Agent.X7 wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 15:52:
Yup, I think most of us can agree tacking on multiplayer is a bad idea. Focus on giving us a great single-player game and we'll be happy.

I choose games based on what I want them for. Multiplayer? I play GW2 for MMO kicks, and BF3 for shooting people online.

They tacked multiplayer on Max Payne 3, and it sucks. It's so generic that you could be playing any 3rd person shooter. The single player was great. Why dilute it with crap multi.

deqer wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 16:49:

RollinThundr wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 16:08:
I will said one thing, I don't miss Krowen telling everyone how great D3 is going to be and how great blizzard is.

Yeah, people need to start accepting the fact that Blizzard just isn't the same as it used to be anymore. Now that they are all big and king kong with tons of shares and partners; they're getting ahead of themselves now with their big ego and it's taking a toll for the worst.

deqer wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 13:11:

descender wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 12:23:
Sorry the people who still play were too busy to care that you are still crying about it.

^ this guy is still playing D3.

To answer Beaver's question.

SpectralMeat wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 11:02:
I don't remember even seeing the uplink in the list of buildings that is my problem. Maybe I just didn't look hard enough but I will check it out tonight. Was just getting a bit frustrating that Countries are already panicking and I did not even have a chance to save them.

deqer wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 22:05:
I also don't need my privacy invaded by having my playtime tracked, or being tracked when i play my games. Yes, folks, I'm giving up on steam. I'm now pirating all the games I own on steam, and pirating in the future. If games in the future start coming out with no option to run our own multiplayer server. Fine. I just wont play your new games then. I'll remain retro and play the older games. Sorry, you're not going to win me on your greedy DRM business model.

Prez wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 22:37:

Dev wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 22:28:

Prez wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 22:19:
It seems that I keep trying to play like I used to play the original - basically going on missions indefinitely without researching the objective-specific items and I am being punished for it. I tried getting to the third or fourth month without even having built an Arc Thrower or Alien Containment yet and all of a sudden 6 countries pulled out at once!

I think you can do it, but at least get containment and arc thrower. I've been doing something similar, but I got those early since I knew capping live aliens is important

I also suggest getting a 2nd satellite and ship or 2 in another continent ASAP. Thats mostly how you increase money, by the sats. Which also means it works out ok only being able to have one base, since you can have interceptors and sats in each continent.

Yeah I figured out that you need to build satellites and uplinks and be able to defend them the hard way. Which means I am basically forgoing researching any soldier equipment in my current game. It sure is gonna suck when I start taking on Mutons and Cyberdiscs with standard XCOM equipment!

X-COM has always been a game I don't mind losing at. I'm on my sixth game now and don't expect to win it either... but boy am I having a blast!

Prez wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 21:47:
On the Firaxis forum someone (who may be a developer or just someone talking out their ass) said the patch's size is a function of the way the code is compiled - if you change one line the entire file needs to be downloaded.

I guess it's possible, but I know fuck-all about such things.

Prez wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 20:31:
I haven't tried the Squad Sight skill since the patch - I hope they fixed it because I really want to use it but haven't been able to.

McSterls wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 09:25:
The voice acting is fantastic!

Dev wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 08:51:
The stated reason they aren't doing kickstarter is they say they want to build the community their own way:

We love Kickstarter. We've backed projects on their site and believe
everyone in the development community owes a debt to Kickstarter for putting crowd funding on the map, and making it legitimate. But for us the ultimate goal of crowd funding is about connecting the "crowd" directly with the creators with as little friction as possible. By building a crowd funding component directly into our site we can insure everyone who wants to back the game can - we provide multiple payment options to make sure that wherever in the world you are there is an option that can work for you. It means you just have one destination to support the project, read updates, and most importantly participate with other members of the community! All on a site that's designed around the game universe being created, providing the least friction possible. Kickstarter, as great as it is, can't deliver this experience, which is why we've decided to go it alone.

Seems kinda a silly reason. They could easily setup something where you have to make a website account to use a separate survey/fulfilment thing instead of using kickstarter's one. Other games have went to a forum setup and mostly ceased kickstarter updates. So if you want to the forums you got the full current details. I think they are missing out on a lot doing it this way (way more than the 10% or so that kickstarter+amazon takes). Also, what a lot of kickstarters are doing is offering paypal once the project hits the goal, so its possible to have other payment options too. Is fact I think the project eternity is doing that if I remember right.

Beamer wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 14:16:
Whoa, I totally missed this virtual credits thing.

Want a new ship, buy it with real money?

Looks a little like F2P to me from that virtual credits thing.

Maybe he's trying to be all things to all people to get more popular. Trying to be MMO since its all the rage. Trying to be F2P since its all the latest rage. But if it is MMO+F2P, I'm not going to touch it until it comes out and gets good reviews.

McSterls wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 12:36:
I love Borderlands 2, but to hell with this. Games been out three weeks and we have DLC coming out already, should have been included as part of the base game. Money grubbing bastards. Too many good games to play right now, I'll come back next year when this is on sale for 2 bucka and buy it.

Asmo wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 23:05:
Heatsinks don't work like tabletop where you could run in overheat and chance a shut down or negative effects, it builds up slowly and drops slowly.

nin wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 16:15:

Flatline wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 16:07:

Cutter wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 12:27:

Techie714 © wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 12:16:
Game looks so damn good! But why did he chose to privately fund this instead of using a Kickstarter where he "might" get more exposure? That is a lot of $$$ to get this thing going just by word of mouth & media....

Yeah, that's something else that sort of bothers me about this. That's pretty cheap just because he doesn't want to give up a few points in donations - and losing a ton of exposure in the bargain. Bad move IMO. And something else about accountability nags at me with all of this. So there will be a playable version next year, but the game really won't be complete for several years? And it sounds more like an MMO than SP with MP component. Hrm, I dunno. Just doesn't quite add up. I think my focus is going to remain on X-Rebith for now.

A few points? Kickstarter takes either 10 or 15% of your total haul. At 10%, raising 4 million would take a 400k cut. Nothing to sneeze at.

According to this, they take 5%. Amazon payments takes 3-5%. So that's 10, max. Not 15.

Creston wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 15:54:
I'm a bit worried that he's not using Kickstarter though. I understand that 7% of your total haul is a lot of money (KS fees plus Amazon fees), but who's to say he won't just cash in my donation even if it doesn't fund, and then blows it on hookers? A little checkmark that says you can get a refund doesn't make me feel any less wary.

Cutter wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 12:27:

Techie714 © wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 12:16:
Game looks so damn good! But why did he chose to privately fund this instead of using a Kickstarter where he "might" get more exposure? That is a lot of $$$ to get this thing going just by word of mouth & media....

Yeah, that's something else that sort of bothers me about this. That's pretty cheap just because he doesn't want to give up a few points in donations - and losing a ton of exposure in the bargain. Bad move IMO. And something else about accountability nags at me with all of this. So there will be a playable version next year, but the game really won't be complete for several years? And it sounds more like an MMO than SP with MP component. Hrm, I dunno. Just doesn't quite add up. I think my focus is going to remain on X-Rebith for now.

Verno wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 15:46:

Flatline wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 15:11:
That's my point. I consider this a design flaw. Punishing you for being creative and having *fun* in the game blows from a design standpoint.

You're not really punished though and its all in service to the story, it's one of the few games that ties its design mechanics into the story very well. The stealth system is surprisingly robust, I've knocked over an object and caused NPCs to come investigate. After testing it at varying distances it's not implemented in a sloppy way either. I don't really care for seeing how hidden I am or not although I guess I can see why others would want that. It still seems like cheating to me, I'd prefer to play it in character and use the lean keys. Game is very refreshing and I am playing without save scumming which makes every decision pretty important.

jacobvandy wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 05:20:
Lethal is way too much fun to worry about getting a "darker" ending, IMO. Running around neck-stabbing dudes or sniping them with the crossbow and having them go *POOF* beats out choking them and hiding bodies by a mile. And that's just stealthy lethal; I plan to do an all-out loud playthrough after this and actually get some use out of that really cool pistol.