Saracen Reborn
Readding the X-44 Saracen that the Devs cut from the game using the pre-existing assets they left in the game. They couldn’t find a niche for it to fill so they felt it didn’t fit, I found one for it. 🙂
I’ve turned the Saracen into a long range search and destroy craft. It has more range and greater speed than any other human craft in the game. It carries 2 heavy and 2 light weapons, no cannons, and like the Foxtrot it can’t Combat Roll so it’s vulnerable to smaller and faster craft. It also has a greater radar range and a greater chance of detecting alien craft to help it find and chase down UFOs that are causing trouble outside your bases’ radar range.
The X-44 is available for research after you’ve completed research on the Corsair and the heavy alien armor plating (ie the alien alloy hardening research). I tried to reactivate as many of the existing assests for the craft as I could find, including writing up a new Xenopedia entry for it detailing it’s abilities. It’s manufacturing costs are between the Corsair and the Maurader.
This mod will function properly on existing saved games as long as you haven’t finished the research for the Corsair and the Alien Armor Plating. If you’ve already completed either of those projects you’ll need to roll back to a save from before they were completed or start a new game to gain access to the X-44 Saracen.
