Pumpkinhead Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 I know the in-game weighting system isn't proportional (or else a pistol would weigh about 18kgs ), but what I'd like to know is why a Sectoid, standing at just over 5', weighs 30 and an X-COM soldier (presumably around 6') in a flying suit only weighs 26?Why are the puny little Sectoids so heavy??They must have ultra-dense heads or something A Floater for instance, only weighs 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 Presumably it is their super-dense "superior" brains. Or a lot of alien implants to boost their puny little bodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dead Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 I think they just eat too much cattle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 You think sectoids are heavy? According to my mystical obdata.dat viewer, Female civilians weigh in at 50 whereas the male civilians match the sectoids at 30. 50 is as heavy as one quarter of the large terror unit corpses! No, you can't pick them up, but the game still assign weights to them. I think X-Com soldiers are just lean mean fighting machines. It also goes to show how light alien alloys are. Power armour/flying suits weigh 1 less point than an unloaded pistol! No wonder the un-aerodynamic geometric shaped ships the aliens use can move so fast. They've practically no weight! I bet a strong soldier could literally carry a small scout on his or her back like a skiff. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bevan Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 maybe the anti-grav thingymajigs in the flying suits make it lighter... do they even have anti-grav things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted January 16, 2004 Author Share Posted January 16, 2004 According to my mystical obdata.dat viewer...Where can I get me one of those? I was just going off the OFG's table... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 It is a very hard to find program called notepad.exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 What? Notepad? That old hunk of junk? No, I'm talking about a much older hunk of junk, edit.exe ! No, seriously though, I actually have put together a very primitive obdata.dat viewer. I was actually going to use it to load in the battlescape unit data tables, but one thing lead to another, and I ended up making it read obdata.dat. Heh. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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