Space Voyager Posted November 6, 2023 Report Share Posted November 6, 2023 Been contemplating a restart for a loooong time now and finally I gathered the will to do it. I was kinda ashamed I never played through it, also Silencer's immense successes didn't help with my self-esteem. Now I finally started to get somewhere. The main revelation came when I decided I simply won't take the viper king mission (and the other one with the engineer's father). I thought it would be my doom but it turns out you don't need to take those missions. Both led me to the death of my best soldiers in previous games as they appear early in the game and I had regular armour and weaponry. Which led to the demise of several of my best soldiers and whole best teams being in the infirmary for ages. When Mutons entered the game, I was dead in the water. Now my soldiers are pretty bad-ass and I have plenty of cool gadgets so both missions should be pretty easy to finish. Will do those now. Second revelation was that I don't need any laboratory or workshops. What a waste of time, space and resources. Turns out we can get through all the research and work just fine without them. I still hate that XCOM is so into soldier advancement. I mean, people are our greatest assets and all, but still - in XCOM2 they really go from zero to hero. It takes a lot of time and any loss is a huge setback as the difficulty ramps up just as fast as the soldiers advance. Zombie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted November 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 The egineer's father mission (Shen's Last Gift DLC) was a walk in the park. Ground all the mechs like nobody's business. I had that stupid grin on my face all the time, even when the... main menace (to avoid spoilers) appeared. And I definitely remember how this mission was the end of several of my games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted November 7, 2023 Report Share Posted November 7, 2023 So this is why I've been seeing achievement badges popping up left and right as of late, SV. From your reports you seem to have a handle on the main threats so far. Keep well in mind how devious these aliens are and you might still come to be heralded as a Savior of Earth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted November 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2023 Meh, just as I started to feel invincible, two of my soldiers were killed like flies. Dammit, them aliens really start delivering a punch. I'm definitely running into aliens I never encountered before, being beaten and all. Zombie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoXTheRoXStaR Posted November 15, 2023 Report Share Posted November 15, 2023 Sounds like they came over illegally. 😏 Space Voyager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted November 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2023 On 11/15/2023 at 7:47 AM, NoXTheRoXStaR said: Sounds like they came over illegally. 😏 They sure have, damn illegal aliens! They took our jobs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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