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Discussion / Re: Fantastic Remake!! (Introduction) (Finished 2.2.1) (My Thoughts and feedback)

« on: June 14, 2009, 05:30:52 am »

I agree.  This is a fantastic remake.  I owned XCOM and TFTD when I was a kid, Apocalypse - bought them on Steam again recently.  Could never get Ufo Aftermath to work.  Thought Afterlight was a pretty awesome game, but... it just wasn't the sequel to XCom that I wanted.

I think this is going to end up better than the original.

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Discussion / Re: Dual Wielding Pistols?

« on: June 14, 2009, 05:23:36 am »

Giving these units the ability to dual-wield pistols would be dumb - this is my first thought.  However, given the mechanics of the game, there is one situation where you would want to have two equipped and firing simultaneously, regardless of loss to accuracy, and this is in extremely close combat.  With a horrendous penalty to accuracy imposed, as there would be in real life, I can still imagine dual firearms being worthwhile say if you open a closet door and there are two enemies inside.  You're two tiles away from three enemies and you don't have a primary weapon.  Yes, maybe then you would want to fire two guns at the same time.

Speaking of backup weapons, it would be neat if they could pull a secondary weapon for reaction fire, if you don't have enough TU to fire your main gun, but an enemy is approaching.