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Xenonauts head scientist appears on this page of the wiki: http://xenonauts.wikia.com/wiki/Research The look he gives you, plus the "Oh Commander, please tell me how to do my job" sold me on him when I first played this game. The science logs were awesome and gave the game a lot of much-needed character.
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Xenonauts is a nice refresh on the old classic, but it's not without its own flaws. It holds the honor of being the only X-com-like I've ever played where I've lost the game due to a death spiral in the strategy layer alone. I suddenly get a lot of the bitterness some newbies had with the firaxis reboots; Xenonauts expects you to do X, Y, and Z and god help you if you try to wing it your own way.
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Speedball posted:Aha, but that's where you're wrong. Certain items or weapons found or developed in one mini campaign do carry over and can be purchased from the Fate Trader for a modest fee. The inventor guy's crazy weapons for example. Nothing/some, I was expecting every choice to matter and it didn't seem to. Maybe i'll give it another shot when its on sale? I like the idea behind it.
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PiCroft posted:Xenonauts head scientist appears on this page of the wiki: http://xenonauts.wikia.com/wiki/Research I think I remember him saying exactly that in an early research text.
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dogstile posted:With hard west, there was one part that made me give up on it (it was "ok" up until that point). It's a part where you're playing as one guy, you're ridiculously strong and by all accounts you should feel like a badass at that stage, but I got unlucky twice and it makes you do the entire first fight and cutscene again every time you die, so I refunded it. What ruined Hard West for me was that it took forever to kill something, anything (unless you had the fate trader Gear). Your best bet was to hide in full cover and fan a revolver for 2-3 turns. Enemy-Only Overwatch actively discourages flanking, too. It had a lot going for it but I'd have preferred less but more focused instead of the nine(?) different strategic layers across the campaign and DLC. I really liked the strategic layer in Scars of Freedom though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTOrnMdFTQE Hunter video dropped. Looks like they're Literally A Sharpshooter complete with pistol skills and a grapple. Honestly kinda weird they have a pistol since we know their Sniper Rifle's unique property is that it only takes one action to fire. Zore fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Zore posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTOrnMdFTQE From the video I'd guess that they get a free action with the pistol
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Iron Crowned posted:From the video I'd guess that they get a free action with the pistol and that free action is Faceoff
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Jul 25, 2017 16:51
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I hope the free action... is sucking me off!!!! 
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Jul 25, 2017 16:57
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I don't want to go back in the tank.
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It's not all bad. If you go back in the tank you get to play more Enemy Unknown with your mind. Maybe if we go back willingly the elders will let us play EU/EW as the aliens.
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Annointed posted:I don't want to go back in the tank. it is every citizen's final duty
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Coolguye posted:it is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people dogstile posted:Nothing/some, I was expecting every choice to matter and it didn't seem to. Choices tend to matter within the context of the mini-campaign at the least. Like, in the first campaign you can sell a bit of your soul (your luck) for a bunch of magic cards. Every different mini-campaign has a totally different economy system; there's one where you're an expeditionary force using up manpower to check out places, and another where you're a lone traveler whose primary income is buying low at one town and selling high at another. Regarding the mission where you start out as a total badass but outnumbered, I can help you there. You're in shadow due to the magical night and you've got the "regenerates health/luck in shadow" traits for that mission, so you just take it relatively slow and you'll be fine. Time is on your side in that mission. The deal with that particular mini-campaign is the devil rewards you for killing 100 people total (including quite a few you can kill due to overworld choices, like poisoning the well of an evil town), but if you go overboard shopkeepers get too scared to sell to you. Speedball fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Zore posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTOrnMdFTQE His pistol's schtick is that it pierces all armor, from a dev comment on reddit. So if you thought Gunslingers with bluescreen rounds were OP against machines before... 
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Exposure posted:His pistol's schtick is that it pierces all armor, from a dev comment on reddit. Fortunately, it's not his pistol you get for killing him.
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Is there a way to make Long War 2 enabled with the Not So Long War second wave option from Long War from EU2012? I like a lot of stuff it's added, like Haven management and new classes and enemy types, and the infiltration mechanic is really cool (I felt really smug when my 6 man squad took out 20 ADVENT dudes. ) but there's just so many missions I feel like I'm going to lose interest.
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Cuntellectual posted:Is there a way to make Long War 2 enabled with the Not So Long War second wave option from Long War from EU2012? I like a lot of stuff it's added, like Haven management and new classes and enemy types, and the infiltration mechanic is really cool (I felt really smug when my 6 man squad took out 20 ADVENT dudes. I would also be interested in this, for very similar reasons.
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From IRC; Amazon appears to have price errored the new expansion to only be $10 instead of $40: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0747W22CP
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Not available in the US.
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Bogart posted:Not available in the US. RIP, they caught on really quickly then.
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Yup, I got on in time but it was gone a few minutes after that. Oh well, probably is worth $40 to be honest.
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I literally just bought it for 9.99 as did my colleague. In the USA here. THANKS!
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I did as well, using the Amazon app, if that makes any difference.
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Just got it as well, also US.
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Okay, this time I got through.  Thanks for the heads up!
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It's marked as a pre-order, so I'm pretty sure they can change the price/invalidate the order if they decide this was a mistake. E: Then again, quote:Pre-order Price Guarantee
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Holy cow, that has to be a mistake and I'm not betting on Amazon honoring it, but here's hoping.
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they probably wont, but gently caress it.
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gently caress it, I'm in. And here I thought the 30 bucks or whatever from GMG was good...
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The button's not even there for me now on either the site or the app. Looks like I missed it.
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Roobanguy posted:they probably wont, but gently caress it. also if/when they cancel, maybe I can complain and get a free month of Prime out of it 
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amazon have a pre order price guarantee. I'll eat my h... food if they don't honour it.
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redreader posted:amazon have a pre order price guarantee. I'll eat my h... food if they don't honour it. _____________/  redreader eat the hat
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Can't wait for the inevitable swell of nerd rage from dudes angry that they weren't allowed to take advantage of a clerical error
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Cythereal posted:Fortunately, it's not his pistol you get for killing him. Actually, you do (as well as the rifle). From these Dev comments. quote:He always has full vision of the map, doesn't even need squadsight. But he can only target soldiers within his line of sight...No curving bullets. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Psycho Landlord posted:Can't wait for the inevitable swell of nerd rage from dudes angry that they weren't allowed to take advantage of a clerical error It wouldn't surprise me if they took it back but I'm happy to drop the full amount on it anyways
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In XCOM 2, the avatar project countdown doom clock doesn't reset now when you hit an alien facility to bring it back to the blocks, right? Meaning you can't just let the avatar clock reach one day remaining, hit a facility, and then get an extra 20 days to reset the clock again when the tracker blocks fill up?
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Olive Branch posted:In XCOM 2, the avatar project countdown doom clock doesn't reset now when you hit an alien facility to bring it back to the blocks, right? Meaning you can't just let the avatar clock reach one day remaining, hit a facility, and then get an extra 20 days to reset the clock again when the tracker blocks fill up? It'll reset to a week, but no further than that.
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redreader posted:amazon have a pre order price guarantee. I'll eat my h... food if they don't honour it. EAT THE HAT!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TFINKICpE8 I need to play open xcom one of these days
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