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    Menu Button mod request

    in Modding Discussion

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    Greetings, commanders.

    Recently I've bought a tablet with Win8 and I was happy, when I found out I can play Xenonauts on it. But unfortunately, soon I found out, that it is impossible to open ESC menu without keyboard. Since I have no skills to create a mod, I hope someone will help me by creating one, which adds a button to geoscape UI and combat UI, which will open main menu. Or, maybe there is one already?

    UFO assaulting

    in Xenonauts General Discussion

    Posted

    Get some people with lmgs in front of the door, get somebody to approach it from side and open it, mow everything inside down, close the door. Repeat.

    Then move some shotgunners in and finish some hiding aliens off.

    Also, shields work, and too well for my liking.

    Not good enough against shotgunner Sebillian. Two shots - two kills.

    Setting the timer for longer than one turn can help, as can throwing it from as far away as possible.

    The problem is not with timer. The problem is to get out of cover, set the bomb and run back.

    UFO assaulting

    in Xenonauts General Discussion

    Posted

    Also, opening doors does not cause reaction fire.

    That's weird :S But whatever, I'll keep this in mind.

    Have you tried using flash and smoke grenades?

    I can't flash through closed door. :D And smoke doesn't help against Sebilians, since they are immune to smoke penalty.

    At first I used to struggle with the same thing -- get inside ufos. But here are some tips:

    1- Aliens do not draw reaction fire from opening doors: well, the same work for you! After I learned this, I always had someone on my team who had the "door opener" job -- usually a shotgun soldier. The soldier would stay in front, open the door for the snipers (who are much farther away) to fire inside, then close the door after they all took their shots.

    It was what I was always doing, but when there is a wall or the edge of the map near the UFO entrance, there is no way to place heavy or sniper at safe distance. And AI is too clever not to shoot these guys first :D

    2- It is usually a single alien who stays near the door and opens it -- the other aliens usually stay on the back of the ufo and do not move to the front to open the door (although they do move inside the room they are assigned to). So don't stay right in front of the door until you kill the door opener alien - keep your troops to the side, so that they can reaction fire the door-opener, but not be shot by the aliens in the back. (C4 also usually kills the door-opener alien)

    I'll take this in mind. I was using C4's but it takes so damn much TUs, so it's hard sometimes to place it and stay in safety.

    3- When moving inside rooms with aliens to the sides (such as corvettes), stun grenades will help you (as long as those damn soldiers don't drop the grenades at their feet).

    Sorry, how does stun grenades help in these situations?

    @ OP: you still here?

    I am not from US. I can't answer, when I am sleeping, sorry :D

    UFO assaulting

    in Xenonauts General Discussion

    Posted

    During the game (insane no iron man) I found two situations, in which I constantly fail. I won't mention air combats, it's another topic and I can deal with them with just auto-resolve. But I just can't avoid clearing UFO.

    The problem starts when I am starting my preparations to get inside, especially if it is impossible to leave heavy or sniper on a safe distance and blow the door, while your guys get closer with their shotguns (due to reaction modifiers heavy and snipers just can't shoot before enemy and die). When I move my soldiers to the door with enough points to fire with shotguns, some clever alien just open a door (I just wonder if there can be reaction fire on opening the door, because I like never had) and starts shooting aiming my heavy weapons guy and someone else, only after that reaction fire follows, and then his mates from behind add some more damage. Then inside there are more doors to screw my plans. Shield doesn't work, if you are scouting inside UFO - when you move into another room, some sneaky bastard shoot him from the side and you just can't prevent it anyhow.

    So, guys, I would like to hear some piece of advice from you. What I do wrong? How do I clear UFO from those cheating campers?

    Antarctica

    in Xenonauts General Discussion

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    I see... But would you try to connect the loss of Antarctica with a plot. I don't know, something like aliens using a huge vacuum-cleaner-like-thing to deal with people of Earth fast, starting from the South Pole, but with the sacrifice of brave penguins, who will never be forgotten, the machine of doom is out of order and can't be fixed in space. Well, you have a better and more healthy imagination, I'll leave it to you.

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