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Discussion / close view disabled ?

« on: July 25, 2010, 09:42:10 am »

Hi i was using close view "V" key in ver 2.1, now in 2.3 i cant find it...

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Discussion / Re: Saving game & replacing units

« on: August 15, 2009, 10:45:12 am »

After reading the post i think that we can conclude - Most of the players want the save option, but it just hard to implement.
I'm also agree that it's more fun to have the save option and also to make the battle harder to win.

As i see it the main fun in the game is the battle so if you stay more time in the battle -> more fun.
Few more reasons:
1) You like your charactres and you know their strengths and weaknesses so you dont want to replace them...it's a real tragedy if someone dead. (for me at least)
2) It's too time consuming and not fun to look for a new soldier

I can agree that save during the battle demands smarter aliens and complicated serialization but i think it's worth it.

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Discussion / Re: What Alien Invasion needs in order to replace XCOM1 as the best game

« on: August 07, 2009, 06:14:43 pm »

WOW Sirine ...i'm so agree with you, it's like you read my mind !!!

I've voted no.4. (Just make a bug-free clone of XCOM1 with better graphics and music)
Here are my reason:-
1) The original XCom have something all other does not have... GAME BALANCE.
2) Super reaction interaction. It make turn-base playout like realtimes... many game FAIL to do that, including JA2, AND all other series of XCOM. (INCLUDING "Terror from the Deep" even they are using the same engine... the game inventory, maps and creature grew too big... hence game balance collapse)
3) Allow cheating... awkward enought... XCom allow you to do save/load in combat, and you might get different result from different action. This some how enrich the game play experience.
Example:- You know there are alien in a room. So, you save the game.
1st try) You open the room door. Opps, reaction fire... you were dead. Reload the game.
2nd try) You blast open the room door. Opps, reaction fire again... you were dead again. Reload the game again.
3rd try) You blast open from another angle, throw in a grenade...kabooom.... you smile... cause you are happy on the out come. Don't you?

The series of events that happend above, save->load->save->load->save...is actually something very HUMAN in nature... you fail, and you try. Xcom make it better... dynamic and randomize, sometimes 30% shot do hit target, sometimes 90% do miss the target... sometime a miss hit kill an alien, sometime the alien suppose to die but after 3~4 hit, the alien still standing there... hightly unstable. Yes, hightly unstable, but somehow total UNDER control... [means that you can save and load anytime].

Try out the game yourself below....refresh your joyfull memory..

Found at google...

X-COM is still being sold. Let's not do that.