cutterjohn

Sorta queasy myself as firaxis is making a good case for their version of a rehash, although the UFO:<insert title here> games weren't bad, just not dumbed down enough for the console kiddies...

whatever works worthily is just peachy for me...[EDIT] HAY! Why don't I have a shinnieness title? I did teh KS... jk/I REALLY don't care as I've been on and off monitoring this project to see what happens v. UFO series/UFO Extraterrestrials series/Firaxis XCOM/etc. ad nauseum... just for another good turn based tactical squad game... (as long as it does NOT feature zombies...) [/EDIT]

Hi guys. I own Apocalypse, but it's a MAJOR PITA to get it to work with wine or any modern windows system so I've ended up NEVER playing it much, so I cannot comment on you Apocalypse comments, although I WISH that UI could... Anyways things so far seem to be working OK for what we have already, just need new maps/"intelligently" random maps, and some comp controlled oppos that, well, are "intelligent"(or seemingly)... Just not sold on Firaxis' XCOM and how they are doing it(the cheap simple way)...

I'm late with a response, but, really, a FSM for AI?!A neural network would seem to be better, although I suppose if you give very restricted class of responses an FSM would work, but something with a more malleable response mechanism would be better. [caveat] I've not seen how you're actually coding the FSM, so it might actually feature more than your run-of-the-mill FSM... [/caveat]

Ah, but it wasn't even letting me assign scientists to it, while as soon as I got the gun I could pick it assign scientist and complete the research...[EDIT] hmmm... another update on desura today about maps generating properly... ...and yes it takes FOREVER for it to check files, even on a 3930k/16GB/WD Caviar Black 1TB 6G... still grinding away... [/EDIT] [EDIT2] Actually makes M$ pokey updater look speedy... [/EDIT2]

sorry didn't read ALL posts, but I dled the new build and started a new game, and get ##### for alien invasion research yety after completing a shootdown mission was able to research the alien tech(handgun)... oops, I think as in XCOM/UFO IIRC the initial research(alien invasion) was pre-req for EVERYTHING else, and well... #####.... (I'm guessing simple typo and fragile parsing system... off to kinda sorta check...)