zolobolo Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I was writing together some thoughts what made the game short of perfect in my opinion when I realized that given the current status of the DEV project all feature related points are only have a chance to get eventually addressed if a modder with golden hands takes a turn on them. So hear go some ideas in hope one or two will be taken a fancy on by people better then me in a nifty mod : - Operation endgame button more visible/striking (it is a high priority apocalypse button) Green colors could dominate here and highlight the button background and outlines with different shades of green - Tanks shown in garage when viewing the base layout since we use this view to get an overview on number and type of planes as well (it is also the best designed management view so information should be tied in where possible) - Sorting of soldiers within base/personal menu does not show sorting direction set (asc/desc) - Strip all equipment function for soldiers in the base equipment screen - Geoscape does not contain much information and the range of planes specifically. Would be nice to have each type of planes and their range on the bottom of the map so to have more useful info there and also help planning air coverage. Icons of air combat could be used and a simple distance meter like in maps showing the range with larger numbers displayed to help orientation and increase immersion: 1000km? 2000km...etc... - One of the most important function of geoscape is showing relation and funding levels + changes for continents but the information is only displayed for each continent when cursor is above making for a lot of useless hovering. Information should be shown directly over the continents themselves and even color code them - maybe via buttons so they can be blended out so not to disturb in interception orders. - Statistics from UFO activity are missing that were present in the original - Mag ammo is very thin and without character (noticeable style) - Bring back original rifle as standard rifle (it is such an iconic and function defined form ) - Color coded squads (red and blue team). Painting the sprites seems too much effort, but how about a triangle above sprites, colored gloom or backround colour of quick key button? - All heavy weapon ammo should take up 2 slots just like in case of heavy machine gun. When predator is used the armor can take a crazy amount of ammo with him which may make sense but is not fun - If heavy ammo would take 2 slots the predator could only take 13 magazines which is still more then enough but looks and feels much better - Final mission optional objective is lackluster - Maybe its just me but I do not care about the survival of my virtual troops in the final mission since there is no strategic/tactical payoff nor emotional - no image of dead soldiers or other just same victory image - Final missing is too easy - the map is straight forward and thus much space meaning one can mow down enemies with rockets - 10 soldiers with fusion rockets - no issues that the equipment is destroyed and no small rooms and corridors to limit shooting angle. Elevation is also not utilized which make flying armor under utilized in the final push - this mission still feels much better then that of EU in my eyes due to the unique tile set and plot buildup - Hall of fame in game for won games and their statistics (mission count, lost civilians, soldiers, date and which ending is achieved) - Soldier equipment slots strongly reduced since they are never utilized (except in case below) - Resolve cheat to have all slots filled with ammo, medikit, backup weapons and drop them in the first round of tactical mission. The problem with the workaround is that it is giving a large advantage but is sheer micromanagement. The original had a perfect solution for that: max weight for transport and a slot to fill in unused equipment to (this might not be possible with the engine though) - Difference when using belt or backpack. Currently I don't see any difference and since we have so much space, the belt is simply meaningless with its size limitation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabill Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Sadly, a lot of that wouldn't be possible without access to the source code. A few things could be done, though: - Final mission can be modded. (Can't really change the objectives, though). - Inventory can be modded (see this thread) - Weapons projectiles can be modded (re: Mag ammunition) - Weapons/ammo can be added in/altered (re: Rifle/Heavy Weapon ammo) There might be some other things I've missed, but those are the key ones which are more or less simple to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theon Greyjoy Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 If we are making a wish list of things that are hard-coded and would require genius walk-around ideas to implement..then I want a cemetery (like in cannon fooder) or a simple Killed-In-Action Ui screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolobolo Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 a cemetery (like in cannon fooder) or a simple Killed-In-Action Ui screen. It wasn't the idea to have a list of things that are hard-coded since I do not know what is and what isn't coded If there cannot be any flat file filled with data such as these then I guess it is not possible without editing the engine - even if it would be cool I guess this would fall into the same category as having combat, UFO activity and other stats, but what about the total civs killed counter? Can't this be modified, replicated edited to collect KIA stats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lune Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 (edited) Yeah, it's a bit strange Xenonauts doesn't keep track of at least the number of soldiers KIA (let alone by country, so e.g. we can say New Zealand died the most for our freedom). - Medals earned by nationality? (Shove this number in a totally optional clipboard for people who like useless trivia like this). - Same as KIA but for vehicles (RIP Thomas the Tank Engine) - Number of UFOs shot down by base defence (is this a thing?) - Average number of shots fired per mission (maybe per weapon category) - would be interesting to those quartermaster types? ;p - Soldier with the highest number of transfers ("Join the army, they said... see the world, they said...") - Soldier with the highest number of panics Tch, we're not even seeing the kills tally breakdown per soldier for each mission. Edited June 15, 2014 by Lune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Ragulin Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 The first one, the operation endgame button, should be easy enough to do. Buttons/UI are quite receptive to bodging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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