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11 de junio, 2013

v.3.93.3

Fixed:
  • crash on start of a tactical operation, when UFO crew has only one race;

22 de abril, 2013

v.3.93.2

Fixed:
  • crash in the situation when a leader of UFO group was destroyed or left the planet, but its supports still has continued to combat with CAF ships;
  • error with retaining of CAF ships in the targets list of UFO when it ran away from a fight (later such record could lead to the crash);

17 de abril, 2013

v.3.93.1

Fixed:
  • crash on accessing a CV launcher when its missiles ran out;

14 de abril, 2013

v.3.93

Fixed:
  • some missing maps when choosing it for terror mission (fixed by Kleho);
  • crash on start of a tactical mission when it was provoked by UFO of “Battlecruiser” or “Battleship” class (fixed by Kleho);
  • crash under Wine on attempt to reload weapon which had a half-used cartridge (fixed by slava88811);
  • an error with the inability to take a shot at the ground in tactics;
  • an error with invulnerability of unit, who stand over a corpse of unit of same type, after reloading of savegame;
  • an error with false inaccessibility of some cells (and targets that occupy them) in tactics for maps with the rugged topography;
  • an error with UFO which trembled around the border of its sensor range when it tried to avoid CAF ships;
  • an error with breaking of an order of tracking the waypoints by UFO-leader (it could lead to possibility for it to start operation even if target location wasn't reached);
  • an error with saving training events in the queue for soldiers who was lost with destroying of a transport aircraft;
  • an error with saving of soldiers without armour in a transport after equipping them with the equipment templates;
  • an error with inability to sell a unfinished chamber of content, if the active module was not questioned by the aliens;
  • numerous small fixes and improvements in the game logic, interfaces and dialogues;
Modified:
  • new EXE (v.1.50 from the Russian Gold version) that fixes some OS-compatibility issues;
  • improved AI of UFO for more smart selection of targets;
  • improved and optimized algorithm for calculating the line of fire;
  • allowed to conduct investigations into non-storyline researches on the Mars/Earth;
  • removed a minimal threshold of ending up in the hospital after mission;
  • visual style of the markers that are using to indicate availability of a line of fire;
  • new icons for scientists and technicians in the shop (mod by Taro8);
  • new icon for “Jag” interceptor (mod by Kleho);
Added:
  • for Spanish version: translation of some interface strings (translated by Xracer);
  • for menu of units equipping on the base: automatic arrangement of equipment in the slots and return it back to storage if you do the click with a Shift key pressed (mod by Kleho);
  • for menu of units deployment inside a transport aircraft: possibility to grade units not by portraits, but by types of weapon (mod by Kleho);
  • indicator of the vitality of soldier under his portrait in the tactical GUI;
  • indicator of the presence of critical wounds of unit on his portrait in the tactical GUI;
  • indicators on the portrait of a soldier in a tactical GUI of his mental conditions: panic, mind control;
  • recharging for personal shields during a flight from the spaceport to final mission;
  • the mod option which allows to determine if soldiers expected to switch combat and physical trainings automatically when an efficiency of combat trainings will be decreased;
  • the mod option which allows to determine a maximal frequency of updating of the tactical camera (for smoother control with hotkeys);

12 de noviembre, 2012

v.3.92.13

Fixed:
  • crash caused by phantom event that remained in the queue when its production was finished already;
  • an error with original aliens which didn't use grenades (fixed by Wacky);

11 de noviembre, 2012

v.3.92.12

Fixed:
  • crash after successful attack of UFO leader if second leader of this group was already landed to perform “abduction” mission;
  • crash in tactical mission when switching units with hotkeys in the inventory menu while one of soldiers is under psi-control;
  • phantom menu of selection a new aircraft equipment on the globe when player exited from hangar by hotkey;
  • few errors in algorithm of creation the financial report (fixed by Nagel);
  • an incorrect calculation of salaries for senior officers (fixed by Nagel);
  • an error with loss of units, who was out of an evacuation zone, even through player cancelled the “Leave Mission” confirmation dialogue;
  • an error with possibility of applying medikits and grenades out of reach;
  • an error with a status of production which was suspended due to lack of money;
  • an error with a possibility to continue production for yet another queued item even at lack of money;
  • belated activation of suspended production after cash inflow when a previous financial balance of the project wasn't negative;
  • some small fixes and improvements in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Modified:
  • increased frequency of handling of the keyboard shortcuts in tactics (to speed up the scrolling map with a keyboard);
Added:
  • forecast cost for next month, displayed in the overall financial report (mod by Nagel);
  • displaying of the remaining time of repair and/or maintenance procedures for aircrafts in the geoscape mode as well as in the base management interface;
  • a stop of displaying of the pop-up notifications at switching/closing of dialogue windows;
  • in the aircrafts management interface the ESC hotkey now will close an active sub-menu (e.g. weapon/equipment selection) and only second click will close hangar at all;

30 de enero, 2012

v.3.92.11

Fixed:
  • memory leak on the globe when the quickloading was used;
  • potential crash due to a phantom renaming menu that was left open after exit from the base using a hotkey without confirmation of changing the name;
  • an error with accounting in the statistics of financial transactions the manipulations which were made in the shop without making the sale contract (fixed by Nagel);
  • lack of updating of the soldier's load level indicators during of physical training;
  • some minor fixes in the game logics and dialogues;
Modified:
  • preservation of damaged personal shields after battle was returned as an official feature (until the introduction of cartridges);
  • decreased growth rate of skills in the training center (mod by Kleho);
  • increased speed of receiving of the training points in the training center (mod by Kleho);
  • increased initial characteristics of recruits (mod by Kleho);
  • skilled soldiers have higher values of shooting and a throw skills on hiring (mod by Kleho);
  • revised the dialog of financial results of the project (fixes several problems with mismatches in the measures and adds a cost forecast for current month) (mod by Nagel);

19 de enero, 2012

v.3.92.10

Fixed:
  • crash on finishing of a tactical mission when CAF squad was defeated;
  • few potential memory leaks at the ending of tactical operation;
  • spontaneous collapse the game engine at coincidence of some conditions at the ending of tactical operation;
  • an error in determining the availability of targets to hit by melee attack (could lead to ineffectual inconstancy of 4x-aliens around the target);
  • few errors in the algorithms of growth of the combat skills in the tactical operations (fixed by Kleho);
  • some minor fixes in the game logics and dialogues;

16 de enero, 2012

v.3.92.9

Fixed:
  • possible crash at the end of a tactical operation (fixed by Kleho);

15 de enero, 2012

v.3.92.8

Fixed:
  • crash on loading the savegame in some situations where the group of UFOs with several leaders were acting in a ground operation;
  • crash on processing of the queued events which related to training of units when its corresponding soldier was retired already;
  • an error with a change of status of a UniMod's settings which were deactivated due to lack of resources, when using the button “Recommended Set”;
  • an error with a possible “disappearance” of scientists from the main base at the completion of regular research;
  • an error with absent improvement in the reaction of soldiers in the most of intended situations (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with twofold regeneration of the personal shields at the end of a turn (fixed by NikLan);
  • phantom list of recruits that was left from the previous game when loading a new savegame;
  • some small fixes and improvements in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Modified:
  • increased influence of downed UFO on the rating in the regions, added a small effect of any downed UFO on the ratings in all regions of the planet, reduced penalties when downed UFO wasn't mop up;
  • removed the old mode of AI that allowed to last aliens know exactly a position of the player units (including ability to shoot them from a long distance);
  • increased rate of growth of skills in the missions in the presence of training points (mod by Kleho);
  • reduced rate of growth of skills in the training center (mod by Kleho);
  • for final missions on Mars the coordinates of landing points are adjusted in accordance with the ufopedia articles;

1 de julio, 2011

v.3.92.7

Fixed:
  • freeze the game when firing on reaction during of the alien turn, if a weapon was in the left hand of unit;
  • memory leaks in the tactics in certain situations related to auxiliary components of the mouse cursor;
  • an error with absence of the LOS indicators under cursor in tactics when the mod option of display of the path marks was switched off;
  • insufficient amount of APs (excluding the bonus of the load level) for CAF soldiers at first turn after the start of a tactical operation;
  • various small fixes in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Modified:
  • removed preservation of used personal shields at the end of the tactical operations if they were recharged;
  • remade algorithm for accounting of captured equipment at the end of a tactical operation (now it wouldn't be dropped on the ground);
  • remade algorithm for calculation of the load level — to avoid zeroed APs when soldier's strength has been reduced sharply after wound;

29 de junio, 2011

v.3.92.6

Fixed:
  • crash on attempt to sell the training center, if an armoured vehicle unit was assigned to this base;
  • crash in the recruitment menu when you hover mouse over a field with the shoulder strap, when no recruits were available there (or all of them were filtered);
  • an error with the continuing processing of the hotkeys of geoscape mode during of an attack of UFO against CAF base;
  • an error with the order of items in the common shop if the technologies that can be disabled through the config of UniMod were switched off;
  • an error with displaying the globe log on top of the pre-mission user interface at attack of the main CAF base by UFO;
  • a false notification about overcrowding in the training center, if there were multiple structures of this type on the base;
  • various small fixes in the game logic, interfaces and dialogues;
Modified:
  • forbidden retiring of soldiers from the interface of pre-mission equipment (to avoid crashes in the game engine when it updates the form);
Added:
  • for the ranks of the German Army: descriptions for them in both recruitment menu and inventory one (translated by Lostnice);

22 de junio, 2011

v.3.92.5

Fixed:
  • memory leaks in the tactics related to incomplete deinitialization of objects associated with units which were left out of operation;
  • crash in situation when the monthly finance report was displayed during of the rotation of the globe by RMB;
  • an error with absence of advance in the combat stats of soldiers when a tactical operation was completed without the use of S/L;
  • an error with reservation of AP for an inactive hand;
  • an error with the appearance of the negative APs for CAF vehicles in the tactics;
  • potential error in the converter of savegames of the previous versions of UniMod, that can lead to problem when using missile weapons of “Anaconda” CV;
  • an error with usage of psi-abilities by aliens at a distance that was above the effective one;
  • an error with saving an unconscious soldier alive after it became a victim of chryssalid;
  • an error of initialization of the attack which is carried out by agent XCOM, when it was performed with certain kinds of arms;
  • an error with double counting of XCOM aliens in the statistics of those killed;
  • possibility to spend lesser APs on the burst fire, than it must be according to the characteristics of used weapon, when ammunition in its cartridges was not enough for a full volley;
  • various small fixes in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Added:
  • possibility to reset the previous AP reservations when you choosing a new one (by pressing Alt key with it);

16 de junio, 2011

v.3.92.4

Fixed:
  • crash when the CAF base was captured by aliens, if any aircraft without equipped weapons was there under transferring to one;
  • spontaneous closing of the firemode menu on attempt to use it for healing;
  • absence AP costs on use of stimulators;
  • doesn't updating indicator of morale in the tactical GUI after using the stimulators;
  • various small fixes in the game interfaces;
Modified:
  • the the firemode menu was revised: reduced its size, unified processing of single- and multibutton menus, removed special copy of it for throw mode;
  • healing dialogue isn't activated any more if the soldier hasn't suffice AP at least for one shot;

15 de junio, 2011

v.3.92.3

Fixed:
  • absence of AP costs on use of a personal teleporter in tactics;
  • absence of the image in ufopedia article for the “Training center” module;
  • spontaneous jump of the mouse cursor down and right when using RMB click in the geoscape mode, when the screen resolution is above 1024*768;

14 de junio, 2011

v.3.92.2

Fixed:
  • crash in the inventory menu when you hover mouse over a field with the shoulder strap, when the vehicle was chosen as active unit;
  • ability to move the cursor during choosing of the mode of fire was boxed by this menu;

13 de junio, 2011

v.3.92.1

Fixed:
  • an error that caused the interruption of the attack the AI unit;

13 de junio, 2011

v.3.92

Fixed:
  • crash during operations with inventory of soldier under the psi-control if the proximity frag grenades were there;
  • crash at the time of simultaneous processing of two events from the queue if the second event was related to unfinished manufacturing and the personnel involved in corresponding project was moved somewhere during of suspending of the time on globe in order to show a notification about first event from this pair;
  • few errors related to aiming of a ship that taking off a base at the target by dialogue of a choice of objects, when several entities had appeared in area of mouse click;
  • an error with the ability to start manufacturing regardless of insufficient funds;
  • an error with impassability of spotlights on the tactical map “Desert Factory”;
  • an error in the algorithm of calculation of the range of vision for twilight;
  • an error with absent indication of death (groan, an icon in the GUI) for soldiers who died from fire or gas when being in the unconscious state;
  • few errors related to calculation of the cost of operations in the inventory in tactics during of the replacement of items in the slot;
  • the wrong type of displayed message in the CombatLog for damage caused by explosion of a died unit who stand beside;
  • absence of a name of victim in CombatLog message about causing of a physical hurt to unit in close fight;
  • incorrect highlighting of headers in some messages in the CombatLog when a name of unit consisted not of two words;
  • incorrect displaying of the number of charges in the weapons lying on the ground in tactics when there are several instances of the same type;
  • a slowdown when moving the cursor with opened the menu of selection of the modes of fire, if the shooter was in flight;
  • slowing down in the game settings menu when it was opened from the tactics;
  • intolerable low speed of rotation of the globe by hotkeys;
  • removed the possibility to send “Centaurus” on the final mission from the base which has no scientists to fill its laboratory;
Modified:
  • system of the soldier stats & their progress — manual distribution of characteristics is replaced now with the growth from use and trainings (mod by Kleho):
    – strength, agility, health, and reaction is growing rapidly in training and slowly during the battle;
    – bravery grows with the new military ranks and due to killing the aliens;
    – reaction, throwing and shooting accuracy is growing from the use on missions and exercises in the training center accelerates its growth;
    – every soldier have predispositions to certain skills that accelerates (or slows down) their growth;
  • the mechanism for assigning the initial and maximum values of skills to recruits (mod by Kleho);
  • interfaces of purchase and sale of the goods on base were combined together (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • now the full range of settings is displays always in the UniMod's configuration menu, but options that might be changed only from the main menu will be marked inactive if settings were opened from the active game mode;
  • improved the damaging of armour: now the weak effects do not affect its, and the degree of destruction depends on whether the armor is pierced by hit or not;
  • revised algorithm for calculating accuracy: increased dependence on the characteristics of unit and parameters of its weapon, changed the dependence on the distance;
  • the mechanism of the reservation of APs in the tactics was redesigned: the internal saving of information was introduced with the separate binding for each hand as well as with simplified output of this data in the game (without unnecessary recalculations);
  • the mechanism of psychic abilities was redesigned: reduced frequency of use, implemented the dependence on the target distance as well as the attacker's health, increased effect of victim's bravery (partly based on mod by Wacky);
  • was forbidden usage of psi-abilities against enemies from the list of memorized targets (now it's necessary that this target was seen by any ally);
  • was forbidden the psi-control for soldiers with non-zero morale (mod by Wacky);
  • psi-controlled soldier are now returning to normal state at the end of the player's turn, rather than at its beginning (is as in X-COM);
  • the buildings “Command center” and “Hospital Ward” deactivated temporarily until the full-functional bases are implemented;
  • was activated permanently and removed the “Hearmod” setting of UniMod;
  • were reduced scanner use AP costs and its sensor range was made conditional on the mod setting “Sight range of CAF units”;
  • was removed saving and displaying of information about aliens who injured/killed one or another soldier/agent;
  • were reduced parameters of the missile defense systems to the level of appropriate generation of the ship missiles;
  • was removed the dependence of intervals between standard operations of the aliens on a current level of their aggression (however it affects still the special operations);
  • was removed the possibility to train soldiers outside the base as well as the corresponding mod option (mod by Kleho);
  • was removed the screen of distribution of the characteristics for soldiers who gain promotion (mod by Kleho);
  • personnel capacity of the living wing was increased;
  • a chance to pick up unique items correlated to the difficulty level now;
  • CAF fighters now cease to follow the “last point” if their target UFO was destroyed when it has been invisible;
  • images of shotgun ammo in ufopedia were re-made in a similar style with the rocket launcher ones (gfx by GrandMouse);
  • various small changes and improvements in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Added:
  • new module of base — “Training center” (mod by Kleho);
  • market economy model with taking into account supply and demand of goods on the market and their impact on the prices of purchase and sale (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • illumination of cities on the night side of the globe for Earth (mod by Kleho);
  • categories of sorting of the goods in the interface of shop (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • descriptions for characteristics of soldiers in both recruitment menu and inventory one (by Tervod);
  • for the ranks of the Russian Army: descriptions for them in both recruitment menu and inventory one (by Tervod);
  • an opportunity to take on the “Centaurus” some equipment from the warehouses of the main base to supply the squad in the final missions;
  • unified handler of the hotkeys in menus and dialogs of the game, which now processing the pre-existing functionality of hotkeys;
  • support of handling of the hotkeys in the main menu of the game;
  • hotkeys to switch over the menu of hiring soldiers from the geoscape mode (mod by Kleho);
  • possibility to rename ships in the menu of management of aircrafts on the base (mod by DaFranker);
  • individual icons for crashed UFOs of each type (gfx by Mesh);
  • new images in the inventory management menu on the base for soldiers without armour (gfx by Nail);
  • displaying for recruits their total amount of statpoints — the current and maximal values;
  • indicators of increments for skills in the inventory management menu on the base (mod by Kleho);
  • highlighting for maximum values of skills: below the average, average, above the average (mod by Kleho);
  • highlighting of selector buttons of multistage options in the settings of UniMod, when they are in extreme values;
  • the mod option which allows to choose when it will be necessary to perform autosave after successful completion of a tactical operation;
  • the mod option which allows to select which achievements soldiers should to have in tactical operations to obtain new ranks;
  • the mod option which allows user to determine exactly whether will his units use reaction fire vs allies that were caught in the psi-control by aliens or not;
  • notification in the geo-log when UFO, that was discovered before, leaves the planet;
  • notification in the geo-log when a UFO was destroyed (so it works for the invisible ones too);
  • for Hungarian version: translation of some interface strings (imported from the localization of original game);

3 de abril, 2011

v.3.91.13

Fixed:
  • hung of the game on attempt to fire by “Anaconda” vehicle in the tactics;
  • an error with possible "resurrection" of a soldier who was killed during a tactical operation upon completion of it;
  • an error with possible incorrect registration of item in the slots of the hands for soldier who carried out operations with inventory under psi-control of aliens;
  • lack of updating of the indicator of morale in the tactical GUI when the current active soldier kills an enemy;
  • some small fixes in the game logics and dialogues;
Modified:
  • HWD-detection of parameters of UFOs is no longer dependent on the presence of detection system on the main base, but takes into account the type of station that track this UFO;
Added:
  • saving of a position of the scroller in the list of available technologies for production after creation of the job order for one of them;

27 de marzo, 2011

v.3.91.12

Fixed:
  • crash on call the health dialogue without activation of the healing procedures for this soldier;
  • crash when trying to start a tactical operation, when the time of its start and the time of disappearance of this mission from the globe were a same;
  • crash when switching between units in the inventory menu with hot keys while dragging any item of equipment when its previous position was occupied by another one;
  • hung of the game on attempt to fire a rocket by vehicle after exhausting its ammunition;
  • an error with the escape of shells beyond the range of a missile in the tactics (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with the ability to go beyond the boundaries of elevator in the tactics when user kept the hotkey of corresponding movement pressed;
  • an error with inability to stun the preachers and phantoms in the tactics;
  • an error with the possibility to clone portable teleports in the tactics;
  • an error with a possible change of owner of the portable teleporter during of conversion of tactical savegames of the previous versions of UniMod;
  • an error with a possible vanishing of weapon from an one hand of alien unit (or a soldier under the psi-control) when he used a grenade in another one;
  • an error with a possible “revoke” of a planned attack of aliens on the “Centaurus”, when there were only soldiers wounded in previous battles;
  • an error with saving of the queue of alien missions (that could lead to “revoke” of the swarm);
  • an error with background running of the time on the globe when you close the dialog box with the notice of lack of equipment to equip a soldier that returned from the training camp;
  • an error with the inaccessibility of bio-scanner to use after its studying;
  • an error with a possible drop of the internal in-built equipment from alien units in the tactics;
  • missing update in the tactics for icons of aliens who prove to be out of sight of CAF unit as it moves;
  • incorrect display of charges in the underfilled clip that was taken out from weapon in the tactics;
  • incorrect update the information components of the cursor in a number of situations in the tactics;
  • various small fixes in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Modified:
  • removed the degradation of textures of surfaces after explosion of an electromagnetic grenade;
  • removed lights for grenades in flight, as well as for shells and bullets from the kinetic weapons;
Added:
  • saving of a position of the camera in the tactics when transferring move to aliens with further return the camera to this position at the beginning of the next round;

28 de diciembre, 2010

v.3.91.11

Fixed:
  • crash on start of a tactical mission when the log “Geoscape: Globe 'n' Base” was enabled;
  • crash in the map editor when editing object was moved out of the map bounds;
  • an error with recharging of weapons by aliens;
  • an error with disappearing object in the hands of a soldier who has been caught in the psi-control when he tried to replace it with something else;
  • an error with the destruction of the ships on a CAF base that was captured by aliens, when at the time of capture they were are outside the base;
  • continued operation of radar stations as well as maintenance of ships on a CAF base after the capture of it by aliens;
  • paving the way in tactics through positions that occupied with AI-controlled units when they were discovered, but stay outside the current fields of vision of CAF units;
  • an incorrect count of the quantity of captured UFO berths for vessels that might to have paired modules of such type (as from the cruiser);
  • duplication of textures, walls and objects when editing map from the package common (fixed by Kleho);
  • various small fixes in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Modified:
  • AP reservation mode is no longer resets when unit taking in hand an item that can not be used for the reaction fire in this mode (reserve for it just is not considered);
  • revised the algorithm of a choice by alien (or PSI-controlled soldier) the most suitable weapons and/or grenades to combat;
  • in the map editor the placeholders of transports and UFOs were removed from the list of fragments available for editing (fixed by Kleho);
  • improved clarity of path marks, LOS marks, as well as the fonts in the menu of selection of fire modes in the tactics;
  • expanded set of options for UniMod's setting “Notify when UFO detected”;
  • XCOM-agents now will not leave any trophies after one's death;
Added:
  • automatic switching to unit's arm with a weapon after healing, scanning, or throwing actions;
  • in the help menu of the map editor the tips about switching of the modes of editor were added (mod by Kleho);
  • in the map editor a warning message was added for situations when exiting the mode of fragment edit, if you have made any changes (mod by Kleho);

13 de diciembre, 2010

v.3.91.10

Fixed:
  • an error with possibility move from the “Sale” menu of base interface to a false mode of purchase of the ships that could result in loss of money;
  • an error with possibility of resuming the suspended production of aircrafts without payment of expenses;
  • retaining of the weight of used rocket in the total load level of unit till his weapon will be recharged;
  • the possibility of switching to the mode of treatment (with the consumption of APs) after exhausting the capacity of a first-aid kit;
  • incorrect displaying of the number of shots in the menu of selection of fire modes in the tactics, when the clip was close to exhaustion;
  • incorrect displaying of the cursor in the aiming mode in tactics when it was over an invisible enemy unit;
  • incorrect displaying of the state of production of aircrafts after its suspension due to lack of available hangars;
  • confused functionality of the buttons of reservation of APs for aimed and burst modes of fire;

12 de diciembre, 2010

v.3.91.9

Fixed:
  • unprompted “touchdown” of flying vehicles during an emergency stop while it moving (for example, when an enemy was detected);
  • missing update the information components of the cursor in a number of situations in the tactics;
  • incorrect displaying of the attainability of route by the path markers for flying units;
  • incorrect consumption of APs by “Desert Eagle” vehicle when it moving near the ground;
  • incorrect (non-)displaying of LOS indicators under cursor on the tactical map in some situations;
  • incorrect value of the progress of manufacturing of any product when resuming it after suspension;
  • removed the possibility of soldiers to fly up in the kneeled position;
  • removed the checks of the reserved APs when unit have a lesser amount of it than it's necessary for reserved action(s);
  • various small fixes in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Modified:
  • changed the colour scheme used for path marks in the tactics: green - unit can move, yellow - reserve of APs, red - not enough APs (corresponding mod setting “Show Movement Paths” was transformed to two-position);
  • size of an order for production of the aircrafts isn't limited now by number of free hangars though still demands them in the presence (mod by Hyoufuu);
Added:
  • check the reserved action(s) in tactics when unit performs kneeling or level up/down movements (press Shift to avoid it);
  • if unit doesn't have enough AP to perform a full turning in defined direction, now it will perform an incomplete action at the amount of available APs;

2 de diciembre, 2010

v.3.91.8

Fixed:
  • an error with ignoring the reserve of AP during the movements of unit on the tactical map;
  • an error with the non-working reserve of AP for armoured vehicles;
  • missing update the information components of the cursor in a number of situations in the tactics;
  • missing update the path markers in some situations in the tactics;
  • was removed the double centring of the camera at the beginning of a tactical operation when the animated GUI was enabled and at the same time the mod option “Order of photos in tactic GUI” was set to “Backward”;
Modified:
  • algorithm of updating of the cursor in the tactics was optimized to exclude some of unnecessary calculations related to updating of the path markers;

1 de diciembre, 2010

v.3.91.7

Fixed:
  • crash when loading a tactical savegame, which has contained destroyed “Desert Eagle”;
  • crash when loading a tactical savegame, which has contained some of the technologies that can be disabled through the config of UniMod, when it was disabled before in fact;
  • an error with not changed state of a soldier with an automatic sending him from the training camp back to the base;
  • was removed the check of sight and hearing for units that are either dead or falled unconscious;
Modified:
  • in the articles and interfaces of the English version some words of American English are replaced by analogs of British English;

28 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.91.6

Fixed:
  • an error with duplication of events in the resuming of production when the negative balance of the project become positive;
  • an error with accounting of achievements of units in the tactical operations when the mission was passed without a reboot of savegames;
  • an error with the continuation of ship service after their takeoff from the base;
  • stopping of researches when the balance of the project become negative;
  • deselection of ships during the handling of modes of attack, when the mod option “Deselection of planes that obtain an order” was set to “Always”;
  • various small fixes in the game interfaces and dialogues;

21 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.91.5

Fixed:
  • crash at generation of alien operation of the “retaliation” type when the current conditions don't allow them to select any other mission, except the search of CAF base, but at that time there would have been no regions in which it would be necessary to conduct such a search;

21 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.91.4

Fixed:
  • crash when aliens attacked “Centaurus” on the Earth/Mars;
  • lack of icon of the laboratory on “Centaurus” if it arrived on the Earth/Mars before upgrading of the game to v3.91;

20 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.91.3

Fixed:
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation where the Hallucinoids were present among alien team and the technical level of a main race of this team was higher than ionic;

18 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.91.2

Fixed:
  • crash during of processing of shell hits the UFO of a burst from GAU-12-30 when it has been downed before the ending of cycle of the current processing;
  • crash when sending “Centaurus” on the final mission;
  • incorrect set of the functional buildings that are available for “Centaurus” after its landing;
  • incorrect updating of the indicators of UFO buttons on the globe after the rebuilding of their list when one of UFOs has disappeared from a radar;
Modified:
  • the algorithm of keeping a distance with UFOs by CAF ships in aggressive mode of behaviour was improved (now they will try to lock horns with a target according to the description of this mode of behaviour in settings);
  • the algorithm of keeping a distance with CAF ships by UFOs was improved to avoid a jerking on the boundary of weapon range;
  • optimized auxiliary checks on a position of units in the tactical operation “Spaceport”;
  • the sound of fire from the GAU-12-30 cannon was brought into accord with the its mode of fire (mod by Ro-mis);

16 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.91.1

Fixed:
  • crash at end of tactical operation when the combat vehicles were attended among the units of squad that distinguished itself in action;

16 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.91

Fixed:
  • crash during of participation of an interceptor in dogfight on the globe when it had only single slot equipped with a weapon;
  • crash on attempt of centering the globe camera on object that not exist more (for example, when UFO has left a terror site);
  • crash on conversion of CAF base that was captured by aliens into their colony;
  • hung of the game during of shooting in tactic in some specific situations when a target was obstructed by something or when both shooter and target were big units in close contact;
  • a potential error in algorithm of calculation of expenses of the APs needed to carry out an actions in tactics (could lead to “AP lack” even when amount of APs was enough to perform it);
  • an error with inversion of keys of the keyboard “previous”/“next” during choosing of units in the inventory menu in tactics, when a direct order of photos was used in the tactical GUI (by means of corresponding mod);
  • an error with passing of the flying CAF units through horizontal floors in tactic when using buttons of the individual pop-up menu;
  • an error with possibility of cloning of the two-handled weapons at use of an auxiliary hand after cancellation of preparation of a shot;
  • an error with possibility to drop down the personal antigrav in tactic by interchanging it with some of inventory items;
  • an error in algorithm of AI of UFOs that lead to considering of dangerousness of CAF ships which were out of bounds of its scanners;
  • an error with looping AI of UFOs in the escape behaviour;
  • an error with a rate of fire of the laser ship cannon;
  • an error with immovability of aircraft which has obtained the order to follow to already existing waypoint (+ also automatic deselection of this craft was removed);
  • an error with displaying of phantom waypoints on the globe after reloading of savegame;
  • an error with incorrect height of placement of the icons of missions on the globe (due to using of coordinates of corresponding UFOs);
  • an error with discrepancy of the area of capture of objects on the globe with the area outlined by rectangle of selection;
  • was removed unnecessary displaying of the rectangle of selection during operations both with the ship selection buttons and with the ship behaviour management ones;
  • was removed unnecessary displaying of the dialogue window with info about “detected” UFO when it starts a terror mission;
  • was removed retention of the base construction mode during operations with the time on globe;
  • was removed interdiction for execution of indirect operations with equipment in the inventory menu in tactic;
  • was removed influence of the mod option “Camera centering mode” on behaviour of the camera when player just chose a unit;
  • was removed deselection of unit at beginning of terror operation which was started with showing of the hint dialogue;
Modified:
  • colour differentiation of default values of the options and tuned ones was introduced into the menu of UniMod settings instead of text marks;
  • the algorithm of keeping a distance with UFOs by CAF ships depending on its behavior was improved;
  • the speed properties of UFOs were revised (cruise speed as well as maximal speed);
  • the threshold of hull strength was reduced (it must be meet to shoot down UFO);
  • at the end of the terror mission UFO now doesn't disappear into the blue, but covers some distance on the globe and leaves its in usual order;
  • various small changes and improvements in the game interfaces and dialogues;
Added:
  • workpiece for introduction of the Hungarian language into the UniMod;
  • the mod option which allows to choose when it will be necessary to deselect planes on globe automatically;
  • a new algorithm of damage distribution for aircraft weapons with the burst shooting mode (it's applied for GAU-12-30 now);
  • support of hotkeys in the menu of displaying of financial results of the project;
  • support of group selection of ships in the dialogue of a choice of objects, which displayed on the globe when several entities had appeared in area of mouse click;
  • inverse relationship of the size of active area of click around objects on the globe from a height of the camera over its surface;
  • own numbering for terror missions on the globe;
  • pop-up tooltips in tactical GUI over the buttons of up/down and kneeling actions, displaying cost of these operations reckon with a class of unit;

11 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.90.2

Fixed:
  • arbitrary crashes of the engine on launch of the game (video-animation has been temporarily replaced by sprites);
  • memory leak in the tactic during of quickloading procedure when any unit was selected active;
  • crash on exiting from the unified dialogue when it was shown not on the globe;
  • an error in the algorithm of verifying of stored equipment during operations with the soldier's inventory on the base;
  • an error with the step of changing of amount of the ordered goods in the production menu;
  • an error with placement of aircrafts into hangars during procedures of both production and transfer of this ship;
  • an error with absence of dropship in the hangar at the beginning of new game;
  • an error with displaying of the names of states on the globe at the beginning of new game;
Modified:
  • clicking by mouse on “Stop” timebutton as well as choosing it by hotkey now works in much the same way with the “Space” key — the time will be stopped and the timebutton will be highlighted (w/o complete switching of it);
  • now waypoints will be placed on the surface of planet instead of placement of it at the flight altitude of aircraft;
  • various small changes and improvements in interfaces and dialogues;

8 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.90.1

Fixed:
  • crash on opening of the unit's inventory in the base management interface;
  • crash on generation of composition of the squad of UFOs when few “leaders” was there;
  • crash due to error in determining the names of tactical maps for certain types of terrains (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with absence of the screen of modules after switching from one base to another;
  • an error with absence of the dialogue screen for distribution of skill points for soldiers who had been promoted during the tactical operation;
  • for the Russian version: wrong displaying of junior ranks on the screen with the mission results for some of available systems of ranks;

8 de noviembre, 2010

v.3.90

Fixed:
  • crash on loading of some randomly generated maps (fixed by Kleho);
  • crash on attempt to disembark from dropship at the place where a CAF base was earlier, when it was demolished by aliens while DS was en route;
  • crash on finishing of construction of the alien base in certain situations because of an error in the id of UFO-builder;
  • crash on explosion of a munition with “area effect” when it hits a “roof” of the tactical map (due to beyond the boundaries of the level);
  • crash when unit under psi-control tried to determine the level of danger of negative effects on the tactical map (fire, gas);
  • crash when AI unit tried to determine the level of danger of negative effects on the tactical map (fire, gas), when his health was close to zero;
  • crash on attempt to rotate the camera (with the mouse or by using hotkeys) at the end of a tactical mission;
  • memory leaks at the ending of tactical operation, when the it was finished by hotkey;
  • potential error in the handler for the event queue which can lead to the removal of a wrong object from this;
  • potential error in the handler for the rotation of armoured vehicles and robots on the tactical map that can cause the game to crash when they moving on the map;
  • a potential error in the converter of EMP & AM technologies in the mod settings, that can lead to crashes and faults when the samples of these technologies were present in the profiles of equipment;
  • an error with a choice of maps for some of the tactical operations due to inaccurate positioning of it on the globe (a dialogue with the warning “proper map is not found”);
  • an error with background running of the time on the globe when you close the dialog box with the notice of lack of equipment to equip a soldiers according to their profiles of equipment when preparing a squad to defend the main base (a crash was possible here too);
  • an error with displaying of invisible marker of a landed UFO after reloading of savegame on the globe;
  • an error with a choice of invisible UFOs to attack it by CAF ships when the mod “Attack nearest UFO” was switched on;
  • an error with doubled rate of repairing and refuelling for CAF ships;
  • an error with the increasing of free space in the barracks when any vehicle was lost in a tactical operation;
  • an error with “reviving” of aliens, who died during of unsuccessful attempt to storm the alien base, if a player has retreat from the combat;
  • an error with repeated calculation of the death for aliens in the downed UFO, when the operation performing in several attempts there;
  • an error with the generation of UFO crew for some operations (it could lead to a lack of commanders);
  • an error with calculating of visibility of aliens at the beginning of tactical mission (lack of active markers and the subsequent “discovery” notifications even for opponents who are on the mind);
  • an error with visibility of aliens at the beginning of turn, when a soldier that had seen these aliens was killed or stunned during of their turn;
  • an error with discharging of personal shields and their subsequent loss at the end of tactical operations, even when these PSG are not exposed to weapon hits;
  • an error with displaying inactive button in the healing menu to restore morale when using stimpack;
  • an error with applying of accuracy bonus to grenades as though it was one-handed weapon used with two hands;
  • an error with the change of priority of targets for the AI units in tactical operations after restart of savegame;
  • an error with impassability of the cone of light for street lamps on the tactical maps;
  • an error with the ability to destroy a CAF dropship on some tactical maps;
  • an error with the ability to send the “Centaurus” on mission before “The interstellar spacecraft” project was researched;
  • an error with the ability to send a fighter on mission to win back a CAF base which was captured by aliens;
  • an error with the possibility of doubling a UFO crew or garrison of alien base when main and support races were same there;
  • an error with the ability to sell the alien containment with live aliens, if unfinished buildings of the same type was there on this base;
  • an error with incorrect displaying of time remaining until the finishing of building(s) on base after it was win back from aliens;
  • an error with incorrect displaying of preconditions for researches in the lab menu for projects which are depend on the study of alien ships;
  • errors in the ufopedia with saving of old position of the text scroller when you switching between the articles as well as between sections;
  • an error with saving of the icon of alien base on the globe when a CAF base was retaken back from aliens;
  • an error with playing sound of hits on the globe when the setting “Sounds on the globe” was disabled;
  • an error with playing an animation of inactivity for “Anaconda” and “Hammer” vehicles in a tactical mission (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with a possible interruption of a burst fire for CAF soldiers due to a negative result of check on the line of fire;
  • an error with markers of reach of targets from a point under the mouse cursor;
  • an error with truncation of range of the weapons during of calculation of the distance to the target, when it was on different floors with shooter;
  • an error with the definition of coordinates of the target relative to the shooter (could lead to a lack of line of fire at the enemy, while he had the opportunity to shoot, as well as a possible invulnerability of unit that squatting on a hill);
  • zero values of damage during a tactical operation displayed in damage bubbles and in the CombatLog;
  • an incorrect image of a shoulder strap in the Tactical GUI after loading a savegame when the system of ranks using with a variety of straps for the field and everyday forms;
  • an incorrect displaying of the number of critical injuries for unit after exit from the healing dialogue, when this unit has healed himself;
  • centering the camera on shooter and targets, as well as on active unit when the “Camera centering mode” setting was disabled;
  • lack of centering the camera on the target when shooting it during the alien turn when the appropriate setting of mod was switched on;
  • lack of display of frags for soldiers at the end of the tactical operations;
  • lack of reloading of aircraft weapons in the dogfight while shooting of this type of weapon was disabled by user;
  • lack of aggression from a leader of UFO squad until he wasn't attacked by CAF ships;
  • lack of backlighting of icons “Recruits” and “Soldiers” when switching to these sections in the base management interface;
  • random switching between textures of the cursor on the globe when it points to a group of objects of different types;
  • reverse switching to main menu back from the geoscape mode when you had pressed “ESC” button before exiting from the main menu to globe;
  • delay in processing of second and subsequent events in the queue when they has the same actuation time with the first one;
  • for the Russian version: wrong (old) name of Avonium on the corresponding image in ufopedia (fixed by Hyoufuu);
Modified:
  • functionality of map editor was improved and extended (mod by Kleho);
  • the mechanism of operation with the daylight and night maps for tactical mode was unified (mod by Kleho);
  • shaders were optimized that used to show a range of coverage for radar stations as well as to highlight states on the globe (mod by Kleho);
  • time intervals were revised for geoscape mode;
  • “Space” key is applied now to suspend/resume time in geoscape mode in any of the selected rate of it;
  • the time rate wouldn't be reset to “5 sec” more when you returning back to globe from the base management menu or options menu; now it will be suspended in your chosen rate (+ mod setting was added to disable auto-suspending);
  • buttons for choosing of CAF aircrafts were re-made to increase usability and decrease square of it (-30% width);
  • algorithms of formation of the buttons for choosing of CAF aircrafts as well as of UFOs was revised (+ few old errors were fixed here);
  • mod setting “Size of CAF ship buttons” works more flexible now — you can chose size of it percental;
  • 3D models of CAF aircrafts and UFO vessels were replaced by sprites (gfx by Mesh);
  • pictogrammes of downed and landed UFOs, bases and another sites were re-drawn in same look with new ships (gfx by Mesh);
  • some resource-intensive algorithms related to 3D ships were removed: rotation, keeping distance, positioning and etc.;
  • AI of UFO ships in the dogfight was improved;
  • characteristics were revised for CAF aircrafts and UFO vessels, as well as for their weapons;
  • advanced aircraft equipment was allocated into the individual category “Avionics”;
  • speed rate of shells and rockets on the globe was increased considerably;
  • the targeting time for weapons of CAF aircrafts as well as UFO vessels will be count off again when ship has changed its target;
  • an algorithm of enhancement of CAF aircrafts was revised and new state “mounting equipment” was added for it; also the speed of repairing (slightly) and refuelling (strongly) were increased;
  • an algorithm of processing of the states of CAF aircrafts (refuelling/repairing/etc.) was re-made to decrease CPU load and exclude off bug with defaulting of critical damages;
  • an algorithm of choosing of a mission and target for retaliation by aliens was re-made; also frequency of “Mining” mission was increased;
  • an algorithm of growth of the retaliatory aggression of aliens was revised and tied with the difficulty level;
  • number of UFO ships in the squads as well as total power of these squads were decreased (dependent of the difficulty level);
  • variance of eras for final mission was removed to have strongest alien races in the last mission;
  • an algorithm of improving of the recruits was re-made: now it uses weighting coefficients for stats and the probability of improving will be dependent on difficulty level and current era;
  • the training camp ability was restricted to first 50% of experience needed to gain level-up; now unit must to get second half of it in the combat (+ automatical returning of a soldier to base after finishing of training);
  • new ranks wouldn't be bestowed now if challenger hadn't killed any alien during of a tactical mission;
  • new ranks wouldn't be bestowed now if team has retreat from a tactical mission;
  • system of ranks of the vanilla game was extended by 3 ranks to unify it with another systems;
  • bounds of experience needed to gain level-up were revised (+ new system is used for any system of ranks now);
  • order of retreating from a tactical operation was transformed — now DS can abandon mission only when aliens will finish their turn (for parity observance by turns);
  • mod setting “Detailed Combat Information” now capable to switch CombatLog off totally and it wouldn't dependent on manipulations with it during of the tactical game;
  • mod setting “Camera: default zoom” now determines its zoom height by default and doesn't change when you manipulate with it during of the tactical game;
  • mod setting “Smoke/Flame Particles” was transformed from two-position to multistage option — to provide most flexible tuning (it's in a strong position to influence on performance in the tactic);
  • mod setting “Attack nearest UFO” was transformed from two-position to multistage option — to provide possibility determine a range of searching for new targets to attack it;
  • next mod settings were activated permanently and removed: “Delete zoom form”, “UFOs Travel In Packs”, “Advanced interception mode”, “Crashed UFO Damage”, “what you see mod”, “Hurting commanders”, “Improved Base Defences”, “Flying tanks”, “Soldier Salary Dependent on Rank”, “Accelerated recruits training”;
  • mod setting “XP Bonus for Successful Mission” was tied with the type of operation and removed permanently;
  • mod setting “Alien Bounty Reward” was tied with the difficulty level and removed permanently (+ also dependent on current era);
  • cost basis of recruiting was tied with salary of soldier (corresponding mod setting “Hire Soldier Cost” was removed permanently) while the growth of salaries was tied with groups of ranks (sergeants / junior officers / senior officers);
  • cost basis of training was fixed at grade and will be increased with the rank of soldier now (corresponding mod setting “Train soldier cost” was removed permanently);
  • next mod settings were fixed at grade and removed permanently: “Purchase delivery time: ships” (48 h), “Purchase delivery time: tanks” (24 h), “Hire Soldier Delay” (24 h), “Purchase delivery time: equipment” (12 h), “Training camp: time in transit” (4 h), “XP Bonus for 1 day of training” (dependent on rank of soldier);
  • next mod settings were deactivated permanently and removed: “Special soldier names” and “Aggressive attack, % max.dist”;
  • mod setting “Show names of base” was renamed to “Show names on the Globe” and now also manages of names of the states on globe;
  • mod settings “Globe ships size Multiplier” and “UFO mission icon size scale” were united in single setting “Size scale for objects on Globe”, which now also managing of size of the rockets and shells on globe;
  • area of click around objects on the globe wouldn't dependent on the mod setting “Size scale for objects on Globe” now;
  • hull numbering of UFOs will be by order of detection now, but not by absolute id as it was before;
  • automatic deselection of the ships on the globe after management of their arms was disabled (if you wish deselect any aircrafts, you must use middle button of mouse or corresponding hotkey);
  • non-game functionality was taken out of the general game menus (state of it will be managed by extended config now);
  • the error to determine the distance of the transitional zone of ships from the base on the globe (and back), reaching the destination point, etc. was reduced;
  • clarity of fonts for the labels on the globe was increased (names of bases, names of regions);
  • textures of footsteps for BT “Cyclops” in the tactics were replaced (mod by Kleho);
  • base management interface will now display icons only those sections for which the appropriate buildings are constructed;
  • inventory menu on the base and in the tactical operations will now use hotkeys left/right instead of special buttons to select the next/previous unit;
  • in ufopedia for weapons that have several types of ammunition the specific their characteristics will be displayed now only in the articles of the corresponding clips/cartridges;
  • removed restrictions on the number of items sold in the shop at the base;
  • revised the location and grouping of settings of the mod in the appropriate menus;
  • also many small changes and improvements in interfaces and dialogues are here;
Added:
  • absent tactical maps for night missions (mod by Kleho);
  • output of additional information about the process of initializing the game when it starts (mod by Kleho);
  • a new type of armoured vehicles which also uses a new model of movement (mod by Kleho);
  • a new mechanism of defence of the CAF bases (+ extended set of characteristics of the air defence systems);
  • a set of shoulder straps for the U.S. Marine Corps — with the appropriate line of ranks (gfx by Diablo Negro);
  • displaying indicators of charge of the personal shields of units the in tactical interface (mod by Kleho);
  • displaying an indicator panel of charge the personal shield in the personal inventory of unit;
  • displaying information about capacity of the individual (not charged in weapons) ammunition clips in the personal inventory of unit;
  • displaying characteristics of weapons mounted on armoured vehicles in the personal inventory of unit;
  • the effect of body tilt for hovering vehicles of CAF (mod by Kleho);
  • new visual effects for a laser weapons in tactics (trace, effect of hit);
  • hotkeys in the tactics to move camera to the detected aliens (CTRL+0 .. CTRL+9) (mod by Kleho);
  • alternative hotkeys for the ending of turn and cancelling the selection of unit in the tactics (mod by Kleho);
  • support for exit by “Esc” key from the pop-up dialog boxes on the globe and in the tactics, which are processed by the unified dialog handler;
  • unification of the dialog boxes on the globe, operating with information about UFOs and alien bases, with a common handler of single- and two-button dialogues which was introduced in v3.84 (now control of the keyboard is supported here too);
  • the possibility of presence of more than one “leader” in a group of UFOs (the probability and quantity depend on the type of operation as well as the difficulty level);
  • transferring of the races of a crew of UFO which performing construction of alien base into its garrison as well as for one that attacking CAF base — into the land troops there;
  • saving of characteristics of a UFO crash to provide the immutability of its result regardless of the time of operation;
  • saving of corpses of the aliens in the properties of tactical mission — to avoid losses in the trophies and awards when this operation is performed in several attempts;
  • separate accounting of the alien corpses captured in tactical operations with the addition of an appropriate bonus to the overall rating of operations;
  • information about the course of UFOs in general dialogue with information about discovered alien ships;
  • algorithm to increase the area of processing of mouse clicks, depending on the distance from the centre of the screen (taking into account the curvature of the globe, adding possibility to click off its surface);
  • automatic scaling of 3D-objects on the globe when the camera zoomed (currently applies only to rockets and shells);
  • information menu for waypoints (destination points) for CAF aircrafts in the geoscape mode;
  • the ability to assign the same waypoint for a few ships;
  • the ability to send dropship on mission without loading a battle group (for reconnaissance, patrolling, etc.);
  • the ability to manage dropship when it returns after the operation (but a second operation wouldn't be started without returning to the base!);
  • the possibility to save mode of fire for each aircraft on the globe between flights (with the mod setting “Default Weapon Mode”);
  • autosales for delivery of purchased goods which were in transit if the base of the recipient was captured by aliens;
  • the possibility of selling/buying/ordering equipment in base management menus with step of 1000 (by Shift + Ctrl + LClick);
  • the possibility of permanent removal of recruits from the list of recruitment (to speed up the processing of lists of the recruits and reduce time to save/load games);
  • dependence of the residual cost of sold buildings based on its type (for unfinished ones also taking into account the amount of time that has elapsed since the start of construction);
  • article in ufopedia for advanced aircraft equipment (by Zagogulio);
  • articles in ufopedia for shotgun munitions (by Matias);
  • displaying in ufopedia information about positive and negative effects of equipment and outfits;
  • displaying in ufopedia information about the characteristics of UFOs;
  • displaying in ufopedia information about the cost and complexity of production equipment for the UFOs;
  • displaying in ufopedia information about weight, cost and effects for unique items;
  • displaying in ufopedia information about capacity of buildings on the base;

20 de julio, 2010

v.3.84.2

Fixed:
  • impossibility to shoot from some positions on the tactical map because of incorrect calculation of the height of weapon (sometimes this problem led to situation when the shooter hurt himself);
  • incorrect check for possibility to use grenades by alien units in some cases;
  • incorrect calculations of alien unit as a hidden when it was in the fog of war partially;
  • absence of displaying of the frame of aiming for animated cursor in the tactic;
  • absence of updating of the indicator of psi-defence in the inventory of unit during of manipulations with the psionic devices;
  • absence of the check for “area effect” for eeew-rifle when unit shot it in the close combat;
  • absence of the check of range for weapons when unit used reaction fire;
  • absence of the check for possibility to throw a grenade as far as necessary position to hit target when unit used reaction fire;

18 de julio, 2010

v.3.84.1

Fixed:
  • crash on exiting on the Globe after detection of any memory leaks during of de-initialization of the tactical map, when GUI of Globe wasn't initialized completely yet;
  • crash on loading of the tactical savegame if any CAF unit was under ceiling of the map there;
  • an error with impassability of some parts of landing zone on the tactical map;
  • an error with impossibility to throw grenade from certain positions on the tactical map (hillock, landing apron, etc.);
  • doubling of the ammunition for “Desert sun” vehicles which were on the tactical missions as well as on the base (after applying of v.3.84);

17 de julio, 2010

v.3.84

Fixed:
  • crash on retreat from a tactical mission when a part of the team is out of the transport;
  • crash on using of “Esc” button when initialization of the animated tactical GUI wasn't finished;
  • deactivation of the user interface in the tactical operation when at first a terror mission was started with showing of the hint dialogue and then any another tactical savegame was loaded;
  • several memory leaks at retreat from the tactical operation;
  • an error with a possibility to set same names for different soldiers during of renaming of them (that lead to various problems later);
  • an error with a possibility to apply medikits remotely using hotkeys;
  • an error with the load level of unit when it had picked up a weapon of heavier type than the one which he used before;
  • stochastic choice for barrel of in-built weapons of vehicles (could lead to alternate of (im)possibility to shoot from it when standing on the same position);
  • incorrect displaying of indicator in the inventory menu on a tactical mission for partially consumed shield of vehicle unit;
  • incorrect displaying of AP costs at tooltip over cursor on the tactical map when a load level of unit was changed;
  • several errors with updating and displaying of indicators related to cursor on the tactical map;
  • several errors with verifying of the line of sight and incorrect displaying of LOS indicators under cursor on the tactical map;
  • an error with absent animation for face of unit in the tactical GUI (white noise) when the corresponding option was switched on;
  • an error with absent image in the tactical GUI for vehicle (white noise) when the “Face Mod” option was switched off;
  • lack of remembering of the height of camera on the tactical map when it was changed during the game (the value from config was used always);
  • for Russian version: displaying of same names for larva and kinglarva in some interfaces;
Modified:
  • algorithms of processing as well as style of displaying were refactored and unified for standard dialogue windows for both the globe and for the tactical mode;
  • some notify messages will be shown in a new style now to avoid necessity to confirm it;
  • sprites which are used for LOS indicators were remade;
  • algorithm of damaging of the walls and structures was revised to provide better dependence from the type of damage as well as from its area effect;
  • availability of the researches of advanced XCOM tactics will dependent whether these procedures were performed for previous researches of this group or not;
Added:
  • automatic playing for “Credits” in the main menu (mod by Kleho);
  • automatic notification to player about detection of the memory leaks and creation of appropriate files which should be sent to author of UniMod to solve this problem;
  • ability to use keyboard to control standard dialogue windows (“Left” / “Right” / “Enter” keys) with highlighting of a currently selected button;
  • internal setting to store the status of displaying (on / off) of the radar coverage on the Globe;
  • animation of cursor on the tactical map when using the healing devices;

9 de julio, 2010

v.3.83

Added:
  • a complete integration and support for the Gold version of the game;

6 de julio, 2010

v.3.82

Fixed:
  • crash at the beginning of overnight tactical operation when the generator of random missions was used — due to lack of night-time versions of some maps (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with choosing of targets by AI, which led to unaggressive behaviour of the alien units;
  • an error with the inversion of values of the mod option “Soldier Placement”;
  • an error with preservation of used personal shields at the end of the tactical operations;
  • an error with undervaluing of aircrafts after the installation of improved equipment on them;
  • displaying of results of hit (shield / armour / injury) as well as the negative effects of hit (heaviness / bleeding) for invisible targets in the combat log;
  • the option “Show LOS Circles” will no longer affect on reaction fire (during of enemy turn);
Modified:
  • the mechanism of displaying of the packages which are available for map editor, to avoid crashes when you try to select an unprepared package;
  • the mechanism of storage and use of interface strings and articles in ufopedia for both planets — to avoid duplication of records in the files;
  • an algorithm of processing of the “last used” savegame — now it based only on player's activity without taking into account the parameters of files;
  • displaying of the load level of unit in the inventory menu (with icons instead of abbreviations);
Added:
  • a complete translation of the UniMod for German (translated by Lostnice);
  • for Spanish version: translation of some interface strings (translated by Xracer);
  • information board in inventory menu for tactical missions to show info aboout AP cost before an operation with equipment will be performed;
  • lighting / shading of positions in the menu of selection of the firemode, depending on whether the lack of AP to use this mode;
  • a random distribution of APs for alien and neutral units in the beginning of tactical operations;
  • now the same unit will be chosen as active at the beginning of new turn which was active on previous turn;
  • set of straps for the German army — with the appropriate line of ranks (mod by Lostnice);
  • active / passive behaviour for buttons of the main menu, depending on the state of options for which they are responsible;
  • optional mod that allows to choose the order of photos of units in the tactical GUI;
  • optional mod that allows to adjust the default value of zoom for camera in the tactical missions;
  • optional mod that allows to adjust the size of font in the combat log in tactics;
  • optional mod that allows to adjust the size of font in the event log on the globe;
  • removing of auxiliary files of UniMod when you exit the game;

25 de febrero, 2010

v.3.81.3

Fixed:
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation for defend the main CAF base;
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation on the alien mothership (fixed by Kleho);
  • crash on loading of savegame of a tactical mission on the alien mothership which was made on version of UniMod lesser than 3.80 (fixed by Kleho);

23 de febrero, 2010

v.3.81.2

Fixed:
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation for retake a base that was captured by aliens (fixed by Kleho);
  • some potential errors and crashes in the converter of savegames of the previous versions of mod;
  • an error with disabling of researches related to electromagnetic technology and antimatter one (that was possible to cause damage of research tree);
  • an error with stopped time on the Globe when either aliens had captured a new state or a CAF base was destroyed;
  • an error with the choice of font type for the tooltips, when its defined name wasn't correspond to chosen language;
  • absence of SEG shells for the shotgun on offer at the beginning of the new game;
Modified:
  • mechanism of determining of the colour of tooltips in the game settings was revised to provide possibility of using of highest bit in the alpha channel (fonts without transparency);

22 de febrero, 2010

v.3.81.1

Fixed:
  • crash during of loading of nightly maps of “corridors” type (fixed by Kleho);
  • lack of UFO of the 4 and 5 type on maps that were made by conversion of the test terrain map (addition to fix of v.3.81);
  • decreasing of the damaging capability of negative area effects on a tactical map after reloading of savegame with it;
  • re-roll of PRNG for unconscious units after reloading of savegame with them;
  • an error with retained both the class of load and flight possibility for CAF soldier which had dropped all its equipment when falling unconscious;
Modified:
  • Hallucinoids might arrive at the second era now — to fill a niche of psi-units there;
  • processing of falling of CAF soldiers to unconscious state after injuries was speeded up;
  • loading of tactical savegames with aggressive smokes or fire was made a bit faster;

21 de febrero, 2010

v.3.81

Fixed:
  • crash at the ending of tactical operation at the place of terror, if civilians were survived there;
  • crash at the beginning of tactical operation when the test terrain map was chosen for it;
  • hung of the game during of the calculation of experience for CAF soldier which had warring with his companions being under the mind-control;
  • an error with excessive action points of armoured vehicles in tactical operations;
  • an error with incorrect texture assigned for some types of missiles that were shot from a portable rocket launcher;
  • an error with non-changing texture of cursor when targeting selected aircrafts in pause mode on the Golbe;
  • an error with non-applied font family for tooltips when it was changed in game settings (till restart of the game);
  • an error with inability to throw to both the medikit and stimpak;
  • incorrect displaying of names of civilian units in the Combat-log;
  • incorrect displaying of name in the Combat-log when an invisible unit had triggered a primed mine;
  • incorrect displaying of confirmation menu that called to leave tactical mission when all units are onboard of a transport;
  • incorrect information in mission results about reason of death of unit which was abandoned in tactical operation after retreat;
  • death in the flight for units that were unconscious after a tactical operation for defence of their base;
  • an algorithm of choosing of unit that is closest to exit from a transport at begin of a tactical operation as well as an algorithm of assigning of the hotkeys for units in a transport;
  • turning of a transport ship in direction to its base after end of a tactical operation without necessity to turn around on a mission site;
Modified:
  • functionality of the notices in the game settings menu was revised and expanded;
  • detection of possible doors at a place of right-clicking the mouse was improved to provide possibility of opening the doors by vehicles;
  • (in)vulnerability to both an electromagnetic pulse and psi-attack doesn't changes after deterioration of characteristics of armour now;
  • incendiary rocket had not requires of research and it's available on the start of the game now;
  • preconditions for some researches were modified;
Added:
  • for Spanish version: translation of part of the texts of interfaces as well as articles of ufopedia (translated by Xracer);
  • penalty to mission results if a transport ship was lost there;

16 de febrero, 2010

v.3.80.1

Fixed:
  • crash in the interface of a base when calling for either sell or transferring menu, if this game was begun on the 3.80 version (+ fix for savegames that were made already with it);
  • crash on conversion of savegames of version 3.80, which were made in a tactical operation with using of generator of the maps (fixed by Kleho);
  • crash on loading of savegames of a previous version of mod, which were made in a tactical operation with a pre-defined type of terrain;
  • few errors in the converter of savegames of the previous versions of mod;
  • an error with incorrect work of the selection of aircrafts on the Globe when using hotkeys (now it works in same manner with the corresponding buttons of the Geo-interface — using ALT to keep selection) (fixed by Kleho);
  • afunctional hotkeys on the Globe when the “Stop” mode of time was chosen;
  • temporary duplication (until rebooting) of some articles in ufopedia after loading of savegame, if it was converted to the actual version of the mod before;
  • for Russian version: incorrect usage of gender for names of the alien races in the Combat-log for some situations;
  • for English version: incorrect usage of indefinite article with names of the alien races in the Combat-log for some situations;
  • for English version: lack of a name of weapon in the Combat-log when using the annihilation grenades;
  • for Spanish version: crash on opening of the unit's inventory;

15 de febrero, 2010

v.3.80

Fixed:
  • few errors in the converter of savegames of the previous versions of mod;
  • an error with displaying of the noise indicators in the inventory interface (fixed by Kleho);
  • noise levels for some kinds of vehicles (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with soldier that was remain in transport ship when his armour was removed by template (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with turning of sprites on a tactical map after loading of savegame when the camera was moved before it (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with validation of a line of fire for the obey LOS during of the reaction fire as well as in some another situations;
  • an error with the inability to shoot at an adjacent cell in some situations (with message “I don't want to die”);
  • an error with renewing of AP for aliens during of phase of the turn that not belong to them;
  • computation of penalty on morale as well as of the possible post-effects caused by death of team-mate even for dead soldiers;
  • an error with undead soldier which had received a severe damage when he was unconscious;
  • an incorrect work of “Soldier's tenacity of life” option for some of its values when calculating the his probability to die in transit after serious injuries;
  • an error with interceptor that had got back to the base after obtaining of order to attack enemy when this craft has only single slot equipped with a weapon (fixed by Hyoufuu);
  • an error with installation of the advanced equipment into the slot of shield generator when using the “Mount best” button (fixed by Hyoufuu);
  • an error with paid salaries for technicians when manufacturing for new item was started;
  • an error with the mixed up displaying of labels on the toggle button for units placement and their equipment in the inventory menu on base;
  • for Russian version: displaying of the aircrafts in the production menu by alphanumeric code without name of its class;
Modified:
  • prerequisities for a lot of researches were revised as well as duplicated ones were removed for some researches;
  • the types of weapons that were introduced by multiplication of entities and didn't conformed to their basic technology (inherited from Bman EoU) are removed now, as well as the corresponding on/off options in the mod settings removed too;
  • the quark technology was transformed back into the antimatter one, and electromagnetic technology was supplemented with rockets, then both of these technological lines were transformed to separate categories with the corresponding options in the mod settings;
  • an algorithm of calculation of probability to reduce stats of a hurt unit was revised to decrease CPU load level;
  • an algorithm of penalizing of the unit stats by wounds covers now all of them including strength as well as bravery and also have more significant affect on derived characteristics;
  • the mechanism of calculation of the score of tactical operation was consolidated, extended by new options and moved into the post-mission processing;
  • colouring scheme for the damage bubbles in a tactical mission;
  • Combat-log has differentiated displaying for absorbed damage now (by armour\shield);
  • selection of the aircrafts will be reseted now when any order was obtained by them, but to keep that selected it will be necessary to press ALT during of management (mod by Hyoufuu);
Added:
  • the map generator for the tactical operations (mod by Kleho);
  • the mechanism of including of new (custom) maps by way of an individual packages (mod by Kleho);
  • the mechanism of activation of the map editor by optional package (mod by Kleho);
  • choosing of the map for tactical mission will be made once when creating this mission and scene will be same for all time of life of this mission (mod by Kleho);
  • the sun position relative to the planet will be calculated in compliance with axis pitch of it (mod by Kleho);
  • the scrolling speed of the camera is dependent on its altitude now (mod by Kleho);
  • writing reports into the Combat-log when an autosave was completed;
  • chance to hit a target in a tactical operation affects the amount of experience that will be received by the shooter;
  • information board in the unit pre-mission equipping menu now also will show a type of mission, information about class of UFO and its crew (if available) as well as about quantity of fuel for chosen transport (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • alternative case with images for time of day that used for information board in the unit pre-mission equipping menu (gfx by Silione);
  • displaying of the type of damage in ufopedia for weapons (if it has some types of clips, then by most advanced technology) as well as for grenades and cartridges;

was included in v.3.80

v.3.70

Fixed:
  • crash on displaying of tooltip for any button of menus of the user interface in game;
  • crash on attempt to retire a soldier from the pre-mission inventory menu;
  • crash during of conversion of tactical savegame that was made on version lower than 3.5 when a cloaking device was present in the inventory of any unit;
  • hung of the game on playing animation of the snakeman when the “Tactical: Actions” log was activated;
  • hung of the game on beginning of the tactical mission when the “Face Mod” was disabled;
  • an error with displaying of icons of sections of the main base on the base-satellite when it was opened from the dialogue-with-notice on Geoscape;
  • an error with lost scientists and technicians at the end of the execution of order if it was reserved under an error of displaying of the icons for the sections of the main base (corrupted savegames will be corrected as well);
  • an error with incorrect choosing of the next section of base when active section was opened from globe and closed by hotkey;
  • an error with reduced cost when buying equipment, vehicles and crafts;
  • an error with incomplete applying of upgrades for aircrafts when the advanced equipment was installed on it;
  • an error with prerequisities for the “Chemical Grenade Mark II” research;
  • a size of the antigrav-belt that's dropping down when carrier was dead or unconscious;
  • some errors with displaying and updation of indicators and buttons in the tactical GUI;
  • decreasing of the firing accuracy for aimed shot lesser than snap shot when the soldier had a very poor morale;
  • absence of the special throw menu for weapons and other equipment which are distinct from grenades;
  • absence of displaying of notification about state of dead or unconscious unit when clicking on his photo in tactical GUI;
  • permanently stopped time on the globe (till it will be fully reloaded) after an attempt to build a new base in the lack of funds;
  • displaying of notification about impossibility to sell an occupied laboratory not in the base interface but on the globe;
Modified:
  • the scheme of associating of the tactical maps to regions of Globe, which was inherited from original game, was replaced by mechanism which uses an info-texture of UniMod v.3.5;
  • time management on Geoscape was revised and the pause mode was introduced as well;
  • hurting units by negative factors on the battlefield (fire, gas) will be performed at the end of phase of turn of these units only;
  • a new mechanism of damage distribution for direct hit actions with the “area effect” was introduced;
  • the mechanism of blocking of the damage by personal shields and their destruction (differentially by types of damage);
  • the mechanism of gain of experience from hit, injured, and killed aliens;
  • advanced equipment for aircrafts are not unique trophy from UFO now, but usual buyable equipment (as well as modernized “Raptor”);
  • methods of creation and management of options in the main game settings menu were re-factored;
  • order of values of the mod option “Soldier Mortality” was reversed;
  • displaying of the difficulty of procution — in man-hours instead of rough estimates;
  • an information data about the damage properties of weapon in the inventory was extended;
  • an algorithm of sorting of the recruits list was extended for hiring or filtering operations to have selected unit in a new list same that was in old one or closest to him (by order);
Added:
  • the system of deterioration of the personal armour and vehicles with decreasing of their protection capability when it gets hits in a tactical mission;
  • dependence of the range of throw in the tactical mode from the weight of item as well as from physical strength of unit that throwing it;
  • individual ranges of sight for all races and vehicles;
  • new slots in inventory for civilian units;
  • built-in shield generator for “Cyclops” vehicle;
  • a new type of ammunition for the shotgun;
  • possibility to use windowed mode with any resolution of supported by game;
  • an additional file with game settings which are used by mod;
  • bundle of settings for management of properties of the tooltips for buttons of menus of the user interface in game;
  • several settings for management of properties of the clicks on buttons of menus of the user interface in game;
  • additional variants of sorting for the mod option “Soldier Placement”;
  • displaying of the range in ufopedia for weapons which have limited one;
  • displaying of the cost of action not only by percents of AP but with just amount of it too inside of the information data menu in inventory of unit;
  • regeneration of the personal shields for CAF soldiers (until of consummation of the cartridges in it);
  • notifications about result of (un)packing of the savegames;

18 de septiembre, 2009

v.3.61

Fixed:
  • crash on attempt to construct any building on CAF base when there are no enough money on account for this purpose (fixed by Kleho);
  • crash during of processing of the event with a new soldier arrived on base when the mod option “System of recruiting of the soldiers” was disabled;
  • an error which was capable to cause absence of any breaking of buildings as well as UFO on a tactical map (fixed by Kleho);
Modified:
  • mechanisms of porting of the language-dependent files — to simplify an integration of new language packages into the UniMod;
  • discrete algorithm of influence of low morale with absolute decrease of accuracy was replaced with a continuous one which decrease it in relation to current values;
  • soldiers salaries and vehicles maintenance costs will be on monthly scheme now;
Added:
  • workpiece for introduction of the Spanish language into the UniMod;
  • pool of mod options allowing user to manage the levels of debug logging on the fly (it will be useful for bug tracking and reporting);
  • displaying of monthly charges for structure in the construction menu of the interface of base (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • displaying of not only dates but also time when there event was noted into the log in Gleoscape mode (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • hotkeys to manage CAF aircrafts on the Globe (mod by Kleho);
  • firing accuracy of flying unit will be decreased if one's ability to fly is non-inborn;

3 de septiembre, 2009

v.3.60.4

Fixed:
  • crash in a tactical mission during of processing of a chain spontaneous destruction of the walls;
  • crash during of the flight of “Anaconda” vehicle because of error with calculation of its altitude when refreshing was called for buttons of a tactical GUI (fixed by Kleho);
  • needless waste of resources for processing of up/down buttons in a tactical GUI during of a mouse activity (fixed by Kleho);
  • needless waste of resources for processing of AP reservation buttons in a tactical GUI during of a mouse activity (fixed by Kleho);

1 de septiembre, 2009

v.3.60.3

Fixed:
  • an error with impossibility to hire technicians if there were no free spaces in the laboratories on this base;
  • an error with impossibility to start research when CAF has negative financial balance;

1 de septiembre, 2009

v.3.60.2

Fixed:
  • an error with the mixed up parameters which are responsible for work of usual and advanced scanners of movement (fixed by Kleho);
Added:
  • mechanism of restoration of the savegames which could be damaged on version 3.60 because of an error that was corrected in fix1;

31 de agosto, 2009

v.3.60.1

Fixed:
  • potential critical error which was capable to lead to storing of some forbidden values in a savegame such that it was impossible to load it hereinafter;
  • some incorrect keystring which are used in ufopedia to display characretistics of some kinds of the equipment;

30 de agosto, 2009

v.3.60

Fixed:
  • hung of the game during of unit placement on a tactical map of minor CAF base that was occupied by aliens (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with possibility to go into the darkness around of a tactical map of CAF base when the mod “Advanced maps on a CAF base” was disabled (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with absent crushed UFO on some tactical maps (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error of cancellation of the throwing mode for some specific combinations of the shoot modes of item which was ready to be thrown in such a way that it led to bad internal reference to a record with such type of items in the ItemsDatabase (in what follows it was capable to cause some errors with a corrupted image of this item, an incorrect shoot modes, etc.);
  • an error with calculation of the load level for unit which has thrown any inventory item on map in the tactical mode;
  • an error with remained value of infantry type of the unit which has thrown its determining item on map in the tactical mode;
  • an error of calculation of chance to die for unconscious soldier during of transit back to base from a tactical mission;
  • an error with movement of a flying vehicle along the ground (fixed by Kleho);
Modified:
  • a new game will be start from January 1st on place of 15th like it was in the original game (within the bounds of changeover to version 4.0);
  • the mechanism of reports and notifications on globe related to events which are associated with the bases was revised (within the bounds of changeover to version 4.0);
  • some notify messages will be shown in a new style now to avoid necessity to confirm it (mod by Kleho);
  • an outward corridors of the tactical map of CAF base were extended for maps that were created with the mod “Advanced maps on a CAF base” (mod by Kleho);
  • the map pseudo-randomization mechanism to exclude off situations when all alien units were around a transport ship (mod by Kleho);
  • an algorithm of displacement of the aliens on a tactical map with their concentration dependence of chosen difficulty level (mod by Kleho);
  • an algorithm of displacement of the civilians on a tactical map to decrease probability to place them beyond of buildings (mod by Kleho);
  • now the “School” map can not only be used for final operations on Earth/Mars but also for usual terror missions during of the game (mod by Kleho);
  • the methods of time processing were rewritten to speed up them and exclude off errors with a negative values and with a bad date (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • scientists and technicians will get their payments on monthly scheme and without any relation to their employment (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • mod option “Soldier Mortality” was reformed according to new system of loss of the health for soldiers, which was implemented in version 3.51 of UniMod;
  • structure of stored data about recruits inside of savegame was simplified (to increase speed of save and load procedures);
  • functionality of buttons of the quick behaviour mode switching for interceptors on Globe was remade to provide possibility to have a more flexible weapon management (corresponding mod options “Distance of Cautious attack”, “Normal attack — rockets”, “Normal attack — cannons” were removed and replaced by a new option “Default Weapon Mode”) (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • flushing for stored information about a last target for interceptors when player has chosen a new destination point for this ship;
  • icons and images for the “Stormbringer” interceptors were replaced by ones with the high-quality representation (mod by Kleho);
  • icons of visible alien commanders in a tactical mission were replaced by ones with the better highlighting (mod by Kleho);
  • an animation effect for hit from the eeew-weapon was replaced by one that is more suitable for powerful weapon with the area effect damage;
  • textures of the personal shields were enhanced to provide even animation in the neighbourhood of the poles (mod by Kleho);
  • explosions that sometimes occurs when an alien dies will affect his allies as well as one's enemies now;
  • action radiuses of movement scanners were increased and sensitivity of bio-scanner was changed (mod by Kleho);
  • morale change algorithm depending on some events was revised and now related to basic statements and rank of a soldier;
  • AP costs of shooting both for personal weapons and for vehicle ones were revised in the framework of curtailment of amount of the shots that are available for single unit in one turn;
  • armour protection characteristics for all units as well as the damage amounts both for personal weapons and for vehicle ones were revised to increase a survival capability of units on the battlefield (within the bounds of a new system of personal defences);
  • amounts of experience for killing of the aliens were revised according to their real power in the game;
  • the profitability of production was revised for all technologies that producible by CAF;
  • personnel capacities of the laboratories and workshops were increased (within the bounds of changeover to version 4.0);
Added:
  • the normal distribution for damage which was gained on the cells with the aggressive environment as well as from the exploding aliens;
  • the mod option which allows to switch off the region highlighting dependent of their belonging (mod by Kleho);
  • shader highlighting for radar areas which may be called by hotkey as well as on building of a new base (mod by Kleho);
  • the mod option which allows to choose a colouring style for Globe in the radar highlighting mode (mod by Kleho);
  • the mod option which allows to determine the direction of a landing transport on a tactical map (mod by Kleho);
  • information board in unit pre-mission equipping menu to show a target point distance, flight block time for chosen transport, and daytime in target point for arrival time (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • now the detailed information about downed UFO includes a precise time when it was crashed (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • possibility to hire and retire for scientists and technicians (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • binding of scientists and technicians as well as researches and productions with a concrete owning base where they are placed (within the bounds of changeover to version 4.0);
  • a special button into the interface of managing of CAF aircrafts to provide possibility to equip a ship by most advanced equipment from available in a base storage (mod by Hyoufuu);
  • protection capabilities of a psi-helmet will be displayed in the info-panel of the inventory management menu;
  • shield capacity of a built-in vehicle PSG will be displayed in the stats panel of the inventory management menu;
  • extended packages of soldier faces for FaceMod with additional 58 man & 55 woman photos (mod by Guciomir);

18 de septiembre, 2009

v.3.54.16

Fixed:
  • crash during of healing of the critical wounds by Auto-Doc;
  • some errors with incorrect usage of the elevators by units of 2x2 size as well as with their impossibility to use it (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with a speed of animation of shot trail of the heavy laser which mismatched with another laser weapons;
  • an error with resetting of values of the global PRNG during of reloading of a tactical operation on alien base (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with yellow colouring of the ground surface like sand dunes on the tactical missions which happened at sunset (fixed by Kleho);
Modified:
  • all tactical missions on the alien bases will have same lightning scheme thus it will not be changed neither from time to time nor after reloading of the game (mod by Kleho);

30 de agosto, 2009

v.3.54.15

Fixed:
  • crash during of creation of the autosave on beginning of a tactical operation when unit with personal teleporter device in his inventory was present in a landed transport ship;
  • crash on attempt to press the “CONTINUE LAST GAME” button if a last savegame wasn't autosave;
  • crash on destroying of the CAF base that was defeated by aliens if some unfinished buildings were there;
Modified:
  • chemical grenade Mk3 is named in same way with its precursors now;
  • resistance vs stunning damage was decreased for the “Vipon” race slightly;

9 de julio, 2009

v.3.54.14

Fixed:
  • series of the crashes related to addressing of the incompletely initialized global variables during of showing of the animated GUI;
  • crash when finishing to play back any game video;
  • crash in a tactical mission during of turn of the neutrals on attempt to find a weapon for civilian unit;
  • crash in a tactical mission, which was loaded from a savegame that was converted from the version lower than 3.5, if somebody tried to take a personal teleporter in hand from the ground and do something with it;
  • crash on creation of a new tactical mission because of error with choosing of equipment for XCOM agents when some grenades and rockets were disabled in the mod config;
  • an error with re-initialization of the construction menu on a base after selling of any module, that led to presence of a phantom menu with the base buildings after exit from base to the globe mode (attempts to make something with this menu were capable to cause crash);
  • an error with clearing of inventory slots for all soldiers when they fly to the alien mothership on ending of starport mission, if all alien units were killed there;
  • an error with impossibility to equip some types of unique items even if it was researched already;
  • an error with incorrect choosing of equipment for XCOM agents, which was incongruous with a current level of XCOM shunt;
  • an error with alien units which didn't die even through they had all HP lost if there was a tactical savegame loaded that was made on the version lesser than 3.5;
  • an error with permanent usage of default psi-attack that led to excluding of the psi-control;
  • an error with fault in processing of a psi-attack on XCOM agent which led to break off for calculation of aftereffects;
  • an error with incorrect processing of a psi-attack which led to increased victim's morale in some cases;
  • an error with displayed amount of cannon ammo for CAF ships in the “Intercept” menu on Globe;
Modified:
  • the algorithm of checking of possibility to leave up the starport mission was optimized to decrease CPU load from auxiliary calculations on the corresponding map;
  • the algorithm of calculation of the damage for area effects to exclude off situations with receiving of damage that was well over above a nominal damage for used weapon;
  • AP cost of the alien psi-attacks was increased to make them used not so often and to provide alternation with a usual weapons;
  • wording of information message in the inventory menu on base about impermissibility to assign soldiers without armour to the transport ship was made more considerable;
  • descriptions of the stunning grenade and stunning rocket were rewritten to exclude off an information about effects that aren't present in the game in fact;
  • description of the “Vipon” race was supplemented by information about its high resistance to the toxic agents;

22 de junio, 2009

v.3.54.13

Fixed:
  • engine crashes (without of crushlog) because of incorrect operations with the PRNG in quite a number of specific cases;
  • crash in geoscape mode on attempt to assign a transport for operation when no units are present on a home base;
  • crash in tactical operation on attempt to reload weapon by ammo which was dropped from a dead alien unit;
  • crash on retreating from tactical mission where an enemy unit was killed which wasn't member of UFO crew (for example, XCOM alien);
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation if perform a click on unit's photo until the animated tactical GUI wouldn't be initialized completely;
  • crash on loading of savegame of tactical mission which was made on mod version 3.24 or lower, if several neutral units (civilians) were attend there;
  • crash on loading of savegame of tactical mission when the mod options which adds new types of equipment were switched off, but these types of equipment were present on operation with must be load;
  • an error with incorrect calculation of the carried weight in a tactical mission when recharging a weapon;
  • an error with incorrect calculation of the carried weight in a tactical mission when picking up a loaded weapon;
  • an error with vehicles displayed in the sell menu on base in spite of these vehicles were on a mission at the same time;
  • an error with a displayed land site for UFO (inactive icon) even so it wasn't detected by radars during of flight;
  • an error with impossibility to point at a crash site if this UFO was downed in invisibility;
  • an incorrect use of old-style images for interceptors in the “Intercept” menu on Globe;
  • entangled hangar images in the main base menu for transport ships “Skydiver” and “Thunder”;
  • lack of image for transport ship “Skydiver” in the “Intercept” menu on Globe;
  • lack of selection of a photo of current active unit in a tactical operation;
Modified:
  • processing algorithms for some methods which are based on TimedCall were guarded from a number of complex problems with the “slipped out” calls;
  • “Destroyer” is not main race now (to exclude off mono-racial crews from the robots);
  • now detailed information about landed and downed UFO will be displayed in same style with it in flight;
  • selling of vehicles was forbidden when they are assigned with a transport ship even through this ship is on a base;

17 de junio, 2009

v.3.54.12

Fixed:
  • low speed of processing of tirns of the alien and neutral units (duration of the turn was reduced by 20-25%);
  • the method of calculation of new lines of sight when a wall blows (increasing processing of blows by 10-15%);
  • hung of the game on initialization animated gui during of loading of a tactical operation because the face photo animation was started before its time;
  • a fault in processing of Action Timed Call during of chain detonation of primed proximity grenades, which led to hung of the game;
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation with soldiers which have ranks higher than maximal allowed value for this rank system (after system switching in the mod options);
  • crash in tactical operation on right-click out of map ranges when the targeting menu is in active mode;
  • crash at the ending of a tactical operation when the advanced ship parts were captured there;
  • an error with buttons “up”/“down” which remained active after corresponding change of level by it if don't move cursor from one (that's allowed to move out of elevator);
  • an error with application of upper and lower limiters for mod options during of reading of its config;
  • an error with incorrect saving a number of last savegame in config file (the 1st position has been loaded always);
  • an error of impossibility to operate with advanced ship parts because of its unexplored status;
  • an error with uncompleted informational message about captured unique trophies;
  • an error of displaying of the name for Auto-Doc item because of incorrect key;
  • entangled images in production menu for transport ships “Skydiver” and “Thunder”;
  • entangled images in ufopedia articles for chemical grenade mk3 and stunning grenade mk2 (it was become apparent for a new game only, without a conversion of saves during of game);
  • description of the “Sectiod” race in the ufopedia article in Russian to exclude off inadequate information about presence of commanders in their ranks;
  • the name of avonium in Russian was modified to more euphonic alternative;
  • invalid info message about hidden movement of alien during of neutral's turn;
Modified:
  • the mod option “Defuse Proximity Grenades” was removed (permanent value: disabled);
  • the IFF system was removed from the proximity grenades (coplete reduction to X-COM style, when a primed grenade can't be reused more after trow);
  • units with the psi-abilities armed with ranged weapons will use psionic on a par with weapon now on place of restricted usage on reaction fire like it was inherited from the original game;
  • the chance to gain unique trophies was increased 5-20 times;
  • the algorithm of calculation of probability to gain advanced parts was changed to provide ability to capture more than one item of this kind;

26 de febrero, 2009

v.3.54.11

Fixed:
  • crash during of clearing of the events list on expiration of time appropriated to win back the CAF base which was captured by aliens;
  • crash at the ending of a tactical operation on defence of the main CAF base, when there was a lack of equipment in the storages for reequipment of all soldiers after mission;
  • an error with truncation of derived parameters of unit (AP, HP) by upper limit of their primary statements (Agility, Health) after reload of the savegame in a tactical mission;
  • an error with lesser AP cost for complex operations in the inventory with replacing of items as compared to AP cost of simple operations which are composing this complex operation;
  • an error with displaying of tanks which are on mission inside of selling menu if some tanks of same type were present on base too;
  • potential error with uncompleted initialization of the animated tactical GUI;

15 de febrero, 2009

v.3.54.10

Fixed:
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical mission with XCOM-agents because of incomplete removing of the references to Akew Rocket and Ion Rocket from the itemDatabase during of loading of savegame, when the records of these rockets were removed from the itemDatabase during of loading of previous savegame (if corresponding mod options were disabled);
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical mission when a CAF unit which are closest to exit from transport was vehicle unit;
  • crash at the ending of a tactical mission during of calculation of possibility to obtain the unique trophy items;
  • crash on base during of operations with unit's inventory when the dialogue was shown with information about insufficient equipment to apply equipment profile in full;
  • an error with execution of informational methods of unit's inventory when the dialogue was shown with information about insufficient equipment to apply equipment profile in full;
  • an error with remained dialogue form with information about insufficient equipment to apply equipment profile in full when the inventory was closed by hotkey;
  • an error with displaying of shoulder stamps for rank system of the original game;
  • an error with orientation of image and text in ufopedia for some articles when they were researched from a new game on single version of mod without updates during of the game;

11 de febrero, 2009

v.3.54.9

Fixed:
  • crash at the ending of a tactical mission if any soldier was unconscious and he must to dead in transit;
  • crash on attempt to begin tactical mission repeatedly in a same place where the previous operation has been finished with defeat or a retreat and if there were no game reloads between end of the first attempt and the beginning of the second one;
  • crash in a tactical mission during of aliens turn because of error in search for a free hand of XCOM-aliens with the psi-abilities to take grenade there (when the mod option “X-COM Alien Invasion” was active);
  • an error with calculation of damage distribution to flying units from actions with the “area effect” (dependent on a height of flight — up to complete invulnerability);

9 de febrero, 2009

v.3.54.8

Fixed:
  • crash in the base inventory on attempt to choose a hired soldier if there was loading of the savegame between time of generation of this unit and time when he was hired;
  • an error with incomplete removing of the references to Akew Rocket and Ion Rocket from the itemDatabase when these rockets were disabled in the mod options (this error led to crash during of creation of XCOM agents with the Rocket Launcher);
  • an error with impossibility to distribute all promotion points if this unit has four and more statements with the maximal values;
  • an error with overflow of promotion points when the multiplying hotkey was used and difference between current and maximal values of this statement was lesser than step of multiplicity;
  • an error with possibility to buy more aircrafts than there were free hangars on the base (using the multiplying hotkeys);
  • an error with equipping of units by equipment profile with incompletely filled cartridges when this profile was saved on unit with the partially discharged weapons;
  • an error with remained value of infantry type of the unit when the determining item was removed from its inventory;
  • absent updating of infantry type of the unit for some operations with the inventory items;
  • absent displaying of armour defence vs stunning effect in ufopedia articles related to personal CAR armours as well as to alien races;
  • incorrect centring of the camera on globe from the dialogue with information about UFO when a support UFO was chosen;
  • incorrect animation effect for rocket explosion of vehicle “Cyclops”;

5 de febrero, 2009

v.3.54.7

Fixed:
  • hung of the game on globe during of generation of the alien terror mission when the current state of mod option “Play on Earth” wasn't equal to current planet in the game;
  • crash on loading of savegame where XCOM-agents of “melee” type are present;
  • an error with invulnerability of the alien units which are standing on the same cell with dead bodies of other alien units;
  • an error with missed auto-equipping of units of the transport when it had returned on the base from mission, if another transport had returned before it and these transports were on missions at the same time;
  • an error with naming of the values for mod option “Show Damage On Screen” for English version;
  • an error with inverted mod option “Last Alien Hides”;
Modified:
  • maximal values for mod options related to sight range both CAF and alien units (to exclude off crash of the game on some types of maps);
  • reading process of mod options from the config file of UniMod (to exclude off continued usage of the forbidden values in new versions of UniMod);

3 de febrero, 2009

v.3.54.6

Fixed:
  • an error with unavailability of researches of the vehicles “Anaconda” and “Hammer”;
  • an error with absent displaying for some articles in ufopedia;
  • an error with displaying of name of the main CAF base on the globe after begin of a new game even through the mod option “Show names of base” was disabled;
  • an error with remained name of the alien base on the globe when this base was demolished already (up to next reload of the game);
Modified:
  • an order of the articles of ufopedia in groups “Weapons and Armour”, “Alien life forms”, and “Alien Intentions”;

2 de febrero, 2009

v.3.54.5

Fixed:
  • crash inside of converter of savegames of the previous versions (on step #3542000);
  • generation of the alien garrison on their base when it's built;
  • construction of a new CAF base was forbidden for regions were are alien base under construction already (to exclude off crash on finish of the aliens operation);
  • possibility to overlap dialogue window for some header records in dialogues on the globe;
  • an error with displaying of the item properties on info-table of the inventory when the cursor was moved from this item to one which has no properties of such kind;
  • an error of calculation of coordinates of the target which led to unnecessary unit turning when he does any action on itself;
Modified:
  • algorithm of behaviour of the aliens relative to known CAF bases when they choosing a new operation (on purpose to add an alternative into the operations);
  • dialogue window with info about alien base which was detected by aerial survey was extended by additional button to allow to stop time on globe;

1 de febrero, 2009

v.3.54.4

Fixed:
  • an error with check of the type of CAF ship because of incorrect order of the logical operations;
Modified:
  • behaviour mode of the CAF ships for mod option “Advanced interception mode” (they will not try to increase distance with UFO more);

31 de enero, 2009

v.3.54.3

Fixed:
  • crash on attack of the aliens on the “Centaur” at the final stage of the game;
  • crash at the beginning of the linked mission on Mothership after Starport;
  • potential crash on globe during of some types of operations and calculations concerning to CAF transports;
  • an error with equipment of the units which are resorting from the starport to the alien mothership;
  • an error with the production time for group of the items when the production time for single item of such type was lesser than one hour;
  • an error with order of the healing events, because it will have bad position when the Surgery will be built;
  • an error with possibility to equip unit's hand by any item when this hand is “busy” because two-handed item was placed in other hand;
  • an error with wrong blocking for hand in the tactical GUI, when unit use one-and-a-half items by left hand;
  • an error with possibility to have reaction fire from one-and-a-half weapon which is “blocked” because of item in other hand;
  • an error of calculation of the affected area for grenades and other types of weapon with the “area effect”;
  • an error of displaying of the ufopedia article for technologies “Auto-Doc” and “Portable Teleporter”;
  • an error with possibility of appearance of the swarm with a single member UFO;
  • an error with not lost tactical mission which was begun by transport without CAF units;
  • an error with possibility to send an empty transport on mission if to choose more the one and don't embark them with troopers;
  • an error with “common cartridge” for soldiers on tactical mission when no any reload of savegame was there between time of equipping of these soldiers by equipment profile and time of begin of this operation;
  • an error with absent image in ufopedia for article “Phosphorus Grenade” for savegame which were converted to format of actual version of UniMod from any old version and where this grenade researched was already;
  • an error with orientation of image and text in ufopedia for article “Phosphorus Grenade” when it was researched on UniMod of version 3.5 or higher;
  • an error with insufficient total height of text area in ufopedia for some articles;
  • entangled key bindings for tactical hotkeys which are assigned to choose unit's hands;
Modified:
  • the mechanism of conversion of savegames of the previous versions to format of actual version of UniMod (to increase a processing speed for conversion of neighbour versions but also to exclude off the errors of conversion for old versions because of interference between conversion cycles);

26 de enero, 2009

v.3.54.2

Fixed:
  • crash in tactical mission on attempt of alien to apply his psi-ability on CAF unit;

26 de enero, 2009

v.3.54.1

Fixed:
  • crash in tactical mission on attempt to make the click by left button of mouse on the radar map;
  • crash because of error of creation of the report string inside of handler of hung Timed Calls;
  • crash during of conversion of savegame of the previous version to 3.5 due to error of processing of cloaking field generators in a unit's inventory;
  • an error with research of “Lightning” aircraft when the new game was begun without and no updates of the UniMod was installed in process of it;

19 de enero, 2009

v.3.54

Fixed:
  • an error of animation of the personal shields when the owner unit is moving (fixed by Kleho);
  • displayed animation of the personal neutron shield on the tactical mission when the inventory was closed (fixed by Kleho);
Modified:
  • on the terror missions the UFO ship will not be present more which means that the corresponding equipment will not be captured there now (mod by Kleho);
Added:
  • mod option which allows to plug in the various sets of the pictures for loading screen freely (predefined sets are: fractals, space scenes);

9 de enero, 2009

v.3.53

Modified:
  • the style of animation for personal shields was re-made completely and the differentiation by colour was added for them dependent on type of the shield (mod by Kleho);
  • the map of the tactical operations on CAF bases and “Centaur” is known now just from the start of the mission (mod by Kleho);
  • the angle of view around of the globe poles was increased (mod by Kleho);
  • the possibility to use a double-click was added in some menus of the base interface: equip unit by armour, unit placement, start of a new research or production, aircraft equipping, choose target base for transfer (mod by Kleho);
  • some notify messages will be shown in a new style now to avoid necessity to confirm it (mod by Kleho);
Added:
  • possibility to tune up the hotkey bindings (mod by Kleho);
  • mod option to enhance a mechanism of generation of the tactical maps of some kind (desert, jungle, grass, snow) such that the parts of map will be rotated by steps of 90 degrees with a view to diversify the maps (mod by Kleho);
  • mod option to advance a mechanism of creation of the tactical maps for the CAF bases such that the map will be compactified up to minimal square (mod by Kleho);
  • mod option to allow switch on/off a map lightning in a tactical mission (mod by Kleho);
  • possibility to create screenshots (mod by Kleho);
  • notify message after quicksave for tactic game as well as for globe (mod by Kleho);
  • the hotkey to deselect unit on a tactical map (mod by Kleho);
  • sprites shifting after camera rotation for the CAF units as well as for civilians (mod by Kleho);

19 de enero, 2009

v.3.52.6

Fixed:
  • crash on attempt to send “Centaur” to Earth/Mars;
  • crash in the interface of inventory for pre-mission equipping when the hotkeys for sequential units selection were used (fixed by Kleho);
  • crash on one's arrival to base after he has been renamed in flight, for example when it was between the training camp and the base;
  • crash on attempt to load a savegame where was the CAF craft on the globe with the some empty weapon slots;
  • crash on attempt to open from the globe mode the options menu or the tactical mode for some situations;
  • an error with conversion of savegames of the previous version to format of v.3.5 when the “Lightning” aircraft was under production (it was able led to crash on attempt to open production menu as well as on the finish of this production);
  • an error with definition of the height for customized pictures which will be used for loading screens (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error of displayed cost value in the production interface when the special option of mod was used to reduce production time (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with calculation of number of the levels on tactical map for operations which are on the bases of both CAF and aliens;
  • displayed value for XP which was gained for kill of the invisible enemy;
  • missed call for pre-load of the sprites for the units which are creating for the tactical mission;
  • the absent check for Y coordinate when the unit creating on the tactical map (it was capable to cause crash);
  • 2 grammatical mistakes in the text strings;

9 de enero, 2009

v.3.52.5

Fixed:
  • crash at the ending of a tactical mission when unique trophy was captured there;
  • crash in the inventory on tactical operation on attempt to reload weapon which have cartridge not empty still;

8 de enero, 2009

v.3.52.4

Fixed:
  • crash at the beginning of a new tactical mission as soon as a previous one was finished, if no units were changed in transport when it had returned on base and no S/L was performed on this distance;
  • an error with absent processing of the inventory items for depleted cartridges when the tactical mission was abandoned;
  • an error with displayed animation for personal shield when its cartridge was discharged already until turn wasn't ended or inventory of this unit wasn't opened;
  • an error with auto-removed personal shield generator on tactical mission from the corresponding inventory slot when its cartridge was discharged;
  • regeneration of the ammo inside of built-in bio-weapons for alien units when they have a zeroed health;
  • transportation of cartridges of the internal type onto base from the tactical mission with saving of it in base storages;
  • non-displayed info in inventory on the base about AP cost and damage for standard and proximity grenades which are placed on the base storage;
  • non-displayed info in inventory on the base about capacity of the cartridge for medikits which are placed on the base storage;
  • non-displayed info in inventory on the base about absorption capacity for personal shield generators which are placed on the base storage;
Modified:
  • now the depleted stimpacks will not be saved on ending of a tactical operation;

8 de enero, 2009

v.3.52.3

Fixed:
  • hung of the game on Esperanza in a globe mode during of generation of the terror mission for UFO;
  • crash on finish of production process for the CAF vehicles which are equipped by built-in shield generators (fixed by Kleho);
  • an error with removing of the CAF ships from their hangars on base which was captured by aliens (it was able led to crash if this base was win back);
  • an error with the duration of allotted time which was given to aliens to demolish a captured CAF base when they have no wish to built their base on this place;
  • an eventual error with the normalization of allotted time which was given to aliens to destroy the CAF ships on captured base;

7 de enero, 2009

v.3.52.2

Fixed:
  • an error with inability to start the research for interceptor “Lightning” although that all pre-requirements are completed already;
  • an error with the absence of the key string “NOTICE_AP_RESERVED” for game on Esperanza in the Russian version;
  • an incorrect type of shown message in the CombatLog for alien unit which had triggered a sensor bomb;

7 de enero, 2009

v.3.52.1

Fixed:
  • hung of the game in tactical mission on attempt to check the possible detonations of the sensor grenades by near explosion (fixed by Ata);
  • crash on attempt to open the “Weapons and Armour” section in ufopedia when some types of grenades or rockets were disabled by mod options (fixed by Ata);
  • crash on attempt of CAF ship to remember its last target when this UFO had leave the planet already (fixed by Ata);

7 de enero, 2009

v.3.52

Fixed:
  • hung of the game in tactical mission during of turn of the aliens because of deadloop on AI transfer of control between two and more alien units in the act of creation of the optimal order of actions (fixed by Ata);
  • crash during of processing of the production events for some types of the rockets because of uncompleted conversion of it to format of v.3.5 from any version between 3.00 and 3.09 inclusive;
  • crash during of conversion of savegame of the previous version to 3.5 due to error of processing of the cartridges, which must be removed from this version, when it's placed inside of the weapons in a unit's inventory;
  • crash during of conversion of savegame of the previous version to 3.5 when it contains UFO crew info with the few same races at once;
  • crash on load of savegame which was converted from the previous version of UniMod with the uncompleted conversion of XCOM researches;
  • crash on pair of subsequently performed save-load operations with high frequency thus any projectile which was fired before it hadn't reached his target (fixed by Ata);
  • crash on tactical mission during of turn of the neutrals on attempt to update a progress-bar;
  • crash in the inventory on tactical operation during of manipulations with the items which were picked up from the ground and placed on inventory slots which were busy before;
  • crash in the inventory on tactical operation at attempt to move an item back when it was taken from the lower line of backpack or from last two slots on belt and was dropped on inactive place in inventory;
  • crash during of attempt to land troops from UFO when it does attack on the main CAF base with any garrison;
  • crash on attempt to equip unit by template which contains a personal anti-G device;
  • an error with the invulnerable civil units on terror mission;
  • an error with the missed info about decreased stats of the neutral units on terror mission when the savegame was loaded;
  • an error with the calculation of the load weight level, which was able led to negative values of APs;
  • an error with the calculation of the logarithm of load level, which led to faster reduction of APs then it was predesigned;
  • an error with the possibility to decrease a load level to zero during of manipulations with the personal anti-G device inside of the unit's inventory;
  • an error with full-weight addition of the items to unit's inventory although it has been equipped by personal anti-G device;
  • an error with the unchangeable value of the load level of the unit when it had removed his personal armour;
  • an error with the decreased amount of weapon cartridges in a storage on base during of reload of the weapon which was already loaded by cartridge any type;
  • an error with displaying on globe the icon of the CAF base after it was captured by aliens;
  • an error with the unchangeable state of region when the CAF base was demolished by aliens on this territory;
  • an error with “Texture not found” in ufopedia article for personal armour “Waspkeeper VK02”;
  • an error with the missed alpha-channel on picture inside of ufopedia article “The infiltration plan” in Russian version because the old-style name of it was used;
  • an error with the absent info in a unit's inventory on the tactical operation when it was opened while no active unit selected;
  • an error with the skipped cleaning of the tactical GUI at begin of alien turn;
  • the inactive Cancel button in a unit interface was hidden for situation when units are equipping to defend their base;
  • an incorrect type of shown message in the CombatLog when all damage was blocked by personal shield;
  • overlapped text out of borders of the universal notificator;
Modified:
  • the my own methods of operation with the drop areas in unit inventory were created with the view of exclude from work a wry interface of the game engine (it allowed not only to fix some crashes but to increase pointing accuracy over slots as well as optimizing of search of the position for item);
  • both an algorithm and threshold valuations for calculation of the load level were remade;
  • the internal form and calculation of the load weight were changed (to avoid the error with rounding of weight when the personal anti-G devices were used);
  • detection and tracking probabilities were increased for the stationary radar arrays by 15-20 percents;
  • detection and tracking probabilities were increased for the craft radar arrays by 15-25 percents;
  • the chemical and fire resistances were increased for “Desert Spirit” vehicle by 50 and 75 percents, respectively;
  • the fire resistances were increased for “Desert Rat” and “Desert Viper” armour suits by 25 and 12.5 percents, respectively;
Added:
  • the mod option to provide ability to choose an automatic behaviour mode for CAF aircrafts when tracing of their targets will be lost;
  • saving of info about last target for all CAF ships when the radar tracking of it was lost and the command “go to last known point” was received (such craft will begin attack automatically when his target will appear on the radar again);
  • saving of info about alien garrison on the captured CAF base (to fix crash at the beginning of corresponding tactical mission as well as to lock in types of the alien races and their numbers);
  • decreasing for the CAF score in the region when their base was captured by aliens there;
  • decreasing for the CAF score in the region when their base was demolished by aliens there;
  • an info message for player when the CAF base was demolished by aliens;

3 de enero, 2009

v.3.51.1

Fixed:
  • the changes which were missed in the previous version for sectionpremission.xscr file were added (the absence of it led to crashes in the base inventory on pre-mission screen during of attempts to change unit's armour or his placement);
  • crash during of manipulations with the unit's equipment in the slots of same type but owned for different units;
  • crash at the ending of alien turn in a tactical mission;

3 de enero, 2009

v.3.51

Fixed:
  • crash during of assign of the units to transport from the base inventory interface;
  • crash on return transport to base with troopers which were not take tactical mission or have it abandoned;
  • crash during of manipulations with the motion scanner in the inventory on base;
  • crash on showing of ufopedia article for CAF vehicles which are equipped by built-in shield generators;
  • crash on opening of the unit promotion menu if index of last active unit was higher that number of promoted units;
  • crash on displaying of the characteristics of depleted medikit or personal shield in tactical GUI for savegames which were converted to 3.5 from previous versions;
  • few errors which led to crashes on beginning of a terror mission;
  • an error with division by zero for heavy injured units that caused a big lags in the interface when such unit was active;
  • an error with the ignored targets for aliens in a tactical mission;
  • an error with lost actions from AI order when the mod option “Disable Unit Idle Animations” was activated (particularly it was able to led to not-finished kneeling, skipped hurting damage, etc.);
  • an error with printing information to Combat Log about area-effect damages which were blocked completely by armour;
  • an error with monthly funding when it was possible to gain money every time when the autosave was loaded;
  • an error with ammo which were changed from the tactical mission in the cartridges which were in unit equipment templates while savegame wasn't loaded after begin of the mission;
  • an error with displaying of the change armour menu on the globe when the interface of base was closed by ESC while this menu was active;
  • an error with displaying of the unit placement menu on the globe when the interface of base was closed by ESC while this menu was active;
  • an error with ability to begin research for internal record UNUSED_ITEM_POSITION_5 from some types of savegames which were converted to 3.5 from previous versions;
  • an error with displaying of the alien race resistances in ufopedia articles;
  • an error with the “null” text for all unit ranks higher than private in tooltips or dialogue boxes;
  • an error with accessibility for vehicles to the buttons for management of unit armour or equipment templates (it was able to cause a crash when any of them was pressed);
  • an error with displaying of active unit in base inventory when its placement was changed and units order was relocated;
  • an error with position of shoulder stamp on the tactical GUI for all rank systems, except one from vanilla game;
  • few errors with the internal debug logging;
Modified:
  • the system of penalizing of the statements for wounded units was finished completely (along with disuse of negative health values in future);
  • the algorithm of calculation of the soldier dying and survive was modified (for units with zeroed health);
Added:
  • dynamical updating of weight label for “Strength” statement in the unit promotion menu when this statement was changed;
  • the ability to die in transit to base was moved back for unconscious units;
  • the tooltip about necessity to equip unit with armour was added in the unit placement menu for units without it (similarly to such tooltip in change armour menu);
  • the “bravery” statement for civilians on terror missions was added (it's unused still);

2 de enero, 2009

v.3.50.2

Fixed:
  • hung of the game when any unit receives a lot of damage at once (for example, by blast of the stasis grenade);
  • crash at the beginning of a terror mission (due to error with creation of neutral units);
  • crash during of autosave on beginning of a tactical operation with activated mod option “X-COM Alien Invasion”;
  • crash on call of placement menu for unit which have no possibility to be placed in the transport when a current active unit has it;
  • an error with auto-adding of soldiers without armour in transport on beginning of a game with deactivated mod option “Start without soldiers at base”;
  • an error with impossibility to gain last three ranks when the rank system of Russian Airforces was chosen;
  • an error with lost weapon cartridge during of the manipulations with this weapon in unit's inventory without placing it on items offer;

1 de enero, 2009

v.3.50.1

Fixed:
  • hung of the game when an alien was wounded by stunning weapon;
  • crash at the beginning of a new game with deactivated mod option “Start without soldiers at base”;
  • crash on attempt to send soldier into the training camp;
  • crash during of switching between ufopedia sections with the left-right buttons when no any article selected directly;
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation on the alien base;
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation with activated mod option “X-COM Max Shunt”;
  • an error with absence of some types of researched rockets in the inventory of XCOM agents;
  • an error with addition of excess weapon cartridge to base storage when the unit's equipment was changed by template;
  • an error after usage of some rockets was switched off by corresponding mod options but some rockets of such type were remain loaded in a weapon;
  • an error with “common inventory” for new units which were hired after begin of current game (was existed until reload savegame);
  • an error with displaying of negative shooting probability in targeting menu on the tactical operation;

31 de diciembre, 2008

v.3.50

Fixed:
  • performance lack owing to initialization of sound effects in a game engine during of the dogfight can be reduced or excluded completely by user with the corresponding mode option;
  • performance lack owing to initialization of grafic effects in a game engine during of the dogfight can be reduced or excluded completely by user with the corresponding mode option;
  • crash on the tactical map for some situations when AP cost menu was moved out of the map (especially it had occurred when the camera was rotated);
  • crash during of the load of savegame from the tactical operation which was made in vanilla game because of the problem with the Baldhor smokes (a few errors were fixed additionally for switch on/off of this mod during of the same tactical mission);
  • hung of the game during of the aliens turn when “Disable Animated Smoke/Flames” mod was activated;
  • hung of the game on reaction check owing to near grenade explosion when “Hearmod” mod was activated;
  • turns and movings of the unit which is first in transport due to processing of the mouse buttons which were pressed during loading of a tactical mission;
  • passing of the flying CAF units through horizontal floors was fixed;
  • the damage distribution was fixed for tactical operation — damage for the shields must be before damage vs armour;
  • auto-deselect was added for ships which had changed behaviour state by interface buttons;
  • few errors in the textures of Globe for “Play on Earth” mod, which led up to wrong choice of a type of the tactical map (+ the algorithm of determination of surface and terrain types in a point on Globe was modified to provide possibility for future extensions);
  • a lot of errors in English version (corrected by Newfloridian);
  • an error with reset of the new PRNG's values during of load of the savegame;
  • an error with number of the positions in base storages after savegame conversion of the old versions of game;
  • an error of numbering of the base buttons in base management menu;
  • an error with the disappeared base buttons in base management menu after exit from the Kentaurus section;
  • an error with the reaction on click on the base buttons in base management menu for inexistent bases;
  • an error of the CFrameCall in the main base section after exit from it by hotkey;
  • few logical errors of the switching between base sections in the base management menu;
  • few errors in work of the interface of the equipment transfer between the CAF bases;
  • an error of possibility to product ships when no available hangars are present to place it;
  • an error with the lost soldier, which will not arrive on base from training or transfer if he was renamed during of this transfer;
  • the algorithm of the moving the soldiers between base, transport and training camp was corrected to avoid the duplicated units;
  • an error of remained time to build base facility for the structures which have a total time higher than 1 month;
  • an error of check of the psi-abilities during of the calculation of available reaction firemodes for aliens;
  • few errors with calculation of the reaction fire and applying of result of it for the alien psionic weapons(abilities);
  • an error with impossibility to take unit under mind control if this unit was in panic;
  • an error of check of ability to move unit between levels of the map in the tactical mission;
  • an error of animation of the destroyed vehicles when any enemy was “detected” by this vehicle by vision or hearing;
  • an error of loading of the savegames with the XCOM agents which have rockets and/or grenades of types which were disabled by the mod options;
  • an error of the displayed weapon in the CAF soldier's hand after quit from the inventory screen if the equipment was changed for few soldiers at once;
  • an error of calculation of the additional damage which is dependent on shoot type and rank of shooter;
  • an error of the end of game after base defence was failed for the main CAF base;
  • an error of update of the hearing and noise parameters after load of the savegame and after calculation of the alien's abilities which led to creation of the new units (chrysalid's attack, for example);
  • an error of incorrect displaying of the AP cost for area scan in shoot menu and real cost of this action;
  • unit's facing was forbidden if the cost of it will be higher that unit's AP reserve (press Shift to avoid it);
  • the blocking of the unit's control was removed for situations when displaying any notice (“AP lack” for example);
  • an error of calculation of the distance to point-blank target (“I want to live still” notification in spite of the target was enemy but not attacker);
  • displaying of the sensor grenade's indicator was forbidden for situations when this grenade is upper than current map level;
  • an error of initialization of sensor for proxy grenades in specified conditions;
  • an error of creation of sensor for proxy grenades which were primed on map levels which are higher than zero level;
  • an error of triggering of the sensor grenade when enemy had moved above/below it on the different floor;
  • info strings were corrected for CombatLog for variety of incidents of triggering of the sensor grenades (genders & cases in Russian);
  • displayed information about properties was re-formatted for many types of technologies to have it in uniform style and provide possibility to write more detailed info about it;
  • a lot of the logical and grammatical errors in descriptions of the technologies and items in the ufopedia, especially in Russian;
  • an error of generation of the soldier lastnames for active mod “Varied Soldier Names” which led to lastnames from the begin of the existing pool only;
  • few errors with ability tot begin a new tactical mission without returning of the transport on base;
  • an error of choosing of the alien race on beginning a tactical operation in Russian version when the mod “Enable Moriarty's UFO crew mod” was activated;
  • few errors of behaviour of the support UFO's which led to absence of the aggression from such UFOs when they were not attacked first;
  • an error with the difference in size of the throw item in flight and its size on ground; an error with disparity of size of the primed sensor grenade on the ground and size of same non-primed grenade;
Modified:
  • a lot of script methods were rewritten for the purpose of reduction of CPU load;
  • the inexact script methods which operate with a game time were replaced by new ones with the more precise values (up to seconds);
  • the mechanism of addition of the new items into the game was remade (info about items are stored in the config file completely and additional processing will be called for conversion of savegames only);
  • the characteristics of the CAF personal armour, armour of vehicles, and protection of aliens were rebalanced (permanently);
  • the characteristics of the CAF personal weapons, vehicle cannons, and alien's built-in weapons were rebalanced (permanently);
  • the characteristics of the CAF crafts and UFOs were rebalanced; the colouring of UFOs was removed (use HWD-mod to know their mission);
  • the research tree was rebalanced for CAF ships to provide a logical relation with the alien technologies which are used in these crafts (the possibility to break a sequence of research of the next-gen crafts was fixed too);
  • the time of research was rebalanced for the personal equipment, vehicles, CAF ships and their equipment;
  • the cost and time of production were rebalanced for the personal equipment, buildings, CAF ships and vehicles (for ships and buildings to a considerable extent!);
  • the cost of production and sell prices were rebalanced for alien technologies as well as for own CAF technologies (particularly, the sell price is higher than production cost in principle);
  • the next mod options were removed completely: “Personal armour rebalanced mod” (activated), “Tank armour rebalanced mod” (activated), “Tanks rockets rebalanced mod” (activated), “Rebalanced Ship Weapons mod” (activated), “Enable Moriarty's UFO crew mod” (activated), “Increased UFO Crew Variety” (deactivated);
  • the formula for calculation of the shooting hit probability was modified to take in consideration a shooting range so as probability is higher on low distances and greatly decreases with the distance for invisible targets (the mod option “Balanced Rifles and Pistols” was removed);
  • the algorithm of generation of the loot items was rewritten for aliens to exclude an additional generation of the equipment after their death (aliens will use just their initial equipment);
  • unique items of type “guided rockets” were removed completely, because aliens are not able to produce shells for the human weapons;
  • an individual processing for the unique items was removed — now it's impossible to use it without research;
  • an algorithm of generation of the unique trophies was rewritten — now it's possible to gain them after any tactical mission, but only if the corresponding races of the aliens which using such unique items (or will do it in future versions of UniMod) were present on the mission;
  • the power of the unique item “Distortion Field Generator” was reduced and processing of it was changed too; now a Phantom race uses such devices permanently;
  • the work of “Auto-Doc” artefact item was changed — now it doesn't protect vs critical hits, but capable to heal it as well as other wounds;
  • the researches were changed for both Medi-Kit devices, Personal Anti-Grav System, and for Movement scanner Mk1;
  • the Sensor Bomb item and Personal Jet Pack item were removed completely with all their researches;
  • the Stun Rod was modified — now it's device of other type which use existing animation and it's based on tetanizer technology for the personal weapon (gfx by Mesh);
  • images for personal armours were edited to remove a human faces from it for the next types of armour: “Desert Rat”, “Beekeeper”, “Waspkeeper”;
  • the page with the description of hotkeys in mod options was dimidiated to have the strategic and tactical keys on different tabs;
  • an unit hire menu was moved to an individual window in the base management interface;
  • an ability to hire units with the armour and equipment was removed — now all units will be hired with nothing on;
  • the multiplier was removed for the “Agility”, “Health” and “Bravery” statements in such a way as to have it in equality with their corresponding characteristics;
  • the capacity of the unit equipment was extended for backpack (up to 5x4) and for belt (up to 6x1);
  • a system of the unit equipment slots has been activated permanently for the extended and new slots as well as for head slot mod (corresponding mod option was removed for it);
  • the AP cost for inventory operations was fixed for the new system (corresponding mod options for it were removed);
  • the “Encumbrance System” mod was activated permanently and the vanilla system with the Minimal Strength was removed completely;
  • the retire option was moved from the base interface into the individual unit assignment menu;
  • the characteristics of the personal shields were increased to compensate necessity to use a single shield only;
  • the classification of size of equipment was refactored to exclude Rambo builds with the two rifles and ect.;
  • the size of the next ammo clips was increased twice: “Heavy Plasma Ammo”, “Heavy ion Ammo”, “Particle Rifle Ammo”;
  • the check for triggering of the primed proximity grenades was optimized for resource conservation;
  • the primed proximity grenades will be places on same cell with the small shifting as well as it exist for other items;
  • the speed of the bullets and thrown items was modified to have an uniform system with the precise gradation;
  • the mod option “Damage delay” was removed because it does same things with the “Prepare shoot delay” option;
  • the number of layers was increased for the tactical maps to provide possibility for units to move over UFO and other obstacles (number of the layers is dependent on UFO type to reduce CPU load still);
  • the shooting hit probability for UFO is same now for situations when it attack base defence systems as well as for situations when it have any other dogfight (corresponding mod option “UFO chance to hit the base” was removed completely);
  • the time to get back the captured CAF base was reduced (+ normal distribution was used for it);
  • an algorithm of improvement of the units which gain a new level was modified to have more realistic distribution of the points;
  • the shoulder straps for Russian Army mod were remade with the best quality;
  • the mod option “Varied Soldier Names” was activated permanently (corresponding option was removed) because a pool of names of vanilla game with the twenty unique names was miserable and was in the way with the full-function CAF bases;
  • the button icons for the CAF crafts in Globe mode were remade with the best quality and perspective (gfx author: Kleho);
  • the kill counters were re-factored to have possibility to save more detailed information (it's not shown in this version, but is in work already and will be used in the next versions of UniMod);
  • the mechanism of construction of the alien bases on the neutral territory was modified (the base will not be built in two ups but some time will be necessary to construct it);
  • the mechanism of the damaging of crashed UFOs was modified (craft equipment, aliens, map objects, etc.) depending on UFO type (strength, weight) to provide a much more realistic consequences of crush of the UFO after severe combat;
  • an AI of UFOs was modified and complicated with the next actions which are dependent on the combat situation: retreat, pursuit, keeping of the distance, reaction to the threat, selection of the combat behaviour;
  • an algorithm of calculation of the knock down situation for UFO during of the dogfight was modified (normal distribution of probability + ability to destroy UFO in air);
Added:
  • the new system of version numbering for UniMod to provide possibility to fix the errors more efficiently in a future (and without manual fixes);
  • an extended check for enhanced sprites to prevent situation with a “Texture not found” messages when the errors occurred during of installation of Tactic-Mod or it wasn't installed at all;
  • the mod option to provide ability to predefine a refresh rate for the graphical elements on Globe (related to a performance speed);
  • the mod options to provide ability to predefine refresh rates for the camera and cursor on Globe (related to a performance speed);
  • the mod option to provide ability to choose an object for tracing it by a tactical camera (related to usability);
  • unified system of the properties for inventory items that is applicable for Globe mode as well as for Tactical mode;
  • the first stage of unified inventory: a hire menu was created in a new format and it's combined with the functionality of a unit promotion menu now;
  • the second stage of unified inventory: an inventory menu was created in a new format and it's combined with the functionality of pre-mission menu as well as with functionality of tactical inventory;
  • the third stage of unified inventory: the script methods used to work with the base inventory and with pre-mission one were consolidated;
  • the fourth stage of unified inventory: the script methods used to work with the base inventory and with tactical one were consolidated;
  • the personal protection shields were extended to aliens (mainly according to their description in ufopedia) as well as for advanced CAF vehicles;
  • a new system of randomized distribution of the damage was applied for tactical operations according to a normal distribution dependent on type of the weapon and real statistic about wounds in the combat operations (+ aliens are capable to receive critical hits now as well as to die from its bleeding and the vehicles will lose their characteristic when it was damaged too);
  • the account of quantity of operations was introduced for CAF units;
  • new “Height” and “Weight” individual characteristics were appended for the soldiers;
  • a new nonlinear system of account of an overload was applied for CAF soldiers;
  • a dependence of a “Strength” statement from the “Height” and “Weight” characteristics was appended for mechanism of generation of the new soldier;
  • an individual characteristic “Infantry Type” was applied for CAF soldiers permanently and it will determine a speed of each unit now (corresponding mod option was removed);
  • an “equipment profile” option was added for inventory menu to provide ability to make a quick outfit for units with a same style of equipment;
  • a “remove all” option was added for inventory menu to provide ability to take off all unit's equipment by single click;
  • mechanism of auto-removing of the equipment was appended for the soldiers who are in the hospital or in a training camp; their equipment profile will be saved and will be applied automatically to outfit this unit when it will be reactivated;
  • a “Choose armour” button was added into the individual unit's menu for ones which are without individual armour suits;
  • a full description for types of the armour with the detailed information about each protection was added into the inventory screen for units;
  • a most detailed specialization was appended for slots of equipment with the logical restrictions on type and size of the equipment;
  • a separate slot was created in inventory for a personal shield generator;
  • the cartridge pouch slots were added into the soldier equipment (3x1 on each side of breast);
  • an amount of APs which remains on the end of turn will exert small influence on amount of APs which will be given for this unit on the next turn;
  • a fixed algorithm of distribution of the damage was applied for explosions in a tactical mission dependent on radius of damage according to an inverse parabola rule (corresponding mod option was removed);
  • the consumption of ammunition was appended for aliens both for external equipment as well as for built-in weaponry;
  • a neutron personal shield generation will regenerate its field just in a tactical mission now;
  • an ammo indicator in the Tactical GUI will be shown for medi-kits as well as for personal shields which are held in the hands;
  • the tactical camera will automatically trace unit now when it moves from one layer of map to other;
  • the mod option “Prepare shoot delay” was created to provide ability tune up time intervals between shoots in a burst;
  • a new type of damage was created (electrical discharge) with a specific processing dependent both on race of the target as well as on randomized damage results (assigned to tetanizer);
  • the mod option was created to allow user to determine exactly whether will his units use the weapons with a AOE for reaction fire or not;
  • hotkeys were created to provide ability to choice concrete unit in a tactical mission;
  • hotkeys were created to provide ability to switch on between CAF bases from the base management interface;
  • a support for navigating hotkeys was added in ufopedia too;
  • the scrollers were created in ufopedia to provide ability to write more informative articles;
  • the articles of full value were written for the unique items in ufopedia;
  • the articles of full value were written for the personal shields in ufopedia;
  • a new gfx was applied for quark grenade, inferno grenade, and personal anti-G system (gfx by Boa);
  • detailed notifications were created to inform user about concrete types and amount of equipment which are necessary to complete automatic outfit of his units (for example, when has returned from mission or when tried to perform equipping by profile);
  • the production was permitted for the UFO equipment (for a while doesn't sense in any application, but for selling only);
  • changing of the craft weapon was permitted for CAF ships when they are in re-arming process;
  • monthly operating costs for CAF vehicles;
  • a straight numbering with the type separation was created for new CAF vehicles;
  • now aliens able to demolish CAF base completely if it wasn't get back but will not try to build their base on this place (+ normal distribution of time was used for it);
  • an additional deadline was created with relation to CAF bases captured by aliens; When this time will be expired the aliens will destroy all crafts on captured base (+ normal distribution of time was used for it);
  • an algorithm of saving was added for the projectiles on Globe as well as for the weapon recharge time of CAF crafts and UFOs;
  • a new detection system was created for CAF ASR using a precise distance with the detection and tracking probabilities on each period of scan (+ dialogue with the “UFO detected” notification can be tuned up now as well as disabled completely by user with the special mod option);

NOTE: IN A 3.50 THE BASIC ALGORITHMS OF THE GAME WERE CHANGED: THE BACK COMPATIBILITY ARE EXIST STILL, BUT POOR VARIANTS OF THE VANILLA GAME WERE REPLACED BY MOD IRREVOCABLY!


28 de octubre, 2008

v.3.26

Fixed:
  • hung of the game on attempt to use sensor grenade for reaction fire by CAF soldier (sensor grenades are forbidden for reaction fire);
  • crash at the beginning of a tactical operation while “XCOM Aliens” mod was activated;
  • crash on operations with stimpack in the unit's inventory during of the tactical operation;
  • crash on chain detonation of sensor grenades due of the near explosion;
  • crash on successful completion of the tactical operation;
  • crash at the ending of successful tactical mission for CAF base defence;
  • crash on buy/sell operations on the base;
  • an error with price of the sold items ($100 price);
  • an error with the bad images of the CAF vehicles in the production menu on base;
  • an error with length of the 3D vector on the Globe for CAF ships (invisible crafts);
  • an error with stopped time after choosing of target was cancelled for CAF ships which starting from the base;
  • generation of console log of huge size during of the game;

1 de abril, 2008

v.3.25

Fixed:
  • crash at the beginning a new game with the disabled mod option “Start without soldiers at base”;
  • crash on creation of the tactical game with the activated X-COM agents and with disabled items in itemDb by UNIMOD (akew-grenades, for example);
  • crash at the beginning of the linked mission on Mothership after Starport;
  • crashes during of the active operations with the soldier's inventory;
  • hung of the game when CAF soldier was taken under PSI-control until hearmod is activated;
  • impossibility to charge launcher by guided rockets;
  • error with the overlapped items in same inventory slot;
  • error with the impossibility to heal unit, which are placed not on zero floor;
  • error with the storing of soldier's small damage values of the previous operation and transferring it to next one;
  • incorrect order of the base quick icons — now it's ranged according to building date;
  • differencies between scan AP in shoot mode and real scan cost because of the round values;
  • error with the rotation of the soldier when (s)he tries to do something oneself;
  • MISSION GENERATOR was removed from mod because of the permanent remarks from users about its instability;
Added:
  • the shop was splitted into two parts — “Buy” & “Sell” like it was in original X-COM;
  • discrete switching of the map levels by keyboard numpad;
  • possibility to store and process mod options with the array of the values for same option;
  • mod option to choose priorities of the reaction fire modes;
  • game config files for script objects were reordered; useless files were deleted;
  • completely transformed mechanism of the debug logging (tactical, actions, combat, ai) to exclude off calculations before to take decision will it be logged or no;
  • cartridge entities were added for personal shields to provide support for a new shield system in next versions;
  • after tactical operation transport will move directly on base without necessity to turn around on mission site;

NOTE: because of the changed internal structure of the personal shields, any tactical savegame that was made on any previous version will be loaded on 3.25 with the completely discharged personal shields. It's not error, but feature of this version.


28 de febrero, 2008

v.3.24

Fixed:
  • error of creation of the itemDatabase for X-COM items, that led to hung when any of them was used with active hearmod;
  • error with the hotkeys, that led to ability units to fly without necessary equipment;
  • error of impossibility to heal critical wounds if unit hasn't usual wounds;
  • error of switching of the disabled Tactical Radar on directly from the tactical operation, that led to crash at the ending of this operation;
  • error of loading of the text sources of game, during of the loading of savegames from Earth and Esperanza with the interlacing of it;
  • error of the moving of active unit on start of the tactical operation, if some mouse buttons were pressed during of the load of this operation;
  • operations with the inventory of the units which are absent on base were forbidden;
Added:
  • HEARMOD, that is a new complex system of the hear and noise (mod by Kleho);
  • modified random-number generator (based on xorshift128), with the saving of parameters of it;
  • ability to sell weapons, clips, grenades and other personal equipment without researching of it;
  • a new mod-option was made to reserve some AP to turn unit around during reaction fire;
  • an upper part of the base management menu was re-formatted;
  • maximal length of the name of CAF base was increased up to 20 symbols;
  • adjustments of the resolution of the screen and depth of color were split;
  • buttons of the (un)packing of savegames were moved to save/load menu;
  • a new buttons were added into the soldiers hire menu to operate by stat filters as group;
  • generation of the new the soldier was accelerated to reduce delay at the beginning of new game and on Monday;
  • management of the camera in tactical mode is changed: wheel of the mouse a assigned to change of height of the camera, middle button of the mouse a assigned to average position of the camera, and switching of map levels was made on wheel with the clamped Shift and assigned to Num+ & Num- buttons in addition (mod by Kleho);
  • management of the camera in globe mode was changed: the centering on pressing the right button of the mouse was created, the cancelling of allocation was assigned on the middle button of the mouse;
  • opening of the base menu was added from the globe mode by left mouse double-click over base icon on globe;

13 de febrero, 2008

v.3.23

Fixed:
  • crash on load of the tactical mission on attempt to update mouse cursor before full initialization of the GUI;
  • crash on attempt to open info menu for alien containment facility;
  • crash on attempt to use very big sight area for units (value was limited);
  • disappearing of the mouse cursor over shoot modes choose menu, if this menu had shown outside of borders of map;
  • disappearing of the text strings on shoot modes choose menu after doubled click hotkey for shooting from the same weapon;
  • error with phantom shoot modes choose menu after switching from weapon with few modes of the fire to weapon with the single mode;
  • error of initialization of UNIMOD when config file unimod.ini are absent (led to usage of the minimal values);
  • error of initialization of the tactical radar (led to CPU's overheads);
  • error of payments from the neutral territories like Antarctic;
  • error of usage of the Ctrl and Shift buttons in buy-sell menu if amount of the items to sell was less then step which was assigned for this button;
  • error of the mismatched positions of gfx that must to cover itemsOffer after switching to vehicle on the pre-mission inventory screen;
  • error of calculation of the length of vector with units that's able to defend base under attack (led to extremely long scroller);
  • error of switching between soldiers by hotkeys (“Prev” & “Next”) in the tactical operation;
  • error of the showing of Russian strings in building's sell/info menu on base;
  • error of the showing of the frames of used rockets on CAF vehicle after loading savegame were part of the rockets were fired;
  • error of calculation of the mounting points for rockets on vehicle “Anaconda”;
  • mistake of representation of the number of rockets on vehicle “Anaconda” in pictures on Ufopedia and on Inventory screen;
  • too fast initialization of the progress bar on beginning of a new game;
  • reset of the defined value of mod option “Hire soldier delay” to default value on game start;
  • minimizing of the CombatLog window after reloading of the tactical game;
  • centering of the camera on attacker after missed shoot;
  • error with phantom images of invisible UFO's on globe after reloading of the globe game;
  • error with showing of the names of captured unknown technologies on the mission result screen;
  • forbidden firing of the soldiers that is under transfer;
Added:
  • units will not shoot by reaction fire at enemy that was killed already by allies (mod by Kleho);
  • new icons for UFOs on globe (mod by Kleho);
  • new gfx for EMP-grenade's blast;
  • more colorful gfx for quark grenade's blast;
  • mode option to switch off tactical radar and its objects completely to get more performance;
  • calculation of the soldier salaries was modified to exclude useless detailing up to each dollar;
  • names of the CAF vehicles on Russian will be by type of it now;
  • marks for soldiers in transfer were split to detect ones that is in way to base from others that transferring to training camp;
  • optimized repairing of saves of the old versions to actual format (about +4% for tactical missions and +10% for globe saves);
  • more regular filling of the progress bar during of the repairing of saves of old the versions to actual format;
  • ability to (un)pack autosave;
  • unused files and sources were deleted;
  • Russian localization for data file with description of the internal errors;

13 de enero, 2008

v.3.22

Fixed:
  • crash that was caused by the phantom shootmenus during of the switching between two weapons in hands of the unit;
  • crash on attack of the Kentaur by aliens after it arrived on the final planet;
  • terror-sites in Antarctica were forbidden for mod of begin on the Earth;
  • error of availability of the research of Medikit-Mk1 after any other research completed was fixed;
  • errors of the output of info at CombatLog about triggered sensor frag grenades was fixed;
  • disappearing of gfx of the immovable cursor after any combat action was fixed;
  • the names of the unknown technologies were hidden for items that are on the ground in tactical operation;
Added:
  • the soldier will switch active hand to one with the weapon automatically, if it's possible;

9 de enero, 2008

v.3.21

Fixed:
  • crash on click on the medikit or stimpack after all reagent was depleted;
  • error of processing of the events that are related to the training mod after soldier was fired just from the training camp;
  • error of processing of the researches if research of EMP-technology was started and EMP-grenades mod was disabled later before research was completed;
  • few errors of the Russian localization were fixed;

6 de enero, 2008

v.3.20

Fixed:
  • crash during of processing of the order of AI actions;
  • crash after grenade was thrown by alien;
  • crash during of calculation of the probability to hit target while pistols & rifles rebalance was activated;
  • crash after the transport has returned to base with captured items;
  • crash on attempt to click soldiers placement buttons (left or right);
  • crash on attempt to open research menu after some technologies that are in process were disabled in the mod options;
  • error of processing of the itemDatabase during disabling of the some technologies according to the mod options, which led to skipping of some positions;
  • error of effective area of the scanners when 360 degrees area was scanned;
  • error of usage of the Ctrl and Shift buttons in buy-sell menu if amount of the remained items was less then step which was assigned for this button;
Added:
  • optimized speed of processing of the itemDatabase during disabling of the some technologies according to the mod options (+4% to speed of the loading of Globe);
  • if player call retreat from mission, transport will not be lost regardless is units inside of it or not;
  • animated XCOM aliens were removed from the loading screen progress bar (vanilla game's style was returned back);
  • hits for Ctrl and Shift buttons were added into research, production, and buy-sell menus;

1 de enero, 2008

v.3.19

Fixed:
  • crash on attempt to load save that was made on the Alien Mothership;
  • crash on attempt to open healing menu from shoot mode menu;
  • crash on attempt to open soldiers placement menu when no soldiers are present on the base;
  • cost of hiring of the soldier will take in consideration a cost of armor and weapons (mod by Kleho);
  • fired soldier will leave all weapons and armor in base storage (mod by Kleho);
  • aliens will not forgotten a place of the CAF base after unsuccessful attempt to attack it;
  • error of displaying some verbs on Russian for lost units after mission was abandoned with activated immortality for soldiers;
  • error of inversion of the mod of special names;
  • error of conversion of the equipment list, which are assigned to transport, during conversion of the old savegames (elder than 3.00);
  • dialogue with the month funding information was re-factored to correct bad positions for records, and debit & credit mismatch;
  • descriptions for hospital were rewritten to exclude suxx info about cloning; hint on Russian to mod-option “XAV frequency” was corrected;
  • calculation of weight of the equipment was corrected for situation when an inventory are empty (result must be 0 but not 1);
  • the radiuses of distribution of the fire from incendiary grenade and stun rocket were corrected;
  • order of calculation of the damage before hurting of the player's unit was changed for difficulty levels which are different from “Veteran” (all modificators will be calculated first before check of the shields and other defenses);
  • error of showing of the black shadow around path markers on the tactical missions was fixed for activated option “Compressed Textures”;
Added:
  • were added: ABILITY TO PLAY ON THE EARTH, enhanced texture for surface, localizations with regard to begin on Earth;
  • optimization of the speed for cycles was made;
  • alien bodies, items on the ground, smoke and other effects will not be shown if they are not present in the sight area for player's units on tactical operations;
  • shoot mode menu was re-factored completely; size of window will be calculated dynamically to avoid empty fields;
  • shoot mode menu is over all always now, thus it's impossible to made it inactive by overlapping menu other type (CombatLog, for example);
  • into the shoot mode menu a new modes were added: “throw”, “lob grenade”, “heal”;
  • ability to throw any equipment items was added including grenades without blast, medikits on nearest cells with ally unit;
  • processing of healing mode was cast to common shoot menu mode type;
  • ability to choose which unit will be healed was added for situation when few bodies are placed on the same cell; ability to heal unit from position just over his body was added too;
  • ability to heal himself was added for player's soldiers; the penalties were added on self-healing procedures for units with critical wounds;
  • additional healing mode was added for medikits — injection of the stimulator to bust morale (mod by Kleho);
  • new motion scanners were added, medscan's functionality was modified (mod by Kleho);
  • a new system of calculation of the funding from governments was added; this system have no limit but “saturation effect” exists for last eras;
  • ability to hire soldiers without armor and/or equipment and ability to remove all armor from soldier from were added (mod by Kleho);
  • ability to choose soldiers to defend CAF base on attack was added (mod by Kleho);
  • when surgery room will be built, a times of the healing will be re-calculated for units in the hospital;
  • ability to switch bases from any subsection was added by icons in the base management interface;
  • tooltips with name of bases were added for base icons row in the base management interface;
  • ability to switch on/off a showing of the names of bases on Globe was added to mod-options;
  • ability to switch on/off buttons form with arrows for rotation of the Globe was added (mod by Kleho);
  • mission result dialogue was re-formatted to made it dynamical and to add info about score points;
  • for tactical operations contrast of the LOS and path markers was increased; unit arrow markers were re-drawn too;

10 de diciembre, 2007

v.3.18

Fixed:
  • crash on attempt to open troopers screen after incendiary mega-rocket was got as swarm bounty;
  • Fixed a critical CTD in Terror Missions that was found in Aliens.xscr (from unofficial EoU v.4.07);
  • hang of game on aliens turn after cyberdisk was seen and remains on range of visibility;
  • errors of the showing of info about few unknown technologies in ufopedia on beginning of a new game;
  • Ram-Man's fix for the “Inventory Reload after Mission End” bug that has affected those who use multiple transports to transport their soldiers to missions (from unofficial EoU v.4.05);
  • reset of dependent mod-options that was caused by wrong order of the initialization of the root mod-options;
  • Edited ResourceBundle.dat file to clean up some spelling/syntax/capitalization errors (from unofficial EoU v.4.06);
  • font size was decreased for items in base storage on troopers screen; some records with very long names were renamed (on Russian);
  • info in ufopedia about probability of the triggering of proxy-grenades was changed for situation when mod “Defuse Proximity Grenades” was disabled (will 100% now);
Added:
  • ability to renaming of the bases was added;
  • an order of the bases in list to transfer was made same like order of the bases by built date;

28 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.17

Fixed:
  • error of the ship's state after transfer to other base;
  • error of using of the surgery that wasn't built still to speed up healing time;
  • error of assembling of the report string about trophies which were taken on swarm leader, which led to crash after loading of savegame with such string;
  • addition of v.3.16 related to unfinished mod of swarm bounty which was rolled back (temporary, while full mod will be completed);
Added:
  • healing time will be calculated more precisely now (not rounded days, but with hours, minutes and seconds);

26 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.16

Fixed:
  • 3 crash points on loading of mission savegame with was made with active mod “Inventory: create slot 'head'” after this mod was switched off;
  • bad returned value for method of getting of number of the version of savegame before conversion of it to actual format;
  • conversion error for ship states to a new format of events (v.3.15);
  • error of assigning of the ship state on attempt to place it on globe, which led to permanently increased state;
  • error of assigning of the ship state after production of it;
  • error of calculation of the soldier's salary;
  • error of normalization of the centers of blows of the quark grenade and rocket;
  • error of normalization of the progress bar on loading of the mission savegame (was too fast on 100%);
  • error of partly hided objects on RadarMap right after initialization of it;
  • error of showing of disabled CombatLog during reaction fire on enemy turn;
  • some errors of the Russian localization;
  • format of the records on base defense screen was changed to keep their in borders of the windows (on Russian);
  • allocation of the area for CAF ship buttons was rewritten to get area only for active buttons, not maximal size;
Added:
  • “restorator” for ship's states, which were broken by error in v.3.15;
  • ability to plug in (and back plug out too) recoloured gfx for BK2 armor was added by installing optional patch (BMAN EoU color was used and an enhanced sprites were made for it);
  • dialogue with info about UFO was re-factored completely, a new information are available now;
  • algorithm of calculation of the swarm reward was changed;
  • algorithm of showing of the images for items on production screen was re-factored (some warping were corrected);
  • an image for ion shield was changed;
  • methods for operating with CombatLog and with GlobeText were unified;
  • GlobeText Log was complemented by scroller and extended up to 100 records;
  • CombatLog and DamageBubbles were split completely; state of the opening of CombatLog was assigned to mod-option only and will be stored in cfg now;
  • damage and exp bubbles were hidden for situations when enemy isn't seen;
  • CAF ship buttons on right side of screen were re-factored to made it smaller (-18%); an ability to tune size of it was added in mod-options;
  • style of normalization of the fuel and health bars ob CAF ship button was changed to 100% style (like it was made for UFOs before);

22 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.15

Fixed:
  • crash at the beginning of a new tactical operation, which was caused by 3.14;
  • crash during manipulations with CombatLog, which was caused by 3.13;
  • lifetime for ComabtLog was changed — it's exists for single operation only not global game;
  • problems with temporary appearing of the CombatLog window on events which occurred on enemies turn;
  • lost info about “last savegame”, which was caused by 3.13;
  • some minor fixes for Russian localization;
  • weight of the medikit mk2 was increased to conform it with description of it in the ufopedia;
Added:
  • new events system for statuses of the CAF ship (tiny improve to speed will made);
  • for ships that were damaged in the combat an inaccessibility time period was added during repairing of it (i.e. it's analogy of the critical damages — the more amount of damage is the more chance and longest time for period of inaccessibility);
  • new hotkey “Shift+LClick” on Globe Mode was added to cluster CAF ships in wings (you can to click on ship as well as on button on right side of the screen);
  • new hotkey “C” for Tactical Mode was added to switch CombatLog on/off;

21 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.14

Fixed:
  • broken counter of the kills, which was corrupted in v.3.13;
  • broken damage bubbles, which were corrupted in v.3.13;
  • error of the locking of cursor in the small area after switching to inventory by hotkey from shoot mode choose menu;
Added:
  • a mechanism of compatibility with old versions was extremely optimized to made it as fast as possible;
  • progress-bar will display now a work of the mechanism of compatibility with old versions too;
  • a clearing if the CombatLog queue after finishing of tactical operation was added;
  • completely finished help menu for hotkeys (in the mod options);

19 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.13

Fixed:
  • crash on attempt to upgrade interceptor by “advanced parts”;
  • crash on return transport with live XAV alien (thanks to saveredactors);
  • crash on tactical operation after click on photo of the dead soldier;
  • limiter number for soldiers on the base will not include vehicles;
  • fixed displaying of the area effect damage by CombatLog on the “hidden movements” screen;
  • fixed image for research “infiltration” which had error of alpha-channel (on Russian);
Added:
  • a mode options were completely re-factored; mechanism of processing of the mod-options was unified (regardless to type of option); ability to creation of the related and interference options was added;
  • a help for hotkeys was added in mod options menu;
  • an ability to choose predefined set of the mod-options by one click was added (2 sets are now: vanilla game and recommended options);
  • an ability to switch off training mod completely was added;
  • an ability to switch off soldiers hiring mod completely was added (vanilla game's way will be used on place of it);
  • Globe Log was extended (+28% on width and +1 line);
  • progress-bar was complemented by additional info-string to inform user about work of the mechanism of compatibility with old versions of the game;
  • stats of the XAV were made more “demonic”;

NOTE: because of the completely re-factored mode options, there are no compatibility with config file of the previous versions. Therefore I want to note you that all options will be reset to default value. You can to choose an options that is most comfortable for you by pre-defined sets of the options and manually too. Sorry for inconvenience.


13 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.12

Fixed:
  • errors, which were caused by creation of the own datatype for personal shields:
      a) crash on attempt to open ufopedia after completed research;
      b) “common cartidge” effect;
  • error of displaying of the information in CombatLog about area effects;
  • font for Ufopedia was changed to more pretty one;
Added:
  • reloading of the weapons of ships, which came back to base from combat, will take some time now (20% of time of the full rearming of this ship);

12 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.11

Fixed:
  • crash after corrupted order of the production which was cause by renaming of some base types on v.3.09;
  • mechanism of the compatibility with old versions was updated to include coverage for subversion of MOD.ET;
  • memory leak on globe during reloads and on exit because of new relations between objects on globe;
  • algorithm of the initialization of TacticalRadar was updated to prevent appearing of the phantom objects during initialization;
  • all indicators in the game were corrected to prevent overlong displaying of scale;
  • damage and exp bubbles mod was complemented by queue to prevent a stacking of the objects (for example, when soldier did damage to few aliens by grenade in one time);
  • mechanism of the determination is victim weak by hit or no for CombatLog was re-factored for more coverage;
  • overlapped strings of description for unique artifacts in soldier's inventory were corrected (on Russian);
  • some corrections in interface strings were made;
  • hint for “XAV frequency” mod option was corrected (on Russian);
  • source animation files for XAV were moved to the common directory;
Added:
  • full removing of the language-dependent strings from source code to corresponding file was made;
  • a combo-version with the support of use of the two languages in same time was created (you can to choose language from Game Options without necessity to restart game). Mod was renamed to UniMod;
  • the mechanism of the compatibility with savegames of old versions was modified to speed up loading of savegames (increased by 61% on globe and by 52% for missions);
  • options menu for modpack were reordered and now arranged by type only regardless who are authors of this mod(s);
  • hired soldier will be in state “transfer” now, not in hospital; mod menu option for hires delivery time was made in hours for more flexibility;
  • a penalty on stats was added for aliens too after severe wounds by completely same way like for CAF soldiers (but without bleeding);
  • an extended colouring for damage bubbles was created (now it's: “white” — wounded, “yellow” — severe wound with penalty to stats; “red” — wound with bleeding; “violet” — “yellow”+“red”);
  • an option to tune behaviour of the interceptors after destroying of their target was made in mod options;
  • an new value for “UFO Crash” mod was added in mod options (“Random”);
  • a size of the CombatLog window was increased to have possibility see Russian strings without line folding;

7 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.10

Fixed:
  • crash on attempt to read mod config if unknown strings are there;
  • distorted picture for personal shield in production menu;
  • absence of displaying of the unique artifacts after moving it from inventory to base storage;
  • method of the determination of sex of the soldiers when it called on globe;
Added:
  • complicated training of the soldiers (based on events); new states of the units — in_transfer and in_training; ability to tune parameters of the training from mode options;
  • smart displaying of the time which left before soldier will be available from hospital or training (if time is less then 1 day, it will be displayed in the hours);
  • small optimization for events;

5 de noviembre, 2007

v.3.09

Fixed:
  • crash if internal file APreserved.txt are absent;
  • crash on attempt to open Ufopedia after completed research of Quark Grenade;
  • error of environment damage during UFO crash when EnhancedWalls mod was activated;
  • error of the moving DesrtViper between eras, which led to necessity to research it again;
  • error of the assigning of sequence of the AI acts, which led to “stupid” behaviour;
  • error of the calculation of shooting vector, which led to inability to shoot from some positions although line of fire are exist;
  • error of the reaction fire from bullet pistol;
  • absent description of the unique atrefacts in Ufopedia;
  • displaying of the unique artifacts like “unknown technology” in inventory;
  • type of damage of the bullet pistol (from energy to kinetic);
  • amount of the damage of akew-rocket which was same with ion rocket (up to 150);
  • balance of the rockets and grenades to made rockets powerful then corresponding types of the grenades;
  • amount of the damage of proximity grenades now is less then grenade of same type without sensor have;
  • three times decreased probability to meet X-COM aliens with heavy plasma in 1st era;
  • aliens with heavy ion a excluded because it's CAF development — they will use heavy plasma on place of it;
  • Hammer can fly now;
  • mod of the tune of size of the downed and landed UFOs will involve size of the bases and target markers;
  • data type of stunrod ammo was modified correctly, thus hit is visible now;
  • data type of the personal shield was modified to made it unique (not “Cartidge”);
  • name of 1st transport was corrected (on Russian);
  • name of the heavy plasma was corrected (on Russian);
  • all internal realization of the new technologies of BMAN EoU mod were re-factored by Phobos's method);
Added:
  • a new system of the assembling of string for CombatLog on Russian which takes in consideration a cases and genders of nouns (weapons, aliens, actions);
  • ability to switch on/off ability to fly for aliens and vehicles (like vanilla game);
  • rebalance for rocket weapon on vehicles to made it more precision (ability to switch on/off are added too);
  • more flexible ability to switch on/off XAV aliens (moved from BMAN EoU 4.04);

25 de octubre, 2007

v.3.08

Fixed:
  • crash after clicking on inventory from SoldierPlacement Screen (known bug of BMAN EoU 4.02);
  • missing of some photos by FaceMod “restorator” if they have non-default register of name;
  • all stats of the X-COM aliens were made in strict correspondence with “X-COM Defence” (exclude of armor resistances);
Added:
  • BMAN v.4.03 was integrated and translated to Russian;
  • in soldier promotion form an indicators with max stat values were added;
  • ability to switch of XAV alien in mod menu was added;

23 de octubre, 2007

v.3.07

Fixed:
  • error of the selling of vehicle because of low register of name of it;
  • “money cheat” after unsuccessful attempt to sell vehicle because not found type of data;
  • memory leak after abandon of mission with lost soldiers;
  • corrupted size of the loading screens of vanilla game during of the use additional set of the loadscreens;
Added:
  • “restorator” for faces of the soldiers which were corrupted by bug of FaceMod (fixed on 3.05);
  • restoration of the target markers on globe for CAF ships after save/load;
  • ability to tune size of the downed and landed UFOs;

22 de octubre, 2007

v.3.06

Fixed:
  • error of the ranks system after kill of alien;
  • crash after completed research of the Quark Grenade;
  • absent string for name of EMP TECHNOLOGY was added;

22 de octubre, 2007

v.3.05

Fixed:
  • problems of the compatibility of savegames of any previous version of the game (exclude off error with BaldhorSmoke on tactical operation);
  • crash after disabling of the mod “Inventory: create slot 'head'”;
  • crash after click on Alien Containment facility;
  • crash during creation of object “civil” on beginning of terror operation;
  • crash on attempt to repack save when no unpacked files are presented;
  • crash on attempt to save config when file are locked by extern editor or antivirus program;
  • disappearing of the faces of soldiers when animation is disabled and FaceMod are disabled too;
  • preservation on the screen of inscriptions of a radar after minimization of one;
  • type of the damage by Hallucinoid's claw (from energy to kinetic);
  • overlong string about promotion of the soldier (on Russian);
  • overlong string about abandon of the mission (on Russian);
  • the size of the Encumbrance mod on TroopersHire form was decreased like it's made for all other forms;
Added:
  • ability to choose “on the fly” which ranks system to use (vanilla game or Russian army mod);
  • the mod “Begin without hires” was complemented — now player will have money for soldiers and vehicles which he refuse;
  • regularly spaced distribution of the new photos of the FaceMod during conversion of photos from vanilla's game format to format of FaceMod;
  • naming of the vehicles will be made on scheme “type + number”, where number is random five-place value;
  • when player abandons mission an additional info will be available about soldiers which can be lost;

19 de octubre, 2007

v.3.04

Fixed:
  • impossibility to kill somebody by aimed shot from vehicle cannon in tactical mission;
  • resetting of the state of CombatLog (switched on/off);
Added:
  • file EnhancedSprites_51_.xscr to prevent problems with applying of the already converted sprites in future;

19 de octubre, 2007

v.3.03

Fixed:
  • error, which caused crash during of the reload weapons;

19 de octubre, 2007

v.3.02

Fixed:
  • error, which caused crash at the beginning of playing of the intro;
  • showing of the internal information about downed UFOs (races info etc.);
  • showing of the mission result on English partly;
  • error of the placing item to base storage during of the processing error with items in inventory;
Added:
  • ability to tune will commanders get damage from UFO crash or no (by default they are with full heath always);
  • ability to switch off assigning of the special names to soldiers (nicknames of the peoples which made a contribution to modding of UFO:ET);

17 de octubre, 2007

v.3.01

Fixed:
  • crash after detection of the UFO by HWD-detector (for concrete bundle of the settings only);
  • crash during of the loading of the old savegame (on example of the save that was made on patch-1);
  • dead loop in tactical operation after attempt to play animation;
  • syntax error of assembling of the string for CombatLog;

15 de octubre, 2007

v.3.00

  1. Full Russian translation of the BMAN EoU.
  2. Possibility to get enhanced sprites without necessity to download all pack of BMAN mod.
  3. Few potential crashes were fixed.
  4. Fixed memory leak that was caused by loading of the savegame on Globe while a CAF ships or UFOs were there.
  5. Fixed bug with impossibility to sell one of the Alien Containment Facility when few of them exists on the base but some live aliens are not researched still;
  6. Iskandar's difficulty mod was integrated. The corrections were made in it to prevent changes of the difficulty level after loading savegames which were began on vanilla game. Additionally, was disabled possibility to get money after capturing of the UFO on OMFG level.
  7. Added a line of the sensor grenades which are triggering by moving like it was in good old X-COM.
  8. Mechanical type of the damage was spitted on two: kinetic and energy types.
  9. A new EMP type of the damage was added. It have an effect on a tech vehicles and aliens only. A damage resistances for all races were added. A resistances of the tech aliens and CAF vehicles to chemical damage were increased by 50% (if have no present info about chemical vulnerability in ufopedia). A resistances of the tech aliens and CAF vehicles to stun damage were increased by 20%. The resistances of the commanders to stun were made quite equal to ones for ordinary aliens of this race.
    NOTE: EMP damage can cause wounds on soldiers which have a hi-tech armor types because highly integrated electronic in it.
  10. A EM-pulse grenade was added. It does damage by EMP damage type only. In mod options was added ability to switch it on/off.
  11. A system of the ranks was replaced by ranks and shoulder straps of the Russian Army. A new set of the camouflaged shoulder straps was added. Camo set will be used on tactical missions but normal straps will used on base only (like field uniform and service uniform).
  12. A MIAB rebalance of the ship weapons was added. In mod options was added ability to switch it on/off. Some modifications were made in it to increase a capacity of the cannons slightly.
  13. Nail's facemod was integrated. In mod options was added ability to switch it on/off “on fly”. Additionally were added new 8 men's and 13 women's faces (Mod will be extended in future).
  14. Set of the soldier Russian names was increased up to twice. A statistical distribution of the usage of names was made. (For statistic was used info from Registrar of Birth of Tomsk city on 2006 and Registrar of Birth of the Sovitsky district of Novosibirsk city on 2004). Thus now name Ivan will have usage up to 109 times more frequent then, for example Efraim name.
  15. More then 30 times was increased set of the Russian last names. More then 23000 unique last names were used. To made statistical distribution was used phonebook of the one of districts of Krasnoyarsk city. Correlation was checked by statistic of the 50 most frequently used last names of the next citites: St.Petersburg, Ukhta, Perm, Velikye Luki.
  16. A rebalance mod for personal armors was added. Thus now “Desert Tortoise” is good armor of the 4th era. Now “Desert Viper” have more resistance to chemical damage then “Desert Rat”. A weight of the all personal armors was doubled as compared with original SyDaemons variant. (Weight of armor which was less then its for rifle was funny). To avoid overweight you must to give in consideration a strength of the your soldiers more carefully.
  17. A new slot in inventory was made for head. It applicable for helmets only. Big slot on belt is separate slot now and was named “Holster”.
    The belt was straighten and it's four 1x1 slots on line now.
    You can be sure that error with lost items from belt wouldn't occurs with it in contrast to old mod of such style inside of Tactical Mod 0.54
  18. An option to switch on/off enhanced rookies in last eras was added. An alternative variant of the enhancement (from Iskandar's mod) was added. Both variants can be switched on/off in mod options. NOTE: BMAN-variant will be on work from 2nd era only while Iskandar do it in 1st too. But BMAN-variant will give more increase in 4th era.
  19. An option to tune amount of the soldiers which can be hired at begin and weekly was added.
  20. List of the soldiers to hire will be written in save now, thus no reset will be more for it after reload.
  21. Number of the soldiers to hire on every Monday dependent on number of the states which are under control of the aliens (inversely proportional). Moreover, the number of the hires is random now.
  22. A delivery time periods were added for all purchases. In mod options was added ability to switch it on/off or tune.
  23. Amounts of the goods in shop were increased to exclude necessity come in/out when you have need for many goodies of same kind.
  24. An option of the choosing of distance of the attack for interceptors dependent on current behaviour of it. In mod options was added ability to switch it on/off “on fly”.
  25. A smart interception ability was added to prevent velocity lag when target is faster. In mod options was added ability to switch it on/off “on fly”.
  26. An ability to start without default soldiers and vehicles on base was added. In mod options was added ability to switch it on/off.
  27. A Bman's mod of rifle penalties was modified: 1) an ability to switch penalty only without rebalancing of the pistols was added; 2) ability to switch off this mod and have vanilla game's style was added.
  28. A reload clips mod was modified. An Bman's algorithm with rand() for each clip was replaced by assembling algorithm with rand() for the last clip only.
  29. An option was added to switch on/off “on fly” ability of usage ion/akew/eeew grenades and rockets without beginning of the new game.
  30. The mod which are able to enhance walls vs damage was added (up to 20 times). In mod options was added ability to switch it on/off. Walls wouldn't blow like dynamite now.
  31. A mod to tune a probability for UFO to hit base defense system was added.
  32. An options to tune delays for shooting and for applying damage were added.
  33. The mod of the moving of the “Desert Viper” to the 2nd era was complemented by ability to move it back if research wasn't made still.
  34. Antimatter rocket and grenade from the Ishantil's mod were converted to Quark ones because Stasis is antimatter already (see Ufopedia). Description and type of the blast were modified too.
  35. An abilities to tune up speed of animation of the soldiers, bullets, aliens and vehicles were added. Option for tunable camera speed was added too.
  36. Some outptints in globelog were changed to print name of the base on place of the number of it.
  37. Field for values of the Encumbance-mod as well as some other fields were moved on the other places because of the problems with allocation of the Russian text on the old places.
  38. Displaying of the information on charges in stimpacks and medikits was added. Now number of the remained charges is visible irrespective of a site of a subject in inventory.
  39. Displaying of characteristics of the unknown alien weapon in inventory of soldiers was made impossible during tactical operations before of the research of this technology.
  40. The error of the generator of the names which led to occurrence of names with length more than allowed was corrected.
  41. The size of a font on photos of the soldiers was reduced to made their names correctly located if they are long. The font in names of the soldiers was reduced and leveled to made it placed inside of the borders of the form.
  42. Displaying of the additional information about the weapon in inventory was corrected both at operations, and on the bases too. Now parameters “damage” and “weight” will not creep on all screen but have fixed position now. Some of other inscriptions in game are reduced. The false line “salary” for vehicles was removed.
  43. The error of the overlong indicator of the armor was fixed.
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