Basileus777
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It's a metaphor, man.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |OT| Neo GAF is Under Alien Control
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It's a metaphor, man.
Are there any mods out there that only change the Satellite build time, to 10 days as some of the balance mods out there have. I dont want to completely rebalance the game with a mod (unless it fixes the % to hit bullshit). But this has been the most frustrating thing in the game for me.
You can edit ship??? FFFFFFFFFFF.
Oh god...the these steam achievements are ridiculous!!
Bubonic
Play a multiplayer match against someone with this achievement.
Lone Wolf
Clear a UFO crash site with one soldier on Classic or Impossible difficulty.
Flight of the Valkyries
Win a mission with an all-female squad. Single player only.
Basileus777
Member
It's not really difficult to change it yourself.
Download and install Resource Hacker.
Open XComGame.exe in Steam\steamapps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown\Binaries\Win32 in Resource Hacker.
Go to RCData->1020->1033 and find this line:
Change iTime to 10.
Hit Compile Script. Save.
You're done.
Doctor Decimate
Member
speaking of which, the mission code names have universally been pretty badass
Ironman basically just saves constantly. If you need to force quit because of a glitch or something you can just reload your save no problem. Since it only saves after successful completion of an action and most of the lockup glitches happen while the game endlessly tries and fails to complete an action you're protected from the vast majority of potential game-ending problems.
I've been playing nothing but Ironman since my first game and have yet to hit a glitch that forces me to give up on a game entirely. And I've been far from glitch-free.
FlutterPuffs
Member
The sickest thing happened to me in my classic ironman run.
I was assaulting a ufo with one large corrider on the bottom. You can look down at the corridor on the sides of the ship so I have guys on both sides and a tank-like assault at the bottom to make sure I don't get surprised. I was working my way through.. then an ethereal I was looking for earlier just jumps off the fucking roof that I forgot about and mind controls my best assault. AT THE SAME TIME a sectopod and two chryssalids burst through the door in front of me. When I decide to move a bit further up into cover I find two mutons on the low ground
I decided to just run from the sectopod and ethereal which are on one side of the ship, towards the mutons and chryssalids. I spend some turns dealing with them and some drones. I'm badly injured from flanking but no casualties. Fortunately the sectopod never moves and I just have to deal with the ethereal. I double tap him with my sniper but everyone else can't get line of sight and he has 5 health left... but the mind control runs out. My assault gets revenge with a 5 damage alien grenade. It was like out of an action movie. He probably said "welcome to earth" while he did it.
I was assaulting a ufo with one large corrider on the bottom. You can look down at the corridor on the sides of the ship so I have guys on both sides and a tank-like assault at the bottom to make sure I don't get surprised. I was working my way through.. then an ethereal I was looking for earlier just jumps off the fucking roof that I forgot about and mind controls my best assault. AT THE SAME TIME a sectopod and two chryssalids burst through the door in front of me. When I decide to move a bit further up into cover I find two mutons on the low ground
I decided to just run from the sectopod and ethereal which are on one side of the ship, towards the mutons and chryssalids. I spend some turns dealing with them and some drones. I'm badly injured from flanking but no casualties. Fortunately the sectopod never moves and I just have to deal with the ethereal. I double tap him with my sniper but everyone else can't get line of sight and he has 5 health left... but the mind control runs out. My assault gets revenge with a 5 damage alien grenade. It was like out of an action movie. He probably said "welcome to earth" while he did it.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Revenge is a dish best served cold, but you're delivering it with hot lead and lasers. They're trying to keep the irony consistent, brother.
It was really eerie how apt some of the randomized mission names were.
When you can still miss at 100% odds I'm not sure what your point is.
Why would that matter if there are mod tools? This is based on the unreal engine after all so it shouldn't be too hard to provide mod capability. Also one of them said that all his gameplay code is in unreal scripts.
Never seen it happen but I guess we'll just have to take your word for it.
I can confirm. Did a Run&Gun 100%, 98% critical. Missed.
The current statistical idea is to decrease whatever percentage with 20%. So it might have been actually 80%
Basileus777
Member
It sometimes feels like the random seed is being given too much weight, that whatever number the RNG is spitting out is more important than the attack's hit%.
Are you sure? Has yet to happen to me. If so, that has to be a glitch. The only thing remotely similar I've experienced is rockets killing a drone but not damaging a Sectopod despite it being next to the drone and well within the radius of the explosion.
There are more glitches they have to iron out. Roofs have some issues and enemies can seemingly glitch through walls on one of the bigger UFO types. I've both shot and been shot through walls and ceilings in those, too.
12 hours in and ive been at this "strike down this UFO to continue the game" mission for like 8 of those hours. I think it's like the third one, ridiculous. I keep missing it and not having money to upgrade the air combat since I spent all my money in getting Satellites in every country I have left.
TemplaerDude
Member
I had two mutons appear out of literally no where next to two of my squad. They didn't move or anything, they just sort of appeared.
They were then summarily blasted into tiny bits, but it was still weird.
They were then summarily blasted into tiny bits, but it was still weird.
FlutterPuffs
Member
Did you get the option to research a new aircraft?
Could be a bug. My 100% miss was also after a Run&Gun. I've had enemies close to the center of an explosion's blast radius take no damage. I also find that if I save before shooting, and then miss, no matter what percentage I get when I reload it's always a miss, as long as it's the same shooter and the same target.
Getting shot through walls and ceilings happens all the time. I think of that more of that's the rules of how the game works than a bug.
This has happened to me a few times. It's always when my sniper is in close range. Not sure if it's how they're gauging the spawn point, or just a coincidence. But if I move up a different class, the game always triggers the further spawn.
yup but im out of stuff to research it
I sold some randoms at the beggining in order to get all satellites up and running. Bummer but it might have been worth it, except for the fact that I lost like 4 of them
FlutterPuffs
Member
Ah. You need that aircraft then. The normal ones just can't keep up with the new wave of UFOs.
Try restarting the game next time that happens. The RNG should give you another seed for the calculations. Could confirm Basileus777's theory.
Similar to how the visuals sometimes suggest you should be flanking, but somehow the enemy is in cover, still? Yeah, I suppose.
It's only happened on reaction shots as far as I've noticed, which leads me to believe there's something else going on. Maybe when the models are spawned in, whatever it is that triggers the reaction shot extends beyond the walls somehow.
In my case it was a Cyberdisc I didn't even know was there until my soldier's reaction shots went off at it or one of its drones.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I have that one.
It shouldn't be too hard with a fully ranked Psionic Assault with ghost armor.
Wasn't a snap for me. Muton was in a UFO. Guy he shot at was leaned against the wall outside, but not on the corner. Shouldn't have been visible at all, but shot my guy dead and knocked the wall down in the process. I also had this happen when the wall didn't take any damage. In this instance, my guy was on the corner, but the alien was shooting from an angle where he shouldn't have been able to see him. Rare but kind of annoying.
Vlodril
Member
I got a mission called Fallen Hero and lost my top soldier. Sniper 24 missions 79 kills. Figures..
Anyone have any insight on how Will progression works? Right now I've got one Psi agent with Will in the 80s but he's a sniper so that's pretty much useless.
I'd like to know what to look out for in the rookies, everyone seems to start at 40 so is it the case that some rookies will gain more will than others each level? Or is it down to what happens in the mission?
I'd like to know what to look out for in the rookies, everyone seems to start at 40 so is it the case that some rookies will gain more will than others each level? Or is it down to what happens in the mission?
Fall could mean seasonal fall, which totally makes sense then.
Basileus777
Member
Units lose will if you are downed in battle and need to be stabilized. Other than that, they gain a random amount of will each increase in rank. Though I'm not sure what the range for that increase is. Rookies all start with 40 will, the divergence happens when leveling, so there really isn't anything to look for. In other words, I believe it's all random and there isn't anything you can do to predict it.
There is that OTS unlock that increases the amount of will gained per rank. It doesn't work retroactively though.
famousmortimer
Banned
You should be fine. I messed about for a good 10+ hours just sorta playing it like a sandbox and not touching the story and when I decided to move on the difficulty was fine.
Woo-Fu
Banned
I'd expect to see a bunch of ex-girlfriends.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I goofed earlier when I said I was starting the final mission. I had left the game sitting for awhile so I forgot that I had elected to do some more prep work and was embarking on a simple council mission.
Afterward, I did some psi testing on my main squad in hopes of replacing my first candidate, and my sniper who'd been on board since the first or second mission ended up having the Gift. I'm so, so glad I did it this way given
Not that it wasn't without some incredible yet unintended hilarity, of course.
Afterward, I did some psi testing on my main squad in hopes of replacing my first candidate, and my sniper who'd been on board since the first or second mission ended up having the Gift. I'm so, so glad I did it this way given
what happens in the cutscene after the boss. It made the whole thing much more meaningful. RIP Ananda 'Warlock' Gavde. ;-;
Not that it wasn't without some incredible yet unintended hilarity, of course.
One dude was still Ghosted except for his helmet, and my OG sniper -- the star of the show -- had his plasma pistol flying around in the air, in the device, and in his helmet throughout the entire cutscene. One particularly grand moment was when the camera dramatically closed in on the Volunteer's intense gaze into the Ethereal sphere as he drew upon every fiber of his psyonic strength, and Mr. Plasma Pistol's barrel slowly emerged from his right eye.
It doesnt have any hidden meanings or social references by itself and i think it does sound nice.
Anyway, awesome game so far. I'm in late game ironman/normal and it got really easy (too easy) at some point. I think the real game changer was titan armor, there is not much that can touch fully armored soldiers. Looking forward to classic/ironman.
KrM DeLorean
Member
Squad Alpha (Abduction, small UFO's)
2 Support
1 Heavy
1 Sniper (snap shot)
2 Assault
Squad Delta (Terror Missions)
1 SHIV
2 Heavy
1 Sniper (squad sight)
2 Support
1 Assault
Squad Bravo (Large UFO's, Bases)
2 Assault
2 Support
1 Sniper (Squad Sight)
1 Heavy
I always run with 2 support, both with medikits for revival etc
So, after looking through the achievements for the hell of it, I come across the:
. Ok, I'm on my second one of the game, so I figure I try that. Got him low on health and the percentage is 0! Is this story related?
EDIT: yea, I have him down to 1 and there's still not a chance.
mind control an ethereal
EDIT: yea, I have him down to 1 and there's still not a chance.
Not Ironman? I am disappoint. Later in the game you'll be arm-wrestling chryssalids into submission for fun and you will look back on that mission with fondness.
Stronghammer22
Member
Basileus777
Member
Health doesn't improve your chances of that.
You basically need a naturally high Will soldier wearing psi armor. Ethereals don't have any sort of hard-coded immunity to psi attacks, they've just got ridonkulous Will stats, so just stack your Will 'til you can overcome it and go a-hunting..