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Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:56 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
soooooooooooooo back to xcom.

I can buy disk and run it on laptop, or am I better getting off steam so I can play on home pc too?
Author:  GazChap [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
I'd buy it from Steam, you still need to run it via Steam even if you get the physical edition.

If you pre-order you get a few bonuses too, including Civilization V. Main pre-order bonus is "Guile hair" though.
Author:  Dimrill [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 13:38 ]
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4.5/5 Joystiq. Hedge 9/10.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 13:41 ]
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That can't be right. An Canadian Man told me it would suck.
Author:  Dimrill [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 13:42 ]
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Everything will suck!
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:13 ]
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9/10 Eurogamer http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... n-review_3
Author:  Dimrill [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:16 ]
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CuvVuhGuh 9.2/10 too. Evidence is mounting.... of AN EA CONSPIRACY!
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:17 ]
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Heh, nice touches (text from EG):

Quote:
So much craft has gone into its atmosphere, into innumerable small details that together add enormous depth and flavour to the world: the occasional conversations overheard while fiddling around in the base; the mission loading screen, which gives you a view of the troops inside the carrier, fidgeting and tapping their feet in transit; the ridiculously cute touch of soldiers acquiring nicknames like 'Longshot' or 'Odin' after a few missions; the memorial room for fallen warriors, with a cork board of photos on the wall, which records their names - and the fact that visiting it triggers, after a few seconds, the sound of a bagpipe march.
Author:  GazChap [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:24 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
It'll unlock on Steam in the US tonight.

It'll unlock here on Friday.

If I use a VPN of some sort to try and unlock it early, are Steam likely to ban me?
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:30 ]
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Can see how that'd work. VPN or no, you have a UK Steam account.
Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:34 ]
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I don;t want to spend £70+ on games this month.... :(
Author:  itsallwater [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:40 ]
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Also which copy to buy 360 or PC.. mmm I think it'll work best on PC and I'll likely will never have to buy it again if it is that good... or until they remake it.
Author:  GazChap [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:43 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Can see how that'd work. VPN or no, you have a UK Steam account.

Assuming you mean "can't", yeah I agree - but apparently it does! No idea why.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:52 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Evidence is mounting.... of AN EA CONSPIRACY!
They're all in on it!

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/37 ... eamed-of/#
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 15:45 ]
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Console version is no poor cousin, says Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevange ... r-console/
Author:  Curiosity [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:07 ]
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AE in 3.. 2... 1...

;)
Author:  Hearthly [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:16 ]
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Sorry I'm a bit late. My PC wankometer isn't running as efficiently as usual. It's probably built by fucking Citroen too.

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Author:  Curiosity [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:35 ]
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POTY!
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:41 ]
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On-train Lulz
Author:  Hearthly [ Mon Oct 08, 2012 19:51 ]
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Also, I really rather fancy this game. For some reason I never properly 'did' the UFO games, but by christ I spent some time playing stuff like Laser Squad back in the day, and more recently of course, Naked War, which remains one of THE MOST MAGNIFICENT GAMES IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD TO FAIL COMMERCIALLY BECAUSE TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID.

I love turn-based games, I don't know why they're considered so unfashionable these days.

I may have to pre-order UFO Defence on Steam, it looks pretty nifty and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
Author:  GazChap [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:26 ]
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The VPN worked, I've now unlocked the game 3 days early! Woo. Will start that off downloading at lunchtime, methinks!
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:34 ]
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AARGH! WHAT IS THE POINT OF PREORDERING DIGITAL CONTENT! IT ISN'T GOING TO RUN OUT NOW IS IT????!!!!!!
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:37 ]
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MaliA wrote:
AARGH! WHAT IS THE POINT OF PREORDERING DIGITAL CONTENT! IT ISN'T GOING TO RUN OUT NOW IS IT????!!!!!!

Well, bandwidth is finite, so you're better off downloading it early.
Author:  Pod [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 14:29 ]
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GazChap wrote:
The VPN worked, I've now unlocked the game 3 days early! Woo. Will start that off downloading at lunchtime, methinks!


Did you have to pay for this? Or is there some free VPN shenanigans I can use? (I already have it 'pre-loaded')


ps: let me know if your account is suddenly banned.
Author:  itsallwater [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 15:00 ]
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Pod wrote:
GazChap wrote:
The VPN worked, I've now unlocked the game 3 days early! Woo. Will start that off downloading at lunchtime, methinks!


Did you have to pay for this? Or is there some free VPN shenanigans I can use? (I already have it 'pre-loaded')


ps: let me know if your account is suddenly banned.


You can normally get a free trial for 30 days regarding VPN thing. Just need to change your DNS settings or follow the sites info. If your computer breaks after 30 days it might be the trial has ended and your not allowed to use that DNS.... worth keeping in mind.
Author:  GazChap [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 15:55 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
I use http://www.spotflux.com, which is a program you download that seems to work well.

Also has x.com at the end of the URL, which is strangely apt.
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 18:22 ]
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If they had a lot of money they could perhaps buy http://x.com from eBay.

I don't know how they ended up with that domain.
Author:  Hearthly [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 18:42 ]
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MaliA wrote:
AARGH! WHAT IS THE POINT OF PREORDERING DIGITAL CONTENT! IT ISN'T GOING TO RUN OUT NOW IS IT????!!!!!!


Why not?

Getting it pre-loaded is a nice little perk - (with games routinely weighing in at 10GB or more these days, even on a decent ADSL connection that can still be a reasonably lengthy download, especially if wife/daughter are hammering the internet at the same time) - and I also think it's a nice little 'statement of intent' if you will, as a digital pre-order is a way of saying 'ZOMG I WANT THIS', which hopefully, I dunno, cheers the guys up who write the games a bit if they get 100,000 people pre-ordering one of their games.
Author:  GazChap [ Tue Oct 09, 2012 19:40 ]
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IT'S READY TO PLAY!

For me, anyway. Just typical that I have to go eat dinner now, and then go shooting. No XCOM for me until later tonight.

Boo hiss.
Author:  Zio [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:15 ]
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No internet yet in the new flat. I can see myself dragging the PC round to the parent's house this weekend to download this. I still regularly play the original UFO: Enemy Unknown.
Author:  GazChap [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:53 ]
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Well, apart from a game-breaking bug that literally meant I couldn't click anything on the geoscape (and have thus lost my entire campaign progress so far, because auto-save is disabled by default and I had to kill the game task without saving) this is awesome.

One of my soldiers spotted an alien, had a 92% chance to hit and still missed, then got shot by an alien from further across the map and killed. The alien that my guy missed then took a potshot at another of my men but hit the car he was using for cover instead.

Then, stupidly, I didn't realise that the car was on fire and it blew up - and as I hadn't moved my guy that turn, he got killed in the explosion.

Bliss!
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:58 ]
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GazChap wrote:
One of my soldiers spotted an alien, had a 92% chance to hit and still missed, then got shot by an alien from further across the map and killed. The alien that my guy missed then took a potshot at another of my men but hit the car he was using for cover instead.

Then, stupidly, I didn't realise that the car was on fire and it blew up - and as I hadn't moved my guy that turn, he got killed in the explosion.
ZOMG NO THE GAME IS DUMBED DOWN FOR A MODERN AUDIENCE TOO EASY
Author:  KovacsC [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 13:04 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
I might have to buy this. If it will run on my works laptop :)
Author:  Pod [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 14:33 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
GazChap wrote:
I use http://www.spotflux.com, which is a program you download that seems to work well.

Also has x.com at the end of the URL, which is strangely apt.


Hurrah this worked. I managed to play for a few hours yesterday. Once the game had 'activated' I put steam into offline mode.

Let's hope we don't get banhammered for doing this, as my steam account has tonnes of games on it.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 14:39 ]
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It is, almost certainly, breaking Steam's ToS.
Author:  GazChap [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 14:40 ]
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From what people tell me, no-one has ever been banned from Steam for using a VPN to unlock games early, only when they use the VPN to buy a game at a discounted rate that's only available in certain territories.

So hopefully, we should be fine.

Been thinking about my brief play yesterday, and I realised that every time an alien took a shot at one of my guys, my heart skipped a beat. That's the sort of tension that I used to feel when playing the original game, but haven't for a while because I know it inside out. But this? This is all new, so it's tense again. It's great.
Author:  TheVision [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 17:04 ]
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I'm tempted by this. I never really got into it first time around, but I think I would now.

I'd like it on the 3DS though.. the touch screen would be nice.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 17:16 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
GazChap wrote:
From what people tell me, no-one has ever been banned from Steam for using a VPN to unlock games early
As that's functionally equivalent to "I flew to the US on business, booted my laptop, and my game unlocked" I think it's unlikely to result in any problems. I'm really very surprised it works though.
Author:  metalangel [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 19:50 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
GazChap wrote:
From what people tell me, no-one has ever been banned from Steam for using a VPN to unlock games early
As that's functionally equivalent to "I flew to the US on business, booted my laptop, and my game unlocked" I think it's unlikely to result in any problems. I'm really very surprised it works though.


I'm reminded of a very old Panel 4 piece by He-who-shall-not-be-named-lest-you-pay-2-of-your-British-pounds where he remarked that region locking was similar in a 'how dare you want to play our games?' way; going to great lengths to import stuff.
Author:  Satsuma [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 23:00 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
I might enjoy this but I couldn't get past the tedium of the tutorial.

I just wanted to Rebelstar around it around the place blasting shit but it just wanted to talk to me. Slowly. With as many generic futuristic clichéd soldiers as it could throw at me. Which turned out to be a fair few.

Bored. Deleted. Shot itself in the foot there as it might have been good fun if it was a bit more welcoming.
Author:  GazChap [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 23:29 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
Ian Fairies wrote:
I might enjoy this but I couldn't get past the tedium of the tutorial.

So... uh... turn off the tutorial?
Author:  WTB [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 23:30 ]
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I didn't even realise this was coming out on consoles too. Think I'll pick this up on pay day. I fancy a bit of sofa XCOM. Still waiting for Xenounauts, like, but this'll do for now!
Author:  Curiosity [ Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:37 ]
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Five stars from noted video game website, The Guardian.
Author:  Satsuma [ Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:40 ]
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GazChap wrote:
Ian Fairies wrote:
I might enjoy this but I couldn't get past the tedium of the tutorial.

So... uh... turn off the tutorial?


I don't think you can on the 360 demo. Lord knows I was hammering all the buttons an' all.
Author:  Slightly Green [ Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:48 ]
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Ian Fairies wrote:
GazChap wrote:
Ian Fairies wrote:
I might enjoy this but I couldn't get past the tedium of the tutorial.

So... uh... turn off the tutorial?


I don't think you can on the 360 demo. Lord knows I was hammering all the buttons an' all.


The demo is just one big tutorial, even the 'free play' bit at the end is too small to give you any real options, also the difficulty is far to low. Still want the game though....roll on tomorrow
Author:  GazChap [ Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:51 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
Ian Fairies wrote:
I don't think you can on the 360 demo. Lord knows I was hammering all the buttons an' all.

Ah, no. Yeah, the demo *is* the tutorial (albeit slightly different to the full game's tutorial.)

It really is a terrible demo, you can't judge the game on it. The demo is designed more for those who are completely new to turn-based games and X-COM in particular. For those who are familiar with the old game it's an infuriating combination of hand-holding and just not very interesting.
Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Oct 11, 2012 20:57 ]
Post subject:  Re: Xcom UFO Defence
Well I have indeed caved in on this, it's reviewed so well and I do so like turn based strategy games.

Pre-ordered so it's downloading now, unlocks at midnight but I ain't gonna stay up on a school night to play (lest I still be up at 3am or suchlike), will tuck into it tomorrow evening.
Author:  Morte [ Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:18 ]
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Downloaded both the PC and 360 demos, really impressed with it. Yes there is a lot of hand holding but remember this is one of the first TBS games on the Xbox (at least I can't think of many) and new peeps will need a lot of help. Might have to pick this up for the PC.
Author:  WTB [ Fri Oct 12, 2012 13:07 ]
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I've been watching some gameplay vids and it seems pretty XCOMish to me. Tutorials be damned, the meat of the game seems... Meaty.
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Oct 12, 2012 13:18 ]
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But is that meat, gamey?
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