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Yeah if you press shift+R (can't see while Menu is up so if you want to do it during combat make sure combat settings are roguelike not menu).

Although it doesn't explain the roll completely it does show you your score (skill level + ((stat+2)/3) + bonus - penalty), the resulting score will give you a certain number of die which is explained better here. So you can't see the exact roll in terms of how many dice you have and what they roll but you can see the total values to sort of work it out.

It can be annoying that the rolls are open-ended though so if a max is hit on a die roll then an extra die is re-rolled which can also get re-rolled I believe leading into rare but huge rolls to get like extra-super crits with something like a Fallback pistol. It also means that nothing is impossible in GearHead, you might have only 1 point of reflexes and no points in small weapons but you might still be able to hit a long range shot with a long rifle and one-shot Bonecracker the Albino Alligator.

Still dunno how to get the rolls shown in Gearhead 1 though, maybe some debug mode?

I like the Alpha 3 Keeper mode, no spells or mana but nice that you can go invade the dwarves/lower levels with your minions and grab some nice loot, also game doesn't end once you beat the final wave, would be nice to have those two things in Alpha 6

New Xerath seems quite fun, he has so much poke that I have seen quite a few support Xeraths out there as well and his ult is so strong, its way better then Lux's for snipes. It's definitely different to old Xerath who could do quick snipes and escape super quick, now he is more of a slower artillery machine, great wave clear as well, and then once he hits lvl 16 his ult has more range and damage then a Ziggs ult.

Still annoyed with Yasuo, not nerfed in the right way, although it is nice he can't regenerate his OP shield so quickly. Yasuo can solo baron very easily because of his double crit chance passive and his shield.

I'm still annoyed that Riot haven't addressed the stealth op'ness issue. I can understand limiting players to 1 pink ward on the map but only having 2 in inventory sucks, especially vs rengar who can move so fast and so long with his ult stealthed. Eve is slightly weaker then other stealth champs and pink wards not necessary vs her anyway as once she is close you can see her so she can't escape easily but Rengar, Twitch and Shaco are very expensive to kill, and Teemo shrooms are a bane in late-game.

I've never gotten GH1 to work on my computer. GH2 works fine. It's been awhile so I don't remember the exact error. Is there anything specific that GH1 needs to run?

There is also an SDL version of GH1 so that should work fine for you if GH2 works.

Yeah the first turn look-at ramp thing makes terror missions much more interesting, the race to save civvies and not lose soldiers makes a dilemma. You can also set grenades to explode on impact in the options so you can chuck a smoke grenade out of the ramp and move soldiers straight away. You can also prime grenades in the pre-battle equipment screen to save even more TU's

Hah, concentrated firepower only does so much against cyberdiscs in original because unless you are firing off rockets they would pretty much shrug off anything you threw at them, in new XCOM though they just need a few shots to go down while in original they would need many, and you would normally face 3 of them just on easy mode. A sectoid first terror mission in original was very dangerous.

Anyway Original XCOM and new XCOM are pretty different games so it's hard to really compare enemies directly, but from personal experience I find the old cyberdiscs more terrifying especially early game more then the new cyberdsics.