Series : X-COM
Genre : Turn-based strategy
Themes : Alien Invasion
Trophies : truetrophies.comnot completed.
Look out! Serpentor has a plasma gun!
Log entries
- It was 70% off, 119 DKK. I couldn't say no.
- I played through the first couple of missions. It's XCOM in every way, in that the combat rules seem interesting and well-designed, the metagame is confusing and stressful, the graphics have a lot of weird little quirks, and load times are horrible.
- I'm preparing to build a Guerilla Tactics School to get the squad size upgrade, and taking a few missions until that time. A lot of soldier deaths and reloads. This game is hard.
- I'm trying to get back into this, but the game is really trying to dissuade me. I made it out of a failed mission with two soldiers still alive.
- In order to get some enjoyment out of this game, I have restarted on 'Rookie' difficulty. To avoid the option of save-scumming completely and save on boring load times, I have enabled the 'Ironman' flag, so I can't save-scum.
- I was showing this to Nabaz, and without considering how Ironman Mode works, played a mission poorly for fun, suicided, and quit the game without saving. It turned out that Ironman Mode means a single save, automatically saved after every turn. So now I have a save in a mission, just before the suicide.
2017-08-19
2017-08-20
Veteran 1 - Hybrids2017-09-09
2018-05-27
2018-05-29
2018-06-13
