Making Experienced Level for Experienced Players

[teukros]

Well I recently got back into UFO and one of the first things I did was look up my old XCOMUFO.COM posts. Found this post (maybe just about things I was thinking of doing in my next game) from three and a half years ago:

 

http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/index.php?ac...&pid=172431

 

"Hey those sound like good ideas" I said to myself, and I slavishly implemented every one of them (actually I only increased Laser Cannon range to 35, and I nerfed the pistol to Auto Acc 40 TUs 63, Snap Acc 50 TUs 24, and Aimed Acc 65 TUs 40):

 

 

Well in my first game I had an Alien Battleship land on my only base and kill everyone - in the first week of Februarly 1999.

 

In my second game I landed at Terror Site 1 and immediately dusted off, and then during the journey to Terror Site 2 I started thinking about the changes I implemented (it was a long shuttle ride)...

 

So then I sat down and placed this comment into my (modified) xcomutil.cfg. For the curious, I have included all of my XCOMUTIL.CFG changes (to repeat from my 2007 post, I am using XCOMUTIL 9.60 and answering YES to Improved Weapons, New Laser Weapons, Research Help from Captured Aliens, XcomUtil Messages after Combat, Stat Strings added to Names of Troops, Rank Indicators added to Names of Troops, and Automatic Re-equipping of Troops before combat (using the Clark Wehyr editor to keep everybody in order) and answering "NO" to everything else).

 

XCOM

ResearchHelp

 

// My my my, 5,000 scientist-days for laser weapons...

// oh dear oh dear oh dear... let's try this:

// Adjust the multiplies based on the difficulty

// level. The base will be for Beginner Level: x10 for

// Motion Scanners, x20 for Human tech (lasers etc)

// as well as for autopsies,

// and x50 for Alien tech. Then, just multiply these

// numbers times the number of the Difficulty Level

// you wish to play, before you start the new game.

// I.E. before you start an Experienced Level game,

// change the Motion Scanner multiplier to x20, the

// Earth tech multiplier to x40, and the Alien Tech

// multiplier to x100; for a Veteran Level game,

// x30 for Motion Scanners, x60 for Earth Tech, and

// x150 for Alien Tech; for a Genius Level game, x40

// for Motion Scanners, x80 for Earth Tech, and x200

// for Alien Tech; and finally, if you want to try the

// Superhuman level, x50 for Motion Scanners, x100 for

// Earth Tech, and x250 for Alien Tech (good luck)!

// Note that the Xcomutil default for the BASE number

// of days for Laser Weapons was 50, and as you can

// see, I have increased it to 500, to make it a kind

// of a "speed bump" for the hasty gamer, to prevent

// silly things like laser rifles by the end of the

// first month. If you think it is too much of a speed

// bump (more like a speed mountain) just divide by

// five for Beginner Level and increase incrementally

// for more difficult levels I.E.: 100 days for the

// Beginner Level, 200 days for Experienced Level,

// 300 days for Veteran Level, 400 days for Genius

// Level, and the full 500 days for Superhuman level.

// N.B. that doing it this way will make the more

// advanced difficultry levels EXPONENTIALLY harder,

// as you will be forced to rely upon 1999 era Earth

// Tech for the majority of the game.

 

// Day Mul Cmd Ldr Eng Med Nav Sol

 

500 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 0 Laser Weapons

180 50 0 0 50 0 50 0 // 1 Motion Scanner

210 100 0 0 0 80 0 0 // 2 Medi-kit

500 250 50 25 0 80 0 0 // 3 Psi-Amp

 

800 250 20 20 50 0 20 10 // 4 Heavy Plasma

400 250 20 20 50 0 20 40 // 5 Heavy Plasma Clip

700 250 20 20 50 0 20 10 // 6 Plasma Rifle

400 250 20 20 50 0 20 40 // 7 Plasma Rifle Clip

600 250 20 20 50 0 20 10 // 8 Plasma Pistol

400 250 20 20 50 0 20 40 // 9 Plasma Pistol Clip

900 250 80 60 70 0 0 0 // 10 Blaster Launcher

300 250 25 20 70 0 0 0 // 11 Blaster Bomb

550 250 20 20 20 80 0 0 // 12 Small Launcher

180 250 20 20 20 80 0 0 // 13 Stun Bomb

200 250 0 0 50 0 0 50 // 14 Alien Grenade

450 250 25 20 50 0 0 0 // 15 Elerium-115

600 250 0 0 0 80 0 0 // 16 Mind Probe

 

450 250 0 0 50 0 25 0 // 17 UFO Propulsion

450 250 0 0 0 0 80 0 // 18 UFO Navigation

450 250 0 0 50 0 25 0 // 19 UFO Construction

150 250 0 0 0 80 0 0 // 20 Alien Food

150 250 0 0 0 50 0 0 // 21 Reproduction Chamber

150 250 0 0 0 0 50 50 // 22 Alien Entertainment

150 250 0 0 0 80 0 0 // 23 Alien Surgery

150 250 80 80 0 80 0 0 // 24 Alien Abduction

400 250 25 20 50 0 40 0 // 25 Alien Alloys

 

600 250 20 10 30 0 20 0 // 26 Firestorm

700 250 20 10 30 0 20 0 // 27 Lightning

900 250 20 10 30 0 20 0 // 28 Avenger

 

100 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 29 Laser Pistol

300 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 30 Laser Rifle

460 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 31 Heavy Laser

 

420 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 32 Laser Cannon

660 250 20 20 50 0 20 0 // 33 Plasma Cannon

880 250 20 20 50 0 20 0 // 34 Fusion Ball Launcher

 

510 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 35 Laser Defense

620 250 0 0 50 0 0 0 // 36 Plasma Defense

800 250 0 0 50 0 0 0 // 37 Fusion Defense

930 250 0 0 50 0 40 0 // 38 Grav Shield

360 250 0 0 0 80 0 0 // 39 Mind Shield

420 250 0 0 0 80 0 0 // 40 Psi-Lab

670 250 0 0 0 0 80 0 // 41 Hyperwave Decoder

 

250 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 42 Laser Tank

430 250 20 20 50 0 20 0 // 43 Plasma Hovertank

690 250 20 20 50 0 20 0 // 44 Launcher Hovertank

 

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 45 Sectoid corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 46 Snakeman corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 47 Ethereal corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 48 Muton corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 49 Floater corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 50 Celatid corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 51 Silacoid corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 52 Chryssalid corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 53 Reaper corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 54 Sectopod corpse

180 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 // 55 Cyberdisc corpse

 

300 250 70 50 20 20 35 20 // 56 Alien Origins

500 250 60 30 10 10 25 10 // 57 Alien Origins - Leader

600 250 50 20 0 0 15 0 // 58 Alien Origins - Commander

 

180 100 25 20 50 0 0 50 // 59 Personal Armor

205 250 25 20 50 0 15 25 // 60 Power Suit

330 250 25 20 50 0 30 0 // 61 Flying Suit

 

/ResearchHelp

/XCOM

 

and also

 

XCOMShips

Stats

760 2 1000 150 0 14 3

3100 8 30 800 1 12 0

4200 9 78 600 2 26 4

2100 3 500 100 2 0 0

5400 10 16 500 2 0 0

/Stats

Weapons

21 70 70 15 6 6

40 60 100 20 3 7

10 25 10 2 200 8

64 100 230 25 2 9

35 35 35 4 0 0

33 50 140 6 0 0

/Weapons

 

and

 

// Patches for Improved Weapons

 

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0x0000: .P .i .s .t .o .l 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 03 00 05 01 02 01 FF FF 0C 0C FF 28 32 41 3F 18 28 08 09 64 32 14 05 00 01 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00

0x0012: .H .e .a .v .y . .L .a .s .e .r 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 06 55 0C 02 03 FF FF FF 02 02 03 00 3F 69 00 21 3C 0A 08 64 32 14 12 00 00 01 01 01 00 01 00 00 00

0x0016: .H .i .g .h . .E .x .p .l .o .s .i .v .e 00 00 00 00 00 00 16 16 6E 04 02 01 FF FF FF 0F 0F 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 08 .d .2 14 06 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

 

Now pardon me while I go start a Beginner level game

Edited January 6, 2011 by teukros