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Emperor
of the Krauts
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Mar 2000
time: 08:35
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I have a long preview for this on the CFC, but since it is close to the betatest stage I decided to give a preview here too, for those who visit mainly Poly 
Ok, this is called "X-COM: Invasion" and it will be a kind of X-COM meets Civ3. Of course many elements of the X-COM games cannot be used in Civ3, but it should be fun to play anyway. You take the role of the commander of the X-COM force to fight against evil aliens invading our planet 
It plays on a 140x140 earth map (by Kal-El), has 10civs, but only the X-COM is playable. Your main opponent will be of course the aliens, but there are also other human civs.
The game will start 2017, so at the beginning most human civs will have equipment known today, but they will be able to develop some nice scifi stuff later. X-COM and the aliens will have of course their own units.
Graphically it is oriented on the first X-Com TBS games, but I changed the 50ies-style look to a more dark hitech style. So youŽll see Mutons, Snakemen or Sectoids, but they look a bit different from those of the X-Com games.
Here are some preview screens (they look a little better in the game - jpeg reduction):
www.cdgroup.org/upload/tbs/civ3/xcom/screens/setup.jpg
www.cdgroup.org/upload/tbs/civ3/xco...ens/diplo01.jpg
www.cdgroup.org/upload/tbs/civ3/xco...ens/pedia01.jpg
www.cdgroup.org/upload/tbs/civ3/xco...s/mapview01.jpg
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King
Dallas, TX
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Mar 2002
time: 01:35
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What is X-COM?
Very nice mod, BTW
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Emperor
of the Krauts
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Mar 2000
time: 08:35
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X-Com was a series of cool TBS games by Microprose. Those games had a lot of "Civ-elements". You had to intercept Alien UFOs, then you lead a squad of your X-Com agents (which you could personally equip) to examine the chrashed/shut down/landed UFO, kill the aliens, get their technology. Your success lead to more financial support by several governments, which you needed to buy more weapons or hire new soldiers, scientists or technicians. You also had to do research for better equipment, and you could build more of your x-com bases with a lot of different facilities. There were three X-Com TBS games (those were the best games of the series), a 3d space simulator a la wing commander, and one ego shooter.
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King
Dallas, TX
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Mar 2002
time: 01:35
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Oh, ok. Thanks! I'd heard a lot of people make references to 'X-COM', good to know what it was about.
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King
of the Amish
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Dec 2002
time: 07:35
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Beautiful, count me in. Good to see anything X-Com.
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Deity
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Feb 2001
time: 02:35
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Sweet.
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I have the UK version. Maybe you should post at Civ3.de when it's complete. I'm sure there are plenty of people interested.
Besides, I'm registered at the French site thegrenouille.com (didn't post there in a looooong time), so I could ask if anybody wants to test it.
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King
of the Amish
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Dec 2002
time: 07:35
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If you are going to release it before C3C it would be good to know if the release will mess it up any when it does come out.
Is PTW required? I never bought that.
Does it use fixed alliances? It wouldn't be right to have X-Com fighting multiple Earth nations.
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Deity
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Feb 2001
time: 02:35
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I don't see why it wouldn't work on other versions.
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quote:
Originally posted by skywalker
I don't see why it wouldn't work on other versions. |
I think some directory names, .ini names and things like that don't have the same name. It may be worth it to test before shipping it.
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Deity
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Feb 2001
time: 02:35
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Well, you can play normal civ3 scenarios in PtW, so I'm sure you can play PtW scenarios in Conquests.
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Deity
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Feb 2001
time: 02:35
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Cool! This looks really good.
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can;t wait
This job is really, really impressive. I wasn't aware before that you had such a graphical talent 
, I think this is the main "threat", and not the main "thread" that comes from outer space (in screen 4)
