I didn't really lose any important squaddies until I got to the
mind control aliens. They can take down my best units.
Really? I plowed through those guys. You just have to advance cautiously so that you don't trip them and their guards on the same turn.
The Berserker started getting pretty easy, once I unlocked the alloy cannon - Hit them with rapid fire(two shots from the one assault class bloke), and then when they charge you, you get a third automatic reaction shot if you have that skill. One dead Berserker.
My team for almost my entire run was three support, two assault and one sniper. The assaults leapfrog up with the supports assembled behind, and the sniper lagged back, flying or climbing on shit as necessary. Absolutely anything that was detected was battered back and forth between two alloy cannons and then hosed with plasma fire regardless of whose turn it was.
Oh mans, snipers are 100% boss. Ghost suit to get up to rooftops, they can hardly be touched, and they're super deadly up there with the high advantage to hit percentage and crit chance.
My sniper was basically the way I got through the early game. She could sit just outside of weapon range and there is this nice sweet spot for a long while where the game is throwing lots of Sectoids and Floaters at you, but nothing scarier just yet, that just lets the sniper absolutely tear shit up. I would finish missions with my assaults battered but alive, the support having used their medkits to depletion, and my sniper having 20+ kills.
(I actually managed to take a core team of six from the start of the game to the very end on Hard. The key was playing super conservatively in the early game, focusing on scouting and clearing small areas at a time, lining up the supports for good overwatch, and excising heavies from my lineup entirely to save money on upgrades. Also, chucking in sacrificial rookies to pad the squad when I had wounded and basically using them to stumble on aliens for the rest of my team to murderize.)
Just finished act 1 of KRZ. It's more visual novel than game and reminds me of a Cormac McCarthy novel but minus some of the fucked up shit he writes about. It's some cool business and I'm interested in more.
Currently still playing Spirit Tracks and have started up ZombiU
Let me know your thoughts on ZombiU, was perusing the idea on getting that game.
I find that while I want to play ZombieU my stomach will not let me. The low light levels play havoc on my motion sickness. After twenty minutes I have to stop or puke.
I only got through the first part of that because the developers seemed to in-games keep patting themselves on the back for being really clever when I did not find anything about it especially clever at all.
So I can see why Spirit Tracks isn't among the best Zeldas, but there is some stuff to like about it. I'm still plowing through b/c I'm stubborn, and am probably just past halfway in the game (about to head to fire temple). One thing I enjoyed so far was the boss design. One thing I have not enjoyed has been that side quests seem to be less interesting. I usually like tearing into all the extra stuff but don't feel compelled to with this game.
Just got into the beta for The Showdown Effect, a multiplayer action game from the Magicka devs. Seems pretty fun so far, got 3 extra steam keys for it too: RBDXX-F7Z07-BTAJN 3ACDE-GLPPE-EICT9 9EVV0-IIC54-4W8IH
Tried dipping back into old games with Evil Genius, after playing for a while and having been stuck for a long time, it turns out moving one of the pieces of furniture (The conference table.) causes a game breaking bug that doesn't manifest for a long while later.
Comments
(I actually managed to take a core team of six from the start of the game to the very end on Hard. The key was playing super conservatively in the early game, focusing on scouting and clearing small areas at a time, lining up the supports for good overwatch, and excising heavies from my lineup entirely to save money on upgrades. Also, chucking in sacrificial rookies to pad the squad when I had wounded and basically using them to stumble on aliens for the rest of my team to murderize.)
RBDXX-F7Z07-BTAJN
3ACDE-GLPPE-EICT9
9EVV0-IIC54-4W8IH
3ACDE-GLPPE-EICT9
And Steam lets something like that through?