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[Rolan7]

MUST... NOT... SPOIL... GAME!!!

Saaaaame, I still haven't watched Beaglerush's stuff (except for that one beautiful webm).  We are probably in the wrong place to avoid spoilers but people have been really great!  And I'm sure Beaglerush hasn't shown much plot stuff anyway.

[timferius]

Oh, this comes out right before my birthday, so I may even have funds for it!

[Urist Imiknorris]

Raise your hand if you're taking 2/5 off from work!

* Toaster raises hand

2/6 and 2/7 here.

[Rince Wind]

Yeah, glad to have Friday and Saturday off anyway (ok, I am a student with a part time job, so time is not that much of a concern).

[GiglameshDespair]

MUST... NOT... SPOIL... GAME!!!

SNEK KILLS DUMBLEDORE

[Flying Dice]

SNEK IS YOUR MOTHER

...AND DNA TESTS CONFIRM THAT BRADFORD'S THE FATHER

[Rince Wind]

MUTON JUST WANTS A HUG!

[XhAPPYSLApX]

Raise your hand if you're taking 2/5 off from work!

* Toaster raises hand

2/6 and 2/7 here.

I have to wait until later in the month to get it :/ (Around the 15th or somewhere near there)

But man, when I get it, I am so gonna start making my Van Buren mod, dammit.

[Jopax]

Conviniently enough, my semester ends on the 5th for the most part. Leaving the rest of February free.

Mwahahahahaha

*ahem*

Tho I'll have other stuff that'll need doing by then :C

[BFEL]

Holy, that's a pretty impressive thing to do.  Giving the most well known mod makers of your previous game access to it so that they can prep day one launch mods.

Well seeing as they seemingly stole the modding tools from the Long War Team, or at the least nabbed the concept from them, it isn't THAT far-fetched.

[scrdest]

Holy, that's a pretty impressive thing to do.  Giving the most well known mod makers of your previous game access to it so that they can prep day one launch mods.

Well seeing as they seemingly stole the modding tools from the Long War Team, or at the least nabbed the concept from them, it isn't THAT far-fetched.

Whaa? I mean, considering the tools are more or less the devkit, I don't see how LWT came up with that...

[Chiefwaffles]

Didn't you hear? LWT invented modding.

[kilakan]

Didn't you hear? LWT invented modding.

Nonononono, you got it wrong mah man.  LWT invented Devkits, proof is that Firaxis had to steal their coding so that they could actually develop the next game.  it's all like reverse engineering alien tech here man.

[BFEL]

Ok, clarification obviously needed.

As Beagle describes modding in X-Com 2, it works pretty much exactly like modding LW. Specifically .INI modding, and Beagle SPECIFICALLY mentioned the GameCore file, which is where you go when you want to spice LW to taste.

Notably, fooling around with the .INI's and the GameCore one in particular does NOTHING in vanilla, it is a feature wholly added by LW and that is what I meant.

[Mephansteras]

Well, first off that is just the most basic modding you can do. With the modding kit they're releasing you can do WAY more than that.

And, second of all that had to do with the multi-player ini syncing the vanilla game did. Long War just set it to actually use the ini files rather than use the hardcoded stuff vanilla was using. They didn't come up with the ini file or how that works, that's a very common thing in many games and clearly how Firaxis messed around with basic settings while developing the game.

The Long War team's success has way more to do with the hacking they did of the Unity files to actually change stuff in the game than it ever did due to the basic ini setting changes (which you could do with a hex editor easily enough in vanilla anyway. I did a ton of those.)