09-15-2015, 07:32 PM
(09-15-2015, 06:14 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: So I've also been playing XCOM. It started out pretty well, with good research, successful missions, and only minor excursions of soldiers being in the infirmary for too long. They even survived a terror mission.You think that's hard? Try playing X-COM: EW with the Long War mod. It sends the difficulty practically sky-high (but you get lots of shiny new toys).
And then my squad's Assault died in the Operation Slingshot train mission.
Everything went down from here. The squad took damage that put them out of action, and it started hitting them all at once. I needed to train a new Assault, countries started to go into panic, and I started to lose money.
And then my first Exalt mission.
I shot a rocket to the corner of the map. Smoke clears, the rookie several tiles away is dead. The game couldn't even identify his body, but it was right were he was last turn. We finished the mission with more heavy damage.
I needed another Assault. When I equipped him with that laser shotgun, I imagined saying to that rookie, "the last two Assaults who had this weapon died."
More missions fly by. Things might be looking- nope.
Abduction mission. 5 operatives found some thin men. The new Support, who was there because Missus Healbus was ironically in the ward, found a Sectiod.
And a Sectriod. As I pulled fire on it with multiple misses (and a rocket missing, hitting my own operatives), thin men hit the flanks. Medkits run dry. First heavy, dead. My best sniper, dead. Hell, even Zhang was dead. Forth dead. One support is on one health, at the Skyranger and panicking like hell. The other, in the line of fire from the Sectriod.
When the fire died down, he killed both the enemy mech and the two thin men. But an earlier turn revealed Seekers. We had no choice but to abandon the mission.
That was two missions ago. We killed a Cyberdisk in the last one, and Healbus is back on her feet.
Right now I got a terror mission on the map, in Mexico. I can't avoid this one, since they're going to abandon the project otherwise, but I haven't recovered.
I thought normal mode was supposed to be normal.