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  1. Hi there,

    I know I didn't see the finished game, and maybe this was already suggested by the time, but :

    when I played Xenonauts, I was surprised there is no option to replace a missile by a fuel drop tank, in order to increase the range of airfighters... A lot of disadvantages could be added (lower max speed, less efficient roll manoeuver, increased vulnerability to small round) but maybe it would be worth it in comparison to the bonus in operation range. In this regards, aerial refuelling could be an option, but I think it is too complicated...

    Moreover, I think any time an airplane is repaired, its maximum life should be decreased by 1%. So the "perfect" dogfight would be always a challenge, and it is reasonnable to admit that a "pristine" aircraft is always better than one that have been repaired 60 times...

    Welcome to the forums!

    I wouldn't want lower speed, as they already have a hard time catching up to the enemy. But it's a neat idea. Though the loss of firepower might be balancing enough. :P

    I don't think it's reasonable enough. If you change everything that was damaged, the aircraft is in pretty good shape. Not to mention that this would be an arbitrary mechanic, without real repercussions simply because you'll be switching out your fleet before too long with new designs based on alien technology. And such a pursuit of realism would then be wasted and personally I don't see the fun factor.

  2. Males can never talk about females without talking about what they look like? :P

    As if females don't when talking about males? We just have the luxury of a certain level of acceptance when we do, except from feminists. :)

    For balance, British men aren't exactly good looking either. Chris being the exception that confirms the rule. :P

    Will you match the amount of female portraits with the amount of males Chris? If there's less chance of females I'd see why if not.

  3. I saw a hot girl in one of FHM's girl next door things once. Then I read the description and name and realized she was Norwegian. :P

    I went to Scotland last summer. Had a really nice looking waitress. Realized she was not British from her accent. :P (Couldn't quite nail it, but probably Austrian, German or some such)

  4. The problem with that is suppression in an open area. Where you would like to move, or at least get horizontal real fast, and not from exit wounds. And in Xenonauts, you can't go horizontal.

    It's a very simple solution, but the fact above will make it feel cheap I think. Maybe not as much when you're gunning down aliens, but when you get three guys stuck in the middle of nowhere, and you know they are now dead.. So movement kinda has to be allowed still, but an accuracy bonus doesn't quite fit with trying to hit someone zig-zagging the hell out of your kill box.

    I'd rather suppression had no effect on the suppressor, except ammo loss, only the suppressed.

  5. Well, yes, the actual money usually comes at a later time, but you can identify the impact of your action right away.

    The immediate reward for going to work is you get paid for that work, however usually not right away. At least that's how I see it.

    Our points of view might differ. But it's not very important.

    A bit more on topic, it is kinda strange that windex would be able to go two full months without an additional ground mission. I usually get so many I think they get tedious. Chris would be able to answer this better, but I don't think what type of alien missions spawn is completely random, in which case this could happen.

  6. Ladies perfume is an odd creation, that seems to stick to anything like leeches. Not entirely unpleasant though, but when you wake up with your shirt smelling like your former (and now engaged to another guy) girlfriend, and the memories are a bit iffy, you can't help but feel like someone turned up the heat :P

    Yeah, still way more preferable to waking up and everything smelling like cigarettes, which was the case before the ban on smoking in bars etc.

    Knowing this forum, our passion for keeping threads from going necro will never need rekindling.

  7. What the...? This is something I've never heard about before. You guys really hate us that much? :eek:

    Nah, I just recently heard the term myself after those rappers made that.. rap. I assume it's hipster southerner jerks who don't like the swedes in the night life industry banging "their" chicks.

    I like swedes. I once met an Asian one. That was hot.

  8. Windex, the short answer is – almost. Xcom was all about shooting down ufos and recovering the crashed vehicles. Which meant air combat. Lots of it. However, what are you most upset about?

    - That you must undergo the air combat minigame for each ufo you want to shoot down?

    - That there is no immediate reward for killing fightercraft?

    - That there isn’t a ground battle for every ufo type shot down?

    There is an immediate reward. Look at the region's funding before and after you shoot something down. Profit!

    Also, what Jean-Luc said. The alpha is to make sure the mechanics of the game works, so to speak. The beta is to make these things fun, while making sure the game works.

  9. ONN is pretty brilliant.

    My experience with women in the field is pretty similar. Some were not fit, as a fat lazy guy wouldn't be either, while others do just fine. The force multiplier weapons are a bit heavy indeed. We still use the MG3, but there's talk of replacing it. And the CG 84mm recoilless rifle. It's a beast to lug around with, and is my current position. It's too heavy to be used in offensive action by unfit men and women tbh. (Including me.)

    After a lugging that thing through the forest, doing the assault, and then being called in to do medic stuff, since I'm also one of few competent medics, and carry a "wounded" to the extraction point I was totally destroyed.

  10. Aye! Such would be a sad thing.

    Almost as sad as seeing one of my good friends drunk off her tits sitting on the curb. I felt so bad I had to pick her up and drive her to the calescent comforts of her home. I think she went mad with the perfume bottle, I touched her shoulder and she was wearing a jacket. Now my hand smells like her perfume. It's not entirely unpleasant I admit.

    There will be much heart(h)y wit coming her way tomorrow!

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