XCOM: Enemy Unknown - FIRAXIS, TURN-BASED

[Cowutopia]

I do wish it was more random. I started seeing map repeats during playthrough 1, and I don't mean ship layouts, i mean straight up map repeats.

Enemy drop-in from the sky is pretty shit too, but overall the game is very, very good. And difficult.

[Diff-chan]

I saw that too, but at the same time, the challenge doesn't come from the map as much as the crazy different ways each enemy behaves. So if you take the same map and populate it with sectoids and thin mans, you need to handle it completely differently from how you would if it was the floating dudes and mutons or whatever.

[sleeve]

The enemy AI is pretty solid, particularly among the Mutons.

I started an Impossible Ironman run and ran into the teleporting glitch for the first time. I was running the first mission, blew up a truck, and found six sectoids staring at me. Bad times.

[Yoshi]

I'm really impressed with this so far. I encountered my first thin man and thought I had him flanked. Suddenly, I have one guy dead and another injured. And I'm only playing on Classic difficulty. I know I'm not ready to go all the way.

[epmode]

Classic is tough, Impossible is for masochists only.

[MechDeus]

I'm on whatever normal is called because I suck at strategy games. After like 10 minutes I could tell this game was going to suck me in, so I stopped in order to finish off some other stuff first. The visual style in this is excellent.

[epmode]

A new PC patch just went up. It officially adds some of those Second Wave game options (rookies get varying starting stats, funding rate by country is randomized, etc). It also fixes the teleporting enemy bug.

[Yoshi]

iOS version announced

[A Robot Bit Me]

That announcement just cost me however much an iPad costs.

[Anthony]

Hey ARBM, do you remember Kenji (KBNova) the anji player? He did all the alien designs for this game. Kinda rad!