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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |OT| Neo GAF is Under Alien Control
- Thread starter Jintor
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Wow. People were not kidding when they said gamepad felt a lot better for this game then k/m. I just keep finding myself trying to control the game like other kind of isometric titles and it just wasn't working.
Never would have thought I would be playing Xcom with a gamepad on my HDTV.... but here we are.
Never would have thought I would be playing Xcom with a gamepad on my HDTV.... but here we are.
Phanatic8390
Member
I just popped in my Disc 2 to check.
The folder is titled "Special Edition Content" and its the only folder on the disc. That's strange that you don't have it.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Oh my god thank fuck, will that also help with the game freaking the fuck out when you mouse over buildings with multiple floors?
I should be doing hw
Member
I hope this game does well enough for it to become a franchise again. Firaxis tackling a sequel in the vein of Terror from the Deep would be undoubtedly amazing.
Hey, Jintor, sign me up for some GAFCom too, please.
SteamID: Iron Yuppie
Hey, Jintor, sign me up for some GAFCom too, please.
SteamID: Iron Yuppie
It's worth knocking them out if you have a good shot at doing so because you have a chance to recover plasma weapons. Capturing different species offers various types of bonus things to research.
pieatorium
Member
welp that first attemt at a classic iron man run didn't go well at all. Lessons learned time fot round another go
Square Triangle
Member
Why did I buy Dishonored? XCOM has taken over my life.
Didn't work. Thanks anyways. I sent a support ticket to Steam so maybe something will come out of that.
Ramocalypse
Member
Okay, this game has me reliving my childhood, one thing i need to know though...
How do research credits work? I have interrogated 2 species, have plasma weapon credit, ufo tech credit. How do i use these/how do they work?
How do research credits work? I have interrogated 2 species, have plasma weapon credit, ufo tech credit. How do i use these/how do they work?
Square Triangle
Member
How do you knock them out and not kill them?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Your time spent researching projects related to those two topics is reduced.
Ramocalypse
Member
ah thanks, i guess its important to make some early game captures then... hmm have to rethink my strats.
I wasn't really too chuffed with the reduced squad sizes when I played the demo, but the more I play the more it bothers me. Four to six easily-spooked peeps who get one to two attacks per turn can easily turn a very small run of bad luck into a complete squad wipe in a mission. The much larger squads in the original game combined with each dude likely getting from one to potentially twelve shots in a single turn made your overall hit percentage converge towards the mean quite quickly.
You need to research the Arc Thrower then manufacture some and equip them on your soldiers. Each Arc Thrower can be fired twice per mission.
You need to research the Arc Thrower then manufacture some and equip them on your soldiers. Each Arc Thrower can be fired twice per mission.
Yup, one Muton miles back. I left the rest of my squad at the door, and the rogue Muton was killed two more appeared right next to the group and got insta-killed by Overwatch.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Ugh how to skip cutscene!
There are a few unskippable cutscenes in the tutorial and almost none when the tutorial is skipped.
I lost France, Japan, and China. No fucks were given.
Also, just captured my first
Ethereal
Yes, there's like 4 or 5 sets more. Cooler is up to you I guess.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
We should hold a multiplayer tournament.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Okay, good.
Anyone else got this on PS3 and having weird clipping issues? The HUD(like base view) gets all cluttered and overlapped at times and when deploying for a mission, sometimes it overlays troops on top of each other so I can't really tell who is going on a mission until it starts.
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Game is an absolute blast otherwise though. Finished up the tutorial and just been working on getting a hang of the rest of the mechanics.
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Game is an absolute blast otherwise though. Finished up the tutorial and just been working on getting a hang of the rest of the mechanics.
afternoon delight
Member
Any chance we could add the various PC tweaks to the OP? There's a great one submitted every five or six pages.
A couple of thins I noticed:
1. Wielding an Arc Thrower in XCOM is like wearing a redshirt in Star Trek. Really, it's like a homing beacon for plasma, everyone with an Arc Thrower seems to be dead on arrival.
2. My squad is a bunch of jokers. Seriously, they miss so much in overwatch that it must be some sort of an elaborate joke on their part. Real-time combat? No problem commander, we're popping alien heads left and right. Overwatch? Sir, we forgot how to shoot, sir!
3. That fucking elevation level glitch. So I send my best heavy guy to take cover behind a small concrete wall on the edge of the bridge to provide cover for VIP extraction. The ledge flickers, I click the mouse button and instead being in cover, he ends up one level lower, in the open, facing Thin Men firing at him with elevation bonuses. I send my best assault girl to take some Thin Men out and save the bloke's ass, she ends up in the same fucking situation, out in the open, shot to pieces. Last save? Almost 2 hours ago. Rage-quit (haven't done that in YEARS).
This game is awesome!
1. Wielding an Arc Thrower in XCOM is like wearing a redshirt in Star Trek. Really, it's like a homing beacon for plasma, everyone with an Arc Thrower seems to be dead on arrival.
2. My squad is a bunch of jokers. Seriously, they miss so much in overwatch that it must be some sort of an elaborate joke on their part. Real-time combat? No problem commander, we're popping alien heads left and right. Overwatch? Sir, we forgot how to shoot, sir!
3. That fucking elevation level glitch. So I send my best heavy guy to take cover behind a small concrete wall on the edge of the bridge to provide cover for VIP extraction. The ledge flickers, I click the mouse button and instead being in cover, he ends up one level lower, in the open, facing Thin Men firing at him with elevation bonuses. I send my best assault girl to take some Thin Men out and save the bloke's ass, she ends up in the same fucking situation, out in the open, shot to pieces. Last save? Almost 2 hours ago. Rage-quit (haven't done that in YEARS).
This game is awesome!
link it, dude. Searching is problematic on steam, if it returns false positives i don't like having to weed through accounts to find the gaf-related ones
SuperSonic1305
Member
Rockets, Rockets, and more Rockets. They've saved me dozens of times.
I fucking hate this. It's especially bad on the UFO that has the tanks in the middle.
Incendiary
Banned
I'm not entirely sure how the percentage for hitting things works, and I'm more than a little frustrated right now after failing a mission I should have won, tactically at least.
I was doing an abduction, fought a shit-ton of floaters, probably about eight or so, beat them without taking any damage at all. Fine. The map doesn't end, and there's one corner left unexplored, so I slowly make my way over there. I've got two guys on the top floor of the map, a third guy on the middle floor, and two guys on the ground floor working around to flank.
In the unexplored corner is 3 Mutors. Fine, that's great. I close in. My guys on the rooftop do 5 damage total out of 8 possible to one Mutor. Everybody's under cover, good to go...and then the Mutors one-hit kill two of guys, both who are floors above them, causing a third guy of mine to panick. And my two guys on the ground floor can get a maximum 50% shot on the Mutors and never hit, and I end up losing the mission.
Doesn't height + cover give you a better advantage? How can the enemy one-hit kill me from a disadvantageous spot, hitting me every time they fire, while I can spend a whole turn with all of my guys and they all whiff? Why are my guys only getting 44% accuracy when they're three squares away from the enemy and have a clear line of sight? I feel like tactically I'm playing correctly but I'm being punished anyway.
I was doing an abduction, fought a shit-ton of floaters, probably about eight or so, beat them without taking any damage at all. Fine. The map doesn't end, and there's one corner left unexplored, so I slowly make my way over there. I've got two guys on the top floor of the map, a third guy on the middle floor, and two guys on the ground floor working around to flank.
In the unexplored corner is 3 Mutors. Fine, that's great. I close in. My guys on the rooftop do 5 damage total out of 8 possible to one Mutor. Everybody's under cover, good to go...and then the Mutors one-hit kill two of guys, both who are floors above them, causing a third guy of mine to panick. And my two guys on the ground floor can get a maximum 50% shot on the Mutors and never hit, and I end up losing the mission.
Doesn't height + cover give you a better advantage? How can the enemy one-hit kill me from a disadvantageous spot, hitting me every time they fire, while I can spend a whole turn with all of my guys and they all whiff? Why are my guys only getting 44% accuracy when they're three squares away from the enemy and have a clear line of sight? I feel like tactically I'm playing correctly but I'm being punished anyway.
I think I know what mission you're talking about and the exact same thing happened to me.. they need to fix that shit
KrM DeLorean
Member
SHIV's are excellent for terror missions, let them dash thru the map ignoring the enemies and rescue the civilians, and have your squad hang back and gangrape the chrysilids it spots. SHIV's cant be zombified.
Also Chrysilids can't climb buildings or cars/shipping crates etc. Have your dudes with grappling hooks pick them off from above.
If things are going bad just dash back to the blue rectangle near the skyranger.
I'm playing the 360 version, and on occasion (actually almost every mission), one of my guys will have the contact icon pop up on his turn, only there're no enemies and other soldiers right next to him have nothing. When this happens, it happens every time they get a turn.
Is this a bug, or do I just completely not get the system?
Is this a bug, or do I just completely not get the system?
Incendiary
Banned
Aaaaand I retry the same mission, the Mutors get to the upper floor first and get the advantage this time, and of course I can't hit them from the lower vantage point and they one-hit crit kill two of my guys again. Ugh.
I should be doing hw
Member
My bad, there we go: here.
Only one more week till I graduate then it's all xcom, all the time for a while I think.
Had a super annoying bug tonight where, if a sniper uses the jetpack, then lands, he loses all view of the battlefield, even with squadvision on. Went through 75% of a mission with him tailing on a roof and not being able to see anything, even when it was eventually right up in his face.
Then the game freaked out in it's pathfinding and randomly spawned a Berserker and a heavy floater on top of him.
This game is great, but it is buggy as shit.
Chrysilids can climb buildings. My good sniper found that out the hard way.
Septopods are my new bane, but I can't tell if they're unreasonably strong or if they're just upgraded cyberdiscs. The mission I'm on put 3 of them with drones in a room, because fuck you that's why.
The level design of the alien heavy carrier is pretty bad. It's the first environment that made me groan from how many blantent killboxes were there. The fact that it's one of the enemy strongholds doesn't make me feel great since I know I'll have to play it a bunch of times.
Then the game freaked out in it's pathfinding and randomly spawned a Berserker and a heavy floater on top of him.
This game is great, but it is buggy as shit.
Chrysilids can climb buildings. My good sniper found that out the hard way.
Septopods are my new bane, but I can't tell if they're unreasonably strong or if they're just upgraded cyberdiscs. The mission I'm on put 3 of them with drones in a room, because fuck you that's why.
The level design of the alien heavy carrier is pretty bad. It's the first environment that made me groan from how many blantent killboxes were there. The fact that it's one of the enemy strongholds doesn't make me feel great since I know I'll have to play it a bunch of times.
Unknown Soldier
Member
I just launched Steam and now it's downloading a 1.8GB update for XCOM. Is this the biggest patch in gaming history which isn't an MMO expansion?
edit: Ahahaha, those patch notes. 1080p movies are now used instead of 720p. SHIVs are fixed. And most importantly, hardware mouse cursor is implemented! How using software mouse cursor somehow got into release code is something which is unfathomable to me. Even FFXIV had enough sense to get hardware mouse cursor in for that game's abortion of a launch.
edit: Ahahaha, those patch notes. 1080p movies are now used instead of 720p. SHIVs are fixed. And most importantly, hardware mouse cursor is implemented! How using software mouse cursor somehow got into release code is something which is unfathomable to me. Even FFXIV had enough sense to get hardware mouse cursor in for that game's abortion of a launch.