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Tactics / Re: Base invasion

« on: September 14, 2011, 09:00:32 am »

I draw a 5*5 grid on a piece of paper and keep track of where I've been through, then just send one guy through each square with react fire. Yeah - it takes an hour or more.

My vote would be to just plain have the bases max out at 4*4, unless you can make the alien AI start actually sweeping the base offensively.

Also - workers, pilots and scientists should be present as civilians and possibly die, and all have some stats so you could use them if not enough soldiers were around (think 1/2 of a trained soldier).

Mainly it's an AI problem - they're not aggressive and don't move much if there's no enemy units nearby.

If pilot are present and scientist we should be able to command them and to equip them with weapons.

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Tactics / Re: How often do you find yourself wanting to only make ONE react fire shot?

« on: September 14, 2011, 08:58:36 am »

Only one big shoot with max of precision is more usefull than a riffle miss.

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Tactics / Re: Where/why/how many bases do you build?

« on: September 14, 2011, 08:57:10 am »

The number of base is limited.
So be careful.
Base invasion is not detected from the radar.
So always keep a base defence squad on each of them.

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Tactics / Re: Tip of the Day

« on: September 10, 2011, 03:40:00 pm »

Les mines de proximité me manque.

Les grenades fumigènes colorantes seraient utiles pour informer les civiles des zones sécurisées et pourquoi pas attirer nos ennemis sur des embuscades.

Proximity mine are missing to create ambush to aliens.

Colour Grenade should be useful to pull civilian into safety place

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Mac / UFOAI-2.4-dev Error: Mem_Free: bad memory header top sentinel [buffer underflow]

« on: September 10, 2011, 10:26:08 am »

During ground battle, during the firing of the machine gun, the game suddenly crashed with following error report fron Mac console and no inside game error message.

10/09/11 10:17:00   [0x0-0x1a01a].net.sourceforge.UFOAI[187]   ********************   Notice   com.apple.console
10/09/11 10:17:00   [0x0-0x1a01a].net.sourceforge.UFOAI[187]   ERROR: LE_NotFoundError: Could not get LE with entnum -455 (src/client/battlescape/events/event/actor/e_event_actorshoot.c:164)   Notice   com.apple.console
10/09/11 10:17:00   [0x0-0x1a01a].net.sourceforge.UFOAI[187]   ********************   Notice   com.apple.console
10/09/11 10:17:12   [0x0-0x1a01a].net.sourceforge.UFOAI[187]   Error: Mem_Free: bad memory header top sentinel [buffer underflow]   Notice   com.apple.console
10/09/11 10:17:12   [0x0-0x1a01a].net.sourceforge.UFOAI[187]   free: src/common/dbuffer.c:#98   Notice   com.apple.console
10/09/11 10:17:12   com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[87]   ([0x0-0x1a01a].net.sourceforge.UFOAI[187]) Exited with exit code: 1   Warning   com.apple.console

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Bugs prior to release 2.4 / Game crash during ennemy move

« on: August 11, 2011, 04:59:19 pm »

Process:         ufo [350]
Path:            /Applications/UFOAI.app/Contents/MacOS/ufo
Identifier:      net.sourceforge.UFOAI
Version:         2.4-dev (2.4-dev)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [88]

Date/Time:       2011-08-11 16:43:58.853 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version:  6

Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Application Specific Information:
Assertion failed: (buf->len == 0), function dbuffer_extract, file src/common/dbuffer.c, line 506.

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Discussion / UFO Ship Speed on 2.4

« on: July 31, 2011, 11:49:14 am »

I noticed bigger ship are the fastest, it's not logic

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Mac / Re: Fullscreen startup crash on 2.4-Dev OSX10.6.7

« on: July 27, 2011, 11:54:00 am »

I have find a solution to solve the start-up crash and the quit problem when playing Full Screen.
when I quit the game I unselect full screen and the sortie button work perfectly after.

To resume to play full screen without the crash, I follow all these steps.
1. I open the game in windows mode.
2. I go to option
3. I go on vidéos and I select full screen.
4. I play...
5. when I want to quit the game.
1. I go to option
2. I go to video and unselect full screen
3. I press sortie and it work perfectly.

I hope it will help to solve this full screen bug.

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Mac / Re: Fullscreen startup crash on 2.4-Dev OSX10.6.7

« on: July 26, 2011, 11:59:59 pm »

HI, I'm playing this game since 2.2 and 2.4 is great.
I have following bugs to report.
1. At start-up the game crash one time every 2 attempts (always the first attempt.) (This bug wasn't present on the 2.2)
2. To quit the game I have to press 2 time the Quit anyway button to close the game.(This bug wasn't present on the 2.2)
3. On the Ovnipedia, the mele-weapon's statistics are missing. (Theses data were present on the 2.2)
4. Wen a rechearch succeed we don't received any more the recherch mail (it was great on the 2.2 for the ambiance)
5. the missions on the 2.4 are less visible on the map

French translation is perfect good job.

I link now the error report I received when I try to launch the game.
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Process:         ufo [127]
Path:            /Applications/UFOAI.app/Contents/MacOS/ufo
Identifier:      net.sourceforge.UFOAI
Version:         2.4-dev (2.4-dev)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [87]

Date/Time:       2011-07-26 09:31:34.913 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K540)
Report Version:  6

Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  1  Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager

Thread 0:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   net.sourceforge.UFOAI            0x0000000100010f6f VID_GetModeInfo + 114
1   net.sourceforge.UFOAI            0x000000010000d0ad CL_VideoInitMenu + 59
2   net.sourceforge.UFOAI            0x000000010000d6fe CL_InitAfter + 46
3   net.sourceforge.UFOAI            0x00000001000ee051 Qcommon_Init + 1373
4   net.sourceforge.UFOAI            0x0000000100171fad main + 201
5   net.sourceforge.UFOAI            0x00000001000010d0 start + 52

Thread 1 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libSystem.B.dylib                0x00007fff85344c0a kevent + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                0x00007fff85346add _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 154
2   libSystem.B.dylib                0x00007fff853467b4 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 185
3   libSystem.B.dylib                0x00007fff853462de _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 252
4   libSystem.B.dylib                0x00007fff85345c08 _pthread_wqthread + 353
5   libSystem.B.dylib                0x00007fff85345aa5 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 1 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000004  rbx: 0x0000000104dc9e50  rcx: 0x0000000104dc9ce8  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000000000004  rsi: 0x0000000000000000  rbp: 0x0000000104dc9e90  rsp: 0x0000000104dc9ce8
   r8: 0x0000000000000001   r9: 0x0000000104dc9e50  r10: 0x0000000104dc9e20  r11: 0x0000000000000246
  r12: 0x00007fff709c8998  r13: 0x00007fff709c8d68  r14: 0xffffffffffffffff  r15: 0x00007fff709c8da8
  rip: 0x00007fff85344c0a  rfl: 0x0000000000000247  cr2: 0x00000001000e0000

Pour plus de détail je peux mailer les logs des erreurs