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Ideas of Psionic concept and other things
Pretend:
My thoughts on everything related to psionic abilities: Gay.
PSI stuff was the only thing I did not like in the original X-Com and for some reason every X-Com style game has always brought in the same idea of psionic aliens. Mind control, panic and mysterious brain damage. Boring.
More interesting would be an alien launcher weapon, which would shoot a lifeform to the ground. That would jump on your soldiers face and take control. It could be removed with a knife or something by a team mate.
Sophisanmus:
Pretend, you might want to try X-COM: Apocalypse. The aliens in that game had a weapon much like what you describe, the Brainsucker Launcher which launched grenade-like eggs which would then hatch into a Brainsucker alien which would attempt to "facehug" an X-COM agent, permanently converting him/her to an alien servant unless the Brainsucker were shot off the victim's face. Of course, Psi in that game was also not an end-all/be-all of late game combat, considering psionics would quickly become exhausted from the strain, resulting in only being able to control one or two enemies for any length of time and requiring a long cooldown time between mind control sessions. You might want to try that game out a little bit to see a more "fair and balanced" mind control mechanism in action.
Now, the Teleporter in that game was the end-all of the late game, but that is another story entirely...
Pretend:
Sophisanmus, true. I didn't remember the brainsuckers until you mentioned it. They were quite a pain in the spacesuit if it got close to you and you were low on time. I'd like to see something similiar implented.
But I still think PSI is just not fun and it's really a cliche. I like physical battles.
BTAxis:
--- Quote from: Pretend on March 31, 2008, 08:45:09 pm ---Sophisanmus, true. I didn't remember the brainsuckers until you mentioned it. They were quite a pain in the spacesuit if it got close to you and you were low on time. I'd like to see something similiar implented.
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The Bloodspider is supposed to be pretty much up there.
brainy19:
Pretend, simply because you don't like the Psi abilities does not mean it's not gonna be implemented in the game. If the public wants this feature in general, then something's gonna be done for the psionic abilities. It's only a matter of time before someone provides the necessary coding needed.
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