XCOM : Enemy Unknown - by Firaxis Games - Thread

Teaf · 15 Nov 2013 at 23:02

Pighardia said:
Edit- Argentina close to leaving...so I get a choice of missions in Japan, Germany or USA, all at lowest panic

It's continents isn't it? Would USA lower Argentina or that region or is the North/South America divided? Can't remember

You could also use a satellite to get the rating back down to 1 pip if you haven't already.

Omaeka · 15 Nov 2013 at 23:35

Enemy Within £15 with the code

GMG25-C8FGA-VFPGI

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/pc/games/strategy/xcom-enemy-within/

dreigns · 16 Nov 2013 at 08:33

Omaeka said:
Enemy Within £15 with the code

GMG25-C8FGA-VFPGI

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/pc/games/strategy/xcom-enemy-within/

got myn for 13.50 a few weeks ago thanks to it being 10% off plus a 25% voucher

anyhow I do like the fact now we have new maps from ufo's crashing on top of buildings and lots of others.

I have found that I like the mech trooper's are a bit OP realy I think the lowest one as got health wise is half health so far but that might change later on.
As for the gene modes I don't think there that grear my self maybe i'm just using the wrong ones and I do still have 4 to unlock.

I give some more feed back later only just done the alien base mission making sure I builded up some armor and weapons before going on that one

Chong Warrior · 16 Nov 2013 at 10:09

Omaeka said:
Enemy Within £15 with the code

GMG25-C8FGA-VFPGI

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/pc/games/strategy/xcom-enemy-within/

Doesn't work for me, says unable to add voucher

EDIT: nvm fixed it, cheers

Verponian · 16 Nov 2013 at 10:18

Finally finished the download and started playing a new game. I've not come across any of the big changes yet but a few nice touches. I like how now when using explosives yo get an indicator of what cover you're going to blow up.

Soldier languages are cool too though I wish they'd included accents. All my British soldiers have to have an american accent it seems :/

Teaf · 16 Nov 2013 at 10:23

Ahh, now I remember why I both hate and loved this game. Sniper, 98% chance to hit, 100% chance to critically hit... "Missed!"

Dave**** · 16 Nov 2013 at 11:00

flibby said:
Ahh, now I remember why I both hate and loved this game. Sniper, 98% chance to hit, 100% chance to critically hit... "Missed!"

2% is 2%

Though IIRC I got a mod called warspace extension that changed the way the rolls were calculated to give a more "fairer" system after I got fed up of missing so many shots like that. It might make the game easier but I'm no professional xcom player

Omaeka · 16 Nov 2013 at 11:04

dreigns said:
got myn for 13.50 a few weeks ago thanks to it being 10% off plus a 25% voucher

anyhow I do like the fact now we have new maps from ufo's crashing on top of buildings and lots of others.

I have found that I like the mech trooper's are a bit OP realy I think the lowest one as got health wise is half health so far but that might change later on.
As for the gene modes I don't think there that grear my self maybe i'm just using the wrong ones and I do still have 4 to unlock.

I give some more feed back later only just done the alien base mission making sure I builded up some armor and weapons before going on that one

The catch 22 with mechs is that they can't take cover, so aliens will very rarely miss them. They have a lot of HP but critical hits seem way more common this time around which means that sectoids could possibly 2 shot a squaddie mech.

If you want some games feel free to add me.

Chong Warrior said:
Doesn't work for me, says unable to add voucher

EDIT: nvm fixed it, cheers

I think copy/paste can cause issues with GMG codes, as above, if you fancy some games of XCOM feel free to add me!

Really hating randoms. So mech obsessed. ;/

dreigns · 16 Nov 2013 at 11:04

Ok I think you should make sure you load out all ur troops not gonna say much but very bad to have just normal guns and no armor in a big fight

Verponian · 16 Nov 2013 at 15:15

Start up does seem to be trickier this time round. Maybe I'm just out of practice at the early game stuff but I seem to be struggling with a few countries close to leaving and I'm only a handful of missions in.

Also just had my first crash. A thin man was taking a reaction shot against a survivor in an escort mission.

Pighardia · 16 Nov 2013 at 15:37

Dave**** said:
2% is 2%

Though IIRC I got a mod called warspace extension that changed the way the rolls were calculated to give a more "fairer" system after I got fed up of missing so many shots like that. It might make the game easier but I'm no professional xcom player

I used it too, it made the game actually fair!

Verponian · 16 Nov 2013 at 17:26

Anyone else having stability problems with this game? Since the first crash, I've two subsequent crashes. On completion of a mission, after the animation of the transporter flying back, I got endless black screen Now it is completely unplayable and freezes immediately on the main menu after launch.

dreigns · 16 Nov 2013 at 17:48

Verponian said:
Anyone else having stability problems with this game? Since the first crash, I've two subsequent crashes. On completion of a mission, after the animation of the transporter flying back, I got endless black screen Now it is completely unplayable and freezes immediately on the main menu after launch.

No crashes at all

Pighardia · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:00

No, I haven't had any crashes either, though for some reason I can't shake the feeling that the game 'seems' a bit more unstable than usual...don't know why.

I have really got in to my game now. I started again, as I had 3 countries leave after the first two months, and there was nothing I could do about it. Also delayed the mission where you first meet exalt. I can't really see any downsides to doing that?...I think that you really need to control it a bit, as it comes at you too fast now, with something new being introduced every mission.

I haven't had a terror mission yet though

...but I did the first Slingshot one, where you rescue the Triad, and was surprised to find that they dropped a chrysalid along with the usual Thin Men as I was escaping! Is that new?

Verponian · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:05

Pighardia said:
I haven't had a terror mission yet though...but I did the first Slingshot one, where you rescue the Triad, and was surprised to find that they dropped a chrysalid along with the usual Thin Men as I was escaping! Is that new?

I think that may have undergone an overhaul. I had a rescue mission prior to the mess up and instead of the usual drop of thin men reinforcements after I got the survivor, I got a sectoid among them which I'm fairly sure never happened before.

As for stability, I'm trying my AMD drivers and also might try the game on my other nvidia powered system. I'm just a bit alarmed at how quickly it deteriorated. I can't even launch vanilla xcom without menu freeze now.

And...drivers do nothing. Crap.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:07

No crashes to report, but my "A" squad just got murdered in the first Exalt mission.

******* thin men.

Time to restart... The joys of Ironman.

DEL 707 · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:16

Started playing Enemy Within earlier, managed to unlock the MEK tech, so saved and quit.
Now when ever I fire up the game, I get to the main screen and after 2 seconds it crashes, validated the game but it's made no difference.

It's even started doing the same with Enemy Unknown.

Verponian · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:20

DEL 707 said:
Started playing Enemy Within earlier, managed to unlock the MEK tech, so saved and quit.
Now when ever I fire up the game, I get to the main screen and after 2 seconds it crashes, validated the game but it's made no difference.
It's even started doing the same with Enemy Unknown.

EXACTLY the problem I have now. Also validating the game and get a 17.5 mb download after but it doesn't fix it. At least that's now two of us.

Pighardia · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:23

Well I have just unlocked the Mech stuff, so hopefully it won't happen to me!

I like the way you can mix up the skills as well. Before, it was an easy decision of what perks to choose for each soldier, but now there are some interesting ones.

Edit- Well, here is my first terror mission, so we will see just how well I have been doing!...I wish I hadn't sent 3 of my best soldiers to the cybernetics lab!

FoxEye · 16 Nov 2013 at 18:30

flibby said:
Ahh, now I remember why I both hate and loved this game. Sniper, 98% chance to hit, 100% chance to critically hit... "Missed!"

The system Enemy Unknown uses I find too frustrating to ever want to replay it.

The fact that enemy armour makes your shots more likely to miss is just silly. Armour giving more HP or damage reduction is the normal, logical, way.

But in EU's bizzaro world, a heavily armoured foe is simply way more difficult to hit. So that massive, slow bipedal walking tank that has boat-loads of HP already, is also a much more difficult to score a hit on than a small, agile alien. Right-o.

Also got sick and fed up of having 50% chance to miss on targets that were standing literally right next to me. In XCom you could burst fire and at least one or two hits would connect. In EU you can surround a target with 2-3 agents and watch them all mis their target.

And the fact that you can only shoot once (which either hits or misses) is retarded too. There are no auto-shots, no burst fire.

Gah, just talking about that game makes me rage.