EPTXCOM: Enemy Unknown - Page 69
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Coriolis
United States1152 Posts
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
On November 30 2012 23:50 Coriolis wrote: Not to mention you get some certain rather overpowered abilities as a result of the base... Reduced panic and a bunch of cash are the main reasons for doing it as soon as possible. | ||
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
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Snotling
Germany885 Posts
On December 01 2012 00:49 deth2munkies wrote: In my classic game I desperately need the panic reduction, the problem is that I have 3 Col. Assaults and Outsiders are dumb enough to trigger their close combat reaction shots over and over before I can stun the damn thing or shoot him with my rookie >< tryed to hunker them down? and how did you get 3 cols that early in the game? | ||
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On December 01 2012 01:02 Snotling wrote: tryed to hunker them down? and how did you get 3 cols that early in the game? Nobody died. I only had to reload once too, so it's pseudo-ironman. I mean the time I reloaded was bullshit, a guy got crit in heavy cover by a muton which caused one guy to panic and shoot at him blowing up the car where a 3rd of my guys was AND it caused my sniper to panic and kill the 2nd guy with a crit to the back of the skull. So yeah, 3 for 1 thanks to panic >< My team is currently Maj. Support, 2x Col. Assaults, 1x Maj. Assault, 1x Col.. Heavy, 1x Col. Sniper. I have a few Lt.'s in reserve but that's the main group. I have Lasers for all of them and a split of 4-2 Carapace/Skeleton Suit armor with Titan researching, I just need an actual UFO mission to go right >< | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10134 Posts
On December 01 2012 01:17 deth2munkies wrote: Nobody died. I only had to reload once too, so it's pseudo-ironman. I mean the time I reloaded was bullshit, a guy got crit in heavy cover by a muton which caused one guy to panic and shoot at him blowing up the car where a 3rd of my guys was AND it caused my sniper to panic and kill the 2nd guy with a crit to the back of the skull. So yeah, 3 for 1 thanks to panic >< My team is currently Maj. Support, 2x Col. Assaults, 1x Maj. Assault, 1x Col.. Heavy, 1x Col. Sniper. I have a few Lt.'s in reserve but that's the main group. I have Lasers for all of them and a split of 4-2 Carapace/Skeleton Suit armor with Titan researching, I just need an actual UFO mission to go right >< Easiest way to capture them is to remove cover and overwatch them while advancing. They will freeze on place and do nothing as long as everybody is on cover. People use this also to game the game, i only do it for setting up captures. My weird logic dictates it's the only time it's not considered by myself as an exploit :p You can also switch assault weapons to pistols, so they don't instagib the outsider so they just make it easier to capture (the less remaining HP the alien has, the easier to capture). | ||
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On December 01 2012 01:39 Godwrath wrote: Easiest way to capture them is to remove cover and overwatch them while advancing. They will freeze on place and do nothing as long as everybody is on cover. People use this also to game the game, i only do it for setting up captures. My weird logic dictates it's the only time it's not considered by myself as an exploit :p I actually need to just equip a bunch of frag grenades, they're the only things that wouldn't straight up kill him and remove cover. My main problem is that I overwatch before opening UFO doors just in case there's a Berzerker or something on the other side and the Outsider always moves when you see him, thus triggering overwatch and...yeah. I don't wanna have to save scum to actually cap the damn thing, but I'm considering it. | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10134 Posts
In the above post i edited before i read your post, about switching your assaults to pistols before triggering him, so they don't instagib the poor thing. | ||
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
 With the second wave mod you can enable various options and one of them is randomized funding from council members. However I´ve never seen a single country give that much: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/FKQVu.jpg) Almost perfect score on impossible ironman. The one civilian death was caused by a rocket I fired. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/uvoWy.jpg) Just one of the stupid bugs where soldiers share a tile. I´ve seen aliens do this as well. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/p9Dwh.jpg) | ||
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
On December 07 2012 08:14 Steveling wrote: Just got it, never played the 1st one, what mode shall I start to have a fun time(not too difficult, not too ez)?? Normal ironman or classic ironman if you want a challenge and flip tables. | ||
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Airact
Finland366 Posts
So I finally got a good enough start on Impossible Ironman and got an actual game going (for some reason I have problems clearing the first mission lol). First abduction mission is on the construction yard map that has like no full cover near the start location - Got facerolled The first UFO was pretty easy and got some rank ups that would hopefully lead into a pretty decent game First council mission - Bomb disposal... GG | ||
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On December 08 2012 07:12 Airact wrote: Normal Ironman is probably too easy if you have to ask. You can expect to need to restart the whole game at least a couple times on Classic Ironman (at least that's what happened to me lol). So I finally got a good enough start on Impossible Ironman and got an actual game going (for some reason I have problems clearing the first mission lol). First abduction mission is on the construction yard map that has like no full cover near the start location - Got facerolled The first UFO was pretty easy and got some rank ups that would hopefully lead into a pretty decent game First council mission - Bomb disposal... GG Apart from the Anna Sing escort, I find bomb disposal to be the easiest one, except on the fucking graveyard map. *moves up to nearest large cover* *Alien Activity* *5 mutons, 2 floaters, and a berserker appear within 5 squares of me* G fucking G. Happened twice too. | ||
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
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Airact
Finland366 Posts
I have had situations (both in I/I and C/I) where the dropping Thin Men literally checkmate me immediately. I'm pretty bad at out-chessing the AI for some reason so it might be because of that too. I have to say though. It's hilarious when a bunch of aliens pop up from a fricken rock I surround with vision. Suddenly 5 aliens in the middle of my group while I try to figure out how to out-chess the other aliens. Hidden alien bases in random rocks (or trees, that's another common one) ftw. | ||
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cjin
181 Posts
It was pain to see him die, and even more pain to realize afterwards that I could have moved another soldier first to make thin man to use hes reaction shot to him and run away with the sniper. Also, base with 3 steam vents, 2 in 2nd floor 1 in 3rd, 2 of them next to elevator. | ||
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On December 08 2012 08:40 DaCruise wrote: What in general makes bomb missions harder than escorts is the 4 thin men that spawns after you defuse the bomb. If you cant kill them all in your turn you will lose at least 1 soldier. Eh, I usually have enough power nodes to spare that I can clear the map, hit the nodes, put my guys in overwatch, THEN defuse. It rarely is an issue, though I did have one bomb mission where I lost 2 to the Thin men afterwards (on, you guessed it, the graveyard map because I lost my sniper early to mutons and my rookie to the berserker that spawned on top of her). Had last man standing hero shot one of them from 30%, was glorious. | ||
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
The game is ludicrously easy once you get Plasma Weapons and Ghost Armor, both of which I had around the time I assaulted the alien base due to just NOT capturing the Outsider in any reasonable timeframe. So, now I have to decide: Classic Ironman or Insanity normal? | ||
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Croatia7457 Posts
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