DonSwordsman

Well I finally got a true back up working so I don't have to reinstall everything every time I try and get the mod working. That being said I am still having the same error as every other time. I have tried to read through the Forum and find out why my Long War always gets set up so that all my solders get super moves will and 1% aim. I have read through the installation guide and the only thing I can't figure out is the Phone Home thing... there is some info about finding it on mac but nothing about the App store version... any one figure this out as I know other mac store users have got long war working.

Going to give long war another try. Is b15f stable? Also any advice in avoiding the corruption I had last time I installed it?

Lol it was fun until a terror mission. But now I can't get the uninstall to work :-/ It when through the whole process and even told me to restart the game, but there are still long war parts in there... i.e. says long war instead of new game... and the difficulties are long war.

Lol it was fun until a terror mission. But now I can't get the uninstall to work :-/ It when through the whole process and even told me to restart the game, but there are still long war parts in there... i.e. says long war instead of new game... and the difficulties are long war.

Update: After game restart Classes reset to normal after restart, all soldiers have will 301 and aim 1.... until I figure out whats going on I'm going to play in this insane mode.... so many grenades will be used.

Hello again, App store version of XCOM I was hoping that with the new version of I could actually play some long war. What happened this time around is actually exactly what happened to first time I tried to install Long War. 1. On the title screen everything seems to be in order 2. New game: normal classic brutal impossible Advance setting: tutorials disabled (but the meld tutorials is check marked) Other settings seem correct 3. Can only pick from five continents each with a slightly changed number for their benefit 4. Start the mission with six soldier who all have the xcom vanilla standard issue rifle and exactly one 1 frag grenade. (this is where is starts getting weird) 5. Each soldier blue move is extended into the distance to the point it might be infinite, the yellow move is also the same insane size, allows you to run from one side of most maps to the other and back in a single turn. 6. Soldiers aim is around 1% for most shots, steady weapon brings it up to 11%. When a soldier stands directly next to a Sectoid their aim% is max 39% (before steady weapon). 7. Only Sectoids on the first mission 8. Grenades explode in what seems to be bigger then a shredder missile AoE 9. Soldier promoted into the traditional 4 class system with some different starting abilities (squad sight for snipers) 9a. (unconfirmed this install but remembered from last install) soldiers can not pick new abilities after leveling up again, instead the options are questions marks that can not be selected. 10. After restarting the game turns reverts to vanilla EW. I have a guess as to what is happening (and there isn't even a good chance that it are correct). I know that the "phone home" option is very important to turn off, and I also know that it will revert you game... I am wondering that since this is the App store version is there instead something else I have to turn off? For example my game normally connects to the "game center" could this be causing the problems in long war?

I'm the one who has had issues getting long war working and nothing I have found has helped me fix it. I am currently working on end of term papers so I might give it a try again once I am on summer break.

Hello Again, An update! Fearl solved my problem with the EW download by sending me a link the direct DLC download. However, Im still having issues getting Long War to work. Currently XCOM says Long War b15c instead of single player (i picked b15c as I thought it might be more stable then the newest update that wasn't working) Also the difficulty choices and advanced option choices are correct for Long War. However, when I go to pick my starting country its the same as the vanilla game. After that the mission starts with just 4 soldiers just like Vanilla. (Some times, right after I install, I get six soldiers for the regular mission but they will just be wearing normal vanilla armor and just have a traditional rifle and one grenade) This is very similar to the first time I tried getting Long War working when I played a few missions with six soldiers but was not able to pick classes and only got a redone staring class (which reverted to the normal starting class after reloading the game) This is what the installer says now I tried running the uninstaller with no luck any advice, or has anyone else had the same issues?

Thanks dubious, You help have been invaluable. I did end up reinstalling XCOM (which takes a full re-download because I bought it on the app store - Take note every mac user who wants XCOM, don't do it on the App store, its so much more trouble when modding or even downloading!). Now of course the in-app option for downloading EW wont even start to download, let alone let me resume. I have contacted Feral Support (as directed in the XCOM app) and am waiting for a response. I also checked their FAQ to look for the DLC download other places but there was nothing to solve my problem. Once again, everyone on here has been invaluable. However, at this point any more messages I might send would just be complaining. Once I have EW installed again I will post if I can still not get Long War to run successfully. Also If i stumble upon any other Mac app-store specific knowledge I will try my best to share it (I heard there was a app-store specific thread somewhere, but was unable to find it). Thank again! Don Swordsman

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :pirate: :pinch: :wallbash: I apologize for the emoticons, but this is just getting frustrating. So I re-downloaded XCOM, opened it to the menu so it would load the files... The I spent the last 4 days trying to download EW with no success (terrible internet connection in China, and it wont save the data that it has already loaded after it disconnects for no reason)... I thought that I could still add Long War in even without EW (I thought I grabbed a file that said it was for EU), but when I tried to load it as directed it could not find the XEW. So I went into the library to see and found that there was in fact no XEW folder that had been there before... is that a EW thing??? After realizing that I did not know where the tell the shell program to upload I tried to manually modify XCOM with the results that you would expect (failure). So where is my XEW folder or how can I get it to generate so that I can finally get this mod working? Thank you so much everyone who is helping to make this possible... as you can tell I'm no good at this stuff and am incrediably thankful to everyone who takes the time to respond. -Don Swordsman (Still waiting for someone to make a project stardust mod)

Thank a ton!!! That link was great, and now at least I have some better idea of how terminal works. Just one question, I don't seem to have the 8 classes, only four with a rearranged starting skill and ? marks for all the skills other after the first level. Is this normal? do I have to do research to unlock new skills? And why does the game seem easier? Also when I restarted the game after playing it the first time it seems that all the classes reset to vanilla. After the restart the entire game reset its self to vanilla... I assume something went wrong in installation... working on a reinstall but the unistaller seemed to have some issues so I figured I might as well reinstall xcom (give me time to work on my homework for a change) and start fresh that way I can take not of everything that goes wrong.

Any help on getting the file to run on macs? I'm interested in the most recent version 3.0b15d2 when I download it it shows as a .7z file.... I have no idea what to do with this or how to open it... and I can't find any information on it. I have been trying to look through this tread but haven't found anything useful. Any help? Okay, so I figured all that out... got the right program to do everything, now I'm trying to run the installer in terminal but I have no idea how to find the directory where the installer needs to go please help. Using the app store version so this is exactly the same issue as Tomarsh. anyone figure out the directories needed?