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Skippy McPants posted:Hot Take: new X-Com is a better game than old X-Com. I'd disagree because losing dudes is way more punishing in new X-Com, which makes it less about liking dudes that die soon after. However, it's still a really goddamn fun game for different reasons to OG X-Com. Ugly In The Morning posted:Maybe this isn't the place to ask, but this has me itching to replay mechcommander 2. Is there anywhere to get it legit? I lost my copy years ago, and it's bugged copy protection means I'd probably have a helluva time trying to play it anyway This but Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries.
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I tried getting MW4 Mercs to run on Windows 10 the other day, at some length, and eventually gave up. Looks like recent Nvidia drivers broke what little compatibility still existed.
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I still have the HD MekTek build, I should try it as well
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The MekTek version of MW4 Mercs works just fine for me on Win10 + Nvidia card.
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Gwaihir posted:The MekTek version of MW4 Mercs works just fine for me on Win10 + Nvidia card. That's the one I tried to get working by following the steps here and elsewhere, since it had worked for me on Windows 7 or whatever a few years back. No joy. Doesn't recognise the video card and if I try to emulate a different card using dgvoodoo2 it gives me entirely different error messages but is equally broken. Honestly if anyone here has advice I'd love to hear it, because I'm itching to play more mech stuff rather than just caning the beta. John Charity Spring fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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Jun 9, 2017 14:00
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I'll have to see if I did anything a while ago, when I checked just now I just mashed mw4mercs.exe and it fired right up.
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Jun 9, 2017 14:04
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Looks like we're gonna get some news about release date at E3. Not directly, I mean, just because XCOM 2 is announcing a new expansion and Mitch said during a Q&A that they're not dumb enough to go head-to-head with the current king of tactical turn based strategy.
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Sky Shadowing posted:
Jesus, I'd given up hope of that happening.
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XCOM chat reminded me for whatever reason: do we know if it's possible to bust through buildings to take risky shortcuts and or be badass as hell? Destructable environments are key to any xclone.
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Great Beer posted:XCOM chat reminded me for whatever reason: do we know if it's possible to bust through buildings to take risky shortcuts and or be badass as hell? Destructable environments are key to any xclone. My guess would be not, I don't know that Unity stretches to that kind of thing. Would be cool though.
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Great Beer posted:XCOM chat reminded me for whatever reason: do we know if it's possible to bust through buildings to take risky shortcuts and or be badass as hell? Destructable environments are key to any xclone. I've definitely destroyed buildings by walking through them
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Jun 9, 2017 16:16
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Didn't they say the current buildings are just abstracted as buildings small enough that mechs don't care about them, but that if we were fighting in a city or something those buildings would be different?
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Jun 9, 2017 16:22
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Even if we don't get large urban environments I imagine base assaults will have buildings to blow up.
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Jun 9, 2017 16:28
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Yeah, there's essentially two kinds of buildings. Smaller buildings that don't really warrant notice that you can simply walk through and crush, and bigger buildings that you can jump on top of to snipe and stuff like that. I don't recall if they've said anything about being able to fall through or "Kool-Aid Man" the bigger ones.
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Jun 9, 2017 16:30
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Each building rolls on mission start to see if it has an insta-kill basement. 
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Skippy McPants posted:Hot Take: new X-Com is a better game than old X-Com. I mostly agree with 2 big exceptions. The lack of simulated projectiles in the tactical game mode, so you can't do a lot of neat poo poo you could do in UFO Defense. And the second one is kind of hard to articulate, basically the new XCOM doesn't feel as desperate as UFO Defense did. Assaulting UFO's and Alien Base Control rooms were utter blood baths that you blunted the impact of by sticking your rookies and low ranked dudes in front of the people that matter and if they survived they'd eventually be the ones waiting to follow up. In the new ones, mid game onward, anyone below the rank of Sergeant is pretty much useless and is only brought to get carried for XP so they can start actually contributing.
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Jun 9, 2017 16:54
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Less feeding Rooks to the meat grinder is good though.
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Rooks earned their place on my team in the original XCOM.  "Ok Rookie here's a shock baton and a stun grenade on a deadman's switch. You're either going to capture that Ethereal, or you're gonna die and we're gonna capture it anyway. Don't suck."
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Bolow posted:Rooks earned their place on my team in the original XCOM. Wait is there another way of playing it?
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Bolow posted:Rooks earned their place on my team in the original XCOM. Opening doors, nº1 cause of death among rookies since 1993.
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I think they've said the buildings that aren't just clutter to get crush when a mech steps on it will have x hitpoints and you can destroy them - for dropping mechs that are on top for knockdowns. But no kool-aiding.
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I can understand why there would be no kool aid-ing, the move system doesn't exactly let you specify a path which would kind of be necessary to go through a building mid move.
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Bolow posted:Rooks earned their place on my team in the original XCOM. The real X-com option is the rookie then immediately gets psi-panicked and drops the stun grenade next to the squad.
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Rhymenoserous posted:The real X-com option is the rookie then immediately gets psi-panicked and drops the stun grenade next to the squad. God, imagine Battletech with a panic mechanic panicked AC/20 shots in your back all day edit: wait isildur DO NOT READ
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Pattonesque posted:God, imagine Battletech with a panic mechanic It would be like playing MWO with a gold Dire on your team :P
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Holy fuckin' poo poo the Medium Support lance is mean as hell. Went Medium Battle vs it and got my rear end stomped.
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Zaodai posted:I can understand why there would be no kool aid-ing, the move system doesn't exactly let you specify a path which would kind of be necessary to go through a building mid move. Plus the insane animation work required to make it look good for every mech and building combination.
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Rhymenoserous posted:The real X-com option is the rookie then immediately gets psi-panicked and drops the stun grenade next to the squad. FiraXcom is a very good game, but it doesn't always capture the feeling of those complete clusterfuck missions where half the squad gets downed by a stun bomb before they even step off the ramp and by turn 3 you're down to a couple of rookies frantically trying to shuttle officers and plasma weapons back onto the Skyranger before they bleed to death.
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Voyager I posted:FiraXcom is a very good game, but it doesn't always capture the feeling of those complete clusterfuck missions where half the squad gets downed by a stun bomb before they even step off the ramp and by turn 3 you're down to a couple of rookies frantically trying to shuttle officers and plasma weapons back onto the Skyranger before they bleed to death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsCPUJLUbuc
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FiraXcom is inferior because you can't equip a rookie with an HE bombs and let him run at the disk. e: You should be able to rig a Commando with explosives and let it run at the enemy Atlas, all things considered.
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Voyager I posted:FiraXcom is a very good game, but it doesn't always capture the feeling of those complete clusterfuck missions where half the squad gets downed by a stun bomb before they even step off the ramp and by turn 3 you're down to a couple of rookies frantically trying to shuttle officers and plasma weapons back onto the Skyranger before they bleed to death. Yeah, that's a good thing.
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Rygar201 posted:Yeah, that's a good thing.
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Are they trying to get their entire squad wiped?
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Taerkar posted:Are they trying to get their entire squad wiped? It's more likely they didn't know about automatically ending the first turn and letting the enemies burn TU's so you avoid getting a blaster bomb shot up the skyranger ramp. I've had something similar happen except it was a muton who pumped a blaster bomb down the length of the sky ranger and liquefied 11 of my 14 dudes, one got knocked unconscious and the rookies at the exit panicked and ran out the back and got mowed down by more mutons. The unconscious dude eventually went on to be my best psi soldier and would routinely mind control ethereals with ease 
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I found an old goon logos.rar and updated it with some other things I had from the wiki folder. It even had the old fonts.rar inside for making more text. Sadly, I didn't save a lot of the non-logo artwork and posters. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwuV7aRut36TZ2tIWkIzWTlKdXM/view Contains stuff for: Bropoc KDR Squad Hard Corg - early concept Eurosquad - joke concept Black Baza Corsair's Own - The Old Guard Other general crap and ideas.  Enjoy
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Amechwarrior posted:
That gif is so good.
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sebmojo posted:That gif is so good. I know, it was like the one thing I saved not part of my logo making. Anyone know who made it?
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Amechwarrior posted:I found an old goon logos.rar and updated it with some other things I had from the wiki folder. It even had the old fonts.rar inside for making more text. Sadly, I didn't save a lot of the non-logo artwork and posters. What's the unedited gif from? Like, what was it edited out of?
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Neopie posted:What's the unedited gif from? Like, what was it edited out of? I didn't make this one, sadly I don't know. The "all tabs to SQUAWK!" frames at the end remind me of Evangelion, but the UI isn't right at all. I'd bet some other mecha anime, but I can't place it. EDIT: Iserlohn posted:It's from Gunbuster. drat, knew it felt like Eva, same director. I've seen and even own Gunbuster and it didn't click, guess it's time for a viewing. Amechwarrior fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Jun 11, 2017 |
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Neopie posted:What's the unedited gif from? Like, what was it edited out of? It's from Gunbuster.
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