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Just gave the demo a spin after downloading it last night (as far as I know, with no issues re: Steam servers). My opinion is a little mixed, but overall I'm still happy with my pre-order.

The lack of replayability in the demo is unfortunate, but I'm gonna try fixing the .ini and try Classic  (or maybe Impossible) difficulty to see how hard it is. Besides, we know from interviews, streams, and other coverage that the actual gameplay will be far more varied than two-and-a-half scripted sequences. If people decided not to keep an eye on those sources of information, then it's hardly the fault of the developers.

I also wish more voices were available, but I'm sure some intrepid modding group will fix that. Having my Russian HWG actually cursing the aliens in his native tongue would be amazing.

Shortly after starting the second mission, that's when I really started to enjoy myself. The tutorial ended, and my squad's life was in my hands. The tension ratcheted up several notches, and it finally felt like an actual X-COM game. I advanced slowly, cautiously. I frequently kept my sniper on Overwatch, which turned out to be a very good thing when a Floater decided to soar over some shipping crates directly towards my squad. The sniper took it out of the air with a beautiful headshot, sending the corpse crashing face-first into the ground and tumbling several feet. Bear in mind that, in the original, Floaters would be moving sedately through the air and fall straight down after their death animation finished. I'm sure some people will scoff at the "action movie" aspects, but damn that looked amazing.

It got even better when I used actual tactics to flank the final group of aliens. My shotgunner was on one side of the building, my HWG was covering the other. Shotgunner pulped one of the Thin Men (which I'm very interested to learn more about, btw), the other jumped out of the opposite side of the building and got gunned down by HWG. No losses on our side, and things like flanking buildings or keeping your squad members on Overwatch weren't covered by the tutorial. If you don't learn, you'll die.

Oh, I kinda already am. I set up our home network, and I used to work in cable. Setting up routers wasn't something I did often, but I know all about the modem we have and ways to try to get stuff working. I'm fairly certain the problem was a hiccup on the provider's end, not ours.

Quote from: Sirus on September 25, 2012, 02:12:54 am

Aw, I was just joking anyway. I'm just happy you made it another trip around the sun.

Trip, eh?

Ah ha. Ah ha.

Unrelated WTF: Network randomly dying for about ten minutes, leading me to fiddle with the modem and router before the network comes back on it's own.

I can't be the only one who cried (with laughter) through the Kaizo Mario World LP, right?

Quote from: Sirus on September 25, 2012, 01:57:34 am

Special brownies, or special brownies? 

Nononononoooo. I'm a martial artist. I have to keep my body pure. I've already ditched caffiene, and never done drugs (including nicotine). Now, if only I could kick fast food. I'll keep the alcohol, because I like it.

Aw, I was just joking anyway. I'm just happy you made it another trip around the sun.

Fell asleep at about 11:30pm. Woke up at 2:30am, wide awake and totally refreshed.

Happy birthday to you, too, body.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAXIMUMZERO!