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

[Wiglaf]

Except for the bit where the non-melee enemies can hit you with ease. And, again, flying doesn't actually make you any faster; the only REAL movement advantage it has over the grapple is the ability to create your own (heavily exposed) high ground.

Flying units get automatic 20% defense bonus, which is like being in light cover.

[Guynemer]

Archangel armored Squad Sighted snipers with In The Zone are ****ing death incarnate.

[regexcellent]

I don't know why you would get the other colonel upgrade for snipers. Maybe because you have cerebral palsy and can't help but click the wrong one on accident?

[Snotty]

Im watching a zombie dance, perhaps forever, on my second terror mission. Maybe after I have gone and got a beer he will allow me to have my turn again.

Im finding normal a little forgiving. I played 20+ early games on classic, and if my rookies were caught out of position then they were dead meat. On normal they can take a hit or two before going down.

[Tupac Shakur]

I don't know why you would get the other colonel upgrade for snipers. Maybe because you have cerebral palsy and can't help but click the wrong one on accident?

Double Tap is awesome, particularly since aliens get a free move upon initial contact to get themselves into cover.

[Snotty]

Luckily I had enabled autosave, so I lost the turn I had just played. Autosave had saved my bacon earlier too when the landlord decided to cut the power to fix the washing machine.

I wonder how frustarated I would be right now if I was playing on ironman. I hope there is an ironman autosave

[Guynemer]

The alien base run went without a single hitch. My guys didn't get so much as scratched apart from exploding cyberdisks, while capturing our first sectoid, sectoid commander, and heavy floater.

Wait, I forgot, one cyberdisk did nail my secondary assault (Lt.) with a grenade. But that was the only hit I sustained.

The arc thrower upgrade that allow you to capture drones is surprisingly useful. They make excellent scouts.

[Kuciwalker]

Archangel armored Squad Sighted snipers with In The Zone are ****ing death incarnate.

Except that many or most of the levels are just poorly built for that kind of play. It's really good when it works - for instance, in missions where lots of the Thin Men drop down towards the end - but in my second playthrough I am definitely getting at least one sniper with double tap. It will on average give me more shots.

[snoopy369]

Luckily I had enabled autosave, so I lost the turn I had just played. Autosave had saved my bacon earlier too when the landlord decided to cut the power to fix the washing machine.

I wonder how frustarated I would be right now if I was playing on ironman. I hope there is an ironman autosave

Actually Ironman is constant autosave. You can't not have autosave in Ironman, really. The point of course is to prevent you from avoiding bad consequences, so it wouldn't be very Ironmanny if it let you unplug the PC after a guy dies, now would it?

[snoopy369]

Starting to progress some. Ignored my first Terror mission, as I wasn't quite ready (still don't have any Support after my last Corporal Dan died, sadly - current squad is Sniper Lt., Assault Lt., 2xHeavy (one corp. one sgt.), and a rookie). My two LTs, to nobody's surprise, are Israeli, so I have what amounts to an Israeli commando squad.

Wish I understood Squad Sight better. It presumably requires clear LOS, but it's not always clear what is defined as clear LOS... but when it does work, it's a beautiful thing.

[snoopy369]

Aaaand no. Went with a council escort mission (retrieve somebody from an assault). Got to the VIP, had him well on his way, and then a lucky TM shot vs a guy in cover kills a rookie. My heavy panics and kills the VIP. That leads to almost everyone dying (3 more panicked after that), and failling the mission leads to about 4 nations going red. Sigh.

I do think panicking and killing allies is possibly something I'd like to see go away... panicking in general is too common, and panicking and killing allies is too harsh of a penalty.

[Tupac Shakur]

Victory is mine, on normal.

Spoiler:

I'm really glad I chose my female Japanese assault (who I picked up as a reward for a late abduction mission) to enter the Gollop Chamber instead of my beloved female American assault (who'd been with me from the beginning and had my highest kill count). I would've been gutted if the latter had sacrificed herself to save the world, so it was nice to be able to savor the victory remorse free after yet another Japanese suicide.

[Guynemer]

Heh. My "chosen one" was of the same nationality, gender, and specialty.


My Classic Ironman has taken a turn for the worse. Between one of those huge cargo ships and the battleship, I've lost a colonel and two majors (including the only heavies I had over squaddie level, and the only medic specialist I had). This happened immediately before detecting the overseer ship.

This could get ugly.

[Guynemer]

Except that many or most of the levels are just poorly built for that kind of play. It's really good when it works - for instance, in missions where lots of the Thin Men drop down towards the end - but in my second playthrough I am definitely getting at least one sniper with double tap. It will on average give me more shots.

It is especially effective in downed UFO missions in the countryside.

[Tupac Shakur]

I'm debating whether to start a new game on Classic. Ya'll are making it sound like it won't be much fun. Maybe doing it not on Ironman is the way to go?