Quoting: ricki42Just got an email from Steam to verify my shipping address by Sep. 25. Looking forward to getting my hands on the controller!

*cough* *cough* What?!

let me me see my email box... Yay! Also got one!

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Initially the Linux version had the gamepad axis switched, but now it is working quite well. I'm loving it!

The only thing that grinds my gears, is than unlike the original one, you have to unlock the survival mode by playing some of the first few levels.

After that it gets awesome for some instant gratification action, on par with Luft Rausers.

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Quoting: maodzedunGame looks very interesting but the thing that drew me away was the horrible movement/ragdoll effects I saw in the trailer.

That description instantly reminds me of their other game Capsized. But for me that one really played out quite well.

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Got the original android game, and it sure was great! A sci-fi combat-less game with the spirit of a quick roguelike romp.

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**Still hopping for Omikron The Nomad Soul HD remake too**

Anyway, most thrilling story was in Sanitarium. Being with amnesia and a bit crazy on and off the levels while fighting for your life was nuts. Also miraculasly escaping a fire and ending up in a asteroid fallen land where only children survived and they keep talking about a strange "Mother" and finding that stuff out was really creepy!

As for the best scary moment. System Shock. The music is a bit electronic and trippy, but if you play the game with the soundtrack from the Sci-fi horror movie Event Horizon you'll sure get scared. The music even has background eerie voices, and one of the times when I got stalked by a zombie and turned around by chance, I nearly fell from my chair!

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*sniff** no OpenXCOM. And it reached v1.0 this past year!

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They were in the Humble Weekly Opensource Bundle, supporting the engines Ren'Py and Haxe so it not that unexpected!

They have a great linux "howto [External Link]" for running they're game and install Adobe Air, while ending with this:

"Our future games will be developed with Haxe/OpenFL so that we can get true native support for Linux without having to mess with this junk."

So I guess it is finally coming! :)

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One thing that does bug me also bugs me in a lot of other games like Halfway. Your soldiers have terrible aim! I've repeatedly been two squares away from an enemy with ~70% accuracy and missed, and this happens a lot. Trained soldiers my arse!

True. That’s a gripe I have with many turn based games. Halfway just isn’t any different in that respect- unfortunately.

Yep... ad the assumption of the turn based combat is that 'in reality' though the enemies don't seem to move when you shoot them, the accuracy is supposed to account for the fact that indeed do...

Also I was just watching a youtube video about Brutal Doom and the player (skilled btw) easily misses the enemies when they are very near, like 3 meters (10 feet , 2 "squares" in D&D), even more easily than when they are a bit far, specially if turning around the player.

And 70% accuracy is like 30% missing? Because like 3 planes crashing every 10 wouldn't be a very good ratio... :D

And finally... where would be the suspense if you could never miss that last bullet you shoot to the enemy that just got near to you (like a Chrysalid in XCOM)

Quoting: nullzero

What I do love though is that it's much more forgiving than games like XCOM, as your soldiers don't die

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don't die? So what happens then, do they fall unconscious and are just out of that particular battle?

Correct, they fall unconscious and are out for the rest of the battle. After the battle, they also have only limited HPs, which makes any following encounter considerably tougher. If the whole team is taken out (which can happen easily) the player has to restart the mission again.

I think the developers choose this way because Halfway is pretty much a story driven game and the characters are an essential part of it.

Hmmm... if its story related it is good! And thinking about it... character fatalities usually just means that the player would load and retry anyways as most are probably not found of an iron man mode.

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What I do love though is that it's much more forgiving than games like XCOM, as your soldiers don't die

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don't die? So what happens then, do they fall unconscious and are just out of that particular battle?

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Quoting: KelsSo are the same people still developing it? Or did it end up in someone else's hands?

Its back to same people!

This first release was to fix some more immediate things that have been haunting the game as an unfinished product, like the lack of tutorial and some fixes.

There seem to be more on the way.

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