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Playthroughs / Shortest game ever

« on: August 20, 2014, 09:32:16 am »

I just had my shortest game ever. Only a couple of days in, my base gets attacked - before any UFO missions. I had researched nothing at this point. My soldiers therefore had no armor and only the basic weapons. They were completely wiped out by cyberdiscs as my rifle-equipped soldiers were useless. I lost the base, and thus the game. This was on superhuman level. Was this just a fluke? My next game I'm in August without a single base attack.

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Fan-Stuff / Which mods/settings to make late game more difficult?

« on: August 20, 2014, 07:59:59 am »

I hugely enjoyed playing the first few months which is very challenging on superhuman / ironman / sneaky AI, but I find it becomes a bit easy and boring a few months as soon as your soldiers have heavy plasma and flying suits (and especially once you have the avenger). The difficulty level just drops like a cliff, except for terror missions / battleships which are still a challenge pre-avenger. I was wondering what mods you might recommend to keep the early game around the same difficulty but later game more difficult.

I know there's "no psionics" but I found the difficulty drops before that stage is reached. Thanks for any suggestions!

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Troubleshooting / [SOLVED] Fails to start - cannot load ruleset

« on: August 12, 2014, 07:07:48 am »

I'm having trouble getting it to start. It says 'Failed to load ruleset'. I tried both manual and automatic installs, and I tried both my own copy of x-com - and when that didn't work bought the steam copy, I get the same message. I'm using Windows 8, 64-bit. Thanks for any help, would love to try this classic again.