also for the love of FUCK, how can I set it to run in the background, when I have it alt tabbed? (it pauses)
also for the love of FUCK, how can I set it to run in the background, when I have it alt tabbed? (it pauses)
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Currently playing my first game in Classic Ironman.. I lost four countries to panic in the first three months and I was sure it was game over. But things seem to have stabilized now, I have Europe covered with satellites and a reasonable amount of veterans for my kill squad.
It seems the only way to survive classic Ironman is to take the missions tediously slow, never move a man forward unless your entire squad is on overwatch or has both moves up. And, of course, the time-honored tactic from the old XCOMs of always having two of your sqaud be expendable rookies whose job is to take point wielding arc-throwers and spot the monsters for your sniper before dying horribly.
A heavy's rocket to take out cover or the side of a UFO plus a sniper with In The Zone perk is just an awesome combo.
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Okay, I did some mork regular missions and now I have a team with plasma/laser weapons + an elerium SHIV. This should work this time...Originally Posted by soldant
The patch pretty much fixed my mouse issues. The camera is still a pain.
How do you aim grenades and battle scanners with a mouse? That is a pain in the arse!
It's horrible, I know. This is a grand game but there can be no doubt it suffers severely and needlessly from consolitis. But at least it exists.
It often helps to rotate the map (Q and E keys I think) if you are having trouble landing free aim shots.
Run it as a borderless window? Check the xcomengine.ini I believe its set to false as default
Anyone else found the abduction UFO encounter atrocious due to the way the level is designed?
Looks like they were playing the alien version of Kinect if you ask me...
Can be a whole variety of levels so your comment doesn't really hold water...
As far as I know of, there is only 1 UFO (late game) which is classed an Abduction vessel?
Thanks for the tip! I've also realized it is easier if I turn down the mouse DPI (luckily I can do it with a single button press on the mouse) but still, it often thinks I don't want to aim where I'm moving the mouse around, but would rather jump 10 meters and aim somewhere over there! It's not so bad, but I have had similar frustrations (more rarely) trying to move between two different levels, or moving right to a ledge... it's like the game assumes, "you don't want to stand there, try here instead!" and won't let me select the actual tile I want. This does not happen with the 360 controller.
Honestly the game plays flawlessly with a controller, but it takes something away from my involvement with it. Somehow I am just more immersed and have an easier time suspending disbelief when I'm using KB&M. But my blood pressure is healthier when I'm playing XCom with a controller.
Fortunately it seems to be moddable (and obviously patchable). Can't wait for a true mouselook camera and zoom!
Paying on Classic/Ironman I managed to recover a plasma pistol on my very first mission - can anybody explain how I managed that? Such early plasma seems a bit cheatish, but again, how was it possible?
Try raising the view elevation (default mousewheel). This seems to prevent some of the camera snap-back that happens right at the range limit for throws and rocket shots.
I'm pretty sure you can't equip dropped plasma weapons until you researched them, right?
I couldn't equip it, but it gave me the research option. I don't get why the pistol didn't explode as per usual.
did you capture an alien?
No. I am curious because this happened on the very first mission. I'm wondering if it was some kind of reward for taking no hits/using no grenades/low number of moves etc, but it hasn't happened since.
I don't get the complaining,i play with mouse and its not hard to aim with grenades.
... I take the lives of a few to protect the lives of many. I commit acts of war to preserve the greater peace. I take no joy in killing, but make no mistake; I'll do what needs to be done. Because it's my job. It's my duty. My name is Sam Fisher, and I am a Splinter Cell.
Unless the camera determinedly zooms in and locks to the thrower, refusing to sit still to let you throw a grenade a long distance at certain angles. Massive pain in the arse.
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