Finally finished the game! Amazing experience. The final battle was hectic. SPOILER: easy way of beating the final boss explained. Spoiler On my first approach I entered the ship's command centre with my 6 soldiers and... what a disaster! The two mind-controlling aliens and the boss destroyed my 6-soldier army in two turns! My second approach was wiser: I entered the room with a soldier wearing a ghost armour and set the rest of the soldiers outside covered and waiting. This activated the alien movements towards me. I then got the soldier out of the command centre and set him to wait outside too for the big boss alien to come. After 3-4 turns he got to the door of the command centre and controlled one of my soldiers, but with the other five soldiers waiting, I killed him with all the reaction shots and the moves for one turn. It might be a coward way of winning the game, but it surely worked
I just finished the game on normal mode. Loved the game although i can agree that people call it dumbed down if compared to the original xcom but I loved it. Just started on classic difficulty now that is a whole new game my rookies are getting slaughtered
Spoiler The Alien command starship is the last mission. You have to assault it and get to the central command control, where the bstrd mind-controlling alien boss is. At least on easy level that was the final level.
This would be nice, but for me the killer thing that totally separates the pc/console versions from the ios one is Second Wave options, just the chance of having my rookies "born" with different stats makes a world of difference to me, its a great feeling when you have 2 or 3 "stars" whose stats are better than the rest to be your heroes and losing them becomes much more dramatic. Its much better than having every soldier in the same class having the same stats.
I had one start out with something like 30 will 80 aim, it was so sad - she panicked far too much to be useful, what a waste of all that aim. Some Floaters put her out of her misery.
What the hell happened? Spoilers for the final battle: Spoiler Hover SHIV destroyed, sniper dead, Psi-heavy bleeding out. Two mind-control Ethereals left (one at full health) along with two Elite Mutons. Psi-soldier takes desperate shot at wounded Ethereal (30%) and... kills it causing it to blow up and take the other Ethereal and Mutons with it. Anticlimactic victory cutscene comes up. Wish I could play that final shot back in slow motion to see exactly what the hell happened.
Only early into it (done about 6 or 7 missions. Already lost a country through lack of satellite observation. Therein lies my problem. I seem to need uplinks to launch the satellites and I need 10 engineers for an uplink. Cannot work out how to get more engineers. I only have 7.
When you have a choice of missions, look at the rewards that each of them offer. Usually one of the missions will give you a group of engineers as a reward. This should get you up and running with building your satellite uplinks.
Anybody have word on an update? Dying to play some multiplayer, also do you think second wave options will ever be added?
What's second wave option? Anyway, I am still early in the game. By the time I am done with the campaign, MP should be available
Yeah we need multiplayer ASAP! Even an asynchronous one would actually work, like that in Worms 2: Armageddon. Re 2nd wave, when/if they add it, i hope conpleting classic mode will also unlock those associated with normal mode, same with impossible mode
I hope it's as full as the pc version. Being able to play as the aliens or a mix alien and human would be amazing.
Does anyone know how well this game runs on iphone 5? Also, does it massively drain the phone's battery?
