I have a sniper who is the heart and soul of my team. She's been with me for 15 missions or so now and has around 30-ish kills. She is a demigod with her laser sniper.
I will weep the day I lose her, and I feel like it comes soon.
So... question. Is it safe to sell things on the Grey Market that no longer have research projects on them? Like Sectoid corpses and Weapon Fragments?
I'm worried research projects will come up that need like 50 Sectoid corpses or something.
You will need corpses for research projects. There are specific items that will say something like "You won't need these for research" which you're free to sell.
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You also need corpses and weapon fragments to build things.
So after some VPN black magic I managed to unlock this in steam, can't play with steam online.. but whatever, I can play! I don't want to wait 3 days because Im European!
Still bothers me that companies does that in this day and age.
Also, impossible, is evil, horribly horribly evil. I gave in and swapped down to classic instead.
So, I managed to get this running in Europe and managed to get to the first terror mission this morning on normal. Go classic If you want a challenge at all, I've lost a single dude so far, and that was cause I was greedy and tried to capture an outsider on my second UFO interception.
I'm probably going to finish this normal play through and then start classic ironman with forumer names.
This game is awesome!
As an aside, is there a strategy to interceptions? I've just been spamming buttons and somehow taking down the UFOs. I don't think that strategy is going to last.
At the end of the tutorial (at least, I assume it's the end - I now have full control), I lost 6 soldiers:
Sq. jclast, my first Heavy. 5 Kills, 3 Missions. Cut down by a lucky goddamn shot from a Sectoid.
Sq. CorriganX, my second Heavy. 4 Kills, 2 Missions. Wounded by a panicking ally, killed by a Thin Man's poison while panicking himself.
Rk. The Burnin8or, 0/1. First mission casualty.
Rk. Comradebot, 0/1. First mission casualty.
Rk. AspectVoid, 1/1. First mission casualty.
Rk. SirToons, 0/2. I honestly can't remember. Sorry bro.
Man, you got me killed in the first mission? Some glorious commander you are. :P I hope you saved an arm or something so you can clone me and I can get another shot. I know I can do better next time!
In other news, I shall have my copy after work today and get to playing. It shall be most excellent!
Apart from one mission where I missed 15 point blank reaction shots in a role, I am finding the RNG as expected, with the caveat being I assume the aliens have superior aiming stats on average.
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Apart from one mission where I missed 15 point blank reaction shots in a role, I am finding the RNG as expected, with the caveat being I assume the aliens have superior aiming stats on average.
Me too. Aside from the occasional "magic bullet" shot (which I have gotten as well) nothing about it has been overly fucked up.
In fact I give thanks to its fickle attitude when one of my dudes panic shots the teammate that is right next to them and misses. :P
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So, I took the forum name file and overwrote the one that's in the game directory, but I'm still getting generic names. When I close and reopen the file, I see the forum name list, and nothing else from the original file. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
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Been playing Classic Ironman. Lost 3 people so far and finished every mission pretty smoothly.
Sadly I seem to be losing the strategic layer for reasons I can not yet fully unravel.
Still a really good first campaign!
After taking heavy fire, Sq. Rend owes his life once again to his teammates, this time Sq. CorriganX (again), who valiantly advanced to neutralize the sectoid gunning for him. After taking a breather, Sq. Rend then led the charge into the alien craft. Sq. Lanructon, who somehow failed to hit any aliens despite being a sniper, did indeed though provide the squad with extremely valuable intel during his flanking maneuver of the final insecure part of the operation zone. Sq. Rend proceeded to run up to one sectoid, blast him with a shotgun, and indirectly blew the mind of the second.
Sq. @CorriganX - Kills: 6, Missions: 3, Promoted to Corporal
Sq. @Lanructon - Kills: 2, Missions: 3, Promoted to Corporal
Sq. Rend - Kills: 2, Missions: 3, Promoted to Corporal (Wounded, 4 days)
Sq. @Sirialis - Kills: 3, Missions: 2, Promoted to Corporal
RIP @Basil, the bravest Assault thats lived. Secured live specimen of Mutons, Thinmen, an Outsider, and the Sectoids. The Shotgun from South Africa was truly a hero for the squad. My memorial wall picture is below the spoiler.
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It's sad. Playing on Normal, and I'm already figuring on restarting because I don't like the choices I made with the base, and I already had one country pull out...4 hours of learning done, time to try again.
But if you'd care to enlighten my non-understanding when I'm seeing strings of 50% and up hit chances miss over and over, please, do so. But from my experience I'm well outside the expected variance for as many practical coin tosses as I've made.
Started over from scratch so I could fail miserably on my own.
Mission 1: All recruits performed admirably.
Rk. Basil 2/1, promoted to Assault
Rk. Tef 2/1, promoted to Support
Rk. Jaramar 0/1, KIA. Sectoid charged up in his grill and unloaded point blank. /pours out a 40
Rk. Just_Bri_Thanks 2/1, promoted to Sniper. Got shot in the face by a Sectoid ambush, but survived (wounded 16 days).
In a startlingly unlikely display of bad luck, Cpl. Rend found himself behind full cover, bleeding out due to fire from sectoids. Rk. Turkey dutifully abandoned his overwatch to deliver to him the fruits of the medkit from his loadout. However, upon arriving at the same full cover, sectoid fire, once again, ignored the laws of probability, killing him instantly. With nobody left to revive him, Cpl. Rend expired two turns later. Cpl. Lanructon and Rk. Rooms, both of whom have been promoted and decorated for valor, proceeded to find and escort the VIP from this mission, up until a pair of thin men jumped down on either side of Lanructon. It seems that bad luck comes in threes, or fours, or millions, because not only did Lanructon's reactionary bullet fail to kill one of the thin men as he jumped, but that was also the last one in his clip.
Not to be defeated, Cpl. Lanructon proceeded to take out his sidearm, killing the thin man. Though he was injured by the one behind him, quick reaction and valorous cover fire from Rk. Fooms allowed both of them, as well as the VIP, to make it out alive.
Cpl. Rend - Kills: 2, Missions: 4, KIA- Scientifically discovered that lasers do not care about cover.
Cpl. "Specter" @Lanructon - Kills: 5, Missions: 4, Promoted to Sergeant (Wounded: 4 days)
Rk. @Turkey - Kills: 0, Missions: 1, KIA - Too kind for this world.
Rk. @Fooms - Kills: 5 (?!), Missions: 1, Promoted to Squaddie (Assault)
Thanks XCOM for naming the saves after the game number. Every time I load I get reminded that I've had to restart 4 times so far. I've finally made it to April and already lost a country so I'm guessing I'm not done with the restarts.
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I am going to do it just for the achievement :P
And then never ever ever again.
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Its not about surviving the mission. Its about taking as many et's down with you.
I will weep the day I lose her, and I feel like it comes soon.
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I played the demo on my pc and it seemed ok on the lowest settings, but I don't want to get it for PC and see slow downs at different stages.
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I'm worried research projects will come up that need like 50 Sectoid corpses or something.
You don't understand probability.
Giantbomb has a 50ish minute quick look on the game, but the short summary is that it plays perfectly fine and you won't have any problems.
Awesome. It won't feel the same playing it on console, but good to know it won't hurt gameplay.
Selling Board Games for Medical Bills
You will need corpses for research projects. There are specific items that will say something like "You won't need these for research" which you're free to sell.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
Still bothers me that companies does that in this day and age.
Also, impossible, is evil, horribly horribly evil. I gave in and swapped down to classic instead.
I'm probably going to finish this normal play through and then start classic ironman with forumer names.
This game is awesome!
As an aside, is there a strategy to interceptions? I've just been spamming buttons and somehow taking down the UFOs. I don't think that strategy is going to last.
Man, you got me killed in the first mission? Some glorious commander you are. :P I hope you saved an arm or something so you can clone me and I can get another shot. I know I can do better next time!
In other news, I shall have my copy after work today and get to playing. It shall be most excellent!
And the fact that other people are having no trouble (including snipers with 15 kills), proves you wrong. :P
Me too. Aside from the occasional "magic bullet" shot (which I have gotten as well) nothing about it has been overly fucked up.
In fact I give thanks to its fickle attitude when one of my dudes panic shots the teammate that is right next to them and misses. :P
Sadly I seem to be losing the strategic layer for reasons I can not yet fully unravel.
Still a really good first campaign!
Operation Crimson Giant
After taking heavy fire, Sq. Rend owes his life once again to his teammates, this time Sq. CorriganX (again), who valiantly advanced to neutralize the sectoid gunning for him. After taking a breather, Sq. Rend then led the charge into the alien craft. Sq. Lanructon, who somehow failed to hit any aliens despite being a sniper, did indeed though provide the squad with extremely valuable intel during his flanking maneuver of the final insecure part of the operation zone. Sq. Rend proceeded to run up to one sectoid, blast him with a shotgun, and indirectly blew the mind of the second.
Sq. @CorriganX - Kills: 6, Missions: 3, Promoted to Corporal
Sq. @Lanructon - Kills: 2, Missions: 3, Promoted to Corporal
Sq. Rend - Kills: 2, Missions: 3, Promoted to Corporal (Wounded, 4 days)
Sq. @Sirialis - Kills: 3, Missions: 2, Promoted to Corporal
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
akajaybay, Drokmir, and AspectVoid. Your unnecessary sacrifices will not be forgotten
Man, that is twice I failed to make it out of the first mission. This does not give me great hope for my future as an X-COM operative.
Play this at my funeral.
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I have done so little work today, unless staring at the clock counts as work...
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I do, actually.
But if you'd care to enlighten my non-understanding when I'm seeing strings of 50% and up hit chances miss over and over, please, do so. But from my experience I'm well outside the expected variance for as many practical coin tosses as I've made.
Mission 1: All recruits performed admirably.
Rk. Basil 2/1, promoted to Assault
Rk. Tef 2/1, promoted to Support
Rk. Jaramar 0/1, KIA. Sectoid charged up in his grill and unloaded point blank. /pours out a 40
Rk. Just_Bri_Thanks 2/1, promoted to Sniper. Got shot in the face by a Sectoid ambush, but survived (wounded 16 days).
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Currently playing: GW2 and TSW
Law and Order ≠ Justice
ACNH Island Isla Cero: DA-3082-2045-4142
Captain of the SES Comptroller of the State
Operation Soaring Mountain
In a startlingly unlikely display of bad luck, Cpl. Rend found himself behind full cover, bleeding out due to fire from sectoids. Rk. Turkey dutifully abandoned his overwatch to deliver to him the fruits of the medkit from his loadout. However, upon arriving at the same full cover, sectoid fire, once again, ignored the laws of probability, killing him instantly. With nobody left to revive him, Cpl. Rend expired two turns later. Cpl. Lanructon and Rk. Rooms, both of whom have been promoted and decorated for valor, proceeded to find and escort the VIP from this mission, up until a pair of thin men jumped down on either side of Lanructon. It seems that bad luck comes in threes, or fours, or millions, because not only did Lanructon's reactionary bullet fail to kill one of the thin men as he jumped, but that was also the last one in his clip.
Not to be defeated, Cpl. Lanructon proceeded to take out his sidearm, killing the thin man. Though he was injured by the one behind him, quick reaction and valorous cover fire from Rk. Fooms allowed both of them, as well as the VIP, to make it out alive.
Cpl. Rend - Kills: 2, Missions: 4, KIA- Scientifically discovered that lasers do not care about cover.
Cpl. "Specter" @Lanructon - Kills: 5, Missions: 4, Promoted to Sergeant (Wounded: 4 days)
Rk. @Turkey - Kills: 0, Missions: 1, KIA - Too kind for this world.
Rk. @Fooms - Kills: 5 (?!), Missions: 1, Promoted to Squaddie (Assault)
You're still kickin' on my team! Got you a snazzy Nano Fiber Vest, just to keep you alive better while you shoot mans.
Secondly, you are kind of a big deal.
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