XCOM: Enemy Unknown

[Armor and Sword]

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Man I love that shredder rocket.

I love blowing **** up in this game......sorry but survival takes precedent over artifacts. Screw science....this is war.

LOL.

Anyway I finally built my Alien Containment facility, and have my third uplink almost done (and doing the adjancent bonus) also have my first thermal generator being built.

As you can see I have been moving slow (this is my third play through after really being overwhelmed) and reading the excellent guide helped me understand what and what not to do early on. I am doing research at a much slower pace, building up my troops and launching satellites all over the map. I could research Skeleton armor but have held off as I am kicking all kinds of ***.

Playing on Normal.
My next play through will be Normal Ironman.

I am seeing Mutons and Cyberdiscs as well as drones (which all have had an autopsy).

I am reading all my research reports etc and just taking in the game and really role playing it out.

GOTY.

[mgoblue]

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Got the full version from Greenman Gaming, 5 bucks off and I now have 10 bucks in credit there for future DLC maybe.

Just 1 mission in after the first 2 tutorial type missions...this is amazing. Haven't lost anyone yet, but it'll happen. I think I'm moving too fast during battles, but I'm sure a few surprise aliens will cure me of that problem.

[murph17]

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From http://www.virtualshackles.com/

[DocHolliday]

Decided to play my normal/Ironman play through after coming back from having a few brews.

That was a bad idea.


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[Sausage]

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Did the demo do the retail release any justice? This thread has peaked my interest and the last strategy game I tried was Advance Wars on the GBA handheld.

[mgoblue]

Man....just wiped on a bigger UFO. Those ground guys that gut you are brutal. Didn't fall back right away and lost some of my finest. Had to stop so I could reflect lol amazing game

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[nemesis04]

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Things are getting complicated, just lost a whole squad on a mission! ****!

[Knight165]

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Yeah....
I had a UFO landed mission last night and got caught badly in two ways
-1. I didn't bring at least one low ranking support/assault guy as a "scout"
-2. When I did get caught by surprise and flanked badly......I didn't use the "hunker down" for my guys in the worst spots and cover them with overwatch from the others...so I lost my two best assault team members.

In the immortal words that I hear way too much from my squad members....
..."that is NOT good"....

-side note....not giving the snipers the shoot after movement perk really, really hinders them in combat. Not getting them the plasma sniper rifle ASAP is also a mistake.



M.K.
Knight165

[redsrule]

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Yeah....
I had a UFO landed mission last night and got caught badly in two ways
-1. I didn't bring at least one low ranking support/assault guy as a "scout"
-2. When I did get caught by surprise and flanked badly......I didn't use the "hunker down" for my guys in the worst spots and cover them with overwatch from the others...so I lost my two best assault team members.

In the immortal words that I hear way too much from my squad members....
..."that is NOT good"....

-side note....not giving the snipers the shoot after movement perk really, really hinders them in combat. Not getting them the plasma sniper rifle ASAP is also a mistake.



M.K.
Knight165

An overwatch squad sight sniper is amazing. I used Snap Shot (being able to move and shoot) perk on my first run through, but this playthrough I switched it up and she has been my second best character (besides the Heavy I got at beginning of tutorial)
With Double tap too + Headshot & the Plasma Sniper Rifle, she can generally take out a Sectopod with some luck by herself.

[Knight165]

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An overwatch squad sight sniper is amazing. I used Snap Shot (being able to move and shoot) perk on my first run through, but this playthrough I switched it up and she has been my second best character (besides the Heavy I got at beginning of tutorial)
With Double tap too + Headshot & the Plasma Sniper Rifle, she can generally take out a Sectopod with some luck by herself.

True...
But also......if you can't move to new cover and shoot.....having a heavy floater suddenly show up behind your sniper or they are just slightly out of range for shooting...renders them pretty useless for at least a turn.

Obviously there is no set...best tactic....I guess it also depends on how you set up your play.

M.K.
Knight165

[SlimKibbles]

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Man, I thought once I took down that overseer ship and killed that ethereal inside the game was going to be over. There's more??? I lost 3 of my best squad members because of that ethereal. I don't know if my squad, or tactics, even on easy will be good enough to win this game.

[CMH]

Took advantage of Best Buy's B2G1F to pick this up today.

I've loved reading the stories. Now I get to share my own.


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[SlimKibbles]

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I have a decision to make...
(I'll put this in a spoiler since I don't recall people specifically talking about this)

Spoiler

I built the Gollop Chamber. I have not activated it. I decided to hold off just to see what happens. I scanned for activity, intercepted a battleship, and eventually took it down, which is something I've never done before. There is a crew of 23 on the battleship including such fun species as ethereal, muton elite, heavy floater, and sectopod. Should I even bother checking out the wrecked battleship and just go ahead and activate the device in the Gollop Chamber? I'm thinking of just doing the latter because if I am reading things correctly, doing that will halt everything (research, building of stuff, etc.) and I can only do a final mission, I guess. Might be smart to not do a battleship mission and risk losing my best troops prior to that final mission. Although, is there any value putting off activating the device and trying to build up all the other soldiers in the barracks by doing whatever random missions pop up? The battleship with a crew of 23 scares me. The final mission scares me more.

[redsrule]

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Took advantage of Best Buy's B2G1F to pick this up today.

I've loved reading the stories. Now I get to share my own.


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Say goodbye to a social life. This game is awesome.

I have a decision to make...
(I'll put this in a spoiler since I don't recall people specifically talking about this)

Spoiler

I built the Gollop Chamber. I have not activated it. I decided to hold off just to see what happens. I scanned for activity, intercepted a battleship, and eventually took it down, which is something I've never done before. There is a crew of 23 on the battleship including such fun species as ethereal, muton elite, heavy floater, and sectopod. Should I even bother checking out the wrecked battleship and just go ahead and activate the device in the Gollop Chamber? I'm thinking of just doing the latter because if I am reading things correctly, doing that will halt everything (research, building of stuff, etc.) and I can only do a final mission, I guess. Might be smart to not do a battleship mission and risk losing my best troops prior to that final mission. Although, is there any value putting off activating the device and trying to build up all the other soldiers in the barracks by doing whatever random missions pop up? The battleship with a crew of 23 scares me. The final mission scares me more.

Do you have the best armor/weapons for your soldiers? I'm on that stage as well, but I have 6 Colonels (2 assault, 2 heavy, 1 support & 1 sniper). If you feel you are ready, go for the mission. If not just wait and train more of your troops to get better armor/weapons.

[SlimKibbles]

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Do you have the best armor/weapons for your soldiers? I'm on that stage as well, but I have 6 Colonels (2 assault, 2 heavy, 1 support & 1 sniper). If you feel you are ready, go for the mission. If not just wait and train more of your troops to get better armor/weapons.

I do have the best weapons and armor but I only have 2 colonels. I decided to skip the battleship and just keep training my guys. Really that's all there is left to do. I've pretty much done everything else. I wouldn't mind having 6 colonels heading into that final battle though. Plus maybe I can keep working on my tactics. I want to crank up the difficulty on the next game.