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[Sirus]

That fifth OXM video is pretty nice, but nothing beats the loss of Kitkat Crunchy in episode 3 (at 9:06).

That reminds me, I swore to name one of my rookies KitKat in his honor when the full game comes out

[Sergius]

We advance along and carefully take on the building with the Slender Men. Or whatever they're called. Thin Men?

Close. The one in X-Com is called the Thin Man. It's actually based on a meme created by the internets, some sort of horror urban myth made in some forum:

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The TRENDER MAN

(he's coming for your children... with stylish scarfs and accesories)

[Neonivek]

Dang it the demo lied to me, I can't bring any of those aliens home.

[Sirus]

Dang it the demo lied to me, I can't bring any of those aliens home.

Yeah, I'm wondering if that was an oversight. I checked every squad member's gear several times, trying to find a stun rod or arc thrower or whatever

[Neonivek]

Dang it the demo lied to me, I can't bring any of those aliens home.

Yeah, I'm wondering if that was an oversight. I checked every squad member's gear several times, trying to find a stun rod or arc thrower or whatever

It is probably because the demo is dirrectly ripped from the actual game. Where they would ask you to take them in if possible.

Mind you it was absolutely confusing what I ended up being able and unable to take. Why are these floater corpses apperantly nonexistant now?

Then again the first mission was just painful to watch because you knew EXACTLY what would happen. Given you were being told what to do by someone who should know better, and find out that they stink, was also painful. I mean, I knew what would end up happening but I didn't know that the path I took to get there was idiocy drive.

Yep they certainly were the best level 1 soldiers I ever seen.

[Tellemurius]

You can free-aim rockets and grenades if the streams are anything to go by. Gun haven't been shown to have building-penetrative abilities though.

Plasma weapons have, though. During the livestreams from Pax it became an important point that a plasma blast blew out a wall and removed a soldier's cover.

Any cover or object do soak damage and will break apart. The target can be hit for any damage left.

[Kilroy the Grand]

When you view the Soldier Memorial bagpipe music plays. That's pretty awesome.

[Sirus]

When you view the Soldier Memorial bagpipe music plays. That's pretty awesome.

How'd you do that? Demo wouldn't let me view the memorial <_<;

[Kilroy the Grand]

When you view the Soldier Memorial bagpipe music plays. That's pretty awesome.

How'd you do that? Demo wouldn't let me view the memorial <_<;

magic in a young girls heart?

[Shades]

Have to admit to being disappointed by the demo, not enough to cancel my pre-order but enough that it bugs me.

Firstly the demo is too short to get a good grasp on the game, and doesn't really touch upon any of the base management or strategic screens. So I'm not sure it's a good representation of the game at all, however being slightly meta about it is the reason the demo is so short because there isn't much depth in the actual game? Demos are normally there to showcase a game after all.

Secondly the controls are fairly clunky on the pc, probably nothing I couldn't get used to, but I did feel it wasn't smooth to play. Although some of that at least was that Q and E don't appear to work until the part of the tutorial where they tell you to use them which meant I was struggling trying to rotate at the start.

[Neonivek]

No I will admit the demo is REALLY lacking. It isn't even a space issue they fit in over half the game in the demo.

Whenever I think of the perfect demo... I always think of the Theme Hospital Demo.

It had just enough to tell me what the game was all about while not spoiling the entire game. It was the only demo I ever played where I went "I must have that game" (and I knew NOTHING about theme hospital prior to this)

But this demo? It actually kinda makes me want the game less and even makes the game look less sophisticated, even for a game as steamlined to death as it is.

[mikefictiti0us]

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[jocan2003]

Oh, and the demo makes it apparent to me that the PC UI was an afterthought to Firaxis, because the interface and snapping camera reek of console influence. That would be a minor issue to me if the core game itself reflects the spirit of the original game, but the demo gives no indication because of its scripted nature. Worse, it dulls the enthusiasm I initially felt for the game.

Exactly my tought, after the 2 mission i was meh.... really? And i HATE the current menu system, cool they got that box thing, but that ALL they got... everything else is press blablabla to do anything, cant i have icon i can click on please? its a PC UI or a *redesigned/ated/thing/frack?* console port UI just enough to be able to say its not the same console UI for press?

[Blah]

I was planning to buy this but changed my mind after seeing how bad the PC UI is. I don't understand why it is sooo hard for otherwise good companies to create a merely ordinary PC UI according to established standards.

[timferius]

I was planning to buy this but changed my mind after seeing how bad the PC UI is. I don't understand why it is sooo hard for otherwise good companies to create a merely ordinary PC UI according to established standards.

Do some people really find it that bad? I guess I'm just not bothered as most about poor UI. Hell, I played hours and hours of Skyrim, never once downloading a UI mod.