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

[katmai]

Strategy?
Um unless the mission has mutons I haven't faced any other alien using grenades so if mission without them I ignore my normal approach and keep my guys with LOS of rest of squad when facing those zombie making bastards.

[daveracher]

The floating discs will whip grenades. I'll try a tigher group and see what happens. My worst encounters have been floating discs and chrysalids. Bloody nightmare.

[katmai]

With that combo you are fucked. Just have to hope get lucky and researched enough weapons and armor.

[Razgovory]

I got two Russian chicks with the last name.  I wonder if they are sisters. I have a lot more Americans this time around.  Last game I had mostly Nigerians for some reason.  I also have one chick from Britain and one from Scotland.  I didn't think Scotland was an independent country.  For some reason women survive longer then men in this.  I call it, "The Ripley effect".

[daveracher]

Just as a side note - since I've started playing this my parrot now shouts in a pained voice "Awww Fuck OFF!"

[FunkMonk]

What continents do you guys start in? I like Africa for the extra funds.

If you launch a satellite over a different continent, do you also get the continent bonus? Or just the country bonus?

[ulmont]

If you launch a satellite over a different continent, do you also get the continent bonus? Or just the country bonus?

Country, until you have a sufficient number of satellites over the continent, at which time you pick up the continent bonus.  I hear starting in Africa and immediately throwing satellites up over Europe (starting with Russia) is a pretty good economic strategy.

UFOpaedia has a section for the new X-COM, but it's kinda light on information right now.
http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Enemy_Unknown_(EU2012)

[Razgovory]

What continents do you guys start in? I like Africa for the extra funds.

If you launch a satellite over a different continent, do you also get the continent bonus? Or just the country bonus?

I started in the USA, cause you know. USA!  USA!

[Razgovory]

It's a little annoying that when my soldiers panic, they feel the best way to express themselves is shoot at one another.  I kinda assumed that X-com was taking the best of the best and the rookies were like special forces from their respective countries.  Maybe they are just raw recruits.

[The Brain]

It's a little annoying that when my soldiers panic, they feel the best way to express themselves is shoot at one another.  I kinda assumed that X-com was taking the best of the best and the rookies were like special forces from their respective countries.  Maybe they are just raw recruits.

Is it just the women or is it everyone?

[Mr. Grey]

You could have use a 360 controller with your laptop.

^ so sad that I just learned about this a few weeks back.

Stupid Chryssalids! I thought I had killed the last muton on a landed UFO...but no extract and the alien 'noise beacon' thing pointed back outside the ship. I figured one of those crafty bastards snuck outside to flank me. I sent my assault (MAJ w/Laser shotgun) dashing outside....into a pack of 3 Chryssalids. My first officer to be KIA.

I do love that beacon thing...I recall my frustration spending an hour looking for the last stupid sectoid on 'very large ufo' missions in the original (motion sensor was stupid!).  I am only playing on normal difficulty, but it doesn't seem like enemies actually move on the map until you move a squad member to a predetermined area. I hope this is not the case on higher difficulties.

[Razgovory]

It's a little annoying that when my soldiers panic, they feel the best way to express themselves is shoot at one another.  I kinda assumed that X-com was taking the best of the best and the rookies were like special forces from their respective countries.  Maybe they are just raw recruits.

Is it just the women or is it everyone?

Actually the women seems to fire at the aliens when they panic.  The men seem to have issues and start firing at the chicks.  I met my first trio of Mutons.  Bastards were hard to hit.  Ended up using grenades and rockets to really put them down.

[Grey Fox]

I lost my first soldier, on the first mission before I could rename him, his name lost to history.



My best sniper so far is named after my GF, in hindsight, that was a bad idea.

Also, I change everybody's head to an helmet. Especially the Assaults & Heavies. Dudes, aliens, atleast wear some protection.

[Kleves]

A couple crashes so far. That's one demerit to playing on PC. 

[Syt]

A couple missions in and I like it a lot (playing Classic/Ironman).

My first soldier has earned her nickname - a NZ girl sniper. I had a Swedish assault chick ( ?) equipped with a stun gun to capture an alien. She got a bit unlucky during the following mission - she was poisoned once at the beginning of the mission, then again at the end of it which caused her to panic, before a Thin Man finally put her out of her misery. She already had a WTF moment in a previous mission where she and a sectoid duelled at point blank range with only limited success on both sides.

The mission had a bit of a funny moment, too. A Thin Man is dropped into the mission area - three of my squad get up simultaneously and blast him to bits.

In the mission before that (clearing a downed UFO) a German girl was down to her last health blip and in the line of fire of three aliens. She managed to survive and even take out the last aliens (two linked sectoids) with a 25% hit chance.

My first soldier (from the tutorial mission), an Argie heavy died on his third mission  when he (literally) ran into a Thin Man.