XCOM: Enemy Within - strategic excellence (Game Review)

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12/05/13 3:07 pm | #16

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Few months in to game4. Rushed beam weaponry and skeletal armor.

Kat ended up being a sniper this time, but I lost her in the mission just prior to the one pictured below. Funny that Snap ended up being a Heavy this time and AJ became a Support. He can run his ass off though, and gets 3 uses out of a single medkit--on top of that, he actually has a decent Aim stat and can get kills!

For whatever mystical RNG god reason, my me character always becomes a Heavy. This is the first time he has done well (it's due to the gene mods) and that's in spite of his/my terrible Aim (true-to-life).

So yeah, this is part of the XBA squad posin like a bawss for a pic before boarding the Skyranger and flying off to kill some xenos. I am purposely keeping squad size small for now.

I want to be a character! (and not die)

Then dont ask to be in metas game lol

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12/05/13 4:35 pm | #17

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I want to be a character! (and not die)

Then dont ask to be in metas game lol

True story. In this campaign, I get to the good tools as fast as possible. That means the lives of individual operatives are ... not the highest priority. I mean to not only curb the invasion, but to eradicate the self-righteous "progenitors" and all their crap with them.

This is why XCOM operates off the grid, behind closed doors, independent of any governing body.

It is a total war, a war of annihilation.

Hell, Kat already got iced despite her terrific sniping skills & gene mods. But if you think you have what it takes, ye shall become an XCOM operative.

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12/05/13 11:07 pm | #18

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Then dont ask to be in metas game lol

True story. In this campaign, I get to the good tools as fast as possible. That means the lives of individual operatives are ... not the highest priority. I mean to not only curb the invasion, but to eradicate the self-righteous "progenitors" and all their crap with them.

This is why XCOM operates off the grid, behind closed doors, independent of any governing body.

It is a total war, a war of annihilation.

Hell, Kat already got iced despite her terrific sniping skills & gene mods. But if you think you have what it takes, ye shall become an XCOM operative.

Through my entire game i kept 5 characters alive that did everything with precision and systematically destroyed the enemy. I named them all after RL people i knew, and only 1 of them died. My sniper was beyond beast with the skill that he could make another attack if he kills an enemy not in cover. so i would use 1 turn and kill 5 enemies and then mop the rest up with my 2 assault soldiers with shotguns with the ability they could use the run and gun ability. i would get up in an enemy's grill and cut a shotty to their face hole. Total. Annihilation.

mainly just a lot of luck :laugh:

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12/06/13 12:28 am | #19

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Through my entire game i kept 5 characters alive that did everything with precision and systematically destroyed the enemy. I named them all after RL people i knew, and only 1 of them died. My sniper was beyond beast with the skill that he could make another attack if he kills an enemy not in cover. so i would use 1 turn and kill 5 enemies and then mop the rest up with my 2 assault soldiers with shotguns with the ability they could use the run and gun ability. i would get up in an enemy's grill and cut a shotty to their face hole. Total. Annihilation.[/color]

Hell yes, that's what the fuck I'm talkin' about.

Chaind, with my first paycheck I am going to buy you a copy of Enemy Within and mail it to you. You are going to love it.

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12/06/13 12:38 am | #20

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True story. In this campaign, I get to the good tools as fast as possible. That means the lives of individual operatives are ... not the highest priority. I mean to not only curb the invasion, but to eradicate the self-righteous "progenitors" and all their crap with them.

This is why XCOM operates off the grid, behind closed doors, independent of any governing body.

It is a total war, a war of annihilation.

Hell, Kat already got iced despite her terrific sniping skills & gene mods. But if you think you have what it takes, ye shall become an XCOM operative.

Through my entire game i kept 5 characters alive that did everything with precision and systematically destroyed the enemy. I named them all after RL people i knew, and only 1 of them died. My sniper was beyond beast with the skill that he could make another attack if he kills an enemy not in cover. so i would use 1 turn and kill 5 enemies and then mop the rest up with my 2 assault soldiers with shotguns with the ability they could use the run and gun ability. i would get up in an enemy's grill and cut a shotty to their face hole. Total. Annihilation.

mainly just a lot of luck :laugh:

I'm finding it much more difficult to keep people alive in Enemy Within. You might have new toys but the aliens are more lethal as well. The overall pacing is a bit more hectic. You will be in for a challenge.

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Re: XCOM: Enemy Within - strategic excellence

12/08/13 4:14 pm | #21

Bad news update. I got some kind of glitch on my game4 so I can't continue. When I go to 'Scan for Activity' it instead makes sounds like it's loading up a Skyranger mission for a downed UFO, but the screen goes all black. Sucks because I had Ironman mode on

So! I was about to start game5 when I noticed that I still had the save for game1, which I could have sworn was over because I kept accusing the wrong countries of harboring EXALT and they left the Council. And I had Ironman mode on.

But nope, the save is still there and it's pretty much ok, only 3 countries have left XCOM, and I have satellites over all the others so I guess I'll go ahead and see this one through before I do 5.

PS: Chaind turned into a Sniper and was actually pretty damn good, made it to Sergeant before a Muton got a lucky crit on him. Haze's character became a Support, Snap is a Heavy, Kat is an Assault, Matt/evol1 was a Heavy but he died right after he got promoted

That sucks really hard because he got a beautiful 3-fer kill with his rocket. 3 Thin Men at the same time! Nuckin futs.

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12/09/13 7:06 pm | #22

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PS: Chaind turned into a Sniper and was actually pretty damn good, made it to Sergeant before a Muton got a lucky crit on him. Haze's character became a Support, Snap is a Heavy, Kat is an Assault, Matt/evol1 was a Heavy but he died right after he got promoted

That sucks really hard because he got a beautiful 3-fer kill with his rocket. 3 Thin Men at the same time! Nuckin futs.

shit, if i would have made it to Colonel you coulda applied the In the Zone ability that allows killing a flanked or uncovered target with the sniper rifle and it does not cost an action.

brutish ability that i love so much.

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12/09/13 8:08 pm | #23

Quote by Meta:

Bad news update. I got some kind of glitch on my game4 so I can't continue. When I go to 'Scan for Activity' it instead makes sounds like it's loading up a Skyranger mission for a downed UFO, but the screen goes all black. Sucks because I had Ironman mode on

So! I was about to start game5 when I noticed that I still had the save for game1, which I could have sworn was over because I kept accusing the wrong countries of harboring EXALT and they left the Council. And I had Ironman mode on.

But nope, the save is still there and it's pretty much ok, only 3 countries have left XCOM, and I have satellites over all the others so I guess I'll go ahead and see this one through before I do 5.

PS: Chaind turned into a Sniper and was actually pretty damn good, made it to Sergeant before a Muton got a lucky crit on him. Haze's character became a Support, Snap is a Heavy, Kat is an Assault, Matt/evol1 was a Heavy but he died right after he got promoted

That sucks really hard because he got a beautiful 3-fer kill with his rocket. 3 Thin Men at the same time! Nuckin futs.

I think Haze needs to go Support/Mech. His talents are being wasted.

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