metalangel

Hey, if you DO go to Cydonia with all your starting equipment, don't your guys gasp and die in the unbreathable Martian atmosphere when they land? I mean, they're wearing (as my friend put it when he got the game) pajaymas, not even the body armour of proper soldiers (no helmets?!?) so what would stop them suffocating? Oh, and of course the player needs an advantage in these games. What I'd like to see is a game where the player has the numbers but is against few and powerful foes. Or is that what UFO AFTERMATH is like?

PSI is way too annoying early on, when you're still weak, having your people sent berserk is damn annoying... but yes, later on, making the aliens perform tricks is hilarious, the group picture thing for example is genius, I would have thought seeing how many you could blow up with a single high-explosive would be fun

Surely X-COM *needs* its own recyclotorium in Superhuman, to dispose of the massive amount of corpses (human and alien) it's generating? Since the war started, I bet there's been a massive increase in hot dog and donner kebab meat stocks in Mega Primus :devil:

Could you imagine what the ship-mounted fusion cannon on the Lightning would do to the map? (hint: KABOOM) I don't use HWPs nearly as much as I should so it doesn't matter to me if I can't take one, that 'elite squad' thing sounds like a good plan, though.

If I recall, the Lightning's hatch is only one space wide, that is, only wide enough for a human, it doesn't have a proper egress ramp like the Skyranger and Avenger. The Lightning is a fairly crude craft, it wipes its mouth on its sleeve and crushes beer can into its forehead.

LOL I guess they went to Gung-Ho Police College. Or maybe all those layers of fat make them resistant to damage and infection? Never seen a policeman who wasn't a lardass... The whole 'fight armies of infected loonies' thing was soo cool, why did they have to ruin it with all the cyborgs/giant aliens crap? Also, being infected with rage must suck, all that vomiting blood and never reading a book again. But - why did they sleep during the day? It was RAGE, not photosensitivity! Why didn't Serena and Obnoxious-Guy-Who-Gets-Macheted-Quite-Deservedly not head for Southend or something, nick a boat, and ESCAPE? I mean, it's not that far, did they not own cars? Etc.

Genius! Do they really get mad, though? I raided Marsec loads of times (gradually piecing together suits of their armour, well before it went on sale) and their guards once fired a rocket launcher or something... well, something blew up, at least. Nobody cared. Also, Mind Shields WORK? How? I've got a warehouse full of the damn things, I wanna try them!

The same way Gordon Freeman can swing a crowbar with lethal force underwater. Well, if you consider a speaker, if it's facing you, you'll hear it a lot better than if it's facing away. Just keep refining that using technology that cannot be explained. In fact, just imagine your molecules being vibrated apart, so you disintegrate much like Scratchy did after inhaling the microscopic Itchys. Maybe an executive came to see the game and demanded to know why, if they were underwater, and were employing 30 artists, why there were no 'god damn bubbles' coming out of the soldiers. Then again, there's bubbles everywhere in the game. Right, the fun ones now. You should be more worried that you were rescuing a resort composed entirely of overweight men wearing nothing but grass skirts. Fnarr. And besides, if you can shoot an alien five times with a magnetically-hurled uranium slug or SONIC DETH BEEM!!!!1 I really doubt someone's Desert Eagle will inflict much more than mild discomfort. Well, in Abomination, on your missions in the infected city you often come across the National Guard or the cops who'll help out. YES, that's REAL sensible. It's 28 days later, everyone is either dead, hiding, or infected, and you decide to stay on duty. Protecting whom from what, exactly? Coppers are so stupid. Nope. Greenpeace seems to be in a competition with Amnesty International to see who can be the first to 'condemn' everything that's ever existed, ever. Well, given you're WALKING on the seabed, I'd wager you're weighted to not float away. But of course, this begs the question: WHY do we need alien technology to invent a device for propelling divers upwards? Well, presumably you COULD do it, but since they were bsaically doing XCOM:UFO again only with nicer graphics, fiddling the interceptors in-game would have been too much hassle. Not from the lobsterman, but the amount of melted butter you'd need would guarantee health problems

If you like that sorta music, buy a 'chill out' CD like Chilled Out Euphoria - one of the best CDs I ever bought, used to slump drunkenly to bed to it all the time. Anything in your local music store's 'ambience' section might be worth considering... only problem with ambient stuff is that the tracks are really long and it's only when it's in the background and you catch yourself noticing it do you start to appreciate it.

Errr.... I'd imagine there's some kinda cursor which jumps to hotspots on the map, or something. Only way you could really do it on GBA, PSX might support the mouse though (which I have, it's great for Die Hard Trilogy!)

Well, the idea was that... maybe, just maybe, there might be an intact UFO sitting somewhere where water had not reached the power core, and the elerium was still humming happily to itself. As for the bases, just think of Sealab 2021, laugh, and forget about this silly 'dissolving' thing, bignutz.

Yeah, click on the base the people and vehicles are stationed at, then drag the agents into the vehicle... simple! They stay asssigned as long as they don't come back from a mission injured. Of course, they always do, meaning when I need to do an investigation, they just take whatever's sitting in the garage

Am I alone in thinking I wouldn't be to happy underwater in a base where the walls would wobble if I poked em? :o

That's a pre-release publicity shot... I have a copy of PC Power (shudder) that had that pic in their 'review' of the game... presumably the idea was that if you had a vehicle in for repairs when your base was raided, it would be sitting there as you fought. It looks DAMN COOL doesn't it?

Natural selection will, eventually, sort them out, no matter how much you coddle them, they'll let you down. Ones prone to panic/berserk/MC will run into the line of fire and die. Serves 'em right for signing up.