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I don't seem to have much trouble with stun lancers, am I the only one? The stun seems to go away once my turn starts and I haven't yet gotten any killed by it.

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on February 05, 2016, 01:55:57 pm

Quote from: Yoink on February 05, 2016, 11:41:00 am

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on February 05, 2016, 09:01:07 am

I'm coming up on 20.

Seems young, sure.

To me it means the end of being a teenager, which is quite frankly something I never want to happen.

I decided I was old when I turned 20. BUT IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE SOMEHOW.

I've heard immortality is supposedly on the horizon. Next half century, tops.

Naturally, I am sceptical.

I arranged to have my noggin frozen, just in case those scientists aren't fast enough.

Wow. The procedures on that site are almost word-for-word that of a novel I read more than a decade ago.

Does anyone know how to restrict your custom soldiers from appearing as scientists or engineers, by any chance? I want the dudes I spend time customizing to take the field so that I can watch them grow powerful (or die), not get a static portrait before they disappear into the lab never to be seen again.

Does the Collector stick around after you retreat, forcing you to either find another route or give up the quest?

Apparently the tutorial missions (some of them, at least) are game-critical.

On the third mission, I failed to reach my objective in time thanks to some terribly unlucky shots repeatedly missing a sectoid. I tried to rush the objective, but the rookie in question triggered a second batch of enemies and she didn't have the movement range anyway. Despite eventually prevailing against the foes, not losing a single soldier, AND finding some good-sounding loot, upon finished the mission I was told that the XCOM project would be shut down, effective immediately, and I was given the option to restart the mission. The second time I managed to prevail, though I noticed that the unactivated patrols didn't move in the same way and the loot did not drop. Shame.

Performance also seems somewhat worse than EW; longer loading times and more frequent stuttering. Might have to update drivers or something, because I know for a fact that my graphics card supports DirectX 11.

Still! It's definitely intense and I'm liking it so far. Getting mind-controlled on the second mission of the game was an unpleasant experience.

What I'm saying is that, whether the remake is downloaded or on a cartridge, it needs to have been modded in some way in order to trade with more modern pokemon games. Perhaps via that Pokemon bank app thingy. Otherwise it will only ever be able to trade with G/S/C cartridges at the latest, which can't be played on any device that a 3DS can connect to IIRC.

I'm...not so much hyped, to be honest. The first generation is great for nostalgia but pretty terrible mechanically. When you compare it to newer generations, that is. Back when the only gendered Pokemon were the Nidoran lines, when Special was a single stat, and Speed was even more of a godstat than it is now. Back when Fire Punch was based on Special while Hyper Beam was based on Attack. Back when Psychics were the undisputed kings and Dragons had only a single move (which always did consistent damage anyway and thus was unaffected by stats or STAB).

Face it, Gen1 was an unbalanced mess and absurdly glitchy. It has a fond place in my heart, but I'll only consider getting the remake if they have some easy way to transfer the pokemon caught in it to the newer generations.

((In fact, I plan to learn languages as often as reasonably possible. Bards get tons of skill points (I get 9 per level) and we'll surely need things translated from time to time. Plus hilarity is always good ))