But those are action games and not strategy games, right?
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
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
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Thursday, 18 July 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
word
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 July 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
i always thought about replaying the newer version on DS with the extra content
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 July 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
do it.
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Thursday, 18 July 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
Front Mission 3 is where I signed on. The game had its own Internet!
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Thursday, 18 July 2013 06:55 (ten years ago) link
xcom is 75% off today on steam fwiw
― polyphonic, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
no excuses, ya'll got 48 hours
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
xcom is so good
― Mordy , Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― the late great, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
you mean the apple store version, right?
is there a particular way to unlock slingshot and gangplank?
― the late great, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
Am I the only person here who plays the multiplayer? I love it.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 18 July 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
i haven't tried it yet. working on beating the main campaign first.
― Mordy , Thursday, 18 July 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
sanpaku's hints upthread pretty much sum it up
― the late great, Thursday, 18 July 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
is there dlc for ps3
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 18 July 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
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
― i better not get any (thomp), Sunday, 21 July 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― i better not get any (thomp), Sunday, 21 July 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
how do you keep thin men from poisoning your dudes w/ acid spit?
― the late great, Sunday, 21 July 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
Enough range
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Sunday, 21 July 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
that's part of what makes those escort/rescue missions so aggravating, when they just jump into the map behind or ahead of you
― Nhex, Sunday, 21 July 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
yeah that is arcadey in a weird way and i can't decide what i think of it
― i better not get any (thomp), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
YESS i have managed to kill off all my dudes and doomed earth to alien exploitation
― i better not get any (thomp), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
kind of hard to tell where the tutorial ended, there
― i better not get any (thomp), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
disheartening that no one is still playing this
so q., does the geoscape backend work like in the original? -- i mean, is the game genuinely going to the bother of generating ships + missions + flight patterns and then calculating the odds of my satellites noticing them? because it feels more like it's just rolling on a random encounter table tbh
― i better not get any (thomp), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
honestly don't have the time!
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
i rebought on Mac; will get back to it someday
geoscape is way simplified compared to the original, there's no ship pursuit tactics, just a pop up screen at random intervals. still, like a lot of things in the game it's good enough
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
so do you reckon no backend, then?
― i better not get any (thomp), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
don't know for sure but i doubt it - the variables are so few (month, continent, city, ship type, mission type) they really don't need a full-on sim
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
i'm not really finding the geoscape stuff to be that different from the OG tbh
― the late great, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
are you kidding man, remember all those hidden bases you had to find, sending out patrols for discovery and intercept, and a million ships over the earth at once and having two or three Skyranger crews to cover the load, it was micromanagement hell
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
are you playing on classic?
― the late great, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
oh.. nope
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
i was thinking 'man i am going to run this into the ground and start again in classic ironman and ace it' and yup i just died on the first mission
― i better not get any (thomp), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
declassified blows. why anyone would emulate mass effect combat play is beyond me.
― best null wave (bnw), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
that's a shame, but expected given how messed up the development has been for that. it was supposed to come out before Enemy Unknown!
http://games.on.net/2013/08/xcom-enemy-within-will-expand-enemy-unknown-and-add-replayability-mechtoids-and-more-we-speak-to-firaxis/
First actual confirmation on Enemy Within that I've seen. Surprised it won't be a DLC add-on for console though, as it will be for PC.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
ah i see, embargo was lifted today
― Nhex, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
mass effect combat works on paper, i can see why they might want to try and fix it, plus i mean it sells i guess
enemy within sounds potentially a mess.
“In order to construct the MECs and MEC troopers, you’ll need a resource called Meld that we’ve introduced on all the maps. Meld is stored in self-destructing canisters, so if you want it, you’ll have to be a bit aggressive. The risk can be well worth the reward.”
hm
is xcom rubberbanded at all? i keep losing all but one of my entire force and then storming something with a bunch of rookies in a way that seems ... odd
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
I totally prefer "Elerium".http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/28/world/europe/new-chemical-element/index.html?hpt=hp_c5
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 August 2013 06:37 (ten years ago) link
ios is 50% off right now.
― sofatruck, Friday, 11 October 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
whats this like on console vs mac? usually dont like keyboard/mouse gaming but seems like it would be the better option here
― ṿῗᾄǤℝᾄ (am0n), Friday, 11 October 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
it's sick on mac
― the late great, Friday, 11 October 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah? might grab it on steam then
― ṿῗᾄǤℝᾄ (am0n), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
XCOM 2 announced as PC-exclusive for the fall. kind of surprised!http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/01/xcom-2-announced-ign-first
― Nhex, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
anyone who likes XCOM should def try Invisible Inc
― Mordy, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
A mobile base: a flying aircraft carrier called the Avenger
Subtle, innit?
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Monday, 1 June 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
That was in the original game!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link
oh wait, this thing?
http://ufopaedia.org/images/4/4e/UP001.gif
I always thought of this as just a lander or pursuit craft, a bigger version of the skyranger, not a flying aircraft carrier.
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 04:34 (eight years ago) link