[Alien aggression in the v20 builds.]

Now they just run into the open and stand there at the end of their turn.

They also tend to take the first shot they can, lousy as it may be.

They still move in turn, too. The first alien to move should be the lead guy, who spots for the rest of them.

[Ground Combat Balance Discussion V20 Experimental 4]

Another option for breaching a ship would be to throw smoke in, run into the smoke and throw suppression grenades, and then charge in and whack everything inside with a stun baton. Stun gas is good at flushing aliens out from their hiding spots, too.

EDIT: I think you need to up the accuracy of alien weapons. They can't hit a damn thing, even at Veteran level.

[Can't have more than one soldier in dropship?]

That's all you need, really.

[[v20e3] Ground Combat: CTD - Shuttling Alien around]

I went to assault an alien base, stunned a wraith, put it in my backpack, then aborted the mission.

The charlie went directly to a terror site. I tried to take the wraith out of my backpack and place it on the ground to free up some TU. This Crashed the game.

[Xenopedia Errors / Corrections (V18.51 HF3 / V18 Stable)]

Could "BUY NEW PLANE" be changed to "PURCHASE NEW CRAFT" ?

[Anyone play Frozen Void?]

I just discovered this game a few weeks ago, and I absolutely love the multiplayer mode.

Does anyone else play online?

EDIT:

Err, I mean Frozen Synapse

[Make a family of Soldier Roles for Each Generation of weapons]

I would like to have a "laser assault trooper" and a "plasma assault trooper" role available to me at all times. The different generations could be accessed by a tabs positioned atop the existing role-selection window. The role icons would be differentiated by different colored backgrounds (e.g., grey for ballistics, red for lasers, blue for plasma, green for MAG).

Additionally, could "heavy weapons" be split into "machine gunner" and "bazooka" by default?

[Ground Combat UI improvements]

Is there not going to be an interruption mechanism here? I'm not talking JA2 levels of complexity, but just pausing the game when a reaction fire opportunity presents itself and allowing the player to control the continuance of the alien turn by pressing space and to take a shot by pressing a key would be most welcome.

Additionally, would it be possible to display the observed alien movement from the last turn in a translucent overlay that disappears if the alien is discovered on the next turn? "Movement" could be visualized by a blue-tiled path, similar to the path preview that is displayed for Xenonauts when their movement is being planned.

[Ground Combat Balance Discussion V20 Experimental 4]

1. Did the sniper weapons get nerfed? It seems like the main battle rifle is more accurate than the sniper rifle unless the target is completely unobstructed. If it's going to be this way, then I think that the sniper rifle should not have such a high TU cost, since it has a smaller ammo capacity.

2. This has probably been asked before, but would it be possible to make the carbines usable with the assault shield, albeit with a drastically reduced effective range?

3. Would it be possible to give soldiers a second visual range, slightly longer than the existing one, that allows them to see "dimmed" tiles before they get full vision of a tile? This is mostly to make the game look better, because I think the transition from complete vision to complete darkness is a bit abrupt. In might also make the game look a bit more realistic without breaking the existing LOS balance, because it would allow the soldiers to reveal the terrain in front of them at greater-than-myopic distances like they do now.

[[v20e2 / Ground combat] Aliens shooting through walls?]

Yeah, they're shooting and seeing through grey farm walls, and base walls.

[Geoscape Balance Discussion V20 Experimental 4]

Foxtrot was always a target of haviest ufo's, so the airfight was simple (foxtrot vs havy escorted ufo and interceptors (fighters with cannon and evade ability) vs enemy light fighters. Now foxtrot could be a target of enemy light fighter so it will be hard / impossible to launch torpedos on havy ufo and escape.

It's actually pretty easy to evade enemy missiles with a foxtrot.

1. Fly straight into enemy UFO with escorts.

2. Time a U-turn so that the enemy capital ship catches the corner of your torpedo firing arc, then run like hell.

3. If you fall in the enemy fighter missile arc, just keep afterburners on and travel perpendicular to the path of the missile, which will fall behind you. Then run away.

Actually, capital ships should slow down a bit and let the fighters engage the enemy first. The fighters should be far enough ahead so that the foxtrot cannot engage the capital ship without putting itself in the firing arc of the fighter.

EDIT: Autocannons should probably do less damage to capital ships. Right now, a Condor can deliver more damage than a Foxtrot can.

[Geoscape Balance Discussion V20 Experimental 4]

I just started a new V20 game.

I think the Geoscape is very well balanced now. The only think I can say is that the enemy fighter planes should try to be a bit more evasive (they don't do anything if you're on their tail).

[What weapons do you take on a mission?]

I take a little bit of everything, variety is the spice of life after all.

However, sniper rifles are generally more useful in Arctic and Farm maps, whereas assault rifles and carbines are better for base missions and large ships.

[[v20e2] Is it possible to train strength above 66?]

Do they even lift?

[Apocalypse style maps?]

I hated those maps because they took hours to complete.

It was okay in Apoc because they went a bit faster in real-time mode.

[Ground Combat Balance Discussion V20 Experimental 4]

Is it no longer possible to throw smoke into a UFO and spray machine gun fire inside now that 0% shots NEVER hit?

[V20 Experimental Build 2 Available!]

-- Reduced minimum accuracy for considering a shot by the AI from 35% to 10% accuracy (helps encourage aliens to shoot at you)

Yes, this is good. More shooty = more fun.

[[V20 Experimental Build 1-Geoscape] CTD when modifying troop loadouts]

Yeah, I got this as I tried to equip for my second misssion.

[V20 Experimental Build 1 Available!]

Wow, new UI looks great!

[lemmbase - lemm's Alien Base Layouts]

Small update: one new base layout for all small bases, and a new submap: Sebillian 22x11 room.

[lemmbase - lemm's Alien Base Layouts]

Bump: I finished the first two sets of bases (a set being one base of each size for each race of aliens, which totals to nine maps).

Some submap variations that I made:

Alien Storage Room (11x11)

Alien Workshop SE (11x22)

Alien Laboratory SE (11x22)

Some Teleporter Corridors:

[How to map and submap in Xenonauts]

Ty Falidell

Another question: what's going on here?

Shouldn't southwest walls be drawn atop of cover props?

Here is how I have the layers set up, which is consistent with everything else in the alien bases.

[How do teleporters work?]

I have a couple questions about teleporters.

1) Is the teleporter ID that you can assign to a tile in a submap supposed to refer only to a single submap, or does it refer to all teleporters in the entire level. For example, if you have two submaps that both have a pair of teleporters with teleporter id = 1, is that supposed to work, or would one pair have to have teleporter ID = 1, and the other teleporter ID = 2? I filed a bug report about this, but I'd like an actual answer so I can design submaps accordingly.

2) What is an "escape teleporter?"

3) Is there an upper limit to the teleporter ID field? Does the teleporter ID = 0 have any special meaning? (I assume negative teleporter IDs mean that the tile is not a teleporter)

[[v19 - GC] Additional copies of a submap with teleporters don't function properly]

If you make a submap with a teleporter, and then you use this submap in the level more than once, the teleporters in the additional instances of the submap don't work.

[Ground Combat Balance Discussion V19 Stable]

I'm wondering if a wraith should only be able to teleport to some place it can see, or has seen by itself on its turn. I've been testing some large alien bases and half a dozen of them teleport right behind me the first time I see an alien.