Is an X-COM remake that doesn't suck too much to ask for?

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2004-07-26 02:52pm

Realtime in Apoc was fun for laying down 'sweet jesus that should be unconstitutional' fields of fire with 36 people with twin devastator cannons.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-07-26 03:34pm

Temjin wrote:The first X-Com game had a bug which automatically sets your game to the lowest difficulty level whenever you load a saved game, even if you had chosen a higher level when you first started it.

Grrr, I had completely forgotten about that. No wonder I had started a game for the first time in Superhuman, and after the initial Alien Retaliation on day 2, the game got so much mellower

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-07-26 03:36pm

White Haven wrote:Realtime in Apoc was fun for laying down 'sweet jesus that should be unconstitutional' fields of fire with 36 people with twin devastator cannons.

While nearly a completely different game in so many ways, Apocalypse was fucking sweet. I mean, in how many real-time combat games your troops can see the incoming projectiles and bullet-dodge them.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2004-07-27 12:15am

MKSheppard wrote:*sighs*

that's a technology demo showing the geoscape; not the full game

It IS? I knew it was an alpha, but I'd imagined more features had been implemented. My bad

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2004-07-27 02:54am

Aaah, fond memories of clearing out a UFO by setting 36 guys in front of the door, one rank prone, the next kneeling, the next standing, the next flying, with some guys off to the side, all with dual devastators, and just push play and wait. Doors open. purple light blazes, and something dies. Megaspawns died before they finished roaring at me. So beautiful...

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2004-07-27 08:08pm

To me, Apoc was in many ways the best of the XCOM OT. Leaving alone the improvement in graphics, I liked the variety of environments that were present. XCOM had basically one populated outdoors grid, three unpopulated ones which basically differed in color (oh and the forest one had vegetation), one city grid and alien bases. TftD at least added the ship maps but compensated for that with ugly equipment designs (Elite Soldiers do NOT wear yellow!!!) and the near-unkillable Lobster Men. Apoc had several indoor sets, several mixed, and several outdoor sets PLUS the admittedly pretty genenric UFO crash sites, AND the alien dimensions. I also liked the variety and customizability of vehicles (not that I ever used road ones), and the fact that human technology did NOT become obsolete as the game progressed.
Great-not only have you people gtten me hooked on XCOM again, but now I'll propably spend a futile afternoon trying to get Apoc to work on XP again

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-07-27 08:46pm

Does Apoc work on DOSBOX if not XP?

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2004-07-27 09:03pm

Best equipment for X-Com:EU. Flying suits, Heavy plasma and alien grenades. The H Plasma was insane. Huge accuracy, large clip and horrendously deadly. Too bad they nerfed the sonics and Guass in the next game.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-07-28 05:13pm

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Does Apoc work on DOSBOX if not XP?

I think it worked just fine on XP last time I played it (it's the DOS version).

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-07-29 02:06am

Hey dudes, let's make our own XCOM remake using this:

Only with aliens and shit

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2004-07-29 10:59pm

A mod for crimsonland would be much, much better.