MOmorsch·Jun 17, 2014
I think this might be a good place to start: https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/blob/master/src/Battles...
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OpenXcom
Open-source clone of the original X-Com 👽
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| Mar 10 | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 17 | 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24 | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 31 | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 7 | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 14 | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 21 | 2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28 | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 5 | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 12 | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 19 | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 26 | 2014-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2 | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 9 | 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 16 | 2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesI picked up the original XCOM on Steam again, last having played it on an old 486 box--I remembered my lessons, and the first mission I'd intercepted a little scout craft (2 crewman, one of whom died on impact).
So, naturally, I deploy 12 squaddies, leapfrog and encircle the crashed craft on a farm in broad daylight (never, ever, at night, ever), and proceed to fill it full of detpacks. Perfect, flawless run. I'm feeling cocky.
Next mission, terror mission, and within three turns I've lost like half my team to friendly fire (unfortunate incident with an incendiary rocket), a quarter to enemy fire, and the last few guys are either panicking or getting crushed in a pincer between alien tank units (cyberdiscs) and heavy infantry.
And that's when I realized that pretty much no modern games are as hard and unforgiving as that old DOS wonder. Y
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ou start the game with a bunch of folks in T-shirts and M16s, and by the end you are literally space marines whose mere presence sends elite enemy units scurrying in terror--and more importantly, the game made you earn it, every step of the way.
EDIT:
Their Github!
https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/
On a vaguely related note, it doesn't matter much for X-Com since there is a very, very complete open-source reimplementation: https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom
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