XCOM: Enemy Within

[Wiglaf]

So I just delayed doing the mission, after having already lost it once, but every 30 seconds after I scan a bit, the council comes back and asks that I do it. I feel like I'm being spammed by the council and cannot put them on ignore.

[Guynemer]

It'll do that sometimes. I think I had to tell the council NOT NOW four times in a week about the second mission before they gave it a rest for a month or so.


Also, the thing I dislike the most about the Slingshot DLC is that those missions replace the usual Council missions, which takes a ****ton of money out of your pocket. Granted, getting a high level officer early is nice for the OTC, but I'd rather have the extra scratch for satellites.

[MRT144]

It also gets you the fusion launcher early, but not many games are determined by having or not having that weapon

[Wiglaf]

What is the reward if I win Slingshot?

[MRT144]

What is the reward if I win Slingshot?

Swift kick in the nuts for wasting your time.

[regexcellent]

The blaster launcher, the fusion lance, and some money, engineers, and scientists. Plus alien alloys and elerium out the wazoo.

[Wiglaf]

Is building research labs ever useful? Has that been patched?

[regexcellent]

Well now you'll need one (1) for gene mods. Research also takes longer now so that might be some incentive, but there are also more foundry projects so workshop adjacency bonuses are worth more. My guess is that the balance is still firmly in favor of engineers over scientists. Short of requiring a minimum number of scientists to advance research that will always be the case.

[MRT144]

On Marathon research labs are awesome!

[Wiglaf]

Oh God I didn't realize there was even a marathon option. How bad is it?

[regexcellent]

Oh God I didn't realize there was even a marathon option. How bad is it?

Never played it, but there's also a "long war" mod that's supposed to extend the length of the game massively (although it suffers from serious balance issues).

In Enemy Within news Gamespot has a trailer showcasing the base defense mission (spoiler-ish stuff so I won't post it here). It's a pretty cool set-piece mission, one of several that have been added. 3 were added in a Slingshot-like council mission sequence which, like Slingshot, gives you a new character at the end. Then there's a bunch of one-off council missions that they've added so that it's not all bomb/VIP/kill Thin Men.

So basically this expansion has more of everything.

[Wiglaf]

Does base defense mission account for your actual base layout at all?

[regexcellent]

It appears that it does not. It's a set-piece mission like the alien base and the temple ship.

[MrFun]

Hmmm ....

I might have to check out reviews of XCOM (the first title) out. With the expansion discussed here, it sounds like an exciting game.

[MRT144]

Oh God I didn't realize there was even a marathon option. How bad is it?

its okay. definitely have different squads for things because wounds can take time to heal.