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Author Topic: How do you start playing X-COM?  (Read 8478 times)

Okenido

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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2009, 12:33:23 am »
They shouldn't of used the Quake 2 engine.
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2009, 09:56:29 am »
IF I RECALL CORRECTLY,

And I may totally not, they're switching to Ogre in the future.
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2009, 10:28:48 am »
Will that support destructable environments?
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2009, 11:01:24 am »
I'm pretty sure that was the reasoning.
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2009, 02:26:12 pm »
(embarrassingly admits he likes xcom apoc more than xcom ufo defense  :-[)
But maybe thats just cuz 1 and 2 were near impossible to play for many years on my machines, and have such little resolution it hurts my eyes- leaving me with many more hours spent playing Apoc, and thus, building love.
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2009, 02:35:20 pm »
I play xcom on my phone :-D
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2009, 10:24:23 pm »
I've been trying to play this but there are several issues which make the game far more difficult than it should be. For one, the mouse speed is way too fast, even on the lowest setting. Is there a patch available to tone it down?
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #22 on: June 29, 2009, 10:30:37 pm »
The Collectors Edition, which works for windows, is better in that regard. The ET patch that Lumin posted allows you to boost the resolution up a fair amount, and that also helps a lot.
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2009, 12:24:30 am »
Do I have to input the "cd key" every time I boot xcom? Or should I not be using go.com?
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2009, 01:54:11 am »
The Dos version? Yes. Not the Collectors Edition.
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2009, 04:04:43 am »
There's nothing "wrong" with Apocalypse, besides maybe the aesthetic design choice, I much preferred the previous titles because they were all dark and scary environments where aliens could hide around just about anything (torching jungle terrain with incendiary cannons (ammunition was incendiary, not the cannon) while hunting snake men never gets old) Apocalypse, while having the benefit of ridiculous amounts of collateral damage looks a bit too much like Buck Rogers vs the Play-dough people for my tastes. (Which is a bit ironic because they photoed clay models for most of the sprites in game )

Really now, you need 20 guys for a mission? You wouldn't happen to be a union?
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #26 on: November 08, 2009, 01:31:22 pm »
I can't figure this one thing out about buying it.  When you buy it, is it sent via mail, or something you download?
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #27 on: November 08, 2009, 01:41:35 pm »
Depends on where you're buying it.  The Steam version is downloadable, but has some issues with the graphics.  It's kind of choppy and everything has a smudgy look to it, but you can go into the Steam directory and find the exe for a better version (The icon looks like a sun)
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #28 on: November 10, 2009, 08:49:20 am »
Okay. Now are there any downsides/potential consequences to steam in general?
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"Oh look there is a dragon my clothes might burn let me take them off and only wear steel plate."
And this is how tinned food was invented.
Quote from: Vester on October 10, 2009, 10:10:11 pm
Alternately: The Brick Testament. It's a really fun look at what the bible would look like if interpreted literally. With Legos.
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Re: How do you start playing X-COM?
« Reply #29 on: November 10, 2009, 08:56:57 am »
Quote from: Ampersand on June 29, 2009, 09:56:29 am
IF I RECALL CORRECTLY,

And I may totally not, they're switching to Ogre in the future.

How about changing to UDK? :P
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