XCOM: Enemy Unknown - FIRAXIS, TURN-BASED

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

Also: http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1756287..._too_hard.html

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Impossible difficulty is broken thanks to the teleporting aliens bug. Did they ever fix it?

Regarding XCOM stories, let me refer you to my favorite which I posted earlier in this thread:

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Originally Posted by sleeve

Storytime!

Last night I was in month 3 on my Classic Ironman playthrough. I completely and hilariously botched a VIP extraction mission. It's the one where you have to pull a general out of a bombed-out highway. Well, I led the VIP out of the crater, into cover. About a dash and a half away from the evac zone.

I killed all but one thin man standing in the way. I move my heavy into cover behind a car, next to the thin man, and take a shot. Support's turn has already ended, also in cover, behind the same car. Thin man overwatch activates, misses, but hits the car, lighting it on fire. I shoot at the thin man, and miss. I know I'm fucked: the car will explode at the beginning of my next turn. Both guys have about 10 HP, so I figure they might survive the blast.

Wrong.

My turn hits. The car explodes, killing both vets. The rookie standing next to the VIP panics, shoots and kills the VIP. *facepalm*

Post mission, I've got five countries in the red zone. Only two vets left, and a boatload of rookies. At this point, I'm contemplating a restart.

But just for the fuck of it, I sent the two vets with four rookies to take the alien base. Three laser rifles and four carapace armor sets between them. An hour later, twenty-two dead alien corpses, and one dead mind-controlled sniper later, I pull it off. Even stunned the Sectoid Commander.

ENSURE RETURN OF ORGANISM FOR ANALYSIS. CREW EXPENDABLE.

I fucking love this game.

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

Looks terrible!

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Apparently it's not bad.

I'm glad it wasn't the only one we got, though.

Sleeve's story is great. I've really gotta try this game.

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Originally Posted by epmode

This is pretty rad:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8zZsecTRfM#!

The lead designers of the original XCOM and the reboot meet for the first time.

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I had no idea the original Xcom was designed by the dad from Alf. Learn something new every day.

I really wish I could do an impossible run but I have too much shit to do! Once you have full satellite coverage the game is pretty easy...

In the end the only real problem I have with the game is how fucking buggy it is.

Let me share some of the fun ones:
When using the jet pack, being stuck in the supply ship architecture so I can't move, but I can still shoot in one narrow line to about a 5x5 square that doesn't make any sense.

A while back my shiv was damaged, and when it healed I took it out on a mission.

When the mission loaded I had 5 x com soldiers and 1 extra x-com soldier with no head. It was carrying an assault rifle but had the same health as a hover shiv, but no hover ability. It moved like a rookie and shot like a rookie with an assault rifle. Its name said S.H.I.V. When it died it exploded.

Since then I haven't been able to use S.H.I.V.s. I dismantled all my extras and built a new one and still can't use it. When I view it in view soldier screen no model shows up.

If you are using ghost armor everything breaks. Once you spot enemies in ghost mode you can see them wandering around the map untriggered even when they aren't in sight.

Sleeve that story is so fucking awesome!

It feels like a real accomplishment beating it in Ironman. My first playthrough I reloaded and kept the same squad virtually unchanged all the way through. This run I lost 54 soldiers, and like 6 of those were colonels. Right in the middle there I was stuck on laser rifles and low on alien materials and was facing lots of sectopods and elites. I failed like 7/8 missions in a row but I passed all the terror missions by the skin of my teeth, so it didn't matter much. Landed UFO's don't necessarily increase the panic level, only abductions and terror.

Still, only lost 1 country, and had all the terror on lockdown real fast. Never lost an interceptor, never lost a satellite. If you take care of the macro game your micro game is gonna be ok. God bless Council missions.

I only had 66 combat missions but killed 681 aliens...and jeez that probably took me 40-50 hours.

Didn't lose a single combatant on the temple ship either. BOO YA.

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Originally Posted by sleeve

Impossible difficulty is broken thanks to the teleporting aliens bug. Did they ever fix it?

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Yes

Is it just me or is the m+k interface kind of sloppy? I think I'd rather play it with the gamepad.

Also - anyone excited about Enemy Within?

Yeah I can't wait for the expansion, I'll be getting it for the 360 most likely.