XCOM: Enemy Within

[regexcellent]

The Ghost armor is ALWAYS the best because it has the grapple hook, +movement speed, +100% crit chance on demand, +20 defense, and the invisibilty breaking LOS symmetry. It is totally broken. Archangel can be good on snipers but Ghost's critical hit on demand is hard to pass up.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

The problem is that you have to save people to get the panic reduction. So you have to run in, rescue some people, then run back out and hold the chokepoint without getting caught in an enemy overwatch. Also, chryssalids move faster than you so if you're not speedy they'll catch up and eat you.

I'm with DaShi; **** the civilians. My primary, secondary, and tertiary goal in a terror mission is getting my squad through it in one piece, which is easier at the army base than the city hall, in my experience.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

How are you guys still fighting chryssalids by the time you have Archangel or Ghost Armor?

[regexcellent]

I'm uusally not. I think they still appear on the lower difficulties, even though IMO they're actually harder than the heavy floaters that appear later. Maybe it's just because I'm always so overpowered by then but chryssalids have always scared me more than sectopods. I've never lost anyone to sectopods.

[Guynemer]

Oh God, the sectopod's delayed area-of-effect rocket attack... that seriously ****ed my **** up the first time I saw one.

[regexcellent]

The first time I saw one I killed it in one shot. Double-tap from a shotgun at point blank range and down it went.

[Guynemer]

The first time I saw one I killed it in one shot. Double-tap from a shotgun at point blank range and down it went.

*Offer not valid on Classic difficulty

[regexcellent]

On my classic playthrough I generally killed them in one turn too, or at least suppressed them with my heavy and one of my supports, which effectively neutralizes them. Throw smoke, suppress, suppress, suddenly it can't hit anything.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Oh God, the sectopod's delayed area-of-effect rocket attack... that seriously ****ed my **** up the first time I saw one.

Strewth.

[regexcellent]

Looks like they've redone voice-overs so people have the proper accents.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Dammit. You couldn't have waited until November to post this thread?

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Man, I still really suck at this game. It's so hard not to lose guys in the early missions on Classic.

[regexcellent]

I just started another playthrough on Saturday, classic ironman. On month 5 I think (maybe 6), haven't lost anyone, haven't lost any countries, and I have satellites over 12 countries. I'll have satellites over 15 of them at the end of the month. I'm just now assaulting the alien base.

I've had a bunch of really close shaves though. People getting critically wounded and barely avoiding bleeding out, that sort of thing. I almost lost a colonel when I had 8 mutons appear at once at a UFO crash. That was tough.

For the record, the way to survive encounters like that is with smoke grenades. Smoke grenades with dense smoke are amazing. Enemies can't hit you at all if you're behind full cover.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

For the record, the way to survive encounters like that is with smoke grenades. Smoke grenades with dense smoke are amazing. Enemies can't hit you at all if you're behind full cover.

This advice is like a kick in the balls considering I just lost a rookie in smoke and behind full cover. Should have triggered the Outsider with someone farther away...

[regexcellent]

Okay, I should amend that to MOST enemies can't hit you; outsiders have ridiculous aim. I think they have the highest in the game besides ethereals? If ethereals have an aim stat.

Edit: huh, mutons have the same aim. Well I guess it has to do with rookies having a lower defense stat.

Did you try hunkering down?