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  1. Just wanted to drop a line here, it has been a very long time since my last visit Basically there has been a maintenance bugfix version of ufo2000 released just a few days ago (beta 0.9.1129). Feature wise, nothing has changed yet, just a few bugs got squashed. But more updates are coming. In the mean time, new players are welcome on our server, feedback and bugreports are appreciated.
  2. There was also 'Screamers' movie (based on 'Second Variety' story)
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    ufo2000 0.7.963

    "X-COM free" version is already here And it was announced in a nearby thread: http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums/index...?showtopic=4221 But it is still much less playable when not using data files from x-com (no sound, some buttons and images are missing, only a single early demo version of map is available, ...), that will be improved in the next beta releases.
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    ufo2000 0.7.963

    That was not quite a big news (just one of the work-in-progress releases which are available almost every week) But thanks for posting the news anyway, some people who don't particularly track our progress will get another proof that we are still working on the game
  5. serge

    ufo2000 0.7.963

    0.7.963 http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net * Fixed crash on stunned soldier recovery (it was accidently introduced in revision 903) * Stunned soldiers can now be killed by explosions * Fixed sync bug because of falling body stopping bullets * Fixed visibility issue of the map cells where your soldiers are standing (they were not registered as seen) Webserver, bugtracker and SVN repository on lxnt.info are currently down for maintenance, sorry for the inconveniences. But the game servers still work though
  6. They are not making fun of you RVI is just too naive and does not know anything about software development (he is the graphics designer). So he heavily underestimates the complexity and importance of programming part of job and critiques StarikLesovik for the absence of 3D in his game in a manner that seems a bit offending to me. StarikLesovik replies that he would better have the project as it is (2D) but finished, not dropping it halfway. If I'm wrong here, I hope that RVI or StarikLesovik would correct me. On the other hand RVI's project (Prisoners of Taal) does not have anything to show but some 3D models, creative texts and screenshots. They do not have a single programmer in their team and are only trying to recruit some. But considering their attitude and too high expectations, I doubt that any sane programmer would ever join them So their project seems to be doomed to me 2RVI, StarikLesovik: Anyway, let's go to http://www.xcomrus.com/forum/ if we want to discuss anything in Russian. That forum has subsections for all of our projects but it is not too lively now (something that is up to us to change ).
  7. Any volunteers to provide all (or some) x-com units rendering scripts for ufo2000? We have got support for modding units animation using lua scripting. Currently we support only a few skins, check for lua files here: http://lxnt.info:8888/repos/ufo2k/trunk/ex...unit-chameleon/ All the comments about what is available for unit rendering scripts are in: http://lxnt.info:8888/repos/ufo2k/trunk/ex...eon/soldier.lua Plugging more unit skins is possible in the latest beta version of the game. We don't have enough man power to do this work (and also sorry for the lack of detailed documentation). As there are people familiar with algorithms for proper building unit skins from pck frames, maybe we could get some help here. Just PM me if you are interested. Theoretically it should be possible to make animation for any single square unit from x-com for ufo2000
  8. Hmm, looks like you have mistyped word guys, hope this was not intended. By the way, maybe he would like to interview us (guys from http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net or http://ufo2000.lxnt.info) as well?
  9. By the way, there was one more Christmas present for x-com fans from ufo2000 team: http://www.x-com.co.uk/community/index.php?showtopic=2163
  10. Hello All, The latest beta releases of ufo2000 are available here. They install into its own directory and do not overwrite installation of the stable version of the game, so stable and beta versions of ufo2000 can be both installed on the same computer. Upgrading beta version is simple, just download a new installer and run it, it will upgrade your existing installation preserving all the configuration and team settings. Beta versions are configured to connect to lxnt.info:2001 server (it is different from stable versions which use lxnt.info). The game can automatically send bugreports for some kind of problems to the server, so by playing it you greatly help us to test its stability. You can also report bugs and submit feature requests at ufo2000 bugtracker as the automatic error reporting can't provide all the important details. Also if you are testing the game in hotseat mode and it crashed, we would like to have a look at ufo2000-crash.log file which it generates in ufo2000 directory. Testing beta releases will help us to release the next stable version sooner. Thanks. Developer Contact
  11. Don't know, it works fine for me. Anyway, I have mirrored this article here: http://ufo2000.lxnt.info/files/sloperama/idea.html
  12. We all want to believe in a miracle, but the reality is quite disappointing: http://www.sloperama.com/advice/idea.html
  13. UFO2000 does not particularly need any installers. The installer was added made to make it easier for people to install the game. Also besides being able to install the game, it can also also make easy upgrade to a new version preserving all the configs and team settings. Considering how often new beta versions are released, that simplifies everything a lot. PS. Can any of local admins split this topic and move UFO2000 installation related posts to a separate thread?
  14. Well, now we at least know what happened. As you explicitly told UFO2000 to install into 'C:\Program Files\MicroProse\X-COM Collector's Edition', the game considered it to be its own directory. And this directory was cleaned when you uninstalled the game because the game thought that it only contained UFO2000 related files. You were lucky not to manage to install the game into 'C:\' or to any other important place. We probably need to fix the installer so that it will refuse to install into existing directory.
  15. Well, never say never, but I strongly doubt that this could have happened. The uninstaller just does not have any code for deleting any files outside ufo2000 game directory. If anyone makes some experiments and manages to reproduce the same problem, it will be very good and it will surely help us to fix it. But it is hard to find and fix something that does not exist. I do believe that Zombie has lost his X-COM and TFTD installed games, but what caused this is still not very clear, manually copying or moving files, you have always a chance of accidently deleting something important. In addition, nobody else did report such problem, and believe me, the game was tried and played by a lot of people, you can just check the statistics for the last week: http://ufo2000.lxnt.info/results.php
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