So it turns out someone over on 4chan's /vg/ board was streaming a pirated X-Box copy of XCOM on Easy, and I caught quite a bit of it. The guy/gal (not sure which) playing it was hilariously terrible at the game, doing things like hunkering down in a building on his first turn in a terror mission and doing nothing while civvies got slaughtered everywhere, hiding his guys behind explosive crates of elerium, and not understanding that snipers are meant to stay in the back, instead using them to charge forward and recon and then immediately die.
Of course, there were a few things the guy playing honestly couldn't have played out differently. Having a guy kick open a door, only to immediately be blasted by the first Cyberdisc he'd met, was one of them. Another time he had a sniper jump over a railing to a level below, only to find out that a pair of hidden mutons were waiting right there for him. His death was swift and painful.
However, one guy survived everything that got tossed at him. Wei Guo, also known as "Werewolf". Nothing could kill this man, it was hilarious. Even after China withdrew their support from XCOM, he kept being an utter badass colonel, hitting 22 missions and 70 kills.
He's the last guy after his entire squad got slaughtered by Mutons? There's still seven mutons left? Pfff, Werewolf kills them all, nailing one killshot across the map with his laser pistol. Then he panics when a car explodes, drawing the last surviving Muton out of cover to try and kill him. He immediately recovers from his panic and reaction-fires the muton to death, thus beating the whole mission without taking a scratch.
Leave him in cover next to a burning car, right after he's been shot up by a Heavy Floater? It explodes, launching him into the air and apparently killing him. Except, wait, oh wow he's got 1 HP left and he gets right back into the action.
He panics after the rest of his team dies and runs out of cover into the sights of several mutons? They miss eight point-blank shots in a row and he pulls off a comeback win. Granted, on Easy the game seems to actively try to prevent you from losing your last guy in a tactical mission by rigging the RNG in your favor, but still.
Eventually, because the guy playing was pants-on-head retarded, he lost the strategic game and Earth was overrun by aliens, thus proving that while Werewolf was the hero Earth needed, he was not the hero his commander deserved. Because his commander was a complete moron.
It was an experience I'm glad I got to see, and it got me actually really hyped for the game.
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Topic: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (New by Firaxis) (Read 961432 times)