playing the original xcom ufo defence

five

dollars

so close

tip: if you're having a lot of trouble with early terror missions, when you start, immediately buy a bunch of scientists (i tend to buy 10) and rush the shit out of laser pistol research (don't bother with anything else yet). if you do that, you should have a full armory of laser pistols by the time the first terror mission engages, making the mission a breeze.

most of the time, it's encouraged that you don't investigate the crash sites of small ufos, as they don't give many goodies that you can't get in bulk from terror missions. you should still shoot down every ufo you meet though, as every ufo destroyed nets you 'points', which results in the council giving you more money at the end of the month

tip: until you unlock alien grenades, never use grenades. if something really needs exploding, just get your heavy weapons guys to handle it. instead, use smoke grenades, all the time. a team full of rookies armed with laser pistols and tossing smoke grenades liberally will absolutely dominate the early game.

why is this so accurate

"yesterday at 0:00"



woh

just got terror from the deep

i'll see if it's any easier

ruff wrote:just got terror from the deep

i'll see if it's any easier

everyone says it's an assload harder
it's easy mode is supposedly the same as the original's hard mode

well so far i can't even figure out how to exit the starter shuttle

so

ruff wrote:well so far i can't even figure out how to exit the starter shuttle

so

it's at the front on the right side

so i think my first round in this game went pretty good. i was trying to find a way out of the shuttle, and began by trying to see if i could use the two computers in the shuttle (they were completely useless) or the little booths in the back like the elevators from the first game. i couldn't, so i eventually just tried shooting the walls with the gauss pistols (but i couldn't, because i didn't pack any ammo for the pistols because i didn't realize they needed ammo). eventually, i decided to move every crew member into one corner of the shuttle, and had my heavy weapons guy fire a rocket at the other side of the shuttle to see if it could break down the walls. the walls were impenetrable, though, and the only thing i accomplished was to kill or injure half my soldiers. one of the remaining soldiers, broomhall, panicked and shot gennadi at point-blank in the face with the gas cannon, killing him instantly, which caused everybody in the shuttle to go beserk and start shooting eachother. eventually, while i was trying to make the sole surviver commit suicide, i accidentally misclicked and he walked straight out the door i didn't see and immediately got killed in alien reaction fire.

a variant of blaster bombs apparently makes a come-back in this game except bigger and even the most basic of enemies get them from the very start and fire them off liberally

told you man
front right side

i love it when those things miss

small items such as grenades and clips of ammo should be put in the shoulder inventory slots in your soldier's inventory, as it requires less TU to bring items from a shoulder to a respective hand then from anywhere else

however items you pick off the ground and put in your inventory costs 2 TU less to stick in your leg inventory slots then your shoulder inventory slots so pick your poison

also just in case you don't know this already every item has a 'weight' variable and if the weight of all the objects a soldier is carrying in his inventory is higher then his 'strength' then he'll suffer from a slow-down (have less TUs every turn) so if you're planning to deck a rookie unit out in say power armor and heavy weapons you'll probably have to do some micromanaging

if i remember right,you can get extra pockets that take less tu to equip

Against Battleships, it is advised not to delay breaching the UFO too long, since the aliens have Blaster Launchers, and will gladly spam them to turn your troops into confetti. Sectoids and Ethereals will frequently mind control your weakest Psi soldier, through their abusive "spotting one of your troops lets us mind control ANY soldier" rule. This soldier will then spin around, giving away 80% of your troop deployment, enabling blaster bombs to appear out of nowhere and kill everyone. Against Snakemen, expect a Chryssalid scout to easily spot your troop locations with their 120 TUs, and have a rain of Blaster Bombs shower upon you.

ruff wrote:

Against Battleships, it is advised not to delay breaching the UFO too long, since the aliens have Blaster Launchers, and will gladly spam them to turn your troops into confetti. Sectoids and Ethereals will frequently mind control your weakest Psi soldier, through their abusive "spotting one of your troops lets us mind control ANY soldier" rule. This soldier will then spin around, giving away 80% of your troop deployment, enabling blaster bombs to appear out of nowhere and kill everyone. Against Snakemen, expect a Chryssalid scout to easily spot your troop locations with their 120 TUs, and have a rain of Blaster Bombs shower upon you.

sounds fun

yay enemy unknown is 10 dollars now

ok i think ruff might end up saving the world
he didn't seem to get mind controlled which might mean he's a psionic
so ruff
you could probably be the volunteer