XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Alan_Dunkin · 2012-10-11T17:13:12.000Z

Well… shit is going down in different areas. For Terror attacks, you get to choose one location out of three places to hit, so Panic goes down in one and up in the others. I haven’t really found that I’m getting overwhelmed by waves of attacks/encounters but I dunno how typical my game is yet.

— Alan

Greatatlantic · 2012-10-11T17:18:23.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

Well… shit is going down in different areas. For Terror attacks, you get to choose one location out of three places to hit, so Panic goes down in one and up in the others. I haven’t really found that I’m getting overwhelmed by waves of attacks/encounters but I dunno how typical my game is yet.

— Alan

Those are abductions, not Terror attacks. Abductions are straightforward kill all the aliens, while terror attacks give you a chance to reduce panic by saving civilians. Apparently, save enough civilians and panic is reduced throughout the continent.

Alan_Dunkin · 2012-10-11T17:22:15.000Z

oh right, sorry. Abductions. Quite right.

— Alan

Papageno · 2012-10-11T17:24:54.000Z

Can one save after every turn optionally, as in the old game? Yeah, I know, I’m a hateable savebaby.

tgb123 · 2012-10-11T17:25:31.000Z

robc04:

Does anyone else want to punch out the council guy who keeps saying that they are watching us? I want him to put his ass on the line or shut the hell up.

Have you lost the game yet?

Giaddon · 2012-10-11T17:38:55.000Z

Papageno:

Can one save after every turn optionally, as in the old game? Yeah, I know, I’m a hateable savebaby.

It automatically saves after every turn.

And yeah, you can save whenever you want. Even twice in one turn!

But try ironman at least once, eventually.

Blips · 2012-10-11T17:44:43.000Z

I don’t understand why the VIP / civilian voice acting is so bloody terrible. Completely breaks the atmosphere to hear these idiots yelling out “HElllllOOooo, I’m down here!” when there are supposedly aliens running around.

ChiTownBluesFan · 2012-10-11T17:55:47.000Z

I couldn’t care less about the VIP/Civilian/scientist/engineer voice acting - but when they have comments during a mission, I wish to HELL I didn’t have to wait for them to finish before getting control back. Sure, let me sit here for an extra 30 seconds and listen to you say what I read in 3 seconds while you don’t let me move, look around, or do anything. Ugh.

habibi · 2012-10-11T18:07:29.000Z

I notice that if you issue command before he talks you have somehow wrestled control from him so you don’t have to wait while he’s talking.

But if he talks before you did anything then yes, you gotta wait.

robc04 · 2012-10-11T18:18:47.000Z

tgb123:

Have you lost the game yet?

No, I quit the tutorial and started my first proper game. I’ve only done 4 or 5 missions so far.

TimJames · 2012-10-11T18:23:50.000Z

Is there anything more exciting than a yellow alien head icon?

Blips · 2012-10-11T18:29:06.000Z

Tim James:

Is there anything more exciting than a yellow alien head icon?

A dead alien.

RepoMan · 2012-10-11T18:31:55.000Z

A large rocket explosion containing four dead aliens flying through the air.

tgb123 · 2012-10-11T18:33:23.000Z

Tim James:

Is there anything more exciting than a yellow alien head icon?

A naked woman???

Dreamshadow · 2012-10-11T18:44:28.000Z

A 1.8 gig patch? I guess I’m not playing tonight.

ShivaX · 2012-10-11T18:46:04.000Z

Ok, suddenly I can’t take my SHIV on missions anymore.

It just gives me some rude buzz when I try. Since I can’t equip it or do anything with it, I don’t understand the feedback. Kind of annoying, I liked those things, but now I’m afraid to make any upgraded ones, lest I have the same issue.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-10-11T20:05:16.000Z

That sucks. Try quitting and restarting the game, maybe? I’ve been using my SHIV(s) on and off, I try to have one with me every mission now, especially this newest and most incredible one yet that I just built. WTF, SHIV!?

krayzkrok · 2012-10-11T20:29:59.000Z

Finally unlocked for me this morning, downloaded an update, spent an age waiting for it to unpack, and… then I had to come into town for a meeting and finish off some work. C’est la vie.

Sounds like I will be playing it on Normal to start with, and doing a manual ironman as much as possible. Unless I accidentally hit the “reload” button instead of the “save” button after a particularly nasty wipe. Such things have been known to happen. It may be a bug, but I can live with it.

Murbella · 2012-10-11T20:42:33.000Z

Disappointing that this patch, for all of its size, did not fix the same game order bug.

geewhiz · 2012-10-11T21:17:43.000Z

I finally had a brief chance to try the game out. During the tutorial when I try to launch a grenade the mouse/target cursor went crazy zipping all over the place. Did anyone have the same problem and know a fix in the settings etc?

Thanks in advance! :>)