lucifear

Weird, I got win7 here and didn't have any problems Did you patch the game?

At first I thought "new weapons and techs? must screw up the balance so let's start on impossible tactical battle dif and hard strategic".... Bad idea, couldn't even survive the beggining as it also comes with the martian assault mod and having short range rifles with very limited ammo early on was making it impossible for me. So I did it on hard/hard I can play it, I'm upgrading my power station right now, got the heavy duty suits, all basic firearms and basic lasers so I'm not stuck or anything but it feels like the only way to play this is by exploiting the AI, I went up to higher ground in a defense mission to take cover and.... Seriously, it was unbelievable, the map was rather open so my soldiers got surrounded by over 40 (Not kidding) beastmen shooting from all angles, it was a sea of red aliens! Not that I don't enjoy a challenge but having extreme sight and ranges for everybody makes it so the only viable tactic is to turtle up around some corner/choke point and wait for them and I can feel this will get old late game really fast so my quest is: Does this change later on somehow or will I have to turtle forever against every possible foe? Also, shotguns are completely useless too as rushing in just gets you overwhelmed, melee seems like an even worse idea and as much as I like ranged tactics having no choice but to use them seems a little meh, thinking of just starting over without any mods at all, opinions/suggestions? =/ PS: i could remove the martian assault mod but I fear the extra weapons, tech, and research would make the game too unbalanced as small squads of enemies are no threat at all, hell even the basic weapons with the extra sight and range would make few enemies too easy, and removing/changing the martian assault mod right now would also possibly screw up the game balance as my soldiers seem to have too much XP from the massive amount of damage they have been dealing every mission, sometimes over 3k with basic rifles and no upgrades Edit: Just a quick question, does Rita ever join over time or do I have to lose a hybrid? kinda tempted to kill the reticulan scientist lol Edit2: Also unrelated but in this link http://ualguide.a.wiki-site.com/index.php/Character_Builds it says it's not worth using the /sci reticulan as a soldier, doesn't his stealth aura help at all? Vanilla and modded game, got one of each going on right now @_@