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[Flying Dice]

No. Time to spend ten times as much effort continually reloading because your actions weren't totally optimized. 

[jhxmt]

No. Time to spend ten times as much effort continually reloading because your actions weren't totally optimized. 

GOD DAMN YOU, DWARF FORTRESS ADAPTED STYLE OF PLAY!   

[Mephansteras]

I have yet to complete XCOM.   

Stupid me for starting on Ironman.  I got too attached to my soldiers (three of my original four are still alive and kicking backside), and now I don't want to play that game any more because I just KNOW they're going to die.  Poor bastards.

So I've started a new game with EXPENDABLE CANNON FODDER troops that I don't care about!  On non-Ironman.  I'm a coward.    Time to race through the game now, right?  Right?

Better idea. Take your initial game and turn it into a let's play so that their eventual deaths can be preserved in heroic glory in front of an audience. Then, fighting past the tears of grief, grind the alien scum beneath your feet in their honor!

[Mageziya]

One thing I would recommend doing is watching Beaglerush's Ironman Impossible series. Very educational about how the game works, and entertaining to boot!

I should mention he never finished. He was too afraid to go on due to risk of a severe alien teleporting bugs. His decision was to wait until a patch came. A patch never came. What's strange is I feel like it did, silently, because I haven't seen a teleporting pack of aliens in a long time.

Also, what difficulty is your Ironman game at?

[kilakan]

There was on patch quite awhile ago that I beleive claimed to have fixed teleporting aliens in the subtext of the patchnotes somewhere.  However it's still a really rare bug and thus not 'totally' patched.

[Sharp]

beagle didn't finish the yt series but he has beaten Ironman Impossible

[jhxmt]

Also, what difficulty is your Ironman game at?

Classic.  I've dialled it down to Normal for my non-Ironman runthrough (since my main goal is to just finish the damn thing before X Rebirth comes out in November and decimates my free time!  )

Thanks for the link - I like watching other people play games like this (my tactics-fu is weak), I shall watch with interest! 

[Remalle]

Thought this was interesting.

[Mephansteras]

Thought this was interesting.

Wow. I literally just finished reading that article.

It is interesting. I'd love to have a good alien-focused game that truly made the aliens feel alien and not just kind of odd humans.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I still believe one of the ultimate potentials that X-Com as a series has yet to fufil is a competitive campaign mode, ala UFO: The Two Sides.

[Robosaur]

Forgive me if I'm completely mistaken, but I recall hearing of a mod that gives each soldier completely randomized perks?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It'll be a Second Wave option in Enemy Within. Perk Roulette will make it so any solider can get any perk, even if that perk is from another class entirely.

[majikero]

Inspired by a LP and lawyer puns and euphemism, it gave me some insight to tactics and reason to play classic ironman mode with random damage, random funding, random rookie stats and random promotion stats.

By the third mission usually is when things go horribly horribly wrong. Killing my best heavy at full health at full cover by a crit from a sectoid. Also hitting that 50% sniper shot to the wrong sectoid and not the one buffing the other one.

XCOM, how I miss thee.

[Mageziya]

You all know that glitch where soldiers sometimes use the wrong weapon models? (Commonly seen with snipers using their rifle as a pistol or vice versa.)

I managed to end up with a support using, instead of their Plasma Rifle, a Medkit.

I didn't even realize the Medkit had an in game model before this.

[umiman]

It's that red thing they hold in their hands when they decide to spray the air over a dying soldier.