I the original my fav alien race was the snakemen, but i have seen no reference to them in the video's and articals i've see. Do you think the will be in the new version and if so do you think that the reason that they haven't been listed is beacuse they are aliens that you meet later in the game like the ethereals which have also not been listed.
I for one hope they are in the games as it was a sign as to how far you were in to the game as to what alien you were facing.
If you check the E3 trailer there's a brief scene by the end where you can see chained Sectoids and a tall lean dark figure in the background, which some consider to be the first glimpse of the Ethereal.
I'm expecting Snakemen to be revealed later - the only two original aliens that I'm not expecting to see are the Silacoid and the Celatid.
well i really hope the snakemen will be in it. As my to strongest memories of playing xcom on my amiga 1200 are being in the desert both times and facing mutons and snakemen for the first time.
Just a guess, but I think they may make the snakemen robotic.
I also can't imagine the game without ethereals, but since they are the late game alien race, I think they're probably not showing them to preserve a sense of awe when players see them in the game for the first time.
We can't know EVERYTHING about the game before it comes out.
If you are talking about the armored aliens that materialize on the beginning of the E3 trailer, it can be the Snakemen although my bet is that it's a new species. There's a demo being commented by Jake Solomon where he mentions that the Drones can repair robotic units like the Cyberdisk, so my guess is that we haven't seen all the robotic species yet.Originally Posted by Howellren
That was my thought exactly. That was my reasoning behind thinking they may make snakemen robotic. Just a hunch. They did the same thing with floaters, so I figure, why not snakemen?
But floaters were already cyborgs on the original game. You kinda don't notice while playing but most of the the lower part of the Floater is made out of their floating device, just like the new ones.
That is true.
I wonder what kind of abilities the snake-man will have? I wonder if they will be able to burrow, crawl up walls, or do something cool like that.
They maybe can also make the tail super long so that it takes up multiple tiles. That might be pretty cool.
Those actually sound like pretty cool and logical ideas.
I'd be really amazed if Snakemen aren't in. As for abilities, as I 've said before, let them make some use of the fifty eggs they carry inside them. Also, maybe they should have a melee tail-whip attack.
Yep - it even says so in the autopsy description.
Well the new guys in the trailer had legs: so probably not Snakemen
How about when they die a bunch of p.o.'d fetal snakebabies pop out (kinda' sorta' like Multiworms) and attack their nearest enemy then die after a turn or two.
I hope so. Snakemen were my favourite enemy, the slithering noise was really creepy at the time.
You could hear them, you couldn't see them and then....
BANG! Plasma to the face!
Well like any good serpent like race maybe they got harden scales that provide extra kinetic and laser defense. They could camoflauge themselves or have regenerative health. They can spot your units better because they see in infrared?
I agree with this. So, the Short Answer is 'Yes'.
xcom wouldnt be complete without those two alien types.
well i'm keeping everything crossed that the snakemen are in the new game. It not a deal breaker, but the game wouldnt be the same with out them
Yeah but they were a joke/harmless on the original game since by the time you encountered them you'd be wearing Power Suits. I'd wish that they bring them back to Alien Base missions though.xcom wouldnt be complete without those two alien types.
What makes you think alien base missions are gone? There's been no evidence that they're removed.
OT: Ethereals definitely in, it's my gut but still...
Snakemen, coin toss. They didn't have anything that really made them stand out. They couldn't even hover like a floater. I often rank snakemen lower than the floater on my threat scale. In fact, if they didn't bring Chryssalids along I'd almost call them a non-issue. They just shoot and slither.
Sadly I agree with this. Snakemen in the original were pretty much a non-issue even you were still using conventional weaponry so long as they didn't bring any Chryssalids with them. However, given what Firaxis did with the Floater (another very low threat enemy IMO) I think they can and will do something super neat with the Snakeman.
It could be cool if snakemen could spit venom that would temporarily blind a foe (like a cobra), lowering their attack percentages greatly (and make them sitting ducks for Chrysalids) or if they could use a constrict attack when next to a foe that could kill them in 2-3 rounds (making their melee attack less dangerous than that of the berserker, but still lethal if your squad member is alone; plus, they use guns when in a distance -- think of them as a mixture of Muton and Berserker -- a jack of all trades, but a master of none)
But I'd just want to see them, in order to see the re-design ... I don't want them to look like voldermort, I'd like their heads to be like this:
http://www.google.gr/imgres?imgurl=h...8Q9QEwAQ&dur=1
Oh, that's not what I meant at all. What I was saying is that I hope that they make an appearance during assaults on Alien Bases on the remake. For some reason I see Silacoids being used by the aliens to dig up alien bases (since they eat rock), while Celatids could be deployed as patrolling watchdogs - if they spotted an XCOM unit their first action would be to multiply themselves, as it is described on the original's UFOPaedia article.
I very much doubt we'll see Silacoids and Celatids (to be fair, don't really mind their removal) because there appears to be a small black drone that would take it's place as watchdog.
I don't mind either about their removal, although that isn't confirmed as well, since I believe Solomon said in an interview: "if you loved a specific alien it will be there" or something similar.
How knows? There's got to be at least 1 player who thinks that they are the Ultimate Aliens...
Ethereals will have to be in. It's not X-Com without Ethereals. I do hope that there will be some way to boost psi-defences, though... nothing was worse than finding out that your three best soldiers are complete psi-wimps... finding out by having to watch them wipe out your entire squad, of course.
as for the Snakemen, I don't know either. Then again, they have soooo much creepiness-potential... I hope they turned them into something really amazing.
Does anybody else think that the weird crystal-morphing-into-armored-humanoid aliens might be the replacement for silacoids? non-organic beings... rock-like... "silacoid" kind of alludes to "silicon", as in computers/androids... I don't know if that's too far-fetched, though.
ActuallyI don't mind either about their removal, although that isn't confirmed as well, since I believe Solomon said in an interview: "if you loved a specific alien it will be there" or something similar.
How knows? There's got to be at least 1 player who thinks that they are the Ultimate Aliens...
I think in one of the early interviews Mr. Solomon says that one of the stationary one didn't transition well. Though, seeing him put down on the field like an alien landmine would be cool.
This reminds me of Poppers (aka The Blue Chicken of Death) in Apocalypse.... aaaarrrgh
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