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YYes please give me the mods names so I can find them. For all three games that is.ShadoWarrior's Total Rebalance mod actually does far more than rebalancing Aftershock, it adds new weapons, research, items, etc.
[EDIT] found the combo mod for aftermath.
Ohh damn, thanks for asking, I remembered wrong. My actual version is 2018-04-10 03:19.Um.... I actually have a mid-game mid-LP save with a 2014 version that I would like to return to.
For some stupid reason I thought that is the version of the Area 51 mod, but now double checked it and it seems to be the version of the OpenXCom.
Silly me.
brief summary? for all intents and purposes it is feature complete and fully playable, just make sure you run with the nightly build.
)You are mistaken. XCOM Apoc is not freeware, and uploading it would be breaking copyright laws
hi..sorry for resurrecting the post!..i totally agree with you...apoc is a nice game and need and they needed a little of polish and care...i dont like that style they took...and dont misunderstood i love that "OPTIMISTIC RETRO-FUTURE" of the fallout saga(one of my fav game beside xcom) but here...is i dont know...silly...or dumbest i dont know how to explain it...the more lacking thing i found...was variability...only three armors(i love the "individual part system" tho)some little weapons,and the best weapon in the game is just a overpowered small sidegun,and a couple of aliens are not good enough :c
* Organisations relationships were flawed in that "enemy of my enemy if my friend" made the city very soon turn into two big alliances. At start only some organisations are at war, but then they start liking other orgs that harm their enemies, and so on and so forth and then the whole city is divided. Problem is ALIENS also are an organisation. What this means is that the more aliens deal damage to the city, the more organisations hating those who receive damage start LIKING aliens. I had both megapol and government allied with aliens just because overspawn seriously pwned their opponent's buildings. THat was insane!...
uhmm i dont think this is correct...actually the organisations becomes hostiles from aliens (i get the cult of sirius FRIENDLY because a crazy overspawn come there a destroy two of their temples)
i love the fact that suckers come so early...i mean...the first time i was like...ohhh loook thas pretty little harmless blue aliens :3...i guess they are the ol' floaters chumps of this game.....wait....oh dear ....
well if anyone want to play it...i have it right now i guess someones had problems running in dosbox(i did :c) but i have a original copie(a cd-rom i mean) so a good friend was tired i call her every time i want to run the game so we took the cd,make a ISO(actually is a bin archive) so she create a CONF archive and a couple of dll((grabing a little of help from the good google)and make a "unpack and run" folder for me (you dont need to do anything,even doosbox...just unpack and run it...without pain...headache..just click and play xD) ,i can upload it here for you and also a couple of good mods that makes the game much more playable,if you want to try it(i read the game become freeware a couple of years ago...and also i buyed(actually my older brother did it) a original copy not so long time ago so i think this is legal right?)
Apocalypse was very good game idea that lacked polish/balance.
The game had very interesting cityscape fighting.
Very interesting battlescape fighting.
Very interesting item progression (with stealth fields, energy shields, teleporters, and personal anti-alien weapons...)
What it lacked - simply balance
* Organisations got pissed very easilly, coupled with that you can ONLY get crucial wares from ONE organisation (only transtellar will transport your items and personell, only megapol will sell you heavy armor, only marsec will sell you light armor, only nutrivend will sell you medikits...) this made it really annoying to fight aliens in cityscape. You basically could not afford to fight them after certain time into the game, unless you start by expanding to max engineer count and start mass manufacturing for profit to fuel your bribes. Boring, annoying, and stupid
* Organisations relationships were flawed in that "enemy of my enemy if my friend" made the city very soon turn into two big alliances. At start only some organisations are at war, but then they start liking other orgs that harm their enemies, and so on and so forth and then the whole city is divided. Problem is ALIENS also are an organisation. What this means is that the more aliens deal damage to the city, the more organisations hating those who receive damage start LIKING aliens. I had both megapol and government allied with aliens just because overspawn seriously pwned their opponent's buildings. THat was insane!
* Weapon balance at start was comparable to X-Com1 where you also use select one or two type of guns with addition of some heavy weaponry perhaps, but was very annoying because of limited clip supply - you had to stock worser weapons just because your favorite's ammo supply was out
* Weapon balance later was too screwed by the allmighty toxigun, which only came in one variety. At least they could have made it in a sniper variant in addition to the minigun variant (that looks like pistol but fires faster than marsec minigun!...)
* Excessive use of explosives by aliens freqeuntly dictated the squad tactics. Since aliens liked to throw grenades right in your face, corner ambushes and close quarters combat in general meant you will get close to no loot from a battle - since one unlucky grenade will screw everything. This also meant you couldnt afford to have those rockets hit walls - had to lure and even take the hit instead to save loot (!).
* Alien item progression was not balanced. The idea of score making aliens bring new items was good, but the idea of speeding it up on superhuman made aliens go almost instantly from devastator through shield, stealth, vortex to entropy. Which wouldnt be a problem if entropy wouldnt be completely negated by shields. This meant that if you're lucky to research shields before they get it - its easy, if not - its insanely hard.
* Shields overall made your squad nearly invincible and changed tactics considerably. Carrying two shields and throwing away one in case its almost depleted meant you could withstand even rocket fire. From the moment you got shields no soldiers never had hit point loss till probably last game missions.
* Personal teleporters were so imbalanced it allowed you to finish all alien buildings in one real life hour. Aliens were completely not using them to their advantage, and you could just destroy aliens by having more than one on person and doing blink-in and blink-out.
* Money balance was also screwed - in the beginning you have very hard time affording anything, and once you researched biotransport you have like infinite money. Its not even remotely comparable to laser canons of X-Com1 - this was just insane amount of money, enough for you to start bribing whole city to be allied to you.
Overall, the game idea, engine, variety of items, storyline, idea of having 10 distinct endgame missions was great. Balance was not. It could easilly be fixed, and attempts were made, but nothing could fix the endgame where you just dominated aliens like crazy (their toughest unit could go down from toxin c without a single shot done by it - compare it to fucking superhuman sectopods...)
Maybe OpenXCom will become top of your list then, because the annoying "bugs" you name there are solved in OpenXCom. :p
rofl, be careful ranking anything without X-Com1 on the top. You might get skinned alive ... here or in other websites.
As for me, I believe everybody has different opinions because people are just different so nobody's right or wrong. For me, the atmosphere in the new series was just not as engaging as the original.
I keep saying to people, nobody makes games with their hearts poured into the design anymore. Games like Baldur's Gate2 is like a piece of artwork. Games like Dragon Age is obviously made for money making. Even WoW is no where as perfect as older Blizzard games, because it's been designed with a different purpose. What else da ya expect?
And if you scrutinize X-Com like you scrutinize artwork, there's really not much you can complain about it. For example, look at the "countries" in X-Com2. The designers predicted the European Union years ahead of it's time! They predicted that Taiwan would never reunite with China before 2039, and it looks to be true! It's all these little bits that makes an observer (of an artwork) appreciate and indulge in the game completely. It's like reading a Crichton novel - you know it's science fiction, but damn does it feel like it's real.
And what we strive to do here? This is artwork. It's restoring lost art because the owners (2000 Mxxxn) are uncultured swine.