) there's a very useful site : http://www.s2hq.com
JA is awesome! I can't believe not a lot of people are not familiar with that game. I remember my favorite character: Ivan. Granted he doesn't speak English (only Russian), he's the best sharpshooter straight from the beginning. Even when I turn on the subtitles, the wordings were in Russian 
да господин!
HEAR HEAR! x-com: apocolypse is still the best tbs mostly bc EVERYTHING is dectructable and i mean EVERYTHING walls, floors, ceilings, statues, tables, everything! u can carve a path thru a wall with a plasma gun if u really want to... to far to the door? blow up the wall instead and presto instant door. personally i think someone should buy the fallout/x-com rights and use a decent engine (like the one this game so proudly sports) then wed have some good gaming fun!
*sighs
i miss fallout/x-com games (x-com apocolypse for raiding rival companies, and fallout for rpging goodness the likes of which are noticably absent in todays games and recently rivaled by arcanum and SS)
-cArnYgE
btw love the new look
*sighs
i miss fallout/x-com games (x-com apocolypse for raiding rival companies, and fallout for rpging goodness the likes of which are noticably absent in todays games and recently rivaled by arcanum and SS)
-cArnYgE
btw love the new look
I'm playing it, just bot it, loving the realism. So far it looks like the Fallout Tactics killer, or any tactics based game killer. Performance is awful tho! Think Simcity 4, when trying to drag the screen to move to another area. It's ok when the screen don't move, the animation is acceptable i.e. 20fps. But bigger levels are at 5-10 fps, which suck.
This is my system:
This is my system:
Message Edited by In-Tel on 02-09-2004 11:37 AM
Sad to say this, but it sounds like your computer just isn't capable of doing all the work that Silent Storm requires of it, In-Tel. If any others are having issues, here is what to try.
Open up the file "config.cfg" in the game directory. Then, use these options to try to gain speed:
1) setvar gfx_cl = 0.00
This will disable some of the more complex stuff, so you might be able to play at decent rates. If that doesn't work, the next one really should.
2) setvar gfx_tnl_mode = 1.00
You lose shadows and lots of other special effects, but the game still looks pretty good and it should no longer slow to a crawl. The poor 9700 is not working very hard now, though. 
For reference, I have a P3 1.46 GHz, 512 MB SDRAM, Asus TUSL2-C motherboard, GF4 Ti4200 64 MB graphics, onboard sound. That's a pretty pathetic system for gaming, compared to most, but I am still able to play Silent Storm with the "TNL" mode enabled. As far as I can tell, there is no way to directly get the same effect with the in-game detail settings. I could be wrong. Search the forums at http://forum.nival.com/ for more information on the subject.
ripfire wrote:I have a system waay slower than In-tel's. I just turned down the graphics for performance and it's still fun.
Yeah but I want the pretty graphics! I noticed the difference between AA and non-AA is HUGE in terms of quality of graphics and the performance. Awesome game, but one feature that I don't like is the interupt feature, it makes the turn based game become a "chanced turn based" game. Often I know the enemy is there, but once I walk out to try to shoot him, he interupts my move 1/4 of the time he mows me down with an auto burst. They should really tone down the chace of an interupt. It would make sense only in very special occaions, i.e. when the hide button is pressed and not in most battle situations.
Just finished the demo level of the game, what, no one mentioned the rag-doll physics?! totally awesome. You can even shoot up dead bodies. And I was surprised that things were destructible too, like railings, windows, etc.
I felt REALLY constricted with the free-floating camera though, I always want to view the battlefield in a certain way, but the axis locks prevent me from doing that. I just don't like the top-down too much. I do like the ability to zoom in and out though.
It is really fun, from what I found, none-the-less - but I will probably just play the first 2 levels included in this demo, and that's it. I just don't have the time I used to have when playing x-com back in the day. I really like how playing this is just like playing xcom though, it was really easy to get into the groove.
I felt REALLY constricted with the free-floating camera though, I always want to view the battlefield in a certain way, but the axis locks prevent me from doing that. I just don't like the top-down too much. I do like the ability to zoom in and out though.
It is really fun, from what I found, none-the-less - but I will probably just play the first 2 levels included in this demo, and that's it. I just don't have the time I used to have when playing x-com back in the day. I really like how playing this is just like playing xcom though, it was really easy to get into the groove.
The Interrupt adds real tactics to things. So you can have four of your crew move, and two save their movement to cover them. If you walk around a corner or whatever and find an enemy there, rather than taking one shot and risking an Interrupt, switch to an SMG and go full burst on him. If there are a couple enemies around the corner, retreat.
