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2 total messages Started by Scott T Jones Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:43
Radar Bug in XCOM
#35332
Author: Scott T Jones
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:43
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Last night, I started a new game.  This time, to increase the difficulty, I
planned to NEVER build any Radar.  This would require a lot of micromanagement
to have Skyrangers constantly on patrol, but it sounded like a challenge.  So,
I started the game at Superhuman level (is there any other level?) and
immediately dismantled my Radar.  To my great surprise, my radar STILL WORKED! 
I will have to modify the default base to contain no radar and see if that
corrects the problem, since new bases always start without radar and THAT
works.  I'll post again when I know the answer to this.

I guess this is proof that I am more than a little crazy when I play this game.
 If you go to my web page, you will see some of the other hare brained
scenarios I have tried.  This is really just a variation of my Single-Base
Hawaiian scenario, but it sounded fun.
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Scott T Jones
Author of XCOMUTIL (current version 9.42)
Author of APOCUTIL (current version 1.00)
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http://XcomUtil.ScottTJones.com
Re: Radar Bug in XCOM
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Author: Bateau
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:04
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____     On 22 Sep 2003 15:43:15 GMT
\__/___  Scott T Jones ran through the
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>Last night, I started a new game.  This time, to increase the difficulty, I
>planned to NEVER build any Radar.  This would require a lot of micromanagement
>to have Skyrangers constantly on patrol, but it sounded like a challenge.  So,
>I started the game at Superhuman level (is there any other level?) and
>immediately dismantled my Radar.  To my great surprise, my radar STILL WORKED! 
>I will have to modify the default base to contain no radar and see if that
>corrects the problem, since new bases always start without radar and THAT
>works.  I'll post again when I know the answer to this.
>
>I guess this is proof that I am more than a little crazy when I play this game.
> If you go to my web page, you will see some of the other hare brained
>scenarios I have tried.  This is really just a variation of my Single-Base
>Hawaiian scenario, but it sounded fun.

Know what I would like to see just as a bit of eye candy in an X-Com
game? A tactical level detector device for your squad that is in actual
3D. So on the screen you see this big spherical green radar line thing
going around and lighting up blips at their actual position. Pretty.
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