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Im playing on classic ironman and its hard, I cant fault it for that. After 5 missions I am down 10 squad mates. But I am hating the game. Combat seems arbitrary and the way you seem to have to move in close combat to get "flanking" is dumb. The cover system is obtuse (it makes combat binary and boring) and the line of sight information is terrible. I constantly move somewhere and then find out that I cant actually see what I intend to target and since you only have one move + shoot or two moves I am instantly ****ed as the alien can flank me on the next turn. It seems completely random when you have line of sight and when you don't. It may seem like your sniper should see that sectoid standing in the open 50 meters away but apparently he doesn't. I also hate how line of sight seems completely ignored in many cases where the aliens manage to shoot through not only walls but entire hills. Another thing that is just flat out unfair and unfun is how overwatch works. Since there is no facing you will always take a plasma bolt to the face trying to flank someone in overwatch mode. In some game modes there will be enemies spawning into areas that you have cleared. They may even spawn in line of sight with the target you are tasked to protect and instantly kill it making you fail the mission. I will stick with it a while longer but for now I am incredibly dissapointed.

I am really bummed out by this game. I have only managed to play a few hours on classic ironman but so far there are major design issues with cover, movement and line of sight that result in the game being an excersise in frustration in addition to dull and boring. I will keep playing and hope it gets better but for now this is the biggest dissapointment of the year

I think you need something that people can relate to and as such I dont like the idea of just giving up on the established races. On the other hand, it can be a bit boring so I think a mix or twist would be the ideal way.

Weird, it said 1 vote for 3-4 (which I assumed was mine) and 2 for 5-6

Sorry for all of you wishing for 5-6. Comparing the tracking with Wasteland 2 it seems we are heading for 3.5 maybe 4 if we are lucky. Not that this is bad mind you, but 5-6 seems incredibly unlikely.

It will never hit 10 mil and thats fine. Looking at the current way it is tracking and comparing that to shadowrun and wasteland 2 it could make 4 million though.

Increase the scope of the game. Just fit more and better stuff in. 1.1 million is nothing and wont allow for a very fleshed out game.

The rewards are just that, rewards as thanks for your generous contribution. If they end up splurging to much on fancy rewards that means that there is less money left over for the actual development.

You say Dragon Age, I say Planescape Torment. PST did not have a lot of recruitable NPCs and I think that is what helped make the characters of that game so memorable.

It really bothers me that the only way to play with friendly fire on (and I really want it on or else it just turns into a zerg fest with no tactics) is to play on nightmare. The problem of course is that on nightmare you get stunlocked to death in an instant without being able to do anything about it.

What do you want us to say other than "MOAR!"

This is great, keep it going.

Guessing this isnt live on EU yet?

More than anything, regenerating health makes it much, much easier to design and balance levels. If you know that at start of each encounter that the player will be at max life, it means that it becomes much easier to balance that encounter.

The gun names are fictional, the guns are of course real. But I see what your saying.

So I just tried to do the tutorial hack with an Xbox 360 controller and it is sooooooo easy compared to the impossiblity that is my mouse controls. But here is the problem, I dont want to play this game with an xbox 360 controller. And once you enable it, you can no longer use the keyboard. I would be totally fine using the 360 controller for hacking and then mouse+keyboard for everything else but unfortunately thats not really viable.

Im pretty sure you have to hack the computer that is the tutorial...

Some people have no problem doing it, so I'd hardly call it "broken." Yea i hack every PC i come across, i find it so easy i dont even skip one out of cant be assed ness. Whats hard about it? Just find the letters not moving and match them up with one of the 2 at the top right and left sticks to move and rt and lt to place the code on top of the matching code (on 360) Its pretty simple...and you should be able to do it pretty fast. How about you try reading the text you are quoting.

By no dialogue options text do you mean that the actual text explaining the action is missing or that the description of what button to press is missing. Because in the two times I have been presented with dialogue options (i cant get past hacking in the tutorial, yay) I could not figure out how to change my dialogue stance before the time ran out.

It might not be a problem for you. But really I have tried just trying to get the mouse block to move where I want it to and I still cant do it. There has to be a difference in how the input works for different people because I hear lots of people for whom this doesnt seem to be a problem. And if you can do it in 4 seconds then your input is drastically different from mine. So please dont dismiss this problem that some of us have.

There has to be some kind of wonky **** going on that is hardware related or something. Because I litterally cannot move my mouse sequence to the correct position in time, even if i knew from the beginning where to move it. Its not that the hacking game is poorly "designed" its that something is broken with my input.

http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=54966 I cant do it either...

At least you are able to reliably move your sequences. I still have not made it past the tutorial because the sequence controlled by my mouse does not want to go where I tell it to.

My problem isnt finding the areas, its moving the right sequence (the mouse one) to the correct location before it switches. I litterally cannot control where it moves.

Just allow me to move the other sequence with the arrow keys or something. I honestly dont understand how it is supposed to be done.