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[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Didn't know he could cast spells, but it was fun anyway. This game I threw explosive's around and then used him as a medic. Did much better, and I think I got most of the peasants and all of the guards.

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Performance
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Orcs lost (3) -150
Humans killed (12) 120
Soldiers killed (13) 650
 TOTAL SCORE: 620


Stats, X-COM
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Damage Inflicted 1761
Wounds Sustained 7
Bloodloss Damage 15


Stats, General
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Fires Started 20
Objects Destroyed 33
Terrain Destroyed 383

[Crazy Cow]

Hmm... I'm going to make it so that you can't retreat until the last guard wave spawns, I think, and I'm going to be sure to make it clear what the Elder can do. The scenario will end if you kill every human, so if you want a full body count just hunt down peasants until you win.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

This mod is a lot of fun, but this will be my last playthrough for now. Basically rampaged through, lost an archer to a guard with a bow in a tower that I thought was clear. Very good mod, even at this stage.

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Performance
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Orcs lost (3) -150
Humans killed (11) 110
Soldiers killed (17) 850
 TOTAL SCORE: 810


Stats, X-COM
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Damage Inflicted 1963
Wounds Sustained 17
Bloodloss Damage 39


Stats, General
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Fires Started 9
Objects Destroyed 38
Terrain Destroyed 217

[Draxis]

Got a very good score in Agression; lost only 1 orc and probably killed every human:

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Some of the humans seemed to only be taking their turns every other turn.

[Crazy Cow]

I haven't seen anything like that; often the peasants will sit around and do nothing, but the soldiers always attacked me if they had the chance.
You're pretty close to killing them all, though; seeing as there are only four heroes in the game right now, though, you probably missed the Captain of the Guard (who comes in fairly late; I'm knocking the retreat time back to after he spawns to avoid this kind of thing ;p).
For the sake of avoiding clutter, though, do you think you guys could post in the thread over on the X@COM forums? I doubt Kyzrati appreciates all the spam here about my mod ;p

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Back on topic:

Will there be the possibility of land-based vehicles in the geoscape? And will we be able to combine vehicles into a squadron to attack at once; I.E ordering two interceptors to join up and attack a UFO at the same time?

[Draxis]

I feel like land vehicles would be to slow to operate on geoscape.

[Kyzrati]

I haven't seen anything like that; often the peasants will sit around and do nothing, but the soldiers always attacked me if they had the chance.
You're pretty close to killing them all, though; seeing as there are only four heroes in the game right now, though, you probably missed the Captain of the Guard (who comes in fairly late; I'm knocking the retreat time back to after he spawns to avoid this kind of thing ;p).
For the sake of avoiding clutter, though, do you think you guys could post in the thread over on the X@COM forums? I doubt Kyzrati appreciates all the spam here about my mod ;p

Meh, actually I don't really mind. This thread is quiet unless I've released something anyway, and more people hang out on Bay 12 than our forum for now, since I'm keeping ours so small. Bay 12 gets more general traffic anyway, so others can see what's going on without joining a new forum. I'm happy people are enjoying the earliest mod(s)! More people will be able to play the mod(s) without joining the forum to download it once it's complete and I upload it to the blog--better to not do that until we have a finalized version, though, especially since Crazy Cow found a bug in the game with his spell (maybe you *shouldn't* be telling people about the 'z' key until 8.1 ;p).

Will there be the possibility of land-based vehicles in the geoscape?

That would be easy to add, so I'd definitely put them in there, but logically speaking for the vanilla game they wouldn't be as useful since they're so slow compared to aircraft and the distances you have to cover to a target can be pretty massive. For mods they'd be great, since you could mod the geoscape to cover a smaller world/area and have land-based battles with opposing factions at a closer range.

And will we be able to combine vehicles into a squadron to attack at once; I.E ordering two interceptors to join up and attack a UFO at the same time?

Definitely will do joint interceptions, like Xenonauts. Besides, if they send in an Independence Day battleship, you'd better have a *lot* of cheap interceptors

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Will there be the possibility of land-based vehicles in the geoscape?

That would be easy to add, so I'd definitely put them in there, but logically speaking for the vanilla game they wouldn't be as useful since they're so slow compared to aircraft and the distances you have to cover to a target can be pretty massive. For mods they'd be great, since you could mod the geoscape to cover a smaller world/area and have land-based battles with opposing factions at a closer range.

That's exactly what I was thinking of when I asked that.

[Kyzrati]

Just trying out Aggression myself right now, and it sure is fun--Nice job Andrew! Everyone else should still probably hold off until we fix the strange bug hidden somewhere inside (unless you're interested in offering suggestions to improve it while under development... it's a bug hunt in the human town!), that and it's still undergoing lots of enhancements. Well balanced so far, though.

Some of the humans seemed to only be taking their turns every other turn.

That's the peasants. They tend to panic when you start killing off all the guards (and their neighbors!), and one of the standard panic actions in X-COM is to freeze and do nothing. There's no text describing that behavior right now, so it looks like they just sit there doing nothing.

[Kyzrati]

Victorious! Killed every last one of them. Lost a lot of orcs at the beginning to their wave of guards and heroes, but the Elder and Warlord made it through.

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[Crazy Cow]

Huzzah! That's all of them, certainly; there are certainly a lot of humans out there, and I found that the most annoying thing was chasing down the last groups of panicking peasants once all the enemy soldiers go down. The only way you could kill more things is if you get a graveyard or memorial in the latest release and smite yourself some undead.

[Kyzrati]

Oooh, smiting undead. I was playing a fairly old release since I had to debug it , so I didn't get to see some of the neat new features.

By the way, are any thread readers opposed to us talking about mods on here? Not exactly X-COM stuff, but it is X@COM (sort of), and the thread's generally quiet when I'm not doing a major release, anyway...

[Talvara]

I don't mind at all, Its great to see where the game is going in every direction

[Robsoie]

I discovered this X@COM recently and i'm having a lot of fun after a small period of learning how it worked and getting used to the ascii.

My best attempt so far was killing 15 aliens (when i can get my hands on alien weapons because most of the aliens are insanely strong and resistant to those weak bullets and rockets) , but still losing all my crew.

A few questions i don't see covered by the FAQ on the website :

- Are the aliens spawning constantly or are they all present on the map like in the original game from the start of the mission ? It looks like they're spawning.
edit : found the answer in the readme, not in the faq

There are only 4 aliens on the map at first, most likely found near their scout UFO, but more will gradually arrive (tending to concentrate around the UFO

- Linked to previous questions, are the aliens spawning indefinitively or are the scenarios actually winnable ?
edit : same

Kill all the aliens to win--it is not impossible, but you will be outnumbered and outgunned pretty quickly. You might be happy to know the number of aliens is capped at 1,000. Good luck.

- When i have a soldier on a different Z level from his target, is there a way to "lock" the alien, so i don't have to each shot press numpad+ or numpad- to retarget that alien again everytime i want to shoot again on it with the same unit, on the same turn ?

- How do you use a proximity grenade ? i can't seem to be able to prime/use/manipulate/intrinsic them and just throwing them do nothing at all.


edit : and the blaster launcher i found in an UFO
Once i understood you must use it with Aim , it reproduced exactly the same memories of the original XCOM : i still underestimate the size of the devastated area.

There was a muton that annoyed me, i decided to give a test to the blaster launcher as i thought i was far enough.
Conclusion : muton annihilated, 4 xcom troopers killed and my own tank destroyed by the blast