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Right, I downloaded Armageddon the other day and had a chance to look at it just before. Noticed a few changes right off the bat with research teams and such. The biggest is of course the intelligence tab. Lots of new stuff there, which is where most of my questions will deal with.

First up: spies. I understand the theory, but not the mechanics. Why the flock do I (as the United States) have spies in the UK? I suppose anyone who is technologically advanced is just asking to be infiltrated, but still.

Why are my spies so terrible and why is it modeled so unrealistically? I mean, the US starts out with spies having a 22% chance of infiltrating most nations. Shouldn't it be easier to infiltrate a 3rd world nation like, oh, El Salvador than it is to infiltrate Japan or Germany? If you pay the right person enough in those smaller countries you could probably get a tour of their research facilities which includes an "all access" pass to the restricted areas as well. No spies would even be necessary. Now Japan on the other hand should be wary of Westerners and getting a spy to infiltrate them should be more difficult. Not so. (At least, not from what I've seen so far).

How do my spies get better? I can't risk sending spies somewhere if they will be detected all the time.

Right now there are 33 spies in the US from various countries. I understand that I can send spies to my own country which supposedly protects me from them somewhat. There's also a counter-espionage option. When I tried that with 1 spy in my own country, it failed to locate anyone and my lone spy vanished into thin air. What happened to him? Defected? How exactly do spies and counter-espionage work?

I'll have more questions, don't worry. This is just the start.

- Zombie

Do you have a collection of funny, scary, weird or whatever animated GIFs you would want to share? Go ahead! No smileys though and watch the usual rules...

A start;








And a SC "homegrown" one (whose avatar was it?)

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Hi everyone.

ACM is a conversion mod that introduces a lot of changes into original UFO AS gameplay.

Main features of ACM:

1. new items:
- pistols: glock 19, usp
- smgs: mac10, ump45, fn p90
- shotguns: sawn-off shotgun, hunting shotgun, saiga, usas (replaces spas-15), striker
- assault rifles: aksu, calico, g36, famas, g3ka4, fn fal, scar-l, scar-h
- sniper rifles: sks, m14, r700, svd (replaces msg), l96
- machineguns: rpk, m249, pkp pecheneg
- launchers: rg6 grenade launcher, m202 missile launcher
- commando-only weapons: dartgun, advanced airgun, mp5sd6, groza, hk g11, vss sniper rifle
- melee weapons: chainsword, powersword
- energy weapons: laser cannon, plasma pistol (replaces plasma shotgun), plasma cannon, sonic rifle (replaces ultrasonic gun), sonic cannon
- new powerful gauss weapons: pistol, rifle, cannon and sniper rifle
- new grenades, mines and missiles: plasma, warp, 40mm flashbang, 40mm poison, 40mm sonic, plasma and warp missiles and mines.
- new cyborg-only weapons: browning h2, 5.56mm chaingun, 7.62mm chaingun gatling laser, hyper plasma cannon, gauss minigun, AGL grenade launcher.
- completely reworked drone weapons: m249, m60, energy cannons, gauss cannon, AGL grenade launcher, m202D launcher, gatling laser, hyperplasma cannon, gauss minigun, pkm.
- cultists hybrid weapons: laser rifle (based on Reticulan weapon), plasma rifle (based on Wargot weapon), warp rifle (based on Reticulan weapon).
- new cultist-wargot weapons that can be used only by cyborgs.
- new wargot weapon: ultrasonic cannon.
- ammo: .44 mag (for desert eagle), .45acp, ammo for new commando weapons.
- darts for airguns: stunning, poison, paralyze
- new items: underbarell scanners, stimulant injector addons.

2. techtree was reworked to increase time which player needs to get basic firearms, grenades and other advanced weapons.
3. replaced models for ALL human weapons. New textures for laputian, local humans and cultist armors.
4. new firing sounds and projectile effects.
5. factions use all new weapons, cultists can be accompanied by drones, their cyborgs use wargot weapons and heavy weapons. Factions squads were increased a bit.
6. reworked experience. Soldiers now gain experience mainly for killing enemies rather than simply participating in mission.
7. militia barracks were reconfigured. You can now use three types of barracks - basic (firearms, gauss), energy (laser, sonic, plasma, warp) and support (snipers, machineguns and launchers). There is also a new type of building - drone hangars. These "train" up to 2 drone as militia.

DOWNLOAD Current version is ACM 2.0 (~80mb)


Latest changes:

- reduced loudness of convertional weapon sounds.
- fixed a cybo-drone bug.

WARNING!

- There are still inconviences with glossary text and images for some items.


Installation:

Archive includes an acmod.vfs file and localization folder. PLEASE backup this folder before installing ACM.
The mod is INCOMPATIBLE with any other mod, sorry for that.
Place both file and folder into your UFO AS folder.

ENJOY. And report any bugs and wierdness you WILL encounter

Feeling gratuitous for my work? Willing to express it somehow? Here is the way to do that!
(donations will be used in developing of my board game project).

Nope!  That took a bit of a jump!

Conquest and Blindside were already successful, I remember, but I think they deserve to be watched, the games should be good.

I hope you wild bunch are all back to base for a little R&R and celebration alongside your loved ones.

"Platooon - dismissed!!"

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Have a good one!

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silencer_pl, on 17 April 2012 - 05:53 PM, said:

Ah, I see, you meant "Blizzard would disagree with you", ok.

Just ticked over here at GMT+10.  

Or whatever I'm at currently... Tasmanian daylight savings is confusing.  

Do you people have a music topic? I can't find one and it seems strange.

Just tell everyone what bands you like, maybe post pictures if you have them.

Personally I'm a big Jrock fan, my favourites being Malice+Mizer, Dir En Grey, Moi Dix Mois, I also like more techno outfits like Schwarz Stein and although lots and lots of Mana fans consider him a bit of traitor (since he went from the whole Gothic Aristocrat look and style, to pop music almost overnight) I can't stop loving Gackt!

picture:



Mana^

Pretty, isn't he?
Yes it's a man!
A very old picture, he dresses in a very gothic style now, he doesn't always dress like a girl (sadly) though he never looks explicitly male, which i like, he also hadly ever speaks in public and he never sings - he just writes all the music for his group (Moi Dix Mois and Malice+Mizer before that) and plays some of the instruments (usually Guitar, but also Violin, Harp, and a few others)


Well anyway, those are my favourite artists, with Mana being my all time most beloved. i'd like to hear about some of yours.

seasons (as in: they show the...)

*Watches the boys head over to Aftermath fighting each other as they go, and then opens up briefcase*

It's okay Tammy, you can come out now.

Kerberos is thinking about releasing an HD version of SotS Prime. They are also asking us fans what would such a hypothetical release mean to us, what would our expectations be and so forth.

Hi everyone! Some of you might know that Terror From the Deep celebrates it's 20th birthday this year. So in observance of this momentous occasion, I decided to do something special: giveaway 10 free Steam keys for the game. That's right, I said FREE. No contests, no hoops to jump through, no facebook popularity scams, just an old-fashioned giveaway!

Even though this isn't a contest, there has to be some ground rules to make it fair for everyone:

• Be (or become) a member of StrategyCore. This is mandatory as I have to contact the winners through PM.
  
• Do not already own a copy of TFTD. I prefer people who haven't played the game yet (if you've played UFO:EU before, that's ok), but I'll give a copy to those who do not have it in their Steam library already.
  
• Have a Steam account. You can't get the key to work without an account there.
  
• Be willing to let us use your forum name for the winner's list.
  
• Use the game for yourself. I'm not against re-gifting a key to someone else if you deem necessary, but if they are able to enter themselves it's better.

There are two little points I hope everyone can adhere to if you win:

• Do not resell the game.
  
• Do not trade it for something else.

I can't enforce these, so please act responsibly.

So now you are all wondering how to enter the giveaway, right? It's simple, start a post in this topic with the words "I'm in!". Only one entry will be counted. If you want to make a case for why you want a key, go ahead, but your chances will not increase. Guest posts are not eligible to enter and will be ignored. The odds of winning depend on the number of entries received, but in my experience you'll have a pretty good opportunity to walk away with a copy. This giveaway will probably remain open for 1 month to give everyone time to enter and will close at or around midnight CST July 31 2015. Winners will be announced here in this topic and I will also send them a PM. Unclaimed prizes (I'll give you a couple weeks to reply to my PM) will be sent to the next eligible applicant. Winners will be chosen at random with a random number generator.

A big thanks to Thorondor for helping me with the funds to acquire some of the steam keys!

Finally, please "Like" this post if you thought this was a good idea. I want to get an idea how popular a giveaway like this is with everyone. Maybe I'll do another in the future with a different game!

- Zombie

Name That Strategy Game, a worldwide StrategyCore Forum Games™ debut!

- Someone draws a small image in MS Paint
- People take guesses (one guess per post)
- The quicker people guess the more points the 'artist' earns (each 'artist' starts with 10 points, each failed guess deducts one point from that, also counts as minus one to the guesser's initial score of zero)
- The first to guess right will earn 10 points and shall draw the next strategy game image
- If nobody guesses correctly or if 10 failed guesses occur the first person who tried to guess shall be the next "artist"

Scores will be kept in this starting post, here:

===[[ Artist Scoreboard ]]===
Thorondor: 90 points
FullAuto: 10 points
Sunflash: 59 points
Bomb Bloke: 40 points
NKF: 28 points
Space Voyager: 47 points
Azrael Strife: 19 points
silencer_pl: 52 points
Ecthel013: 22 points
NoXTheRoXStaR: 20 points

===[[ Guesser Scoreboard ]]===
FullAuto: 9 points
Sunflash: 50 points
Bomb Bloke: 39 points
Thorondor: 78 points
NKF: 30 points
Space Voyager: 37 points
Azrael Strife: 19 points
NoXTheRoXStaR: 37 points
silencer_pl: 55 points
Ecthel013: 30 points

::

I'll go first below to get the ball rolling.



p.s.: click to enlarge the image.

Well I was supposed to find out on Wednesday, then Friday but never heard a peep.

At this rate we might get it by the 9th if we're lucky, but that's when the flood of US sites (and players) will all be writing their own reviews too.

*sigh*

You help to promote the series for over a decade and this is the thanks you get - yes, if anyone from 2K/Firaxis is reading it really is bugging a lot of us here that every man and his dog has had a preview copy and by now a review copy and we've not had even the faintest whiff of either by this point, despite asking through the proper channels What do I have to do? Fly to America, get down on my knees and beg to Jake?

EDIT: I know we're a speck on the radar (probably a crumb from the pizza of the radar operator) in comparison to the larger sites out there, but at least we know how to play a strategy game. Have you seen some of the previews out there? The only response to some of them is this:



Log in and "Like" this post if you agree, just so I know I'm not ranting, foaming at the mouth to myself.

Even though this site is dedicated to strategy games, most of us like other genres as well. This is a thread where you can post about any other game you find interesting regardless of genre. E3 is coming, so there should be no shortage of news

Happy birthday to Buks(26)!

Takedown seems like a good one.

Quite the voice! Also great song



BTW; how do you embed youtube videos here?

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Hi, first of all: UFO Extender is great.

My only problem is the music. When I enable the mp3 mod the game crashes after selecting language (so in the main menu).

When I activate the mp3 mod without having any mp3s in my mp3 folder, everything works fine, other than I obviously don't have any music. If I put mp3s into the folder, as soon as said file should play, the game crashes, just like before.
E.g. when I put the Final Briefing mp3 into the mp3 folder (and having *Final Briefing*.mp3 as start menu mp3) the game crashes. If I remove Final Briefing and only add one of the Battlescape mp3s, the game crashes as soon as I enter Battlescape.

Error code is "UFO Defense crashed at 0x76E6B727 with error 0xE06D7363".

I've tried a lot of combinations already, and otherwise the game's working just fine with all the bugfixes and mods. The mp3s I use are alright as well.

I run the XP version on Windows 7 (64bit). I wonder if that's got anything to do with the dlls? Maybe I have to place them somewhere else than the main directory or something? I assume it's got something to do with soundcard (driver) incompatibility with the calls in the exe, though. Weird thing is, SFX works perfectly, just the music crashes the game.

If anyone would know something about this, I'd really appreciate your help.