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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 3.3: Mysteries Ancient And New

« on: June 03, 2024, 10:27:42 pm »

I tend to do this myself as a 'quirk' of my playstayle.  M16s in the USA, Steyr AUGs in Australia (their army uses them), AKs in Russia and Africa and the FALs/FAMAS/L85s in Europe.  If I can get enough of them from raiding cults that is.

Getting them earlier would be good, maybe gated behind recruiting the quartermaster first (he has certain 'contacts' I suppose).

I move on to Blackops weapons in every base, then Pulse weapons when they become available.  Lasers are the next step.  I haven't played a game long enough to get Plasma weapons as I like to restart when Solarius does an upgrade to the early game (I use the Github releases).

Ye, I got to black ops fairly quickly on my second go around. I got to pulse weapons when i was well through lasers so never used those really. BlackOps smart weapons are quite nice, but they don't seem to obtainable at a point were they are very useful.

Also another thing, why are MIB Commanders so impossible to grab. They are either in a rare attack on Xcom bases, or some Outpost mission that never happens. There is the Reactor mission, but that is unique one time from what i can find and I'm well past that. I've ran through like a in game year just waiting for any MIB commanders and I've gotten neither a MIB bas attack or an Outpost.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 3.3: Mysteries Ancient And New

« on: May 31, 2024, 01:01:11 am »

Something I thought of, maybe for weapon acquisition, 'local' arms should be acquirable a bit easier. Like if you have a starting base in around the Europe area, you can acquire FAMAS, FALs and other appropriate weapons a bit earlier than normal.

Looking at it, promotion I to II ain't that long or difficult, but could be an interesting flavor to base location choice. Shouldn't be too hard to stumble across some local arms for the shady black project