leave them at certain key points in the map to keep from getting flanked while you concentrate force elsewhere. This would be especially useful in terror missions.

As art, this is quite good. The only complaint I have is that the women are very "Barbie". Just a bit too unrealistically so for my taste. They look like they put on club jeans rather than something to fight a war in, and they all have DDs at least. I can't imagine maneuvering in that getup. "First of all, this mod is silly, so take it as such." True, so there you go I guess. Is there any chance of a non-silly version sometime in the future?

I like this very much! Easy to identify ranks, and I'm also a bit prejudiced because I am ex-Army so they are familiar, too. Only thing that I would improve is to rotate the Lt. Col. rank slightly clockwise as it's a smidge off from Maj.

Similarly to grenades, could you change it so that right click also cancels the health pack use?

As a design ideal, I don't care much for artificial difficulty. I prefer to find challenge in things designed with a functional ideal. Think to yourself, how would aliens design this ship to be as useful as possible? Would they even consider the possibility of being assaulted on board?

I was just reading about a feature of Open XCom on rockpapershotgun.com and I thought that it would be fun to have a random skirmish mode or challenge maps in Xenonauts, but is it possible to mod? Would it require change to the base code? A while ago there was something like this, when partway through development there was a need to test features on battle maps.

This would be more like a total conversion, requiring a significant number of new unit files. Quite a bit of work IMHO. As a suggestion it has some small value, but it's not cool to just suggest someone else do all the work when there's so much involved. Ideas alone are not in short supply.

He's somewhat correct, there is a bug here. I use a 1080p monitor and the largest size it will run in a window is 1600x900. 1680x1050 is available but won't run in a window.

Seeing as they're trees, the value of painting over a 3D model doesn't seem incredibly valuable as a development process. I think hand-painted trees from scratch would do just fine. Maybe even hand-painting over a picture would be the best way to save time. As an expansion idea, I think zones of forest would be pretty darn useful. Some significant percentage of the world is still forest IMHO.

Sure thing, no problem. Go ahead and enjoy it. I still think the terrain would be improved by having a generally brownish cast rather than the current color though, if nothing else.

Windows should provide cover? I don't get it. How come?

I want to encourage you, but this does not look much like tundra. It looks like you merged snow and grass terrain literally and now it's sort of white-green. Tundra is characterized by brown (sometimes vibrant colors when flowers are in season) shrubby, wet nearly swampy, and rocky terrain with few trees. It does not in any way look partially white, except when it is actually snow. The tree stumps look pretty nice, but I think they are too large to fit in with all the other trees, all together.

Throw a smoke grenade, end turn, Next turn my FOV ends right in front of smoke perimeter, but if I reface the soldier back and forth, I now can see 1 unit into the smoke. I think ideally I should be able to see the smoke and square it is on, but not be able to see any alien if it is there in that first row of smoke. Otherwise it's confusing to look at that spot and wonder why my FOV ends suddenly.

Right. It seems silly that I just made it 2000mi to engage the target, but a couple of seconds in a 10x10mi sq (or so) area consumes so much fuel (w/o afterburner use of course) so that I have to go home immediately.

I didn't want to start a new thread, so I put it here. Single clicking response on the battlescape is not very responsive. I often have to single click a Xenonaut or a target square twice to select it. In fast play this sometimes results with the wrong soldier moving to the wrong location. Another UI critique I have is that tooltips for grenades would be more useful if they told me what grenade I was hovering over rather than the text about quick slots which I don't find useful.

Yes, also +1 for this idea. Also I'm sure it's been suggested before, but I find it annoying how long rearm and refuel takes.

Psi powers turned the original game into psi spam. It wasn't much fun from that point on. Totally removes all suspense. I'd like the aliens to have it and possibly be able to get tech to help defend against it, but do not want for Xenonauts soldiers.

Same here. I'll sign up.