2013-11-20, 11:59 | Link #562 | |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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I just wish they simply gave us good reasons to use laser, like making them have more shots per reload, instead of punishing us for getting Plasma fast.
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2013-11-20, 18:59 | Link #565 |
Catholic = Cat addiction?
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: MURICA!!
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The one where we have to air strike a dead fish?
I experienced one of my largest largest troop casualties in that mission. Of course, at the time I was only armed with laser weapons. But, the singular base defense mission takes the cake when it comes to sheer intensity. - Tak
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2013-11-21, 00:36 | Link #567 | |
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 37
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And holy shit at the fishing village. Now I know how they feel when dealing with Zerg rush.
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2013-11-21, 00:56 | Link #568 |
Moderate Haruhiist
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So much for using Council missions to train Rookies! Bombing a dead whale infested with Chrysallids? Yikes. Whats worse, I heard that it's bugged, and some TV Tropes players actually experienced getting all their guys to the evac zone... only for the return to base to reveal that they lost 3/4s of the team. ^^;
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2013-11-21, 00:58 | Link #569 | |
Secret Society BLANKET
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: 3 times the passion of normal flamenco
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2013-11-21, 10:03 | Link #570 | |
Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Also, that mission was a cake walk for me for some reason (on classic). I reloaded only once, no lasers, no plasma, no Gene or Mec mods. Team comp were 1 Sniper (Major), 1 Assault (Zhang from Slingshot), 2 mid level Assault, 1 Chinese Heavy (Col)-picked up from terror mission, 1 Canadian support dude (Lt). As soon as I started, I take the left route on the Pier. Killed a few zombies, then kill the 3 Chryalids in the fishing shack with rocket fire. Then I had the Chinese Assault take a few steps down to the pier and pulled the three Chryalids from the pier. After that was cleared, bomb the shark that was hanging on top of the pier. Then via, plank, the Chinese assault went forward to investigate the ship. While the rest of the team double back and waited. When Bradford called for the Airstrike, my Chinese heavy with sprint charge on to the bridge, hit the button, and ran for dear life like a Indiana Jones movie. The Chryalids didn't even come close. One manage to get into melee range and got sniped from down range then killed by a close combat specialist shotgun-into the chest. Once he reached the rest of the team, they stood together and fought for the remaining 4 rounds or so before I lifted them all off. Gangway!
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2013-11-23, 13:45 | Link #571 |
Catholic = Cat addiction?
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: MURICA!!
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Since story progression in the game appears mainly triggered by research, I deliberately made priority research the last of my priorities (no pun intended) before embarking on several key council missions.
By the time of the fishing village incident, I already had in my squad, 2 heavies, 2 assault, 2 support and 3 MECs as part of my squad selection. All of them sport archangel armor and plasma weaponry. Needless to say, that particular mission was a cake walk. I also discovered that, for your Mech units, snipers are the best troops to augment. Once your snipers reach the rank of colonel, they should all have 115 aim to their name. This meant, once augmented, your Mecs would rarely miss. Their lowest accuracy, as I have observed, is 85%. Put them on overwatch and they will hit about 90% of the targets with more crit than any other configuration. And since they have flamethrowers to boot... well... poor Chryalids, I actually felt a little sorry for them. - Tak
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2013-12-03, 19:55 | Link #572 |
Carbon
Join Date: Nov 2003
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playing Classic EW
Mutons appeared and I still don't have my lasers. (A few days away) I've cleared Classic EU before, but I don't remember this happening Did they significantly increase the research cost?
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2013-12-03, 20:31 | Link #574 |
Carbon
Join Date: Nov 2003
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I kinda noticed the delay when I was playing Normal EW
I guess it's even more pronounced on Classic on another note, I never appreciated Africa's continent bonus until now. 6~ autopsies/interrogations completed in less than a minute. It's a one hit wonder, but Wow
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2013-12-03, 20:43 | Link #575 | |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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2013-12-03, 21:27 | Link #576 | |
RUN, YOU FOOLS!
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Formerly Iwakawa base and Chaldea. Now Teyvat, the Astral Express & the Outpost
Age: 44
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2013-12-06, 22:53 | Link #578 |
Carbon
Join Date: Nov 2003
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I won
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Classic Army of 4 run Talent Roulette + Random Stat Growth Was thinking about doing Damage Roulette to to make it a very random game, but then I remember the RNG hates me The new Shivs are overpowered Really helped me Maybe one of these days I'll do Classic Ironman, but the enemy wave chain triggers are really bullshit on Classic difficulty
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2015-05-26, 21:59 | Link #579 | |
Secret Society BLANKET
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: 3 times the passion of normal flamenco
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So it looks like there's some spooky things going on in regards to something called ADVENT... which apparently has tons of hints that it could be related to a new XCOM game.
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