Amaror Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Hi Just tried the current build a little bit and i have a few questions: - I can't seem to research the plasma pistol ammo, and i can't use the alien weapons(It is reasearched), too. At least i cannot equip my soldiers with it. Don't know if i am doing something wrong or if its a bug. - can't research alien corpses. - all in all there seems to be very little to research. Will it be added, or will there really be so few things to research? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzuBuzu Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 It is possible to research the plasma pistol, and you should get a UFOPAEDIA entry for having researched it. I don't think it's necessary to research plasma pistol ammo. This is because you cannot equip your soldiers with plasma weapons that the aliens use (you get the gist of why this is from the UFOPAEDIA entry for the plasma pistol). You will be able to pick up and use alien weapons during combat but I don't think it's possible right now because the graphics for the plasma clip are not finished yet so you get a CTD when trying to look at a dead alien's inventory. Alien weapons are almost purely for research purposes, and will lead your scientists to design analogous weapons that you will be able to manufacture for your troops to use. If you want to play with new weapons, see if you can find a UFO power source. After researching that and the plasma pistol it should be possible to research laser weapons. I haven't been able to do that (bug maybe) but others here have managed to build and use the laser weapons. Most of the other research isn't in the game yet. Don't worry. It'll be in there when the game is finished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Amaror: this is an alpha build. it is a very vry early version of the game still under development and adding functions. ALOT more things (functions, reserach, equipment, aliens etc) will be added. As Buzubuzu have said its slightly buggy and/or not implemented yet. The alien plasma weapons are missing some files and causes crashes atm. The alien corpses are not implemented at all in geoscape/baseview. They are destroyed at the end of each combat since there is no alien containment unit to keep them in (not implemented yet) The research tree is cut short mostly because everything isnt put into the game yet but also because crutial objects in the interior of the UFOs are temporarily removed from the game (so since you can't find them you can't research them) The user Guaddlike has had successs in tampering with his (xml?) gamefiles to bypass some requirement and workaround missing files to prevent some of the crashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 The next build should deal with most of these issues when it comes out. The current build doesn't have UFO power cores in it, which means you can't get your hands on laser weapons (although they are in the build). We'll fix that shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 You can edit the researches.xml file to remove the power source pre req for laser weaponry if you really want to try it out. Don't tell Chris I told you that though in case he really didn't want people playing with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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