X-COM Firaxis - XCOM: Enemy Unknown + Enemy Within Expansion

[Gord]

Not supported by XP?

So we've finally started using DirectX 10!

(That's how it works, right?)

No, the game still uses DX9.

Can anyone explain this retardation?

Maybe M$ payed 2K in order for it being released as Win8 promo game?
Complete with Metro integration.

 

[Morgoth]

There's nothing to explain, other than that the devs/publisher are too lazy to give extra QA ressources for XP.

 

[Morgoth]

And just for the record, Company of Heroes 2 won't support Win XP either.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

I liked the demo. If a sectoid can take half my soldier's hitpoints off in one successful hit on easy...

My complaints (none which can be disabled by options, eg action shots):

-Skyranger is too damned fast, being able to cross the atlantic in two hours.
-DRAMATIC VIDEOS
-No Guile haircut (will be fixed when the game is released)
-Could use more enemies on the same map (might be fixed in the "real" game)

Seriously, you dipships whine about a demo defaulted to the easiest difficulty with scripting up the ass and for what? To prove that it's the WORST GAME EVARRRRR? You guys really are too stuck in the past to see that this game might actually live up to its name, unlike that shitty FPS that 2k is making.

 

[Morgoth]

If the demo does give away a bad impression then I question 2Ks/Firaxis' intention why to release it in such a state in the first place.

 

[Gord]

It's not that it gives such a bad impression (not me at least), it gives basically no impression, as it's almost devoid of any meaningful content on which to judge it.

-Skyranger is too damned fast, being able to cross the atlantic in two hours.

Considering you will have supposedly only one base/team that's a necessity.

 

[Gozma]

It could still be pretty good. I'm amazed that they kept in permadeath, lots of little things like self-destructing weapons seem like good ideas, and the basic gameplay of the strategy layer is probably better than the original since they seem to have designed the shit out of it. Some of the video of it has stuff that looks nothing like the tutorial crap, like a mission where you have spotted 5 or 6 aliens after the first turn of movement and no advisers pester you. Even if a few of my worst suspicions are accurate the "battlescape" layer doesn't look like it could be too much worse than a good SRPG. But I really hate giving 2K money

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

-Skyranger is too damned fast, being able to cross the atlantic in two hours.

Considering you will have supposedly only one base/team that's a necessity.

No. I fucking refuse to accept that. It should have that capability only after you've started pimping it out with alien tech, even if you only get one.

 

[Surf Solar]

The demo is just not aimed at us who are already used to turnbased games and might find it too easy. Not the wisest decision by Firaxis, but I will still give the game the benefit of doubt.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

The demo is just not aimed at us who are already used to turnbased games and might find it too easy. Not the wisest decision by Firaxis, but I will still give the game the benefit of doubt.

 

[EG]

The demo is just not aimed at us who are already used to turnbased games and might find it too easy. Not the wisest decision by Firaxis, but I will still give the game the benefit of doubt.

A random sum of fictional money says the game isn't either.

 

[IDtenT]

You can change the difficulty by editing "BaseGame.ini" in the install directory. Find the line: "GameDifficulty=+0.0" change this to "GameDifficulty=+3.0" for Impossible.
Supposedly, it alters HP values, fog of war and AI (yeah, this also means the demo defaults to easy peasy mode).

What happens when you put in -3.0?

 

[sea]

Fuck, the amount of brown-nosing on the forums is disgusting. I tried going over there for a few minutes but can't take it anymore. Then again, 2K's was also the forum where I was given a warning for calling out 2K on a lack of post-release support for a game that left crippling, obvious bugs in it, so maybe that's why.

 

[IDtenT]

-Skyranger is too damned fast, being able to cross the atlantic in two hours.

Considering you will have supposedly only one base/team that's a necessity.

No. I fucking refuse to accept that. It should have that capability only after you've started pimping it out with alien tech, even if you only get one.

So they have a magical hypersonic skyranger? Without using alien tech to stop the crew from being turned into red smears on the cargo hold? The Firestorms probrably reach FTL.


Not to mention that the UltraSecret Black Budget Project to Stop a Fucking ALien Invasion has... one base. And a bunch of satelittes. To protect the WHOLE FUCKING WORLD! That's fucking ridiculous. Most funding nations would scream because the player put a base in another country/continent. What if the aliens decided to knock down your satelittes? Where are your radars and hyperwave decoders now, bitch? Oh yes, aliens attack the base, everyone dies, all the data and loot goes with it, ZE END, Earth is doomed, enjoy a boot stomping on the face of the human race, forever.

Holy fuck, retarded. SO MUCH RETARDED!

You're assuming that you act alone. I'm not sure that is the case.

 

[Haba]

No, the game still uses DX9.

Can anyone explain this retardation?

No DX10+ on XBAXZ

Also;

*slurp slurp slurp*

Aaaah, delicious cock!

I love the decline! *smears shit all over himself*

 

[Chef_Hathaway]

Now they only need to fuck up Company of Heroes 2 as well and there's another whole genre to write off for good!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/55300/

Reward #3. Keep in mind they changed the initial wording of that a day or two after they first put the preorder up. It originally said:

"Company of Heroes 2 Commissar Chest*

$5.00 Premium Currency
XP Boost
Unit Boost
Commander Archetype"

Basically confirmed to have a free to play cash shop in it. That's an even bigger popamole decline banal boring shit development than the Xcom demo, to me.

So that's why they closed down the CoH:O servers. Need to have a F2P cash shop and a $60 console price on your game.

I thought we were bros Relic.


Also, XCOM demo being more cutscenes than actual gameplay, I know where those 5.5 gigs went. Some of them being unskippable was also kind of annoying after it crashed on me the first time.

 

[Gragt]

I'm not sure if the cash shop is Relic's doing or the publisher. That said, it's common knowledge that most people would try to make a quick buck in a questionable fashion if they knew they could get away with it.

 

[tuluse]

Wasn't it clear from all the stupid DLCs with DoW2 that they were going for cash grabs?

 

[Morgoth]

At least CoH2 is still gonna offer a decent campaign.

Right?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

grenadiers are gonna be the only soldiers you'll ever want to take, super retarded pin point accuracy, like that derp scene with the delta force twat from blackhawk down.

 

[Gozma]

Explosives blow away corpses and weapon fragments which are money/components for stuff you need to build. I also think the later stuff like mutons have enough HP (10+) that the grenades won't be damage-efficient enough. I do think for the weenie enemies like sectoids the design is that you basically take a couple of shots at them in case you get one of your 50% shots to hit, then if not you toss the grenade and lose the loot

 

[Morgoth]

So, which of you piglets are gonna be brave enough and get it on release? The hivemind must know more.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

I'm getting it, but I'm not putting up a review for you retards. Wouldn't want you hurting yourselves on the sharp edges.

 

[Mangoose]

At least CoH2 is still gonna offer a decent campaign.

Right?

Dawn of War 3

 

[SuicideBunny]

I'm getting it, but I'm not putting up a review for you retards. Wouldn't want you hurting yourselves on the sharp edges.

so edgy. especially given the message before it where you tried to insult haba back but fucked up the quotes in a way that make it look totally retarded and then just deleted it.

anyhoo, still toying with the idea of an impossible ironman let's play, but no idea how my free time will look like in two weeks.

 

[evdk]

The demo is just not aimed at us who are already used to turnbased games and might find it too easy. Not the wisest decision by Firaxis, but I will still give the game the benefit of doubt.

Is there some antibrofist for sheer misguided idiocy?