New Niewiems walkthrough

[HT]

Had only one mission with a knight.
Yesterday I got to research high explosives and some black ops stuff(cannot buy yet though) so will be a lot more potent
Right now I am using Shotguns and Magnums mostly

You should get into Promotion 3 ASAP, if you're not already, followed by doing MAGMA missions until you can buy their stuff. Alien Alloy ammo is a must by that point.

Thankfully, manufacturing said alloys gives you lots of money.

[Niewiem]

I am not even at promotion 2 yet...

[HT]

I am not even at promotion 2 yet...

I'm surprised you lasted long enough with such subpar gear, unless you were unlucky to stumble upon a knight somewhere. As far as I know, Follow the Zombies is required to spawn Knights, so by then you should have Promotions enough to use explosives. Also, extra advice: Be sure to at least destroy 2 of the cults before the end of the 1st year if you don't want to be overwhelmed.

[Niewiem]

Had some hard missions due to a lot of enemies but managed to do most of them. Only had to run from Spiked Boars Follow the Zombies? Is that the mission where you meet infectors for first time? If so I did it without much trouble - most zombie missions were fairly easy for me... The one where I met Vampire Knight was some mission with Army - there were a lot of soldiers fighting zombies
I am also playing only on veteran level

[HT]

Had some hard missions due to a lot of enemies but managed to do most of them. Only had to run from Spiked Boars Follow the Zombies? Is that the mission where you meet infectors for first time? If so I did it without much trouble - most zombie missions were fairly easy for me... The one where I met Vampire Knight was some mission with Army - there were a lot of soldiers fighting zombies
I am also playing only on veteran level

Veteran is the third difficulty level, right? I think you were (un)lucky  enough to have a rare "terror mission" variant where civvies of three different tiers (civilians, police and military) fight against monsters. I only had like one mission so far, so I don't know what can happen here. Clearly though units of high-tier can show up, which can complicate things a lot.
On the plus side, if you can defeat Knights, you can defeat anything below that level monster-wise.
Boars are easy once you get proper anti-piercing armor (aka the Armored Vest outfit and later the Alloy Vest). Also, incendiary grenades and fire in general works against all monsters, including aliens.

[Niewiem]

Yeah it is third difficulty level

I only defeated knight becasue he panicked and dropped his weapon - otherwise he would kill my whole squad without even blinking

I just got some new armors but currently I am out of cash :/

[HT]

Uh, I wasn't aware that Knights and above can panic, good to know I guess. As for money, try building workshop and mass producing Durathread/Alien Alloys, especially the latter, as soon as you're able to.

While in X-Files you're no longer allowed to mass-produce laser weapons to sell them to totally-not warlords for profit, instead you do the same with "safer" alien tech. Win-win situation! 

[sugarran]

I begin with 0.8.6 and now i'm playing with 0.8.9. I'm at april 2001. I've researched the 82% (1270). I have 530 millions. I've accomplished 622 missions and captured 1655 aliens. But I'm stuck with cyber war missions. Nothing to research, no new missions. I can't get the dimension X. There is any techtree where I can see what I'm missing?
Thanks for all this work!

[Niewiem]

Hi guys I got back to playing this again
But after downloading newest version and trying to load a save I got error about mods not avaiable and when I check there is only Xcom Files in options/
But in earlier versions there wera a lot of other mods like alines pick up weapons and similar small mods.

Is it all right to load this save game or did I do something wrong?

[Solarius Scorch]

Yes, I removed all vanilla mods, since they didn't work anyway.

[Niewiem]

ok thanks

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Hi again
Should I be getting mission "black lotus party" after I researched "terminate black lotus"?

[Solarius Scorch]

ok thanks

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Hi again
Should I be getting mission "black lotus party" after I researched "terminate black lotus"?

If it's the same month, then yes.

[Niewiem]

I think I need to wait for ability to dig through walls...
I got missions "ooze infestation" and tried it 3 times - 2 first times I was not able to find even one enemy, on third try I had most of the map uncovered - stunned 2 oozes and again last one was inside wall without any means to access it

[Niewiem]

In Meridian the Hunter mission

[Niewiem]

Holly molly

I just had my squad wiped out in landed hunter-killer UFO.
It was mutons + some alien flying rocket tank.
I was not even able to dmg it... I used like 20 plasma granades and i do not even know how much laser rifle shots. How much armor does this thing have!?

Might try again today - I will take some more and better explosives