[Goober5000]

So use the good old bunker-busting trick of firing one shot to make a hole, then follow it up with a second one through the hole to level the entire bridge section.

I love this trick.  Combined with flying suit technology, it's fun to take out the commanders first and then watch as all the lower-ranked aliens start panicking.

I was inspired to start a Superhuman playthrough myself.  Quite a bit harder, but I was rewarded by having a blaster launcher and some bombs dropped in my lap when my base was attacked by Floaters early on.

Goober: I made a reference to cloning in my playthrough, but it was just poking fun at the way that X-Com, if funding allows, can apparently call on a limitless number of troops with noone ever asking questions or wondering if perhaps a 90% casualty rate is a bit high. There are no actual cloning facilities in the game.

Yeah, having previously completed the game, I knew there were no cloning facilities.  I was just wondering what BloodEagle was referring to -- I guess it was a line that I missed in your post.

[Shade]

I was inspired to start a Superhuman playthrough myself.  Quite a bit harder, but I was rewarded by having a blaster launcher and some bombs dropped in my lap when my base was attacked by Floaters early on.

Yeah, things certainly go faster on Superhuman. I've been having it pretty easy so far, with no big nasties yet, but the smaller UFOs are showing up with such regularity that I almost have more money than I know what to do with now. And it's still January

[NGTM-1R]

Was running through on at one casuality each in my first five missions, even on a battleship assault. Lost five on sixth. Damn, there goes my imperfect record.

[NGTM-1R]

Oh, and my seventh mission as a Base Assault. On my base.

With the slasher-smile guys we all know and love.

That went well.

[Shade]

Eep. Bad luck there, in my experience those guys rarely show up until 2+ months in even on superhuman.

[FireSpawn]

I give up. Either my PC can read my mind or I just suck to epic proportions.
I just got my arse handed back to me on a stainless steel specimen dish...AGAIN! 

A small UFO landed near my (still under manned and under equipped) base while my skyranger was on it's way to a crashed UFO and my interceptors were on their way back from a patrol halfway across the world and shooting down the ship. Straight away I was crapping myself, doubly so when it took off and moved out of range of my interceptors that were now only airborne due to the pilots flapping their arms out of the window.

During the mission at the crashed UFO, I lost my three top soldiers and a rocket HWP along with three others hospitalised along with the large amounts of ammo used. Did I mention that I forgot to save since the start of the game?

Needless to say, when my base got seized after a feeble fight against three unarmoured hobos off the street (I actually called them Street hobo#) equipped with stun batons, a cripple with an autocannon and bunch of insane obstructions, I realised that it's a good thing that I'm not in control of the worlds safety.

Damn I suck...

[Polpolion]

I give up. Either my PC can read my mind or I just suck to epic proportions.
I just got my arse handed back to me on a stainless steel specimen dish...AGAIN! 

A small UFO landed near my (still under manned and under equipped) base while my skyranger was on it's way to a crashed UFO and my interceptors were on their way back from a patrol halfway across the world and shooting down the ship. Straight away I was crapping myself, doubly so when it took off and moved out of range of my interceptors that were now only airborne due to the pilots flapping their arms out of the window.

During the mission at the crashed UFO, I lost my three top soldiers and a rocket HWP along with three others hospitalised along with the large amounts of ammo used. Did I mention that I forgot to save since the start of the game?

Needless to say, when my base got seized after a feeble fight against three unarmoured hobos off the street (I actually called them Street hobo#) equipped with stun batons, a cripple with an autocannon and bunch of insane obstructions, I realised that it's a good thing that I'm not in control of the worlds safety.

Damn I suck...

Yep, that's x-com all right. Even if you're the best at this game a lot of times there's just nothing you can do about your soldiers dying.

[Colonol Dekker]

SAM SAM SAM!

Spike.



SAM AWAY!


Or just hire 20+ meatshields with a pistol each and leave them permanantly at your base bro

[headdie]

Just had the luckiest Terror mission ever.

10 soldier with personal armour
10 laser rifles
8 medkits (some got destroyed waong with their carriers on a previous mission and have not had chance to replace them yet)
1 Laser tank
10 alien grenades.

firstly the travel was only a few hundred miles from my Americas response team


secondly the mission was floater/reaper (I have had a few encounters with snakemen and have shot down at least one snakeman terror ufo prior to this.)

thirdly I only had 1 floater and 1 reaper in my landing area with only a 4 floaters near by, the rest spawned near the far end of the map.  there was a blaster on the map but all the alien managed to do was nuke a couple of people and one of its fellow floaters in a bad shot (I didnt half swear when i heard the whistle during hidden movement).

Lastly this was the result of the mission


very please and relieved with that one

[DarkBasilisk]

http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-XCOM/x-com-complete-pack-bundle

Thought some people might be interested on this, only for the next 10 hours

[BloodEagle]

Wow.  That's a damned good deal. 

[Colonol Dekker]

Bought!

Always good to have a backup.

Worked out to about a quid via paypal....so ruleth britnnia!!



Thanks for teh infos x

[newman]

Once you get to the point you have flying suits, psi amps, and your soldiers trained with higher psi abilities, I find the game not that difficult anymore. I just send my low-psi strength guys in first as spotters. If they draw reaction fire the flying suits usually protect them. The big advantage of psi amps is not having to worry about your soldiers going too far and ending up in front of an armed alien with not enough TU's to either shoot or run away. As long as the alien is in sight you can mind control it using the high-psi-strenght guys you kept back. Heck I once cleared a very large UFO completely almost without any of my personnel inside the craft.. psi amps rule. There's nothing quite like mind controlling an alien commander armed with a blaster launcher, when attacking alien bases. He's usually in the command center, surrounded by at least 2 "leaders" and 1 or 2 soldiers, medics, navigators or engineers. Whatever the case you mind control a few to bunch them up then have them perform a blaster launcher mass suicide. Fun times

[Sandwich]

Ahh, so this is where you disappeared to, Shade. I'd been wondering...

I read through an EU LP a few months ago, and the guy doing it made the soldiers' names to be the names of volunteers from the forum he was posting on. I know people have been asking for this already in this thread, but I wanted to add that what then happened in the other LP was that the forumites started RPing, posting personal logs and such... it really enriched the whole LP, and it's be awesome to see it done here, with people I know this time.

If you decide to do things that way, definitely count me in.

[Goober5000]

Serious Sandwich definitely gets the Blaster Launcher.

[Shade]

Ahh, so this is where you disappeared to, Shade. I'd been wondering...

Nah, I've just had a couple of hellish weeks at work due to an unfortunate combination of people being on vacation, people calling in sick, and an unusually high workload. Oh, and recently a lot of bailing out water from flooded cellars too, not to mention spending a bit of time without power, courtesy of a nice storm giving 150mm of rain in less one hour. So yeah, pretty much been crashing in bed after I got home, getting up a few hours later for a bite of food, and then crashing again until morning... so not a lot of room left for either minecraft or this LP I'll be back in action again as soon as this eases off, though.

As for the idea with characters... I'll consider it. It seems to have merit

[Edit] A bit more about that storm. It was actually the most rain we've ever had in such a short time. Some images from the chaos in the city I call home can be found HERE, for anyone who likes to see the elements at work.  The text is in Danish, but the images should speak for themselves. The arrows to the bottom right of the image move forwards (right side) and backwards (left side).

[FireSpawn]

Damn, someone in your city must have really pissed off Chuck Norris.

[TrashMan]

And what do we learn from this?

You don't mess with Chuck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67LgpJBPPE&feature=related

[Patriot]

I was kinda wondering how you get XcomUtil to do what you want it to do, i just loaded UFO Defense up using the xcloader.exe(i imagine having all the XCU files in the game's folder would make it work)

I kinda need some help on this

[BloodEagle]

You need to make like Lt. Snipes while he's attaching explosives.