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[quintin522]

Just for kicks, I decided to go and check their website to see what progress they have done, and apparently they finally released v2.3, after two years of development. The changes?

UFO: Alien Invasion 2.3 released

The UFO:AI development team is proud to announce the release of UFO: Alien Invasion Version 2.3. Two years in the making, this version features loads of new content, a dramatically improved rendering engine and extensive improvements to nearly every aspect of the game's campaign and battle systems.
A few highlights of what's new in version 2.3

    * Complete overhaul of the campaign system, so that alien activity changes depending on the player's actions
    * New capabilities for the rendering engine, including bumpmapping, specular lighting, glowmapping, flare support, texture blending and more
    * A new tactical overhead map
    * Alien bases have been added and the player can mount an assault on them
    * Support for crashed UFO missions
    * Overhauls of the map editor
    * Loads of new maps and new tiles for existing maps that are randomly generated
    * New weapons
    * New music and sound effects
    * And loads of behind-the-scenes optimizations and tweaks for everything from the pathfinding to the user interface

Website
Full changelog

From what I've read it seems they mostly just changed around the way the system works, added more graphics, fixed some of the more annoying inventory problems, and some other misc. stuff.

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Still waiting for content expansion...maybe they'll release that in another 2 years. Gonna start playing and see how much better it is

[Cthulhu]

Still no destructible terrain?  That's a deal-breaker, especially with how tedious it is to clear a map in that game.  It'd be easier if I could just level the city.

[Journier]

last time i played there were no Armored vehicles.... or that i could build.... is there any added yet?

[quintin522]

Nope, no real new play content

[engy]

Did they add a win trigger yet?

Alien Bases and such are nice, but fighting a never ending war eventually gets old.

[Tellemurius]

no you just get a point in the game where you are so fricking powerful the aliens will be running away leaving you to trying just to take down one of their ships so you can do something.

[mattie2009]

The game is so slow during missions and the screen-edge scrolling is so clunky (no barrier to prevent the mouse from flying out of the game window) that I relied on the automission. Then I realised that the only thing I got from it was the enemy ship and quit the game in frustration to go and play the original X-com. You also start off with medkits. This could just be on the easy missions, and I could just be an originalist prick, but I enjoyed the frantic pace the game took when your best soldier got a mortal wound and the game became a race against time to finish the mission before he dies and sends the rest of the squad into abject pants-wetting terror because he was the highest rank available and you into pure xenocidal rage because that guy was the sole survivor of your original squad of assault-rifle wielding meatshields. also, Kikoskia's playthrough of the game before an alien revenge mission came along and wrecked his shit.

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SUB-ZERO DIES

[Josephus]

Using my immortal powers, I breathe life back into this dead thread.

So, I just picked this game up. It's pretty fricking cool. I'd recommend it if you have a piece of shit video card (like the Intel 965/G965) that for some inexplicable reason won't let you turn off DirectDraw, meaning you can't play X-Com.

[ChairmanPoo]

Still no destructible terrain?  That's a deal-breaker, especially with how tedious it is to clear a map in that game.  It'd be easier if I could just level the city.

AFAIK the engine they use doesn't allow it.

[fenrif]

I was really enjoying this, but had to stop playing because some maps don't have working pathfinding. So I ended up getting stuck in missions where my squad couldn't enter a certain section of a UFO, and there was an alien in there... Meaning unwinnable missions.

[Tellemurius]

you probably had a bad build. 2.4 is looking good they finally implemented the tank in.

[Mephisto]

Using my immortal powers, I breathe life back into this dead thread.

So, I just picked this game up. It's pretty fricking cool. I'd recommend it if you have a piece of shit video card (like the Intel 965/G965) that for some inexplicable reason won't let you turn off DirectDraw, meaning you can't play X-Com.

What's the problem? Use DosBox. If you've got X-Com through Steam, it all comes set up already.

[Tellemurius]

did you download the patches?

[Megaman]

After playing it for a while, I got kinda tired of the maps because most of the time I was just looking turn after turn for something to shoot, and it dragged on way too slowly.

[Josephus]

Using my immortal powers, I breathe life back into this dead thread.

So, I just picked this game up. It's pretty fricking cool. I'd recommend it if you have a piece of shit video card (like the Intel 965/G965) that for some inexplicable reason won't let you turn off DirectDraw, meaning you can't play X-Com.

What's the problem? Use DosBox. If you've got X-Com through Steam, it all comes set up already.

Apparently, my system is completely incompatible with it. The thing is, I need to be able to disable DirectDraw to play it properly; on my work laptop, which is running XP, this works fine (but it's my work laptop, so I can't exactly be playin' X-Com on it all day). On the laptop I use for games, I'm running Vista, which relies on Direct3D, apparently, to render my desktop. Normally this would be toggle-able via dxdiag, but since my video card is in the 965 series, I'm not allowed to do so.

At any rate, it turns out that all of my soldiers shoot like complete bitches. I almost got TPK'd, 8 soldiers against 5 aliens.