XenoMask

They are wearing his skin and account, don't be fooled!

This reminds me of reviews if Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn where reviewers were complaining about game being too hard even on easy.(Note: In original japanese version difficulty names were normal, hard and maniac, in west they were changed to easy, normal, hard =P So in otherword, if they played on "normal" they actually played on "hard) They are too prideful to start on easy because they assume easy to be, well, easy and when they give up and try easy they complain about it not being easy. Which in my opinion is crappy thing as hard games are good thing D:< There is no such thing as too hard game, there is only games that are unbalanced unfairly or have fake difficulty...

Hes doing "I'm charging mah lazor BLARGH" meme thing. I guess its about how missiles beat ufos?*shrugs* Anyway, should I take that as challenge to draw something? I don't have scanner at the moment, but I suppose I could still draw or something Dunno just where to upload it

Dang it, accidentally dublicated my post D:

Hmm, true. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/10/06/xcom-s-classic-ironman-mode-is-an-even-match-for-its-creator.aspx Anyhoo, article about difficulty levels, Solomon pretty much explains why he considers Classic/Classic Ironman to be "default" state of the game.(Normal is apparently designed so that strategic layer is easy, which kind of is true from what I've read about what game files say about difficulty levels ) Really, I don't get it why video games nowadays have easy modes that are easier than easy.(in this game, easy difficulty) I mean, in old games easy was still challenging, it was just easier than higher difficulties...

Umm ._.; I'm currently playing TFTD though and after I've finished and beaten Cthu- I mean destroyed T'leth, I'll finish my playthrough of Apocalypse. So I guess experimenting with original game and Alien Reproduction can wait. BTW, whats reason for in TFTD examination room counting as wrong item type when you get alien facilities at end of mission?

Umm, Alien Reproduction are ALREADY in game ufos, they just don't add to inventory when you are finished with ufo missions. Anyway, what does util and extender do in TFTD anyway?

Yes, but it also adds mods and I find editing its init file confusing And it doesn't add Alien Reproduction to game so I'm fine with fixes XComUtil has.(I'm not even sure if you can stack util and extender...)

By patches I mean stuff that only fixes bugs instead of adding mods

Does extender work with dos version btw? Its for windows version after all.(and you can only change which mods are on from ini files Oh and it includes dumb All your base are belong to us message after intro) Anyway, its annoying how there aren't many fan patches. I'd like to see patch that makes you able to get alien reproduction item normally and such.

I did, I have almost completed whole thing I have leviathan and T'leth research done, I'm just wrapping up rest of them before continuing. BTW, do you get live hallucinoid research only with medics? Or is it impossible to capture live aliens in first parts of two parters? BTW, speaking of Alien Reproduction and Examination room, former isn't that important even though it is canon as Apocalypse shows, but latter's removal(through bug probably) in game is annoying as its research is kind of plot important in that it reveals real reason aliens kidnap humans in TFTD.

BTW, soon finished with TFTD on beginner, and I'm only at third artifact site .-. Is that normal? I can't really imagine it taking that long since I'm almost finished with research...(since for all twelve sites to appear, it has to take year...) Its kind of amusing how almost everything(the almost part being melee weapons, those are only completely new things if you don't count artifact missions and two parters ) in game is reskin of original. Heck, this game also has research item that has research entry that you can't get.(in original game there is Alien Reproduction ufo facility that appears but not into inventory and in this game there is examination room which gets listed as another item when you get it. I guess both aren't in game because of bugs?)

I guess aliens spawn inside them or see them or framerate issues or crashing or... Yeah, kind of hard to tell since he didn't tell what exactly is wrong with them.

Aliens RPG? you are talking about Xenomorphs and such? .-.

Actually, yes, strategy game fans do surprisingly little fan art Deviant art doesn't really feature much art either. Art is nowadays mainly done by young people interested in their anime and cartoons and comics and whatever games young people play! (And yes, I know that I'm 18 and younger than most of you ;P)

Avoid them by never putting your squad nearby each other so that if they use grenade, only one dies.(even then, they use them more rarely if they can only kill one) About the "Killing everyone in skyranger" thing? Not much except use smoke grenade at entrance and hope best.

Guy didn't really go into much detail of game's good sides, but his negative ones weren't major ones. I mean, everyone knows that line of sight thing is confusing because game doesn't explain it well and its inevitable that even though there are about 80 maps that there will be some repetition with 30-40 mission(BTW; some guy on Penny Arcade finished game with 40 missions done without having researched everything on classic I think. So I guess 30 mission is averagely earliest you can complete the game if you do priority researchs?*shrugs*) And every XCOM game seems to have rather easy final missions when compared to rest of the games. So basically his reviews was "Game is great, but I'm not going into much detail why I gave it 9.5 I don't need to explain it, here are few things I think could have been better". Which isn't really convincing, but its not really that suspicious either. Game review industry has never been on same level as movie reviewing for example.

Guy's complains weren't really major though. I mean, for example his complain about research tree was odd as it seems to be pretty much same as original in style. I guess people nowadays aren't impressed by flying suits and such? Anyway, original didn't really have any alien equipment without human equivalent of any sort as they just used guns... Maybe mind probes?*shrugs* And multiplayer was added as extra without much of effort since its singleplayer game, so its exactly what it is: Nice bonus addition.

Hey, I'm putting "debating" in quotes because there is too much insulting both sides by calling each other either trolls or fanboys Sorry if I was unclear, but I don't consider debating to include insulting. Note that I might be slightly inaccurate as threads on 2k are starting to blend together for me in my memory. *sigh* Am I annoying nowadays?

I don't really approve giving money to lazy clones, but if you want you can spend money on it if you want to. Even though there already exists free mobile phone fan version of XCOM.

*shrugs* They either plan to add them or they are all for skyrangers? Or they just copy pasted base starting layout from original game

Though people at 2k are "debating" whether text is more critical than score or not Annoying thing about nature of this game is that every little single thing causes arguments. Except the fact that you fight aliens and research their stuff

I know, but you haven't yet experienced that part of my sense of humor that thinks responding seriously to jokes is funny So I decided to let you experience it~ Also, you should yourself lighten up, you said you were joking twice and in middle debated few of my points which invites me to debate them back Of course, if you want to, I can debate it. I love debating~

On even more serious note, that would be completely unnecessary as even if they weren't XCOM fans, they still have more publicity than Xenonauts plus since they are released on different sides they don't affect each others sale much. Well, okay, Xenonauts benefits from Firaxis' xcom because it brought some publicity to it.

Hey, it can't be a freudian slip if I didn't even know about it! My subconscious can't be all knowing!