Because no one uses the Other Games Forum: X-COM

[Wiglaf]

Naming a soldier "Sid Meier" makes winning pretty easy.

[regexcellent]

I am finding my classic game difficult and I've been resorting to saving every turn a significant portion of the time. I know some people think that's cheating, but I think it allows me to more efficiently learn how to correct my mistakes.

On my ubersquad game I challenge myself not to save. I have a terror mission that I think I will attempt on impossible using that rule.

[Guynemer]

Naming a soldier "Sid Meier" makes winning pretty easy.

Yeah, I saw that; apparently, "Ken Levine" is a pretty good soldier as well.

[regexcellent]

There are four of them.

* Sid Meier
* Ken Levine
* Otto Zander
* Joe Kelly

The come with full tier 3 gear (except items)

[MRT144]

I think having the second heavy is too much of an opportunity cost given the strength of having assaults as a buffer between your damage-dealers and certain fast-moving enemies.

I think the problem I have with assaults is that I am risk adverse to a fault almost.

[Guynemer]

If you give them Lightning Reflexes and the other defense buffs, they're usually pretty solid. Especially if you use the plasma rifle as opposed to the shotgun (at least until you unlock that weird alloy shotgun thing--that thing is death in a convenient portable package).

[Hauldren Collider]

I am considering removing the shotgun from my first assault and just going with 2 rifle assaults. Shotgun is just not all that good.

[regexcellent]

The shotgun rewards aggressive tactics. You have to switch to the pistol for anything beyond a relatively short range though.

[regexcellent]

If you give them Lightning Reflexes and the other defense buffs, they're usually pretty solid. Especially if you use the plasma rifle as opposed to the shotgun (at least until you unlock that weird alloy shotgun thing--that thing is death in a convenient portable package).

I have one with a rifle and one with a shotgun. I gave +damage buffs to the one with the shotgun and +defense buffs to the one with the rifle. It works out well.

[Tupac Shakur]

No, the only problem I've had is that it's hung a couple of times during the enemy activity phase on the big UFO maps.

I've also experienced this on a couple occasions. Very frustrating.

[Tupac Shakur]

My ideal squad is

1 Sniper
2 Heavies
2 Support
1 Assault

I've been running pretty consistently with 1 sniper, 2 supports, an assault, a heavy, and either another assault or a heavy depending on mission type. Will swap out the sniper and run 2 assaults and 2 heavies on missions where LOS is likely to be poor.

[Tupac Shakur]

I am considering removing the shotgun from my first assault and just going with 2 rifle assaults. Shotgun is just not all that good.

Run & Gun + shotgun = instant death for most aliens. There are few things more enjoyable than running behind a Muton and shooting him point blank in the back with a shotgun.

[regexcellent]

Wow, the Impossible AI is something else. On the terror missions it uses heavy floaters as forward observers (!!) for the Sectopod mortar atack (!!!!) and it will guess as to where you are if you kill the floaters. And it's pretty goddamn good at that. I was unable to advance off of a bridge loaded with cars while I got pelted with artillery. I saved four people before getting stuck, while steadily taking worse and worse wounds, until I had three severely wounded soldiers and one critically wounded soldier that I managed to stabilize. Then all of the civilians were dead and I had to high-tail it back to the dropship.

This is with my uber squad.

[Hauldren Collider]

Is it worth waiting until you have high panic in a country before launching another satellite?

[Dinner]

Checked the steam achievement stats---0% of players have beaten the game on impossible difficulty. I guess that's why they call it impossible!

.8% have beaten it on classic. **** this is a hard game.

You have to remember that a lot of people aren't serious gamers and just bought it to play a couple of hours per week.