XCOM: Enemy Unknown

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[Hicks58]

Spoilers be in that image Heartmann.

Talking about common enemies is cool, but part of the fun of XCOM is finding out things for yourself. For example, I've yet to actually bump into an Ethereal and see what it is capable of.

I know of it's presence because somebody opened their mouth though. -.-'

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Well to be fair, in the case of the Ethereal it was in the previous game so it's only natural to expect one at some point. If it was a completely new alien that was spoiled, that would indeed take some enjoyment out of the "unknown" element of the game.

On a side note, do psychic soldiers have their own specialization or are they still Assault, Sniper or whatever with a few extra abilities?

[nikomas]

Psi is a second skillset on top of the normal one, you still retain whatever skillset you had before.

[Hicks58]

Much to my own dismay, I haven't actually played the original XCOM though.

The same would likely apply for a lot of people playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

[Vermillion_Hawk]

That's unfortunate then, I suppose that it would take the fun out of it for people who haven't played the first one then.

[EIRRMod]

Spoilers be in that image Heartmann.

Talking about common enemies is cool, but part of the fun of XCOM is finding out things for yourself. For example, I've yet to actually bump into an Ethereal and see what it is capable of.

I know of it's presence because somebody opened their mouth though. -.-'

Exactly - I dont like spoilers.

Why dont we have a spoiler insert for posts.... hmmm, looking into that now

[Hicks58]

I've finally got 5 Colonels and oh man...

Support Colonels. It's like nobody in your squad can die unless they take 20+ damage instantly lol.

Anybody else having trouble keeping Assault guys alive? Mine have a habit of eating long range crits to the face.

[Heartmann]

Aw fuck my bad guys didnt mean to post that spoiler Sorry That would piss me off too

[Hicks58]

There's my squad of ultimate bad-asses.

EDIT:

I HAVE DONE IT!

Classic Ironman is now complete, putting me in the 0.3% of people to do it.

Fuck me the final mission had me sweating bullets... Poor Desperado didn't make it though. Died a hero's death during combat taking on two enemies at once belting out a ridiculous amount of firepower in close quarters. His sacrifice allowed the rest of the squad to continue on mission which would have otherwise ended there and then if he didn't step up to the task.

*Salute*

[kwiatekkek]

yay mods are  here !
http://xcom.nexusmods.com/mods/categories/

[Hicks58]

Yeah, I think I'll be checking out some of those mods.

Should make classic pretty interesting.

[Hicks58]

If you've got a *Lot* of time on your hands, 1 Assault, 2 Snipers, 2 Support and the last member as anything but Sniper. Heavy with HEAT rounds works well for the mechanical encounters.

Use the Assault as point man. High health and lightning reflexes staves off most things thrown at him upon detection.

Set up the Snipers in strong positions with good sight-lines, have the Supporting 3 hovering just behind the Assault as he advances. The tactic is to have the Assault spot the enemy, let the Snipers take their shots, then fall back to your original position and put everybody on overwatch. The enemy will come to you (Sometimes you have to wait them out for a turn or so) and get shredded by reaction fire. Particularly effective in open terrain, but also a viable tactic if you lack the hardware to clear urban environments room by room.

Spot, Snipe, fall back, overwatch. It takes time and effort but I was deployed on 35 missions during my Classic Ironman and didn't fail a single one.

Having 2 or 3 Assaults is a sure fire way to rush any room and clear it in record time before they even get a chance to move. However, if you're unlucky and you either don't get many/any Assaults or lose them early, the above strategy works quite well. If you are *Really* stretched, and can't get a single Assault, using one of your Support class with Sprinter unlocked and some decent armour can work too. In fact, anything but a Sniper can effectively work as point man. Just remember, first action to spot, second action to fall back to original position (Or a bit behind that if possible/need be).

[Sachaztan]

This is what brought me victory in Ironman Classic.


All the world was united behind me, except the French which didn't exactly come as a surprise

[Hicks58]

well, that's not a very effective tactic on Impossible though - people are having a hard time with it as they are trying to play with normal tactics where they move forward from spawn and engage at range in a spread out formation, taking pot shots while also closing in. This is bad as the enemy will slaughter you due to better luck and numbers (plus they can all focus on one person at a time).

I agree, that DOES sound like a foolhardy tactic on anything but Normal.

The tactic I described however, is not the one you said above.

Mine revolves around a creeping overwatch advance, with falling back upon first contact and letting them come to you - Into waiting barrels. Overwatch them as they approach and open fire when it cycles back to your turn. If you've laid it out well enough they'll have to dash to get into firing range meaning you've had Overwatch + 1 turn of everybody firing without fear of counter-attack. It's time consuming, but it's probably the safest tactic I've used. I've cleared out large UFO's without ever setting foot past 1 tile in the front door (Bridge not-withstanding, they seem to think it's cosy in there).

Oh and Sach, it's been mentioned at least twice now, spoilers for the love of god. Mission objectives, higher tier aliens and story-line related stuff should be hushed up about.

[Sachaztan]

Oh and Sach, it's been mentioned at least twice now, spoilers for the love of god. Mission objectives, higher tier aliens and story-line related stuff should be hushed up about.

Doesn't really matter when there's several other pictures just like that one up already.

[Hicks58]

There was *One* which shown off an objective that it probably shouldn't have lol.

Oh anyhow, moar XCOM, less nit-picking.

[nikomas]

It's funny, that's how I played on classic and ended up with 0 lost missions and only 7 casualties... Agressive strats ftw!

[XIIcorps]

Bought it seems like a fun game, tho its taking its time to download off steam im only getting between 100-200 kb/s

this is frustrating, 6 hours and xcom is only 20%
Steams download rate is rather inconsistant

im fluctuating from 23kb/s to 555kb/s

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Bought it seems like a fun game, tho its taking its time to download off steam im only getting between 100-200 kb/s

this is frustrating, 6 hours and xcom is only 20%
Steams download rate is rather inconsistant

im fluctuating from 23kb/s to 555kb/s

Go to the Steam tab in the upper left, go to Settings, then click on Downloads + Cloud and make sure the server is somewhere near where you live. This might help in clearing up such issues.

[XIIcorps]

found the problem, reinstalling steam defaulted the connection speed to 56k modem not DSL/cable speed setting