New X-COM game coming . . . and it's turn based strategy!

[katmai]

Bet She looks good doing it.

[FunkMonk]

She does.

[Razgovory]

Those little little mind control bastards are annoying.  Fortunately they haven't cost me anyone yet.  I wonder if when they mind control someone that person will use their special abilities.  I'd be pretty fucked if they mind controlled my heavy and then she fire a rocket at everyone.  Oh well, I took one home alive (almost lost a few guys in that attempt), so he'll get his.
 
I really like this game.  I like the fact that I don't have to micromanage the inventory, and that I can trust my special forces guys to carry enough ammunition into battle.  One thing I've found annoying though, I wish when I send a guy to the barracks so another rookie can have some fun he'd have the decency to bring to bring is weapons, medkits, and armor back to the armory, instead of me having the track the bastard down to find out who has the armor and scopes.

I get really engrossed in the research element of the game.  It's fun to bring back a poor alien so that German doctor can torture it to death.  I get so interested in research that sometimes I'm annoyed that I have to go out and stop sectoids from vandalizing gas stations and the like.

[Grey Fox]

I'm only up to having 5 squad mates but I like rolling with 2 Heavies.

I also lost my only Assault, Katmai.

Sorry mate.

[katmai]

[FunkMonk]

This game is wonderful and I can't stop playing it but damn it's buggy. My newly-built SHIV won't deploy for missions, animations hang up the game forcing a restart (thank god for auto save), soldiers shoot in the opposite direction of the target yet still get a critical hit, WTF.

It's a flawed masterpiece.

[katmai]

Bummer. Still had one problem so far, since they updated it thur, when trying to throw grenades the mouse cursor is way too sensitive.

[Razgovory]

Haven't used a SHIV yet.  What does it do?

[FunkMonk]

Haven't used a SHIV yet.  What does it do?

A robot with a gun that you should use as a scout to spot for your snipers or rocket dudes. Upgrades can give it a better gun, turn it into moving cover for your soldiers, and use Suppression. Takes quite a beating as well. Great little thing and it all costs is a little cash and some alloys.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

as always with these kind of games it annoys me how the national governments aren't even bothering to fight back. Instead they're trying to cover up the whole thing. FFS, there's alien battleships (Neil is the alien warminister?) flying trough the air!

[Scipio]

Finally played the demo.  Wow.  That's great fun.  What a fantastic iteration of the idea.  Most importantly- no shitty conflicts about who gets out of the fucking plane first.

[Syt]

Well, my Sniper Lieutenant bought it. She was wounded by an alien, then a panicked rookie gunned her down. My medic died in the same mission. On the next mission, my other sniper and an assault trooper were killed. And finally, during a terror attack on Paris, my other assault trooper was killed by a zombie, my heavy was killed by another zombie, and now I'm out of specialists, have no funds and France has withdrawn from the XCOM initiative. If only I'd had the money/engineers to buy those laser weapons/better armor.

Time to start over, I guess.

[Scipio]

And I bought it on Amazon, saving $5.00.  WOOHOO!

[Syt]

Also, what's up with the hit probabilities? 74% has me miss ca. 7 out of 10 times. Even with 80+% hit chance I miss more often than I hit.

[Razgovory]

as always with these kind of games it annoys me how the national governments aren't even bothering to fight back. Instead they're trying to cover up the whole thing. FFS, there's alien battleships (Neil is the alien warminister?) flying trough the air!

I assume that national governments are fighting back, just ineffectively.  If they ever make expansion packs or DLCs I'd like to see missions where National governments attempt to undermine you, by spying on you, stealing your stuff, secretly signing pacts with the Aliens and ambushing your soldiers... I'd also like to see mission where you can bring governments back to the council or assassinate human quislings.  More cloak and dagger stuff would fit the theme I think.