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 Manchu wrote:
I have been playing all evening and am really enjoying it.

I had an Irish Major with three times as many kills as any other soldier. When he bit it, I nearly lit a candle for him IRL. Seems like X-Com to me.

You are sorely tempting me! Dammit, I just bought a game.

I have my PC on my 55 inch LED so sometimes I like to be able to sit back on my couch and rock a gamepad. It worked either way, but It feels like the interface was designed with the pad in mind.

Oh, it definitely was.

 pretre wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
I have been playing all evening and am really enjoying it.

I had an Irish Major with three times as many kills as any other soldier. When he bit it, I nearly lit a candle for him IRL. Seems like X-Com to me.

You are sorely tempting me! Dammit, I just bought a game.

I'm being totally honest. I clicked the "View Memoriam" and thought about giving a eulogy even. "Make no mistake, squaddies, Kieren 'Zed' Connolly had the right stuff." Right now, my game is all about whether his panicky protege, the Frenchwoman Juliette Durand, can ever fill Major Connolly's shoes.

I know! I remember being soooo invested in my characters in my original playthroughs. I renamed all of them to people I knew and it was kinda creepy. I would rename them again when they got ranks so I could see their rank in the list of names. Ahh, good times.

Heh, had an American Captain that single-handedly survived one of the Medium-UFO shoot down missions. Racked up something like 20 something kills before some random car blowing up ended his rampage.

RIP Stirling 'Malory' Archer

I really love the design aesthetic of this game. It's the perfect balance between silly and scary. I nearly dropped a brick when I first saw mutons but they're not gross in the slightest compared to many video game monsters.

And I'd love to have a model of the new Skyranger!

You know...its probably possible to make a 40k army based off of XCOM.
Hell, the deathwatch are basically XCOM.

That's a good point. When launching into my first counter-invasion mission, I was like "and they sent five of us?" But we rocked it. Maybe someone will mod the game to include DoW voice acting. You take down a floater and your heavy says "For the Emperor!"

So have any countries left the Council in any of your play-throughs so far?

I still haven't had a chance to play it, sadly. I'm sure I will die horribly though, just like in the OG.

Only got a chance to play maybe 10 hours total, haven't lost any countries yet.

I have noticed that the Japan-based missions are significantly harder just because of the close-quarters. Although, I prefer them to the ones based in the cover-less wooded areas or the car-minefield streets.

Anyone had any clutch moments? Where an XCOM agent totally saves the day?

I've yet to really pull one out of the fire. Best I've seen is an assualter take out a floater that was running supression one of my heavies even though her shot was only at 22%. It was just a quirky bit of fortune when it happened but she and the heavy were the only ones who got out of that mission alive. That's when we lost Connolly, by the way. *choke*

Are all the voices really American? That seemed to be the case in TB's playthrough.

Still waiting for friday. At least I got it for ~30 bucks instead of 50 Euros (what is Steam thinking?).
Those three days are a big pain in the ass. I honestly don't remember when I was so hyped about a game.

Everyone except Dr. Vahlen seems to have an American accent.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Are all the voices really American? That seemed to be the case in TB's playthrough.

Yes, although the science officer and the engineer sound like they are voiced by americans putting on an accent. There also aren't any localised details in the maps themselves (aside from the tutorial mission). A terror mission in Nigeria looks very similar to a terror mission in Japan.

Palindrome wrote:
A terror mission in Nigeria looks very similar to a terror mission in Japan.

Hey, they're just "honoring" the original.

Well, I hope that this one does well enough that we get a follow-up based on Terror From The Deep. You don't have to worry about missions looking too different at the bottom of the ocean.

All of the missions are randomly generated as far as I can tell. You might go to Tokyo for a VIP evac mission one time, and then go back for a terror mission and it'll look different.


I've had overwatch snipers just ROCK alien faces, in addition to support classes running through multiple overwatch's to administer some much required aid to a hurting squadmate.

This game rocks the proverbial socks.

 Frankenberry wrote:

I've had overwatch snipers just ROCK alien faces

Just wait until you get the 'in the zone perk' which makes flanking shots (and shots in the open) essentially free. One of my snipers wiped out an entire squad of elite floaters in 1 turn of overwatch and direct fire that way.

Ok you lot have talked me into.. Ima play TFTD while its downloading.

I don't like the idea of only having a 4 man squad to start with, I always liked to take ten guys and a tank!

I love the resources side of things though so I'm glad its slightly more complex.. I always enjoyed playing with my stores like the stock market, endlessly keeping my engineers building laser rifles so I could flog them at a profit and making loads of cash.. it was like CIV 5 with mind control!

I have been playing this all morning and freaking love it sofar. Lots of cool gear and armor to choose from. I will say I don't like how the shiv takes one or two points of damage and its got to be repaired for ever. Takes too long imo, maybe there is an upgrade for it.

I think you can only sell loot from missions (i.e., alien junk) but Council nations will randomly request stuff that you build (e.g., satellites, laser guns).

The items you can sell, and correct me if I'm wrong, are items that you need for the research tree. Then again, I don't know if you could just calculate all the pieces you'll need for every research item you want and just sell the rest.

I'll have to check it out, if only because I'm super poor all the time.

Some items you can sell freely (they will say under their description). Damage UFO components are a good example. Its quite annoying that you can't sell outdated kit, I have lots of laser and light plasma weaponry choking up my stores and I could really use the money.

There is an accelerated repair tech, you need to capture a live elite floater (or it may be a dead one). I haven't even bothered building a SHIV, my squad is good enough as it is.

Does anyone know if you can capture a cyberdisc? Or if the alien base is the last mission?

Does anyone know if you can capture a cyberdisc

I tried with the lvl 1 stun gun and it just said no target.

Or if the alien base is the last mission

Thats right were I'm at, and if its the last mission I'm going to be gutted. It feels like i just started. It cant be the end.

Okay, so I woke up yesterday having drank a couple liters of wine and some whiskey drinks, and apparently drunk me ordered the game.

It's not terrible, I don't mind the TUs disappearing. I don't like the inventory system at all. I kind of screwed my first game by not realizing that you needed set numbers of engineers to start building things - that is also not a change I like. I did what I always do in games like this and stacked scientists. Didn't work out well. My second playthrough was classic on Ironman, and I got to like mission 6. It was a friggin bloodbath the first few mission.

The changes are fine. I like the restrictions on this or that.

The fact that the soldiers have slotted abilities is great.

The cut-scenes are fun and cinematic. I feel like I'm playing a movie.

I can't grasp why wearing a nanoweave vest stops you from carrying grenades. It's obviously not a weight issue as your heavies can carry a machine gun, a rocket launcher, a pistol, and one of the other items. It's just an arbitrary power restriction, which I dislike - that is why I said I dislike the inventory system.

So you dislike it, point made.

Had my first run-in with a large UFO this morning before work and it was a sonofabitch. Having two Muton's in every room I have to clear is re-god-damn-diculous. Good loot though.

Hm, first time a game of mine got patched before I was even allowed to play it. Can anyone tell me what's changed?