Xenonauts. Have you tried this one Jaedar? It might be something for you.

I've been playing with skill roulette. It looks like the sniper is the only one that has the binary squadsight vs. snapshot. And to be fair, because you've no idea what the later skills are random, snap shot can actually work out now. http://i.imgur.com/munjcni.jpg I really like the skill roulette. ...

Aww, that's a shame. Well, close and personal has its merits. Taking three shotgun shots at a target in one turn is kindof cool. You can really bring the pain. It's just not something I can afford to take on my first two assaults. And it's ok to take a 95% shot...so long as it's not a win-loss thing...

I agree; I'd definitely prefer training roulette for that reason... I like the skills overall, it's just that, I'd l "If by worse you mean better, then yes, that is what it seems to be illustrating." That is what I mean, yes. As for xcom being too RNG influenced...I really disagree. The tension come...

Hahah, well, it is an interesting proposition. The scenario is actually a bit more like...ET is behind his cover with the safety on his plasma pistol off, and he decides to peak his head out, with full intention of taking aim and firering quickly on anything that exposes itself. This effectively mea...

Basically, XCom is a numbers game. The crucial metric is the number and risk of lethal shots taken on your team. You need to bring this metric as low as possible. Just to outline the risk factors, most shots will fall between 30% and 95% to hit, with between 0% and 85% crit chance. http://sinepost.w...

forum just ate my reply. Here are the cliffnotes: Yeah, it feels exploity; that's because the AI has a weird response to overwatch. For some reason, it really doesn't like moving when it knows its being overwatched. It's only really relevant to Aliens with a brain and tactical sense: Those are the o...

Yeah, it's a simple mechanism at the moment, but I like that: There's already a bunch of edge cases relating to line of sight that are kindof hard to predict, and there's already a bunch of situations where it's really hard to determine whether an adversary will be able to move into a position that ...

I think partial flanking is a bad idea. You need to know what you get from being in cover, and the game is already vague enough. Also, for the first few missions, you cannot engage the enemies in a shootout; you pretty much have to flank them. Partial flanking seems like it would mostly make things ...

Well, it's good in the sense that it wouldn't necessarily make the game worse if you put it in =P And I know for a fact one of the old games had difficulty scaling, although it _may_ have been apocalypse. It was based on the idea that the aliens had x income and military force available, and they co...

Hrm. No satelites definitely means things will be tricky. On average, the abductions will cost you like 8 panic each. That's a surplus of 16 pr. month. You can do the alien base by the end of the second month which will mean you will only lose 1 country in the first two months. You shouldn't lose by...

It's a boring choice? That just an oppinion? You know that you choose based upon income vis a vis continent bonuses vis a vis panic level. That you have to consider throwing in the towel for an entire continent on occasion because you need certain mission rewards. That you need to consider losing co...

I...dunno. I feel like if there's anything the game currently does right, it's the first 2 months. If the tradeoff was to get a second skyranger at 4 soldier capacity, or upgrade the first one to 6 soldiers, ok. I could see that. Otherwise, it's just...you're messing with something that's already pr...

What is the most important part of XCom? That you're fighting a war against alien invaders. That is the single most defining aspect of the game. There's a lot of other things, but to even be considered an xcom game, you _have_ to have that. So, the game has to take place within a certain _setting_. ...

They don't make the game feel more disjointed so far as I can tell. For instance, using hidden potential and not created equal makes impossible significantly easier. You can also use the flanking=crit option to give yourself a bit of a break. You can use marathon and elerium half life to make it pun...