Aralez Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 A game thought dead is re-born: X-Force: Fight for Destiny ! The last news (author quitting etc.) seemed like the end to that program. But some helpers appeared and now the work continues! The official site has an english translation, a new version of the game and the much-wanted manual is online, too! I think we will hear more from X-Force in the future. Go visit that site and give them some support, ideas and greetings, will you ? Link here: X-Force Website https://www.xforce-online.de/screenshots/screens/images/v084500.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Excellent news! Will be interesting to follow it's progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koloth Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Thanks for the news of X-Force. I've sent Jim Raynor an offer to help out with the english phraseology of the web site. I haven't figured out if he intends to have two sites or just one available in both English and German. What I've seen of the game so far looks greate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted July 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 That's very good to hear, Koloth ! Let's see what the future versions will look like, i'm eagerly awaiting the next update ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksk Posted July 17, 2004 Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 Look good. Does the game have english version. I cannot understand germen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted July 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 Thx to some hard-working translators the new version seems to be multi-lingual. And an english version of the website is available too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksk Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 There are some bugs. the second ground mission always cannot end turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 They need feedback like this, they have a bugtracker at their site to improve the game. Please post there, they will surely thank you for your report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksk Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 The older version release in feb is fine. Boy it is tough to play against transport UFO. 18 against 6 soliders. That mission is hard. The real time ground combat is near impossible. Any tips. And can someone tell me when to download a german translater. I cannot read germen although i learn it 10 years back. Lots of stuff in the game is still in german. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koloth Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 Just a quick comment, it looks like the X-Force web site has implemented my suggestions on the first page. I just suggested some better phrasing of things and other minor edits. I guess that means I need to submit more suggestions! <grin> Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksk Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 This game is great right? it sum up all the good things in xcom 1,2,3.I love the teleport deployment . in fact it the only way i can win against 27 aliens with 6 soldiers. I lost two guys. I love the sale method, the air intercept, just about every is well designed. Something XCOm should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koloth Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Greetings, I've helped out with phrasing on several pages now and work continues. A new beta of X-Force was recently released (v0.845) Much of the game is in English now and they need players to help them find problems. Major bugs trigger an E-mail to the developers, and comments are always welcome. The more people play, the better it will get. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted August 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Cool! Nice to see the progress of that game, keep up your hard work, guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Good stuff! I'll mention it in the next newsletter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koloth Posted August 21, 2004 Report Share Posted August 21, 2004 Greetings, Here's my slight rewording of the X-Force 0.845 release announcement: Version 0.845 from Jim_Raynor 12.08.2004, 23:14 Today we are pleased to announce that the beta test is ended for version 0.845. This means that the release of V0.845 is final. As always we have the download in the download area. Updating with the online updater (config.exe) is available for owners of version 0.840 or one of the beta versions as a matter of course. Main attention is on the many bug fixes. In the tactical mission there are now only a few crashes. You can send a bug report for a crash by mail as it will allow opening your E-mail client and sending the error.txt file as an attachment. Bugs should only be reported by mail (if it causes a crash) or directly in the bugtracker. This makes administration and processing simpler for us. As earlier announced in the news, we made a change of the script language X-script to a new script engine. With this script engine, we're able to add new functions and objects in an easier way. In future, you can reckon a many updates to X-script. There is a new project in the bugtracker for X-script.All bugs and all enhancement requests concerning X-script can be reported there. Some additional features were also added. Equipment can now be transferred between the bases. Also after a grenade throw the unit "flees" to the destination determined first. The aliens no longer drop random equipment. They really use the alien equipment assigned to them and drop it if they get killed. We have now deactivated the real-time mode for the tactical mission. This step was required since it was not much used in version 0.840. Maintaining the two modes at once is not possible without a huge amount of work. We made this decision so we could concentrate on the tactical aspects of the tactical missions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted August 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 I never used real-time mode anyway. Good decision! I only have one suggestion/answer : Would it be possible to raise the maximum resolution of the game ? I have some nice new hardware atm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koloth Posted August 22, 2004 Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 Thanks for the mention on the front page. When I posted the 0.845 announcement I hadn't actually played with the update and was I pleasantly surprised! Most of the text in the English version is now in English! <grin> There is some unusual phraseology. All I need now is some time to get and edit the proper files. Thanks again for your good wishes, I'm sure the whole X-Force team appreciates it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koloth Posted August 22, 2004 Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 Aralez - I don't know anything about the programming I've just been using MS Word to edit the web pages (as text only) and sending them in as .RTF files for inclusion in the web pages. You could post your question on their forum as there is now an English forum at NON-GERMAN It's not hard to register on their forum, even though the registeration is all in German, it's a very standard system and easy to figure out. I'll look for you there, but I'll keep cross-posting too when it seems appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted August 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 That's ok with me, i speak german fluidly. I once vlolunteered as a translator for X-Force maybe you remember me ? Edit: Posted there and sent mail to volunteer as a text-editor-slave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knord Posted August 22, 2004 Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 That's ok with me, i speak german fluidly. I once vlolunteered as a translator for X-Force maybe you remember me ? Don't voluenteer, just do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted August 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 Mail is on the way, Sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koloth Posted August 22, 2004 Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 Ha! I'm really lousy with names. I live in Georgia U.S.A so it's unlikely we've ever met. I'm glad to help out though as I've been a fan of X-COM and its clones since my first PC purchase in 1995. Before that I used Atari ST (Motorola 68000 based) machines and played with lots of good German free-ware. I still recall the phrase "nict gefunden" (which I may have misspelled) from those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted August 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 I'm lousy with names, too."Nicht gefunden" Better don't ask about my first "PC": The Atari800XL !And no, i've never been to the US of A yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koloth Posted August 22, 2004 Report Share Posted August 22, 2004 Greetings. I figured out today that the wonderful translations become even more wonderful if you start a new game. I loaded an old game and went to the UFOpedia and the english descriptions were there, but the titles at the top of the screen were still in German. For example the Ma-Jema <german word>, even though the \xforce\data\gameset\default.pak said Ma-Jema Sniper Rifle. Starting a new game fixed this. I'm still new to the game so pardon me if this was obvious to everyone else. (When I posted this on the X-Force site's forum it removed the backslashes from the path to default.pak. Now we get to see if this forum software does the same. :-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksk Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 Nice. Thanks guys, I really need that translation. I once thank on german language in tertiary days but was boot out after one year due to say poor performances Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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