New X-COM game coming . . . and it's turn based strategy!

[Josquius]

What does normal make easier?
Less of your guys dying?

[Kleves]

Just beat it on normal/ironman. I had 6 Colonels in the final assault - 2 heavy, 2 support, 1 sniper, 1 assault. I lost 3 of them (1 heavy, and both supports). Apparently the fuckers die if they're mind controlled at the end; serves them right, the weak-minded fools. Two of my survivors had been with me the whole game. I'm glad they made it out. The end was fairly exciting: [spoiler]2 etherals and the boss etheral mind-controlled 3 of my soldiers - the ones who ended up dying. I didn't want to kill them (whoops), so I had my assault try and take out one of the mind-controllers, so that I could start to get them back. The fucker missed like a 90% shot, and I was down to two guys surrounded by 3 etherals, 3 mind-controlled teammates, and 1 elite muton. My sniper (a complete and total badass) knocked the boss down to 1 health, and then it was up to my heavy - the Argentine that survives the very first mission of the game. He pulled out his rocket launcher, fired across the map, and sent the the rocket right into the alien boss' face (incidently killing half the squad via psychic reverberations or some shit at the same time). Cool. [/spolier]

[Razgovory]

I finally got that son of a bitch UFO.  He's down in South Africa.  I'm sending my A Team in to get the motherfuckers along with a big robot.  I also have a black guy named "Prophet" wearing power armor with super powers.  I think he might have walked into the wrong game...

[Octavian]

...I also have a black guy named "Prophet"... with super powers....

You should name him Obama

[Razgovory]

I lost.  They all died.   I have to start over.  The Ethereal was a bitch, and the Sectapod wasn't much better.

[Grey Fox]

I encountered my first mutons. Bastards hurt, killed Mery & Tricky Dick but then the game crashed & I couldn't resist the temptation of starting that mission over.

[Razgovory]

I may give the game a break.  Fire up Skyrim which I bought but haven't played yet.

[Scipio]

Heavys and Laser Snipers are a muton's best friend.

[Josquius]

I gave in.
It is very pretty and flashy. The base system is kind of simplified, I hate the satellite system and the way it only covers one country (stupid), but OK....It is really making it look likely I'm going to lose India and Canada though.

Snipers I find to be rather useless. Areas are too cluttered and you have to keep moving your guys forward.

One interesting difference to the original is the way combat areas are quite linear here. Straight forward dashes. In the original I remember a big challenge was having your landing craft in the middle and aliens possibly being all around you.
Its nice not to have to bother with debarkation, that was always a pain.

[Tamas]

Snipers get the remote-spotting skill on their 2nd sniper-level meaning they can fire at stuff their teammates see, provided they have a LOS.
That skill makes them a great asset.

All classes are great in some situations in fact. Assaults can finish off a lone remaining enemy when its fully entrenched behind cover otherwise. Rockets of heavies are GREAT for killing off groups of enemies, or seriously weakening strong ones while destroying their cover.

Support gets to shine once they got the "use 3 medikits in a battle" skill.

[Grey Fox]

I lost another Assault. Never got one passed Squaddie so far.

[Josquius]

how do you get engineers?
I've gotten pretty far in the story but am doomed to lose a bunch of nations as aliens do stuff there without me being any the wiser due to being able to launch satellites.

[Grey Fox]

A couple per months, as missions rewards and by building workshops IIRC.

I soon will lose ALL of Asia but that's ok. I've consolidated my network over Africa(base), Europe & NA.

[Mr. Grey]

Snipers get the remote-spotting skill on their 2nd sniper-level meaning they can fire at stuff their teammates see, provided they have a LOS.

Support gets to shine once they got the "use 3 medikits in a battle" skill.

Early on when I was struggling, I actually rolled with 3 snipers. The squad sight is amazing...especially since all the maps are setup for more or less moving straight forward. When snipers get double tap, along with squad sight, it makes snipers the most op class. I love defuse/escort missions because snipers can 1-shot thin men. My last bomb defuse had 5 thin men in front of me....after my two snipers took their turn...only 1 left!

I hate support class until they can use 3 medkits. I think the smoke grenade needs a buff.

[Josquius]

So its impossible to do the game without losing nations? I really hate this limited range satelite system. It just makes no sense that one satelite can cover the whole of Russia but you need a seperate one for every country in Europe.

I'm thinking of restarting, I lost Britain when I chose to save India on one of those horrible choices which seem to be the most common mission since it was already on 4 panic. Gah. I felt I was getting pretty far too, I know where the alien base is, just havent got enough engineers to build the key