Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Played a game of assault. Three soldiers left by round four due to unlucky chryssalid spawning. After hiding out in an entertainment room for many turns, a snakeman with a blaster launcher blew everyone up.

[Kyzrati]

After hiding out in an entertainment room for many turns, a snakeman with a blaster launcher blew everyone up.

That'll teach you to hang out in the entertainment room when you're supposed to be looking for the command center =p

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Looking for a command center is nowhere near as enticing when there is an unscouted, snakeman/zombie/chrysalid infested, and generally unsafe path to it.

[coolio678]

I want to try modding something, but first I would need to be creative, learn how to do so, and have the focus to follow through on the idea. Maybe it'll be something I'll work on.

[Crazy Cow]

I want to try modding something, but first I would need to be creative, learn how to do so, and have the focus to follow through on the idea. Maybe it'll be something I'll work on.

Focus is the hardest by far, trust me, and we're all here to help you out whenever you get stuck somewhere. The only thing you need to do is ask yourself a question: what isn't in the game that you want to be?

[coolio678]

I want to try modding something, but first I would need to be creative, learn how to do so, and have the focus to follow through on the idea. Maybe it'll be something I'll work on.

Focus is the hardest by far, trust me, and we're all here to help you out whenever you get stuck somewhere. The only thing you need to do is ask yourself a question: what isn't in the game that you want to be?

well, I started reading through the modding guide, but not before getting distracted and making this bad boy right here for the modding notepad's icon

[Crazy Cow]

Oh, damn! You already released M3! I completely missed that ;p
Let's get my little project underway, eh?

[Kyzrati]

I want to try modding something, but first I would need to be creative, learn how to do so, and have the focus to follow through on the idea. Maybe it'll be something I'll work on.

Focus is the hardest by far, trust me, and we're all here to help you out whenever you get stuck somewhere. The only thing you need to do is ask yourself a question: what isn't in the game that you want to be?

well, I started reading through the modding guide, but not before getting distracted and making this bad boy right here for the modding notepad's icon

Oh, damn! You already released M3! I completely missed that ;p
Let's get my little project underway, eh?

Huh? Where you see that? The forum still says M2, which is where we're at. M3 isn't coming until the R8.3 update, which is still in the works. I want to accompany it with a TON of examples of how to do lots of fun things with modding, so that's taking a while, since while scripting all these things I'm also updating the game to fix errors (in things no one knows about yet, anyway ) and implementing/updating features for the SA system. (Life is also really slowing down progress lately...)

[Crazy Cow]

will be included in M3

Oh... read that as "is included in M3," and coupled with the EmptyMod I thought it was already released ;p
The EmptyMod is what I wanted anyway.

[Kyzrati]

Yeah, it *will be* in M3, but I thought I'd release it early since it's already done and usable. Good place to start a new mod for anyone who's familiar with the system already, e.g. Andrew

[Crazy Cow]

More of a request than anything else, but I was wondering how hard it would be to add damage resistances to armor. I was (among other things) putting together specialized ammo for sniper weapons that would tear up unarmored targets, and... I can't really do that ;p I imagine an entity would have resistances equal to racial ones averaged with armored ones, but if it's too much of a hassle to do then I can live without.

[Kyzrati]

Request received... processed... retroactively implemented!

Good news: This has been in the game since the beginning. The X-COM mechanics are 100% complete, and this feature was an original part of the game (different armors protecting you more/less against certain attacks). Define as many materials as you want (materials.xt) and assign them to the armors (armor.xt)--material properties determine resistances.

Racial resistances are currently overridden by worn armor rather than stacking/multiplying, by the way (since naked humans themselves have no resistances this is not yet an issue).

[Crazy Cow]

Ah, okay. I figured that there wasn't anything of worth in materials.xt; guess I was wrong ;p

[Crazy Cow]

(since naked humans themselves have no resistances this is not yet an issue)

They actually have a vulnerability to all melee damage types and AC damage, whatever that is.

EDIT:
Ah, fuck. Posted instead of cutting the quote :|

[Kyzrati]

Oops, you're right. I forgot about that (did that stuff last year--my does time fly). Naked humans *do* have [negative] resistances (that's for civilians), though not the normal racial kind that you might think would stack with armor, like a carapace or whatever an alien might have. Combining resistances could be something to add for aliens wearing X-COM-designed armor later on, when some of them join your or something like that.

"AC" is acid damage (celatids), which hurts like hell ;p