My LP / Genius Level + Ironman + Night Missions + No 'First Turn Wait'

[Hobbit Lord]

Started on another forum, thought I should add the more interesting updates here too

My philosophy is that the aliens deserve their first turn full Time Unit / reaction fire advantage so I never wait out the first turn. Also I am using MKSheppard's excellent XComUtil mod which allows interceptors to carry soldiers

Here is a video where everyone died (I did reload afterward)

https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2w5zr_dm_51d4d33cb36f9_mission-4-incendiary-retardation/1#video=x16fizm


Yeah... I shot myself several times in the foot with an auto-cannon filled with incendiary ammo..

[Sharp]

My LP /Ironman

(I did reload afterward)

I don't think that word means what you think it means....

Kudos though on the not waiting on first turn, but my god why are they all left handed!

[Hobbit Lord]

I don't think that word means what you think it means....

Kudos though on the not waiting on first turn, but my god why are they all left handed!

Yeah I know.

It is Ironman within missions at least (I play through to the end even if I make mistakes)


I was messing with a new mod and tactic (using lots of incendiary to replace flares in night missions) on this mission so am counting this one mission as an 'experiment'. No other reloads from here on

Kudos though on the not waiting on first turn, but my god why are they all left handed!

Does it make any difference in game terms?

I know in the original left-handers would not have any weapon sprites, but that's been fixed. It's not intentional, when I swap equipment I first put a new weapon in their free hand before taking the old one away

[Shadow]

Why so many tiny videos instead of just one or two? What's wrong with YouTube?

[Hobbit Lord]

Why so many tiny videos instead of just one or two? What's wrong with YouTube?

The files get huge really quickly and eat up my RAM (slows the game)

Playlist should automatically start the next one so it's the same thing, except you can skip to the turn you want to watch

[Hobbit Lord]

Night-time terror mission, Russia:

https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2w863_dm_51d4d33cb36f9_mission-5-novosibirsk-complete/1

I wasted the first turn after pressured to do so, tho actually I didn't need to. Thought this mission was pretty good though aliens didn't fight very well. The casualty to the Reaper could have been avoided, I thought being on the other side of the doorway would prevent him getting to me

The reason for my crappy equipment is that I loaded an Interceptor with nearly all my equipment and it got shot down trying to intercept a large UFO.....

[pmprog]

The files get huge really quickly and eat up my RAM (slows the game)

If you're running Windows, I'd recommend getting OBS to capture the video. That does a good job at keeping it's footprint small (at least, it does on my PC), and the video sizes are nice and small too

[Hobbit Lord]

If you're running Windows, I'd recommend getting OBS to capture the video. That does a good job at keeping it's footprint small (at least, it does on my PC), and the video sizes are nice and small too

Thanks I got my desktop back with an upgrade to 3 Ghz and 8 MB RAM which should do the trick


Latest mission, short but quite dramatic:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16m6oh_mission07-farm-australia-outback_music

I'm testing out a couple of mods including MKSheppard's and the Cult and Drone mods by svanh - I'll see how they go

[Hobbit Lord]

Two new terror missions. Experimenting with some weapon mods (Ryskelini and Warboy's grenade launcher)

testing a tactic of destroying 'everything', think this would have exceeded old x-com's smoke limit:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16nst5_mission10-terror-melbourne_music

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16nu8b_mission11-terror-paris_music

[Hobbit Lord]

ALIEN BASE INVASION:

-4 losses, 3 injured
-Floater Leader captured

https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2wm7b_dm_51d4d33cb36f9_mission15-alien-base-invasion-1/1#video=x16pv7t

Using MKSheppard's XComUtil mod.
'Internal' inventory slots are from Svanh's Drone mod
Thunderstorm is by Tyran_nick

[Hobbit Lord]

MISSION 23, base DEFENCE

-this one was pretty cool. No warning, just popped up and had to deal with it. Not feeling confident...
-that's the manufacturing base, protecting 2 interceptors and 75 engineers. I bought 10 rookies which I didn't even look at months ago.
-at some point I must have transferred a few plasma rifles and pistols but that's all I had. Not even a single grenade

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x172vxp_mission23defence_music

-good base design is a gigantic advantage. Also lucky it was only floaters