melkathi

Well, Phoenix Point is XCOM alright. Sniper has a "sure" shot. The whole enemy square within the reticule. Can't miss, what with this being true trajectory. As he fires, the idle animation of the target opens the tiniest gap between arm and torso. Obviously the bullet goes through that. Enemy breathes out, chest deflates and dodges the bullet.

You should have some time. Scyllas started showing up when I already had two manticores and 16 soldiers. Just that while my experienced soldiers are level 7, some of the newer ones I take out in the field aren't. Especially the priests, who I like to use even at low levels.

Today's Hotfix: We have just deployed a hotfix patch for Phoenix Point taking it to version 1.0.54580 Patch Notes: Fixed a crash that occurs when launching the game with certain locales. Fixed an issue with invalid targeting when behind cover. Fixed various sound issues. The main purpose of this hotfix was to resolve the crash at launch issue. We have a larger patch on the way later this week to address some of the other issues. We will continue to identify and work through the reported issues and release patches as soon as they’ve been resolved. We ask if anyone encounters bugs in-game to please report them with the F12 tool - as this sends important game-state data directly to our QA team and allows us to more easily identify the issues. It was rolled back and then applied again with this note: The patch was temporarily rolled back and has now been reissued. This should have resolved the missing save game issue. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience and minor heart-attacks all around.

You'll do great.

With FF7 from the Squeenix store the irony is you had to download an installer from their site. But that went online and didn't actually have the game downloaded...

Today I searched for video game news in an attempt to take over the Computer and Console section of the forum.

Is that like my signature but better because it is yours? 😛

First EA killed Darkspore single player, leaving me without a game. Then Squeenix killed their shop, leaving those of us who had a game on their site without games. Now gearbox is killing single player Battleborn? Yeah, I am going to limit my game purchases and concentrate on getting my money's worth out of what I got, while I still got it.

Maybe it's a nod to the old Sierra era?

Haven defenses starting with scary deployment: Raider in flames: And New Jericho getting tired of waiting for me to clear out that lair in Europe:

Screenshots of rather problematic LOS (for people not playing but interested in what is being criticized).

Yeah, the LOS preview is quite wonky. Sometimes it previews LOS, you walk there and there isn't, and when you zoom in and hunt manually for a target you can see the tip of the elbow of an enemy. I'd needs a check on LOS quality there - if less than X% are visible from the location, the line should show up in a different colour or not at all. For some of the issues I would like to believe that a number of assets are missing flags. Some items are missing the flag that they are crouchable, others that they block line of sight.

Mind sharing your line of sight, cover and door complaints with us?

I have 24 hours played and very few bugs. I had the game freeze once when I had loaded an older save and upon entering a mission, it tried to load a later save instead of the mission ??????

GOG Galaxy Argus Update added a cross platform friend list. So now I can see my Steam friends while playing GOG games.

This is the Battletech I bought in November: https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/collections/battletech/products/battletech-a-game-of-armored-combat It will keep me supplied with Battletech goodness for a while.

Some Goo Fighting:

Hmm, Yet another account that is created, creates a thread then doesn't log back in.

I sent him the link to this discussion so he doesn't think we are talking about him behind his back 😛

I had send team 2 (in a damaged Manticore) to defend an Anu Haven in Scandinavia, while team 1 was wrapping up a mission in Northern America. Before team 2 even reached the Anu, and while team 1 was on the long way back to the main base in Northeast Asia, to recuperate, a Jericho Haven on the Iberian Peninsula got under attack. So after defending the Anu Haven, team 2, without rest rushed over there. They got there in the nick of the nick of time, just as the Haven was about to get overrun (defense had just ticked down to 0). Then the team figured out why the Jericho havens in this area have been going dark. They gathered the civilians and guided them away from the fighting (you get control of the civilians if you go near them). And the pandorans shelled the evac zone. But luckily it was the one time their artillery missed. Giving all civilians time to evacuate the area. (We won. Barely. Everyone is alive. And we won because the Chiron that had been bombarding us from afar retreated) And on a different note: a backer who may possibly have liked a certain TV series:

Found my third base. Also had the first instance of a New Jericho haven getting attacked were I could not reach it. Attack strength 16, defender strength 16, haven got wiped out With so many ambushes I am getting low on materials Also made the mistake of recruiting two Synedrion infiltrators and am seriously disliking them. Anu Berserkers are so much more awesome.

Has anyone encountered any neutral havens? I haven't found a single one...

Possibly. But as Backer Build 5 had 15 minute loads and initial load could reach 45 if you were unlucky, nothing feels long anymore. What I am getting is continuous ambushes. 8/10 explores lead to ambushes lately.

I haven't encountered any bugs yet. But for a "true trajectory" system I am missing an alarming number of sure shots. Or they all hit the carapace and miraculously do minimum damage and get soaked. Projected damage: enemy dead. Actual damage: 0.

I find some UI choices unfortunate. Especially the tutorial UI is too intrusive. That said, I don't truly agree with the comparison that Phoenix Point is unpolished compared to XCOM. XCOM 2 built on XCOM and Enemy Within and still had issues. XCOM and Enemy Within had a lot of issues. Off the top of my head, Raptors shooting through the floor. There were a lot of clipping issues with the gun camera when the soldier was in cover or too close to the target. Phoenix Point does have issues, and some of those will never get fixed. For example that projectiles have a path but no mass. A bullet missing the target and just scratching a sleeve is realistic. But a rocket should not miss because the trajectory took it through the gap between chin and shoulder.