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[Screech9791]

The forum page for the X-Division mod for Xenonauts, contains download link and a quick refresher on what the fuck this mod is

We are in the sky

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We are on the ground

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We are a paramilitary organisation ...

We have the best of the best - with some personal issues here and there. Real characters as you say nowadays ...

We do everything, from stealing to protecting transports, smuggleing weapons for those who can pay for it. We destroy organisations if the price is right and provide safe routes from A to B, even through hell if it has to be ...

Sometimes we also do some good guy stuff, but dont ask for it, except you can put enough money on the table ...

Our people are unhonorable discharged veterans or geniuses who dont feel quite valued in their former organisation. Some average guys as well who are attracted to the way we do things ... but honestly they have to be a bit crazy to be hanging around those guys ... say us ... ... everybodys a bit crazy here ...

We have been hired by some wealthy individuals who think we can save the earth and believe in our methods. This group has put their faith in us ... and most importantly, their money.

I guess it is time to do some good guy stuff again !

Whats my spleen ? World Domination ! Everybody ought to have a goal, no ? But if these aliens do as they please there will be nothing left to rule over.

What is yours, commander ?

X-Division is the long war of Xenonauts mods; huge, a shit ton of extra content, and hard as fuck.

Out of my personal masochism, I've decided to play the mod with minimal oldcom experience. I've played a few runs of the mod (on NG, the EASIEST difficulty), but those didn't last far before the saves got fucked over by Bullshit^tm like all the non-shit potential recruits (everyone with all stats at 40 or higher) being either dead after a few missions (gotta have the "That's XCOM baby!" factor), or not being in the potential new recruits pool when I need replacements, or the fact that my first run of the decade ended badly when I wasn't getting desired results from autoresolving air battles since I suck at the airgame a fucking lot, as if the fact that I didn't get fucking BETTER GUNS until two months in didn't already kill me mentally.

But here we fucking go. Now with my ramblings and commentary about oldcom long war being posted on some forum site on the internet, for reasons unknown to even me.

Warning: Stale memes ahead.

I'm going to start a new run on NG difficulty as that's the easiest one in the mod, and the one that I'm least likely to get buttfucked in. I do wish Xenonauts had separate difficulty levels for the tactical layer, the strategic layer, and the airgame, as my levels of profiency in those parts of the game are skilled first to last in that order.

I will usually only take screenshots of stuff worth noting, minor stuff which I don't deem reader-worthy won't get screenshotted.

Spoiler: Update 1 (click to show/hide)

something something pointless fluff regarding the start of the invasion

I'm going to cut to the chase and show you guys the first mission's start screenshot. You can see how well this will go just from the fact that an ayylmao has line of sight on ALL OF MY SOLDIERS at mission start.


It went okay, but there was some losses, in the below screenshot.


Notice how loot is only stored and not autosold, and the reason will pop up later. Spoiler alert: Most of the recovered weapons don't immediately give weapon tech on their own, as you'll have to get a bunch of separate weapons of each ayy tech category to unlock one of the phase's tech trees. The actually immediately useful stuff was alien alloys, which allowed us to unlock Jackal armor, to prevent our troops from evaporating over phase one alien weapons (flamer/ballistic/phaser weapons).


Pictured here is a Sebillian autopsy. Among other things, there's a mini infodump that explains why capturing aliens is a good idea in this mod, and why interrogations can give the really good tech.


A fair reminder that a lot of xenopedia entries for researched ayylien trash weapons don't actually have any fluff attached and/or a xenopedia image that matches the gun image ingame. charon plz


The first fighter that can use heavy torpedos. Unlike vanilla xenonauts, it only has one hardpoint, but it has more ammo. Foxtrots also cost various items obtained by disassembling UFOs, so they're not as easy to get anymore. A small price to pay for an earlygame bomber.


fuck night missions, also it's a caesan mission so new shit to research yay i guess


set sail for interrogations that don't give anything


another mission completed, but not without dead redshirts, RESEARCH TIME


That scout captured gave me the resources to produce one of these. Hopefully I won't get pwned in the airgame as much.


oh yeah mr krabs oh yeah oh yeah mr krabs (on a serious note, this will make capturing shit less risky)


If you were expecting an unfunny joke, then go fuck yourself.


hmm yes
the non-horseshit guns are made out of non-horseshit guns


The results of a mission where I forget to bring along one of the scout cars. Oh well, at least the new laser rifle kicked ass.

I feel like this should be enough for one update. I'm probably going to need to find some way to not make this a gallery of captioned screenshots in chronological order.

If you want to get a redshirt named after you, just post in the thread and tell me what you want your redshirt to be named if you don't want me to assume that you'll have your redshirt named after your forum username. Optionally, you can also request what you want your soldier to be, and what role/equipment he/she has, and I'll try to fufill those requests. Unless I decide that your death was bullshit, you will only get redshirted once.

Bay12 Redshirt Tracker:
Yoink - Alive (Assault)
NickAragua - Alive (Rifleman)
Iduno - DEAD

[Iduno]

I can't believe how much better x-com's pixelated graphics look. I also can't forget how much the air minigame was an annoying addition to the game that you really had to be good at.

Please give me a character with good bravery and reaction so I can bravely gun down aliums on their turn waste ammo on reaction shots.

[Yoink]

Old Mate the expendable Australian, reporting for duty!
Preferably armed with a shotgun, rubber sandal or rolled-up newspaper, but I'm not too fussed hey.

[NickAragua]

I'm in!

[Screech9791]

Another day, another fucking update.

Spoiler: Update 2: Revenge of the Uncreative Subtitle Boogaloo: Gaiden: Enemy unknown (click to show/hide)

This update is sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends pic8.co, my image host of choice. I suggest using it if you don't like bullshit image hosts that don't give a shit about your privacy, like Imgur, and if you like minimalistic image host websites and non-expiring images.

There was a crashed scout capture mission that I did inbetween updates, most of it wasn't update worthy besides the fact that I had a bit more laser weapons (1 minigun + 1 carbine added) and that I had some stun gas grenades. It was a caesan mission so more stun gas grenades for the arsenal. I did fuck up by forgetting which tiles had stun gas which lead to some (nonlethal) friendly fire, but at least it's not lethal explosives.

Time to make some guys redshirts (or blueshirts, honestly).

Sorry about the fact that I had no austrailians in my A team, but you asked for a shotgunner so have a guy armed with a laser carbine (read: autoshotgun).


You asked for no preferred equipment/stats and you got what you asked for, enjoy being a rifleman that I'm arming with the first of our non-garbage guns


I named Yoink's redshirt first before I chose yours. You get to be a machine gunner.

Some research happened that I didn't bother screenshotting involving (more importantly) better aircraft weapons (and on the less interesting part of things, shit I won't need).


https://youtu.be/YzRKhXNZ8L4?t=7
Aw shit, here we go again. No, it's not UFO 19, it's UFO 20 that's causing me to go full on video related.

The plural of Asierus is Asierii

Alright. Fuck it. Terror mission time. I got most of my squad equipped with lasers, let's hope this doesn't go FUBAR really fast.

This is a suicide mission, and one that is needed if I don't want relation loss. I can already tell that my redshirts will die horribly. Assuming there's androns on this mission, these laser weapons should get past their high kinetic damage resistances. FOR HUMANITY!


Nice, there's already 2 ayys spotted off the bat from the Skyranger Chinook. Conveniently, a bunch of local forces are nearby. I don't know if they've already gotten laser weapons (the X-Division tech does get leaked eventually leading to local forces getting their hands on better equipment, but due to it needing to be mass produced to be available to most local forces (armed civilians, police, military, etc) near crashsites, there's only MK1 tech leaked, as it's not going to be easy for the whole globe to get access to enough alien small arms to disassemble into cores for upgrading their leaked division firearms tech) or not, but hopefully they do, as some enemies are noticably resistant to kinetic damage. Fortunately, this is a caesan terror site (as I have yet to see any androns/their support races yet), but it still helps to have non-horseshit guns.

From what I've seen from my favorite xdiv streamer's latest livestream, he managed to pick up technology from locals that isn't currently manufacturable, which are railguns (the phase 4 kinetic weapons), so it's possible that locals might have weapons that the X-Division doesn't have yet.


WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
Whatever it is, I don't like it.
inb4 it has something to do with benos


Oh nice, the not-sectoids brought their not-cyberdisks. This will be !!FUN!!

Since I'm concerned that this update might be getting a bit long, I'll split this into two separate posts.

Iduno, Yoink, and Nick have gotten redshirts named after them.

[Screech9791]

Spoiler: Update 2.5: Counter Terrorists Win (click to show/hide)

Most of this terror mission didn't have much screenshot worthy stuff so that's why I didn't screenshot much. Spoiler alert: One of the tanks got boned (but not before deleting 2 cyberdisks with alenium rockets).

Fuck, all my stun weapons left are either A: looted ayylien lightning guns, or B: stunsticks. It doesn't help that all the stun grenades I brought earlier were used. And this mission has been going on for a fucking long time IRL.


Fuck yeah. Unfortunately, NickAragua and some noodle armed redshirt met their inevitable outcome. Time to go on a bug hunt for that last ayylien, and to switch the music I have running in the background from 10 hours of vietnam war background noise (which I listened to for about an hour while doing this terror mission bullshit) to something more fitting.


Protip: Clicking the above image will get you rickrolled give you good luck. At least Nick is only vacationing and not doing corpse things.


As it turns out, the red shirted sectoids Caesans are not noncombatants, but operators. You know, I haven't actually encountered any noncombatants yet.


And here's a specialist chart for Sebillians.


dis gun b gud


If only I had ayylien alloys...


Remind me to exercise restraint when using explosives.


The same scout raid mission that incident happened in.


aw shit here we go again

fuck i'm tired i'm just gonna end it here

some stuff that isn't screenshot worthy happened, like some more Asierii getting made + division weapon tech being unlocked (even though I already am pretty far into the laser tree thanks to capturing some ayys from that terror mission

[Iduno]

Spoiler: Update 2.5: Counter Terrorists Win (click to show/hide)

Why are those giant alien whatevers half invisible? And also there's a purple force wall inside that house? I assume those are both related.

[Robsoie]

How is the enemy AI in this mod ?

I remember how massively disapointed i was when i got the free gog Xenonaut.
The enemy that were in their ships were never trying to get to you and were staying in their ships from the start to the end of a mission, while those that were spawned in town were either nearlystatic with random back&forth moves or moving staying out of your weapons reach instead of trying to actively assault your position, making "look for the random enemy stuck somewhere" missions not only boring but way too long due to how huge the maps are.

I heard some mods have enhanced AI , but i wonder if by enhanced it means they're actually aggressive (like they were several Xenonaut patch before they decided to tone down a lot their aggressivity) or if it's just that they calculate your view range and only attack from out of it.

[Screech9791]

Spoiler: Update 2.5: Counter Terrorists Win (click to show/hide)

Why are those giant alien whatevers half invisible? And also there's a purple force wall inside that house? I assume those are both related.

1: What giant alien whatevers
2: That purple gas is stun gas. It deals stun damage to any non-mechanical unit inside it. It's mainly useful for capturing ayyliens.

How is the enemy AI in this mod ?
-snip-

I think it's better, but take that with a grain of salt.

Update coming soontm in valve time.

[Screech9791]

Spoiler: Update 3: THIS IS NOT FUCKING CANON (click to show/hide)

Well, another terror site popped up. Time to pwn some ayyliens.
But first, here's a word from our sponsor, Raid: Sha-sounds of someone getting murderedlist of my A team and its equipment.


Chrisos Loris, the impromptu sniper, armed with a MK3 laser rifle.


Old Mate the shotgunner, with a MK1 laser carbine, as I don't have the time nor resources for a MK3 laser carbine.


Oda Johansen, who is one of my strongest soldiers, and has a MK1 laser minigun for that reason.


Iduno, the resident heavy weapons user, with a MK1 gatling laser that in reality is a sniper with ballistic AR accuracy, since it only has 3 shots and no burst fire, for some reason.


Max Busch, and one of my semi-redshirts armed with a MK1 laser rifle.


Andreas Loris, who is, to no one's surprise, another laser rifleman.


Keith Ellis aka MK1 laser rifle wielder #3.


Being the last (and lowest ranked) member of my A team, Artur Romanov is the only one wielding a SMG or a weapon that isn't laser technology.


Can't forget the new Defender tank, with a big iron pulse laser mounted.

And that's my squad for yet another terror mission. Time for moar hell.


The second monthly report.


The start of the terror mission. No benos in sight at mission start = bad luck.


ayy lmao


fuck he's gibbed, there goes the gatling laser


Dead redshirt counter: 2 (fortunately he wasn't gibbed)


I wonder who didn't see this coming. Make the dead redshirt counter 3. Also, here's a fun xdiv drinking game: take a shot every time a morale event occurs due to non-psionic reasons, and finish the glass/cup/preferred thing to drink out of if it was someone important. Have 911 or other relevant emergency services on speed dial.


Some good news: That's another chieftain captured, this time it's a sebillian. If a stun grenade fails, there's always the option of beating it to unconsciousness with stun batons.


Another sebillian chieftain, from the same mission. Time to go hunt down the freeman last ayylien.


A reminder to treat any unopened door as one with an enemy behind it. Rip my submachine gunner.


https://youtu.be/IFOvTWSYCbc


FUCK FUCK FUCK OW


REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE [the rest of this REE has been cut out for brevity's sake]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzLeQs6jZEM


This was a fucking alien grenade.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANZL2Nwkd2E

fuck this bullshit, THERE GOES MY A TEAM AND ALL ITS EQUIPMENT.

Meanwhile at Uncreative Location Base...
Some scientists find some ancient time travel machine, with the only words written on it being "Load Game". Could this give the answers we seek?

fuck this shit i'm out

[Yoink]

RIP.   

[Iduno]

Spoiler: Update 2.5: Counter Terrorists Win (click to show/hide)

Why are those giant alien whatevers half invisible? And also there's a purple force wall inside that house? I assume those are both related.

1: What giant alien whatevers
2: That purple gas is stun gas. It deals stun damage to any non-mechanical unit inside it. It's mainly useful for capturing ayyliens.

On the right side of the picture, there's a metal roof. I'm asking about the half-invisible reddish thing inside. Looks like a bunch of tubes or something?

[Screech9791]

Spoiler: Update 2.5: Counter Terrorists Win (click to show/hide)

Why are those giant alien whatevers half invisible? And also there's a purple force wall inside that house? I assume those are both related.

1: What giant alien whatevers
2: That purple gas is stun gas. It deals stun damage to any non-mechanical unit inside it. It's mainly useful for capturing ayyliens.

On the right side of the picture, there's a metal roof. I'm asking about the half-invisible reddish thing inside. Looks like a bunch of tubes or something?

That's a destroyed tractor. Destructible terrain is a thing in this game.

[King Zultan]

PTW