HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I don't see how staying up all night playing a video game is a good thing. School, work. Then again, I don't understand why people take the day off work or cut school for these things.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |OT| Neo GAF is Under Alien Control
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I don't see how staying up all night playing a video game is a good thing. School, work. Then again, I don't understand why people take the day off work or cut school for these things.
I think it's because some people are not emotionless robot drones. I could be wrong, though.
whatever time 5am monday is on pacific time
childplease
Banned
Could someone clarify when this will unlock on steam.
Will it unlock at 0000 hours on Tuesday or 0930 like some people have been suggesting ?
Is this also true for New Zealand hoping a VPN will let me unlock early.
Will it unlock at 0000 hours on Tuesday or 0930 like some people have been suggesting ?
Is this also true for New Zealand hoping a VPN will let me unlock early.
Trying my best to stick to some sort of budget as well
Know everyone is going to have a blast with this during launch week... but I will wait until a holiday sale later on. ( or that is the plan..)I'm going to let Jintor get first stab at it, he's actually played the game. I'm still waiting for Friday. I have a few screenshot/image hosting/possibly video concerns to worry about before setting something up. I mean if Jintor does the big comprehensive one, I have to do something different.
Well, actually... The demo has been, frankly, hacked to pieces. One interesting thing they found was
a "Second Wave" advanced options menu, allowing you to change some pretty major parts of the game around.
Of course, if that becomes available after beating the game, or if it's DLC is still to be determined.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
anyone know when this unlocks on steam tomorrow?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
... going to school and learning or going to work and getting paid are being emotionless and a drone?
I honestly don't know how to respond to that.
9pm PST. 12pm EST.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Not really. The only thing about imgur is that they auto compress your jps, iirc.
There are several suggested image hosts in the PC screenshots thread.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=457378
- Picpar: Brought to you by none other than X3sphere, a simple and efficient image host.
- Abload: Easy to use, doesn't compress jpegs further, auto-converts bmps to png nicely.
- Minus: Great interface, love way to share albums of screens.
- Skydrive: 25 gb of storage, easy to set up folders, slideshows, no picture size limit.
- Flickr: Good stuff if you are a paid user. Otherwise you are stuck with some limitations and shouldn't really use it.
It's an issue of control, mostly. I used my Dropbox account for my original X-Com game, because, well, the entire thing is 10MB total. Judging from the demo, each screenshot is 150KB in the new game. Of course, I'd have to edit those, since it's impractical to use 1680x1050 images.
I'm not sure what happens to my images at Imgur and the like. TinyPic did the whole thing where pictures got replaced, which caused some issues here. I think it's banned now, actually. I have a free Photobucket account, but I'd need to go pro with that to host anything the scope of this.
Then there's video. No issues there, I believe. I got a Youtube account in good standing, and Firaxis seem fine with people streaming games, so that should be the easy part. Just need to find some program to record it with. Saying that, I bet it's going to be a nightmare of badly synced audio and DMCA takedowns if I try. On the other hand, the Game Hub on Steam accepts Youtube links, so... Yeah, it'll take a little to unravel if I can do that or not. I'm just a tiny bit Copyright paranoid when it comes to posting things like that. I was even a little worried about the original LP I did.
But I'm still bouncing around ideas. Which is why I'm glad you're going first. I can see what works and what I'd do different with yours and make something unique with mine. There's a crazy voice in the back of my head yelling "Do it comic book style!" I'm not even sure what to say to that. The Glam Cam does offer some neat angles for something like that.
You don't know how to respond? Is that because your response algorithms keep resulting in a stack-overflow exception when processing my post? lol
Seriously though, what's so hard to understand about humans getting excited about a game to such a degree that they want to play it as soon as possible and are willing to take a day(s) off for it?
XANDER CAGE
Member
Maybe I don't have to go to work tomorrow, shock horror. I didn't even have to take time off!
Also, I'm excited to play a new XCOM.
piratepwnsninja
Member
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
5 hours in. Love the combat in the game and how every move matters. Game is extremely difficult even on Normal IMO. Graphics are good, music is even better. A lot of game systems/UI going on but game does a good job explaining everything. Out of mission stuff is as good as combat.
I will do normal ironman too. I can learn from my faults when my squad gets wiped. If. Hopefuly not.
Imgur, presumably in a misguided attempt to push people towards paying for an account, has become increasingly worse in this regard -- I uploaded a 330KB JPG yesterday only to find it horribly compressed. If it weren't for my having the Firefox plug-in installed, I wouldn't use Imgur at all.
Edit: Bloody hell, forgot to switch tabs again. That's twice today!
what difficulty?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Nothing.
Except that they shouldn't. It's an unproductive part of an otherwise worthwhile passtime.
Whenever my family hears me talk about bad gaming habits, they always get confused. Aren't I a gamer?
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Started impossible ironman first. That was just..... bad. Then did classic Ironman. Those squad wipes hurt soooooo much.
Basileus777
Member
I've never done this, but who are you to pass judgement on how people use their time off? I don't see anything wrong with taking a day off to do something you enjoy.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
You chose.
Poorly.
Taking time off and having no other priorities that day are two different things.
Incendiary
Banned
For somebody who never played the original XCOM, but watched his college friend play it for hours and saw his squads brutally murdered time and time again, what difficulty should I start on? I was thinking Classic, not Iron Man. Yay or nay?
TheVoidDragon
Member
The elite soldier pre-order pack says it comes with:
"Complete Colour Customisation - A variety of colours and tints for all armour sets in the game allow players complete control to customize their squad’s look."
Does this mean the ability to colour armour is only available as a pre-order bonus?
"Complete Colour Customisation - A variety of colours and tints for all armour sets in the game allow players complete control to customize their squad’s look."
Does this mean the ability to colour armour is only available as a pre-order bonus?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
It'll most likely be DLC.
TheVoidDragon
Member
The ability to colour armour sounds like something that should be available in the game in the first place.
AgentOtaku
Member
Still no impressions of how this runs on PS3?
Iron man is not a difficulty perse, though you can get into a state where you can no longer win much sooner since you only have one save that's automatically written over.
Difficulty level wise it depends on what your goal is, I think. Do you want to finish the game? Do you want a challenge? Classic is going to be very unforgiving. If you have no problems with starting over several times I say go ahead.
If you hate losing and just want to finish the game then go with normal. Personally I'm going with classic difficulty and ironman mode because I don't care if I finish the game or not. Plus from what I read about Classic it's where the proper game begins. You don't get any hand-outs when you start the game (like certain base facilities etc.) and the aliens don't go easy on you.
The reason why I don't go for impossible right away is because I don't like to play against a AI opponent that feels like it's obviously cheating/gets a giant bonus to things.
Have you read this yet?
frontieruk
Member
I'd just like to say if I panic and shoot and kill Pvt. UnknownSoldier, it has nothing to do with appearences in the WP7 thread no siree... it's just an unfortunate coincidence...
And no reviews yet BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I obviously should go back to bed and forget about this going to work malarkey.
Glass Rebel
Member
I remember the devs saying that this was exactly not the case. As in, the AI doesn't suddenly know where all your units are on higher difficulties.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
Forgot this was from Fireaxis. Looks great.
I know but there are games where that happens. However from what I gather about impossible difficulty is that the enemies get such a high bonus to their stats like hp and crit chance (which is also a kind of cheat) or whatever that you can lose or win based on luck rather than tactical decisions. It also sounds like it would become much more of a chore than anything else. So classic seems like the most fun.
enemies getting higher stats on higher difficulties is pretty common in video games. There's also some thought that went into the process (like thin men getting +1 hp so you can't kill them with only one grenade and have to use a different tactic). While there are more and stronger enemies on higher difficulties the AI doesn't cheat.
Also, while xcom is a strategy game luck does play a factor, on any difficulty.
From what i read impossible isn't designed to be winnable anyway. They mentioned nobody on the dev team managed to do it.
Not certain I agree, colouring armour seems like an after-thoughty gimmick. This is XCOM/X-COM, not Power Rangers...
(were it something bigger locked out - like soldier customisation entirely, or actual content/gameplay, then I'd be annoyed also, even if I have pre-ordered)
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
One of the few genres where the framerate doesn't really matter.
Glass Rebel
Member
Yeah, I just wanted to clear it up. I'll play Classic as well. Haven't decided whether I'll do Ironman as well.
Impossible Ironman.
I thought I heard the opposite. They had at least one person who managed to do it. Though maybe not...
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
He wasn't on the dev team, IIRC.
Yes, I know enemies getting extra HP or whatever if common. But on impossible it's to a ridiculous degree while on classic it's still fair and as you say changes the meta of the game slightly such as to require you to play more tactically.
However an enemy getting triple his HP for example doesn't feel like a challenge, it feels like a cheat.
What I'm saying is because impossible has the stats increased to such a degree the luck factor get multiplied exponentially. And actually impossible was beaten by one of their devs and someone in the industry they know.
ah cool. I certainly agree that impossible is for masochist. I think that's a good thing
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...en-match-for-its-creator.aspx?PostPageIndex=2
QA and some 2k guy. No devs. (eh, I guess if you consider QA part of the whole dev "team", then sure)
QA and some 2k guy. No devs. (eh, I guess if you consider QA part of the whole dev "team", then sure)
scaring me bro