Dead Dread

been keeping my eye on it for a while now but not paying that price for early access, especially when they have said the release price will be lower.

nice try, but you cant kill me... im already dead ;-)

Jeeze Gauddlike there is only 76 pages to go through to ensure you dont double up, boy must your face be red... like fire.

just started a new game v22.8hf and after the first month i get a screen of red, US loses 300,000+ alone, russia 225,000 and 3 other entries over 100,000. So i get just under 1 mil, 500,000 gone on second base which will take 10 days, then 10 more for radar before i can even hope to stem the funding lose in that area... hmmm this is going to be tough.

this one stands out badly because its so obvious that the game is blocking you there when all the visual information you get from the screen gives the impression you should be able to walk there, add that with the fact that you will do multiple light scout missions in the early part of the game and it will be very noticable to lots of new players too.

I'd also like to know what this change has done to the number of alien craft. If the number of craft spawning is the same, but you now have a different mixture then you also lose revenue as you dont get as many crash sites to raid. Whilst if fighters are additional craft then the funding from crashsite potential remains unchanged.

Blame GoodGuyEddy, he started all these fire puns, some might even say he was the firestarter; [video=youtube;wmin5WkOuPw]

Havnt played for a few builds but just wanted to say loving the way sight updates now, love the added bullet velocity. but am having all sorts of wierd accuracy going on. I seem to be easily hit by aliens when behind cover whilst i have no chance of hitting them even tho they are standing in the middle of an open field. I also had 5 men killed by reaction fire whilst still in the chopper... maybe having alien spawns looking straight into the rear of the chopper isnt such a good thing, or perhaps i should just be smoking the exit ramp like in the OG ;P

You want to practice shooting your rifle? get out there and kill some god damned alien bugs then!

+1 Hate the idea of reveal all, plz give us an on/off in options for it.

Um.. guys you do realise that as you get further the medals do give you more than +1 bravery right? I just did a quick mouse over after my last mission and there were a heap of +2 and even some +3s around. You just need to keep your guys alive longer

Pvt Gale Foster. He had just joined the squad, straight outta rookie school, replaced one of our veterans who had his head vaporised by a burst of plasma fire the week before. Anyway the mission was a tough one, sebs and reapers terrorising Ulaan Bataar, miles from nowhere and with no chance of backup. The Shrike touches down and out we pour in our wolf armour, laser and plasma rifles at the ready, when out strolls Gale in a freakin T-shirt with an oldskool ballistic rifle. Seems the poor sod hadnt bothered to go down to the armoury and gear up, thought we'd gone on a team building vacation or something. Guys gave him hell for it, the commander was so angry he put him on point duty. Well blow me he survived, got 2 kills, even took down a reaper that ran to within a few metres of him with a burst of lead (after a few of the boys had softened it up first). Anyway we've nicknamed him 4leaf, cause his the luckiest son of a bitch we ever saw, strolling through an alien zombie apocalypse in his blues, even had his shiny parade shoes on.

I may be wrong but i believe this is a limitation of the game engine. I think it was mentioned in a post somewhere that the engine treats vertically angled shots as a number of horizontal steps. So when attacking you get a benefit over ground cover near your position but none over cover near the enemy, which explains why that bench seems abnormally high, at that point the shot is treated the same as if fired from ground level. You can see how the squares for the shot suddenly jump down a level just past the edge of the building. I cant remember if they had an extra bonus added for elevation or not, perhaps it was just mentioned before but never implemented. At the moment using elevation is suicidal in my view as you get no cover bonus and are basically exposed to most of the battlefield.

Unloaded ammo isnt calculated correctly when more than 1 clip of the same type is unloaded. To reproduce take 2 heavy mgs with 2 spare ammo cases onto mission. do 1 burst fire for each, unload the mag of the first soldier (states 66% remains) unload the ammo from the second mg soldier. States 33% remains from 1 burst fire (should be 66%) go back to first soldier and check ammo, partial now reads 33% as well!! Repeat this a second time with a set of fresh ammo, soldiers now have 1 full ammo case and 2 33% ammo case. Ammo loading is now borked, try to load full mag via inventory, the soldier cannot load full case via inventory screen but can load partial case and can load normal full case from quickload button.

This may very well be a bug if your talking about grenade throwing and targeting empty ground tiles, see here; http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/9789-e22-5-hf-GC-Grenade-throwing-displays-no-or-Tu-cost

Experimental BUT since v20 I have updates turned off so i decide if and when to upgrade, this has enabled me to avoid some of the larger game breaking bugs. & yes im currently playing v22.5

+1 no TU cost / % for floor tiles (does display when over an alien) verified integrety of game cache and problem persists.

So i cant have 2 shields in a backpack and one in each hand anymore... well that ruins my turtle strategy

+1 frequent CTD in ground missions, terror sites, Alien bases. Noticed it especially when throwing C4 but it also occurs fairly frequently at random times & I cant really pin down why. Sometimes when shooting, sometimes with med kits, sometimes during alien turn I have reverted to the stable edition for now.

^ This

^ <3 The new MGs!!! Dislike the TU change as im now spending MUCH longer trying to figure out if i can move somewhere and have enough TUs left over to fire due to every soldier having different values... & yes i know the slider to reserve is there but still my poor brain cant cope ;-P I dont see myself getting use to it as the values will continually change throughout the game meaning its an added complicated slowdown in my tactical thinking as opposed to memorising a few values (40 for burst) TBH im not sure what the fix is... Yes TU was godly before... I'll have to dwell on this one further. [EDIT] Well i do have this idea, seperate TU into Movement and Action stats... tho that could get real ugly codewise at this point. Idea being that you can use action stats to move but cannot use movement stats to do stuff like fire a gun multiple times etc.

What about if they are carried aboard the transport by a fellow soldier?

Do you think it would be a good idea for aliens to have the same ability? ie if your in a room should they be able to throw grenades into it without being seen and blowing your team to hell. If you think not then you shouldnt have this ability either.

Some great suggestions here... here's one that's been in production for a while, DudeBroII, with the added "oh crap 3D game too hard lets go 2d platformer" rejig half way through (with a bit of luck it gets released this year). Titles a little long too given it's entire inspiration was to parody the crapfest that is modern fps "Dudebro, My Shit is Fucked Up So I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It’s Straight-Up Dawg Time" Promo Vid Site http://www.grimoireassemblyforge.com/dudebro2/site/

This isnt really a bug so I'll paste it here, whilst it's cool that Androns walk straight through park benches in their "target and kill all humans" kinda way it is somewhat amusing that they also walk straight through bits of their own base. I mean mean either some guy is on a sweet maintenance contract or its incredibly infuriating for alien high command to constanty replace all the broken equipment. Anyway Androns shouldnt walk through the partial cover objects in their own base... this unfortunately might need an entire new class of cover to be coded in