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I've played 3 tactical missions in XCOM so far. The first one saw three of my guys die, but I think that's unavoidable in the tutorial. Then in the next two I had someone get shot in both missions, taking them out for days at a time. And my Sniper has never fired a shot.

I'm bad at this game...

First time I played Iron Man I lost like 43 guys so don't feel bad.

Yeah Iron Man will take your soul and burn it for eternity. At least the first time around, You know abit more the second go around.

Really want to pick up the expansion though, whats the opinion now that its been out awhile? Worth it?

EDIT: Apparently jumped over a whole page talking about it... Whoops! Sounds good, And hard. Which is what I'm looking for after getting too used to the plain game. Sounds like a good time to jump back in. Lot's of hours are about to disappear again.

Had a horrid mission where I lost 3 people, came back with one fine, one injured, and one civilian who didn't seem to like me (one of those Exalt guys I guess - I think it was the first of those missions).

Did the one where you rescue the Traid guy. That was fun. Faced Crysallids in my first error mission. Saved 8 of 18 civvies and lost one of my best snipers. Woosa no! She died as she lived... standing at the back doing nothing until a Crysallid jumped her.

Now I'm fighting Mutons for the first time, but for the first time in a while I have mostly laser weapons and all my guys were healed, so I've got lots of ranked up people with cool nicknames.

But I'm doing ok now. Few more days and I'll have a Satellite over Germany, and then maybe another in France. Genetics lab on the way.

For all its faults....I'm really enjoying Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior

Playing some old Star Wars Republic Commando with buddies. Anyone's welcome to join as long as you can keep your mouth in check

 DA's Forever wrote:
Yeah Iron Man will take your soul and burn it for eternity. At least the first time around, You know abit more the second go around.

Really want to pick up the expansion though, whats the opinion now that its been out awhile? Worth it?

EDIT: Apparently jumped over a whole page talking about it... Whoops! Sounds good, And hard. Which is what I'm looking for after getting too used to the plain game. Sounds like a good time to jump back in. Lot's of hours are about to disappear again.

Yes definitely worth it. Pretty much makes it a whole new game. In fact, for the consoles it is actually a new game.

I am playing the game of basking in the glow of all the gifts I recived!

On a more serious note : I am currently playing Project Gothham racing 4

I'll be playing Battlefield 4 on my Xbox 360 tomorrow, probably.

Possibly Mass Effect 3 for the second time. Maybe Civilization if I get it for Christmas.

Booting up Battlefield 4 now on my 360. Doing the obligatory 30 min process of installation and patching...

My girlfriend got me Injustice for PS3...too bad my cat was kind enough to spill water on my second controller, and ruin it. Looks like I'll be buying another one to play it properly

Just finished installing BG2:EE. I was going to get CoD Ghosts, but apparently I'm a bit behind on system specs these days, 4/6gb ram patch notwithstanding. Poorly running shooter is like chewing glass, I'll stick with my oldschool rpgs over that.

Still playing XCOM. Just fought off the base attack. Those pesky aliens thought they could take my base, but I saw them off. Only lost one guy - one of the security personnel. Not even part of my regular squads.

I hate Sectoid commanders though. And DAMN are Plasma Rifles expensive.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Still playing XCOM. Just fought off the base attack. Those pesky aliens thought they could take my base, but I saw them off. Only lost one guy - one of the security personnel. Not even part of my regular squads.

I hate Sectoid commanders though. And DAMN are Plasma Rifles expensive.

It's only really hard to make the more elite plasma weapons as you can't capture aliens with them. You should absolutely capture mutons and most things and just use their recovered weapons. Remember you still have to research the tech for the weapon to use it though. Also weapons tend to have a minimum engineer count to make.

Sectoids and sectoid commanders are good to take weapons from. Light plasma rifles are ok to get but if you can get them you may as well just research the plasma rifle research and get the rest of the plasma research (I don't think researching light plasma rifles leads to the other more awesome plasma weapons either). Alien grenades are fantastic early on so capturing mutons or sectoid commanders has a benefit beyond just the plasma rifles as you can use them automatically when the enemy is captured though you will have to research to get infinite amounts of plasma grenades.

So yeah if you want more plasma weaponry then just capture some baddies with plasma rifles (usually mutons). You have to capture at least one to get the research. Also keep in mind you have to capture enemies anyway just to get a hold of the plasma tech that they use.

If you see sectoid commanders go out of their line of sight. They have to have line of sight to use psychic powers. Sure they almost always succeed in psychic attacks but they can only use them if they have line of sight to your guys. If they don't they just go on overwatch or try getting around and plasma pistols don't do jack anyway in comparison to the better alien weapons on overwatch. If your guys are far away like snipers then you may actually want to just throw them on overwatch but anybody near enough to sectoid commander can just stay out of their line of sight esp. with their first move and they'll be ok.

Mostly Counter Strike Global Offensive with some Red Orchestra 2 and DoW Retribution mixed in...As of today I picked up and am installing Left 4 Dead 2 and Deus Ex Human Revolution so those may become my primaries for a bit

Capturing aliens alive is hard though. I tend to just blast Mutons. Can you capture Mechtoid's alive?


And I now have two Mech Suits. Put two of my Squaddies who never saw any combat into a pair of 'em, just so I have some. One with a flamer the other with a rocket fist. Looking forward to trying them out.

Finally beat XCom. Actually after seeing off the attack on my base it was a compete cakewalk from that point on. Only lost 1 guy for the entire remainder of the game and that was just a fluke. Most missions ended up being a total slaughterfest because all the new stuff you can get.

All the new content makes the difficulty spike in a weird place about a third of the way through but I'm glad to have it and I'm sure another play through is coming.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Capturing aliens alive is hard though. I tend to just blast Mutons. Can you capture Mechtoid's alive?


And I now have two Mech Suits. Put two of my Squaddies who never saw any combat into a pair of 'em, just so I have some. One with a flamer the other with a rocket fist. Looking forward to trying them out.

I really liked the MECs. They can become very powerful.

You can't be a MEC and get Meld genetics as well, can you?

Just repicked up a copy of Demon's Souls... After the first time of so much frustration, this second time playing the game has been a bit better... I have actually managed to defeat the first demon (usually I got stuck at the first black soul/fog bank before)

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
You can't be a MEC and get Meld genetics as well, can you?

No. Also, you can't capture Mectoids.


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Playing Episode 1 of The Wolf Among Us and then Episode 1 of season 2 of The Walking Dead The Game.

ZombiU. Hot damn this is a good game. Shame we probably will never see a sequel or continuation. Still got a ways to go in it though. And sadly my best survivor ate it bye a surprise exploding zombie....... totally sad about that

Playing the Orange Box. Little bit if Half Life 2 and a little of Portal.

Trying to get Civilisation 5 working but my -ing computer seems to crash whenever I play a game that's not either Dawn of War or Minecraft.

Working through Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, sunk 20 hours into it so far and I think I'm close to finishing it. Also play a bit of Minecraft and Starbound inbetween.

How are you finding starbound? Is it much different from terraria (if you've played that)?

Working on BG2:EE but very slowly, kind of sick.

I wouldnt say Starboud is too much different than Terraria.

Its got the same basic gameplay, mine stuff, make armour, kill boss and repeat. I think what helps Starbound is the sheer vastness of it compared to Terraria. Finished with a planet? Hop into your ship and go to another one. Starbound is still in beta atm with frequent updates. Its good but unless I get over 95 hours of play out of it then Terraria remains the better game lol.

It really a touch one to call imo, others may find it easier lol.

Interesting, thanks for the info. It's on my list, but the list progresses pretty slowly.

Starbound is a little cleaner than Terraria to me. I mean despite being in Beta its a lot easier to get my head around things. I would hazard waiting a while till the full release to experience the game properly, but for the moment it has good prospects. Yes there are a lot of planets, but the progression system's not fully implemented yet, so you may quickly find yourself without things to do once you reach what's currently the end unless you want to either build things, or look for the most powerful randomly generated weapon you can find to kill your friends with. =P

Playing Assassins Creed Black Flag. Its a very good pirate game but not much of an assassination game.