Talk:XcomUtil

Misc

There's still a lot more stuff that could be added here. Also, I've never used some of the flags mentioned, especially those concerning Geoscape/Game executable. More info from those who have used them would be nice.

Hobbes 07:56, 9 Nov 2005 (PST)

Difficulty Bug

are there any standalone patches the fix the difficulty bug, or does one just copy over the geoscape.exe file to a new Xcom folder once its patched by using XcomUtil 9becuase of no other alternatives... as you can see, I'm not a fan of it).

I don't know about any patches that fix the difficulty bug. BladefireLight has made a patch that changes the craft back to their original configuration. It can be found here at the XcomUtil forums

Hobbes 18:59, 9 Nov 2005 (PST)

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The difficulty bug is only found in XCOM 1.0, and is fixed with the XCOM 1.4 patch, isn't it?

---MikeTheRed 20:16, 9 Nov 2005 (PST)

Unfortunately, no. For the PC, the difficutly bug is only officially fixed in the Windows port - or as I like to call it, 1.4ce.

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- NKF

Backups of .rmp files

Hey, I wrote up a thingo about the patched geoscape.exe. I'm not sure about the edited Xcom base tiles though, i guess the backups would be called XBASE##.XCU, and the edited, corrected tiles would be XBASE##.MAP. I'm not sure on this because there are *.RMP files within the MAPS folder. Has anyone played around with cutting and pasting things and found out which ones to move to a new fresh install of the game? Thx EsTeR

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The RMP files are the files used by the AI and I don't think XcomUtil changes those, so the backup .xcu files are the older .map files.

Hobbes

EsTeR: Ok, i'll look into it. Just always thought that RMP go in the routes folder, and maps in maps folder. Yet, there seems to be both types in the maps folder. I guess i'll have a play when i swap puters to fire up Xcom1.

Is there an X-COM mod editor?

Is there something out there that lets people do their own mods to the game, such as changing/adding/removing weapons, technology trees, graphics, etc?

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There's at least one editor that allow to change the weapons: http://www.jennana.com/projects/xcomed.php. As for the graphics/maps the only way to do it is manually.

Hobbes 18:18, 13 January 2007 (PST)

RMP files

Xcomutil does modify the rmp files when generating ship layouts. it just backs up all of them by default.

--BladeFireLight 21:50, 15 January 2007 (PST)

end of development

Should we note that Scott has oficialy stated he will no longer be deloping xcomutil?

--BladeFireLight 21:53, 15 January 2007 (PST)

Done.

Hobbes 07:28, 16 January 2007 (PST)

New development

Where do we write to discuss new development? In particular, I just found out that the EQL flag to generate an equipment list can only be done on turn 1 -- and it took me a couple of turns moving equipment around inside the craft before I had everyone at the right cargo level (no one overloaded). --Keybounce 00:31, 12 July 2007 (PDT)

You can try here at these forums XCOMUFO, most of us have accounts there as well. Pi Masta 12:09, 16 July 2007 (PDT)