X-Com help

[Skanky Burns]

Unfortunately there have been a few attempts that have not quite lived up the the original's reputation. Alas.

[Theben]

I may have to stop reading this or look up that XP compatible version...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
I said guns, not rods. Jesus, I'm not into that kinky masochism stuff.

There are no stun guns. Only small launchers with stun bombs.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by General Ludd
Why would you want a remake that had out-dated gameplay and mechanics?

X-COM is hard to play now that I've experienced tactical games that actually use physics in the game world and have stream-lined and intuitive controls.

See, there's where you go wrong.

It's not just a tactical game.

[DrSpike]

True, but that doesn't imply that the tactical component couldn't be improved, which is his point.

[Skanky Burns]

But it still makes up a good 50% of the game.

[General Ludd]

The Strategic component could be improved alot, too.


That's where most of the 'recreations' have missed out, though.

[Skanky Burns]

Or simplified significantly.
Apocalypse did a good effort to make the strategic component much more interesting, but alas was too ambitious and were told to scrap all but the essentials.
The latest game "in the spirit of XCom" didn't even include base management.

[child of Thor]

And so it will remain, with out dated graphics, out dated physics engine, out dated UI, out dated operating system requirements, out dated time of release( ) - the King of its genre

All hail the King - Xcom the first!

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I fire any soldier who manages to get mind-controlled. In the mission they get controlled I also have them "guard the skyranger".

Ah, but you're wasting a soldier you payed a hiring bonus too.

Instead, never give them a weapon again, and have them move out with a soldier group. Specifically, have them move first so they receive the reaction fire when running in to an alien. You can even use the poor guy to draw fire intentionally if you need your armed soldiers to move in closer (e.g. to stun that Sectoid Leader that has lots of TUs stored for reaction fire).

If they do get mind-controlled again, they'll be useless to the aliens; the AI is not smart enough to use the same scouting tactic, though it might happen randomly.

[child of Thor]

yep the 'weaker' xcom opperatives become part of my un-armed section. They can either become medics or back up stunrod personel. This way they never cause me big problems when they go all mushy on me. Still when you can get turned into the nastier aliens its best to get rid of them or leave them behind for difficult missions.

[Jeje2]

X-Com fixes

Hi,
someone mentioned here eralier that there are fixes for X-com series so that it will work on newer computers.

I have X-Com Apocalypse - were could I find a fix for it?

Is the original X-com still copyprotected or could I get it from the net legally?

[Urban Ranger]

Copyrights last a long time...

However, some companies decide to release games that don't make money anymore for free download.

[DrSpike]

And sometimes certain sites take it upon themselves to provide such games even without explicit consent. Apolyton doesn't condone such behaviour, of course, woof.

[child of Thor]

ah but its such a great game - if it was re-released as a budget title no-one would have any problems then.
Grrrr
for me i've been bad - but i have bought this game twice(pc+amiga),and would again, so i dont feel too guilty.

even on my P166 i need to use something like 'Turbo' to get the game clock/time speed running at the right rate. On my setup i need to set it to run my pc at about 50% speed.
Wonder how Tuberski is going with it? Anyway i'm now back in the Xcom game