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

[FunkMonk]

Demo is out now. 

[Habbaku]

Downloading. 

[Razgovory]

It won't let me download the demo.

[Grey Fox]

Restart Steam, I had an issue too.

[katmai]

Well 1st mission is tutorial which i had just watched online yesterday.
Looks promising all in all.

[JonasSalk]

Human power. Death to all beast men and some sort of creepy-crawly things.

Irony award: Potential to let Mexico be overrun and destroyed by illegal aliens.

[Mr. Grey]

I couldn't decide if I wanted it for xbox or pc....so I pre-ordered both 

Odd.

Yes, I enjoy wasting money I do not have 

I prefer playing xbox when I am home, but my wife enjoys hogging the tv and I thought the pc version might allow more customization.
I thought the demo was amazing. I am bummed about the 6-person squad limit, but I will  get over it. I remember always bringing the maximum number of people on all my missions....just in case! Looking back, it was usually a mistake because half were usually rookies that got mind controlled into tossing a grenade within the skyranger!

[ulmont]

Well, the demo looks nice, but apparently my laptop refuses to handle it (i.e., overheats and shuts down).  Anybody got a link to how to manually tweak the settings down to "utter bullshit"?

[Razgovory]

I thought the demo was okay.  A few to many cut scenes though.  This might be the first Firaxis game I've ever played that had gore in it.  Blasting sectoids was good fun.

[JonasSalk]

Well, the demo looks nice, but apparently my laptop refuses to handle it (i.e., overheats and shuts down).  Anybody got a link to how to manually tweak the settings down to "utter bullshit"?

You can reduce everything in-game, including the resolution.

Yeah, the demo definitely makes me want to play the game...for about $25 or so. Not 40 or 50, though. Blastin' sectoids and their weird jetpack cyborg buddies is fun.

lol three of the people in the first mission get killed and you can't prevent it.

[katmai]

For 2nd mission is there way to increase difficulty? Couldn't figure it out for myself.

[FunkMonk]

For 2nd mission is there way to increase difficulty? Couldn't figure it out for myself.

There's a demo editor floating around that might do that. Haven't tried it myself. http://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?140536-Demo-Editor-I-just-Made

[JonasSalk]

Another thing in the second mission is that the tutorial thing says to try to stun the thin guys...but I couldn't find a stun ability on any one of my people, even upon getting face-to-face with the thin guys.  So eventually I blasted them and everybody got poisoned.

[ulmont]

Another thing in the second mission is that the tutorial thing says to try to stun the thin guys...but I couldn't find a stun ability on any one of my people, even upon getting face-to-face with the thin guys.

There's no stun available in the demo.  It's basically a hint for later on.

[Mr. Grey]

lol three of the people in the first mission get killed and you can't prevent it.

lol I was cursing at my screen wondering why they would purposely make this my first experience with the game.

I had to tune down the graphics a bit...my laptop is 2 years old and was struggling.

On a side note, I just had my entire team wiped out on a cruise liner mission in TFTD...mind controlled even before I could get most my squad out of the skyranger!