What is really missing in the game?

[makus82]

If it is difficult to figure out how to improve the game, you can go from the opposite and list what is missing in the game.

I would like to hear from you thoughts about what is really missing in the game. And if I like the idea, I'll try to make a concept image.

original post https://steamcommunity.com/app/7660/discussions/0/4150581887530457052/

General

• Lack some conspiracies and plot twists, unusual facts from real history which will be woven into the plot (why not?), allusions for modernity, cultural references but mostly not for pop culture, forecasting some things from our modernity and real future
• Lack little apoc stories, usual life interesting details from future
• Lack some strong detailed characters that will cause sympathy, empathy, strong hatred
• Lack the drama of human relations and moral dilemmas, the game can do without it, but with this the game will acquire something close to each person and sink into the soul

Cityscape

• Aliens can not only land troops and eggs in human buildings, but can also evacuate AND aliens and kidnapped people to UFOs and transfer them to their dimension for food and other
• Ground vehicles (even a tank and an APC on an air cushion) can only drive on roads and not on the ground around (fixed in OpenApoc).
• There is not enough black market and general heritage and echoes from the first two XCOM games, history, items and weapons
• UFOs should not disappear instantly after the end of the mission and should be removed in parts throughout the day
• Transport must correctly take into account the numbers in the transport, passenger and bio compartments

Battlescape

• Maybe some expansion on the agents paramilitary ranking system funtionalities. For example some stats boost for being around high ranking Squad Leader, stats penalties for low ranking squad leaders, maybe overall increase or decrease proficiency for best organised Squads. Not an arcadey style, but a tactical sense for it. Best squads should be more likely to comply orders, hold the position, have a strong morale and increased agressiveness. The rookie squad the extreme opposite. This is implemented I think, but on an individual level with the agent stats, since experience = improved stats, and maybe the impact of aliens numbers when they're overruned and on panic, but there's no dynamic change that benefits from squads integrity and composition, both turn-based or real time. The ranking system is a tool to implement it I think, and it was genius they put limits on promotions, acording to the number of personel you have on your organisation. It mimics real life.
• There are not enough audio screams when a living creature is hit / wounded
• There are not enough blood stains under corpses
• There are not enough on missions armed and hostile civilians and guards who have been infected with micronoids and are fighting against XCom.
• Meeting 3 or 4 parties at once on the same mission for different reasons, for example XCOM in a UFO crash and marauders and police that chase them
• Lacks the ability to carry corpses and bodies
• Lacks the ability to explode, burn, damage the body making it inaccessible for research.
• There is not enough specialization of the aliens and the presence of various levels in their control hierarchy, the ability to extract specific information about artifacts or the location of something.
• Ability to continue the completed mission with the aim of searching etc.
• The ability to carry out a raid and keep the building forever (against a hostile or captured organization) (but get a minus to reputation and a possible raid in order to return the building).
• No sound from moving items in inventory
• No pools of blood under corpses and scattering of blood and meat from powerful explosions or hits
• Lacks more advanced keyboard shortcuts to make life easier (fixed in OpenApoc)
• Pity that hostile people don't use flying armor
• Pity that hostile people don't have\use psionics
• The AI will try to pick up weapons more active they dropped or other if they find themselves unarmed (eg. from panic or mind control).
• Lacks a stun melee attack to almost every weapon with different power
• Lacks bone fractures to immobilize the wounded
• Lacks more abilities for psionics (like Pyrokinesis, Electrokinesis, Telekinesis etc)
• Lacks chance of jamming or breaking weapons during a mission (accidents are just like in life)
• Lacks 1-3 seconds to reload the magazines
• Androids have a limited chassis but their software is able to improve results (Characteristics Accuracy, Bravery, Reaction can be pumped 50%)
• Lack modified androids in to cyborgs (terminators like assasins in the service of treacherous corporations)

There is not enough real economy where:

• damage to buildings did not really affect the economy and production, let alone the casualties in the building collapse
• each corporation has a fleet of endless military vehicles and soldiers.
• every corporation has an infinite amount of money and cannot go bankrupt.
• the prices of goods did not depend on their quantity on the market (only the destruction of all buildings)
• the ability to do raids on the same building at the same minute endlessly and without time delay (for example 1-2 days)
• There can be small artifacts and items of aliens that could slightly increase characteristics or provide interesting information or open another research or it is corny to accidentally find your niche in the market where they find their unusual use and pay well.
  • That mean from interogation \ spying \ turned to you insider you can get information on possible important decisions \ financing \ game changer event from which you can draw conclusions and invest money in goods or an organization and sell with profit after a while. Or even make some org bankrupt and gain control of it ...

There is no developed system of negotiations with organizations - diplomacy :

(Let me remind you that X-COM exists secretly and thanks to 13 senators)

• It is possible not only to pay for damage, but also to conduct side missions to appease the organization (and of course worsen the relationship with the other).
• The ability to blackmail, bribe, threaten and interrogate specific individuals representing the organization and therefore influence the organization's attitude towards XCom.
• Ability to find / steal / conclude unique things, information in buildings on missions and from people and aliens on them
• Ability to protect the organization and increase the attitude
• Ability to share technology or valuable information
• The ability to share important information that will help you save a lot of money for the organization, make a lot of money, help you return what was stolen, steal what you want, etc.