XCOM Enemy Unknown -New-

[BloodOmen]

Must say like, I am starting to get sick of snipers missing shots they have 95-99% hit chance on ¬_¬

 

[cHodAX]

Playing on impossible mode now, it's basically the same thing, same AI but with more enemies. Bit disappointing, hoping we can get some decent mods for the game over time.

 

[wolfeeh]

Someone needs to port the terror from the deep game into the new engine but otherwise keep everything the same

 

[BloodOmen]

just a matter of time i'm sure, was looking around Xcomnexus before, some pretty cool stuff on there already.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Playing on impossible mode now, it's basically the same thing, same AI but with more enemies. Bit disappointing, hoping we can get some decent mods for the game over time.

Pretty much. They have more health, you have less, they get more hit/crit bonus and there's more of them. They also rarely back up.

 

[cHodAX]

just a matter of time i'm sure, was looking around Xcomnexus before, some pretty cool stuff on there already.

Lovely, thanks

 

[BloodOmen]

http://xcom.nexusmods.com/mods/18/

trying that one out at the moment, guy says it was built for classic difficulty but it would work on impossible aswell.

 

[cHodAX]

Let us know how you get on, I am finding impossible a bit of a chore, not challenging as such, just a big fucking grind due to long research times.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Ironman game stuck when returning from mission, gets stuck on globe screen.

*taps finger on table*

I'm this close to breaking sh*t.

 

[old.Tohtori]

As a note; don't send two interceptors, or an interceptor while your skyranger is out. Will destroy your save.

 

[rynnor]

I see there's some paid for extra missions coming soon - no date yet though.

 

[Mabs]

As a note; don't send two interceptors, or an interceptor while your skyranger is out. Will destroy your save.

i did and it was fine :/ must just be random glitch

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeah it's random, but with ironman not worth the risk

 

[Mirt]

OOO interesting, origional XComs where ace.

 

[fettoken]

Crap. Savegames keep disappearing in a strange manner. Saved a few times recently, died, tried to reload, but all the saves from now and 5 hours back were gone.

 

[fettoken]

A word of caution. If you have more than a certain amount of saved gamestates, the game will sometimes mix them up and you will loose precious your newest save files. Would recommend to keep a maximum of 5 save states.

 

[rynnor]

A word of caution. If you have more than a certain amount of saved gamestates, the game will sometimes mix them up and you will loose precious your newest save files. Would recommend to keep a maximum of 5 save states.

I found the same thing - best not to go crazy with saves.

 

[wolfeeh]

I had a similar issue but on testing the problem I found that if I left the pc alone on the load save game screen more and more saves would appear over the course of minutes until eventually my latest saves appeared. I have the steam version of the game and am wondering if the issue is specific to steam.

Deleting save games reduces the occurrence of the issue.

If you're wondering if its a slow connection issue.... I have 120 meg broadband.

 

[Mabs]

afaik there only is "a steam version", even the boxed copy uses it

 

[old.Tohtori]

Bugtip for the day;

Shooting a missile from behind a sideways low car at a bunch of other cars may blow up the car you're hiding behind.

To illustrate;

Shooting here

From here
|_ _ _ _|
....O......

May kill you horribly.

The car wasn't anywhere near the explosions, but i guess that a rocket going through a carwindow will blow it up too.

 

[rynnor]

I have had an odd bug where injured troops occasionally dump their upgraded weapons/armour when they are in the hospital - ie when they come back on duty they just have the original crap weapons/armour.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeah they disarm everything when they are wounded. Which is good in a way since you don't have to see if they have gear before you equip your team while they have the spacesniffles.

 

[rynnor]

Do the aliens actually exist before you get near them?

In the old game if you moved around a lot in a small area you could entice most aliens to you.

In this one i get the distinct impression that they dont exist until you reach them?

 

[old.Tohtori]

It's a bit of a technical fubar.

They exist and move around as a group, BUT they don't actually do anything unless they come in view at which point they switch to combat mode and disperse.

This can result in warping aliens, or aliens spawning ontop of your team(always so f*cking fun).

You can bait them by kicking doors, explosions and breaking glass. To some degree.

 

[rynnor]

It's a bit of a technical fubar.

They exist and move around as a group, BUT they don't actually do anything unless they come in view at which point they switch to combat mode and disperse.

This can result in warping aliens, or aliens spawning ontop of your team(always so f*cking fun).

You can bait them by kicking doors, explosions and breaking glass. To some degree.

If you use the snipers ability to throw a camera you can then follow up with a rocket and kill them while still bunched.

 

[old.Tohtori]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6468-XCOM-Enemy-Unknown

 

[opticle]

I FRICKING LOVE THIS GAME.

So addictive

One bug I've noticed: The Assault's melee Ability rarely seems to fire, which is irritating.

Also, I wish there was some way you could tell it to unequip soldiers as you clear them from your loadout screen - sometimes it's a pain finding that one item someone else was carrying. Should be an "Unequip all" button or something.

 

[rynnor]

Has anyone had their base invaded? I'm just wondering if its still possible?

 

[ECA]

I don't think it made it into the final game.

 

[opticle]

Has anyone had their base invaded? I'm just wondering if its still possible?

I think they took it out because the balance didn't work very well - which I can sympathise with, as it could totally fuck up your game and set you back several hours on the storyline.. fun for some but I guess most would find it made the game ZZzzz when you had to keep repeating missions to rebuild to continue the story.

Would be a fun mission though