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[Tarran]

I'm not really upset about the loss of the dude, I'm upset at the failed 95% chance. The fact that the soldier was a good one only amplified it. If he had died to some mundane reason like, say, an Elite Muton getting lucky twice, I would have accepted that. But a 95% chance at perhaps the most crucial moment in the entire mission? Come on.

And he's not my best. Oh no. I've got colonel snipers that have a kill ratio of 2+ or 3+ per mission with an aim of 115.

[Taricus]

Could be worse, like a CTD RIGHT at the final part of the last mission.

Then finding out that you can't get into that room due to a bug with loading a save :I

[Cthulhu]

I'm not really upset about the loss of the dude, I'm upset at the failed 95% chance. The fact that the soldier was a good one only amplified it. If he had died to some mundane reason like, say, an Elite Muton getting lucky twice, I would have accepted that. But a 95% chance at perhaps the most crucial moment in the entire mission? Come on.

And he's not my best. Oh no. I've got colonel snipers that have a kill ratio of 2+ or 3+ per mission with an aim of 115.

You gotta have that Sun Tzu shit on your mind when you're playing this game.  Risk calculation, son.  It's 95%, sure, but does the cost of failure outweigh the odds of success?  Would you take a 95% chance at a million dollars, if the 5% meant you died?

I just had a really rough mission too.  Lost a lot of good guys, and one colonel.  Android, for fuck's sake.  Why did you leave us?  I remember when I first saw you.  I think if he'd died heroically it might not be so bad.  Ross Rodriguez, another cool guy (I imagined him having an Uncle Rico type voice), died to save a civilian, for example.  I wasn't sad about Ross, I couldn't have asked for a better death.

Android though, God damn.  He got shot by a Muton and bled out because our support was dead and my guys couldn't kill the last enemy in time.  For a guy like him, that's fucked up.

[kilakan]

So I've suddenly figured out a great plan to try and keep my soldiers alive.  Spend a lot of time customizing them so you become attached to each individual one, it makes you really think over every single action.  Just completed a terror mission with 20 some enemies and my team was 3 rookies and 3 mid-rank guys, no losses due to NEVER making a quick-thought move.  also luck, copious amounts of luck :p  I think the RNG likes heavily customized soldiers, they seem to preform better.  (read shotgun dude getting a critical that had 5% chance of hitting)

[Vel]

I'm not convinced the RNG is quite as R as it'd like us to believe, being that it basically decides what actions will work and what won't on a given turn right at the beginning of said turn.

[GlyphGryph]

... what?

[Vel]

Try savescumming from the beginning of the turn's autosave on an 80%+ shot that misses.


It'll miss every single time.

Which is to say, each turn has a seed that tells the game what would hit and what wouldn't, I"m pretty sure.

[Valid_Dark]

Is this game worth playing? Yes/No give it to me straight.

[Zangi]

RNG pre-rolls at start of turn, to minimize savescummer efficiency, just take a different action.

Is this game worth playing? Yes/No give it to me straight.

Yes.

[Tarran]

Is this game worth playing? Yes/No give it to me straight.

Well, I'm not you so I don't know exactly what you like, but if you aren't specifically against turn-based squad tactics, then yes.

[Vel]

RNG pre-rolls at start of turn, to minimize savescummer efficiency, just take a different action.

Is this game worth playing? Yes/No give it to me straight.

Yes.

Yea, which means each action is essentially a guessing game in the literal sense -- it's already been decided whether it'll hit or not and you just don't know, is all. I dunno, the practical result is the same of course, but it feels kind of cheesy to me.


That said, to the yes/no person, yes.

[Hanslanda]

Is this game worth playing? Yes/No give it to me straight.

Yes. I haven't played it.

[Valid_Dark]

I love tactical games, sounds like I'm going to love this,  getting it tonight.

[JanusTwoface]

I'm not convinced the RNG is quite as R as it'd like us to believe, being that it basically decides what actions will work and what won't on a given turn right at the beginning of said turn.

Because (without specialized hardware) computers can't actually generate random numbers.  Read up on psuedo-random number generators (PRNG). The algorithms for how they do it are actually pretty interesting if you're into the mathy / CS sort of thing.

[umiman]

Wooo! Wet Works achievement!

That was a lot easier than I expected it to be. I landed at the abduction site and 13 mutons (11 regular mutons and 2 berserkers) charged at me on turn 2 lol... So it was either kill them all by turn 3 or get wiped.