#openxcom

[krisfaeley]

Fell down the depression hole and paper is now sPoOpY again, so I'm trying to crawl back to drawing the way I did last time, since that worked wonders. Not all that sure what it's good for, but I do manage to give it proper time and attention, which is an improvement over just lying around feeling bad for myself. Welp!

Largely finished with Steel Legion, but far be it from me to actually wrap something up and put a bow on it, nope! Started doing Krieg and opted for the blue color scheme, partly because OpenXcom has shite selection of greens, partly because it makes them look more French/less German, which has some people acting funny.

For the most part, it was just keeping me occupied and my mind off things, but there did rise a challenge; my BRILLIANT alternate sprites for 2x2 tile bolter units didn't actually adhere to the bounds by which the game uploads images. Sure looked like I'd have to scrap them, but that would break my freaking heart, so instead I went and broke them and voilá! I DID IT!

Huge thanks to Filip H for introducing me to a tool that dumbs down sprite-sheet cutting to a level even I can't mess up!

Meanwhile, Steel Legion has received a variety of Sentinels, new skins for mechanized units and unique heavy weapons teams. What remains is to do SL-unique Squats and Ratlings, and probably some CODEX arts to go with some of the items. Oh, and Orc Hunters! Mustn't forget the Orc Hunters.

In case it needs to be said, I can't code for jack, so none of this would be any good if not for the hard work of Leflair, Surrealistik and others of the Rosigma community who jumped on this without even needing to be asked. Thank you guys!

[doolallymagpie]

XCOM files is fun because you send your agents around on normal-ass flights and rental cars in the early game, and also you can flip through the UFOpedia and see some familiar faces

[mrfullcrumb]

I'm tired, I'm drained. I ate an entire box of strawberry-frosting mini donuts.

Why?

Because I spent 4 hours coding for a mod for OpenXCOM: Terror from the Deep when I should have been napping.

[nyalternatehellkitten]

((You know what'd be cool? Something themed after XCOM: Terror From the Deep. Get on it, Xenonauts team, you've remade UFO Defense now remake Terror From the Deep - with the insane difficulty.))

[samueldays]

I got out the original X-COM and started a game for a refresher on what it's like, turned difficulty level to 2/5 with OpenXCOM bugfixes, started by getting extra soldiers for the Skyranger and

boy am I glad I got extra bodies!

The first (very small) UFO escaped interception, this is the second one to show up, a Large Scout, which was landed so it had its full complement of crew and loot, and it was a night-time mission. Ow.

I think a lot of the sequels, reboots, remakes, and general xcom-genre-games have a problem that they didn't want to be churning through cannon fodder like this, so they reduced lethality and scaled squad size down with the best intentions, and that had serious knock-on effects.

Once you're running a 4-man team instead of 12, taking 1 casualty and going down to 3 is a much bigger proportional loss in firepower, so the devs have to reduce lethality some more and ensure the aliens deal carefully-controlled amounts of damage and don't show up in large groups, thus the 'pods' spawning system, the weirdly nonlethal headshots, and so on.

And when you only get 4 shots a turn, RNG impact is larger, so the player has to be given tools to mitigate RNG, like autohit grenades. But wait, if grenades autohit, why wouldn't the player simply 'nade everything? So the 'nades get nerfed into low-damage effects to finish off wounded enemies, and the devs impose a rule that a soldier in XCOM:EU can only carry 1 grenade, and grenades cannot be passed from person to person. Upon promotion to Major, an officer receives permission to carry a second grenade. WTF?

[mingos-commodoreblog]

MorphOS - OpenXCom v1.0 - A free open-source reimplementation of the original X-COM

[leflairzone]

The Legend of the Roof Sentinel.

A little injoke drawing I made for ROSIGMA* 40k, a OpenXCom Extended mod.

*Ro-Ro-Row my boat, gently down the stream.

[miraclemaya]

a while ago i tried to make a mod for original xcom where you played as the scp foundation but it is very annoying to make a mod even with openxcom

[retro-frikianos]

MS FRIKIANOS GAMER: LA ZONA DEL FRIKIGAMER LIBRE 8

OPENXCOM (¿2014?)

[neo1171]

OpenXCOM TFTD Vanilla Plus | TFTD MOD WOO! | OXC TFTD Vanilla Plus part 1

[krisfaeley]

Something a little different this time, which is to say: I am sorry, everyone who's waiting for their commissions. My brain broke or something and drawing has been stressing me out of late, with the bizarre exception of spriting??? which feels safe and playful and ok.

So, uh, instead of doing my job, I've been making these for the Rosigma mod for OpenXcom. I really can't say enough good stuff about that, for the record; OpenXcom is the best Xcom on its own, but the Rosigma mod is a completely mindblowing experience that makes most huge release titles I've played look silly, and the community that makes it is super nice and helpful, even though I'm butting in without invitation and, uh, possibly trying to replace some sprites they've already made, but a commissar's >got to< have a long flowy coat, okay?

I used to pride myself on having gone through life completely ignorant of all things Warhammer until just about now, and I have... mixed feelings... about spending dozens of hours drawing little baby space fascists, but BOY the game is fun. I like to think that at the very least, this extremely niche mod for an ancient game that is being enjoyed by 10-12 people is an extremely funny hole to fall down.

Wouldn't be me if I didn't start a NEW project without first finishing the previous one, so while Steel Legion is still only half-cooked, I already slapped some dang Valhallans together.

Again, I'm sorry to anyone reading this that I've left on read for some weeks. I don't know how much of comfort this is, but I usually go through phases of drawing tiny little things compulsively for some time until one day, I find the paper is too small, and get back to "real" stuff - I hold onto a flickering hope that one day soon, these sprites will grow too small for me and I'll pick up a pen again ;-; Anyway - happy new year!

[doolallymagpie]

me: alright, my agents are gonna have a good investigation today

me: *sees that it's zombies* no they are not, get the fuck back in the car

[mrfullcrumb]

Freaking...

Wow.

Episode 1 for the second season of my OpenXCom series was a resounding SUCCESS. At least for my small-scale self. People really like Terror from the Deep, it seems.

Geez.

This just encourages me! Time to do even more!

[companionwolf]

right lane of my one track brain: learn how to play openxcom extended

left lane of my one track brain: learn how to play long war 2 but like properly

me, SO SO SO tired: 😵‍💫

[zonegirls]

What's openxcom?? Is it a mod for the tactical game about defending earth from an alien invasion?

it sure is! a big open source mod for the original 1993 game which christ alive is 30 years old now. basically im turboautistic

[tyreforhyre]

in openxcom there is a hotkey called "save first-person screenshot" and is is what you get in a night mission with the final photo being what a fellow agent appears to you as.