Hey X-COM fans

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2002-12-01 12:11am

weemadando wrote:
Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:Then you should play AvP 1 as humans. The first time your guy gets face-hugged you will strat swearing like mad. It's like stubbing your toe into a wall.
Playing Undying the other day, I flick-turned and suddenly had a skeletons face filling my monitor and screeeeeeaming at me. Both me and my friend who was watching me play cleared 1 foot above our seats. The skeleton then thwacked me with a staff and ate my heart.

Hmm I got that game! I hate those Undead Saints too. Otherwise lovely game especially when you get Skull Storm!

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-12-01 03:45am

Apocalypse rules. Real-time squad is the best. Turn-based is boring and unrealistic.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-12-01 03:47am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
It was released in an issue of Computer Gaming World on one of their free cd's for winblowze.

And yes, I do have a copy...

PC Gamer released a CD with X-com on it too. Ive got that one.

Did anyone ever use the High Explosive in X-Com UFO Defense? I think I tried it once and never used it again.

I played X-Com again this summer and I made use of the proximity grenades, mostly against Sectoids and the big orange furry guys. I never used them when the game initially came out.

I've used it. And lost half a squad.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2002-12-01 04:16am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
It was released in an issue of Computer Gaming World on one of their free cd's for winblowze.

And yes, I do have a copy...

PC Gamer released a CD with X-com on it too. Ive got that one.

Did anyone ever use the High Explosive in X-Com UFO Defense? I think I tried it once and never used it again.

I played X-Com again this summer and I made use of the proximity grenades, mostly against Sectoids and the big orange furry guys. I never used them when the game initially came out.

Of course I did. Until you get alien grenades, it's the only "grenade" to use

And it workds nicely in penetrating alien hulls, too.

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-12-01 05:17am

X-COM calcs would be interesting- those UFO hulls are soft as shite.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-01 05:19am

Vympel wrote:X-COM calcs would be interesting- those UFO hulls are soft as shite.

Not exactly - you need a blaster bomb to penetrate them. Basically any attack which does 200+ pts of damage can break through them.

For explosive attacks, spread damage fades off at 10pts per square fromt he epicenter. So a 255 point blast would wipe out 11 squares of alien starship hull.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-12-01 04:19pm

I've used it. And lost half a squad.

Ive toasted my whole squad inside the SkyRanger with a poorly plotted Blaster Bomber.

Whee---Wheee---Wheee----Wheee----HOLY CRAP ITS COMING BACK!

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-01 04:20pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
I've used it. And lost half a squad.
Ive toasted my whole squad inside the SkyRanger with a poorly plotted Blaster Bomber.

Whee---Wheee---Wheee----Wheee----HOLY CRAP ITS COMING BACK!

it can be SLIGHTLY inaccurate.

Which can mean sending a squad back home in matchboxes if the blaster bomb clips a wall near them.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2002-12-02 05:17am

Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:
Vympel wrote:X-COM calcs would be interesting- those UFO hulls are soft as shite.
Not exactly - you need a blaster bomb to penetrate them. Basically any attack which does 200+ pts of damage can break through them.

For explosive attacks, spread damage fades off at 10pts per square fromt he epicenter. So a 255 point blast would wipe out 11 squares of alien starship hull.

An Alien Grenade will also blast a hole. And I have managed to penetrate with a plasma canon once or twice. Basically, you need VERY high explosives to destroy the alien alloy. That's much stronger than anything we use to build our spacecraft now.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-12-02 11:34am

I remember that in XCom it was a pain downing an UFO then trying to recover something out of it... the thing was so badly damaged that hardly anything survived, specially NOT the engine with the elerium.

Until I discovered that all it takes is ONE (1) shot of your weakest weapon to force an UFO to land. Too bad this didn't work in TFTD