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[Domenique]

Sambojin, I agree with you, but sadly they can't implement everything awesome. I just wish that there was some way for them to notice such great ideas.

[Blizzlord]

A game with too many awesome games will overwhelm your mind, be hard to program and in the end would have fared better if there only was a manageable amount of awesomeness.

[Domenique]

A game with too many awesome games will overwhelm your mind, be hard to program and in the end would have fared better if there only was a manageable amount of awesomeness.

Exactly, it's the bane of video games that only so much awesome can fit into one (besides, of course, DF, but that's a whole other situation).

[LoSboccacc]

LCS II: alien busting 

[Remalle]

Ok, so, I just read through this thread and all the interviews, and I'm pretty excited.  Some changes I'm still iffy about, and I hope that you'll have an option to fire before moving, or perform two actions without moving.  Still cautiously optimistic, but if I see more awesome things I'll be quite enthused.  Posting to watch.

[Domenique]

BAM!
http://oxcgn.com/2012/05/29/e3-2012-xcom-enemy-unknown-top-secret-preview/
BAM!
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2012/05/29/xcom-enemy-unknown-preview/1
BAM!
http://games.on.net/article/15732/Hands-On_XCOM_Enemy_Unknown

Three more previews, liked the last one with the faceless guy.

[Dohon]

And to add to that, an interview over at Strategycore and a preview at Rocketchainsaw.

[Domenique]

Alas, the environments aren't completely destructible, sad.

On the other hand:

SC: Little reference is made in the original as to why some aliens are genetically or surgically altered whilst others – Sectoids and Ethereals – remain “pure” since they’re the leaders. Will you be delving deeper into the relationships between the various aliens as the game progresses to flesh them out?
JS: The relationship between the alien species, how they’ve ended up together and what mysteries they conceal within their bodies is something that always gripped me from the original game.  It’s something that we will definitely explore in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but I won’t say to what extent…

They will be delving deeper into lore, which is always great in my book.

[Flying Dice]

LCS II: alien busting 

...

"Filthy Arch-Conservative xenos are attacking the Earth."

"That is disturbing!"

[GlyphGryph]

Alas, the environments aren't completely destructible, sad.

Wait, did I miss this?

[Remalle]

LCS II: alien busting 

...

"Filthy Arch-Conservative xenos are attacking the Earth."

"That is disturbing!"

And so the mystery of where we get our recruits is solved.

[Mephansteras]

SC: Will time of day still make a difference in missions? In the original night-time missions were pretty brutal affairs with the aliens having far better night vision, however the drawback was that you could often just leave a crashed UFO until daylight before launching a mission to its location – is this still the case?

JS: We have both day- and night-lit maps, but there’s no gameplay effect for lighting. The good news is that this means that your visibility is better at night! The bad side of this is that now Chryssalids come charging out of the shadows during the day, too.

This makes me a bit sad. The challenge of night missions was always a lot of fun for me!

[Domenique]

SC: Will time of day still make a difference in missions? In the original night-time missions were pretty brutal affairs with the aliens having far better night vision, however the drawback was that you could often just leave a crashed UFO until daylight before launching a mission to its location – is this still the case?

JS: We have both day- and night-lit maps, but there’s no gameplay effect for lighting. The good news is that this means that your visibility is better at night! The bad side of this is that now Chryssalids come charging out of the shadows during the day, too.

This makes me a bit sad. The challenge of night missions was always a lot of fun for me!

Yeah, but in real life that doesn't work this way, so I'm not sad about this, this remake is going to be more realistic with suppresive fire and all that jazz.

Alas, the environments aren't completely destructible, sad.

Wait, did I miss this?

SC: We've seen a destructible environment, can we actually cause a building to collapse with enough damage dealt to its structure?
JS: You’ll be able to blast your way through the walls of a building; most of the buildings are designed to have additional points of entry, but full destruction isn’t implemented.

[Flying Dice]

SC: Will time of day still make a difference in missions? In the original night-time missions were pretty brutal affairs with the aliens having far better night vision, however the drawback was that you could often just leave a crashed UFO until daylight before launching a mission to its location – is this still the case?

JS: We have both day- and night-lit maps, but there’s no gameplay effect for lighting. The good news is that this means that your visibility is better at night! The bad side of this is that now Chryssalids come charging out of the shadows during the day, too.

This makes me a bit sad. The challenge of night missions was always a lot of fun for me!

Yeah, but in real life that doesn't work this way, so I'm not sad about this, this remake is going to be more realistic with suppresive fire and all that jazz.

Wha...? Are you suggesting that there is enough light to see by at night in completely uninhabited countryside? Quite apart from that, the atmosphere of the night missions was brilliant, especially when things happened to the rookies you sent dashing out to lob light discs all over, using AC-I to (heh) light up the night, and so on.

[Domenique]

SC: Will time of day still make a difference in missions? In the original night-time missions were pretty brutal affairs with the aliens having far better night vision, however the drawback was that you could often just leave a crashed UFO until daylight before launching a mission to its location – is this still the case?

JS: We have both day- and night-lit maps, but there’s no gameplay effect for lighting. The good news is that this means that your visibility is better at night! The bad side of this is that now Chryssalids come charging out of the shadows during the day, too.

This makes me a bit sad. The challenge of night missions was always a lot of fun for me!

Yeah, but in real life that doesn't work this way, so I'm not sad about this, this remake is going to be more realistic with suppresive fire and all that jazz.

Wha...? Are you suggesting that there is enough light to see by at night in completely uninhabited countryside? Quite apart from that, the atmosphere of the night missions was brilliant, especially when things happened to the rookies you sent dashing out to lob light discs all over, using AC-I to (heh) light up the night, and so on.

But it doesn't mean that at night there's some black fog all over the place. You can still see shiny things from afar, and knowing that mutons have armors with some ill-placed lights only makes the reduction of LoS useless. What you can see is not what we know as line of sight in video games, it's basically an old mechanic that should be replaced or removed if necessary (in my opinion). The atmosphere will be different anyways, but that doesn't mean that the overall darkness won't create tension.