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[Lightningfalcon]

It could be more simply solved by effective placement of chryssalids. Hiding them around tight corners, doorways, etc. This way you don't spot them out in the open, but at the same time don't guarantee death just for finding them.

And like you say, damage isn't a problem with balancing chryssalids, because they kill fleshy targets instantly.

I remember once I was playing the terror mission where you have all the destroyed tanks lined up, on CI.    I had finally managed to get a competent team raised up, and was advancing slowly.  My only contacts were two chrysallids, who had promptly retreated.   I reached the entrance to the warehouse, and was about to enter when I revealed some floaters.     I got my men in a fortified position and opened fire, but more floaters arrived.   I was confident enough that I would be able to fight them off, and kill two of the six.   My men were all in heavy cover, so I ended my turn confident that only one person would die at most.   It was then the chrysallids appeared.   They jumped down from the roof of the warehouse, and immediately infected my sniper and heavy.   I'm sure you can guess the rest of what happened.   
So yeah, if a chryallid can get close then they can do some major damage.   So all you'd need for the elite version really is improved AI and some improved stealth.   Make them no longer make noise, and make them invisible if they don't move.   So they sit in ambush, and let your squad go by.   Then, once they are busy shooting at the main force of mutons, they burst out, taking down your most vital soldiers.   

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It could be more simply solved by effective placement of chryssalids. Hiding them around tight corners, doorways, etc. This way you don't spot them out in the open, but at the same time don't guarantee death just for finding them.

And like you say, damage isn't a problem with balancing chryssalids, because they kill fleshy targets instantly.

But they don't. Once you have even Carapace armor there's a chance your soldiers can survive a Chryssalid strike. Just about anybody in Titan armor won't get instant-killed. Hmm....if you don't want to increase their base damage, maybe they can shoot out armor piercing spikes as an area attack that does little damage but makes your soldiers more vulnerable to harm?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Shredder Spikes? Scary.

[EnigmaticHat]

It would have been neat for the Reapers to have been included. I just love those fuzzy cyborg T-Rexs. They probably could have made them more unique by playing around with their enhancements somehow

I for one an in favor of suicide reapers with bombs strapped to their backs.

[Darkening Kaos]

  If I wasn't so burned out on XCOM at the moment, I could get into this start.

[mastahcheese]

  If I wasn't so burned out on XCOM at the moment, I could get into this start.

What, you mean starting the game, and burning down the Officer Training Academy? That would suck.

[crazysheep]

Or you could do a regular Classic/Impossible start, you don't get the OTS in the start

[Sean Mirrsen]

  If I wasn't so burned out on XCOM at the moment, I could get into this start.

What, you mean starting the game, and burning down the Officer Training Academy? That would suck.

The training school eats off some power, so depending on circumstances it could allow you to save money in the first month by allowing you not to build a generator. You hardly ever need the things the school offers in the first month or two anyway.

[Darkening Kaos]

     And everyone starts a game with three steam vents.

     Geez.

[forsaken1111]

After reading the last page, I now want to make an Aliens mod where your troops are the marines and the aliens are Xenomorphs.

[Culise]

Or you could do a regular Classic/Impossible start, you don't get the OTS in the start

I was wondering about that.  You start with a free OTS on lower difficulty levels, then? 

[crazysheep]

I did an Easy start in which there's a free OTS :3

[Sean Mirrsen]

You know, I would play Classic and Impossible way more often if there was a way to tune them into not including the panic spread increases. More difficult combat I like. But making the already grating (after the original X-Com) Geoscape strategic mode, even more frustrating...

[GreatWyrmGold]

Why is it more grating with X-Com?

[Mephansteras]

You know, I would play Classic and Impossible way more often if there was a way to tune them into not including the panic spread increases. More difficult combat I like. But making the already grating (after the original X-Com) Geoscape strategic mode, even more frustrating...

You can with just a little bit of modding. Change it so that satellite placement and abduction mission successes give you less panic reduction on the specific country but include some continent-wide panic reduction. It helps a lot to remove the RNG influence on whether or not you lose a country while keeping consequences to failed missions. It's what I normally run with, although my current run of EW is vanilla so I can get the full experience.

Finally got through the base defense mission. Turns out my carefully crafted teams kind of bit me on this mission, since I had a mix of my top people from each team. While they're all very good, they're also not specifically designed to work with one another and that made things a bit more difficult than I'd have liked. Especially since I didn't get my top Assault as he was off on an Exalt infiltration mission at the time. Nor did I have any MEC troopers.

But it was fun and challenging. Did have to restart a few points but overall it went smoothly.