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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |OT| Neo GAF is Under Alien Control
- Thread starter Jintor
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platypotamus
Member
I skipped the tutorial (twice), and (both times) started with one satellite already in orbit, and no additional satellites. Not sure if that is the free one you mean or not.
I'm on Normal difficulty and It wasn't an escort mission. The floaters just appeared with in two spaces of my guys, right out of the blue. It was weird.
Speaking of Guile hair, I had the game preordered but I have yet to see the haircut. Whats up with that? I can change all my suits to 32 different colors, which I thought was part of that DLC.
Also, fuck my life I came across a parked UFO with at least 12 mutons and a breserker. I say at least 12 because I've never made it to the end, I've gotten wiped twice now.
Yeah, you really have to watch out for the gladiator defense force.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
FFS, when is this thing going to unlock in Europe?
whalleywhat
Member
I thought it was an AC/DC reference.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
It's already midnight over here!
SuperSonic1305
Member
I don't much care for this shooting through walls business. Might as well just be fighting in a big empty white room.
You do not get a free satellite, but I think it balances itself out based on the other things that happen to you in the tutorial.
Neuromancer
Member
How do you stop their plasma rifles from disintegrating on the battlefield?
SuperSonic1305
Member
Capturing them.
Harry_Tequila
Member
Yep. You can skip the tutorial on all difficulties I believe. You don't even get the option on impossible though.
It is a bit weird, I must admit... I'd have preferred walls to be taken into account a bit more.
... you understand what kind of game this is right ? its about stats, not precision. how could it work.
Awesome
Harry_Tequila
Member
It's about tactical positioning as well and if you're behind a massive wall the enemy shouldn't be able to see you, never mind shoot straight through it as if it were thin air.
AndyMoogle
Member
Still another 24 hours to go. It's not Friday yet.
| Praxis |
Banned
I can't get the vpn to work. I try to connect to a us server and get a "Error 628" tried disabling firewall, data encryption, opening ports... Guess it's for the best, I have work tomorrow
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
whalleywhat
Member
There are ways to remain unseen in the game. I think the shot clipping issue is more about not having a 'correct' animation for every outcome.
KO Traveling Hobo said:
I'm noticing my engineers require corpses for a lot of projects.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I'm watching a stream and this dude's got a hoard of alien corpses. Is there a reason not to sell them in this game?
Really? That kind of sucks.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Any word on their DLC plans?
Neuromancer
Member
You have to capture the alien to get the gun? That's a bummer
no reason i guess..as long as you researched
you've still got that +40 to cover. An xcom game where you're perfectly safe is not really much of an xcom game
Pachterballs
Banned
Out? i want this in my life. I'm so busy though 
Phanatic8390
Member
Just opened up my PC special edition and the art book is way nicer than I expected, I had no idea it was hardcover. The poster and patch are neat too.
| Praxis |
Banned
That worked! Thanks.
I am blaming you for the loss of my job in the near future though.
RPG_Fanatic
Member
The game has finally finished downloading. Time to kick alien but, after Walking Dead episode 4 is finished and I eat dinner.
Doesn't take into account other things that will explode
oops, misread it
I really hope they look at hit percentages, this is pathetic. I was positioned BEHIND an alien two squares away with a clear shot at his backside and the hit percentage? 5-fucking-6%. What?
Not only that but 50%+ shots miss so goddamn much. I failed the first mission on Classic because I could not hit the aliens enough to do the damage to kill them with 50% chance to hit. I realize that's a 50% per shot but things are not normalizing. Their reported odds are a joke. I remember one mission where I had all 4 dudes fire with 70% odds to hit and all of them missed and that happens all of the time.
On the flipside, I can be fired upon in full cover and get hit most of the time. There's no sense of fairness in the difficulty of the game. It pretty clearly cheats for the AI constantly.
What's the point of getting the drop on them if I still have a 50-50 chance of hitting?
Not only that but 50%+ shots miss so goddamn much. I failed the first mission on Classic because I could not hit the aliens enough to do the damage to kill them with 50% chance to hit. I realize that's a 50% per shot but things are not normalizing. Their reported odds are a joke. I remember one mission where I had all 4 dudes fire with 70% odds to hit and all of them missed and that happens all of the time.
On the flipside, I can be fired upon in full cover and get hit most of the time. There's no sense of fairness in the difficulty of the game. It pretty clearly cheats for the AI constantly.
What's the point of getting the drop on them if I still have a 50-50 chance of hitting?
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
UNLOCKING IN EUROPE, MOTHERFUCKERS
Let's turn this thread into PuzzleQuest v2, confirmed bias xcom edition
Oppo
Member
Why would they lie about the odds? I'm pretty sure you just think the odds are wrong but I'm pretty sure what is reported is correct unless you have a bug in your game. I think people just noticed more when "4 dudes fire with 70% odds to hit and all of them missed" vs "4 dudes fire with 30% odds to hit and all of them hit".
Math! It doesn't always work in your favor.