is there an XCOM thread?

now on steam for $40. should i just get it now or wait a little bit for the inevitable sale???

(nb i already own it on the 360 but i never get to play it bc too much competition for the tv)

http://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/price?plain=xcomenemyunknown

now that's it's steamplay you can get it whenever the PC version goes on sale

ok i lost russia and australia but i've got satellites over everyone else. can i still win?

wait that was a dumb question, i just figured out how satellites work - can't stack satellites, right?

My usual squad is 2 support, 2 snipers, 1 heavy, 1 assault

this is working all right for me

everyone's working with titan armor and plasma or alloy weapons too

can i just grind away for awhile and ignore the confounding light / alien base missions until i'm rich?

normally I go with 2 assault, but yeah. My view is that you should accept every mission available to you.

well i beat the game on normal difficulty. south america turned out to be a really killer base option - quickly shortcutting research trees by instantly interrogating / dissecting aliens is cool. once i had titan armor and plasma weapons the game was kind of a breeze. in fact i think the game went a bit too fast.

i just started a new game on classic and got slaughtered on the first mission. have a feeling normal -> classic is a pretty huge step up in difficulty. or maybe i just forgot how shitty the game is at first before you have decent skills / armor / weapons.

FYI Mordy, I just grabbed the PC/Mac Steam version for $13 off a third-party online retailer - expect a similar discount once Steam kicks off its Summer Sale later this week or next

classic difficulty infuriates the shit out of me when my squad members cant hit a target 5 feet away but the aliens are making critical plasma pistol shots from the oppposite edge of the map

― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Monday, November 5, 2012 10:41 AM (8 months ago)

yes

this is so much better + more fun on my mac than 360

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7442/9288429253_29fb0df1c3.jpg

where did you get that sweet hat and shades. is that dlc?

lol

proud brit

btw you were the killer psi operative that won the game

So, who else thought that Pacific Rim was as close to an XCOM film as we're going to get?

seeing it on Saturday. you're getting my hopes up!

So, who else thought that Pacific Rim was as close to an XCOM film as we're going to get?

Other than the fact that there isn't any squad stuff in the movie at all, sure.

Well, yeah. The style and scale of the battles are different, but...

I would love to play x-com on a jaeger scale. Getting cover behind skyscrapers and shit.

wasn't there a battletech game like that?

Mechwarrior? Virtual On?

Front Mission is kinda like that

Actually, a lot like that. It is basically XCOM with mechs

But those are action games and not strategy games, right?

only the last front mission made by some other weird company is action. the rest are turn based strategy. the 3rd and 4th are weird but the 1st is divine

word

i always thought about replaying the newer version on DS with the extra content

do it.

Front Mission 3 is where I signed on. The game had its own Internet!

xcom is 75% off today on steam fwiw

no excuses, ya'll got 48 hours

Anybody know what the DLC situ is? They put out like one story mission(in China?) and some cosmetic bits, but that's about it. Does anybody know if they're doing anything else? Hell, just some more tilesets would be nice

i haven't yet played the story DLC, but at $3.00 you might as well just get both DLCs and enjoy the hats and haircuts, the REAL value of the DLC

they've been annoyingly vague about upcoming DLC. my guess - they're gonna do a Civilization-style big paid expansion/DLC instead of bits and bobs, which i'd be fine with

xcom is so good

is all the DLC included in the osx version? i got only two of the council missions when i played through on normal difficulty (confounding light and friends in low places but no slingshot or gangplank)

i think all of the elite soldier options are there though

they were in the non-Steamplay "Elite" Mac version- i don't know if that's the case with the current crossplatform version on Steam

you mean the apple store version, right?

is there a particular way to unlock slingshot and gangplank?

Am I the only person here who plays the multiplayer? I love it.

i haven't tried it yet. working on beating the main campaign first.

sanpaku's hints upthread pretty much sum it up

is there dlc for ps3

i played this up til the council mission and it became kind of obvious the game was mucking dice rolls so i could get to the end of the tutorial, which made me feel somehow worse

haha the autosave thing got me too. the third tutorial mission, the VIP escort, 3/4 of my squad goes down in a hail of plasma fire and panic. my remaning dude pushed on, grabbed the VIP and slowly and laboriously killed all the aliens on her own.

after that i turned autosave on, it makes the occasional ridiculous panic spirals way less frustrating.

― adam, Friday, 12 October 2012 13:06 (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lulz

how do you keep thin men from poisoning your dudes w/ acid spit?

Enough range

that's part of what makes those escort/rescue missions so aggravating, when they just jump into the map behind or ahead of you

yeah that is arcadey in a weird way and i can't decide what i think of it