fuzzyreactor
Banned
so how do you recover from losing your whole squad? i try to hire new squad members but they are so weak and just die.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |OT| Neo GAF is Under Alien Control
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You have to prepare for it before it happens. Start rotating in some rookies so a full wipe won't destroy your organization.
Neuromancer
Member
I'd be happy with a co op skirmish mode (pick a map, your dudes and pick what types of enemy will populate the map, and at what density and difficulty.)
Well, it's over. After vowing to never restart classic ironman mode again, regardless of what happens, I've finally seen the end screen. Unfortunately for earth, it wasn't the end screen we needed.
It all turned sour when I ended up getting most of my main crew injured during a battle over a crashed UFO. After that, I just didn't have the resources to stock an effective fighting force and ended up in a constant retreating battle for the rest of my days.
I don't think you can get them back
And if it's like the original game they've entered into a secret pact with the aliens to limit their own destruction at the expense of the rest of the world (and the expendable majority of their own population). You don't want filthy backstabbing traitors to the entire human race on your team, do you? The only good collaborator is a dead collaborator!
Haha, fair enough. It was France and they didn't even give me time to respond to their outcries.
Yep. Would be perfect.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I don't have a lot to add to the discussion, but may I say that this is an utterly amazing game and I'm totally in love with it? I was finally able to buy it and I missed most of the football games and a major MTG protour to play this.
Had to learn the hard way that auto save was not enabled....that'll teach me to reset after somebody dies. I haven't a single complaint about the game so far, though I am not very far in it.
Had to learn the hard way that auto save was not enabled....that'll teach me to reset after somebody dies. I haven't a single complaint about the game so far, though I am not very far in it.
if you ever needed more proof that this game is just fucking you over the entire time you play it.
Things were going well. Too well I guess, so XCOM being XCOM decided to keep rolling the dice until I got fucked over on a mission.
Really simple little abduction, it was kinda cool as it was on the top of a few skyscrapers but unfortunately I didn't look at the map layout well enough and had my best support in what looked like cover after the first turn. But there was a little corner of the map open just behind what I considered the edge of the map, and sure enough 3 mutons spawn there and gun him down with perfect long range shots. So lame.
Then in a rage I kill everything, one last muton in the open and I basically run into him with my SHIV to bait a shot from him... but he ignores the 3 close enemies in cover and takes a fucking one-in-a-million double headshot to my best sniper Enigma from halfway across the map.
Bounced back pretty well, playing on normal obviously. I'm still bummed that my two favourite soldiers - a matched pair of male and female Canadian snipers, both Colonels - were split up. The surviving 'Solo' (cruelly ironic nickname suddenly) now has surpassed Enigma's 50 kills, but I like to think he spends most nights in the barracks getting piss drunk Jeremy-Renner-in-Hurt-Locker style to forget the death of his one true love. He never even had a chance to tell her how he felt, he felt it was inappropriate with the Earth under alien invasion and was waiting until after the war to let her know.
Well at least my first colonel, the Argentinian Heavy 'Boom-Boom' Marquez is still going strong. The only surviving member of my original squad as far as I can tell, he's twice been punched in the face by berserkers and lived with 1 or 2 health left. Still a total boss, check out what he did a couple of missions ago:
Really simple little abduction, it was kinda cool as it was on the top of a few skyscrapers but unfortunately I didn't look at the map layout well enough and had my best support in what looked like cover after the first turn. But there was a little corner of the map open just behind what I considered the edge of the map, and sure enough 3 mutons spawn there and gun him down with perfect long range shots. So lame.
Then in a rage I kill everything, one last muton in the open and I basically run into him with my SHIV to bait a shot from him... but he ignores the 3 close enemies in cover and takes a fucking one-in-a-million double headshot to my best sniper Enigma from halfway across the map.
RIP Hitch and Enigma. Operation Cold Dream will always be the most viscous of curses to me.
Bounced back pretty well, playing on normal obviously. I'm still bummed that my two favourite soldiers - a matched pair of male and female Canadian snipers, both Colonels - were split up. The surviving 'Solo' (cruelly ironic nickname suddenly) now has surpassed Enigma's 50 kills, but I like to think he spends most nights in the barracks getting piss drunk Jeremy-Renner-in-Hurt-Locker style to forget the death of his one true love. He never even had a chance to tell her how he felt, he felt it was inappropriate with the Earth under alien invasion and was waiting until after the war to let her know.
Well at least my first colonel, the Argentinian Heavy 'Boom-Boom' Marquez is still going strong. The only surviving member of my original squad as far as I can tell, he's twice been punched in the face by berserkers and lived with 1 or 2 health left. Still a total boss, check out what he did a couple of missions ago:
pieatorium
Member
Finnished on normal non ironman. By the end i think it was a little bit easy not that it was a complete breaze but i felt i was in control most of the time.
I had started a couple of classic ironman runs previously but bailed on them due to wtf crits all my dudes are dead but I'm going to give one a full playthrough now, no other games until i win or die trying.
I had started a couple of classic ironman runs previously but bailed on them due to wtf crits all my dudes are dead but I'm going to give one a full playthrough now, no other games until i win or die trying.
I just started my Classic run today. The game is a lot more fun this way.
Also, squaddies dying. :lol
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Deleted member 80556
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Well, that's it. I'm buying this game. It seems imagining stories for each soldier is awesome as heck. And a bit depressing too!
Don't let your favorite soldiers go on recon missions, these alien bitches will drop from the sky and ruin your night.
Oh I'm sure it's been mentioned by one really annoying thing for me is how the game works when multiple soldiers are on Overwatch. Having both snipers shoot the same guy every time is annoying, but the bomb missions are especially irritating. I take the time to spread out my squad and go into overwatch before defusing and then 5 aliens drop down and EVERYONE wastes shots on the same enemy if they are in range. Wish it would do it more logically, like one soldier shoots then another only if the enemy is still alive, perhaps it could be a trainable skill.
Pretty sure the Overseer ship needs to be taken down with an upgraded Aircraft as well. It's called a Firebrand or something similar.
I wish I knew that screenshots were F12 in Steam when this amazing faceoff occurred in a terror map. Went down in Argentina, parking lot of a multi-story structure. My squad-sight equipped Israeli hottie "Ice" immediately on overwatch with her sniper rifle at the ready with 2 heavies on either side. Moved my rifleman and support against car cover on the sides and my assault forward to trigger any potential threat. 4-5 cryssalids explode from the windows of the building, cyberdisc with an escort move forward from the fog of war on the left flank.
The enemy has shown no fear and moved directly in front of my squad which I now realize is in a perfect wedge formation. It was like two rival gangs meeting up after school to brawl, but with automatic and plasma weaponry. Support throws down smoke to cover and enhance the will and crit of the entire squad, heavies bring the rocks out and fire directly into the wave of invaders. Disc is now at half health, 3 cryssalids down. Ice headshots the disc, taking it out of the game while a laser equipped rifleman finishes a wounded insect-like horror. Assault crits and takes down another cryssalid, additional sniper "Ghost" 1 shots the disc escort. Smoke clears and we're all that's left standing, green blood and wrecked machinery fills this parking lot.
This game.
The enemy has shown no fear and moved directly in front of my squad which I now realize is in a perfect wedge formation. It was like two rival gangs meeting up after school to brawl, but with automatic and plasma weaponry. Support throws down smoke to cover and enhance the will and crit of the entire squad, heavies bring the rocks out and fire directly into the wave of invaders. Disc is now at half health, 3 cryssalids down. Ice headshots the disc, taking it out of the game while a laser equipped rifleman finishes a wounded insect-like horror. Assault crits and takes down another cryssalid, additional sniper "Ghost" 1 shots the disc escort. Smoke clears and we're all that's left standing, green blood and wrecked machinery fills this parking lot.
This game.
Basileus777
Member
It's not required, you just need some luck and to use all of those one-time use items. I took down the Oversheer ship with a normal interceptor and an EMP cannon.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
So...my most recent attempt on Classic Ironman
122 Days Survived
18 Battles Fought
14 Battles Won
4 Battlers Lost
106 Aliens Killed
39 Soldiers Lost (last playthrough I lasted 2.5 months and lost 58 soldiers)
Average Shot % - 55%
Average Damage Per Shot - 4.0
Cyberdiscs and Mutons...ha...what a bunch of murderous fucks they are.
122 Days Survived
18 Battles Fought
14 Battles Won
4 Battlers Lost
106 Aliens Killed
39 Soldiers Lost (last playthrough I lasted 2.5 months and lost 58 soldiers)
Average Shot % - 55%
Average Damage Per Shot - 4.0
Cyberdiscs and Mutons...ha...what a bunch of murderous fucks they are.
Deus Ex + Unreal
I finished Classic - after three iron man wipes, the game gets hilariously easy in the lategame, aliens stand no chance.
If you want to break the game completely:
I finished Classic - after three iron man wipes, the game gets hilariously easy in the lategame, aliens stand no chance.
If you want to break the game completely:
Abuse Ghost armor + Battle Scanner and Squadsight snipers. Nothing can stand up to it, the AI doesn't know how to react to getting shot from across the map and just sits around until it dies or walks into your overwatch crew.
Raitosaito
Member
Since I'm a sissy I'll try that
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
So the game is that good eh? I haven't played any xcom in awhile but this is intriguing.
Felix Lighter
Member
Watching other people play, I've seen an alarming number of 90%+ attack and stuns miss. It doesn't seem right.
Someone mentioned that overwatch only triggers until it deals fatal damage. The dice is rolled up front even though sniper animation takes longer to appear.
The soundtrack is stellar. And the battle themes are goddamn fantastic.
Fragamemnon
Member
To an extent, you can play around these via items and yellow cooldown abilities, which are largely non-probablistic. But once you get mid-game you should not be taking 5% risks with your best soldier's lives.
Unknown Soldier
Member
You missed an important word there.
I find this hard to believe as South Korea is not one of the nations on the Council. You're looking at a Chinese guy there. LOL.
Fragamemnon
Member
Non-council nations still have troops in XCOM. I had Malachi Rosenberg from Israel once, for example, along with some Greek guy with a very Greek name. I know I've had a South Korean squaddie once, last name was Park I believe which is fine.
Raitosaito
Member
Anyone still want this game for Steam?
You guys cleaned me out fast last time.
35 USD
PM me
You guys cleaned me out fast last time.
35 USD
PM me
Basileus777
Member
Am I missing something or does this game make it very difficult to ignore missions. Do I really have to wait until time passes normally and the mission expires or is there some way to speed up time and just skip it right away?
Felix Lighter
Member
Hmmmmmm...
Woo-Fu
Banned
You don't remember all the ones that hit. In other news I did make it through 2 missions of impossible. It isn't fun, though.
I had the Outsider boxed in a corner, both of my guys stood next to him, both of them were squaddies, both of them missed with him having 0 cover.
You should be able to press "scan for activity" and the mission will go away.
Basileus777
Member
Thank you, I didn't know that the text on the top was clickable. I just used the enter key to skip and that just brings the mission back up.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
He has a South Korean flag on his back.
AlimNassor
Banned
NOPE NOPE NOPE. Fuck Ethereals. I remember Ethereal base invasions in XCOM...-sobs-
I haven't had a hard time with one yet. The worst is when they randomly decide to deflect shots back at me, but really their health and defense is pretty low for my top level plasma weapons.
My battleship mission actually ended with me successfully capturing the lone Ethereal since it just happened to be the last one. I was pretty proud of myself, it was the first one I managed to grab.
You know if he's born in South Korea but his parents are of different nationality he'd get a name from his parent's nationality but still have South Korean nationality, right?
Unknown Soldier
Member
Damn, I want a South Korean on my squad. I'll need to spawn more Overlords first though I bet.
Felix Lighter
Member
Welp $35 was enough to make me cave. I'm in. I'll probably play some tomorrow.
Neuromancer
Member
Just wait
More than 1 at once would be a problem since they like to possess my guys. When there's only 1 and they get a possession off I can usually kill it in the next turn before my possessed guy can do any damage to me but more than 1 Ethereal could complicate things quickly even with my 2 double tap snipers.