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    Help me, I'm detarded...

    in Xenonauts General Discussion

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    Just preorder and play when it's finished. Whatever Deity out there knows how many alpha/kickstarters I have by now. It's so many (and more are yet to come) that I have to simply forget about them until I get an email about the completion of said game.

    And the upside is I get to support GOOD games and at the same time save a crapton of money. Win-win-win situation for me, my wallet and the devs. All it costs me instead is a tad of patience.

    I am an XCOM veteran and have now played XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

    in Xenonauts General Discussion

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    Plasma was superior, but the ammunition costed elerium. Which was really rare. I used Lasers for most of the game because i didn't want to waste my elerium on ammunition. Especially when even if you fired a single shot from a plasma rifle that was a whole magazine gone, which in turn was 2 elerium. Meaning If you had 10 guys, each of them fired a shot, and you maybe even flew there in a Avenger, the whole mission already cost you 30 elerium. That could have been 1-2 flying suits if you had used laser weapons.

    Well, you definitely did not want to use plasma weapons against sectopods either with that insane resistance to them and all. If unlucky you could easily spend over half a dozen shots in order to take one of those suckers down. Only vulnerability it had was laser weapons so this was the only exception to plasma superiority. Frankly original X-Com could've used slightly more resistance variations in order to make it more interesting.

    Overall though laser rifles would be considered King thanks to the auto fire and infinite ammo. Ain't nothing that would beat a team of 10 or so soldiers with laser rifles and auto fire spamming...not to mention the amount of elerium you end up saving and cash you make by selling off all plasma weapons :D

    Firaxis Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown announced!

    in Off-Topic

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    No, not really. In fact, some of these points can be applied to the original game as well. But that was 1993. This is 20 years later.

    By the way, I'm not a "hardcore X-COM fan" or anything of the like. Being born in 1985 I'm a bit too young for that.

    I did play the game quite a bit back in about 2002/2003, but never even finished it.

    I really don't like this game on its own merit :-) But to be fair it didn't outright suck like the Jagged Alliance 2 remake (holy trousers on fire that was a bad game).

    Give me any one remake (besides Deux Ex: Human Revolution which got a passing grade at least) that hasn't completely sucked these last few years. Syndicate, Jagged Alliance and now X-Com being the most notorious ones. I'm pretty sure there were a couple more but I've already forgotten which.

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