>OXCE?OpenXcom is a free open-source game engine for the original 1994 X-Com: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) and 1996 X-Com: Terror from the Deep games.OXCE extends OXC modding capabilities and is home to megamods like X-Piratez, X-Com Files, 40k ROSIGMA and more.>Gamehttps://www.gog.com/en/game/xcom_ufo_defensehttps://openxcom.org/downloads-milestones/>Modshttps://mod.io/g/openxcomhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/x-piratez/downloads (XPZ)https://mod.io/g/openxcom/m/the-x-com-files (XCF)>Resourceshttps://openxcom.org/forum/https://www.ufopaedia.org/https://xpedia.netlify.app/ (XPZ)https://xcf.trigramreactor.net/master (XCF)https://www.ufopaedia.org/Hidden_Features_(OpenXcom)https://www.ufopaedia.org/Ruleset_Reference_Nightly_(OpenXcom)Previous thread:>>2464946
>didn't terminate Black Lotus in time because it's been five months since the last time I had a chance at catching an alive Avatarwhat's gonna happen now
What are these guys a reference to?I don't have to actually fight them, do I?
>>2492313I hope we do, one day. They seem really cool.
>>2492313I thought those were just zombies. An early armored zombie was always a problem
>>2492460certain points don't really line up with zombies or even just the trooper variety, particularly the bit where they come and destroy all computers (???) and then leave. obviously, the zombos are here to stay. and lastly, an aesthetic point. it's hard to really say if this is the look dio really has in mind for them, but these guys strike me more like animated skeletons vs our chunky undead zombies, so that might also point to them being different
>>2492295Ayy base.
>unstable portal found>???>send a demon gal, why not>give her a cursed shotty and an assault rifle, idk>its a endless mansion>actually seems like a prince of persia palace, but ok>still huge>go to center tower, get zapped by ghosts, lose freshness>retreat to basement>all ghosts carry lanterns>wait, I can see their lightspot anywhere on map>lurk in the darkness of the basement, cannonball through corridors and rooms>hunt the lanterns one by one>slice ghosts with warp claws, shotgun if needed>actually feel at home in the netherworld backrooms as the resident monster under the bed>30+ ghosts down>rape scroll obtained Hm?
>>2492470>COME OUT, NEVILLE!
May as well ask here, trying to play enemy within but it keeps freezing after about 5-10 seconds at the main menu. I've tried disabling network access compatibility mode and disabling steam cloud and other shit like that, nothing works. Tried looking up any other solutions but I've come up with fuck all.Weirdly, enemy unknown seems to launch fine.
>>2492628Figured it out, for some fucken reason my VPN was fucking with the telemetry shit those cunts put in it
>>2492313>What are these guys a reference to? Some Doctor Who episodes.
i dunno why i feel so protective of the assault clones that cleo keeps sending me
>>2492296She really is peak. It reminds me I don't bring enough rockets or explosives to fights
>>2492776You can give them a real life. Make them start a band like a slice of life anime. Also they do work.
>>2492776>>2492786>making your assault clone gf laugh for the first time in her life>watching holovids with your assault clone gf and explaining the plot to her every four minutes>teaching your assault clone gf how to racially profile strangers>hiding in the bathroom while your assault clone gf smashes all the dinnerware in a fit of spontaneous, inexplicable rage>evading your assault clone gf as she hunts you down in your habitation block because you accidentally said her kill phrase>sharing an ice cream cone with your assault clone gfIt's a simple life full of simple pleasures.
I have enjoyed FMP and Files, but I'm cis, and not a weeb or a furry. Will I enjoy the hentai mod? Are the game mechanics interesting enough to make up for the setting? Is the crunch worth the fluff?
>>2492798What is rings "like saturn" supposed to mean in this context?Because saturn's rings orbiting earth would be completely different.That's more like luna had drifted inside its roche limit and got tidally churned into dust, except its albedo would be different and it likely wouldn't be one neat line in the sky from any vantage point on the surface.
>>2492776You should give them names at least. Be the parent to these poor girls that Cleo never was.
>>2492809okay
>>2492798What hentai mod?
>>2492837I think he means Piratez. In which case the answer is the mechanics are better than Files and so is the setting.
>>2492926i love the setting of x piratezthe lore and shit is very cool
>>2492928It makes me want to run a tabletop campaign in it. Just depending on what nation could change so much.
>>2492926>better than Files and so is the settingBut they're the same setting>>2492928Same, I can't help loving it. Wish we could have more nice things like it.
Any good layouts for a factory-base in XPZ? Just got factory and industrial printer researched.
>>2493317You're deep enough in the game to come up with a base layout on your own...It's not like there's a lot of design freedom with all the worker accommodations you're going to need.This is what I had in my previous game. It was okay except one of the 1x1 facilities between the printer and the factory had an annoying priority spawn point that was always a waste of time for whoever happened to spawn in there.
Why is Dio so afraid of catgirls? What does he know?
>runts found another 100 old boots underneath the hideout
OXCE badly needs a way to search through all your bases' stores at the same time. It's agony looking through every base one at a time trying to find which one I put all my ship engines in when I need them for a specific workshop process.
What is the best non-megamod mod?
>>2493918There isn't a search function, but you can list it all alphabetically, then click on a thing to find out where it's at.
>>2494026You can do WHATThanks anon
>>2493280>they're the same settingThere's a fuckload of direct 1:1 overlap, but a few hard sticking points For example, I've autistically tried to square the circle on the wild disparities in zombie lore between them and failed utterly but I'll still gladly call Earth Khemi in both mods.
>>2494145>the wild disparities in zombie loreAh but you see, you've been led down a wrong path by assuming that they're the same phenomenom in both games.
>>2494154
>>2493357Why have the armory?
Is occult stuff major in all playthroughs? I.e. do I have to assemble late game ghostbuster team in all routes?
>>2494286XEC nukes are fun.
>>2494313A what
>>2494321Retributor and imperator missiles.Nukes you can use on the battlefield.
>>2494325I forgot those existed. I switched to fusion explosives and I feel like I dont need to ask for more
>>2494026There is a search function, press q.
>>2494408>needThere's that word again...My right to bear nuclear arms shall not be infringed!
>>2492926>>2492928the setting is good but piratespeak should not have made into the UI
>>2494556Why not? It's good flavor.It's not like it fucks up the familiar UI in any way. it's just simple word replacements for existing buttons without changing their position, size or anything. Default keyboard shortcuts also work.
Any downsides to cenobite initiation?
Thank fuck for tanks. Those ninja guns sting like a bitch.
>>2492103What are you supposed to do on bandit airfield missions to deal with the gun turrets if you don't have an RPG?
>>2494609Don't do bandit airfield missions.
>>2494026holy shit, this is exactly what I was looking for that I had been asking in this thread a couple times in the past but never got an answer. bless you, anon t. a different anon
>>2494288can you access them? yes, even in no codexis it major in terms of the number of stuff you unlock? sort of yes, the entire occult tech tree seems to be available apart from specific codex-gated stuffis it necessary? never, as far as I can tell. not even in any of the main codex routes. I've gone up to finishing conqueror while not bothering with the shadowrealms
>>2494556do you ever hear that you're no fun at parties?
>>2494609flamethrowers (the short range version with 8x shots per burst) can take one down in 1-2 bursts
i love this fuckin girl
>>2494708Is that via a peasant route in Theban territory?
>>2494795NTA but i believe thats just a rev event, theres a bunch of them that grant elite troops like clones/girl guides/zoners etc.
>>2494609You can just shoot turrets with sufficiently big guns. Up from UAC minigun I'd say
>>2494795>>2494826yeah i started in calimonth 21, but 12 clones now
>>2494609If you have irl time to spare and a lot of apples or smokes with you, you can try melting it's armor bit by bit with chem rounds on various smgs or scoped magnum. Then you can eventually plink it to death with pistols if you want
>>2495139Depending on your available cover and its facing, chem blunderbus is amazing for that. Bit of a risk of getting the shit shot out of you though.
>finally got the heavy freighter research that's been blocking me for a while>upgrade my main troop transport straight from El Fuego to Leviathan>tripled my usual deployment limit>struggling to find enough useful members to fill the entire thing>my starting turn takes forever nowI'm suddenly starting to understand why the reboot X-Coms cut down their team sizes. I've started to just straight up leave half my crew in the ship because moving everyone out of it isn't worth the time anymore. I should make more tanks just so I have less units to move around.
>>2495340This is actually what I do too. 36 is generally way too many people even on the largest maps - however - I find it's very useful to have reserves on hand to deal with unexpected situations so I appreciate the huge carry cap.
>>2495340You can always stick tanks and other big units in there.
>>2495340That's why I never bother with 36 crafts. The 24 one is good enough for me, and that includes 4 hwps + 8 normal troops, 12 total.
>>2495340The largest ship feels like overkill for most missions but on those 3 to 5 phase long marathons I do like having all 36 dudes.
I crumpled a ninja base, 3 floors, ~230 dead. If it was midgame it would be a massive chore. With X-p guns the base just melted away.This wasnt the end of ninja war, right? I found no occult enemies, just lots of troops.
>>2495340You dont *need* to leave ship with all your people. Leviathan is a fortress on turns 1-3, pop up or down, shoot, go back inside.36 (or 20+4 tanks) is very useful for long or stiff opposition missions. I just keep the heavy infantry crew there and I send smaller teams for smaller missions. Besides leviathan, I have firefox with two tanks and some gals, fortuna with catgirls, kraken with lokks, convoy with light gal infantry, a zeppelin of human troops, and a airbus with gnomes. Each team has a niche
>>2495527>Besides leviathan, I have firefox with two tanks and some gals, fortuna with catgirls, kraken with lokks, convoy with light gal infantry, a zeppelin of human troops, and a airbus with gnomes.Damn that's crazy, 7 hangars just for different troop transports in one game? I just rotate different crew through one or two craft.
>>2496139Not that guy, but I maintain different teams for underwater and space, at least. Saves a lot of dicking around with armour switching.
>>2496161I said I rotate different crew through one craft so I can do that as well.Having 7 hangars worth of troop transports seems extremely excessive, especially if you have Fortuna. It can do everything.
>>2496164>Fortuna. It can do everything.Clarification: It can do every mission type those other craft can.But there's a few special cases none of them can do, like the stone age challenges and lategame IPL missions.
>>2496164>7 hangars worth of troop transportsYeah, I got frustrated with that bullshit and installed the garage mod.https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=13056
I was using the more hustle mod but I'm realizing that some of the down time is really good for getting your gals up to top killing machines. I appreciate some of the faster research though. I think I want to start another run, I was thinking red codex with grey captain but I believe that's chaos saint and I'm not sure if I should do that. Then again, true pirate fashion is to just say fuck it and roll with it.
Where do I start my new run in piratez
>>2496411the hormussy of course
>>2496337Uh, okay? That mod supports only one of the 7 craft mentioned, so that setup would still need 7 hangars?
>>2496139It's my first playthrough, gotta try them all. And they all have upsides and downsides, those that are just plain bad I replaced (the batwing STC thing, skyranger, medusa STC thing). Fortuna cant do deep space. Leviathan is better for deploying on first turn or staying inside on first turn, just more flexible. It is great for multi-episode missions because you can finish quicker with more gals and save freshness. Firefox was a better troop carrier for tanks, also great cover. Convoy was needed for pirate airfields. Zeppelin is spacious for lots of puny humans and can attack normie cities and zombie baits. Kraken is just too slow but the armor is silly good, sometimes it can catch up and unload its heavy plasma spitters, I have just enough lokks to man it. Gnomes just happen to be living in another base, they can have underwater capable bus for their stupid missions.
>>2496357red codex + lazy is chaos
>>2496781Krakens can go underwater and I have my underwater gnomes equipped with full mining suits on it, and yeah it rapes anything it can actually catch up to.Protop: Bait fast things that can chase your ships (i.e. with radars) with stuff like Brave Whalers and others they can't actually catch and lure them towards your lumbering Krakens
>hunting ninja jets with fighter pack>envoy spawns right next to them
Had an idea mid run and decided to mod in manufacturing ninja weapons to do a sort of ninja run, or at least have a team of ninjas amongst my girls.
>>2497391It's gotten a lot easier to make meme unit subtypes ever since they expanded the ability to add faux-classes and sub-types via "careers" and such in OXCE freeing up the relation between unit stats from armor. I'd like to see the major mods eventually decouple armor and non-defense/irrelevant stats completely at some point, but that would take effort.
Alright I think I've settled on Grey captain with red codex. Now all that's left to decide is where I want to base up and what path I want to take. I hear red codex is good for male touch.
>>2497545You're making me want to reroll.Stop. Cease.
how do you people do the game so fast?it takes me months irl to even pick a codexdo you ignore half the missions that spawn or are you all retired boomers who play 12 hours a day?
>>2497662If I play for 12 hours a day I can beat piratez in about 2 weeks IRL, that's just playing as normal doing most of the missions and researching everything a speedrun can be done even faster.
>>2496920My interceptor fist is now Dragon with two obliterator guns + Saber with two fusion torpedo launchers, plus two of whatever is quick enough or sits on a base near interception course, which may be brave whaler(lancers), fortuna(just a shield sponge with a laser and an avalanche), kraken, nightmare (two avalanches, some gun), claw or that one early heavy fighter which can take a plasma beam on board, forgor the name.Really like brave whalers and sabers
>>2497680Have you ever found an actually decent use case for lancers?I find they're not particularly useful because that range is usually a non-factor against the really dangerous things you might try to use it for like battleships because those have the max range anyway, and their damage potential is ass.I mostly use mine as baiters or, if there is actually big game to hunt, packing either 3x medusa or just 3x avalance and I try to retreat them asap after shields are down or the avalanches are launched
>>2497702My BW sits near pacific, it gives me speedy reach towards south pacific, asia to middle easy, siberia, arctic and canada. I feel it goes well with lancers because it gets three in a salvo, and one good shot takes down a fighter. Whaler can also chase a supply ship heading for an enemy base and wack it, and then outrun the escort or kill one escort too if it is lucky. Also it can take on anything medium from sludgers or academy, anything smaller from anyone, I think a terror dropship also goes down from lancer loadout. It is helpful in a pack going after a cruiser. Anything with shields is tricky.
>>2497662It took me like 3 months irl to get to mid game. In the next run I'll probably get there faster now that I know what I'm doing. The research tree is cool but you can waste a lot of time on it.
>>2497662I started in November. Ingame year now ends in 6, I'm stamping hellerium fuel capsules
>>2497702>Have you ever found an actually decent use case for lancers?I never built them on paper they look like they suck and come in too late to be useful but I should try them at least once. You can now adjust interception speed by pressing 1/2/3 so with slowmo micro maybe there's a use case.
I might do Japan again for my new game, maybe romanica depending on my path. I need to pick path, gals4lyfe or male touch? Are super slaves still useful without male touch?
i research for she
>>2497784You can't get the superhero outfits on male soldier route so your best bet will be hoping for special recruits as regular SS are pretty flimsy outside of male route. Of the two I'd recommend romanica since you get crusader outfits that really help survivability of your early slave soldiers
>getting restartitisHELP
>>2497942SG culling in durathread
Why is TFTD content still the meanest?And where are the Tasoth? I remember there was lizardpeople lore, implying there's a truce with pirates because of star gods occupation. It's hard to wish for more TFTD stuff but pirates and ocean (and the old gods) are inseparable. If theres a Chtonic branch of sorts maybe there can be tech to make ocean bases easier or which stops deep one attacks. Maybe ahem ally with the monsters, if you know what I mean? Shark girls? Octopus skinship promotions? Crab melee tanks? Molecular control based on smoke attacks? Cursed artifacts?
I did terminal terror and I get smuggler sewers every now and then, how do I get a real smuggler hideout? I need a live negotiator
>>2497942I hit midgame in a gold gold but I kinda wanna redo with the knowledge I have now. Plus the version updated. I was considering using the less hassle more hustle mod but I think I'll hold off for another run. Now my hangup is where to start and what recruitment path I want to take. I sorta want to start with a male hero but north africa is kinda gay and starting in hawaii means no shipping. Then I sorta wanna do gals but soldiers did some good work. I guess they still can, do you miss out on special male recruits of you dont do the path like the zone stalkers and the like?
>>2498113pretty sure negotiators can spawn on those smuggler ships - not the rimrider ones, just the normal smugglers ships
