Open XCOM

It's fairly meh. It adds some stuff to TFTD, but the vast majority of the game is the same.

It gets better but yeah that and on top of the fact that XCOM Files is time gated is what I hate.

You're wrong. X-Files has a perfect early game. In fact, I'd recommend it for people who don't know how to play XCOM since controlling just two dudes is a lot easier than 12.
The actual problem with the mod is some of its mechanics are fricking absurd. Vampires immune to any and all gunfire and explosives? Dumb as hell. I had to take one down through fricking smoke inhalation.

pretty much
its either rely on save scumming or knowing mod very well and not making mistakes
playing it blind is pain and recipe for disaster
it also suffer from bloat, stat inflation, poor writing and other bad game designs
its still can be fun but seriously

Like this anon said

pretty much
its either rely on save scumming or knowing mod very well and not making mistakes
playing it blind is pain and recipe for disaster
it also suffer from bloat, stat inflation, poor writing and other bad game designs
its still can be fun but seriously

It has all the bad of xpiratez x1000

He said eventually

Until you get knockout grenades and dart guns, the initial tasers are really it. Some guys will go unconscious from gunshots alone though, so you can get lucky, especially with frequent safehouse raids.

>worth in capturing everything alive whenever possible
Live captives sell for okay money (especially farmers for some reason), but other than that it seems like you really only need to focus on capturing whatever guys you need for your immediate research goals.

>The Admiral de corazon outfit, how good is it and what is the best way to utilize it?
It's very good, think of it as a gym suit on steroids with +100 bravery bonus. Obviously any weapon that scales with bravery is a good choice for the admiral, people like to use silver snake, e-girl chainsaw, assault cannon, laslock pistol or just look at anything that looked garbage before but has bravery scaling and now double its effectiveness. Don't ignore the in built martial arts it can scale to ridiculous levels.
The admiral suit is likely only worn by veteran gals and it comes with ~70% resistance to all damage and will persist through death so you won't lose it if the gal wearing it dies unless the corpse gets vaporized by overkill but that's unlikely. I use the admiral suit for like half of the game it's good and fun to use.
>What sort of craft does the codex provide, are they any good?
Gold codex main weakness with crafts is that none of the crafts provide a light weapon slot which means you're stuck with aircar, piranha, shark jetbike or some other garbage until hunter killer.
I would generally classify all gold codex crafts as slow start but high potential, el fuego and hawk can last you the entire game given good enough heavy guns and STCs but since they're heavy they're hard to arm early on, turtle carries 12 goes underwater and goes decently fast with fusion drives, the shadowbat can be used as alternative to turtle if you want better starting position at cost of less crew.

Soreass Captain

I'll never forget the mission where I tased my first sectoid and my squad was trying to make it back to the van. The guy holding the sleeping body dropped it so he could shoot an enemy.
The next turn starts with the previously sleeping Sectoid waking up, running to the van, picking up a shotgun, and blowing the guy's head off.

I'd like to know too. Hell I can never seem to convince myself to use anything but humans, cyborgs, and I guess Hybrids are OK, but never any of the goofy shit like Enforcer AIs, Half-Zombies, Rats, etc or that sort of thing.

Sometimes you just know.

>I have play og but just play missions until I get bored and starts again and never actually finish any run
You will do the same with xpiratez then as og is actually a lot simpler and more streamlined.

if you could send peasants and cat girls on goblin mission i would never even hired one of them

I felt pretty dumb for naming my base "MiB HQ" after I saw them... I thought WE were the Men in Black.

That is why Xenonauts failed
>make game in Cold War era
>don't utilize anything from cold war era setting

Yes the guaranteed gun almanac is very nice.

I love them for missions where you're guaranteed to be fighting low tier feckers.
I often shove one in the pockets of my 'infiltration crew'.

First two years is primarily cults gangs, and other glowies. After that it shifts into alien invasion forces and squashing unnatural domestic threats like lizard men and hybrids putting chemicals in the water and turning the frogs gay.

regrettably we don't have any aquariums to keep the fishes

>gave rocket launcher to a brainlet
you fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

I've sunk at least 500 hours into XCF and I still can't keep it straight and tthink "Gill Man" hen these frickers pop up.

>thousands of rounds of AK and SVD fire ring out from the dark as soon as you do anything
I've played past that point three times in the last few years and I can never remember how I manage to pull it off, but all I can remember is that it's absolute bullshit.

You might want to have less valuable goons who you won't feel any pain about losing to lead the way for the trans people. That 41% attrition rate is rough enough.

Look up the Helix Knight research, any transformation it requires is pure benefit. Any other transformation like Kyberism or Blood Boosting will frick over your agents somehow.

Enemy bases and missions you can't see.

first of all you need to hire all the brainers you can afford, and them some. Researching shit keeps your score afloat

Is it even worth it?

I burned the jungle trying to catch a squidface, and the stat boosts look kind of shit.

Done properly, almost every transformation (Or item, or piece of equipment, whatever) will be 'objectively better' at some point in the game, or at a certain role.
Done improperly, you end up with a game where someone advices you to tech rush to some weird fricking otherwise dead end tech branch that has the 'best thing'.

>I'm led to understand that this is intended behavior across all difficulties
Yes sometimes you will meet enemies you couldn't possibly win against and you should run away, that is very much by design.
>I've heard a rumor that psi is locked on the lowest difficulty though
This is also true, intended experience for piratez is difficulty 2, 3 or 4. 1 is tutorial baby mode and 5 is wiener and ball torture experience for veterans.

There's x-chronicles that seems to do what you want, I haven't played it but reception seems mixed, by mixed I mean I've heard it's a mod with good ideas but bad execution.

X-Chronicles, as

There's x-chronicles that seems to do what you want, I haven't played it but reception seems mixed, by mixed I mean I've heard it's a mod with good ideas but bad execution.

says. Unfortunately, it quickly stops being "modern weapons against fantasy creatures" and becomes "fantasy weapons (of your own make) against fantasy creatures"
And most of the early game is "modern weapons against pirates or medieval dudes, all of which are shielded against your modern weapons, making everyone a bullet sponge"

No. Just use the Wiki. Game is a confusing mess anyway.

>swastikas
Yes, the Humanist faction tends to have some nazi imagery.

>hard R
Runt? You need those to make stuff. How is that offensive?

Already a year passed since then.
I've been telling people on here for more than 10 years now that you should not act like a Ganker moron "outside" and then be surprised and upset when you get banned. Though I think Dio moved on, but I guess Ganker didn't. Honestly though a lot of their way of talking is extremely dated judging by those screenshots.

>39 dropped by Dioxine himself

baste

Matrix gay here
I was before we got nuked on Discord. Funny thing is we move all our shitpost to the seperate chat. That discord janny was mad becouse we didn't ban the Bloax (another Piratez contrebutor and well known shitposter.) and then he got mad. We try to ban that everyone_expect_you homosexual like 5 times but he magically returned and just gathering info.

But wahtever, we on Matrix now and still updating our mod. Hope this gay 41% off himself one day.

Yeah XG pistol chaingun and sniper rifle are all great, XG rifle is kinda underwhelming and XG assault is good for noobs if you still have any

Yeah XG pistol chaingun and sniper rifle are all great, XG rifle is kinda underwhelming and XG assault is good for noobs if you still have any

I got a xg rifle from mad scribblings on year 2 and it's GOAT
Too bad I can't make ammo for it

There's also an Avatar

After you get heavy suits it's just a matter of dealing with the turrets and killing the ninjas with regular reaction fire

After you get tanks I believe you can just steamroll with a solo tank

I just took my sweet ass time and killed them with chinese dragons and mini nukes.

Ctrl+D, Ctrl+K

you can always just land and then turn1 evac

If it's a bad spawn, I land, fire rockets at everything I can see, and then evac.
If it's a good spawn, I recon and try to pick off ninjas and PD turrets (the light ones that can die to even RPG rounds) before making my way to the wall, since the big daddy turrets can't hit you if you're on the other side of the compound through the wall.

I'm reasonably certain that the only tech you can cuck yourself out of are their weaponry, which wouldn't care about if you can get Promotion II anyway.

What if she gets shot?

I usually do:
Two outposts that are designed to expand my radar coverage and sponsor my aircars and ground cars respectively (free rep from winning races is based).
A production base.
An aircraft base.
A prison/research base.
With my main base basically being Commando HQ.

Early on the X-Com Files lategame was identical to Final Mod Pack, but they're decently different now.

If you win enough times you become the CEO of Raceism

Not super familiar with XCF, but I think you're supposed to leave missions that are way above your skill level. I don't think leaving negatively affects your score.

Multiple factors go into this, but to put it simply the damage you see in game is the average if a pistol says it does 22 damage it really means it deals 0-44. To add to this megamod makers really enjoy making zombies huge damage sponges so zombies in xcf have around 130-200 hp, so yeah it could take like 10 hits to bring them down depending on your luck with damage rolls but pretty sure you start with some sort of crappy shotgun and that brings zombies down at reasonable pace.

>get a van
It's too slow. Some missions despawn before the van can get to them. I'd rather deploy with less dudes than be late.
As for the zombies, as other anons said, shotguns are the best, at least until you train melee and get katanas.

Play enough of Open Xcom or vanilla UFO Defense to get a feel for the gameplay, then go find an OXCE mod like Files or Piratez

As the game goes on you have more items, more soldiers, more research etc. everything is stored in plain text with no compression so yeah save/load times get longer with gametime. My endgame piratez save file is 6mb in size and has 210k lines of text, it takes a few seconds to process even on a modern pc.

They have Sense too IRC. They can be fantastically useful on the EXALT HQ if it's still that one big ass building layout. Use them as night time scouts to spot targets for your men.

No it will respawn but it has only 15% chance to spawn per month so going whole year without seeing it once is possible.

Probably also strictly less avalible. I haven't had time to play with catgirls enough to know either way.

Probably also strictly less avalible. I haven't had time to play with catgirls enough to know either way.

If you start in California, you get a bunch of catgirls at the start. I think eight? It's super helpful early on

yeah I thought they were bullshit as well. At least inform people at what turn the reinforcements are coming

no idea either

It's good against megapol and in general most (light and medium) armored humanoid foes.

Bio Lab is closer, then Intelligence Center. Each gives you room for 5 scientists a pop.
Rush to Promotion II, then research the Science Lab, this one gives you room for 25.

Considering the randomness of research times, concrete numbers being off would feel like the game's lying to you, while the symbols at least keep a thin veneer of "'when' is a fun mystery". Granted, that's a flimsy excuse that I just pulled out of my ass, but it's the excuse I use.

no, xpiratez needs openxcom and, actually, openxcom eXtended (the x makes it sound cooler) for most of it's flags

It comes with open xcom installed what's wrong with it

I recall one of the streamers had an endgame tactic for XCF despawn penalty, he just made use of the mechanic that lets you have negative points for one month regardless of how low it is you won't instantly lose, so he'd go like -10k points one month and barely above 0 the next one while waiting for endgame rng spawns.
On his final winning screen with all thee stats he had like average monthly score of -2000. This despawn penalty shit is horrible game design.

just send a car with two rookies to go to the mission and abort on turn one

make sure you're faster than cult interceptors though

remember to stay away when you kill it

I love these lil nibbas like you wouldn't believe

so nice of you for asking!

Commander admits he's a furry(-1000 points)

>how is that different from invis?
Invis means the amount of tiles needed to be spotted from, invis 5 would mean you have to be within 5 tiles or closer to get spotted and day/night vision is irrelevant for invis purpose. Camo 5 would mean 5 tiles are substracted from your enemy vision, during day standard enemy sight is 40 tiles so you have to be within 35 tiles to get spotted.
When it comes to spot it works same on camo and invis.
>And camo always seems to be better in day than night, but night usually gives me much better results. Why is that?
Because day vision goes much further than night vision for majority of units, almost all enemy units have day vision of 40 while night vision is somewhere between 9-25. As example a civilian or baseline human has night vision of 9, if you substract 7 from that it will have much bigger effect than substracting let's say 18 from 40. That makes sense?

I think (THINK) it goes like this:
Camo: Reduces sight range by X. If an enemy can see 40 tiles, and you have a camo of 15, you can be seen at (40-15=) 25 tiles away.
Invis: Can ONLY be seen at X tiles and lower. If you have an invis of 5, you have to be within 5 tiles to be seen, modified by spot.

Sniper/spotter mechanic, if your units hits an enemy that has sniper/spotter chance they will gain maphack on that unit and be able to shoot it even if they can't see it.