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    My random thoughts on the first 40 or so days

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Skitso

    It's great to have a good variation of mission types, but I would suggest forcing at least one of each Cleaner mission types before having any duplicates. I started a new playthrough with 2.11 today and before raiding the Cleaner HQ, I had three Cleaner VIP assassination missions, but not a single inter gather missions and no convoy missions. @Kouki

    BTW, check my other impressions above too, if you haven't already. :)

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    [Experimental 2.11 strategy] Two small issues with tutorial

    in Xenonauts-2 Bug Reports

    Posted · Edited by Skitso

    1. Camera rotation tutorial pop up text doesn't instruct player to rotate camera to proceed. Every other step does this. (ie. raise camera level in order to proceed etc.)

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    2. When the tutorial instructs player to change to pistol, there's no arrow showing where to click, unlike with for example with flashbang here:

    edit: also same issue with the "end turn" phase.

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    Morale rules

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Skitso

    @Chris, I couldn't find the exact morale rules posted anywhere. Could you post a quick summary of how it works here?

     

    Also, thinking this a bit more got me thinking if the low morale effects should be less binary and units started losing stats before having total breakdowns?

    Morale rules

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Skitso

    I love to see my units panic, drop their weapons, run away or go berserk. Morale system seem quite bare bones at the moment and I've never even used the new morale boost action. What I've experienced is that my units tend to have panic reactions only when half of the team is dead or they receive critical wounds.

    What could be improved:

    1. New recruits bravery stat should be lower (battle hardened guys should always stand out!)
    2. Training center should not improve bravery (not sure if it does?)
    3. Dfficulty level could change morale rules. (Harder difficulty, higher morale damage)
    4. Surviving critical wounds (crimson heart) could add permanent morale damage.
    5. There should be a lot more things affecting morale like:
    • "Did I see something in the shadows?" (Night missions should have constant morale penalty)
    • "This place is scary..." (Alien bases and ufo interiors should have constant moral penalty)
    • "Those things will kill us!!" (Add reaper a special ability of morale area damage around it)
    • "This is too much for me!" (suppression, missed shots and nearby explosions should cause morale damage)
    • "What's that?!" (Seeing new alien types for the first time could cause a morale damage)
    • "There's too many of them!!" (Seeing there's a lot more alien units nearby than own units should cause morale damage)
    • "Why is everybody screaming?!" (Seeing others panic should cause morale damage - chain reactions are always funny!)

    Also, It'd be great to have soldiers screaming and crying when having a panic attack.

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    Roof rules

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

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    23 hours ago, Chris said:

    Yeah. I don't actually think it's very realistic, because shooting up / down at people mostly makes the intervening objects more or less of a problem rather making the actual target easier or harder to hit - but ultimately you're not the only person who thinks the game doesn't model height levels in the shooting calculation, so the current system probably isn't the best choice.

    Gave this some more thought... An easy solution would be to give all roof edge tiles a cover value.

    On 11/1/2023 at 8:45 AM, Chris said:

    Shooting from a higher level already reduces the cover offered by cover on the lower floor. I believe it's reduced by 20% for each height level.

    Also, does this work both ways? Does shooting from a lower level increase cover on the higher floor?

    Roof rules

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Skitso

    4 hours ago, Chris said:

    Yeah. I don't actually think it's very realistic, because shooting up / down at people mostly makes the intervening objects more or less of a problem rather making the actual target easier or harder to hit

    Yeah, my thinking (and what I tried to draw in that image) was that the edge of the roof is the "intervening object" you mention. Anyways, hope you find a way to make higher ground units be a bit more safe than they are now.

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