Nuttss Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Wow, lots of comments on this. On the existing ideas, I like Chris's idea of medal verus achievement. I suggest making the nature of the medal harder to achieve if you save scum, not easier. Essentialy, if you are the type of player that reloads a lot, an event that cause a medal would be an event you might prefer to reload on. To me # of kills sounds like achievement, not a medal. campaign ribons are the only thing I can think of that might fit that violates my suggestion about making medals difficult. Medal for taking damage and surviving is a good (purple heart or other name.) I didn't read all the comments (15 pages) but I did a search so if the following has been covered...my appologies Possibly a new idea on a medal already named. Medal of Honor (American) is often given to those that save their squad mates. PSo instead of using a kill counter, consider a calculation like healing X teammates and then killing an alien and/or taking an injury while healing a squad mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 New Idea: Brain Games- Mind control an alien that had mine controlled one of your soldiers. There's a 99% this won't go through ;D 99% is probably a bit low as you can't actually mind control aliens in Xenonauts Change the number of kills medals over to the weapon proficiency version (number of kills with a specific weapon) and I am with you. I don't like the set number of kills medal but making it weapon specific at least has the bonus of making your sniper stand out from the machine gunner. I would definitely like to see more medals for different situations but if you are trying to keep the numbers small then I guess you are going to be limited by design on the things you are going to be able to award them for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfy Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 99% is probably a bit low as you can't actually mind control aliens in Xenonauts Change the number of kills medals over to the weapon proficiency version (number of kills with a specific weapon) and I am with you. I don't like the set number of kills medal but making it weapon specific at least has the bonus of making your sniper stand out from the machine gunner. I would definitely like to see more medals for different situations but if you are trying to keep the numbers small then I guess you are going to be limited by design on the things you are going to be able to award them for. Wait wait WHAT- You CAN'T? No! Why? Did humans LOSE knowledge since X-COM? *goes to suggestions thread* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Well technically x-com is set much later than Xenonauts so you could say they haven't developed to the point where super mind powers are possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTuninator Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Wait wait WHAT- You CAN'T? No! Why? Did humans LOSE knowledge since X-COM? *goes to suggestions thread* Because it was OP as all hell in X-COM (let's be honest) and Chris has stated that he wants the player to feel genuinely threatened by the aliens every step of the way, something which obscenely powerful psionics would preclude. There's a thread in GD if you want to offer your thoughts, Chris seems still potentially open to suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 does no one read the frequently suggested ideas thread anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beagle Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 The people who make frequently suggested suggestions are pretty unlikely to actually read the frequently suggested ideas thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plucx Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) Medals topic right?Why dont' we just let the player decide what madals and when. Might be don in parallel to a Coded medal system. Edited January 29, 2012 by plucx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 (edited) My bolded question for you is - if your copy of Xenonauts came with a special file that removed the Sole Survivor medal from the game, would that solve this for you? As far as I can tell, you don't want the medal in the game because you personally would feel the need to go to extreme lengths to get it. Yes, it would. Well yes we all hve been trying to push for more medals but i think Chris might like it to stay at 10, I do hope he changes his mind i am inclining more towards 30 and AD, TT, Gorlom and a few other did come up with good names and fair characteristics. LIES! I do not recall comming up with any names or characteristics! When did I do that? I have just been whining this whole thread. (Seriously I've only been posting critizism for some reason) LIAR! Edited January 29, 2012 by Gorlom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plucx Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 So? What do you think about player generated medals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xracer Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 (edited) LIES! I do not recall comming up with any names or characteristics! When did I do that? I have just been whining this whole thread. (Seriously I've only been posting critizism for some reason) LIAR! Really!!! somehow, somewhere i thought I saw a you mentioning about some medal or maybe some type of requisites for a medal, most likely i am wrong, but i think not. Still my point stand we would like to push for more medals and try to make "medal collector's" job a whole lot more difficult So? What do you think about player generated medals? It is a good idea however there are too many variables to account for, making it difficult to programmer to think all possibilities. One way would me leaving everything blank and let the user fill all the fields. medal name. and maybe description. Also how about the art, will there be a standard set, for the ribbon and their corresponding medals or the user will have to create their own or maybe "load" art. either that or there would have to be a medal creator type program that will let you assign and/or columns or rows of colors and there would be a few actual medals to choose from, or allow for combining the created object with default created medals. Still the implication here is that it could be a little messy to code, (i think) maybe some coder can give their insight. Also allowing this some users may not want to do that so an extra burden, although you may argue that it gives you more choices, it doesn't improve playability Edited January 30, 2012 by xracer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Simplest way would be to only allow for one player generated medal that looks very generic. like say an empty shield type badge. other possibilities would be to have the player select a medal look from a selection of x number medals designed by Chris' artwork guy. (so that players dont have to generate their own medals i mean) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plucx Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Gorlom, this is exactly what I meant! Thanks! (are you psyonic?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 It was suggested earlier in the thread somewhere. I am generally in favour of it. I think It might have been suggested as soldier record entries as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutbarz Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Wow, you guys get really intense... Why Not Include some Medals from the Various Nations participating in Funding your Base, and as those countries drop out, so does the chance for the medals from that country? Just an Idea. It could also play to the point that the medals would be awarded for there the missions took place, so a Successful Terror mission in Germany could award the Iron Cross to the soldier in that unit that had the most kills, or saved another member, or captured the most aliens alive. Same as if the Mission was in the Soviet Union, award the Hero of the Soviet Union to one of the Squad members. Just Ideas. I know it may be alot of work. Its Just an Idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 it is a good idea, but yeah a lot of work, and also it's not so much nations as landmasses that provide medals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 If it was purely from terror missions you could determine the medal from the country recorded in the city information. Not sure how it would work in other mission types though unless you had some kind of co-ordinate system to track borders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beagle Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I think we should definitely focus on nailing down Chris's interpretation of medals first before we start suggesting custom player ones. This thread is already pretty long and unreadable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I don't envy him trying to pick anything useful out of a thread this long and convoluted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherdevil Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 yeah most of it isn't even actually about new medal types =p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plucx Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 We should close this, make a new tread compiling all medal proposed here and another tread about medal modding ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiscuitsAkimbo! Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 (edited) I think some harder medals should be made based on the nationality of the soldier. An american soldier can receive the Medal of Honor, a British soldier can receive the Victoria Cross, a soviet one the Order of Lenin and so on. PS: Probably in the forums but i'm too lazy to search for it, but how do I get my preorder badge? Edited May 16, 2012 by BiscuitsAkimbo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 PS: Probably in the forums but i'm too lazy to search for it, but how do I get my preorder badge? Here: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/145-How-to-claim-your-Pre-Order-forum-badge%21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle1990 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 A try to create a batle-order ("First order of Xeno batle"): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle1990 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 A collection of real medals: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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