I haven't tried it yet but interviews have talked about Impossible as being more like Dwarf Fortress. Death is inevitable but losing can be fun!
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I haven't tried it yet but interviews have talked about Impossible as being more like Dwarf Fortress. Death is inevitable but losing can be fun!
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I'm doing the final mission, but I don't really want to take
with me because he's not part of my main squad. The game allows me to remove him from the mission team, but I'm worried that the game is going to bug out or something. Has anyone done the mission without bringing
along?
my Gallop Device user
the designated Psi dude
whalleywhat
Member
You use fuel when you move. You're limited to 6 fuel at first, which you can upgrade. You use an ability to move, but it doesn't count as an action, i.e. you can launch up into the air and then take a shot. I'd say the benefits are aim and defense bonuses, vision radius, and grenades can't hit you.
KO Traveling Hobo said:
You need them with you and they can't die on the mission.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Fuck. I don't want to bench one of my dudes for the final mission. They're...they're my dudes. ;-;
fuzzyreactor
Banned
tried playing with a controller last night....ugh, not fun
Oh yeah, I totally had pictured him jumping up from cover and charging forward, screaming "ARRRRRRGGH" until barrel-to-face with the little grey shit and then blammo.... "FUUUUUUU!" and then another blammo from off to the right following by snickering over the comms
i love it better than keyboard and mouse. plus the rumble is great during the gunfire. feels good man.
Losing is fun in Dwarf Fortress because it's usually the result of something hilarious, like prolonged sobriety causing a massive fortress-ending riot or a flaw in your magma-pumping system entombing your ornery little munchkins in rapidly-cooling molten rock. Getting critted by a Thin Man from across the map for the hundredth time just doesn't really have the same appeal.
Having messed around with Impossible a few times now it really feels like it turns all the issues I have with the game up to 11. It's not really a mode where you feel like you're the captain of your own fate.
SuperSonic1305
Member
Someone forgot how to park.
Thanks. I'm tempted to go with a totally different crew for each mission, but I want that achievement for a soldier surviving every mission. The support squad for my snipers can swap out. I need to grab the heavy laser. My heavies are languishing back at base with the basic LMGs.
Open Source
Banned
Impossible difficulty is XCOM Butterfly Effect
Beat the first alien base.
Kill and autopsy a sectoid commander. Build the psi chamber. Send troopers for evaluation.
After you do the base mission and do an autopsy on the sectoid commander you can build the psi-lab. Then you submit soldiers to psi testing which takes 10 days. After which you may or may not have some soldiers with the psi gift.
Basileus777
Member
Dammit, you got it before I edited. >_<
Fragamemnon
Member
It is. Your early build order is completely railroaded though.
0) Live through the first mission. Not as easy as it sounds.
1) Accept the first abduction mission, take the engineer reward regardless of location or difficultly. If it is in South America and the other two are in Asia and Europe, too bad.
2) Finish the second mission. Enjoy aggroing three packs of sectoids at once with rooks and five health squaddies. This is even harder than the first mission, unless you get a heavy w/o hosptial time out of the first mission.
3) Build a sat as soon as the mission is over.
4) Try to get a sergeant in the first month, either as a reward for the 2nd abduction mission or out of repeated success. Start building the OTS. Hope you can start carrying a sniper.
5) Launch sat in an engineer-producting terrirtory to protect a country before the council meeting.
6) You now have money from the council and 10 engineers after the first of the month,build a power generator and 2nd nexus when done. On the 9th of the month or so build two or even three sats. Sell damn near everything except alloys to do it.
7)Do OK on the 2nd month terrior mission.
8) Launch sats at the end of the month. Keep interceptor coverage so they don't get shot down. Build a workshop if you need more engineers to build your third nexus on month 3.
There's not a lot of variation but you can control panic on Impossible. It just involves not losing missions, and early on that is really more luck than skill (which is what people who play impossible hate).
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It feels like the strategy layer in this game is a bit more predictable than in the original. Key things like the first terror mission, the alien base, hyperwave decoder, etc all come at predetermined times.
In the original, depending on how you play, you can get stuff like the hyperwave decoder or psionics early or late game. It wasn't really on a script.
The hard storyline in the remake makes things a little too predictable.
In the original, depending on how you play, you can get stuff like the hyperwave decoder or psionics early or late game. It wasn't really on a script.
The hard storyline in the remake makes things a little too predictable.
Open Source
Banned
After the first abduction mission in my game, two countries hit full panic. Not sure it's possible to get an uplink and 2 satellites launched before the first council meeting, where they will be lost for good.
Basileus777
Member
The only thing I'd add is that I've found hiring new recruits to be highly useful. They have double the base starting health of the trash units you start with. I'm tackling the first terror mission now, so we'll see how things shape out after it.
The whole base and panic management part of impossible really is incredibly restrictive. Someone is going to find out the formula and make a step-by-step walkthrough via trial and error, and there's not going to be much room to deviate from that.
Cameron122
Member
A group of like 8 Chrisalyids swarmed me in
and I thought on my feet and had a squaddie kill a couple with an alien grenade that I got, my squad picked off the rest. Felt great!, but the last one turned my squaddie into a zombie and then a muton threw a grenade from the darkness and killed the rest of my squad
the first alien base
I know its a minor gripe, but I wish you could change the nationalities.
Just got through the alien base on my current playthrough. Think there were 3-4 sets of mutons with 1 berserker in each set, 2 sets a chrysalids, and 2-3 pairs of drones.
Though it was close, somehow nobody died. Man I love this game.
Just got through the alien base on my current playthrough. Think there were 3-4 sets of mutons with 1 berserker in each set, 2 sets a chrysalids, and 2-3 pairs of drones.
Though it was close, somehow nobody died. Man I love this game.
Because it takes 9 months to grow a baby no matter how many women you put on the job...
Yeah some of the build times are pretty silly and arbitrary. Also why would rushing a construction take double the materials?
I'm not sure what you mean.
It worked as advertised for me: I put in my existing soldiers and after 10 days I got the same people back with or without psi powers.
Go to hangar and click on the name of a ship, then edit ship.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Try this:
Pick a soldier in the first slot, then exit out of the menu back to the base.
Then, go back to the barrack, and select a solder for the second slot, then exit all the way back out again.
Do the same for the third slot.
About how many missions have you done? I believe I've done 12-14, in that range, and I am just cutting through aliens like butter at this point and am thinking of upping the difficulty from the normal/default to the next one up. But if the difficulty suddenly spikes...
MiamiWesker
Member
I have been playing on classic and I have reached the point where there is ZERO challenge. Archangel jetpack suits + high rank snipers with squad sight = complete annihilation.
It gets much harder on classic. On normal it gets easier the further you go, so if you're already finding it too easy you'll probably want to turn it up.
Basileus777
Member
Join the ranks of us trying to tackle impossible and soon you'll be living in fear of massed sectoids.
Good to know, thanks.
MiamiWesker
Member
From what I read it sounds more of a pain than anything.
I am thinking of doing classic ironman next. But I have had all sorts of weird glitches and I fear one of those glitches hitting when I cant reload a save and ruining everything.
Just do a normal classic run and resist restarting for deaths/errors. That's what I did and I still have the save backup for glitches.
There does come a point in classic where if you play well you really are just coasting through the missions though. It's perfectly doable to have your entire map stable and just farming resources for the endgame. That's the point where I'm at now in classic, and even a full squad wipe (which just happened since I was tired and playing recklessly) didn't phase me, I have a backup squad full of Majors and Colonels.
I will probably tackle some MP next or maybe try impossible out. Can't wait for them to release mod tools -- I really want to try a low tech mod that makes it much harder to get advanced tech endgame, but at the same time keeping the lower tier aliens in the mix.
Basileus777
Member
Have they actually said they would do this? The game isn't very mod friendly, in fact they made it more difficult to mod after the demo by locking additional things inside of the exe.
MiamiWesker
Member
They've talked it as something they'd like to do. Probably hinges on the game's success.
milkham
Member
Classic, iron man.. was doing great, had vets several levels up, worldwide panic in check, but no carapace armor yet. My squad shows up at a UFO landing site. They move forward then all overwatch. Alien turn starts, thin man group of 3 reveals itself at 10 oclock, not too close, no big deal, then another group of 3 thin men reveal themselves at 2 oclock, ok ok this is bad but they stayed close enough together that I can rocket them with my heavy, THEN 3 floaters appear right on top of me. Full squad wipe. I didn't even have the option to build an officer school yet, sigh this game.
Incendiary
Banned
You know...if the mission code name is going to be Frozen Vengeance, I'd expect to see a little snow on the ground, you know?