The X-COM Topic

Poision Envy

2012-01-19 07:09:16 am

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hope you jerks are happy, making me spend money.

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tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:09:49 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Making people spend money on X-COM is literally the only way I can get off.

Poision Envy

2012-01-19 07:10:39 am

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christ this opening cutscene

pretty neat what they did with the pixely graphics though

Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:10:53 am

Definitely agree with Tomatobob here: UFO Defense is the king of the X-COM games. Terror from the Deep runs basically on the same engine and has the same mechanics, but they changed around a lot of the balance to try and make it tougher and kinda went too far and made it extremely tough even for UFO veterans. Apocalypse is an interesting one where you can also run the battles in real time if you want, but I was never good at it.

Enforcer was a FPS and Interceptor was a flight sim but I've never tried either of those and I hear both are pretty bad, Enforcer especially.

Poision Envy

2012-01-19 07:10:56 am

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also yeah, looks like steam uses DOSBox, heh.

Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:11:28 am

Yeah it comes with DOSBox, which is good because I don't know how else they'd get it to work these days.

Poision Envy

2012-01-19 07:12:24 am

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okay you guys got me into this, now what?

do I just put it on antarctica, or go for a badass California base?

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Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:12:36 am

Also, yay, our constant talks have gotten someone else to at least try the game! Our plan is working Tomatobob! Twisted Evil

tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:13:04 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Europe is the power game-y way to go, It's expensive usually but the first base is free.

Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:13:31 am

Best places to start are somewhere in Europe, the US, or probably around Japan. US is the biggest individual funding nation but there are a lot in Europe so you cover more there.

tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:13:53 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Also it covers a lot of countries that give you money. The US gives you the most money of any country, but can usually wait until you have the money for a second base.

Poision Envy

2012-01-19 07:14:30 am

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shit, I clicked on the earth hoping it would let me drag it to get a better view of the good places.

so am I boned now or what?

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Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:14:56 am

In my current game I have a base around Texas (seeing as it's based off of M2K2 it felt appropriate to start there) and I recently put one in India since there was a lot of UFO activity there.

And you can always just start over if you want.

Poision Envy

2012-01-19 07:16:10 am

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nope, Fort Knox will just have to deal with being in North Africa. They don't call it a Fort of hard Knox for nothing.

now what?

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Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:16:18 am

But you might be able to work with that. Not sure if you'll be able to see all of the UFOs flying over Europe until you build a better radar but you'll probably still catch a few.

tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:16:25 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Yeah the globe controls are at the lower right, I still mess this up sometimes!

Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:16:55 am

Can also right click on any spot on the map and it'll center the view there. I mainly use that to get around now since it's faster.

tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:16:59 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Quote from Prime Hunter:

Also, yay, our constant talks have gotten someone else to at least try the game! Our plan is working Tomatobob! Twisted Evil

We're the princes of the universe!

tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:17:22 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Quote from Prime Hunter:

Can also right click on any spot on the map and it'll center the view there. I mainly use that to get around now since it's faster.

WHAT? Son of a...

Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:17:47 am

That avatar so fits your reaction.

tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:18:23 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Quote from Poision Envy:

nope, Fort Knox will just have to deal with being in North Africa. They don't call it a Fort of hard Knox for nothing.

now what?

Okay, first thing: Put your scientists on research. Lasers are the best bet, I think.

Poision Envy

2012-01-19 07:19:24 am

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alright, all ten of my African scientists are researching laser weapons.

how many soldiers do I start out with?

tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:19:30 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Then go to Equip Craft and make sure your soldiers and weapons are on board your Skyranger.

tomatobob

2012-01-19 07:19:52 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Click "Soldiers" to find out!

Prime Hunter

2012-01-19 07:20:15 am

Anyway, I'm probably going to be headed off to bed in a few minutes, so since I won't be here I'll put the Beginner's Guide from the X-COM wiki here for you. Between that and Tomatobob you should be able to start off on the right foot.

Start with 8 guys but can have up to 14 in the Skyranger if you don't have a tank (which take up 4 spots for each one)