Yeah, he is "naked" with only 5 hp, but can he use cover? I mean a guy with a minigun and some cover could be actually useful while I'm repairing the MEC suit.
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XCOM: Enemy Within |OT| Your Soldiers Never Asked For This
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Boss Riovane
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All content on disk. Bought it at midnight yesterday from Wal-Mart. Tee here.
Ahh nice... Walmart you say? That's US I take it. I hope its the same for Euro / Australian versions. Over here its called the 'XCOM Enemy Within Commander Edition'.
I actually never tried this. Give it a shot lol. Probably can't hold the minigun though
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
No.
I don't quite understand Genetic Mods. Then again, it could be because I had 0 Meld.
Also, had my first EXALT Covert Op a few minutes ago. Holy shit, that's hard.
Not released in your area yet? Use a VPN to access it, http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield...best_way_to_get_early_access_using_proxy_all/ (select a US based server), open Steam and verify files and it'll download the update, then just disconnect the VPN.
Awww, I had a really good Ironman Impossible run going. Then got totally wiped on a council mission and was in such a bad position it was game over. Anyone got any good advice for reliably getting past the first mission on impossible, that and the first council mission have caused almost all of my game overs. >.>
hooijdonk17
Member
Forgot to mention that. All the new maps are great. Had one that was entirely on a cargo ship and another where the UFO crashed on the top of a skyscraper. Great and inventive maps so far.
speculawyer
Member
Please spoiler mark some of the spoiler stuff! Or else I gotta avoid this thread.
Lostconfused
Member
Stupid Thinman constantly camping on rooftops with overwatch constantly up.
Boss Riovane
Member
One thing I love is having back to back missions.....
Lightning reflexes, sucker!
Maybe at thirty, definitely at twenty
Man MEC are most certainly cool.
I made the exact same mistake as you with the first one I made, sent him too far ahead and he was melted the next turn by the 3 or so x-ray groups I had activated accidentally. Once you level them up once they can get a really big defense buff when on overwatch which I've been enjoying.
I wonder how far an all-Mec team could brute force their way through classic/ironman
TC McQueen
Member
I'm only a little over half way through May on Normal and it's insane how many missions I've gone on in a single month. Whoever decided to trigger so much stuff in that month is a devious person. Kind of makes me worried about the pacing of the following months.
That said, I did do the Slingshot missions when they first popped up in May. Is it possible to delay doing them or will I have to keep doing them in May in future playthroughs? I heard that if you pass on Slingshot's first mission, you might not see it again or something.
That said, I did do the Slingshot missions when they first popped up in May. Is it possible to delay doing them or will I have to keep doing them in May in future playthroughs? I heard that if you pass on Slingshot's first mission, you might not see it again or something.
Incendiary
Banned
I was going to pick this up yesterday but Gamestop was only going to give me a $5 credit for EU and that would still put EW at $35 which is still over the PC version. So I guess I'm waiting for a sale on the console version on Amazon or something before I can buy this.
Boss Riovane
Member
I am so damn frustrated right now. In the middle of the base attack mission and just slaughtered everyone thus far. Killed six goddamn mectoids, 4 sectoid commanders and only lost 3 rookies. Going for the fifth and last cyber disk and the game fucking freezes!!!!
Lostconfused
Member
I can only make it as far as month 2! Don't judge me!
MrCompletely
Member
Thats true to my experience, my last vanilla EU game I denied the first Slingshot and it never reappeared.
TC McQueen
Member
I made three laser rifles and two laser pistols right before sending my team on that mission. Thank god I had Zhang as a mech trooper, because I only had three other fairly high ranked soldiers and none of them were heavies. Collateral Damage easily had its way with those power conduits.
Yeah, I'm handling it pretty easily so far. I'm mostly just salty that there was 1 day left on laser research when the council popped it up and I was all "Really, No Face? Really?"
Funny thing is that Zhang is missing out on the final two missions of his own DLC because he's in the process of getting genetic enhancements.
Dude's gonna be all sorts of pissed when he wakes up from getting his bits Meld-ed.
InsaneElite
Member
New council mission spoilers:
I still think Easy and Normal are too easy now, and Classic and Impossible are too hard, but I'll keep toughing through it. Wonder if Impossible is hard enough for Beaglerush now.
The Chryssalid hive mission was very fun and a nice change of pace, but, since as far as I'm aware it always appears early in the game judging by the previews, I'm not sure how I feel about having a mission where you're practically guaranteed to lose 1-2 (if you're lucky) soldiers only 2-3 months in the campaign. On Classic, I'm stuck with a Major, two Lieutenants, and a Squaddie now, and EXALT/tougher aliens and missions should be about to show up. And all of that, just for a Panic reduction? By how much you're crippled in Classic and beyond, I might skip on the mission even if it just outright caused you to lose Canada a few weeks later.
I still think Easy and Normal are too easy now, and Classic and Impossible are too hard, but I'll keep toughing through it. Wonder if Impossible is hard enough for Beaglerush now.
TC McQueen
Member
Yeah, I'm hoping the guys at the XCOM Nexus forum will figure out a way to tweak the Council missions so that there's only one or two per month and spread out some of these missions.
MrCompletely
Member
what difficulty is everyone playing on? Im just getting owned in Classic ironman, cant get past May 
I find normal a bit on the easy side, i wish there was something inbetween
I find normal a bit on the easy side, i wish there was something inbetween
afreaknamedpete
Member
First mission on Slingshot DLC and a Thin Man drop right in front of my entire overwatching squad, nobody gets even a single shot in. I don't remember them being nearly as frustrating in EU. I think I'm gonna stop rushing satellites and go MEC rushing this time.
TC McQueen
Member
Really? Because I've had the opposite experience in EU and EW. I've noticed my guys making reaction shots when aliens drop in on them all the time in EW (to the point that I wish there was some sort of staggered overwatch system), while EU was a coin-flip on that front, especially with the teleporting bug.
I've had a single floater from a group of three go into overwatch when discovered. Weird, but it may not be a bug.
Also, MECs are FUCKING AWESOME!
C/I, I'm in May now, haven't lost a country, got a squad of 6, and made a MEC. I recovered fairly well from a wipe during a crash site and losing my VIP
during the new council mission. I still don't know what happens when you suceed that one.
Also, MECs are FUCKING AWESOME!
C/I, I'm in May now, haven't lost a country, got a squad of 6, and made a MEC. I recovered fairly well from a wipe during a crash site and losing my VIP
prisoner exalt
So I know I'm mad late to the party on this since it's Slingshot stuff, but thanks to that final mission I've got a
to research. In the second month.
It's like Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa all rolled into one for Vahlen down here.
Fusion Lance, Guided Fusion Launcher, and intact Plasma Rifle
It's like Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa all rolled into one for Vahlen down here.
If you're smart about Zheng's second mission you can
Knowing where enemies spawn ahead of time is invaluable, as is an assault with an ARC thrower and lightning reflexes to burn enemy overwatch
get a muton prisoner in the second month and boost the shit out of your research efforts
Knowing where enemies spawn ahead of time is invaluable, as is an assault with an ARC thrower and lightning reflexes to burn enemy overwatch
what difficulty is everyone playing on? Im just getting owned in Classic ironman, cant get past May
I find normal a bit on the easy side, i wish there was something inbetween
Ironman Impossible. The run I'm doing now started out really well, didn't even get hit in the first two missions. But then I got sloppy on the first downed UFO mission, accidentally triggered the outsider and a sectiod pack at once, got the whole squad wiped. Got a council mission right afterwards that I had to not even do, no way to do it with just rookies. My lead sniper who was injured and thus not part of the squad wipe got to lead the new rookie squad on the next abduction mission. That ended with a full squad wipe to. Now it's early in the second month and 4 countries have left XCOM. I just finished my first MEC, and got a squadie heavy, and a bunch of terrible rookies. Hopefully some good missions can turn this around but it's looking grim.
I actually managed that in the third mission. Dude hopped down from that great monster closet in the sky straight into the middle of my whole overwatching squad and got dropped to 1 HP all of three steps from an Iron Reflexes Assault dude with an Arc Thrower.
It was a good mission.
what difficulty is everyone playing on? Im just getting owned in Classic ironman, cant get past May
I find normal a bit on the easy side, i wish there was something inbetween
I'm also playing Classic/Ironman and pretty much end up rage-restarting after the first evacuation mission. So many thin men falling from the sky.
Basileus777
Member
Anyone know if Mimetic Skin works with low profile?
And sleeveless armor is so dumb. It looks terrible too.
And sleeveless armor is so dumb. It looks terrible too.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah it does. Makes it nice to be able to move up a sniper to any cover and be cloaked while doing so.
Fragamemnon
Member
Not a fan of the training roulette second wave option. Fucks up snipers way too much -their perk tree is extremely linear- and the vanilla game design isn't really built around having more than a couple of squads, so having a dude on your team with a hodgepodge of weapons and not useful skills is pretty painful.
edit: Yeah. It's really bad. Wait for a modder to fix this, or play with it and just shitbin your snipers.
edit: Yeah. It's really bad. Wait for a modder to fix this, or play with it and just shitbin your snipers.
Basileus777
Member
Shotgun assaults are incredibly clutch and gotten me out of a lot of sticky situations. The rifles are better for sitting behind cover and exchanging fire, but that's a pretty suicidal strategy on Impossible so I tend to stick to shotguns.
Fragamemnon
Member
Really depends on squad composition and enemy resistance. Early game shotguns are amazing against Sectoids, or example, because you almost always can run and gun for a double kill on mind linked aliens.
Dangerous maps like UFO landings (not crashes, which are much easier) and high threat abductions are probably going to be largely standoff affairs broken by cover-clearing explosives and long range firepower. Here you are going to likely be better off with assault rifles. You can always run and gun to flank the outsider and kill him even without the extra shotgun damage.
I would always go shotgun in terror missions. Enemies will often ignore you to kill civilians, and the melee enemies in the terror missions are extremely vulnerable to shotgun fire. You also kind of need the extra damage per turn as well.
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