[Stormkeeper]

Not so sure about campaign games.

They can't. Everytime they reach a certain level, they get a resource injection, about 500 minerals and gas.

   Sons of *****es.

It's to discourage turtling.

[Akalabeth Angel]

They can't. Everytime they reach a certain level, they get a resource injection, about 500 minerals and gas.

   Sons of *****es.

It's to discourage turtling.

       All it encourages me to do, is to play the mission over again, which results in me walking over the enemy because I already know the intricacies of the map.

[Stormkeeper]

       All it encourages me to do, is to play the mission over again, which results in me walking over the enemy because I already know the intricacies of the map.

That works too I guess.

[NGTM-1R]

X-COM 2: Terror From The Deep

I've mastered the small-unit tactics for this game. I may, perhaps, take 79 turns to complete dealing with a down alien ship on occasion. Speed is fine, but taking zero return fire is final. The game pulled out the lobstermen early for me this time, but I still beat them down. I fed it noob troopers to keep it satisified so it didn't get too ridiculous. I give it free Barracudas occasionally so it doesn't bury me in Alien Dreadnaughts.

The day comes. I have a Leviathan. I have 26 full trained troopers who would put the SAS and Delta Force combined to shame. I have a pair of Displacer/Sonic remote heavy weapons platforms to lead the way and absorb any unpleasant surprises. Every trooper is issued a sonic cannon and two reloads, and I have four guys with Pulse Wave Torpedo launchers, and a mountain of ammunition for them. It's time to visit T'Leth.

I die. The first wave out of the transport attracts at least a dozen PWTs. There is a glorious blast of LAME, and no survivors. But I am inching closer. The day will come. Oh yes, it will. Not long ago I couldn't even reach T'leth...

Six years in. I will yet beat this game senseless, I will rape it and its mother dammit!

[Roanoke]

I have no idea what any of that means, but a tad trying is it ?

[Akalabeth Angel]

I have no idea what any of that means, but a tad trying is it ?

       Good god man! You don't know Xcom?!!! Download steam and get Terror from the Deep immediatley!
       Or get the original first if you can.

   
       I'm about halfway into an X2 game, but I lost interest . . .after I smashed a couple of alien colonies. But I'll keep trucking. I've never even got the advanced subs, because of the silly research requirements. But I'm getting 'em now. My save game is still there, waiting for me. I also bought "UFO Trilogy" which is made by some of the guys who did Xcom. Didn't give it too much of a try yet, but I will one day.

[Colonol Dekker]

Six years in. I will yet beat this game senseless, I will rape it and its mother dammit!

I've got a CDR full of GOLDEN savegames from the Xcom series, i got the collectors chest back in 03

You want a save game?

[NGTM-1R]

The mother was figurative really. I've already completed X-Com. Sometime I intend to go back and do so more thoroughly, as my completion of it went to hell at the last second and I lost most of my Cydonia team, but I got two of my female squaddies close enough to blow the brain to shreds (what the Ethereals did to them afterwards I don't know.)

[Stormkeeper]

I feel really upset about spending cash to buy Silent Hunters 4. I have no idea how to play it.

[Akalabeth Angel]

I feel really upset about spending cash to buy Silent Hunters 4. I have no idea how to play it.

        Doesn't the damn thing have a manual?

[Colonol Dekker]

.PDF i'd wager, isn't silent hunter 4 voice activated?

[Stormkeeper]

Nup, not voice activated, and the manual isn't helping. :/

[Colonol Dekker]

Support forums? Interweb in general? Google's suprisingly good at answering plain english questions sometimes.

[Stormkeeper]

Actually, the thing with the game is that it's really, really complicated. For example, I was trying to fire the cannon and some how managed to fire the first rear torpedo tube, and then later the first forward tube. The I kept hitting the 'rig for ultra-silent' button, because I keep thinking 'Z' is for zoom.

It's not like I don't know how to play, but I need to remember a million things just to order the sub around ... I haven't even passed training. Because I can't sink the merchant with my deck gun. It just refuses to sink. Or it sinks really slow.

[Roanoke]

I have no idea what any of that means, but a tad trying is it ?

       Good god man! You don't know Xcom?!!! Download steam and get Terror from the Deep immediatley!
       Or get the original first if you can.

   
       I'm about halfway into an X2 game, but I lost interest . . .after I smashed a couple of alien colonies. But I'll keep trucking. I've never even got the advanced subs, because of the silly research requirements. But I'm getting 'em now. My save game is still there, waiting for me. I also bought "UFO Trilogy" which is made by some of the guys who did Xcom. Didn't give it too much of a try yet, but I will one day.

how does "no" grab you ?
I've got X2 but haven't even bothered to install it yet.

[Colonol Dekker]

Actually, the thing with the game is that it's really, really complicated.

Welcome to the world of heavy simulation me boyo..

Learn the basic keys off by heart is all i can reccommend... Failing that umm, start a silent hunter thread in gaming discussion and see who responds


WHEEEEEE, i'm playing minesweeper shots, every time i  set one off i do a Shot of JD... but it gets harder to miss them after four. Bad sign for an Ex EOD sapper...

[Dark Hunter]

Urgh...

IWBTG is alternately hilarious and frustrating beyond all logic, for exactly the same reasons.

At the moment, though, I'm happy, for I have finally figured out the secret of wall-jumping, and passed a section I was stuck on for the past three days (**** you mobile wall of spikes!).

Now to survive shafts filled with MORE spikes (it's hard to find a room in the game that doesn't have them), precision wall-jumping, and whatever the next boss is...

[Colonol Dekker]

what tweh hell is iwtbqbtg??

Forget it,ia m off to go sleep//./

[Dark Hunter]

I Wanna Be The Guy

The hardest video game ever invented, in which everything, everything, will try to kill you somehow. Most infamously: the gravity-defying giant cherries.

Also killer save points, a pop-up that kills you, the moon that drops down and crushes everything in its path (repeatedly), the game of Tetris you get trapped in and must dodge all the falling pieces, and spikes spikes spikes and more SPIKES. Spikes are EVERYWHERE in this game.

Just when you think you are safe... BOOM! You're dead. From some completely unexpected source... like I said, everything is out to kill you.

But, despite all this... it is winnable. I'm approaching the halfway point, myself.

[Mars]

No crystals left in the pile doesn't mean the AI hasn't spent them all
What genre was tremulous, the name's ringing a bell.

Tremulous is a first person shooter alla Starship Troopers - i.e. humans against giant space spiders.

You can also get kicked and banned for such antics as voting for another map, even though voting can be disallowed by servers. Also beware of asking simple questions.