Squad sizes capped at 4-6 (remember you will have *4* units for a while)
Color saturation and art style of the current game vs the prior
The types and look of the new aliens (suit wearing "thin men" ? Say what?)
Elimination of a true inventory system, class locked weapons
Perks+abilities use pure buff+debuff mechanics. Gamey abilities like class locked smoke grenades
One single base to manage, one skyranger to deploy, one active team
Voice confirmations, gamey one liners from your troops "On the move" "Enemy down"
Hi all !
We have so much time to kill that I wanted to stir the pot a bit again. The forums have been too quiet for my liking. Having had a few negative threads, I wanted to see what people's favorite worst thing is ! What a neat idea for a poll !
So without further ado:
I think that's an excellent topic for a poll.Originally Posted by katscan
Ooo Ooo, I want to go first !
I had to put in voice confirmation since its my signature irritation
You posted before I finished it
How about the fan-whining the game's announcement has caused, can that be an option? I want to click that box.
LOL GenPho, very true. I would also add the mountains that we have created from mole-hills and how we have over speculated on the mechanics without ever playing the game
This is not a poll, this is you listing all your oppinnions. A real poll would have an "other" option.
I request another poll option:
- Polls asking what I will hate without a "none of the above" option
I apologize.. but this is pretty much every negative 'active' thread that has been posted on. The only one I added was voice confirmations (being the creator, some could say God, of this thread, I felt entitled). I personally strongly disagree with 5 out of the 7 of these options, but that doesn't make it invalid.
What 'other' would you add?
And why not have a discussion about people's favorite least liked things, in one simple location?
Why not also appease to truly masterful whiners and create a 'What things can you speculate you're going to hate' and then put thugs like - I'm going to hate the ending/final boss - not enough perks - so many bugs, game won't run on my machine - shotgun not powerful enough - maps are all too light - etc.
For real I voted only for the voice confirms, that could get real irritating. Everything else I think I can put on my big boy pants and handle. I definitely think they should release a new podcast so we can start a fresh round of complaints.
Can I edit it now? I cant find the options.
I just want to see what people's favorite thing to hate is, so I guess if you don't hate anything, I guess don't vote.
But come now, you love everything perfectly equally?? There isn't a single itty bitty thing that you love slightly less than the rest? Your bountiful heart of love is equally, and generously, distributed amonst ALL game elements??
This isn't a hate thread. It should be what you least like, even if its minimally less love than the other things you completely love. Although, admittedly, my choice of words (hate) do not indicate this. What can I say, I like to stir things up
Yes but you should have a none of the above option as a control. Without it it's a bunch of meaningless random hate and makes the topic devoid of any real value.
That's not what "none of the above" means.
I might be hating something entirely different. Just not any of the listed items.
The poll would require user submitted options and the ability to vote again after someone reminds you of something you think you'd hate and people coming back to check how the poll has evolved.
As if that could ever happen.
All polls will be flawed (even my suggested user-added options one), but it does not mean they're entirely useless. This poll could be used to determine priorities for giving us the dev thoughts behind particular changes from the original game, for example. If five times as many people see an issue with voice confirmations than with color saturation the devs can include extra bits about voice confirmations in their next dev diary or whatever video/interview they put out/participate in. Or in the opposite case they can expound on why they've chosen the colors they did and what sort of customisation if any there is.
True.. so what do you hate that's not listed? I thought I pretty much covered all of the contentious material
Its like flushing a turd down the toilet but it just wont go away - you keep flushing and flushing but it just keeps coming back - Seriously how many more times you going to keep dragging the same stupied topics up - its a borderline obsession and been discussed to death over and over again.
Do you have ocd or something?
If you had done a poll on whats your favourite colour it would have shown more originality - I am sorry if my comments seem harsh but for gods sake at least discuss something new and stop dragging up the same old topics over and over again.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
There is nothing new to discuss and we have 6 months to kill !! That is a lot of stupid polls and a lot of stupid posts to go ;P I still love you, my turd flushing friend.
You exaggerate, it's more like four. :P
You guys need to stop making multiple choice polls. I vote for everything whenever, wherever I can
Having squads of ten dudes dual welding heavy plasma cannons and psi-amps with flying power armoured, laser pistols as side arms and one guy with a blaster bomb launcher. I don't believe in over kill. I believe in saturation plasma showers.
Hell Yeah!! Thats what I like too. I want sometimes to plough the road, destroying everything in the way of getting to an sectoid...
Think Ghostbusters.... "we came, we saw, we kicked its ass..." "Heres the bill...."
Love it.. its great therapy after a bad day in the office....
Yeah, i can't vote on this. There are more than a couple things i'm concerned about, but i can't honestly say i hate these features until after i've played it for awhile. I'm a huge fan of the original, and this new version is shaping up to be quite different, but i'm willing to give it a chance. If it eventually leaves me feeling unsatisfied, i can always load up the original again or try one of the numerous clones.
All in all though, i think this will be a fun game, and i can't wait to play it.
Actually what I am surprised no one made a poll about or seen any discussion of was the mention of their 'protype' that was built using all the same things as the original game. I saw in the RPS interview he had a thought of throwing this in for a collectors edition and I for one would love to see this. I just hate polls in general tho..
Wait!! What !!! maybe in the collectors addition?!?! Is that confirmed or just at though? If its confirmed is there a pre-order for that... I want it. I already pr-ordered but I would cancel and reorder for that!!Actually what I am surprised no one made a poll about or seen any discussion of was the mention of their 'protype' that was built using all the same things as the original game. I saw in the RPS interview he had a thought of throwing this in for a collectors edition and I for one would love to see this. I just hate polls in general tho..
In line with the thread, I agree with IrishSamurai. Many concerns but I would not say I hate anything until I get a chance to play.
No not confirmed, was made as a joke but figured if someone made a poll for everything else, would be a good topic to see how many would be interested in seeing it.
I hereby award you the silver medal of trollface. You raised his hopes and expertly dashed them like fine china in a mosh pit. Congratulations. Wear it with pride.
Thats not true, it wasnt MY joke but Jakes during his interview but the prototype does exist according to that article, so there is always hope. Jake was the one that joked about maybe adding it to a collectors edition but hey if we begged, maybe they would add it.I hereby award you the silver medal of trollface. You raised his hopes and expertly dashed them like fine china in a mosh pit. Congratulations. Wear it with pride.
It would be nice to see that added.
But then they'd be expected to do tech support for it or at least make sure it doesn't burn user's systems to the ground or creates some weird system vulnerability to be exploited by some other malware...
Things like that cost money.
Ack.. you are correct.
I'm sure they could get around that by offering it as a 'free gift' and putting the proper disclaimers on it.
Even with disclaimers and being free I'm pretty sure it's still a bad idea to give people a malignant piece of software, even with the best of intentions.
lol, if it was malignant, I doubt it would have done much good in their in house testing. If they release it without charge and state it's released as is with no support, they shouldn't have much in the way of legal liability.
Yeah, but what if there's an unforeseen outcome on a PC rig they didn't play it on? Not to mention consoles.
Then there's a fatal error and the unsupported free game prototype CTDs? Such software has no business on a console. It's something to dissect, rather than play.
But that wasn't a poll option
Thin Men do look f---in' ridiculous.
My "hate" so far, that isn't on your poll, is having to recruit and promote someone before I know what class they are. And I put hate in "" because it's not that big of a deal that I can't live with it. Just like the other items on your poll.
The unit cap, without a shadow of a doubt.
@UFO: Thin Men are aliens - so what's wrong with looking strange?
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