is there an XCOM thread?

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

YESS i have managed to kill off all my dudes and doomed earth to alien exploitation

kind of hard to tell where the tutorial ended, there

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

honestly don't have the time!

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

so do you reckon no backend, then?

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

i'm not really finding the geoscape stuff to be that different from the OG tbh

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

are you playing on classic?

oh.. nope

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

declassified blows. why anyone would emulate mass effect combat play is beyond me.

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.

ah i see, embargo was lifted today

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

I totally prefer "Elerium".
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/28/world/europe/new-chemical-element/index.html?hpt=hp_c5

ios is 50% off right now.

whats this like on console vs mac? usually dont like keyboard/mouse gaming but seems like it would be the better option here

it's sick on mac

yeah? might grab it on steam then

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

anyone who likes XCOM should def try Invisible Inc

A mobile base: a flying aircraft carrier called the Avenger

Subtle, innit?

That was in the original game!

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.

yeah, it was, though tbf it was the really souped-up version that let you hold way more people and tanks than the old crappy Skyranger

powered by Elerium-113 (tm)

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/04/xcom-2s-procedurally-generated-maps-ign-first

sounds cool

xcom 2 delayed to February 5

NOOOOOOOoooooooo

the good news it's almost february 5th and these reviews look pretty dope

yyyyyyyeeEEEEESSSSSSSSS

I have a pretty weak ass old imac so I assume I cant play u_u

pretty much dragged out fallout 4 for 2 1/2 months for this ^_^

I have a pretty weak ass old imac so I assume I cant play u_u

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, February 2, 2016 10:58 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah hoping for a demo just so i can confirm it works on a laptop that's, like, par at best for 1, before i throw money at them

Minimum specs aren't that bad. 2.4gz, 4g ram, Nvidia 650 or better. It'd be the video card that'd be the barrier.

ha, that's exactly what i have, but a crappier video card, i think. not the game's fault, considering my iMac is eight (godforsaken!) years old now

wow i can't believe you kept your mac alive for eight years

easy when you're cheap, foolish and stubborn

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M?!?

lots of performance issues according to steam forum

i'm just going to pretend it doesn't work, i don't really want to spend that much anyway

It's a 2K game, so it'll heavily discounted soon enough. I never even got around to Enemy Within, anyway...

Fuck it, let's do this.

Dealzon has links to like ~25% off, with a slightly better discount for UK/EU sites.

http://www.dealzon.com/deals/cheap-xcom-2#xcom-2

Is there an easy way to share squaddie builds yet? Are we all on the ILX steam group?

Interesting set-up so far. Graphics are hitching during the cinematics, but okay during fights. Little delay in the scripting after alien activity before they shift it back to your turn. If this thing has gamepad controls, they're pretty limited so far.

Cover factors include not just distance and half/full blocking, but elevation too.

this is just about running at min settings on my 13in mid-2014 Macbook Pro. I get warnings about being sub-minimum spec (I think the graphics card is the weak link), but it lets you click continue. Long load times and it stalls when campbell tries to tell you things during missions, but first couple of maps have been comfortably playable.