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[hemmingjay]

See, when I used the "key" I hadn't even built a foundry and my guys had standard armor + laser rifles, my heavy was still using a standard machine gun, and I had nobody higher than Lieutenant

I made the same mistake on my first playthrough. Utter slaughter.

[forsaken1111]

See, when I used the "key" I hadn't even built a foundry and my guys had standard armor + laser rifles, my heavy was still using a standard machine gun, and I had nobody higher than Lieutenant

I made the same mistake on my first playthrough. Utter slaughter.

I actually did fine. Lost 2 guys out of 6 and captured the head hancho

[Anvilfolk]

Dammit, you guys, don't make me go home too early :\ I totally want to play this. I have a wedding tomorrow, but I might jus decide to pull an all-nighter to play this. Who knows. My wife knows. She'll say no. Dammit, you guys.

Also, stop spoiling!

[AlStar]

My game in Classic/Ironman is in a definite tailspin. We won the base mission that I mentioned before - actually managed to get a LOS on the commander without him seeing me, so my first shot on him was a crit headshot from my sniper. However, everyone was badly hurt, so the B team faired... poorly... on the next mission - total wipe. Then the next mission was a landed UFO. Ran into a trio of sectoid commanders. So much mind control. So much pain. Tried to evac, but the evac zone seemed to disappear. In the end my awesome sniper was on his own, fighting it out with the aliens... till one of the commanders came in range... the final words in that mission: "I'm losing control!" then fade to black.

I've picked up 'The New Guy' and I've got plasma weapons... but my entire team is made out of 0 mission squaddies, who are honestly not that much better than rookies. So far I've only lost one country, but I think I'm going to lose as many as 3 more come next month.

Probably time to restart.

[timferius]

Word to the wise.
When a country comes to you asking for a sattelite, and offering you 200 simoleons (for a 77 dollar project), they tend to give you exactly 20days, and a sattelite takes 20days. And no, you can NOT finish the sattelite in time to meet the request, no matter how much you need that money (on the bright side, I prevented canada from leaving with said sattelite, so it all works out in the end).

[Tegga21]

satellite (and most engineered items) base costs go down as you gain more engineers.  Starts at 100 @ classic

[umiman]

Can someone tell me at what point in the game I am? I need to know if I should go all in or not.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Shoot down the observer ship

[Zangi]

See, when I used the "key" I hadn't even built a foundry and my guys had standard armor + laser rifles, my heavy was still using a standard machine gun, and I had nobody higher than Lieutenant

I made the same mistake on my first playthrough. Utter slaughter.

I actually did fine. Lost 2 guys out of 6 and captured the head hancho

I think I was geared in lazers and I think carapace by that time.  Maybe skeletons.  1 casualty early on, but he was a plasma catcher... with the pokeball. Also, lots of freezing bugs along the way. 
Head honcho took control of my other plasma catcher, he was the only one with a pokeball at that time.
Though, admittedly, it was on easy... (Gobs and gobs of money!)

Working on a classic game now... money troubles.  Also, not many engis/scientists...

[hemmingjay]

I just had a package delivered to my office that will ruin my life for the next week(s) and cause me even more time in XCOM.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.astrogaming.com/a50/a50-wireless-system

Thank god it was free!

[forsaken1111]

I just had a package delivered to my office that will ruin my life for the next week(s) and cause me even more time in XCOM.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.astrogaming.com/a50/a50-wireless-system

Thank god it was free!

Let me know how it is. I'm using the nice logitech one which works very well.

[Urist McSpike]

lazers

Laser: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation   

This run is on Normal, not Classic, so I'm not sure what is different.  For me, it looks like Engineers > Cash > Scientists.  So many things require a set number of staff on hand, and if you don't have them, you're stuck waiting on an abduction mission reward, or the end of month.  I started in Europe, so I've got scientists coming out of my ears.  Also, at this stage of the game (waiting to build the Hyper-Wave Decoder) I have everything researched, and 67 scientists in 2 labs are sitting idle.

But for combat, my strategy is mostly to turtle up.  Set up in a defensive point, send out one of my Assaults to trigger the aliens, and lead them back.  Which works for some, but the Elite Mutons end up doing the same thing...

Game story:  My first sectopod, on a landed UFO, was amazingly easy.  Of course, I had two Sniper Colonels with Plasma Sniper Rifles - Squadsight, Head Shot, crit for 19, crit for 17. 

[forsaken1111]

You have to love a shot which is 100% chance of hit AND 100% chance of crit.

[dogstile]

So this is the new Xcom that is NOT fps.  Is it good enough for purchase? How have they changed the amount of guys you can have?

HEY GUYS I IGNORE THREAD IS GAME GUD?

Be nice, some people don't have the time to crawl through the last 20 or so pages.

Yes, its good. The change to the people makes the game far more tactical and less gamey. Get it. I'm still feverishly awaiting my ordered copy to get here. I'm honestly tempted to spend more money on steam to get it RIGHT NAO

[forsaken1111]

So this is the new Xcom that is NOT fps.  Is it good enough for purchase? How have they changed the amount of guys you can have?

HEY GUYS I IGNORE THREAD IS GAME GUD?

Be nice, some people don't have the time to crawl through the last 20 or so pages.

Yes, its good. The change to the people makes the game far more tactical and less gamey. Get it. I'm still feverishly awaiting my ordered copy to get here. I'm honestly tempted to spend more money on steam to get it RIGHT NAO

But I'm not an inherently nice person!

But you're right. Sorry Johuotar. Game is good, buy buy buy!

[Zangi]

Game story:  My first sectopod, on a landed UFO, was amazingly easy.  Of course, I had two Sniper Colonels with Plasma Sniper Rifles - Squadsight, Head Shot, crit for 19, crit for 17. 

Hah, those things...  by coincidence, first time I met it, I was playing around with the grapplers on a large ship mission... it ended up blowing up quite a few walls and stuff as I shot at it and +8 other enemies from the roof.
Plasma catcher was at a side entrance drawing most of the hate and missiles.  Armored Floaters and Drones were kind enough to come up top 1-2 at a time.