Mental_Giant

Well, apparently it tries to do things while you're connected. Fortunately blocking the application doesn't render the game unplayable.

I was thinking of pulling a Full Mental tonight... lots of games out there to play.

It was hideous DRM, and the solution is have your firewall block the AC executable.

Have you started playing yet?

PS3 and Xbox launch on 10/30.

PC (and Wii U?) launch in late November.

Maybe those places are even worse?

I agree with the comment that those "countries" are way too large. I'd expect warring city-states, like Ancient Greece... not sprawling empires. Especially considering Monroe sounded like the only one with a working train. Maybe that's the point... all of these players have steam engines running, so they are able to hold things together.

I have to agree with MM... I can see Danny become the "son the Insurance Adjuster Guy never had"... despite the fact that he already has a son. Maybe he wants a new son who doesn't know he was a dweeb before the lights went out.

Cool... as long as you never check out Champion Online.

I will replay at a harder difficulty level (and maybe to take my time more), but I think there is an optimal path through the tech tree and you will eventually get burned if you don't follow it.

It also has multiplayer, so that gives you a lot of replay.

I would wait for the sale, but it was definitely a worthwhile investment for me.

33 hours to my first game win.

Grenades are very effective early on (unless you're in a terror message trying to save civvies), but later, they do less damage than a laser or plasma rifle.

I wouldn't judge the game by the Demo, but it does give you an idea of what gameplay is like.

Oh yeah, screw their priority list! Your priority should be:

beam weapons->decent armor->keep putting satellites up->THEN you can think about building alien containment->get interceptors upgraded->get better guns->get better armor

Okay, that makes sense.

That was what brought it home for me... poor Simon.

See, Bone... this is what X-COM is about... moments like that. That's why I think the game is a worthy heir to the original.

I'm on what I think is the final mission, and it's pretty tough, if only because it's a big map, and I'm running out of medkits, and one character *has* to survive or you fail... and I'm on Ironman Mode.

What? No way... it's Ironman or nothing!

I just lost Colonel "Casino" Bauer the other night... my best Heavy Weapons guy, and one of the original squad of 4. Now "Demon" Xiang is the sole survivor of that group.

The interface is fine... I assume your issue is with the Base layout? In retrospect, I think it was needlessly complex in the original, and if they took out Base Raids (which I wasn't a great fan of), then it really doesn't matter as much.

I actually don't even remember C4, but fine, maybe they should have included it.

I definitely agree with you about not being able to target the environment. It would have been pretty simple to implement as well. That's an omission.


This makes no sense. What isn't X-COM about it?

Squad-based turn-based tactical combat? Yes!
Research, Resource Management and Base Building? Yes!
Building out fighters to take on UFOs? Yes!
Varied mission types and maps? Yes... actually more variety than the original!

The camera controls and probably use some work (I don't even know you could rotate the camera until two days ago), but this is just nitpicking. I'm sure you'll enjoy Xenonauts more, but this is really a slick, AAA implementation of X-COM.