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[Puzzlemaker]

I love this game!  I have decided to only play on veteran mode, and have gotten my ass kicked pretty hard the first few times.  My current playthough is going pretty well, but I may restart with some mods (Although honestly I want to beat the game finally... I haven't been able to get very far).

Edit:  While I am here... what's the best way to go about starting?  I am building a second base right away, and getting a second lab + two more radar dishes in my main base.  Main base goes in the middle east area, second base goes on the good ol US of A.  Any suggestions?

[GlyphGryph]

Thats what I have been doing. Two more radar bases right off the bat is a LOT of money though - and one gives you good enough coverage to start, I think. That money is probably better spent elsewhere - god knows there will be little enough of it soon enough.

And the starting ships just aren't long ranged enough to make use of that radar distance.

[Puzzlemaker]

That's true, I have noticed that.  It's all a bit of a juggling act, honestly.  I find myself airstriking downed alien ships fairly often when I can't/wont/don't feel like dealing with them.

[lastverb]

I always start with the first base somewhere in Egypt. Second one goes on Cuba, and third on Philippines area. Later on IF (big if) I have cash to spare i put single radar on alaska, but the game is alredy won at that point.
In xenonauts not having a 3rd base somewhere at the beginning of 3rd month is not only suboptimal start, it equals loss on higher difficulties. This game doesn't allow you to loose funding. Manufacturing is money sink, not a milking cow like in earlier games, and missions do not provide much cash (airstrikes gives much less and do not allow you to train soldiers).

I'm just spoilering my post from the old thread:

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Bravery and reflex for all my guys, except disposable scouts. Everything else is easy to train. I find grenades to be most reliable weapons - stun gas ones, single one takes care of any problem / multiple problems if your problems are not robotic.
Shields are op - 80hp that doesn't need healing? Well, half of your squad will be using pistols. Most fearsome enemies? Reapers of course, those things move half the map and still eat your guy up. Once you get a hang of air combat you will not loose any aircraft to enemies, you will not even get a hit, however from time to time i still loose some to lack of fuel (they use shitload of fuel in battle).
As far as xcom games go on i'm waiting for apocalypse (re)make. It's original features were cut so much, and i still find it best game in the series.

[GlyphGryph]

What difficulty do you play on? Honestly, I'm not sure how true that feels to my own experience.

Androns, in my mind, are way worse than Reapers. Reapers, at least, you can kill. Androns can eat several direct hits from plasma weapons and keep on trucking, and have pretty great accuracy to fire back. And they can do it from range, meaning that you have to close and open yourself up to additional attacks if you want to actually be likely to kill them with focused fire. Additionally, Androns get explosive guns, which reliably kill adv.shielded/wolf armored targets in a single shot. Hell, I still have no clue what to do about that shit! I honestly don't know!

[Aklyon]

Reapers are the easiest to kill, assuming you have a good rocket in position: Just blow them to pieces, theres no tech to be lost from blowing it up on them. (also, of course reapers are dangerous if half your squad uses pistols, lastverb. Pistols are backup weapons, and maybe count as normal weapons once you have laser pistols.)

[andrea]

reapers are most dangerous when your squad decides to reaction fire on that incoming zombie... resulting in a reaper emerging and turning your soldier into another zombie.

Although I think that now the new reaper only has half its maximum TU during the turn it spawns in. Which makes a very big difference.

[Descan]

FYI for you all, a few flashbangsl, like 3 to 5, will stun enemies. Which means you can capture the greys and lizards early, which REALLY helps, with the ten% damage boost. It'll even stun reapers and the flying bunnies.

[Lucidvizion]

Just beat it yesterday.  IMO it's definitely the best X-COM remake out there. 

2nd = firaxis remake
3rd = UFO: Afterlight

I can't wait to see what the modding community comes up with.

[GlyphGryph]

They've already come up with quite a few things! Check out the links to the "completed mods" forums in the OP, the mod I recommended everyone download, and maybe follow them to get to the in-progress ones and check those out too.

[Mephansteras]

I really should try the game out again. It's been months.

[thegoatgod_pan]

How are you all getting stunbombs and grenades? It never came up in my research, but I was doing rather badly in my run.

[Aseaheru]

Stun grenades need the stun weapons researched, most weapon researches give off many things...


Also, is someone going to do a LP of this here?

And I might, provided I get myself a paypal, and hopefully a place to buy it thats not steam.

[dennislp3]

I want to play this...but this seems like 1 of 500000 X-Com based games...what the hell one should I start with lol

[Bouchart]

Stun grenades need the stun weapons researched, most weapon researches give off many things...


Also, is someone going to do a LP of this here?

And I might, provided I get myself a paypal, and hopefully a place to buy it thats not steam.

It's available on GOG.