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[Lightningfalcon]

I had what was perphaps the best sniper ever.
He wasn't once wounded wounded, and was on EVERY X-Com mission I had.  He quickly ranked up, and was the first to be given a skeleton suit and laser weaponry.  Eventually I had got to the second terror mission.  The whole thing was a complete disaster, with floaters killing my medic almost immediately.  After they were killed, I started to advance, only to immediately encounter about six chrysalids. The two rookies I had with me got turned, and I began a running retreat with my sniper major and my two heavies.  My sniper used his grappling hook to get to the roof of a truck, while my other two squad members were quickly killed by zombies.  My sniper then proceeded to murder each chysalid, even killing his former teamates.  Every time he fired, something died.  Eventually I saw that only a few civies were left, and the stem of chrysalids ended.  So I had him use his hook to get to the plaza on top of a building, where he killed the last few aliens with his pistol. He had almost 20 kills that entire mission.
And then the next mission he went on a UFO mission where his position was charged by 8 mutons, a beserker, and a cyberdisk.  After everyone in the squad had completed their turn.  He was killed almost immidiatly.   

[Tarran]

What co-op?

Wait, what?

My guess is that his idea of co-op consists of three people in a room, with one sitting down giving orders to his two troops while the other two stare at the one sitting wondering what the hell he's doing until its his turn.

[Solifuge]

What co-op?

Wait, what?

We plugged in 3 computer mice, and had 2 characters each. We'd each control our own guys and debated tactics each turn, but sometime acted on our own in the interest of self-preservation and screwed over the group. It was actually a fun challenge, trying to make tactical decisions as a group on the fly, and I'd recommend trying it out.

[Mephansteras]

That sounds pretty fun.

[MaximumZero]

That sounds pretty fun.

Indeedy.

[DarkWolfXV]

Well, im just finishing my first playthrough of XCOM on Classic (Didnt play the previous ones either) and i must say it is awesome game, although a bit too short. Trying on Impossible now, and its going pretty well, you just gotta go into full cover when possible and never sprint unless certain and spam overwatch, try skipping laser weapons and go straight for plasma, and in first month focus on getting technics and satellite uplink.

[Mageziya]

Had an interesting council nation prompt today, from Germany, requesting a Sectopod wreck. Reason? To rebuild and re-purpose it 'reduce' the local panic, for 'defensive purposes, of course.' . According to the prompt after complying and reading the news bar afterwards, they were successful.

This makes me wonder, if they can restore a Sectopod into functioning condition, why are we stuck with crappy S.H.I.V.s?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Doubtful they can actually return it to normal functionality. The research notes on Cyberdisks and Sectopods emphasize that they are ambiguous beings that appear mechanical but also have complex organ-like systems.

Likely they just stick some normal robotics under the shell of the thing and sent it out to quell rioters through intimidation.

[Mageziya]

As far as I know, that's only with the Cyberdiscs, which are mechanically assimilated silicon-based lifeforms.

Spoiler: Now, if I recall correctly, on the final mission; (click to show/hide)

 Der *Ahem*, the Uber Ethereal Leader states that they created the Sectopod to make up for the failures in their search for the Gift. This implies that Sectopods are most likely machines created by the Ethereals for war and nothing else

Controlling them would be rather difficult, but they're likely not trying to bring a dead orgnism back to life.

[Leafsnail]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My reading was that they were meant to try and cover the Sectoid weaknesses of cowardice and frailty - with those things on their side they'd hopefully be braver.

[DarkWolfXV]

The save limit bug bugs me, i have to delete my older saves to load newer ones because after 100 or something they just dont appear. Its even better, it happens on xbox on which i have plenty of gbs of memory left on HDD.

[Mephansteras]

The save limit bug bugs me, i have to delete my older saves to load newer ones because after 100 or something they just dont appear. Its even better, it happens on xbox on which i have plenty of gbs of memory left on HDD.

Yeah, if you're not doing Ironman you have to manage your saves pretty carefully. It's annoying, and stupid. Even moreso on PC, where space is almost never an issue.

I get around it by only playing Ironman these days.

[Neonivek]

What is funny is people laughed at me when I told them I hit that bug.

In their face I say

[Soadreqm]

100? Hah, I was kind of stupidly assuming there to be a save limit WAY lower than that. I've only been playing Ironman, and the first X-Com had like ten save slots. It's hard to remember that space limitations no longer exist.

[Mageziya]

Huzzah! I managed to beat my first Classic Ironman Game!

On to Impossible Ironman! When the next patch comes out.

Spoiler: Quick thing involving the final mission. (click to show/hide)

I was going to try and type a transcript of what the Uber Ethereal says, since that seems to be nigh on impossible to find. My method was the use Print Screen (I have subtitles on.), paste it into MS Paint, then record it into Word. Unfortunately, Print Screen doesn't seem to work in XCOM, so I decided to try and record from memory after each statement. However, after the the first paragraph of dialogue. . . Nope.

I suppose I could try and hunt down a LP to record the transcript, though.