Ramocalypse
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Thats Xcom baby...
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |OT| Neo GAF is Under Alien Control
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KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Keep us updated. I was all for Classic Ironman before, but if Normal ramps up decently then I might wuss out and go for that instead.
JumpJeff84
Member
Love this a lot. Played like 3 or 4 missions so far.
AND I bought Dishonored today as well. Now I have two dope games at once.
My PC's gonna get a workout this week...
AND I bought Dishonored today as well. Now I have two dope games at once.
My PC's gonna get a workout this week...
It does. I named her Justina Beiber.
csquared587
Member
Did anyone that preordered from amazon get their civilization 5 key? I never got mine, maybe because I bought a copy from them before? I was planning on giving the extra copy to a friend of mine.
Unknown Soldier
Member
I rushed as fast I could to get an Officer Training School so I could have 5 squad members. So now I'm running 4 vets and a rookie each mission to get rooks trained up. The rook takes cover between the vets and stays in Overwatch, so he/she gets kills from aliens triggered by the vets. They actually score decent kills this way now that I have the Laser Rifle.
Don't own civ5 on amazon, haven't received key.
again.....any one else having this issue?
MrPing1000
Member
Fairwell Scottie Scott, you were the greatest sniper Scotland ever knew 
(still find it hilarious that thats his name.)
Game is kicking my ass, btw anyone know if storyline research items unlock harder maps/enemies or is strictly a time thing?
Cause if it's research, I'm going to slow the fuck down on my next run. I keep getting destroyed when the Mutons and Chrysalids start to shpw up.
Chrysalids are as annoying as they were in the original, fuck those guys.
It's x-com part of its charm is getting your ass handed back to you.
(still find it hilarious that thats his name.)Game is kicking my ass, btw anyone know if storyline research items unlock harder maps/enemies or is strictly a time thing?
Cause if it's research, I'm going to slow the fuck down on my next run. I keep getting destroyed when the Mutons and Chrysalids start to shpw up.
Chrysalids are as annoying as they were in the original, fuck those guys.
It's x-com part of its charm is getting your ass handed back to you.
Yes, especially if it sounds good to you like you say. I generally don't play strategy games, but XCOM (and the originals) is one of the exceptions. Play on easy and you should be OK. But maybe try normal first, because this is the type of game where it's memorable and even fun to lose horribly.
Play on normal, and take your time and go slow like your life depends on it. There is nothing overly complicated about the missions themselves so it is all self explanatory.
Slackbladder
Member
I might try Classic again as I'm finding normal to be maybe too easy. Although I have'nt lost a soldier yet in around 5 missions, I nearly have several times. I was doing okay on classic, until I had to rescue Anna Sing! Then it all turned to shit.
Slackbladder
Member
Yes.
Unknown Soldier
Member
It's time you learned to love public transportation.
Park a guy inside that bus and he can cover that whole side of the map from inside of it.
Haven't received a credit either when I try to buy civ 5. I guess there will be a notification email?
Slackbladder
Member
Yeah. Well, I only had 4 soldiers and I lost one in the first alien move when a Thin Man did a critical with his first shot. Kinda' fell apart after that!
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
Ironman Classic.
I just ran like a bitch back to the extraction zone and aborted a mission.
Whole squad was wiped to the last man, sole survivor was my highest ranking member and sniper killing machine. If I lost her all i had left was rookies, she was too valuable.
RUN AWAYYY!! RUN AWAYYY!! My memorial wall is starting read like the white pages.
I just ran like a bitch back to the extraction zone and aborted a mission.
Whole squad was wiped to the last man, sole survivor was my highest ranking member and sniper killing machine. If I lost her all i had left was rookies, she was too valuable.
RUN AWAYYY!! RUN AWAYYY!! My memorial wall is starting read like the white pages.
Yes, they'll send you an email letting you know your credit is ready to use. You have until November the 8th to purchase it.
whalleywhat
Member
Wait, so Normal is appropriate for the early game, and then gets too easy later? Maybe I've just had good luck, but I've only lost one unit (outside of the tutorial losses), and I just finished my first terror mission. Maybe I should've started on Classic. I was going to restart after the tutorial like a lot of people said, but then I just kept playing.
Slackbladder
Member
A Holy Hand Grenade would've come in handy!
Neuromancer
Member
Cheers mate
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
Hahaha no kidding! Should have been a preorder exclusive.
Admiral Snackbar
Member
Classic Iron Man was initially thought to have been a HORRIBLE MISTAKE.
After the death of SQ Rick Moranis, Canada's finest, I felt a sinking hole in my heart. But he got that civilian out of the line of fire and died doing his weird country proud.
Barely surviving a crash site with one panicked rookie is a serious highlight of my time so far and I would have NEVER experienced it if I'd had the ability to reload. I am a compulsive reloader, this is the cure. It became apparent, after this, that it's the only way to play.
After the death of SQ Rick Moranis, Canada's finest, I felt a sinking hole in my heart. But he got that civilian out of the line of fire and died doing his weird country proud.
Barely surviving a crash site with one panicked rookie is a serious highlight of my time so far and I would have NEVER experienced it if I'd had the ability to reload. I am a compulsive reloader, this is the cure. It became apparent, after this, that it's the only way to play.
canadian crowe
Member
Yeah this game is pretty awesome. I am not a fan of strategy games, but this one is really fun.
Kind of choppy on the ps3 though.
Kind of choppy on the ps3 though.
Your guys grown some stones once they rank up some. The rooks pee their pants at the first sign of trouble.
Also this game is fucking *awesome*. Looks like it'll usurp Legend of Grimrock for GOTY.
Oh god I'm so screwed. Attacked an enemy base (it's early, it can't be THE base or anything) and I'm not ready, I'm just so not ready, but I've been messing up the strategy pretty badly (Japan already bailed, 3 other nations not far behind, money always tight) and there's a day left before my next sure-to-be-poor performance appraisal so I decided to roll the dice with my A team.
My best support and a fairly disposable squaddie got fucking eaten by chrysalids almost instantly. Formed up the 4 survivors and killed over 20 enemies in the next few areas, slow going but 2 snipers plus a heavy and a support are doing alright. But now I'm in a large, open area and I can't bait out the aliens anymore and I sure as shit am not going to survive pushing through. My 30+ kill major can't die, he can't.
So I exited mid-mission. If the party wipes I'm probably going to just restart, I can do the early macro stuff soooooooo much better now. And I won't leave a captain out to die during an aborted mission just because I can't figure out how to revive.
My best support and a fairly disposable squaddie got fucking eaten by chrysalids almost instantly. Formed up the 4 survivors and killed over 20 enemies in the next few areas, slow going but 2 snipers plus a heavy and a support are doing alright. But now I'm in a large, open area and I can't bait out the aliens anymore and I sure as shit am not going to survive pushing through. My 30+ kill major can't die, he can't.
So I exited mid-mission. If the party wipes I'm probably going to just restart, I can do the early macro stuff soooooooo much better now. And I won't leave a captain out to die during an aborted mission just because I can't figure out how to revive.
Was in there watching for a while. Thanks for streaming man! Game looks awesome.
Technosteve
Banned
Doing ironman, never understood multiple saves in this type of game. Doing normal as this is my first X-Com. So far, my squad is full of heavies and all I do is nuke shit until they are all dead.
Finally got a chance to play tonight. Seems great so far and bringing back some memories of my many play troughs of X-Com UFO Defense. I actually launched X-com in Steam first by accident and almost started a new game in that but I decided it was best to play the new game I just bought so I quit and choose the correct XCOM game.
I ended up starting a non-Ironman Classic game just to get through the tutorial and get used to the controls and interface. I plan on getting the hang of things before restarting with an Ironman Classic game and no tutorial.
I ended up starting a non-Ironman Classic game just to get through the tutorial and get used to the controls and interface. I plan on getting the hang of things before restarting with an Ironman Classic game and no tutorial.
whalleywhat
Member
Your scientists are going to start yelling at you. Blowing stuff up means there's less of it to research.
piratepwnsninja
Member
Yeah, the way people progress is much less organic if you use the tutorial.
Messing around with Dishonored right now, needed a little stress break from XCOM, but god am I in love with this game. I think I will be restarting the game and going classic. I am pretty sure I got enough of the basics down to make a good go of it. Though I fully expect to lose badly quite often. Wouldn't be XCOM with out having a few campaigns go to shit fast.
whys that?
Im already pretty much fucked in Classic ironman from failing the very first mission after tutorial as all my vets are dead(half died in the tutorial missions) and my one sniper I had is gravely wounded and isn't expected to come back in 19 more days. Not to mention I'm dead broke and so I have no money to hire new recruits(down to 4) and can't make a school so I can at least use 5 squad members. Also Panic levels are near critical in 4 countries and critical in two. Think I'll restart the game now haha.
Neuromancer
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Oh really? In what way? I haven't tried a game without the tutorial. If anything, I would have guessed that it started you with more stuff than normal.
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
I'm getting absolutely annihilated. My dudes cant hit shit, no one can stay alive long enough to get promoted! Lost Egypt and most of Europe. Not restarting yet, Im going down with the ship but I dont expect to survive the next month.
All my guys went to stormtrooper shooting academy, the aliens are fuckin enemy at the gates jude law and ed harris over here.
All my guys went to stormtrooper shooting academy, the aliens are fuckin enemy at the gates jude law and ed harris over here.
Lmfao @ this.
Lol well said.
Welp I'm stuck on a mission. I move my units forward to reveal a cyberdisk/drone group and the screen turns into a solid color and locks up. Can't alt tab out of it. Done it twice so far.
The mission is
EDIT: I seem to have fixed it by move my guys to another route and had the enemy group introduce themselves inside a building.
The mission is
Operation Blind Line
EDIT: I seem to have fixed it by move my guys to another route and had the enemy group introduce themselves inside a building.