X-Piratez

The usually remote and mysterious Nate visited the RPS treehouse on Monday, and almost immediately work ground to a halt. Why? Because Nate challenged us with a question: what bits of modern technology could a person from the past figure out the workings of, just by observing and having a good think for a while? This immediately led to the counter-question "when and where in…

Tagged with feature, look out he's got a knife, research in games, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Civilization, Minecraft, Noita, X-Piratez.

Sin Vega first introduced me to X-PirateZ three years ago, already a sprawling X-Com: UFO Defense mod by "Dioxine" about leading a crew of sexy lady air-pirates in a post-apocalyptic world. She called it "The greatest total conversion ever made" at the time, but I wasn't so convinced. Massive as it was, I felt it was still skeletal and confusing, requiring much trial and error and…

Tagged with feature, Modder Superior, mods, X-COM: UFO Defense, X-Piratez.

In my intro to Silent Storm, I mentioned both modding scenes and UFO (used to distinguish the 1994 original X-COM from the 2012 Firaxis one, and not only out of increasingly sad Eurocentric obstinance) without tying the two together. That, it turns out, was stupid, because X-Piratez, a UFO mod in active development by Dioxine, is the best total conversion for any game I've ever…

Tagged with Dioxine, feature, modding, OpenXcom, total conversion, X-COM, X-COM: Terror From The Deep, XCOM, UFO: Enemy Unknown, X-COM: UFO Defense, X-Piratez, XCOM 2.