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Offtopic / Re: New to XCOM and want some advice
« on: February 09, 2016, 09:39:56 pm »
Hi guys!
Oh looks like there was quite a debate in here.. Anyway Thank you for all your replies! They will be very helpful!
I am playing on the center difficulty (middle one) because I want to have a challenge when i first play. I understand taking losses and losing, as I said earlier I play games such as Dwarf Fortress before :p
So this is what has happened:
I am learning how to play the game, and learning from mistakes.
First real mistake I was making was forgetting to wait till daytime to attack things :p I am just now fixing that
Second mistake was not priortizing researching new weapons. I ended up having to use rifles for quite a long time (but at least sold pistols cause I assume they are bad). Two terror missions I have been destroyed, with no survivors (I know I should try to get one soldier in skylander to abort mission but oops). Both terror missions involved these flying discs (at least 5 in the second one) I threw rockets and heavy cannons and rifle shots but I must say my casuality rate per disc was pretty high :p Did not survive, but it was close, second one it was 1 vs 1 in the end. I am starting to figure out how to better use time units.
I do not know what these discs are, I tried to use a stun rod on one but it seemed to only kill it. Can they be captured? (So I can put them in containment and learn what it is, its lore and such?)
My third terror mission was a success, because I finally equipped my troops with laser rifles, 2 medpacks, 2 smoke grenades (and now reading this thread I understand their purpose a bit more), 5 grenades, 10 laser rifles, 2 stun rods, 1 large rocket, 1 heavy cannon (both use high explosive/large rocket), 2 explosive charges. With the laser rifles I had an easier time hitting enemies especially from longer ranges. I don't know how many rocketeers I should have but I only had 2 soldiers capable of carrying rockets at this point, because I have had a casualty rate over ... 70% until that point? lol UFO battles are not beating me though.
I was able to kill the discs this time (although they seemed to explode now when shooting them with laser rifles!) and encountered snake aliens for first time. (up until now I have been encountering aliens that appear as "The Greys"
About the motion scanners, I had two but they were destroyed in first terror mission and two new ones were destroyed in second terror mission, I better make some more. I saw their usefulness when watching yogscast play openxcom
I am now on my fifth terror mission, and it is going very badly. I brought same as third mission, except 1 plasma rifle for my highest ranked. (I just figured out how to use them, and seeing these posts here I can understand when to use them). I havnt tried heavy rifles of any sort yet, because I heard ?laser? rifle was worst gun in game? or maybe it was heavy rifle? or heavy plasma rifle? I don't know
Anyway in this fifth terror mission I encountered new aliens that are black , I killed one and in inventory said something like chrysallid terrorist or something like that. They are destroying me, it seems like anyone they get into melee range they turn into some sort of infected person, and once the infected person is killed another chrysallid comes out. They are taking many many shots to kill. I cannot kill them fast enough! (I have not let time pass long enough to see if these infected persons are dangerous before killing them, I have simply been shooting them)
They are turning all of the civilians into infected, and are rushing towards all my positions, which is not in great position vs melee. I have lost about half of my soldiers now to them, and I see no way to defeat them now. They seem to be able to move very far, so I am not sure I can outrun them
I supose I will get in the skylander and abort mission for this tim e, rather than lose all of my laser rifles and remaining soldiers, and the skylander itself for the third time
Can anyone tell me if these creatures can be captured alive? (hit them with stunrod but didnt put them down, not enough time units to do again, so had to shoot him) or if the flying disc things can be captured (hit one twice with stun rod but it seemed to simply die)? I want to be able to research them to read the lore on them, if the devs put such a thing in. I was able to capture a living sectoid engineer at least, and wanted to try that with other aliens
thanks again for replies as i learn how to play and have FUN
oh and my memory of the events might be off so if anything seems weird then i probably remembered wrong
Oh looks like there was quite a debate in here.. Anyway Thank you for all your replies! They will be very helpful!
I am playing on the center difficulty (middle one) because I want to have a challenge when i first play. I understand taking losses and losing, as I said earlier I play games such as Dwarf Fortress before :p
So this is what has happened:
I am learning how to play the game, and learning from mistakes.
First real mistake I was making was forgetting to wait till daytime to attack things :p I am just now fixing that
Second mistake was not priortizing researching new weapons. I ended up having to use rifles for quite a long time (but at least sold pistols cause I assume they are bad). Two terror missions I have been destroyed, with no survivors (I know I should try to get one soldier in skylander to abort mission but oops). Both terror missions involved these flying discs (at least 5 in the second one) I threw rockets and heavy cannons and rifle shots but I must say my casuality rate per disc was pretty high :p Did not survive, but it was close, second one it was 1 vs 1 in the end. I am starting to figure out how to better use time units.
I do not know what these discs are, I tried to use a stun rod on one but it seemed to only kill it. Can they be captured? (So I can put them in containment and learn what it is, its lore and such?)
My third terror mission was a success, because I finally equipped my troops with laser rifles, 2 medpacks, 2 smoke grenades (and now reading this thread I understand their purpose a bit more), 5 grenades, 10 laser rifles, 2 stun rods, 1 large rocket, 1 heavy cannon (both use high explosive/large rocket), 2 explosive charges. With the laser rifles I had an easier time hitting enemies especially from longer ranges. I don't know how many rocketeers I should have but I only had 2 soldiers capable of carrying rockets at this point, because I have had a casualty rate over ... 70% until that point? lol UFO battles are not beating me though.
I was able to kill the discs this time (although they seemed to explode now when shooting them with laser rifles!) and encountered snake aliens for first time. (up until now I have been encountering aliens that appear as "The Greys"
About the motion scanners, I had two but they were destroyed in first terror mission and two new ones were destroyed in second terror mission, I better make some more. I saw their usefulness when watching yogscast play openxcom
I am now on my fifth terror mission, and it is going very badly. I brought same as third mission, except 1 plasma rifle for my highest ranked. (I just figured out how to use them, and seeing these posts here I can understand when to use them). I havnt tried heavy rifles of any sort yet, because I heard ?laser? rifle was worst gun in game? or maybe it was heavy rifle? or heavy plasma rifle? I don't know
Anyway in this fifth terror mission I encountered new aliens that are black , I killed one and in inventory said something like chrysallid terrorist or something like that. They are destroying me, it seems like anyone they get into melee range they turn into some sort of infected person, and once the infected person is killed another chrysallid comes out. They are taking many many shots to kill. I cannot kill them fast enough! (I have not let time pass long enough to see if these infected persons are dangerous before killing them, I have simply been shooting them)
They are turning all of the civilians into infected, and are rushing towards all my positions, which is not in great position vs melee. I have lost about half of my soldiers now to them, and I see no way to defeat them now. They seem to be able to move very far, so I am not sure I can outrun them
I supose I will get in the skylander and abort mission for this tim e, rather than lose all of my laser rifles and remaining soldiers, and the skylander itself for the third time
Can anyone tell me if these creatures can be captured alive? (hit them with stunrod but didnt put them down, not enough time units to do again, so had to shoot him) or if the flying disc things can be captured (hit one twice with stun rod but it seemed to simply die)? I want to be able to research them to read the lore on them, if the devs put such a thing in. I was able to capture a living sectoid engineer at least, and wanted to try that with other aliens
thanks again for replies as i learn how to play and have FUN
oh and my memory of the events might be off so if anything seems weird then i probably remembered wrong
