How are Cryssalids anyway? Obviously, they aren't as magically fast and bullet resistant anymore.
SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
*cuts to static*
Or at least, that's been my experience with them.
Anyway, I think I'm done with Classic, at least for now. Gonna give Normal a try- nice, wussy, everyone gets to mostly live normal.
My second attempt was pretty funny, though. I got this one guy, Makharov or something. Only survivor of the very first mission, partially because he panicked and shot an ally. Then he upgrades to assault and two funny things happen.
One, he just can't stop shooting allies.
Most people, if and when they panic, either shoot enemies frantically, hunker down, or run. Not him. He shoots his teammates whenever he panics, which is always.
Two, he's awesome. In addition to being the last surviving squad member several times (and having something like 14 kills in 4 missions), he explains to me why assaults are deadly. See apparently shotguns have 100% accuracy point-blank, and combined with run and gun... wow. So
that's how you use an assault properly. Managed to pull off several do-or-die situations with that one, like charging past a mind-boosted sectoid to blast his boosting partner (before I knew they had 100% acc, incidentally, which made pulling that off all the sweeter), or rushing the last floater to finish him off before he shreds my out of cover squad.
His death to you-know-whats was basically when I called the game. Rest of the squad was overwhelmed, he and another guy retreated, then I thought if they dashed they could keep out of range and get back to the Skyranger. Nope. You died a tragic and heroic death, you magnificent teamkilling panicky son of a bitch.