XCOM Enemy Unknown

Before I saw who posted this, I thought it was going to be another post from our resident wacko who thinks Tippmann is trying to assassinate him.

It is a blast, new versions of aliens, a lot of the old 'tricks' are revamped and not available till tech is way advanced.
Right now I am just surviving on plain 'bullet launchers' rifles and mgs and a rocket launcher against the sectoids and the 'skinny men' a new alien human replica. Basically shoot and move, and keep spread out but covering each other.

So far one base, main in North America, 1 satellite watching, 6 troopers, and very low tech, got to get certian amounts of alien 'tech' to start research on anything other than terran advance tech.

I am only a LT, and my troops are moving up as I balance thier promotions and skills to keep us all relativly equal in skill.

Only shot down 1 UFO a light scout, harder than it was in old game, basically I am dealing with 'terror' missions and recoveries of humans from captivity.

Not as much skill required as the old game, IMHO. The original needed some serious thinking and planning in the tactical levels.

This strikes me a little more as point and click console interface.

That does not stop it being as fun as all hell.

Bloody French pulled out of XCom in the first month. Typical. I've only now figured out how to run the sattelites/research/building and the like, so it's good to go.

I've still got my original team together, they are all Captains or soemthing and absolutely hard core. I have a sniper, one assaults, two heavys and two support. I maxed out my medical skills (still working on improved medic packs) but if my guys take a hit they get healed PDQ. I basically have my sniper protected by a LMG'er, my assaulter with "my" character who is support and the last LMG with the next support. Am busy researching Plasma sniper rifles to replace the laser one, my assaulter has a laser shotgun, one LMG'er is using a gattling laser, one is with an old belt fed, one support is with a light plasma rifle and "I" have a full plasma rifle.

I spend loads of time in overwatch. They are wearing a mix of Titan armour and Carapace, as I can make it, it trickles down. My assaulter basically runs in and opens things up for the sniper who has squad vision. He then lures them back to the LMG'ers. The LMG'ers have the ability to shoot more than once if it is the first thing they do every turn. Or they can shoot then move. That's really handy for reverse leapfrogging movements.

I still have issues with the enemy being in groups of 3 vs my groups of 2, but it is still fun.

Designing your base is very important to get the adjacent bonuses.

Really anoyed. During a landed terror ship mission, my South African trooper who I renamed after myself and designed to look like me went toe to two with a Muton Bezerker and his two mates and took some serious damage but held out. Is down for 7 days with wounds and my very next mission? Port Elizabeth in South Africa. :(

PS unlock the reduced healing time ASAP!

KBK

PPS this doesn't "feel" like the original game, it feels more like X-Com Afterlight. That is a great game. I suggest anyone who likes the X-Com series to try it.

PPPS most epic moment so far is first time coming across a Cyberdisk, the drones, some Sectoids and some Floaters all repositioned around the Cyberdisk. Say hello to Mr ROCKET LAUNCHER. I took out 8 enemy with one rocket. :)

Edited by Kayback - 19 October 2012 at 2:45am