XCOM spreads CIV love!

[anandus]

FYI, the demo is out and can be found on Steam.
It's a bit short though, it took me about half an hour.
And the default setting is 'easy', so you'll go through it like a warm knife through butter.
This can be changed by editing basegame.ini in [Steam]\SteamApps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown-Demo\Engine\Config and change "GameDifficulty=+0.0" to "GameDifficulty=+2.0".
2.0 is Classic mode, 3.0 is Hard mode.

 

[Ajidica]

Well, I'm definately buying XCOM. Considering how limited the demo was (I didn't see any sort of soldier customization besides a forced promotion) and the default difficulty, the gameplay was fun. The art design was wonderful and the soundtrack sounded like Deus Ex: Human Revolution which is definately a good thing in my book.
The only downside is that I ran it at 1024x768 with low graphics-my laptop cannot handle it at 1600x900 full graphics. Hopefully that will change with the full game when I have time to fiddle around with the settings and they release some patches to improve performance.

 

[Winner]

On steam, it plays under DosBOX and I always have some glitches/issues with that, so I prefer to play it on my dos machine. If you want better, more stable performance, go buy and old 486 or pentium (1st gen, no more than 200MHz I'd say, 133 would be better...), or build your own. Much better running it on a machine it was actually designed for than under an emulator.

I play my version (centuries old, I don't even remember where I got it from ) under DoxBOX and it is pretty smooth. I recommend using xcomutil to modify the basic game to make it more challenging and fun.

And I don't get people who only get to the game now and complain. One, I've introduced the game to people 10 years younger then me, and once they got into it, they played it just as eagerly as I once did; two, the game ages very well. I mean the UI and general gameplay is very accessible and intuitive, and the old-school graphics is pleasure to look at.

(I played for a while yesterday. First mission, landed UFO: 3 guys die as they're leaving the Skyranger. Two more are killed on their way to the UFO and the rest die trying to breach it. Mission failed, Skyranger lost, rage quit.)

BTW, watch the following video from 1:19 to about 4:40 I laugh every time I see it

Link to video.

 

[bhsup]

Gaston... no no no...

 

[Winner]

Gaston... no no no...

"Hit him!"

 

[Masada]

Crossfire, bad.

 

[wolfigor]

I play my version (centuries old, I don't even remember where I got it from ) under DoxBOX and it is pretty smooth. I recommend using xcomutil to modify the basic game to make it more challenging and fun.

And I don't get people who only get to the game now and complain. One, I've introduced the game to people 10 years younger then me, and once they got into it, they played it just as eagerly as I once did; two, the game ages very well. I mean the UI and general gameplay is very accessible and intuitive, and the old-school graphics is pleasure to look at.

(I played for a while yesterday. First mission, landed UFO: 3 guys die as they're leaving the Skyranger. Two more are killed on their way to the UFO and the rest die trying to breach it. Mission failed, Skyranger lost, rage quit.)

BTW, watch the following video from 1:19 to about 4:40 I laugh every time I see it

Now I hate you: I just started dosbox... I was thinking to be out of the wood after so many years, but the addiction is quick to come back.

 

[Winner]

Now I hate you: I just started dosbox... I was thinking to be out of the wood after so many years, but the addiction is quick to come back.

 

[bhsup]

Man, you know what I hate? Whipping out your stun rod, trotting up to an alien, stunning him... and the bastard doesn't go down and you're there with no TU toe to toe with Mr Muton. I don't know why I just thought of that, but it's really frustrating.

 

[Winner]

Man, you know what I hate? Whipping out your stun rod, trotting up to an alien, stunning him... and the bastard doesn't go down and you're there with no TU toe to toe with Mr Muton. I don't know why I just thought of that, but it's really frustrating.

I hate when they just open door of the UFO, kill two of your guys whom you placed at both sides of it, and go back inside And I hate that your guys can miss three shots from point blank range. That's an X-COM meme, really.

(BTW, the thing I really liked in the new X-COM gameplay videos I've seen is the "memorial wall" feature, where you can see the soldiers you've lost along the way. That's something I really missed in the old X-COMs. I know most of the guys we lose are just fodder, but I want to mourn my elite troops...)

 

[Winner]

Watch from 9:00 - the video illustrates why people want to throw the computer out the window sometimes when playing X-COM


Link to video.

 

[woody60707]

You got the old 90s one that's almost 20 years old!! If you played it since it was released, like me, you'd be loving it. But if you've just bought it now and never played it before I can absolutely see why you wouldn't like it.

On steam, it plays under DosBOX and I always have some glitches/issues with that, so I prefer to play it on my dos machine. If you want better, more stable performance, go buy and old 486 or pentium (1st gen, no more than 200MHz I'd say, 133 would be better...), or build your own. Much better running it on a machine it was actually designed for than under an emulator.

It's not that I don't like it, I mean as a technical matter, it plays terrible. One issue I have is I have to click the guys slowly. If I click a guy and click again, the game doesn't register the 1st click and just defaults the last click as the only click. GRRR!!!!! I have to click, wait a sec for the game to catch up and click again.

I see people on youtube playing the game fine on a modern PC. So it's why I asked why the game plays terrible for me. QQ

 

[Winner]

It's not that I don't like it, I mean as a technical matter, it plays terrible. One issue I have is I have to click the guys slowly. If I click a guy and click again, the game doesn't register the 1st click and just defaults the last click as the only click. GRRR!!!!! I have to click, wait a sec for the game to catch up and click again.

I see people on youtube playing the game fine on a modern PC. So it's why I asked why the game plays terrible for me. QQ

DosBOX should have settings that should take care of the problem. I have had issues with the game running too fast (obviously, since today's computers are about 50 times faster than those the game was designed for), but you can "slow" your computer using DosBOX settings.

 

[woody60707]

DosBOX should have settings that should take care of the problem. I have had issues with the game running too fast (obviously, since today's computers are about 50 times faster than those the game was designed for), but you can "slow" your computer using DosBOX settings.

I don't know how to fix this. Even in DosBOX, it still plays slow.

 

[bhsup]

Just FYI the Steam presale goal has been reached. If you've already pre-ordered the new XCOM through, you're now the proud owner of Civ V... or the proud owner of a copy you can gift if you alread own it.

Thanks, Firaxis

 

[Winner]

I don't know how to fix this. Even in DosBOX, it still plays slow.

Have you tried Ctrl+F12 while in the game?

 

[woody60707]

Have you tried Ctrl+F12 while in the game?

Yea I got it fixed. I enjoyed the first two days I spent playing this game but now the ground missions are getting repetitive. I'm in flying suits, and i'm still getting one shotted by these scrub aliens.

 

[Winner]

Yea I got it fixed. I enjoyed the first two days I spent playing this game but now the ground missions are getting repetitive. I'm in flying suits, and i'm still getting one shotted by these scrub aliens.

That's why you have to play tactically Front armour is the strongest, BTW.

 

[Grisu]

That's why you have to play tactically Front armour is the strongest, BTW.

yeah, even with the strongest armour, you'll often get killed with one shot (the armour just reduces the likelyhood of that happening), which means you'll always have to try to never get hit. Which is rather realistic, compared to most other games, but frustrating at times

btw, in the game I started I had this silly terror mission, where a bloody cyberdisc was waiting right outsided the skyranger...so I had the option of killing it and lose several soliders in the resulting blast, or try to sneak past before killing it

 

[Winner]

yeah, even with the strongest armour, you'll often get killed with one shot (the armour just reduces the likelyhood of that happening), which means you'll always have to try to never get hit. Which is rather realistic, compared to most other games, but frustrating at times

Well, that's what tanks*/fodder is for (*With xcomutil, otherwise the tanks are useless.)

With power suits, you *usually* survive one or two hits, unless you're really out of luck. The problems start in closed quarters where the aliens can autofire you at point blank range, that's certain death. And blaster launchers, of course. And psionics. ...

It can be an incredibly frustrating game sometimes, but that's what makes it fun. Once just for fun I cheated and gave all my soldiers superhuman stats to see how it would go - it was tedious and boring as hell. The ever present danger you're going to lose your top soldiers is what makes it good.