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Xpiratez is difficult to play like a modern CRPG, without an insane anount of metaknowledge.
If you go into it and expect casualties to be rare, or that there will be no disastrously punishing happenings, yeh, it is hard. If you go into it and attempt to YOLO it, it also gets hard because it is so long, so lucky streaks will run out.
Playing it in a slow but deliberate manner, treating units as expendable, and going on even after serious setbacks is easy.
That said, OXCE itself is a very complex engine that also adds complexity to the mod's complexity.
There's really no argument to be made that the game is easy. It is not easy to learn (especially if one never played 1993 xcom), it is not easy to swallow psychological defeats like losing a favourite gal, or a base holding all your treasure to crackdowns, and it is not easy to unlearn modern games streamlining.
In closing, reading this post here i was thinking: wouldn't be nice if every contry in the world would give access to an unique craft, after unlocking it with research? Aside the buckaroos and more sh***y vessels (the birds family) that can manufacture everywhere? Might be used the existing ones or even some more might be added so we should get one vessel unique per country. Deal?
it's not forbidden or something
Dear Ashghan, actually i did not write i"i don't like this" etc, just making some food for thought neither complaining not ordering obviously i cannot even conceive to force someone to do something! At least i'd propose to reconsider these niner - since are second hand brigand stuff - and eventually being replaced by manstoppers or even better assault pistols.
are you talking to me?
How typical. You don't have answer to my arguments, so you are calling reinforcements - threats and paranoid conspiracy theories.
Every pink-dot mission unvisited will cause a slight loss of points. The reason is: The gals question your leadership why you've skipped this opportunity for booty and glory.
Skipped pogroms do massive score penalties. This will not occure if you haven't researched "mutant alliance" tho.
Every mission started by one of the major factions (guild, academy, church and SGs) cause various penalties in score if those missions are not stopped.
The amount of lost points caused by missions of the 4 factions is mostly equalized by your battlescape performance (all the pink-dot missions) and research.
Fast research progression can net more income using the infamy-bonus than most workshops could produce with alcohol or other money-making products.
Unless you do no missions and no research in a month, your score shouldn't drop too harsh.
Also yea, a lot of fancy things, of course ; )
- Better mop-up tools for zero-risk missions that you still feel like losing out for ignoring. Say, an armor that's *extremely* vulnerable but has penetrating AoE morale-nuking attacks (loudspeakers? war drums?) to get very weak enemies to surrender quickly instead of going through every apartment/room on a map. Or something like that. (i know the TK projector kind of works, but would like to see more tools for faster mop-up maybe)
You need more than just two states... at least three: necessary ON, necessary OFF and irrelevant... not to mention numeric options.
I can't think of any... if you have a good idea, I'm all ears.
They are still quite expensive for what they do.
