Lets plunder in XPiratez 0.99J6b

[Slavegal]

Also, openxcom has fucked up scaling. I was playing at 1440 x 900 previously, which is 16:10, letterboxed, and it was fucking up everything and I could not put my finger on it.
I turned the resolution into 1280x960 and everything is crisp and sharp. But if I go higher in the 4:3 resolutions, I get some weird distortions on the font outlines again.
But at least the fukcing curved effect is gone and the font outline is solid normal color now.

 

[Slavegal]

And the 10 moonshine for a shakeup ceremony for garbage hands cost about 50k if compared to the xgrog output we'd get if we ran that instead
1 xgrog sells for ~5k

So first you pay 50k for a trash hand and then another 50k for a 20 day holiday, and in the end you get still trash.......................................

 

[Slavegal]

No wait, thats x5 moonshine, so less than 10k! Thats acceptable.

 

[lightbane]

nd I liek Hanna

You discovered the alternate way to get guns for your craft, congrats! Now put some cannons onto your aircar and get hunting! Nothing except police cars of the civvie crafts can harm you. For bigger things, you'll need the airbike with the rocket launcher and a Loknar pilot.

Btw, I fixed the autistic fucking modder font! It feels like a gained 2 dioptres at least

If you did, please send file/instructions with the modifications, as I always wanted to change that but didn't know how. IN fact, I remember that someone asked for that in the forums and triggered Diox's autist modder rant.

Also, openxcom has fucked up scaling. I was playing at 1440 x 900 previously, which is 16:10, letterboxed, and it was fucking up everything and I could not put my finger on it.
I turned the resolution into 1280x960 and everything is crisp and sharp. But if I go higher in the 4:3 resolutions, I get some weird distortions on the font outlines again.

I use a resizable window in my case, seems to work good enough.

am willing to bet that these are as shit as hands, for double the price

Not really, their salary evens out and it lets you speed up your game without having to micromanage shit rookies for more time.

MM is gonna pray to hellerium charms and bait the heavy fire onto her shield

Protip: Even if it doesn't make sense, as long as you have one of these "gear items" stored somewhere, they work. You can have these bags in your backpack and will still do the trick, unless they specify you have to carry these on your hands.

bombardment continues, 2 magnalite guide our way

I always used the mortar and the assault cannon for bombardment, I didn't think the balista would be worth the effort, especially if you want captures.

seagull aircraft weapon

You killed nearly everyone lel. So much for capturing.

5 smelly rags is a third of an ARMORED SHIP HULL

Diox's reasoning: They smell so bad they occupy space!
They're also only useful to recruit freaks.

+1 throwing, 70 training missions to go!

Enjoy the soul-crushing grinding! Some mods, like the Ivanz ones, help with this IIRC.

word is, we can play even without a codex, our armored hull can prolly be replaced with the old figher hull

Not really, these two hulls are for different ships. Besides, without the codex, you won't be able to unlock the endgame ship that lets you go to the final battle. There's an alternate ship that can do that yes, but it's not worth it except for insane masochists.

guess id rather buy these than hands for 50k who need 20 missions to get into usable shape

They can work if you have money to spare and are tired of doing the same missions countless times.

 

[Slavegal]

Awrity, something finally lands

Spoiler

...its flying zombos

They dont open our doors either

We find a new friend

But have to leave early because we are taking stun dmg due to hot weather
after cutting some down

now this I'd rather raid but it escapes

soon

I tried it, its like a slow moving base radar, with a crew of 9
I do want it, but at 500k and hangar needed and the constant required micro - no thx

The captured ratmen dogo gives us an award ^^

More new missions yes

Encrypted disk research might have thrown this one

new car type escaping

Ah the old reliable

Daylight... fences...
New hands have no fear!

Its like Dioxine is actively punishing melee with these layouts...

We fail to stun this evasive cunny, but her boarding gun has about 80 cqc acc, we should be in the clear

Damn lokknarrs wanting to kill our captures
They do help though, I noticed the ninjas like to shoot at them instead of us

Yeah, worst map eva

Dang, AgentF about to go to the hospital for longer again?

The live ninja has a flintlock pistol, thank god and not something more srs
lightbane cant throw far enough

oasis and newhand find a camper

and lightbane and agentf just get lucky and dont get hit at all

bretty gud

VIP research

opens up some good sounding paths, like night gear

interdasting outfit

the sea version has reduced stun, down to -6 from -10, that would allow us to camp to our hearts desire
they cost 10 personal databses though and we only have 20, so i make only 1...

a quicky

y are the altarboys outside?... this is reaction fire guarantee and i have no shields................................ this is bad

orc gets hurt

sheena grabs teh priest

and we camp, forgetting again, that we dont have barb gear with shields..........

resulting in a half dead freak, thx me

19 day out after a quicky....

tuesday the 13th, more church shenanigans

but we want this pretty badly

so starved for crew that only 1 full vessel is operational

dejavu, temple raids are officially boring tedium

firing training

a freak in hiding?

the wrestler

as if...

I even forgot to equip the magna lites...........

Another one lands! But we have the airbus on the way back to base
we check it out with the car and 2 gals inside...

s c a r e d

i dunno why i shot the boy.............

tried chucking some nades at the maiden

she shots at us :>

good mission ^^

i need a gallery for id purposes

This thing needs 3 exq. lingeries to make and I have like 2...
I am tempted to cheat it together

Good touch is a heal, bad touch is a charm
On good gals its like 60 from BRA, 30 from STR = 90+ charm dmg per hit, say 40 armor for Guild security, *3 to morale = 150 morale dmg, right?

2 mission at the same time

and disappointing imagery

Hanna sells some heavy gunz, its decent, fire once a round, 2/5 bullets hit, 110 mean dmg
Its just like one Saber swing :>

Now this looks like cheating tbh, why play the rest of the game?

And this even more so...
Alien grenades in xcom were the same, 150 dmg, just flatten everything
At least we have to capture our victims here

single use rpg

kill main burn

Govt agents mission first,

It seem to be still populated with plain ballers

what a drity place

I dont even wanna post screens, they didnt have anything penetrating

Same goes for the cellar, go into TESTUDO formation, face wall, wait............

Cute 2 seater

Warehouse wars in the woods!

Long story short, 1 was caught outside the compound
Rest were shot with latex slugs near the shiny statue
None of them had guns that can punch through front shields

No info came out of it

More countries lore

I want to invade her mansion...
Timed mission, we have maid outfits, and we dont really need gear aside from some handles, at least for normal enemies

Will this solve our Heat problem in chainmail?

Da Bass

By my math, a round of firing chews away about 10 points of enemy armor
Trash?
Not that we can buy it :>

Second warrior, worse than the first, 64 TU, what are you? A peasant?

60 is the first to experience our double linked 25mm ship gunz

in hel

BANZAI

it was 2 lovahs, their destiny? slavery

what the fuck? -14? So if they land its aye-okaye? But shootin em is a nono?

Doge house

I didnt sell the govt agents, research baby

Bleh, our funding base is plunder

well well well

And they actually land, and again in freezing terrain...
But now we have enogh shawls for everyone and our first A-Team on board!

My shield is my castle

kewl tactics of running out, whacking someone and running back in
just be careful not to run around in someones view, who has a decent gun

buzzard has a blued machete, we want her live, land plox

Its a densely populated area

But we manage

the boss has a scary sniper pistol

Risky
Also, someone threw a grenade at us after I clikced end turn but not before they opened a door of the craft
Like, if the door remained open on their turn for some reason, it was strange and scary

This is basically worst case scenario, they open a door and it remains open, so they shoot inside

Here they just kill their broken scout

No, acshually they dont :>

Good moonshine allows us to cross into their ship

second buzzard with a handcannon

buzzard gets reaction handled by lightbane
some thugs get restunned

oasis gets stuck having discovered a scout with an ak camping

couple of glancing shots bounce of oasis and judge, as a rookie, get to have the honor of storming enemy positions!

We grab 2 raiders with shotguns
Enemy ship has a home kitchen xD, bunk beds, tv, etc

Pew

Note the 3 bklacked terrain tiles, no dmg on Judge Dredd

Good? If was fucking Perfect

next ship weapon, tech cleaver, magnum, good booteh

We need a workshop to make thinigies

Remove the plantation, dont wanna click around with it

RAMMING SPEED

ooh fugg! run away

too fat

gravballers

tell us about vodka

oh helloe there, sweet cider milk

eh, special mission niche

B O S S
like a tac vest with night vision, no pierce resist, shit evasion, trashbin, sadly

The shipping that we shot at, which hurt us, lands!

warmaidens with altraboys party

nastly little gurl

I hope the bitch on the right wont spot us in the night

She doesnt

Ship empty

Last stunning

Holy boatload, for such a trivial mission

Adv medpack, grrrl guide, runabout docs, assault guns
a good 1000k if we sell everything

NO TITS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

i love science *reddit*

Deep lore, the guild is star gods puppet

I still want some stylish armor...

baloons

1 000 000 for vaults.......... id rather throw the stuff away............

Turns out, you can see what workers do

Mutant Alliance points

throw some stones at acd drones ...
oh how i regret this decision...
should have killed the drone now

some rounds later, empty lab

horrible cqc combat situations, even in chainmail

fucking campers

long story short, this is round 50....................
no bughunt mode if only the drone is left! have fun looking for it in multistories buildings full of labyrinths and libraries, and its not like the drone is looking for you either, i ran around with magnalites for about 10 turns just trying to find it at any cost, would have reloaded if it hurt me, in no mood for that shit

Cider costs 25k a pop

And holy shit I have 400 apples and only 1 apple for cider? 400 * 25k = 10000k
CHA CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!
IM RICH BIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAATCH

just glossy magz

slaves suck, maybe a lasher will help

Having enough cider for a couple of months,
we build a new base.

1200k base
400k radar
200k barracks
100k vaults
400k ship
600k warriours
= not cheap, we have a couple of moneybags etc but its borderline

Have ot lookup how much dmg can we bring down on these ships, and how much HP we have.

AK, has something like a 10% chance to penetrate our chainmail gals frontally a bit, on a hit

old earth books xD

boyo

a squire? i want a squire

Shrine Maiden fails to become a freak again... spoiler me, do I still have a chance to roll freaks on maidens after 1 success or is it a waste of research?

I make the mistake of researching it, it destorys the item and we lose 200k

the prices on these things lately... i dont need radar ranger really, i get enough missions as is

sailor moon

tips us about haulers

buzzard gets researched and can give us ANTIGRAV, kewl

druggies

so to avoid ghosting captures, one needs to do less than 25% hp damage.. damn fine line

best AK, decent melee values!

its friday friday.... no wait, Its Saturday 31 may, 23:59, we have 600k and it was quite recently

daymn, we lose 400k to upkeep! if not for the apples....

And the research continues
250 rounds * 10 dmg * 0.25 acc = 600 dmg that we can bring onto target

hmmm. bravery pwr bonus does not go above 50.. high tu cost, hard to say if this beats the saber, probably not all things considered
1handed!

Cider gives us about 1500k a month, about 3/4 of our upkeep, great, but now we need moar apples... an apple plantation if you will... but we have 7 months reserve by now

 

[Slavegal]

yuuuge update, ill reply later

 

[lightbane]

Frist things first: Black Cat's thingies? You are probably a long time lurker, Slavegal. Also, so far you're progressing further than expected, yay!

They dont open our doors either

Don't rely on that too much.

We find a new friend

Don't know that one. Probably psychic.

after cutting some down

Should have brought the corpses with you.

I tried it, its like a slow moving base radar, with a crew of 9
I do want it, but at 500k and hangar needed and the constant required micro - no thx

Worse: It has a ramp, which means it's a deathtrap. Avoid.

Its like Dioxine is actively punishing melee with these layouts...

Funny that: The Cellar with the rats map was made to punish campers. Theoretically.

19 day out after a quicky....

You should consider activating the console by messing with the "options.cfg" file and using Debug mode to skip boring missions.

s c a r e d

Stop hiding and die like a man!

Hanna sells some heavy gunz, its decent, fire once a round, 2/5 bullets hit, 110 mean dmg
Its just like one Saber swing :>

Too heavy and too much TU-usage for my tastes.

Now this looks like cheating tbh, why play the rest of the game?

Don't sweat. Dioxine nerfed grenade launchers by giving you a 50% acc penalty for shots outside of LoS. Also you need to reload after every shot.

And this even more so...

Love the mortar... Until you get the advanced versions.

Timed mission, we have maid outfits, and we dont really need gear aside from some handles, at least for normal enemies

I recommend you get the Smaller Mansions mod if you want to preserve your sanity. Also: You don't need Maid uniforms, these are provided if you have none.

Not that we can buy it :>

Yet. Heavy miniguns are OP in X-Files and it should be here as well.

what the fuck? -14? So if they land its aye-okaye? But shootin em is a nono?

Attackign civilian and gov ships give you a penalty score, and so does capturing (and especially killing) civvies/government units, cuz you're attacking your "protected parties". Still worth doing so from time to time.

Also, someone threw a grenade at us after I clikced end turn but not before they opened a door of the craft
Like, if the door remained open on their turn for some reason, it was strange and scary

Doors open/close first thing in every turn.

RAMMING SPEED

You need fighters.

Turns out, you can see what workers do

They replace vaults once you're rich enough.

long story short, this is round 50....................
no bughunt mode if only the drone is left! have fun looking for it in multistories buildings full of labyrinths and libraries, and its not like the drone is looking for you either, i ran around with magnalites for about 10 turns just trying to find it at any cost, would have reloaded if it hurt me, in no mood for that shit

A bug? OR something else was alive. Yet another reason to use Debug Mode with the console.

Having enough cider for a couple of months,
we build a new base.

Congrats, you're set for a while! And by the time this runs out, you will have a new resource to exploit.

Shrine Maiden fails to become a freak again... spoiler me, do I still have a chance to roll freaks on maidens after 1 success or is it a waste of research?

This only works once I think. Slave/turn them into courtesans instead.

the prices on these things lately... i dont need radar ranger really, i get enough missions as is

They work to shoot down civvie ships to get these engines and later on standard ships.

 

[Slavegal]

send file/instructions with the modifications

https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,1713.15.html
The last AmigaFonts.zip attached by Meridian.
You need to extract it under the user/mods folder and activate it under the Options/Mods
Its the same font but it removes the idiotic shading on the font/outline and makes it a solid color
Custom font are hard, cause the font is stored as a big png bitmap...

night

and day, and its an inoffensive comparison...

I use a resizable window in my case, seems to work good enough.

But its not... this is 1440 x 900, 16/10, look at the R or the different A's. It fucking hilarious. The A's are not only wrong, they are differently wrong! xD
Probably because its not monospaced?

1280 * 960, but now if I go higher than 1280, the font gets fucked up again

You killed nearly everyone lel.

3rd stringers with half the stamina of their tu can barely walk, let alone stun anynoe... It was either we or them!

Don't sweat. Dioxine nerfed grenade launchers by giving you a 50% acc penalty for shots outside of LoS. Also you need to reload after every shot.

What irks me is that I know that I dont need to move at all anymore to kill potentially everything. Its just money for ammo.
Its like sitting in a craft, waiting for spiders. Broken mechanics...

Doors open/close first thing in every turn.

I know, thats why it was so weird. In fact, now that I have played further, I have more anecdotical proof that some enemies throw nades at you even if they dont see you...

 

[Average Manatee]

Yet. Heavy miniguns are OP in X-Files and it should be here as well.

Heavy weapons tend to walk a fine line between OP and garbage. Like in FMP the LMG is basically just a better rifle for slightly stronger characters, HMG is OP due to lots of high-powered ammo fired, good accuracy, and just barely being equippable for strong characters, while the light minigun is shit that fires paper bullets and the heavy minigun fires a ton of bullets but is just too heavy, the bullets are only moderately powered, and the accuracy is too poor.

I know, thats why it was so weird. In fact, now that I have played further, I have more anecdotical proof that some enemies throw nades at you even if they dont see you...

I have to wonder how the AI in OpenXcomEx is working. They seem to want to give the AI the ability to work somewhat like Xcom does, where enemies can communicate and attack targets they don't directly see. But the AI in Xcom works such that if one alien can see one Xcom unit then every alien knows where every Xcom unit is (hence mind control), and it lasts for a few turns even after breaking LOS. Of course if you fully combined these two you'd get an impossible game as every alien on the map throws a grenade at every Xcom soldier outside of the skyranger.

 

[Slavegal]

Im pretty sure that in OpenXcom ordinary enemies dont get full knowledge of my full squad. But they do share knowledge about known units.
Otherwise, fixes like this
- Fix: AI no-Spotter Snipers (like Osiron Security) are now Spotters so they no longer ignore player's units
wouldnt make sense.

I do hope Osiron Security have lotsa grenades... instead of blaster launchers ....

 

[Slavegal]

In random mechanics news: the Monstermano and really all Morale damaging melee things disappoint.
It has a 2000% toMorale modifier. So, you'd think if you scratch someone, they go ballistic. But tests on my gals have proven otherwise.
Turns out, bravery is a multiplicative modifier to it. So at 10 BRA enemy, you get full toMorale dmg, at 60 BRA you got 0.5 toMorale, and at 100 BRA you get 0.1 toMorale.
2000% turns into 1000% vs a normal 60 BRA enemy.

Example, on a good gal with 100 bra/melee
55 = 15+20+20 mean dmg, has a spread of
27 - 82, but with effective armor of 1.6
17 - 51 are the armor values that we can deal with, 51 armor is basically untouchable

Tac Vest frontally is 40 * 1.6 = 64 effective armor
With 82 being our max dmg, and needing 64+, 82-64=18
18/82=0.2, ie 20% chance to do ANY dmg at all. Thats an average five attacks (40 TU) vs a meager Tac Vests front to get ~10 dmg and 100 morale dmg on a 60 BRA enemy...

What to even use this on?

edit

...I just thought of an enemy one could panic with this. Raider Boss from the side.
Though taht would be larping. Pipe would be more effective.

 

[lightbane]

The last AmigaFonts.zip attached by Meridian.

THANK YOU! That works.

But its not... this is 1440 x 900, 16/10, look at the R or the different A's. It fucking hilarious. The A's are not only wrong, they are differently wrong! xD
Probably because its not monospaced?

Eh, not that much of an issue for me.

I know, thats why it was so weird. In fact, now that I have played further, I have more anecdotical proof that some enemies throw nades at you even if they dont see you...

There's a "spotter-shotter-" system yes, where the former "gives info" to the latter, allowing unseen units to shoot you hidden in the fog of war.

Heavy weapons tend to walk a fine line between OP and garbage. Like in FMP the LMG is basically just a better rifle for slightly stronger characters, HMG is OP due to lots of high-powered ammo fired, good accuracy, and just barely being equippable for strong characters, while the light minigun is shit that fires paper bullets and the heavy minigun fires a ton of bullets but is just too heavy, the bullets are only moderately powered, and the accuracy is too poor.

Uh, I liked the minigun more, as the LMG was too bulky and needed too many TUs to be used. Perhaps I'll give it a try once I wish to play X-Files again.
Either way, both weapons work better by using Alloy Ammo (now renamed to the ridiculously named "Trianum ammo").

What to even use this on?

Same question as many other items like the Razor, a Cutting-type weapon you didn't show that's literally harmless. The Fan works in hot conditions and can be used for training though.

 

[Average Manatee]

Uh, I liked the minigun more, as the LMG was too bulky and needed too many TUs to be used. Perhaps I'll give it a try once I wish to play X-Files again.
Either way, both weapons work better by using Alloy Ammo (now renamed to the ridiculously named "Trianum ammo").

Are you talking about X-Files or FMP? All of the mods seems to have slightly different stats for the same guns. LMG in FMP is incredible, only 5 or so more weight than a rifle IIRC but 50% more autofire shots, never needs a reload all mission, autofire range is accurate past sight range, and slightly higher damage. The minigun in FMP suffered from sub-pistol damage per bullet, so basic floaters shrugged off a third of your damage and snakemen basically laughed. Sort of the same problem shotguns have, except at least it's not requiring you to be in the face of your target when they take 5 hits and stay standing.

 

[Slavegal]

There's a "spotter-shotter-" system yes, where the former "gives info" to the latter, allowing unseen units to shoot you hidden in the fog of war.

That was not the case here though. I am almost certain that the grenade flew at me right as a pressed 'end turn' which means the doors are closed which means no LOS.

There is an update in the making, where I get attacked by a flamethrower when behind a manually closed door, like a normal one, in buildings.
I close the door. End turn. Long range flamer from out of sight sprays the door and the 2 gals behind it! I was in shock ^^ like this O.O
And random ass grenades where I am almost certain there should be no LOS. No psychic enemies either.

 

[lightbane]

Are you talking about X-Files or FMP? All of the mods seems to have slightly different stats for the same guns. LMG in FMP is incredible, only 5 or so more weight than a rifle IIRC but 50% more autofire shots, never needs a reload all mission, autofire range is accurate past sight range, and slightly higher damage. The minigun in FMP suffered from sub-pistol damage per bullet, so basic floaters shrugged off a third of your damage and snakemen basically laughed.

Oh, you're talking about a different gun. Heavy Machineguns take 50% TU to shoot in X-Files while Miniguns take WAY less, damage armor, have average accuracy (but soo many bullets that some are bound to hit anyway, reducing even more armor and increasing damage) but works in all ranges (as long as your dudes are strong enough). With Alloy Ammo, it works against aliens, Cyberdisks, zombies and many more. Here in Piratez there are several tiers and models of heavy machineguns, so we'll see what Slavegal does, once he gets fed up with camping all the time.

 

[lightbane]

Slavegal banned? WTF happened here?

 

[Freddie]

What the fuck happened?

 

[orcinator]

Welp
At least there's always some guy doing a Piratez LP on 4chan, oh wait the guy doing it was me and I haven't been able to have my threads live long very long ever since summer ended so I put it on hiatus.

 

[lightbane]

I'm not really sure what happened here.

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And even less so here. What I know though is that a new update is up. One of the highlights:

- Update: Sandbags removed from researchable items

You still probably are able to get them in some other way, but this is not a good thing.

 

[SerratedBiz]

Welp
At least there's always some guy doing a Piratez LP on 4chan, oh wait the guy doing it was me and I haven't been able to have my threads live long very long ever since summer ended so I put it on hiatus.

Why not do it in a prestigious forum instead of a shitstain one?

 

[lightbane]

Yep, Sandbags were removed because the modder thought they were unbalanced, despite asking people about this and saying he would reconsider keeping them. I bet he read this LP and thought otherwise.
Either way, you have to edit your save to get them, or update a save with the sandbags if you still want to keep them.

 

[orcinator]

Welp
At least there's always some guy doing a Piratez LP on 4chan, oh wait the guy doing it was me and I haven't been able to have my threads live long very long ever since summer ended so I put it on hiatus.

Why not do it in a prestigious forum instead of a shitstain one?

Prestigious.. prestigious, nope not ringing any bells.
If I do make an LP in this gay place it'll be some shit game that has material for racial humor.

 

[lightbane]

Aw, come on, you will have fun! Until you burn out due the retardedly long length of the game, that is. Also, the dev way or may not keep tabs on your LP to nerf stuff accordingly (for example, besides the now non-existing sandbags, the police cars suddenly have better weaponry when they didn't until now, being intended as practice targets).