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[Mageziya]

It's simple, XCOM researched shield technology even before the aliens arrived. The only problem is it's faulty. Really, really faulty. So faulty it never works when it matters. They just put it on their soldiers out of tradition and an excuse to dump money into shield technology hoping they will eventually discover how to make better shields.

So that's where all the funding has been going.

Why else would the single line of defense against an alien invasion be getting 50$/month funding? 

I've always interpreted the currency in the game to be representative of more. Like say, 1 Unit of the currency equals, say 1000000 USD.

[WillowLuman]

Me too. There's no way a badass jet fighter costs $200 US

[Tarran]

Maybe the US just did a very, very good job deflating the currency.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

As we have discussed before, the credits (which do not use a dollar symbol at all) are probably more representative of the massive resources being contributed to X-Com by the member nations. Things that have any kind of reasonable cost just have infinite quantities.

Interceptors are the absolute top-of-the-line so-bleeding-edge-we're-not-sure-it-won't-explode jet fighter, medkits can instantly stymie near-fatal wounds to the point that the recipient can usually keep fighting even when the actual medical treatment takes the better part of a month. SCOPEs are the Future Solider AR that dozens of TV shows have been made predicting, being deployed in 2015. It's all the kind of stuff you pour immeasurable resources into making functional for X-Com, the... "world's finest".

[Mephansteras]

Given how many shots my guys have missed from about a meter away, I wonder about the 'world's finest' at times.

Seriously. And the panicking because a buddy got shot, followed by shooting that buddy in the face because you panicked. On a bright sunny day, with absolutely no reason to think that your buddy was an alien.

[Sharp]

Well you only get funding from 1 country at the start and you have to make and launch your own satellites it's pretty obvious the council just have XCOM as some UN no-hope plan.

[WillowLuman]

You get funding from the Council, plus a bonus stipend from the country you start in.

[10ebbor10]

Just putting stuff together

1) Everyone seems panicky near aliens. Civilians forget to run away, military personal is completely ineffective, and even the anti alien squad panics constantly.
2) Sectoids and other aliens are psychic
3) You can make units panic using psychic abilities.

==> The aliens have some latent psychic panic field surrounding all their units.

[Ibid Straydrink]

Just putting stuff together

1) Everyone seems panicky near aliens. Civilians forget to run away, military personal is completely ineffective, and even the anti alien squad panics constantly.
2) Sectoids and other aliens are psychic
3) You can make units panic using psychic abilities.

==> The aliens have some latent psychic panic field surrounding all their units.

No, it's their ability to manipulate dark energy, which not only affects physical-energy patterns (such as thought), but partitions time and space into seemingly arbitrary, turn-based segments!

...This is bigger than... everything.

[baruk]

 My first attempt at a classic ironman game, and this just happened (2nd terror mission):

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Sweet Jesus I'm boned.

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 12 chrysalids, and that's only the ones I can see. So long Germany.

[Lightningfalcon]

My first attempt at a classic ironman game, and this just happened (2nd terror mission):

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Sweet Jesus I'm boned.

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 12 crysalids, and that's only the ones I can see. So long Germany.

Well at least you got that tactical nuke.  So long Berlin, nice knowing ya. 

[baruk]

 I.. did not expect this. In the midst of our dashing for the skyranger tactical withdrawal, our alien foe makes a heinous positional error:

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We mopped up the rest by bravely sniping from the evac zone:

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[Mephansteras]

Wow, that's awesome.

[Ibid Straydrink]

That always happens in that scenario.

[CognitiveDissonance]

I have been thinking on this a lot. I really enjoy the added challenges of I/I but I also learned that the "only" acceptable strategy is creep around the edges and abuse the spotting mechanic.

That is incredibly unfun to me. I can accept such enough things in MMO's, but not in an AAA tactical game.


Baring dumb luck, is it plausible to play I/I without THE CREEP? As it stands, it's ruining my desire to play the game. Especially with UFO:AI, Xenonauts etc around.