X-COM Preorders

[JasonPratt]

I gave in!  ;D

Just cross to the dark side!

Not until I get my cookies!  8)

Cookies were only given to people who preordered bought from Steam

One of the tracking cookies Steam put on your computer tried to protect itself, but don't worry I fixed it.  ;D

Yay!--I have a birthday coming up! Free game!

Boo... middle of next month.

Yay!--XCOM sounds like it'll be worth being the free game! The frogurt isn't cursed!

[tgb]

Wounded aliens are easier to capture than healthy ones.  Try to go after the one that only have 1 or 2 hitpoints left.

[Cougar_DK]

Thanks for all the info, XCOM preordered  8)

[MuzzyDev]

Kushan -

At what difficulty level are you playing?  I've got 20 or so missions under my belt playing Normal/Iron Man and the pacing has not been a problem, other than I don't have the resources for engineering to keep pace with research.

I'm playing on Normal.

I was actually enjoying the challenged level until I ran into the flying saucer drones (see below). They tear through my squad like its nothing, 1-hit dead, 1-hit dead...rinse and repeat. They appeared in the first mission after I captured the alien for the main story mission. Little frustrating watching my operatives get killed one by one without doing any damage.
I've tried everything I can think of: Heavies with the Heat round ability, rockets, grenades, laser rifles...everything just bounces off them or misses. Could be I'm just getting really bad dice rolls but I'd like to think my operatives could at least hit something that close. Is this X-Coms version of a Kobayashi Maru scenario?

There's a Perk that gives special ammo that's a huge bonus vs robots.  Maybe try that?  I just saw the perk but I'm not far enough yet to see one of those saucer dudes.

[PanzersEast]

Kushan -

At what difficulty level are you playing?  I've got 20 or so missions under my belt playing Normal/Iron Man and the pacing has not been a problem, other than I don't have the resources for engineering to keep pace with research.

I'm playing on Normal.

I was actually enjoying the challenged level until I ran into the flying saucer drones (see below). They tear through my squad like its nothing, 1-hit dead, 1-hit dead...rinse and repeat. They appeared in the first mission after I captured the alien for the main story mission. Little frustrating watching my operatives get killed one by one without doing any damage.
I've tried everything I can think of: Heavies with the Heat round ability, rockets, grenades, laser rifles...everything just bounces off them or misses. Could be I'm just getting really bad dice rolls but I'd like to think my operatives could at least hit something that close. Is this X-Coms version of a Kobayashi Maru scenario?

There's a Perk that gives special ammo that's a huge bonus vs robots.  Maybe try that?  I just saw the perk but I'm not far enough yet to see one of those saucer dudes.

Under Heavy Abilities

Heat Ammo (Lieutenant)
Double damage against robotic foes. Extremely useful in the late-game.

[Tpek]

Yay, X-Com seems to have started the finishing touches of the Pre-Loading. Soon I too shall enjoy this! :)

EDIT: Frak! This is just a several gigs patch... several more hours to go :(

[JudgeDredd]

Mine is all pre-loaded - still says 3 hours until unlock.

I'm not staying up to midnight to get any time in - I'll fire it up tomorrow. It'll be a welcome break from AJE - which I have played exclusively since the weekend!

[undercovergeek]

so is it purchasable as normal tomorrow?

[Tpek]

Mine is all pre-loaded - still says 3 hours until unlock.

I'm not staying up to midnight to get any time in - I'll fire it up tomorrow. It'll be a welcome break from AJE - which I have played exclusively since the weekend!

Yepp. 3 More hours at least.
It'll be past midnight then.
It really is a good idea to just go to sleep and wake up early.

[JudgeDredd]

Yep UCG

[undercovergeek]

ill buy tomorrow - the weekend plans are all sorted for me then!

[JudgeDredd]

I guess you know if you buy now you can pre-download?

[undercovergeek]

is that the only real benefit (i have civ 5)?

[JudgeDredd]

yep - of course you could "gift" Civ V  ;D

[Arctic Blast]

XCom patch notes from the 2K forums :

    Various visibility/hiding optimizations
    Multiplayer text chat support (press J to activate)
    Mouse button 4/5 will switch soldiers in the Barracks
    ESC hides the movement grid, if you do not want to commit to a move while it is activated
    Squad Sight ability optimization
    Fixed issue when equipping two grenades with Deep Pockets.
    Fixed Rapid Fire sometimes consuming too much ammo.
    SHIVs that are damaged will no longer become unusable.
    Fixed some hangs/soft crashes in tactical combat.
    Replaced software cursor with the operating system cursor to reduce lag and framerate dependence.
    Fixed rendering bug which causes some soldier's hair to appear as if it is rendering on top of environment fog.
    1080p movies are now used at all times on the PC.