by Adol The Red » Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:13 am
Wow, XCOM sure is a good stressed out commander simulator. I'm doing good at keeping up with missions and getting my troops geared, but I'm behind in satilite coverage. Woefully behind. For one I need more satillite links. Not bad, but first I need more engineers and more power. Okay, excavate, build a lab, build a workshop, build a power generator. Awesome, there goes the budget. Oh, and now I can build a foundry. That sounds important. Hmm, down there I can set up a good steam generator and take care of my power woes. ...more excavation. Finally, a generator. Now I can finally build that uplink. Sadly I had to sell my reserve UFO computers, so I have to settle for a crappy uplink, but at least its under construction. And I have enough carapace armor to go around. And at least one satilite in reserve, and another under construction. Of course, I'm way behind in my research because WANT PLASMA RIFLES!!
While all of this is going on, I find an alien base and mount an assault. I send all my best troops so it goes pretty well, though I couldn't capture the sectoid commander. On top of that, all of my best guys end up in sick bay, two of them for over two weeks. The only one who wasn't injured during the mission was Alexx's soldier character I made. He's a heavy, and scored five kills in the base. That was only his second mission. Exactly one day after that mission, one of my few satilites spots a UFO and I shoot it down. Alexx leads a team of mostly Rookies, including the completely green character based off of me, and manages to capture both a thin man and a sectoid commander in the same mission. Personally. I, on the other hand, got mind controlled, and was saved thanks to some crack shooting, and the gumption of the character I created off of Alexx's dog. Side note, the generic nick name for Rory (the dog) ended up being Wardog. Exactly one day later, one freaking day later, I experience my first terror attack. Once again Alexx leads the way, flanked by three freaking snipers. They save all but one civillian (this is my first game, and I'm not playing Ironman, so I reloaded until they made their damn shots). Whew, awesome. Two days later I get word of abductions. Motherfudknaosdfiakdsfoa!!! Alexx again handles business with Rory, the three snipers, and his wife. She is a great medic, but in 6 missions she has one kill. She, cannot, shoot. Through all of this Alexx remains uninjured. So yeah, his constaint reminders of how awesome he is translates to his character in my freaking game. Now he is a Captain and one of the primare leaders along with Luther, Zaid, and Cat Dan.
And I still don't have that freaking satilite coverage.
That may all sound like complaining, and at times the game is frustrating. As in my assault troop running up and missing an 85%, no cover, three tiles away at most shot. That is frustrating. But the game is also rediculously fun. The war stories it creates are great. In my next game I plan to just go through and let fallen soldiers stay fallen, and see if I can still win. I'm having a blast. There is one thing I find odd, though. Twice now I've had the screen suddenly drop me down into the blue space beneath the level. Stuff is still going on while I'm down there, too. The first time it came back up, but the last time it just stayed down there. 2 floaters blew up while I was down there, even though there were no visible floaters before the screen dropped, and it was still the aliens' turn. Had to shut it off that time. Was just wondering if anyone else had that same problem. And of course looking for any good stories.
Epic , brah!
