Compatible Odachi

WHAT IT DOES

This mod allows you to refit the Odachi with standard weapons, turrets and shields at any wharf, like a normal ship. No longer are you restricted to only what it comes with. It can still use the advanced modules Egosoft intended it to use, so this can do no harm and you can mix & match as you wish.

This is my first mod for X4. It's a simple XML <diff> patch.

WHY

The Terran Odachi is a beautiful ship, far more so than most X4 ships. Imagine my excitement; a sleek, functional looking combat ship without any weird stuff hanging off it or exposed pipework! But you get no choice about what to fit to it.

Worse, it comes with modules that are a nightmare to replace - I claimed it with a marine without realising that this destroys equipment on the ship, rendering it useless. To fix this in vanilla you'd need to invest hundreds of millions in a Wharf and research to rebuild the parts yourself; nobody sells them, not even the Terrans.

Perhaps like me you just really like dakka dakka guns more than terran EM pew pew guns. Now you can stick 4 Avenger Autocannons and two Flak Turrets on there if you want.

REQUIREMENTS

Timelines DLC

INSTALLATION

Manual: Extract the archive to your X4 installation directory, so that the compatible_odachi folder sits in your X4 extensions folder.

You should see another extensions folder and a content.xml file in that directory, so the structure should look like this.

X4 Foundations\extensions\compatible_odachi\content.xml

X4 Foundations\extensions\compatible_odachi\extensions

I will not provide support for people who cannot extract archives correctly and refuse to use mod managers; life is too short to stop people from willingly stepping on garden rakes

COMPATIBILITY

As long as it doesn't directly edit the Odachi's ship components, i.e. the 'tags=' attribute on the weapons, turrets and engines in ship_ter_m_corvette_02.xml.

Should be compatible with both vanilla and VRO versions of the ship - all it does is change the tags that tell it what categories of equipment it can attach to its components. I play with VRO personally so have not tested vanilla.

KNOWN ISSUES

This is not something I can change, and I don't think it looks too crazy. It's certainly worth the trade-off of being able to fit the ship how I want.

Egosoft are going to make swe