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Article #631Re: 8 hours non-stop UFO
From: Lee Friend
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:00
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Hi, To be honest, if you are making that many changes, should it be incorprated into XCom 6 instead? Lee - ^ - ^- ^ - ^- ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ Editor of: 100% ZX Spectrum: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/pascoe/633/ 100% Thunder: http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/carpenters/512/ Other Web Pages: University Page: http://www.uel.ac.uk/pers/1742m/ Personal Page: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~friend/ - ^ - ^- ^ - ^- ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ > SVGA graphics, easy user customization, native Windows interface (GODS >but I loathe DOS!), base game speed adjusted for the processor speed, >trashing that damnable 80-item limit to the 10th pit of hell from which >it oozed, other bug fixes, improved interactivity with the environment >(barns collapse after the lower floors get blaster-bombed), eye candy >like cut scenes of researched technology and plot advancement. Just >about everything about the squad combat of the original works for me >(and in fact I'd consider it sacrilege to mess with it TOO much), but I >wouldn't mind an expansion in the interception department. > Really, I'd consider it as a perfect opportunity to apply general >improvements to the game as a whole in the same manner that >Civilization2 improved on the original Civilization. An EVolution >rather than REVolution. > >-- >Duane VanderPol: dua...@earthlink.net or dua...@aol.com >Castle of the Glowing Sky: http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/index.html >"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick >to anger" - Tolkien >"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - >Clarke
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From: "Lee Friend" <l...@friend.globalnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: 8 hours non-stop UFO Date: 1998/10/01 Message-ID: <361336ab.0@newsread1.dircon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 396622869 References: <36120ab5.0@newsread1.dircon.co.uk> <3612F757.4BED@earthlink.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-Trace: 1 Oct 1998 09:00:43 -0100, 194.112.43.26 Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit