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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Started by Kaz, October 12, 2012, 09:11:30 AM

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JongWK

#30
October 22, 2012, 10:56:59 AM
Quote from: Kaz;593909Played multiplayer with a buddy for a couple hours over the weekend. Really loved it. I dunno about playing power-gaming strangers, that might be terrible, but online play with a pal was pretty awesome and surprisingly deep. We did some "all-alien" teams and "all-human" teams, shit like that.

Wait, there's multiplayer???

Holy shit...
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Imperator

#31
October 22, 2012, 05:44:07 PM
Quote from: taustin;591751My reluctance comes from the fact that I don't want Steam on my computer. I've heard too many horror stories.

Sorry about that. All my experiences with Steam have been great.
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Piestrio

#32
October 22, 2012, 05:53:39 PM
How ready do I need to be to assault the Alien base?

Right now I can field a 6 man squad all in carapace armor, with Laser weapons. A couple lt. a capt. and a maj.

Will I die?
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Currently Playing: AD&D

taustin

#33
October 22, 2012, 06:46:15 PM
Quote from: Imperator;594061Sorry about that. All my experiences with Steam have been great.

There was just another story making the round about a security vulnerability in their client last week.

Doom

#34
October 22, 2012, 06:50:46 PM
Been using steam since it came out, dozens and dozens of games...as much as I'd like to hate on the Evil Empire, I've only had one problem (though admittedly it ticked me off hard). You have to go online to set up your computer for offline play...so if your internet goes out, and you didn't have the prescience to set up for offline play? You're screwed.

But other than that, it's good, though I still prefer gamersgate for actual buying (eensy bit cheaper, and shopping is easier there).
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Peregrin

#35
October 23, 2012, 01:26:34 AM Last Edit: October 23, 2012, 01:28:46 AM by Peregrin
Evil empire?  Valve are saints relative to other corporations, and their organizational structure blows holes in the "flat/communal development produces shit" argument.

Also, I haven't heard of many horrible Steam vulnerabilities, and I regularly haunt PC gaming blogs.  The latest one still has to be initiated by the end-user (clicking on a link without actually looking at the URL), so it's no more dangerous than running your web browser.

That aside...

Looking forward to picking up XCOM after I finish Dishonored.  I've heard it may actually be the better of the two, but they're different enough that XCOM should be a nice refresher.  I still haven't played much of the originals, but maybe I'll work my way backwards through the series.
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Ghost Whistler

#36
October 23, 2012, 03:10:02 AM
Quote from: Piestrio;594066How ready do I need to be to assault the Alien base?

Right now I can field a 6 man squad all in carapace armor, with Laser weapons. A couple lt. a capt. and a maj.

Will I die?

what difficulty level are you on?

Normal - you will take some damage.
Classic - you will die.

I don't play at impossible difficulty levels because it's just a metaphor for a cheap AI.
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Piestrio

#37
October 23, 2012, 03:20:10 AM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;594151what difficulty level are you on?

Normal - you will take some damage.
Classic - you will die.

I don't play at impossible difficulty levels because it's just a metaphor for a cheap AI.

Yeah, but what if I don't suck at the game ;)
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Currently Playing: AD&D

Bill

#38
October 26, 2012, 02:04:03 PM
chiming in that I have a lot of games on Steam and have never percieved a problem.


Oh, and X-Com rules the universe!

Piestrio

#39
October 26, 2012, 04:48:24 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;594152Yeah, but what if I don't suck at the game ;)

Crushed it. Classic, one KIA.

:)
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Currently Playing: AD&D

Bill

#40
October 31, 2012, 02:17:39 PM
I love this game. It's scary good.

silva

#41
November 08, 2012, 12:57:22 PM
A strategy I found out for the late and difficut missions on alien ships is making ambushes.

Lay ambush on doorways and corridors with your squad and send a scout ahead to locate and BE SEEN by the aliens. Then come back running (assault spec with Run&Gun is great for this) to the trap and thats it. Some enemies will try to flank you and others will relutate on following your scout to the trap, but 90% of the time they will fall on it. ;)

Bill

#42
November 08, 2012, 02:31:54 PM
Foolish aliens. No one told them humans are the Gods of War?

Justin Alexander

#43
November 08, 2012, 02:52:42 PM
Quote from: taustin;591751My reluctance comes from the fact that I don't want Steam on my computer. I've heard too many horror stories.

The last of my patience for Steam ended the day they turned off support for my Windows 2000 box (which I kept up in order to run programs that don't work on newer versions of Windows).

It's unfortunate that this game has only been released for the PC with DRM. I refuse to buy any game with DRM on it unless the price is less than $5 (i.e., the price matches the fact that I'm just renting the game). Anyone who does is either ignorant or stupid.
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Sandepande

#44
November 08, 2012, 03:51:55 PM
I fancy ignorance and stupidity in this case, because Steam has never given me  anything but pure love.

There's good DRM and bad DRM. Steam is one of the better ones.
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