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UFO: Extraterrestrials - First Review

Micmu

Micmu

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Nerfed bases? From user comments it sounds more like another failed "spiritual successor" (like Aftershave) rather than remake of any kind.

Blah.
 

dagorkan

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DarkUnderlord said:
Pre-generated maps sounds like some major suckage. I can't really believe they'd be that stupid. Are you sure they're not randomly generated in some way?
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100% sure. That's been known for a long time.

It's why I don't understand why they went 3D. You don't get any benefit from it, the camera angle is fixed, zoom is fixed and the XCom soldiers look like shit. And on the other hand it's prevented them have the tile system of XCom.
 
Bloodlust

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Nop,there are aproximately 150-200 pre gen maps.I remember one of the developers saying that.

One person says you can't sell items, someone else says you can.
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You can sell items,it's just that manufacturing items and selling them doesn't make profit.Captured alien artifacts are selled at 1/3 of their worth if not researched.
 

dagorkan

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Now I've learned that you have no Intel graphics card works. You don't just need pixel shaders and vertex shaders, you need hard-ware ones. 3DAnalyze and other work arounds don't work.

For a strategy game that looks the way it does that's fucking ridiculous.
 

YourConscience

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DarkUnderlord said:
I'm actually disappointed. I had secretly hoped I'd be wrong and the only retarded decision they'd make is the death thing. Seems like once again, one retarded decision indicates many more behind it.

Mind you there seems to be a lot of conflicting info. One person says you can't sell items, someone else says you can. One person says the resolution is stuck, someone else says you can change it just fine.

sheek said:
Correction: maps are all pregen.
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Pre-generated maps sounds like some major suckage. I can't really believe they'd be that stupid. Are you sure they're not randomly generated in some way?
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Despite my comments above, this time around I think you are absolute right and expressed my sentiments perfectly.

What a pity! Random maps is one of the very important features for me...
 
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