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[Blazingdragoon04]

Ugh, ignore, my B

 

[s0osleepie]

The game is already being hacked. In the alien faction I currently see 10 people. The bottom 6 people have fought around 3-5 times since the game started. The top 4 people have each fought at least 200 times, with the current leader having fought 650 times. Keep in mind you must wait for each human opponent to respond to a challenge, so how someone fought 650 times without cheating when the game has been out for mere hours is a joke.

Don't feel bad for not playing international players, this game is already being ruined by people who don't know how to play a fun social game without cheating.

Each side has 4 'AI' players so there would be targets from the start.

 

[Shakura Jolithion]

Is it me or are those bots now broken? I fought one, and assumed the "0/0/0" armies was a graphics bug... but noep, they're fighting with 0 units total. And it counted them as winning... All the alien bots bugged or disabled or what now?

 

[JCrichton]

Is it me or are those bots now broken? I fought one, and assumed the "0/0/0" armies was a graphics bug... but noep, they're fighting with 0 units total. And it counted them as winning... All the alien bots bugged or disabled or what now?

It's been borked for a little while now. I assume it'll be fixed at some point.

 

[NeonWraith]

I'm going to be honest- it's sort of shocking to see how many people are upset about the prizes over the event's main purpose.

...the event they advertised with 'play this, win prizes' y'mean?

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Any chance there could be prizes for those of us in Australia and New Zealand, being a Kiwi and seeing that we're never included in online competitions anywhere always frustrates me.

I mean, it's not like you can't buy stuff from Amazon in our countries, and a gift card would amount to store credit right? So what's so hard about that, I don't know...

Game doesn't even seem to work for me, I drag my units across to give orders and it won't place them... I got excited when I saw this because I'm looking forward to Xcom: EU and can't wait for launch day on the 12 here, but it doesn't seem to work. At least for me anyway, I click on retreat and then it shows the potential units the enemy has, but then I go back to the battle and nothing is there on the enemy side >_<

 

[JCrichton]

Just got this PM:

Since the launch of this event, we have been listening to all of your concerns and feedback and have been working to address many of them as best we can. We are happy to announce that we have recieved approval to expand prize eligibility to include residents of Canada and the UK, in addition to residents of the US.

To implement this change in a fair and legal manner, we will be executing a full event restart at approximately 6:00PM EDT. Individual records will be reset, leaderboards will be cleared, and badges earned will be removed. Until then, the event will continue to remain live for the recruitment of players, practice play and general XCOM event forum merriment. We will also be using this time to look into and address and optimize any other issues brought to our attention.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause any of you and we hope these changes only enhance the experience for everyone

 

[Erttheking]

Am I the only one who can't get in?

 

[Shakura Jolithion]

I now have the problem of a $146250 army with noone to fight, and noone even on par with my level, especially with the bots gone... How come they didn't reset the *entire* game?

 

[JCrichton]

I now have the problem of a $146250 army with noone to fight, and noone even on par with my level, especially with the bots gone... How come they didn't reset the *entire* game?

I imagine this process is still ongoing. I experienced a similar issue has have others. I figure they'll have this worked out by the weekend.

 

[cathou]

Am I the only one who can't get in?

When you try joining the event, I know it asks of your personal information like your name, e-mail, address, and confirming if you agree to the rules. Did you do those correctly, not jumping on yah but want to help despite that I am no Staff or Moderator given at that.

Really hope you do get to join, this event is really fun. Love being aliens, the aliens you can use are all extremely creative in their design as well as function. Much fun indeed, though the humans are still dominating so have to change that soon enough shall we? XD

Wait, what ? I didn't had to do that before joining ...

 

[s0osleepie]

Am I the only one who can't get in?

Mind filing a bug report [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/contact/subject/xcomwars] if you're still having issues.

 

[s0osleepie]

Am I the only one who can't get in?

When you try joining the event, I know it asks of your personal information like your name, e-mail, address, and confirming if you agree to the rules. Did you do those correctly, not jumping on yah but want to help despite that I am no Staff or Moderator given at that.

Really hope you do get to join, this event is really fun. Love being aliens, the aliens you can use are all extremely creative in their design as well as function. Much fun indeed, though the humans are still dominating so have to change that soon enough shall we? XD

Wait, what ? I didn't had to do that before joining ...

You may have joined before prizing was extended to residents of Canada. You can sign up here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/contests/register/xcomwars_minisite [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/contests/register/xcomwars_minisite]

 

[s0osleepie]

The game is already being hacked. In the alien faction I currently see 10 people. The bottom 6 people have fought around 3-5 times since the game started. The top 4 people have each fought at least 200 times, with the current leader having fought 650 times. Keep in mind you must wait for each human opponent to respond to a challenge, so how someone fought 650 times without cheating when the game has been out for mere hours is a joke.

Don't feel bad for not playing international players, this game is already being ruined by people who don't know how to play a fun social game without cheating.

Having played some more, I know everyone else is discussing prizes... But... The fact that there's 4 alien bots for the humans to keep attacking (and I assume 4 human bots for the aliens to attack), and the terrible, terrible AI of those bots (buy 3 sets of 50 of one unit, attack with it over & over, alien will not counter which would guarantee its win... and instead guarantees yours. Every. single. time.), I have to wonder where the "competitive" aspect of this game comes in... or the strategy, for that matter. It's like a 5-way rock-paper-scissors each time, plus I've yet to fight another human player... I think whoever wins will be whoever spends the most time going through the same 5~6 clicks over and over, sadly.

Edit: I guess more on topic, you're not really missing out on competing that much for prizes since, at least right now, the game is nothing but who is willing to repeat the same 6~7 mouse clicks the most times.

Snip.

These issues have been looked into and patched. Please feel free to read our <link=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/544.390161-Welcome-to-the-General-Player-Discussion-Forum-for-XCOM-The-Beginning>latest patch notes found here and re-posted on the welcome threads in each faction forum. In addition, for how we will handle similar issues prior to patching, please view <link=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/544.390275-Cheating-A-Self-Help-Guide-to-the-Dos-and-Dont-of-XCOM-The-Beginning>our recent thread regarding cheating here.