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[EnigmaticHat]

Frozen Synapse?

[Anvilfolk]

What would this be like if it was real time with pause?

You might wanna try the series that spawned UFO Afterlight and UFO Aftermath. I think there's 3 in total. They're exactly that. Pausable real-time. I personally disliked that you could no longer really strategise as much. It lost its optimisation potential for me.

Still definitely worth a look!

[Flying Dice]

What would this be like if it was real time with pause?

Less interesting?

More seriously, it would probably be nearly unrecognizable in terms of mechanics, both NuCOM and OldCOM, as both rely pretty heavily on things which are explicitly dependent on the nature of turn-based games; the former with things like reaction fire, suppression, &c, and the latter with things like grenade relays, also reaction fire, &c.

There's also the aspect that things would functionally /be/ turn-based in all but name, because playing without tapping pause every two or three seconds would inevitably lead to total squad wipes when you turn a corner into a pack of chryssies or something.

[EnigmaticHat]

I mean it could autopause like FTL does on encounters.

Not really seeing the appeal though.  Part of why new-com was successful is because its so slick; the combat is very fast in terms of how many actions and turns it takes for one side of a fight to win.  Most of the delays in the game are just the player thinking.  Plus the junk missions of course, but a shift to real time wouldn't change that.

[My Name is Immaterial]

It would be this. It's one of the original concept pieces.

[Sergius]

It would be this. It's one of the original concept pieces.

That still seems the same turn based game we got now, only it was conceived as cinematic as hell.

You can see who's turn it is and which enemy is moving, all the shooting and screaming and reacting in between is just dressing.

[Fikes]

What would this be like if it was real time with pause?

If you can get past the art, there is a RTwP X-Com game, XCom Apocalypse. It changes a lot but I still really enjoyed it.

[IronyOwl]

It would be this. It's one of the original concept pieces.

That still seems the same turn based game we got now, only it was conceived as cinematic as hell.

You can see who's turn it is and which enemy is moving, all the shooting and screaming and reacting in between is just dressing.

That's actually kind of cool.

[GiglameshDespair]

Yeah, i think it would have been cooler than the combat system of occasionally popping a shot off.

[Iceblaster]

What would this be like if it was real time with pause?

Spoiler: Xcom Apocalypse! (click to show/hide)

...

Oh. Already been brung up. Meh.

[Sergius]

It would be this. It's one of the original concept pieces.

That still seems the same turn based game we got now, only it was conceived as cinematic as hell.

You can see who's turn it is and which enemy is moving, all the shooting and screaming and reacting in between is just dressing.

That's actually kind of cool.

Oh I agree, but apparently they couldn't pull it off, so they settled for a more standard turn based, where everyone just does some idle animation popping in and out of cover. The closest to this is when someone uses Suppressive Fire, which then loops an infinite bullet animation. I would have liked more screaming and fake panicking

Apocalypse stuff

I actually quite like this game. In fact the turn-based mode in it was broken as hell so paused-realtime was probably the only decent way to play it.

[Kagus]

Pfft, yeah, like dual-wielding two machineguns wasn't broken in RT for Apocalypse...

[Sonlirain]

Pfft, yeah, like dual-wielding two machineguns autocannons wasn't broken in RT for Apocalypse...

FTFY
Later on i had androids going akimbo with devastator cannons on full auto... they most of their kills were colateral.

[Kagus]

Come to think of it...  Dual wielding pretty much anything in realtime was kinda broked.  Even just stuff like the stun grapples could pull off some fun times.

...and what was the name of that full-auto rocket launcher again?  Another "fun times" device when twinned.

[Sonlirain]

Come to think of it...  Dual wielding pretty much anything in realtime was kinda broked.  Even just stuff like the stun grapples could pull off some fun times.

...and what was the name of that full-auto rocket launcher again?  Another "fun times" device when twinned.

Well ther was the Autocannon that was pretty much an unguided micro rocket launcher when used with HE or Inc ammo.
But you are probably thinking about the marsec mini rocket launcher that fires homing missiles... and can be set to auto... and i think it has 5 rockets in a clip but i'm not too sure now.