DUFFMCWALIN
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |OT| Neo GAF is Under Alien Control
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Anyone? *cries*
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Deleted member 17706
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I'm at the part where I need to make the skeleton key to infiltrate an alien base, but I don't have the required materials for it. I've done like 5 mission since then and still don't have what I need!
All the while I don't seem to have the resources to keep up with all of the alien attacks, so while I'm doing just fine in every skirmish, panic levels are rising and I'm starting to lose nations.
Is there any way I can directly affect a nation's panic level, or do I just have to wait and hope a mission pops up in their territory?
All the while I don't seem to have the resources to keep up with all of the alien attacks, so while I'm doing just fine in every skirmish, panic levels are rising and I'm starting to lose nations.
Is there any way I can directly affect a nation's panic level, or do I just have to wait and hope a mission pops up in their territory?
Follow the PRIORITY research till you get to research the Arc Thrower
Build one of the zappy things and then get a new recruit close enough to zap the alien (within the zap circle that appears.)
Yeah its random.
Yes...you have to research the Arc **something**, buy it and put it in the item slot.
Make sure you lower the enemy health into 3 bars first.
SERIOUSLY??? urghhh...I only have 2 assault class right now, one which I got by doing the random abduction mission. :/
Oh yeah, another thing. Can I capture chrysalid and the robotic aliens?
If yes, what's the benefit?
BabeSlayer
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Tells me I need a soldier to use a certain thing.....have 2 psi guys fully upgraded...help?
Aaronology
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I've been getting some heavy Mass Effect vibes from it, myself. Either way, love.
Thanks, I am getting paranoid about the game now since the save system is so stiff and I wanna get that one man on all missions achievement.
Basileus777
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Class distribution isn't actually random, the game attempts to even out the number of each class you get.
bigdaddygamebot
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You should probably do that on a second easy playthrough.
Basileus777
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Its the same composer as Deus Ex: HR. Honestly I wonder if he just had some of the rough cuts from that laying around and just threw them at Firaxis.
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Deleted member 17706
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I knew it! I kept thinking about looking that up, because some of the songs sound straight out of Deus Ex HR. Not that I'm complaining. They sound great and fit X-Com pretty well.
BabeSlayer
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I could kiss you
The SHIV is the tits. It's absolutely amazing on Terror Missions. You can just zoom around the map and bop civilians into safety. Chrysalid AI will usually bug out causing them to overlook it and it seems like 1/4 chance in my experience that they'll attack your SHIV. Ranged units seemed to dog pile it though so proceed with caution still.
Defused a bomb and about 6 or so thin men spawn around my men.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=102795735
Gotta be fucking kidding me.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=102795735
Gotta be fucking kidding me.
I usually Overwatch spam on those ridiculous council missions because units seem to teleport in out of nowhere.
This game has some awesome moments. A Berserker jumps out of nowhere scaring the Bejesus out of me and all 6 of my squad opens-the-fuck-up on it with overwatch. Mission Complete with a boss finish.
Basileus777
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I'm end game leveling up my psi powers before the final mission, and somehow I get a council mission, and it's a repeat of the Anna Sing rescue op from the beginning of the game. The enemies, the map, all the same. Bizarre. Those 4 health thin men couldn't do much to my late game squad.
That and the tendency for escort missions to fail because one of your panicked men just likes to kill the guy.
I love it when the aliens triggered my soldiers Overwatch.
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Oh yeah, I thought the Chief Engineer voice sounds familiar.
He's the guy from Lost isn't it?
THE WORST
Doctor Decimate
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then it's doing a fucking terrible job. over 1/4 of my guys are snipers.
That's what the foundry is for, as far as I'm concerned. SHIVs and medkit upgrades.
The plasma upgrade on the shiv makes him VERY formidable.Aaronology
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I've fully upgraded my SHIVs but I haven't used one yet. My squad must have two snipers and a medic. Then there's my ghost support (which can zip around faster than the SHIV while cloaked, to boot). I can never find an open slot for the SHIV. =[That's what the foundry is for, as far as I'm concerned. SHIVs and medkit upgrades.
whalleywhat
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Berserker comes around the corner of the Bar & Grill and sees my Archangel sniper. Quickly coming to terms with his fate, he rams into a nearby truck and hugs the side of it until it explodes.
I'm liking this multiplayer.
I'm liking this multiplayer.
Raitosaito
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Happy to help a fellow GAF user fall into backlog.
If anyone still want a key I still have some.
WhiskeyKnight
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God I hope this game is selling well.
The industry needs more stuff like this.
The industry needs more stuff like this.
I'm hoping this game gets a balance patch for the more stupid and unfair elements. Like chain panics where half your squad loses their shit and shoots each other. Or me moving to a car as cover where an alien snap shots, hits the car, and the car explodes right at the start of my next turn before I can move away. At least give me a chance to do something. I also really don't like how some shots had hit through very solid cover, or your guys can miss with an effin' shotgun at point blank range. I don't expect this game to be realistic, but I think it tends to skew a little too close to the original.
Doctor Decimate
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no, normal gets to be tough. the people who decided to restart on classic just didn't go far enough in
Good for OCD folks though.
Just had my first crash.
Was on a terror mission. It also happened to be the first appearance of the Berserker. They took out one of my Colonels and made a Major panic.
I was in the middle of my turn, setting up shots to kill the remaining Berserker before it could do any more damage to my squad. Then all of a sudden it started moving around again and attacking my troops even though it was my turn. And then the game stopped responding to all keyboard and mouse inputs and I had to kill it from the desktop.
Bleh.
Was on a terror mission. It also happened to be the first appearance of the Berserker. They took out one of my Colonels and made a Major panic.
I was in the middle of my turn, setting up shots to kill the remaining Berserker before it could do any more damage to my squad. Then all of a sudden it started moving around again and attacking my troops even though it was my turn. And then the game stopped responding to all keyboard and mouse inputs and I had to kill it from the desktop.
Bleh.
Basileus777
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whalleywhat
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Doctor Decimate
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then i must not have reached the "easier" threshold, because most of the missions are challenging
only thing I "regret" about starting on classic is that it'd be nice to have more incentive for a second playthrough, and there's no way im going with impossible for that
.. I think
well im barely in on classic and im not saying it's not challenging. Im losing one rookie per mission most of the times, and just now I left the game on a "very hard" one where I already lost 3 of my troops, one of them having been with me since the beggining of the game. I can see how it could be a bit easier on normal and avoid having some of this stuff happen to me but ehhhhh that's just xcom being xcom
.. I think
well im barely in on classic and im not saying it's not challenging. Im losing one rookie per mission most of the times, and just now I left the game on a "very hard" one where I already lost 3 of my troops, one of them having been with me since the beggining of the game. I can see how it could be a bit easier on normal and avoid having some of this stuff happen to me but ehhhhh that's just xcom being xcom
The tipping point is somewhere around when you get
Titan Armor, plasma weapons, and Psi training
you assault the alien base.
Once you're rolling with that sort of kit the actual missions cease to be much of a threat. At that point you're also likely sitting on pretty solid satellite coverage, so the possibility of losing starts to fade into the dark recesses of your memory.
It is, except for if you're new to the game. I was doing fine on classic, until in the span of a week(game time) I found out that I completely fucked up my geoscape stuff. You can dig yourself out of a hole like that on normal, I don't know about classic.
Classic monthly grades went like this: A, B, D. Didn't bother waiting for the next grade because I had to skip missions, I was operating at a loss and I didn't have a well enough back up team for when my guys got injured.
Not to pick on you, but nothing you mentioned is similar to situations and bad shit that could happen in the original, especially not the way panic (or morale loss) is represented in the new XCOM.