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    No to Epic Games Exclusivity deals

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

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    On 3/14/2019 at 5:03 AM, Dagar said:

    All that hate against Epic seems pretty petty to me. I'd prefer Epic Store over Steam actually, as all those "features" Steam supposedly has don't concern me anyway (maybe generation facebook needs to share to the world how many hours they put into a grindy shooter or how they tossed the most epic item of the game into lava for an achievement, I don't), and Epic actually gives more of the money to the developers, which is what counts in my book. I still prefer gog for lack of DRM, but I definitely won't get worked up about whether I need to download another piece of free software to play a game, I've done that many times since buying games over the internet became a thing.

    By the way, Chris never said he would not take a deal akin to the one Snap Shot took, he just stated that he does not deem it very likely that Goldhawk get such an offer in the first place.

    Oh, and yeah, Snap Shot behaved pretty shitty concerning promising Steam and gog keys and now making the game exclusive to Epic, but to me that does not justify the kind of shit storm they receive. But you be the loud minority all you want, after all it is free exposure for Snap Shot who you intend to hurt with that campaign. I'd love to see that kind of money and exposure for Xeno2, actually.

    I agree to some extent. I don't mind using multiple launchers. Steam really does need some proper competition as they've gotten really lazy over the years, it's why I've started buying some games on GOG, but for me personally, the Epic Game Store just isn't that.

     

    I'm completely opposed to Epic Games using money to force games onto their platform as a way to attract customers, the lack of features that Steam has over it, always online DRM, the fact developers can opt out of reviews, and their lack of security. Though it's nice that developers can get a bigger slice of the pie it comes at the determent to the consumers. I wouldn't be opposed to games being Epic Game Store exclusives if they were never advertised to ever be on Steam in the first place. But the fact that games like Phoenix Point, Outer Worlds, and Metro Exodus were all supposed to be on steam but abruptly dropped the platform for some extra money is just wrong. It sucks cause the Epic Games Store could have been a really good source for competition to steam, but now it's just another crummy game store like Origin or Uplay.

     

    It also doesn't help that when I went to make an Epic Games account when considering to buy Metro Exodus there was already an account linked to my email someone from Thailand had created. I know it's not that big of a deal but the fact some rando was able to use my email to create an account without any sort of confirmation sent to my email was really off-putting.

     

    I simply don't want to be forced to use a platform that's just in every way inferior to Steam or GOG. I'd like to hope that Epic Games will at some point try to do better than these shady buyouts but so far it's not looking like that's what'll happen...

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    Throwing things

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

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    So I've been watching someone play Xcom TFTD and during a lot of the early missions, I noticed that he was able to toss just about anything around. Magazines, guns, bodies, even hot potato grenades. I'd love to see something like this in Xenonauts-2. During a recent replay of Xenonauts, I found it very cumbersome to transfer extra magazines and other items to other soldiers. You need to get them close to each other, have one drop a magazine, move them out of the way, get the other guy to stand on that spot and pick it up. By that point, if they haven't died of reaction fire, it's unlikely that they'd be able to even reload their weapon. I'd love to see this kind of mechanic implemented for Xenonauts-2.

     

    Just imagine a guy decked out in Predator armor, armed to the teeth with various amounts of ammo for various kinetic and energy weapons, just throwing magazines to anyone he can see, like he's playing support in Battlefield 1.

     

    It'd also be fun to hot potato grenades.

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    Xtended Soldiers Backgrounds

    in Modding Discussion

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    I like the mod. But when I install the mod some of the Nationalities don't show up and instead are replaced with #####. It's starting to bug me is there anything I can do to fix this?

    The only mods I'm using are Oppressive UI, Realistic armors, new ranks, and some new maps.

    Activate unused content.

    in Modding Discussion

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    What if everything is there? The rocket launcher is in each file you told me to look at. It's in manufacturing researching weapons and ammo. The only thing I can assume is that the research for the rocket launcher was disabled. :\ Should I still treat it as a new weapon?

    Activate unused content.

    in Modding Discussion

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    What if the DHVRL is in the weapons file? If you scroll all the way down it's under "Unused weapons" It has damage and everything set up for it. Would I just copy and paste it in the active weapons slot? And if so what about the research tab. How would I research it during gameplay? Sorry I'm still new to this.

    Activate unused content.

    in Modding Discussion

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    While I was looking through the games content I found a lot of unused items. The DHVRL for example. Is there any way I can activate things like that? I mean it's got an animation for all the units and armors. It would be fun to have another rocket launcher to use. :)

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