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You know what? I'm okay with this.
Yes, I just used a steam emoticon here.
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You won't regret it.
I bought enemy within tonight, and when I launched xcom after it updated it simply asked me which i wanted to play, so it's pretty easy to swap between it appears.
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Thank you!
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No?
Unfortunately I had to decline as I have almost 100%ed it on xbox and would never play it again, but Isy is so classy!
And @Krummith wasn't far behind him with Nekro! Which I was super excited about since last PAX!!
Thank you both!
Note: this is only the first day.... I'm not sure I can survive this much class!
also: when was the sale last year?
See, and here I need to update my wish list to add all the games that I forgot came out.
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The expensive RPGs side won.
Guess I can't go throw someone into the ocean. To die repeatedly. And horribly.
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Sweet! Many thanks!
Usually the only thing I wind up with while walking the dog is a handful of poop; this is *way* better. I knew I wouldn't regret voting for you for Emperor!
Also: Go Green Team!
Not likely. In the past vote sales have 99 percent of the time been the same price as their dailies.
However given it is a high profile title it'll probably reappear if you're wanting to play it safe.
Damn it. I was hoping someone wouldn't respond with this exact thing, because I know someone somewhere has analyzed the data on this.
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Thanks so much! I need to hop on board the classassin train tonight!
Okay, NOW I'm done. No jinxing it this time since I'll be in bed long before 2 AM switches over the stock.
I wrote up an impressions post here, but some highlights and other thoughts:
- clearer rules about how combat works. It took a long time before I realized that my chance-to-hit was based on distance from the target and the weapon I had out. Once I knew that, I still had to trial and error my way to finding the optimum distance for each category.
- Clearer rules in general: I'm still not sure why I can sometimes bring two people into Cyberspace and sometimes can't.
- Cyberspace combat (I feel) ought to work differently than meatspace combat. I don't really have a firm idea of how, you understand, but when I think of "runs" and "cyberspace" I go to Delta V and System Shock. I played a little of the more recent card game and was quite happy with that representation, once I got a feel for it.
- maybe it was just the difficulty, but I felt like everyone - both my team and whatever dudes I was fighting - missed a solid 85% of the time. So it's just dozens of turns of "you miss"; "they miss". Find some way to make this more dynamic.
- A general rule I have is that magic ought to be something more than 'colored bullets'. This is not exactly a slam against Shadowrun Returns, except insofar as it contains magic spells that are little more than that. Some of them sometimes slowed the enemies, and that was nice.
- Add a paper-doll system for equipment. If nothing else, something more than just the one "armor" slot. Add the ability to equip my party members - less so in DMS, more so in Dragonfall.
- I was often unsure whether a given tile would offer me LoS on an enemy, and the game's simple "red triangle" was not helpful in that regard. Give me a square or something to differentiate it from the other debuffs.
- a multi-turn movement queue
- Spend some time working on the movement grid - it doesn't always load, it's hard to select certain tiles in certain situations
- I'd definitely add some sort of bestiary. With movement speeds and effects and whatnot.
- More combat options. All you have are "fire", "grenade", and "magic". Flanking shots, hunker down, guaranteed criticals if you're on a ley line; something.
I know this all sounds like I hate the game, but I really don't. Each is really just a minor inconvenience; easily ignored or circumvented. It's a very solid piece of work, with very enjoyable writing and a really neat world. The dialogue trees are amazing. I just feel the combat needs to be better and more dynamic. About the only time I was engaged with the combat (so far) was when I was kiting ghouls in the sewers, and even that was just because I had to count tiles to make sure they weren't going to run into melee range.
Low-ish?
But it'll almost certainly make it into a Bundle at some point.
All the same, as much as I've heard it's a pretty great game, I would say you should hold off for moral reasons.
Less than 50% off during a steam sale? That's just insulting.
True. I guess I have all sale to think. And see if something else goes lower.
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Thanks @mts! I look forward to fumbling and groping my way into someones innards - much appreciated!
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P.S. Thanks you magnificently classy classhole!
Enemy Unknown? Yes. A thousand times yes.
The Bureau? That's not XCOM.
There's no point to wait for flash sales on a daily deal. They're the same thing.
But all daily deals last 48 hours so stragglers have time to pick them up either way.
Ah, so then flash sales don't occur on already discounted games? Basically I'm worried that as soon as I purchase this thing it'll go on super sale at -99% off or something.
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@The Dude With Herpes apparently noticed that I had added One Way Heroics to my wishlist today, though, and promptly gifted it to me. Thanks! A passing glance at it makes it vaguely look like Half Minute Hero, which was a lot of fun.
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Also I'm apparently on team Blue.
Shall I post my little poem again?
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray to Valve their prices keep,
And if a sale before I wake,
Here, Valve, all my money take.
No. Votes = Dailies = Flash sales. The idea behind flash sales is just so they can get more games on the front page really. Won't happen to a daily deal. The daily might reappear as a flash sale but it'll be the same discount.
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