Started playing Enemy Within now that I have a computer that can handle it, Classic Ironman with randomizing options sans Skill Roulette (as is custom). It's been going well (my first Steam X-Com Achievement is the one for finishing a mission without losing any soldiers, which should make decent bragging rights) save for a debacle on the first UFO crash that got half the team annihilated by the Outsider. Unexpected sight angles and rookie panic spirals strike again. I'm liking the medals because you can rename them, which lets me actually designate soldiers as Blessed By The RNG when the time is right.
But a feature I didn't expect came from this being an Alienware computer, which as it turns out has FX for XCOM. The LEDs on it are
X-Com Cyan during setup and mission victories, only to turn Alien Red during their turns, which was a little shocking at first. It's yellow otherwise though, which I'm not that much of a fan of. I'd like it more if it was Cyan during my turns and base shenanigans.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and to continue the phenomenon of X-Com having prescient mission names, the mission where I lost half my team and only survived thanks to a decent Run & Gun was called Operation Bloody Hero. The assault in question was even fucking injured.
It knows.
And it was going so well. Fuck bomb disposals.
Also, what is with XCOM's oddly prophetic mission names?
I lost a guy, who had %99 chance to hit, on "Operation Shattered Shield."
I just had a 90% stun fail, ruining the mission....in Operation Broken Spark.
I am not a superstitious man, but this has happened too many times. It knows, man. It fucking knows.