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Released Mods / Re: [ENEMY] Men in Black 3.8 | Cover* 2.1 | Gazer* 1.4 | Anthropod* 1.0 (* = Alien)

« on: July 30, 2014, 02:13:57 am »

The Anthropod/Sppiter aliens fit in very well in the game. I played a few quick battles and they're quite fun to play against. Really great quality, hope to see even more of your stuff. 

A few strings for the Sppiters are declared under a different name in extraStrings then in items and don't display in the game properly though.

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Offtopic / Re: What's your final verdict on Firaxis' X-com: Enemy Unknown?

« on: July 27, 2014, 05:44:11 am »

Personally I think it's really bad for an X-COM game if you compare it with the original. I played though it once and just didn't feel like X-COM at all, and found it very bland and streamlined without any real challenge or a need to think about anything in the battlescape or geoscape.

In essence it's just a really dumbed down game in comparison with the original. The only real things they really took out of the original is the geoscape and the game being turn based - but even that in a very different way. There is no real micro management or randomness such as I would expect to see in an X-COM game, nor is it as immersive in it's atmosphere or give the player any real freedom to choose the way he wants to play.

Also I really dislike the art style as I find it is more monster-like then alien-like and all those cutscenes are really annoying. The Thin Man made me feel like I'm playing a kids game every time I saw him - like the aliens couldn't make hybrids that would actually look human.

If it wasn't an X-COM game then it would be an OK game in it's own right I guess. But for me personally it would need to be much more similar to the original game. So in conclusion I don't like it at all as what it is supposed to be - a game with roots in X-COM.

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Work In Progress / Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing

« on: July 24, 2014, 07:08:49 am »

These graphics look spectacularly good!

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Work In Progress / Re: Tactical Lightning Testing

« on: July 24, 2014, 07:02:19 am »

I've played around with it in a few battles and it's a really great design. It does make Lightning very useful now. 

I would also suggest changing the roof grav lift tiles to just red without the yellow lines as all grav lifts have their top part without them. And imo the interior would be better if it used the Lightining seats as I think using the alien ones seems a little too alien-like. Also I second the Hobbes idea to rename the files so they don't override the original Lightning.