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It looks like you're getting the difference between the current mouse position and the position of the mouse when you first press the left mouse button and using that to adjust the position of the camera, but in this line...

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Vector3 move = new Vector3(pos.x * dragSpeed, 0, 0);...you're only adjusting the camera's position on the x axis. If you change it to...

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Vector3 move = new Vector3(pos.x * dragSpeed, pos.y * dragSpeed, 0);...it should make the camera move on both the x and y axes. Bear in mind that you're only checking for boundaries at the left and right sides of the screen, not the top and bottom as well.

I would recommend steering clear of using other people's scripts while learning programming. As a general rule, you should avoid using any chunks of code that you don't understand (otherwise you run the risk of unexpected behaviors in your program). You'll get farther by looking up basic scripting tutorials and going from there rather than attempting to jury-rig preexisting scripts to create the game you're picturing.

I ran into the hurdles while trying to learn Unity, so my heart goes out to you and I hope you persevere more than I!

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For me, the main problem with the remake was the 'You see the enemies, they suddenly scamper into covered positions' thing, as it lost the squad-based, 'cover each other' feel of the original, in my opinion. That and the 6 soldiers thing - 14 was a bit much, sure, but there was something really cool about slowly losing troops one or two at a time as your expansion throughout the city block went a bit awry. And as you rounded on the last building with just 3 or 4 of your crappiest rookies left... Ah, good times.

Heck, the number of deaths themselves. In a game of old X-Com, it wasn't uncommon for me to have 100 dead soldiers on my memorial wall as I approached the end. My first game in XCOM (Classic Ironman), I think I finished it with maybe 6 or 8 dead soldiers.

This. Looking past the simplistic design choices made in the cover system, lack of an inventory, and lack of freedom in your base selection/engagements, this really burns me.

I wouldn't have a problem with the game at all if they would just include OPTIONS to deal with these issues. However, they don't. You can't prevent aliens from getting a free interrupt when you spot them (I mean, you can turn on the option where they sometimes shoot, but again, that's not solving the issue of the free interrupt). You can't edge closer and keep covering each other (Which is how an actual squad operates), and that really detracts from the tactical squad-based aspect of the game.

What we got was a puzzle game or something. See the alien. Alien goes into cover. Figure out how to kill them. See more aliens. Aliens go into cover. Figure out how to deal with them. It's carrot and stick game design, which is endemic in the modern gaming industry. Gone is the chaos of having three people die off of the dropship, which was immersive as hell. It gave a feeling of an actual firefight (as best as it can for the genre), and to not have that in a tactical game is heresy.

BUT ANYWAY.

We'll see pretty soon. I have my pitchfork and torch ready, and I also have my schedule planned to get all of my work done ahead of time so I can X-Com all week. All I can do is wait for the download.

Unrelated - just lost a squad in Aftermath. Ugh, that stings.