XCOM: Enemy Within

[kentonio]

EDIT: to get this back on-topic, I'll probably never have the free time to actually play this (without neglecting my responsibilities), so I'll just, uh, read about the run you're having, and stuff.

You can play it in fairly small chunks. Come on man, no-ones THAT busy.

[Wiglaf]

Has borderless window mode too, so you can review important satellite imagery and targeting coordinates or whatever while playing, by alt-tabbing instantly.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Wow. I expected biomimetic skin assault + squad sight sniper would be powerful, but this is ridiculous. I'm pretty much rolling through classic since I got those two together.

[Elok]

You can play it in fairly small chunks. Come on man, no-ones THAT busy.

Substitute 5 days/week, when possible
Studying for CCNA
Writing
Watching kid when not doing first three

No room in there. And we both know it's not going to stay in "fairly small chunks."

[giblets]

What are you writing about? And what do the numbers in yuor signature mean?

[Elok]

What are you writing about? And what do the numbers in yuor signature mean?

Still trying for a novel. 60,000 words into a YA story involving dinosaurs, people, and the people who ride dinosaurs. Love, vengeance, bravery, pachycephalosaur cavalry charges, stuff like that. We'll see if it's any good.

The sig is just a dumb computer joke. Translate from binary into hex and you get my initials.

[Al B. Sure!]

When the game originally came out he started playing on something idiotic like Easy difficulty-No Ironman. He then whined about how the game was too easy while simultaneously bragging about how amazing he was at it.

This is true. He then bumped up the difficulty mid-campaign but it was still easy with his team of easy mode-bred colonels dropped into classic.

[DaShi]

You can play it in fairly small chunks. Come on man, no-ones THAT busy.

Cut it out, you two! Save it for the aliens!

[MRT144]

I ****ed up my game by clicking scan for activity when I had both exalt and abduction missions pending. back to the drawing board

[regexcellent]

When the game originally came out he started playing on something idiotic like Easy difficulty-No Ironman. He then whined about how the game was too easy while simultaneously bragging about how amazing he was at it. He's now encouraging other people to play on ****** mode, thereby reducing their own fun levels while simultaneously boosting their own delusions of greatness.

Also, you've become very passive aggressive lately. You probably need to have an affair or buy a sports car or experiment with hallucinogenic drugs or something.

I don't remember complaining about the difficulty here, although it does bother me that the difficulty ramps sharply downward over time. The first two months on classic are kind of hard, after that it's pretty easy.

The first game I played, it was on easy for the first month or so, and I kicked it up to Classic because that got boring really fast. It turns out that as soon as you get an edge over the aliens in any category, experience or technology, they roll over and die. This is why the difficulty ramps down massively once you have armor that can survive a critical hit and plasma weapons that can one-shot any alien in the game.

Ironman isn't fun because minor RNG issues like missing a 90% shot on a rocket and having it blow up your whole squad make you have to start from scratch. That's not fun, that's just bull****. There are also minor bugs that can cause you to have to start over completely, for instance when you hunker down the alien movement is STILL glitched so that sometimes they will appear 3 tiles in front of you and you get totally ****ed.

For the record I have beaten the game on classic, on ironman, and I have the achievement for it.

[regexcellent]

Something that should exist but doesn't: picking up items dropped by your teammates who are dead or bleeding out. If my medic has the only medkit in the entire squad and dies, surely his teammates can just rummage through his pockets?

That, and something which of course was missing from the first game: being able to ****ing carry people back to the LZ.

Wow. I expected biomimetic skin assault + squad sight sniper would be powerful, but this is ridiculous. I'm pretty much rolling through classic since I got those two together.

Yes, and mimetic skin on snipers is also nuts because half-cover counts for its purposes when you get the low profile ability at major.

There are two ways in which the game is harder...mechtoids come out pretty early and they can **** you up sometimes, and sectopods now have double their previous health (via 50% damage resistance). The sectopod thing sounds pretty dangerous but by the time they come out you should have an support and a heavy with suppression, so for me since I organize my squad around 1 heavy, 1 sniper, 2 assaults, 2 supports, I just smoke my position and then double-suppress the sectopod repeatedly while chipping away with the other four squad members.

EXALT missions are a joke. They clump a lot and die rapidly to explosives, which you will have plenty of because tactical rigging is a thing now. Plus you have 7 soldiers; one of them only has a pistol but that's still a noticeable increase in power.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

The base invasion mission is pretty good.

Oh yeah, I also got a request and had no trouble dispatching it, so I don't know what the issue there was Guy. I did run into a freeze bug though, discovering seekers with a sniper's scanner hung the game when they tried to stealth.

Very minor MEC spoiler:

Spoiler:

The hand-to-hand animation when a MEC punches a mechtoid was awesome and unexpected. Only putting it in spoilers because half the fun of it was the surprise.

[regexcellent]

I'm not getting urban crash sites anymore for UFOs. I'm saving/loading repeatedly to try to get one and they won't show up.

[kentonio]

Ironman isn't fun because minor RNG issues like missing a 90% shot on a rocket and having it blow up your whole squad make you have to start from scratch. That's not fun, that's just bull****.

Why? The whole point of a 90% chance is that there's a 10% chance you get ****ed. 100% chance of hit is boring as hell.

[Al B. Sure!]

Enemy Unknown achievements won't unlock via Enemy Within on xbox. That's BS.