Make your own war stories, that's something imho only the XCOM franchise can give. I remember in EU on my first playthrough. On the final area facing the boss with iirc 10hp left, all my soldiers were either dead or mind controlled except for my sniper with only 1 health left. She hit a critical and boom! Ending sequence. Well she was also the chosen one so...well I won't spoil the ending.
If you play on easy and activate both tutorials, it should be enough. I'm not good at all at strategy games, but XCom was easy enough for me to pick up and play by following the tutorial.
Yea... I never finished EU on the xbox cuz I couldn't finish that mission for some reason. Kept DIEING again and again and again probably cuz of my difficulty setting. Got EW and went all mech xcept 1 to make sure there was no way that would happen again. On the other hand I agree the xcom takes the spot for video game war stories next to ARMA. It's got me wondering though what frontline experiences other players have with this game especially since it's been released again for mobile. There's probably a discussion on some forum somewhere on the web on this topic but I'm more interested in what the Touch Arcade community has to say about it. Share your stories guys! Or don't. Up to you. It be cool to hear em though.
You all know how once a soldier reaches a certain rank, the game gives them a suitably action movie sounding nickname that is pulled at random from some list. I'm playing through this godsawful terror mission and I wind up in this clusterfark where there's a Cyberdisc Cannon and a Chryssalid right on top of a panicked rookie. As soon as the aliens' turn comes, I'm going to lose *at least* the panicked rookie, dude is at 2HP and cowering at point blank range. I have other panicked soldiers, others have already made their move whittling down the cannon's HP, so we're about to face a much more powerful CC and have a Chryssalid in our midst which can kill my guys in one blow in the shape we're in. I have only one soldier who hasn't gone, a Heavy class, and there is only one move I can make that is a net gain for my side. I fire her single rocket round right into the middle of the CC/C/R trio. BLAMMO! Cyberdisc Cannon is killed, yay. Chryssalid is killed, yay. Miraculously, the rookie is only critically injured, he can be stabilized with a med kit, yay... No, wait, Cyberdisc Cannon wreck explodes and Rookie is killed. Then I notice what nickname my Heavy soldier has had for some time: Collateral
Had that rookie reached the rank where he were to be given a callsign - you'd be surprised that it was "Expendable".
I cannot get the game to load. It runs the initial sequence 2K, Fireaxis Games, 2K China, Powered by Unreal, the title screen comes up, and then it repeats this sequence indefinitely. I tried reinstalling, any other ideas? Thanks.
iPad Air. Have not been able to make it past the title screen. Just repeats the initial load sequence indefinately.
Ouch, I'm using an iPad mini retina and for the most part it performs pretty good.. Some stutters here and there but no big deal
I remember my first playthru in EU having a similar situation and i thought all is lost.but then in the very last moment i had to attack something...important.That lowered the worldwide panic.I love the game for situations like this The message is:don't panic
With understandble compromise to make it fit and work for mobile but other than that just as good plus you can now bring it to the bus stop