XCOM thread?
XCOM thread.
Post your stories here, totally not used to find out how you play.
Are the original games worth playing? My GPU busted a few weels ago, and I doubt the integrated intel gpu will run the newer xcom games with an acceptable performance
>>332306734
Actually, they're worth it. So long as you don't mind death around every corner and intense micromanagement.
>>332306918
Sounds good. Conceptually it's the same deal as the newer games, tho, right? Turn based srpg of sorts, like jagged alliance for example?
>>332307084
For the most part, yes. There are some differences however.
>>332307084
yeah, but your soldiers will get shot from areas they can't see, disks take are practically tanks, and you need to buy ammo for even laser weapons.
openxcom helps a lot here, and it comes width a shitload if mods.
just don't get mad once the only viable tactic is to give rpgs to everyone and blow everything up
>>332306620
>VIP rescue
>Ambush a pod, everything all right
>go to move a soldier up to where an alien was
>cursor keeps getting pushed off the corpse, ends up making me missclick and leave my guy in the open
>shit, well, guess I'll yellow move to get him in cover
>it does it again
>fuck, oh well no more pods active
>more phantom ranger up, spots a patrol of 3 avdvent, has eyes on 2 when I get camera control back
>I can kill these guys pretty easily with some grenades.
>move grenadiers up, launch proxy mine at their feet
>launch grenade centered on the group, even though I can't see the third guy, I know it's still in range from what I saw when they were all visible
>3rd guy in fog takes no damage from the grenade
>only the guy that activated the mine takes damage
>okay this is still workable, I still got moves left
>check line of sight with specialist, then move him up
>specialist doesn't actually have line of sight
>well okay I guess I'll just use his grenade instead to blow up the cover
>cover gets blown up, but the advent still has the full cover bonus
fuck this game
had it for years now starting it up for the first time
any advice?
>>332307549
>>332307557
Thanks a lot guys, I'll download openxcom now. Have a fun thread
>>332307805
You will get attached to your soldiers. When they die, you will cry like a little bitch. And they WILL die.
Oh, and know how to use cover and think before you act.
Seems legit.
I don't use mechanized infantry
I find it inhumane
>>332311756
MECs are the cyborgs
Mechanized infantry are IFVs and APCs. If they were in XCOM I'd use the hell out of them.
I miss MECs.
More importantly, I miss being able to Rocket-Fist a Muton in the face.
EXO-Suits just ain't the same.
I also miss these chucklefucks in pic related.
>tfw still no cute SHIVs to tear shit up in xcom 2
Please firaxis
>>332312137
You can fit your squad out to look like Exalt in 2 atleast, Ex-Exalt if you will.
