Canti

Well that's not good news for me. I'm going to slug it out in hard mode and see how far I can get. As far as playing "Ironman" I don't see how anyone could play it that way without already beating the game atleast once. Far too many pitfalls and lessons to be learned, I always reload if I lose a soldier. And thank you for the welcome Slaughter. Off topic -- Am I the only one that thinks an option for a full speed replay of each mission completed would be a huge plus to this game? Being able to watch eachothers battles in real time would be great. A system like the fps games use where it's not an actual video file, but a recorded demo of the action that requires the game to play back. I'd love to go back and see my shotgun ambushes in the stairways in full speed.

My first post here, and after reading the forums and beginning the game I am curious as to how many people chose hard difficulty on first game start. I chose hard, and I'm at the point where the enemy ship is due to enter atmosphere in about 7 days. I chose hard because I wanted to make the tactical gameplay challenging, but I'm worried that maybe the hard setting will ultimately make the global game more difficult and possibly make me lose.