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[Robsoie]

new version of Rosigma, 1.09C

Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

UPDATE 1.09C NOTES:
**Requires OXCE 7.7.3**

Fixes:
- Minor sprite correction to Slaanesh Missile BigOBs and Adeptas Assault Cannon
- Adeptas Galgalim Assault Cannon bigOB adjusted to show correctly in the inventory when equipped.
- Adeptas Castigator AC turret battlesprite position adjusted
- Plague Spewer Handob will now display correctly
- Webpistol handob updated to not overlap with the Handcannon index.
- Unit UI sprites updated with the new Eldar UI mini-me.
- Missing vanilla Eldar Craft Equipment language strings.

MAP Updated:
- The Space Hulk top floor has been modified, as has the second level core area to make it a little harder to rush.
New GSC spawn ins will be defending the core (Any present Orks may or may not take note of them).
Spawn in Timers tightened 1-2 turns.
- Added 8 variant first level Space Hulk maps, with different approaches, changed rooms and some surprises. Each map has its own timers for spawn ins. The trickier layouts have more generous timers and easier first wave enemies.
- URBAN08, Deserter Hideout base map updated, also added URBAN19-27 which are variations on URBAN08 with different rooms and layout + 2 larger map blocks. Deserter Hideout map generation increased from 50x50 tiles to 60x60 tiles. A larger % of units will spawn indoors.

NURGLE:
- Updated Plague Spewer with animation script and new floor corpse.
- Added custom color index for vaportrails to enable green goo hosin´ from the Plague Spewer.

Lots of map variants for desert hideout and space hulk missions.

Note : due to the difficulty selection being replaced by faction selection in 40K and Rosigma, the difficulty is locked by the mod and is at "Veteran"
So if you find the difficulty too hard (or too easy), the 2 lower difficulty settings (Beginner and Experienced) and the 2 higher difficulty settings (Genius and Superhuman) can be enabled through minimod :
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,10802.0.html

In XPiratez news, from what i read there should be very soon a new version.

[Robsoie]

New X-Piratez version :
https://www.moddb.com/mods/x-piratez/downloads/xpiratez-vn2-apocalyptic-edition-22-oct-2022

Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

v.N2 Apocalyptic Edition 22-Oct-2022
- OXCE upgrade to 7.7.5 21-Oct-2022
- OXCE feature: XCOM Apocalypse-style soldier equipping option (on by default)
- New Missions: Ground Vehicle Race, Sunken Airplane, Fallen Stars, Executive Outcomes, Black Sun Outpost, Guns of the Patriots, Underbase Facility
- New Eniemies: Hanabu, National Units (x13)
- New Soldier Type: Ogres (thanks to Brain and Solar for help with gfx) with 8 armors
- New Facilities: Irradiator Tower (Ax-crazy only; thx to Ivan D. for txt beautification), Bunker (Soreass only)
- New Craft: Highway Star (gfx by Brain), Warbird, Thunderbird (ideas/cooperation by Berriebun)
- New Craft Weapons: Broadside versions of appropriate HV guns (7 weapons), 2 new sizes of Tractor Beams, return of Goblin Rokkitz (as DV weapon), UAC Megachaingun
- New Craft Equipment: Battery Pack, Supercompressor, Dragonscales, Combat Radar, Hideout Detector, Battle Scanner
- New Weapons: Kitchen Knife, Gnome Gun, Black Fang, Ramses Gun
- New Ammo: Battlecannon Shells/HEAT, Compressed Flamethrower Fuel (normal & heavy)
- New Equipment: Compact Fire Extinguisher
- New Enviro: Dust Storm
- New: Takeoff sounds for craft and build sounds for facilities added
- New: +16 Peasant avatars (for a total of 104) (half of them by Brain, some others based on faces by Robin)
- New Mapblocks (Jungle, Guild Warehouses etc)
- Improved Gfx (by Mikkoi):
-- Paperdolls: improved Peasant bodies
-- Item Sprite: Hunting Rifle (both versions), Mutant Egg, Machete, Spiked Knuckles
-- Paperdoll/Pedia: Ruffian, Troublemaker, Smoothie, Mutant Bugeye, Guild Hostess
-- Battle Sprite: Dog, Maid/PEA, Hunter/PEA, Dress/PEA, Nude/PEA, Swimsuit/PEA, Gladiatrix/PEA, Guild Hostess
-- Corpse Sprite: Hunter/PEA, Guild Hostess
-- Corpse Floor Sprite: Dog, Default nude female, Guild Hostess
- Improved sprite Gfx: (by Brain): Smartrifle
- Improved sprite Gfx: (by Solarius Scorch): Plasma Sub
- Improved sprite Gfx: (by RSSWizard): Homefront Rifle (both), HMG ammo belt (PS and MAG), Super-Self-Charger, Hand Mortar, Shock'a'Fist, RPG Nuke Rounds, Jetbike, Red Scorpion, Purple Turtle
- Improved sprite Gfx: (Based on RSSWizard's work): Adv. SMG, Acid Grenade, HMG ammo boxes (PS and MAG), Armored Car turret
- Improved Gfx: Peasant/Camo body brought up to the new standard
- Improved Gfx: Smoothie Captive paperdoll, Merc paperdolls
- Improved Gfx: Recolored Corpses for Star Gods by Osobist
- Improved Gfx: Correct colored paperdoll/pedia images for Eridian Beastmaster by Garr Inc.
- Improved Gfx: other sprites
- Crafts now can carry unlimited number of 1x1 Auxiliaries (like unnamed dogs, cats etc) - up to max crew size.
- Added auxilary slots to many crafts, some stats readjusted to balance, incl. Airbus now back to original stats
- Updated old craft equipment to reflect new slots
- Bombs deal +50% damage (except Implosion bombs)
- Buffed Holy Warrior training, renamed to Iron Warrior
- Buffed HP bonus on player's Armored Cars and Tanks
- Buffed Lokk'Naar Avenger outfit
- Sniper-fooling code and being-spotted indicator added to armors: Holosuit, Nightblade, Unipuma
- All Chainsaws faster now
- Added melee attack option to both Shooty Guns
- Changed damage type on Fusion Explosives, Blasters, Baby Nukes and similar to Plasma
- Buffs to some Gray Spellbook spells
- Space Medipack (including Space Pod) and Medical Shield now restore Energy as well
- All turrets in the game no longer ignore Evasion
- Fix: truck and base defense turrets are now properly recovered
- Increased accuracy of all mind-control related weapons using the standard formula (eg. VooDoo Rod)
- Fixed lack of TUs on turn 1 of allied turrets/cannons in Hideout Defense and Govt Defense
- Some turrets no longer ignore CQC checks
- Replaced Mk.801s in Isolated Valley missions with Imps
- Puma Sisters event: much harder to get, fixed Pedia
- Lots of other fine-tuning
- Minor fixes (Raynerd map, aqua suit /eva gfx, neko grav actually flies now & more)

[Dostoevsky]

What's Apoc-style equipping?

Edit: also, 'sniper-fooling' and spotting notifiers for a handful of the stealth gear looks potentially pretty promising.

[Chiefwaffles]

From what I can tell without actually testing myself, the Apocalypse-style equipping has you equipping soldiers from base storage instead of from vehicle storage.

Soldiers are first equipped from base storage. When loaded onto a craft, that soldier tries to bring their equipment from the base into the craft. When the soldier is removed from the craft, they take their inventory with them. Craft can have their own extra stuff loaded too not tied to any soldier.

[Dostoevsky]

Oh my, that's quite the quality of life feature. I have been trying to double-up on equipment I made/bought so that if the transport was out and the base was attacked I wouldn't lose my loadouts, so if I'm understanding right should cut down on my equipment needs quite a bit.

[Aoi]

I feel like this change is going to turn from me losing a few million in equipment every time I get a grenade thrown into my craft to having at least one person in every battle running out of ammo...

[Salmeuk]

From what I can tell without actually testing myself, the Apocalypse-style equipping has you equipping soldiers from base storage instead of from vehicle storage.

Soldiers are first equipped from base storage. When loaded onto a craft, that soldier tries to bring their equipment from the base into the craft. When the soldier is removed from the craft, they take their inventory with them. Craft can have their own extra stuff loaded too not tied to any soldier.

this might solve my long standing issue with the re-assignment of optimum loadouts. but it also might bring another set of similarly annoying problems on the same theme of keeping track of minuscule things

[Mathel]

I like this. I like having my gals have personal equipment, and it gets annoying when I have to switch craft and then there is stuff missing since I forgot to bring enough of something (Such as bows).

[AzyWng]

Sounds nice. All the more reason for me to start playing XPiratez again - though I'm actually not 100% sure how best to make use of the new inventory system - different missions demand different gear, after all.

I guess at the very least I can make sure gals all have emergency/backup weapons and some healing/restoration items.

[Rince Wind]

Once I am in the midgame I try to have different teams for different missions. One base does the underwater stuff, a few gals (might be on the main base) that just do the space missions (because you don't need many for most missions there). Some missions I just ignore because I don't usually have a lot of some of the soldiertypes.

[Dostoevsky]

Yeah, I generally set up different bases specializing in different mission types. One for underwater, one for space, one for undercover (sometimes overlapping with my lokknar cave base), one or a more for the traditional big fights, etc.

As things open up / resources permit, have troopers dedicated to fighting certain factions, e.g. a laser squad, ballistic squad, etc.

This new style of equipping sound like it'd be able to handle keeping backup equipment fine though, so having some laser rifles squirreled away is feasible.

Edit: Booting up my old save, I'm realizing one drawback to this is that I'd be doing initial equipping from the base screen, which means trawling through the entire loot pile instead of the curated craft stockpile from before. Probably some incentive for me to more aggressively cull all the junk old weapons I hoard, hah.


And further edit: I dropped a weapon mid-mission to swap to something else, sold the relevant weapon type at mission end loot screen, and turns out I sold the one that was in my hideout. That's a problem...


One more unto the breach, dear edit: Checked on the discord, and it's acknowledged as still working out the kinks. So probably best to steer clear of this option for a little longer.

[Robsoie]

Does that new equipment stuff mean that items are completely bound to the gals you assign it to ?
After a couple of gal were wounded, when i wanted to assign the weapons to other gals i noticed they were nowhere to be found in the ship equipment ?

Anyways, looks like i got lucky with random events

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Could come at a better time, after those 2 consecutive huge government fines.

[Dostoevsky]

The way it seems to work is that gear equipped to a unit will temporarily be assigned to the vessel as long as they're crewed to it - the ship equipment screen will be split between the crew gear (the 'raw' number) and then a +X number showing how many additional you have assigned regardless of crew.

So in practice, yes, it is 'bound' to the gal to the extent that when they are no longer crewing the vessel it unassigns it from the vessel inventory, though a more accurate description is not that the gear is bound so much as it's kept at base unless needed on the vessel for equipping a specific occupant.

[Robsoie]

As it's been a lot of version i haven't played xpiratez, there are some stuff that i need help with

- government fines ( -100000$ each), i thought it was when you attacked a government landing ships, but as i have avoided doing so in the last couple of month, are there other reasons to get those again.
- "big rocks" , i see 169 of those in my stores, and they're selling them at -5000$ credits each, what is going on ?

[Chiefwaffles]

For the most part, negative sell prices indicate that something is... a bad thing, for lack of better words. Generally things that you actively do not want to hold in your stores have negative sell prices, indicating the cost it would take to get rid of the thing in question.

Big rocks take up large amounts of storage space. I think they can be broken up by a Runt task you unlock pretty early on though; minecraft maybe?. Government fines (and the tax things you get from dead civilians in missions) I believe both have an upkeep cost, meaning they cost you money every month they're in your stores.