Lets plunder in XPiratez 0.99J6b

[Slavegal]

Alrighty, mates! We are not going to get raped in the first month hideout defense mission, hence Jack Sparrow can be the best pirate ever seen somewhere else!

Spoiler

We pick a chill place on Ukranian soil

And here be thy hands, all escaped lunatics them.

Our mystary tree and 3 brainers available to work
Visit town, call a meeting and recruit - made it, I think

Our first mission gear. And aRmOr. Get get a nice lategame pistol with 3 ammo clips...

First research gets done

And first civilian shipping intercepted

As always, a greeting committee. We skipped the first turn to avoid reacto fire and went inside the ship to let them come

And come they did
We are carrying a daze weapon and a kill weapon in hands cause the live specimen are abot 10 times more worth

They are Academy Nurses, this one with a stun baton and a las pistol, good catch

Went inside our glider and got company again

Its a guy with a varmint rifle

We spot another one hiking and hide

The guy reaches us but misses, another guy stands up again. Daze wears off.

XPiratez has a new movement mode - sprint. You burn more energy but use less TU. Its very useful for melee barbarians
Like our gals

Sadly, you dont have enough TU to reach all of them, especially those that pop out of the night

Luckily he had no gun and could not reach us. Next turn and we spot another hobo with a laser

We break LOS and he wanders off. The guy closer to us, hit us but did only daze damage.

Much booty was had. One nurse died due to bleeding caused by fistycuffs. Handles are much safer.

Gals get medals. Like this one... It was necessary

Live nurses go for 15k, thats a bunch
I ransom them off to get 200k for a brainer, we now have ~0 money

Research :>

Ever expanding list of the unknown

We now can make a battle flag :D
But require 20 clean skulls :D

Its an armor type, which gives stat boni
And looks fabulous

... Hawt ...

Second ship gets lost

Research allows us to recruit peasants, cheap and gay

More research for next armor style

And I think I picked Culture and something else...

 

[Slavegal]

And here, on this Excel Sheet, you can choose your gals weapon and armor
w1 is the older sheet, w2 is the new for weapons, a2 for armor

https://1drv.ms/x/s!AgcosZAGmWV3ceh2DnSJnO-k0oM

Its in readonly mode right now though

 

[lightbane]

Alrighty, mates! We are not going to get raped in the first month hideout defense mission, hence Jack Sparrow can be the best pirate ever seen somewhere else!

You madman! Even your writing is poor pirate-style! I don't know who you are, but your lp is going to be awesome, or crash and burn. Either way, a new version is incoming with new playable units, so watch out.

Anyways, let's see how it goes. I think you should get slave soldiers for proper Codexers to join. It will be most fitting.

 

[orcinator]

Oh hey, they removed the "feature" where half your starting crew are spooky ghosts.

Spoiler

like in another LP that may or may not be done by me
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/426033889/#q426036580

I don't know who you are, but your lp is going to be awesome, or crash and burn.

More likely it'll just not get finished as interest peters out or OP realizes how long it'll take.

And here, on this Excel Sheet, you can choose your gals weapon and armor
w1 is the older sheet, w2 is the new for weapons, a2 for armor

https://1drv.ms/x/s!AgcosZAGmWV3ceh2DnSJnO-k0oM

Its in readonly mode right now though

Just name one "Hoe with a shotgun" and give her a shotgun.

 

[AgentFransis]

Note that sprint (ctrl left click?) doesn't allow your reaction stat to operate so you draw more interrupt fire.

Citation needed. As far as I know the reaction fire formula only takes into account the reactions stat and remaining TU of both parties. You should actually get less reaction fire when sprinting since you expand less TUs. What it does do is not stop your movement when an enemy is spotted so you can potentially sprint to your death if not careful.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Gonna visit this thread every weekend. Already see you cut the crap out and go to the juicy parts.
I tried this mod and since 0,99c? Dioxine put this ugly font in it. Just why. And what's the deal with pilgrimages? Even more stone-age-like starts? Need to learn how to start missions in this mod...
Also - more animu :vomit:

 

[Slavegal]

 

[Slavegal]

Alright, we left with an escaped shipping line that now acshually came back!

Spoiler

But it escaped again...

But before it escaped, I equipped teh squad with armor.
This is imo Dioxines autistic oversight here, in new versions of XPir your gals have a strong morale drop every turn
13% of your current morale strong, plus some flat combat stress like another -3
Your gain is about 6% of your bravery... You do the math.
Interestingly, he probably forgot to take away your starting castaway armor flat bonus!
So even if you camp indefinitely, your gals dont go below 70 much!
Neat little tactics like shooting unlim ammo lazers from doors and camping become viable again.

oasis can go down to 38 morale in new armor but now he can carry more stuff. Also Cutlasses for everyone! And a saber.

Nr 3 of 300...

Its a Manta, so it also escapes... where is my money gonna come from...

Next day, special event

Before we reach it, we finish doge research. Note the 40 power per bite.
Doge has 150 accuracy and about 100 TU. For 10 tu per attack, thats about 400 points of potential cutting damage!
If only it gained stats... And wore armor...
I want to use it to see how Sniffing works.

Another brain stuff, its a 4 leaf research tree

And with Culture we can make CUTE pirate outfits!

Anyway we land, skip a turn and take STUN damage! Wtf?
Turns out its too hot to be naked... But! The enemy takes stun damage as well. We can outsit them!

Who is dis guy anyway. G.O with a shovel and russian vodka... Building communism!
The cattle prod is a 2hander, we need to drop our main for 2TU before using it

Enemies go berserk in the 3rd

But we lose sweethearts too!

Due to some stims at the ship, we outlast them and the mission ends.

One surrendered.

It would be beautiful if we'd get stats for doing nothing, but alas.

Whats the Guild?

Night Ops Medals and Sleepytime

Brians too much

I want to sell them all to get another Brian for 200k but when do you get another chance to research Guild Team Leaders?

Right of the bat, next mission. And it seems to be a toughy.

We will make it there at night, so check out, fly away if anything nasty roams around.

Our new dresses are smashing! The stat boni, hmmm.

The Pirate and the Blackhat are the only ones that allow for some morale to remain on oasis and orcinator
We'll probably go with the Pirate for the strong melee boosts

While scrolling around I find out that we cant build Barrack and are stuck with 10 runts who make thingies
We need Builders Hall contacts, but how?

See you soon, qt314s

 

[orcinator]

Anyway we land, skip a turn and take STUN damage! Wtf?
Turns out its too hot to be naked... But! The enemy takes stun damage as well. We can outsit them!

Ah the vaping forest, free captures unless the enemies are immune to gas.

Another brain stuff, its a 4 leaf research tree

I vote for researching Cunning for GROG

I want to sell them all to get another Brian for 200k but when do you get another chance to research Guild Team Leaders?

They're pretty common, I immediately sold every Team Leader until year 2 since they don't offer any interesting research topics.

While scrolling around I find out that we cant build Barrack and are stuck with 10 runts who make thingies
We need Builders Hall contacts, but how?

Instead of doing ANAL, go to the research menu and press Q to use the search function. Pretty damn useful for figuring out what's useful and what's not.

 

[lightbane]

Neat little tactics like shooting unlim ammo lazers from doors and camping become viable again.

*Dioxine's sperging intensifies* He's quite against camping and that's why the game encourages charging forward like a retard towards enemies with full TU at turn 1.
Worse, he checks lps of his game so expect these things to be patched out.

Nr 3 of 300...

Oh, it will be way more than that.

Note the 40 power per bite.

Also, Strength of the creature is not included here, but it is applied in the damage formula.

I want to use it to see how Sniffing works.

Kina like these handscanners but built-in and consumes Morale to use. Note that now you can use left ALT ket after using the radar to see in the Battlescape screen arrows showing more precise information.

Turns out its too hot to be naked... But! The enemy takes stun damage as well. We can outsit them!

Lovely when the overdesigned , annoying weather effects takes out enemies too.

Due to some stims at the ship, we outlast them and the mission ends.

"That's not how a pirate fights, AARGH!"

By the way, thanks for including me in the pool, but I didn't have a chance to think abouta cool name. Thankfully the game's name generator rocks.

It would be beautiful if we'd get stats for doing nothing, but alas.

Nope, because of "REALISM!" (nevermind the setting), you have to do specific stuff like throwing to train throw, or use medikits to train Bravery.

Brians too much

I recommend the dark powers of save-editing to spare your suffering for the first year. Also, focus on captures, prison space is limited and once you're done with them you can focus on more important stuff. Researching weapons is important too.


EDIT:

Consider having your parrot or doge/es carry armed explosives for improvised bombing and kamikaze soldiers. They're quite effective. Peasants are also cheap enough to be used as disposable scouts and suicide bombers as well.

 

[Average Manatee]

Note that sprint (ctrl left click?) doesn't allow your reaction stat to operate so you draw more interrupt fire.

Citation needed. As far as I know the reaction fire formula only takes into account the reactions stat and remaining TU of both parties. You should actually get less reaction fire when sprinting since you expand less TUs. What it does do is not stop your movement when an enemy is spotted so you can potentially sprint to your death if not careful.

IIRC (reading some stuff during OpenXcom development) sprint actually increases your defense against reaction fire by temporarily increasing your reaction stat. But maybe it wasn't implemented since the less TUs spent is enough. I'll test when I get home.

It definitely can't disable your reaction stat, otherwise everything looking at you would immediately expend all TUs shooting at you.

 

[agris]

I didn’t know XP was an anime mod - is this an optional thing, or is the creator a legitimate neckbeard?

 

[Slavegal]

Oh the creator is a legitimate special something!

 

[Slavegal]

They're pretty common, I immediately sold every Team Leader

Thats good to know

go to the research menu and press Q to use the search function

That doesnt work, I just get a filter through available research, as far as I can tell

does your spreadsheet autopopulate from memory or saves, or are you entering changes manually?

Some of it is parsed, so of it by hand
The damage is basically = dmg_per_attack * nr_of_attacks_per_full_turn * accuracy

Also, Strength of the creature is not included here, but it is applied in the damage formula.

citation needed

Consider having your parrot or doge/es carry armed explosives

Seems like a waste of a spot on a tiny 6 woman craft though.

 

[Average Manatee]

Tested and can confirm that there is no bonus or penalty to reactions while running. If you would normally be reaction-ed on when you have 21 TUs left (in my case), it will happen when you have 21 TUs left while sprinting.

That doesnt work, I just get a filter through available research, as far as I can tell

It's Q while on the geoscape globe screen, not the research screen. Q searches through windows like research or manufacturing but on the globe it lets you see the tech tree.

Seems like a waste of a spot on a tiny 6 woman craft though.

It is, but in the early game it's normal to take wounds and only have 5 or less girls available.

 

[orcinator]

It's Q while on the geoscape globe screen, not the research screen. Q searches through windows like research or manufacturing but on the globe it lets you see the tech tree.

Oh, right. I actually go to research then middle click on a topic to get to the viewer.

 

[lightbane]

citation needed

Dioxine himself mentioned that, about the werewolf's stats not looking impressive but that being because Strength was not included in the formula. Speaking of: Watch out with transports, according to the latest comments, transports with good doors and/or without ramps are rare, because Dioxine hates camping and you should rush the enemy ASAP, so it's perfectly okay for the enemy to have a tank step into your vehicle and kill everyone before you can react.

 

[lightbane]

Just for fun people, have one of Dioxine's rants about the evils of camping playstile:

Spoiler

Judging from your comments about campers you don't prefer prudent game style, and because of that personal preference you are forcing everybody to use essentialy zergling rush tactic with high losses. Everybody should play like you, and goal is achieved by designing most of the transporters suitable only to your playstyle.

Don't judge because you will be judged. Like I said, there is a whole world between the 2 extreme cases of all-in camping and all-out charge, so "forcing everyone to play like I do" is simply a silly accusation. Especially since I cannot really play this, as I know too much (which is sad). You're dead wrong; I know much about camping because I know this tactic throughout. I also know that someone not used to offensive tactics will take severe losses until he learns how to fight (or quits), which will be hurtful to ego. [Maybe this sounds like "git gud" but frankly, holding such view is like saying that penalty for passive play in football is railorading into actually running across the field and thus losing the ball.]

Camping is of course the safest solution, but time consuming; in its extreme, it leads to player never leaving their ship and waiting for the enemies to come single-file nearby to kill or capture them. Because, why take any risks at all? (Maybe because of player's self-esteem? Naw, this cannot be counted on). In real situations, this could never have happened as overt camping is obvious to the enemy unless they don't even suspect your presence. But here we have a super dumb enemy and no possibility of bad stuff actually happening, no matter how long a player draws on what is supposed to be a quick raid-and-grab against a superior force. I could have been smug and go the same way the OG did (and many other games on the genre, like JA2) and simply remove most of campable spots. But that'd be boring, wouldn't it... My goal is not to make camping impossible but to put a suitable price on this tactic, to even out the massive advantage it gives to the player, so the decision to camp would be a risk/reward deal, not the default smart choice, and the camping itself should require taking more considerations - in comparison with open fight, camping is currently too predictable and thus, too easy. Camping is valid as tactics, but my career as a mod designer opened my eyes to the phenomenon of compulsive camping I described in the beginning of this paragraph. Since it is supposed to be a combat game, not a feelgood app, I need to take steps to counter such (ab)use. I am not under the delusion that I will end camping, nor do I intend to, I just need to add a price tag to it. Wouldn't want players to become fat and lazy!

 

[Average Manatee]

I mean, he's right.

I've killed 90% of the enemies on TFTD terror missions without having a single soldier spend a turn outside the transport.

 

[Slavegal]

Camping of of course bad mkay, but the way to solve it is by giving the AI more brainstuffies before pressing the time-limit button, here as morale decay.

Dioxine himself mentioned that, about the werewolf's stats

Weredoge has specificially strengthApplied: false. Doge has no strenghtApplied at all, so it might be or might not be, that is the question!
Whats the default Str bonus though? 0.1 multiplier?

 

[Slavegal]

Underway to mission, brians call
YASSSS QUEEEEEN, 1M of slave bucks per month though... Must be one hot instagram hoe

Great names for this absurdistan postapoc setting

Looks good for melee

First negro spotted, its too risky though
The dozzing guy is the govt agent, are they on grog?

After hiding in the craft and the AI wander around aimlessly, the gals get tired and get to pillaging
The negros seem to be harder to stun than normal humies

Its a 'Baller' kek with a machete! @Cleve!

Wondering why I can see the guy from far, I realize that the lights actually extend LOS, which is bad for me...

My sexy butt stayed in the ballers sight and he ran over. Lucky for him, a second baller appeared just a AgentFrances was about to prod him. Agent had to run away to proced with some house clearing.

Ballers are angery but dummies. They wander around until killed.

Here I realized that my calculation sheet on firearms is wrong. The mini laz should have 80 acc but it seems when a specific multiplier for acc is absent, the game uses firing. So 80 * the gals 60 firing /100 /100 gives us a sad 58. Its not too bad considering we can pew pew pew as much as we want...

One of the NBA professionals tries to encircle us! It was probably just dumb luck htough

There are 2 of them! We hide!

Hiding leads to them waking up. But I took all their machetes.... So all they could do, is tyring to punch through 20 armor on Ubers...

House clearing gets Intense when a baller storms our position, I was scared!
Unknowing even to me the gal had enought TU to react with a cattle prod XD single hit, full stun

Another negro next turn manages to swing at AgentF. He si getting proded real good.

A baller with a pistol ran inside the shacks... Another stunned one wanders around there too

AAAAAAA, the gal sent to help is getting shot at from behind

lightbane either got missed completely or uber skin tanked the 20 avr damage of cheapo pistols
He overreacts and goes for the revenge kill.

It was an old revolder, 26 dmg avr I think

orcinator grabs the last one drunk negro

I might have to look for items that train Bravery because the morale drain is serious.

Govt agents are nice sum.

This might be AgentF

Geejus, before we reach the base, another mission, I aint complaining though. More tasty prisoners for us.

Trying to get moar moneys for another Brainer slut

And the lore, robotic guard you say, eh?
First time playing XPir is fun

We manage to land at night

Its awfully quite till we find a scantly clad boy, he has a pistol though
The stun baton goes up the butt

Blackmarch Pistol, it has Auto fire, MotherM doesnt know it though

THE ROBOTIC CURSE
it seems not to move or do anything

Long story short, you have to look up online what to do...
Grab a Hammer
When I played it first time, I tried my whole arsenal and it didnt bulge, I didtn have a hammer

The dazed and confused boy is wandering around wondering why he is so sore

Gangrape

Secret brian stuffies, nothing for macho uber gals

We do find a money bag?

Seems to me that Tower missions are an easy money source

I dont remember who got the medal, might be AgentF again

A bannerman, sorry, bannerqueen might become a Must to restore morale

Looking for morale booster. Smokes are a last resort because of health damage, which would lead to hospital stay

Minimal morale boost and expensive

Till next time, on landlubber adventures!

 

[AgentFransis]

citation needed

Dioxine himself mentioned that, about the werewolf's stats not looking impressive but that being because Strength was not included in the formula. Speaking of: Watch out with transports, according to the latest comments, transports with good doors and/or without ramps are rare, because Dioxine hates camping and you should rush the enemy ASAP, so it's perfectly okay for the enemy to have a tank step into your vehicle and kill everyone before you can react.

Don't be daft. There's even a bootypedia article that tells you to not get out of the craft on turn 1. Usually the tank thing won't happen and there are precautions you can take if expecting tanks like bringing your own tanks or a sentry gun to block the ramp. Also tanks aren't the fastest so I often could get my gal with a rocket launcher to kill it before it could react. I do still use the door transports to keep my stuff safe. Best transport with doors carries 12 gals, which I feel is enough anyway.

 

[lightbane]

Weredoge has specificially strengthApplied: false. Doge has no strenghtApplied at all, so it might be or might not be, that is the question!
Whats the default Str bonus though? 0.1 multiplier?

No idea what is the bonus, it varies. As for the werewolf, at least this was the case in earlier versions. Hard to tell when stuff is being constantly tinkered with, especially once it becomes available to the player (such as the tamed werewolves, a thing which made regular 'wolves suffer a small modification IIRC for balance reasons).

reat names for this absurdistan postapoc setting

Yeah, the lore is awesome. Australia is still a deathzone though.

First negro spotted, its too risky though
The dozzing guy is the govt agent, are they on grog?

No idea if you noticed, but you can use the middle button of your mouse to see an enemy's paperdoll, thus check their weapons. Clicking with the same button again opens their Ufopaedia page, if you have researched them. If you don't have a mouse with said function though... Tough luck. Allegedly they're working on it to make this more compatible.
As for agents, researching them if you don't need the money is a good idea.

I might have to look for items that train Bravery because the morale drain is serious.

Medikits and healing items (only those that can only be used on someone else besides the user though) work, as well as letting an unit go crazy and recover.

Long story short, you have to look up online what to do...
Grab a Hammer
When I played it first time, I tried my whole arsenal and it didnt bulge, I didtn have a hammer

Explosives such as Molotovs work, as well as guns of any kind if you get a good roll. Melee weapons also work if they can auto-attack, such as the chainsaw. The explosion of the robot is always harmless though, at least for Gals.

Seems to me that Tower missions are an easy money source

They're meant to be.

bannerman, sorry, bannerqueen might become a Must to restore morale

Considering how long it takes to get the skulls, by then you'll have maxed out the morale stat of your primary team, a thing which has remained consistent in all versions so far. A morale stat of 80 or higher IIRC makes you immune to morale decay, barring external factors.
The issue though is getting tired from playing so many battles. Skipping missions from time to time is recommended.

Minimal morale boost and expensive

Booze always works.

 

[orcinator]

Trying to get moar moneys for another Brainer slut

Sell the expensive ones instead of the cheap ones, but not hostesses (or hoes or maidens) since those can eventually be made to earn money while the cheapo dudes can be enslaved. You'll probably need a second or third prison very soon due to a "recent" change.

Considering how long it takes to get the skulls

You should get one from the codex choice. Skulls are also harvestable from certain enemies

 

[Slavegal]

A peasant woman arrives, just checking the stats, they seem to be about what original Xcom soldiers were.

A Quality Mod - Research

We now can produce for profit, 100k is 1 brainers upkeep...
We also buy 10 runts after selling slaves

Some shipping lands in cities and disappears...

Small fish lands

We now carry smokes and booze for emergencies

And we start dead in a corner, a good start

Weird things already litter the floor

Literally...

We drop a guy and take wounds on enemy turn! Wtf, its night...

Be aggressive, be be aggressive! Too many unreachables though, we fall back

2 AIs wander to us

But right there I realize that the Weird Thingies are a light source!
You just can see it with night vision turned on

Guy with what looks like a nasty shotty walks over and we are tight on energy...

Last ditch effort, or someone bites the dust

We lucked out in the screen above and nab the last male gazer here

Despite strong bandage use, only oasis gains BRA

Everyone goes Vet, I wish the medals did some gameplay stuffies

And can now recruit hawt chicks

I sell EVERYTING for more Brainers...

MotherM is out for 20 fucking days.............. We need barracks soon

Cruel research allows us to recruit found gals

With MotherM out, a cute DOGE takes her place

It looks like we are at -600.000 per month, roffles.... Expand or Die

A special even triggers and we are off to earn our keep

At night... which is a mistake...

Dogo tile

We stun 2 right of the bat

One of them sports an Ol Shotgun, nasty...

And fuck, they have dogs... I hope they are not the same as our dogs... Cause 100+ TU and 40 dmg is srs bzns...

We drop one doggo and his brothers comes from behind and chews oasis a new bleeding hole

Dogo radar is tile perfect, coordinates (8,4), target kill
One has to use it first thing in the turn though, to avoid noise

And the dogo was right!

The dogo now is house clearing expert, except that Sniffing costs massive morale. Can be used like once in 4 turns

We advance, hugging walls and kneeling just one tile short of the corner
Trying to increase BRA by using rope on woke ratmen, its super ineffective...

Battlefield 7 concept art