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Yep, that's XCOM.

It's a MAN's game!




Whenever you shotgun a berserker at pointblank range, yell out "I am a MAN!"

It'll feel nice.

I prefer to yell 'Sneak Attack, Biznatch!'

 pretre wrote:
I prefer to yell 'Sneak Attack, Biznatch!'

You clearly aren't manly enough then.

Then again, I did lose some 40 soldiers on my Classic Ironman playthrough

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 pretre wrote:
I prefer to yell 'Sneak Attack, Biznatch!'

You clearly aren't manly enough then.

This is very true. Does it help that when I fire the Blaster Launcher, I yell 'Cock Rocket!!!!'?

 pretre wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 pretre wrote:
I prefer to yell 'Sneak Attack, Biznatch!'

You clearly aren't manly enough then.

This is very true. Does it help that when I fire the Blaster Launcher, I yell 'Cock Rocket!!!!'?

That'll do


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 Trondheim wrote:
Damnation this game is without mercy! After a very long break I took it up once more, and tried the second wave options. And I dare say they made the game a lot more enjoyably. Until Germany went into panic mode and the rest of the world fell down the drain when all my veteran team members died due to alien grenades to the face.

Anyway, better give some advice.

1) Did you have only one team of vets? That may have been your problem. Its generally advisable to spread promotions around by taking a few rookies with you on small missions.

2) Don't try to save everyone. Its better to sacrifice some countries and to keep the game going, then to try to save them all and lose everyone. I know it sounds strange, but it usually works.

3) If everything is going wrong, you can try to risk an assault on the enemy base. If successful, there's a sizable worldwide decrease in panic. If you fail...well, you're boned anyway, so who cares?

4) How was your sat coverage, and what difficulty were you? You can change the difficulty in the options menu, btw.

5) Great tactical / strategic advice here : http://forums.2kgames.com/forumdisplay.php?76-XCOM-Enemy-Unknown-General-Discussion


And just because I'm not nerdy enough...

 DA's Forever wrote:
Oh alright, so does it just extend it by making things take longer then? Healing, Research, building?

Yes, everything takes longer to do. I don't like it at the beggining of the game because in the normal game you're like a lean, mean Spec Ops team that can complete an objective every mission. You do a lot more treading water in marathon. Anyway, every wrinkle adds more replay value so it's still worth checking out. South America might be a good starting location because it lets you do some research faster.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:

 DA's Forever wrote:
Oh alright, so does it just extend it by making things take longer then? Healing, Research, building?

Yes, everything takes longer to do. I don't like it at the beggining of the game because in the normal game you're like a lean, mean Spec Ops team that can complete an objective every mission. You do a lot more treading water in marathon. Anyway, every wrinkle adds more replay value so it's still worth checking out. South America might be a good starting location because it lets you do some research faster.

Yeah, SA is great. Especially if you are looking for an easier game, since you can get all those research credits early

Yeah SA was my first one i did it from. Made research so much easier! Doing NA now, Its helping me keep the skies a lot cleaner, dirt cheap firestorms

 DA's Forever wrote:
Yeah SA was my first one i did it from. Made research so much easier! Doing NA now, Its helping me keep the skies a lot cleaner, dirt cheap firestorms

Oh yeah, its pretty hilarious to see Firestorms costing 75 credits a craft

Indeed at this stage in the game I have more trouble with the alloys for the thing than the money

Slingshot can help you with that. The main thing about Slingshot is it gives you bucketloads of Elerium and whatnot.

Yeah, if you can handle the early fights, Slingshot is huge.

Which one is slingshot again? Forces the later game enemies in sooner right?

 DA's Forever wrote:
Which one is slingshot again? Forces the later game enemies in sooner right?

Its a series of scripted council missions that gives to early access to mutons, a battleship, as well as a Triad hero.

Oh, and hats. Lots of hats.

I don't have it...didn't think it was worth it.

It is kinda fun and adds a bit of a challenge at first. If you can get through the missions it gives you a big boost.

 DA's Forever wrote:
Which one is slingshot again? Forces the later game enemies in sooner right?

It's DLC. It's doesn't add a lot to the game quite honestly but in a game like XCom any more content is good.

Yeah slingshot isn't that big of a deal.

That said.



Yeah i am that bad *ss.

That was my first successful run of impossible difficulty (not on iron-man mode) that i beat on april 26th. So it was about a week ago.

So how often did you save scum

1) Did you have only one team of vets? That may have been your problem. Its generally advisable to spread promotions around by taking a few rookies with you on small missions.

No I had several I keept in reserve, but on one particular blood drenched terror mission several Crystal things made mince meat of everyone but a lone assault trooper. The next mission went along similar lines, leaving me with only two living vets.

2) Don't try to save everyone. Its better to sacrifice some countries and to keep the game going, then to try to save them all and lose everyone. I know it sounds strange, but it usually works.

I had world panic kept low until I lost my best troops, after that all went down the drain alongside with a lack of weapons to shoot down those UFOs, this was mainly due to my somewhat sort sighted research plans.

3) If everything is going wrong, you can try to risk an assault on the enemy base. If successful, there's a sizable worldwide decrease in panic. If you fail...well, you're boned anyway, so who cares?

Did this and won with most of my people alive and well.

4) How was your sat coverage, and what difficulty were you? You can change the difficulty in the options menu, btw.

Normal. I had two or three sat link hubs up and running. And I know but thanks anyhow.

I guess you can say I am better when I am given a gun and pointed in the general direction of the enemy

 Trondheim wrote:
1) Did you have only one team of vets? That may have been your problem. Its generally advisable to spread promotions around by taking a few rookies with you on small missions.

No I had several I keept in reserve, but on one particular blood drenched terror mission several Crystal things made mince meat of everyone but a lone assault trooper. The next mission went along similar lines, leaving me with only two living vets.

2) Don't try to save everyone. Its better to sacrifice some countries and to keep the game going, then to try to save them all and lose everyone. I know it sounds strange, but it usually works.

I had world panic kept low until I lost my best troops, after that all went down the drain alongside with a lack of weapons to shoot down those UFOs, this was mainly due to my somewhat sort sighted research plans.

3) If everything is going wrong, you can try to risk an assault on the enemy base. If successful, there's a sizable worldwide decrease in panic. If you fail...well, you're boned anyway, so who cares?

Did this and won with most of my people alive and well.

4) How was your sat coverage, and what difficulty were you? You can change the difficulty in the options menu, btw.

Normal. I had two or three sat link hubs up and running. And I know but thanks anyhow.

I guess you can say I am better when I am given a gun and pointed in the general direction of the enemy

Ouch, sounds like you got dealt a bad hand then :/

That happened to me once in my first C/I game; suffered 3 failed missions in a row, and a terror mission came up when I still had ballistics. I just restarted the game.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
1) Did you have only one team of vets? That may have been your problem. Its generally advisable to spread promotions around by taking a few rookies with you on small missions.

No I had several I keept in reserve, but on one particular blood drenched terror mission several Crystal things made mince meat of everyone but a lone assault trooper. The next mission went along similar lines, leaving me with only two living vets.

2) Don't try to save everyone. Its better to sacrifice some countries and to keep the game going, then to try to save them all and lose everyone. I know it sounds strange, but it usually works.

I had world panic kept low until I lost my best troops, after that all went down the drain alongside with a lack of weapons to shoot down those UFOs, this was mainly due to my somewhat sort sighted research plans.

3) If everything is going wrong, you can try to risk an assault on the enemy base. If successful, there's a sizable worldwide decrease in panic. If you fail...well, you're boned anyway, so who cares?

Did this and won with most of my people alive and well.

4) How was your sat coverage, and what difficulty were you? You can change the difficulty in the options menu, btw.

Normal. I had two or three sat link hubs up and running. And I know but thanks anyhow.

I guess you can say I am better when I am given a gun and pointed in the general direction of the enemy

Ouch, sounds like you got dealt a bad hand then :/

That happened to me once in my first C/I game; suffered 3 failed missions in a row, and a terror mission came up when I still had ballistics. I just restarted the game.

Yes I suppose playing on that mode that only gives you one save did not help either But I did enjoy it though will try again! Em aliens are gonna burn!

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So how often did you save scum

I've done plenty of classic ironman but i did save quite a bit.

I did have some deaths but i think it was less than 10 which would have utterly screwed me over.

 DA's Forever wrote:
Oh alright, so does it just extend it by making things take longer then? Healing, Research, building?

Everything.

As in, imagine 84 days to research laser weapons with the starting amount of scientists level long.

It'll also dramatically raise the cost on some items to slow you down. Things like satellites get much more expensive if I remember right. I think I remember medpacks being 50 bucks for example.

Construction times also take much longer.

Getting a ton of scientists and workshops is mandatory if you want to beat that option and preserve your sanity.

Also, beating any difficulty mode without using Ironman doesnt count. Everybody knows that

Anybody hear anything about any new DLC?

There is a bit a buzz about XCOM: EW.

Not enough info to go from though.

EW?

Enemy Within?

The last I read was that that announcements are coming soon, but nothing yet has surfaced that I have read.

Well, late to the party but I finally bought it, on the cheap during a weekend sale.

Very fun game, I'm solidly hooked and having a blast.

Didn't read the system requirements, running windows xp still ;(

So I had to hack the .exe file with a workaround some kind soul posted, but it's been playing flawlessly despite not having windows 7 hah.

Rather an enjoyable game all-around!

 kirsanth wrote:
Enemy Within?

The last I read was that that announcements are coming soon, but nothing yet has surfaced that I have read.

I think we have accept there's not going to be any new DLC despite that teaser a while back. I think it's been quietly cancelled. It's just been way too long. Slingshot wasn't well received and I don't think this game had blockbuster sales so the powers that be probably just don't think it's worth it to produce new DLC.

This game is going to be free (for subscribers) on Playstation Plus from the 16th apparently.