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Notes from veteren XCOM player after his first UFOAI game
pe9298:
Having moved over to Ubuntu, I was pleased to find an open source version of one of my favourite old games. I started with the simple scenario, normal difficulty and with the official 2.4 release.
I soon got that old feeling and greatly enjoyed the start of the game.
But after a while some small niggles appeared
- there were a couple of game freezes, KB and mouse dead, when I was in the battleground, both after I clicked for my next move. I am happy to provide logs, but which ones? (Excuse me if this is elsewhere on the site, I have not found i yet)
- I got to August and suddenly all research projects dried up. My scientists got very bored doing nothing.
- I fought about 50 battles, more than 40 were the same one, with a Harvester landing in an African village. (Most of these were triggered at midnight, so I also fought them in the dark, which was hard with the sun shining through my window). Since I had bases and radars scattered over the globe, I would have expected the aliens to be landing elsewhere than mostly Africa, in my case somewhere need Cairo.
- I got the impression that this simple scenario had just dried up, and had finished without a proper finale. Does anything else happen? Do UFOs appear? Do research projects appear? I can imagine that it s just a simple training scenario, but this needs to be in the description.
Don't get me wrong, this is a great game. The developers must be proud of what they have achieved. This should be in the Ubuntu software Center. If it gets there, you will have a flood of new players.
Many thanks for this great game.
pe9298:
I just read the Topic: Official Debian release for UFO:AI
(There is just so much on these forums for a noobie to read)
It looks like the movement to Ubuntu software center is started.
:-)
H-Hour:
Probably all of your complaints are gone or greatly improved in 2.5-dev. It's really a great milestone. Hopefully we'll get to a proper stable release soon.
Battlescared:
I just want to add that in playing 2.5 I've been amazed at how few times I've played the same maps. The number and variety of the new ones is great.
I'm also surprised at having all the research done by August. I've never gotten to a point like that, but maybe I'm not aggressive enough in research.
H-Hour:
--- Quote from: Battlescared on September 13, 2013, 01:02:19 am ---I'm also surprised at having all the research done by August. I've never gotten to a point like that, but maybe I'm not aggressive enough in research.
--- End quote ---
When you say "all the research", do you mean you're waiting on something new to arrive to research? What kind of UFOs and weapons are you facing?
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