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Jean-Luc
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I think it's called My Little Terror (from the deep).
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One of forum members on the official site made a playlist with English let's plays:
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Yeah, if the content is literature then it's literature, it has nothing to do with it being a forum post or not.
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Almost forgot.
So just know that I'll be watching you...judging... -
Ammo was never really that much of a problem, you always find some after battles and the lesbian quest is just something you do in the way and take advantage of the merchant while you're in the area. Sometimes you send a couple of guys back to the airport or use a chopper or the ice cream truck or better yet hire some cheap mercs to act as mules. No idea why things got so complicated for you.
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Why? Does thou think I am uncouth?
Hah! for thee even a hound holdeth the throne
Unwanted child of mother! Plague of plagues!
Father of leprous children
I wield ye to stint this brawl!
Nigh is the ford, yet harken! do not thwart!
Desirest thou to do it withal
I shall cause thy body by one head too short!
Sayest ye nay to my boon
Then wilt thou from bloodshed swoon!
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Despite the hype Space Hulk, at its core, just isn't a very good game by today's standards. It has so little content and variety compared to even the very old Incubation. Not much FC can do about that.
Still, can't say I have much faith in FC and I contributed to the KS reluctantly but we'll see.
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I remember sitting in the hangar-like building and headshoting them as they came in. It was like Lemmings but with blood and guts.
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Shun the party pooper, shun him, shunnnn.nnn.nn..n.
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It sounds like you were playing the 1.13 mod with the Drassen Counterattack turned on.
For some reason it's turned on by default and it really sucks for people who don't know about it. -
Do you have the Ice Cream truck or the chopper? They should help out with travel. You could also hire Biff and Flo from Merc to act as a "teaching pair" and mules. They're cheap, both have the "teacher" trait and they like each other.
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I'll have a look at Jagged Aliance. Which version do you recommend to try? May be i will look at Xenonauts with different eyes after that experience.
You can get it drm free on GOG: http://www.gog.com/game/jagged_alliance_2
Or if you prefer Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1620/
It's almost universally considered the best turn based tactics game but it does have a lot of micro management on the strategic side and I can't guarantee you'll like it so don't be angry with me if things go sour.
Similar to X-Com is has a strategic management side where you have to handle income, expenditure, hiring people, training militias, protecting captured territories, repairing equipment, providing medical treatment , acquiring new equipment, etc.
It also has excellent characters, voice acting, funny cut scenes and a story that's told through gameplay and in-game events rather than movies. It's a pretty sand boxy experience that doesn't hold your hand or point you in a specific direction (except at the beginning). A lot of things are left for you to discover.
If you do play it don't use any mods at start, get acquainted with it first.
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Explosives can blow up walls so you can open up an alternate route (nice in some of the more fortified areas) but yeah, there's rarely a use for them and I've never ever used a mine.
True about night fighting, nightops/stealthy characters kick ass. I always make my IMP with nightops. Nightops + nv gear + laser scope makes you a nightmare for the enemy.
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TUs or action points aren't simply a matter of X-Com nostalgia. They're a staple mechanic used by a lot of turn based games and are generally associated with the genre. Jagged Alliance is another famous classic that sort of entrenched this mechanic as a something to look for in TBS games.
Gameplay-wise the main idea is that TUs allow you to fine tune your actions and maneuvers to do "just the thing" you want when coordinating your squad. Players who are used to it typically don't feel the "accounting" you describe, it just flows intuitively or they get used to it after a while.
For example, Jagged Alliance 2 had different movement costs for walking, running, crouching, crawling and then a sneaking variant for each of those plus different costs for turning when standing/crouching/crawling plus different lines of sight and sound levels for all those states also depending on different kinds of cover, terrain, camouflage, time of day, equipment. Oh and there was also swimming, vaulting over low cover, climbing on top roofs, all with their own action point costs and other factors. Plus stuff like weight, morale, wounds, it goes on.
For players who enjoy that level of gameplay EU2012 feels kinda empty and a game like Xenonauts/X-Com falls somewhere in between.
Having said that it's probably true that Xenonauts need more balancing in terms of firing vs. movement costs and such to make sure all weapons are useful and needed tactical options aren't restricted.
It's a similar thing with UFO searching. Having an arrow point where to go takes away tension and the sense of risk and exploration where you nervously wonder what awaits you whenever you open a door or expose a soldier to take a peek. It's a generational gap I guess.
Xenonauts does make an earnest effort to compromise and appeal to newer players and is in many ways streamlined compared to the old X-Com (believe me) but it mostly caters to an old school core. It is what it is.
Edited original post. Ok, so the HP does depend on alien rank. The keyword is "maximum". So it does vary among the same rank same aliens? How can a new player identify these ranks? And how much HP they have? I don't like guessing which caesan will take more to kill, the one with the blue t-shirt or the one with the red t-shirt.This is something you learn playing the game. The autopsies should tell you about each of the aliens and their different ranks. For example a Caesan non-combatant (red shirt) is weaker than a Caesan guard (blue shirt). You'll also notice aliens wearing armor and such.
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Yeah, Tyrian's a classic and it looks great even today.
There's Ring Runner: http://www.gog.com/game/ring_runner_flight_of_the_sages
Crusader series has a cult following but I've never played it: http://www.gog.com/game/crusader_no_remorse
Drox Operative is basically Diablo in space: http://www.soldak.com/Drox-Operative/Overview.html Kinda low budget but if you're looking for an arcadey/shooty experience with lots of loot and replayability it should fit the bill.
Space Pirates and Zombies is a good candidate too: http://minmax-games.com/SpacePiratesAndZombies/
Starsector is kinda like a sci-fi Mount & Blade: http://fractalsoftworks.com/ It's a bit more elaborate tactics and management wise but still technically a shooter. Still unfinished but playable with a strong modding community.
Oh and there's Infested Planet: http://www.rocketbeargames.com/infestedplanet/index.html technically it's real time tactics, not a shooter but it has a really arcadey feel and intensity.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit might also serve although it's a rogue-like: http://www.gog.com/game/sword_of_the_stars_the_pit Top down, nice 2d graphics.
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Yo man, your sig is teh sh1t dawg. Fight the powah!
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A unique feature of grenades should be that they provide some indirect fire. Soldiers should be able to effectively throw them over walls or hedges. Not sure how well they work in that regard atm.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_sensing_in_snakes
Realistically, heavy smoke would probably debilitate the senses of any organic creature but whatever.
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3) It makes overloaded soldiers too good!
At the moment an overloaded soldier has reduced TU, but % TU means they can still fire as many shots as one who is not overloaded. This topic is still up in the air and I've not decided what to do.
However, I'm tempted to leave it as is. Overloaded soldiers can't move very quickly, so they can't reach the fighting. If you massively overload a soldier you'll just have to hope the aliens eventually come and join him in the dropship because he sure as hell won't be going to find them...and frankly there's not that much gain to overloading a soldier, as they can only use one weapon at a time. They won't even have the TU to move stuff around in their inventory if massively overloaded...
Would it be possible for the game to remember and read a soldier's original TU value instead of the post-encumbrance one?
For example a guy normally has 50 TUs but because he's over-encumbered he's down to 40. Could the game still treat him as if he had 50 TUs for the purposes of calculating firing costs?
In any case I support the new proposed system. It's obvious why it had to be in X-Com and why it's needed now. Rookies need to be viable in the late game and balance needs to scale more tightly.
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"No rookie, no problem" - Commissar Stalin
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there was the idea was that you might get some sort of single mission to reclaim a lost nation. I've not seen it recently though.
I heard that idea was gunned down by an unknown assailant with a British accent as it was coming home from shopping. Eventually they had to take it off life support.
Don't worry Jasmine. We'll just go to the pound and get you another nation. There's plenty of nations out there in need of a good home.
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What, no planetary defense simulator?
anyone know anything about a new TFTD?
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