Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear it. There are some great mods out there, no doubt, so that's a huge compliment! Though I like to think that XLRP fills a certain niche no other mod currently does.
Thanks! Gotta say this place has grown unusually quiet. I understand a lot of people have moved on, though, and everyone else is over at Discord. As for me, I've always been more of a forum guy, I guess.
Ah yes, the surprise... Gotta tear myself away from the mod for long enough to take care of that, though!
Thank you. While I haven't had the chance to play BEX myself yet, I've seen some great stuff from that mod. I wish I had the time to play all of them! Maybe when I'm mostly finished with XLRP and can get a full career playthrough behind myself I'll check them out one by one. Should be somewhere around the year 2100, I reckon?
My pleasure! To be completely honest, part of the reason I picked XLRP up again was pure selfishness. After all, this was the way I wanted to play the game, and I sorely missed it.
But yeah, I'm amazed by the sheer perseverance of the BT modding community. Some of them have been slaving away for years, in some cases almost non-stop it seems. No idea how they do it, but I'm all the more grateful for their dedication.
So anyway, I wanted to provide a small update on what's been going on.
As I said in my previous post, the mod was still in a very broken place. Lots of things weren't working, many Mechs were broken, even some basic functionality that was there before wasn't working anymore. Good thing I haven't been slacking off, then! In fact I spent most of the past two weeks - overall it's been almost three weeks now - working on the mod. As of today, most basic functionality is there again (at least from what I can tell). Things like ECM or even melee combat were completely broken (due to things having changed in other mods involved). After having spent most in-game time in Mechlab and Skirmish mode (not to mention the time understanding what's wrong and actually fixing it), these are now in a decent state.
With all the changes that were the result of updates to MechEngineer, CAC, CBTBE and others also came a few new possibilities and I also learned a trick or two. (Nothing compared to the cool stuff the other mod packs are doing, but hey, I'm not a code monkey!
)So while I'm trying not to add too much stuff for the next update - that's for later - I plan to build upon and refine what's already there. And quite a bit of that has already been done.
With that being said there's still a lot of smaller stuff that needs investigating and fixing, not to mention finetuning and balancing. And once that is done I'll need to do at least some basic Career/Campaign testing. Based on experience I'm guessing my "stuff to fix"-list is going to grown again as soon as I start doing that.
tldr lots of progress being made, but still a mech-tric ton of things to do!
In case you can't tell, I'm having a lot of fun, though. (Occasional frustration over things I just broke aside.)
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