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Discussion / Re: No Saves in Battlescape Wastes 3 Days of my life!

« on: April 25, 2013, 09:35:48 am »

Problem is not lack of saves but map being way too big and complicated IMHO. I've beaten it pretty fast yesterday (still two hours is a bit of time) but only because aliens weren't hiding inside structures. Also I once played on very similar mansion (the main building and some tunnels were the same) but much smaller, I wonder if it was randomly generated or simply some parts where reused making this map, maybe reducing maximum map size in generator is enough?

I think map that big shouldn't be in game, or at least there could be a option to disable the biggest maps, if someone doesn't feel like spending few hours on battlescape (for example if someone is playing 2-3 hours daily and wants to be sure that he will manage to finish his battles).

Also because of huge number of aliens automission was a defeat every time, so this won't help too.

There is other problem too, because someone put a LOT of work into that map, so throwing it out wouldn't be nice thing to do...

(just to clarify: I don't mind big maps like the one in which harvester landed in fields but this map is big in all dimensions with many layers, rooms, tunnels making it much bigger in terms of time needed to cover whole map)

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Discussion / Re: Soldiers should be able to self-heal

« on: April 22, 2013, 10:29:25 am »

I  can't really understand how alien plasma weaponry can cause bleeding...

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Discussion / Re: I think I'm stuck

« on: April 21, 2013, 10:40:12 pm »

What do you mean by really long time? Months? Years? I'm almost one year from start, and I'm getting bored a bit, how long will I have to wait?

EDIT: Well I finally have something new, uff, thought it will never come...

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Discussion / Re: 2.5 sucks completely

« on: April 21, 2013, 10:28:39 pm »

I don't think that it's ok when game has content that requires so much in-depth knowledge about game mechanics, tactics etc. It's stupid. It just pisses off normal players. I really can't understand how you can give that advices here H-Hour, if they are required to play and succeed at normal difficulty why aren't they written in bold letters in-game? I would expect to see a discussion about advanced tactics for harder game modes here...

After reading through some threads I have feeling that this game is being changed for harder-better enthusiasts.

Btw, is 2.5 really so hard? I'm playing 2.4 on easy now, I wonder how strong punch in my face will 2.5 be for me...

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Discussion / I think I'm stuck

« on: April 21, 2013, 08:10:36 pm »

Hi,

I came back to playing this game some time ago, after a longer pause (I think I was playing 2.3 previously, not sure though) and either something changed or I'm doing something wrong. I'm not sure but I think there was more than 2 types of aliens back then (not counting bloodspiders), and better than plasma alien weapons. I'm already finishing Starchaser research and still enemy difficulty doesn't go past medium armor and plasma blasters...

Is there some kind of 'trigger' and I still didn't manage to get it on or if it just removed content?