Line of sight is all your snipers usually need. Rockets do not depend on your aim attribute, they are a fixed 90% I believe. Unless you are playing a mod. I can tell you this much though... you're really not getting everything out of the game playing it the way you are :) Of course, anyone should feel free to play however they enjoy playing, that said, XCOM is designed to be played at a level which you find difficu
Some people will tell you that the only way to play the game is Classic/Ironman. Or, even Impossible/Ironman. You can also check out the 2nd Wave options now, some of which change the game play up enough to where you cannot just do the same sat rush mass rocketter nonsense :) Though squadsight snipers in archangel armor still seem to rule...
I'm pretty sure you get the same 'loot' no matter what you do, unless you blow it up, then you either don't get it at all or it comes as damaged. As to the suppression related crash, I have no idea, never experienced it myself.
If it's just the final mission, while annoying, even in ironman I believe it always allows you to restart that mission no matter what. If it's something else I don't know, I never had any crash issues.
For grenade/rocket targeting it sometimes helps to rotate the view so that you're not moving the mouse close to the edge of the screen. There are still some tricky spots on some maps because the sides of the map don't allow you to get a perfect view of where you're trying to throw without putting the mouse too close to the edge where it seems to 'spaz' a bit more.
Well Steam and XCOM have a different relationship then. Most mods (other than cosmetic only ones) will be overwritten if you don't turn off the autoupdate or check thingy for it. Anyway, the game doesn't have or need any unofficial patches. Just mods. And you don't need any of them either :)
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="43" id="3437913"] Quoting uberlicker, reply 42 ... That was one of the best things about EU, it was very playable after the patching. Balanced is in the eye of the beholder for the most part, but if this is really your 1st play of the game I would stick with Vanilla on Normal or Classic depending on your tolerance for difficulty And of course Iron Man. Always play Iron Man. Way cool. Quicker set up. Spea
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="40" id="3437693"] Quoting Hawawaa, reply 19 I got my squads wipes on impossible ironman in 3 games so I'm going through normal just to say fuck you game I'll try it again later for impossible and ironman. I hated the council mission "Site Recon", it just ended so badly. I didn't come prepared only because it got triggered so damn early. Oh if your curious about some mods for xcom- http://xcom.nexus
http://www.getgamesgo.com/product/xcom-enemy-within But I don't see no $10 price tag.
Yah, never seen or heard of any grappling hook bug.
That's cool, I have them on disk, but it's nice to have them on GoG as well now :)
Yeah, I'm sure it's a lot of fun if you still enjoyed Dom3. I appreciate what Illwinter does, I just don't care to support it anymore because its not really pushing anything forward enough to justify spending more money on it. Maybe by the time Dom5 comes around.
[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="9" id="3414944"] Quoting GFireflyE, reply 6 Quoting MottiKhan, reply 5 If playing offline is the goal, perhaps Steam's offline mode would work. Playing without having steam load, online or offline, is the goal. ^^ This, as per my OP for those who read it . Several folk mentioned in another thread that they can kill Steam while playing their gam
[quote who="Ryat" reply="1" id="3413839"] Right Click on the program in the library and select create desktop shortcut.[/quote] Depending on the game this will still launch steam, all you're doing is jumping straight to that game without having to navigate in steam, but steam will will load.
Sounds great, bump this thread when it gets released though please :)
Diablo with super heroes? I guess I'm burnt out on the whole genre because I would have guessed this would have appealed to me, but at the moment all I can think of is meh.
Meh, if I wanted to troll this thread I'd troll it. just expressing my opinion that the game is already dead and it's probably time to move on *shrug*
It makes sense to me. IGW is dead. Let it die. Like beating a dead horse.
Let dead things die...
I don't know why, this game should be right in my wheel house, yet I cannot get through more than a couple turns in the demo before i get completely bored and quit. Very odd.
Does look great. thanks for sharing!
I would guess there is no reason to get 3 if you are getting 4. 4 doesn't seem drastically different from 3 anyway, just improves on it, there wasn't much to love about 3 anyway that shouldn't also be present in 4. Though I'm not bothering with 4 for the time being. From what I can tell the mirco and UI are still below my standards.
[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="16" id="3394034"] We want an updated Xcom EU because that game is better in all aspects except graphics and UI. That is only reason. New Xcom is a fine game of its own, but it is not near the quality of the original.[/quote] Agree to disagree then. I find the old game broken beyond redemption at this point and the new game highly enjoyable once you start exploring 2nd wave options and mods.
[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="12" id="3393928"] Quoting uberlicker, reply 3 Mutants and Mechs don't seem exciting??? Ok then... Mechs and hybrids were in Apocolypse so it's a been there done that reaction.[/quote] No, you didn't have access to hybrids, you had psi, and you could hire borgs or robots or whatever they were, but the mechanics of your borg were entirely different than they will be in E
[quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="8" id="3393845"] I agree. One of my biggest complaints about XCOM:EU is that you have to sit there very passively and react to each alien incursion in a very predictable way. At least until you have unlocked the story missions, anyway.[/quote] This is a common complaint, but one I don't really understand *when* the next statement is... [quote who="MarvinKosh" reply="8" id="3393845"]In UFO:EU you could go fi