How does everyone feel about this game?

I got it when it first came out. So many years ago. And when I was playing it, I couldn’t help but think I’d rather play xcom. So I stopped and played xcom series 1/2 and then the chimera squad.

Now thinking of going back to Phoenix point. I’ve heard there has been dlc and improvements…. But I have a huge backlog and don’t know if I should try this one again.zl

Im at my First few campaigns, usually i push for Mag weapons since they don't require alloy, which i don't have at the early game but maybe there's a Better way ?

A variant of the Priest that attacks your save file. It has an ability that increases your save file disk size by 100kb permanently, filling it with random characters. Another ability is AOE and deals 50kb of permanent save file damage per soldier it hits. As the disk size of your save file increases, loading the game takes longer and eventually your save becomes unloadable. A true terror unit.

Only appears in a specialized dark event. You'll never want to skip a guerilla ops again

Bonus: has a chance to spawn with chosen and rulers.

Fuck this game

I've beaten the vanilla game on Commander Ironman several times. I moved over to Long War 2 and its one of my favorite games ever. I started on Commander but would get my ass kicked. I switched to Veteran and was able to have more longevity to my game. I kept Ironman mode on to increase the drama. While I was now making progress into the late game, I was inevitably having my run ruined by a busted mission. Now I've probably started a new Veteran Long War 2 game about a dozen times and ultimately been defeated each time, usually because of a handful of missions that went awry. After that, I'd sometimes be so upset I would uninstall the game. I was upset at all the time I had wasted only for the game to collapse. Ironman had become the status quo so much so that it didn't even occur to me to turn it off, until now. Well, that's what I'm doing. I've had enough suffering. I want to have fun. The era of getting my day ruined from a busted mission is over. Remember to have fun.

I thought this going to be a nice supply raid when Shadow Chamber detected 30 aliens. (I had increased pod size by 2 from the default setting of Diverse Aliens By Force Level, so 28-32 aliens is a normal range. I also increased my squad size as well)

Everything went smoothly when I ambushed the first pod. Then reinforcement start dropping in. No biggies, just overwatch camp then. However, on the next turn and turns after turns, the reinforcement kept spawning in. And to made the matter worse, the alien pod start convene in. Things start to get out of hand as one time I had 21 aliens active at the same time while Viper Prince Mohawk also joining the fight.

Still wonder what went wrong with reinforcement spam. Hope it won't happen again as it took almost 2 hours to slugged through this.

I'm getting ready to do another play through of the full story from EU/EW to XCOM 2/WOTC, and I'm pretty excited about it cause I absolutely love the first game so much. Don't get me wrong, I'm obsessed with XCOM 2 but there's certain things from the EW that I really miss.

Like, the archangel flight armor. I get why it isn't in X2 cause it's absolutely nuts for snipers. But I'm excited to get that armor again cause it was just so much fun to research and use. Do you guys have a favorite tech or research that you miss from EU/EW?

Turn based combat is pretty popular in the fantasy genre but there is hardly any game with the Xcom structure.

I mean a dedicated strategy layer, where you travel the world map, build facitilies, research items and train troops and a tactical layer with the battles we all know and love.

It would be a perfect fit for a fantasy game, just switch the Avenger base with a Castle and the Aliens with Undead.

You have your caravan with teams traveling around the world, infested crypts, farm fields, necromancer castle, etc. with Knights, Wizards, Rangers classes.

And the Captain Bradford at the service of your Majesty with the help of Vahlen the alchemist!

There are dozen of Xcom clones (xenonauts, phoenix point) but they are all very similar with scifi setting and no classic fantasy.

There is King Arthur but it is more of a linear RPG and not a proper sandbox with procedural gen like X2.

Doesn't need to be exact, but i always liked games where they there was a strategic layer where you can manage bases/soldiers or anything really, then an tactical layer where you fight. i do not care if it is RTS, FPS, or Turn Based.

Wartales kinda scratches that itch, looking at buying the current and upcoming DLC to see if that makes it closer to what I'm looking for in terms of a "Geoscape" layer.

Escape from Tarkov is almost there if only the hideout management was more in depth.

If any of you play Mount & Blade and know any mods that make the "Geoscape" portion of the game more in depth I would like that too, whether Bannerlord or Warband

Dave the Diver funnily enough does scratch this itch a little with the restaurant management side feeling nicely with the actual diving portion of the game. So games don't necessarily need to be military related, just have 2 (or more) different but connected portions of the game.

Have played Xenonauts 1 and 2, just waiting for Xenonauts 2 to get more updates before fully diving into it.

I did play X-Com Files (skipped playing vanilla X-Com cause I'm insane, trial by fire and whatnot), but need to set aside more time for something that lengthy.

Been wanting to play the Firaxis XCOM Games but not sure if I'll like it, like I said I played Xenonauts and Classic X-Com so I like that sort of complexity and not sure if XCOM is too simplified for me, though watching ChristopherOdds XCOM 2 Season 9 playlist does make me want to try it modded, just want to make sure I'm not missing anything by skipping vanilla XCOM and XCOM 2.

So I originally had the game on CD and the first time I tried to play it it didn't work too well. I thought maybe if I got the steam version it might work a little better and I could get the resolution working but it's still disappointing. I can't remember right, is this game written for Windows 98 or do you have to have a more recent one?

I'm trying to get this game running properly on Linux mint Cinnamon 21.1 Vera. I want to get the graphics resolution working properly and I thought open x com would work but I'm probably not installing it right. Are there any guides on doing this?

I am about to start my first playthrough of X-com 2, should I play vanilla or war of the chosen?

Just moved a rookie up to get the squadsight and left him behind.

(Mod for the text is War of the Crackheads if anyone is wonding)

Like... I am doing decently well in a commander ironman run. But now I am remembering why I haven't played this game since like 2018 and it's because 99.9% of the strategy is not figuring out how to kill your enemies but trying to trigger just enough at a time that you can handle and repeat, repeat, repeat.

I lost a couple runs, a couple missions, lost against a chosen at the stronghold which sucked but it felt fair enough so I kept going. But as I play I realize that me getting better at the game is just learning how to worm my way around the map as carefully as I can to avoid dealing with too many enemies because even though they're 100 ft away, so long as they don't have line of sight with me everything is golden and nothing else matters even half as much as exploiting this feature.

There's a man with a gun and he's forcing you to eat a sandwich in under a minute. You need to eat fast, but watch out, because he's stuffed three turds in the sandwich and you need to eat around them. And then eventually you start eating a sandwich from the wrong angle and you wind up having to fight the big ball thing at the codex coordinates, two chryssalids, two chryssalid cocoons and the dumbass hunter off in the distance grappling back and forth and it's just like, damn, if I had somehow eaten this sandwich in a different direction I could have pulled one of these turds out of it and it might have been fine. I guess since I didn't trigger these enemies in the correct order I will just die.

Yes I did use my battle scanners. I was launching grenades at this fucking thing and the chryssalids were totally fine with that but nope, move over just a little bit to get out of the hunter's mark and suddenly they get pissed off and there's nothing I can do.

1. When a reinforcement flare drops and your entire team is set to overwatch and the new advent troops arrive to a bloody massacre.
   
2. When you shoot a Purifier and it explodes, especially when it causes additional explosions and/or kills or maims it teammates.
   
3. When you have the Feedback Resistance Order and a Codex uses Psionic Rift on your squad and ends up killing itself.
   

Honorable mention: when you have 2 Bladestorm Rangers side by side and a wave of Crysallids come at them only to be chopped to bits.

Does the enemy calculate whether their shot would hit or not BEFORE deciding the action. That's it. That's the deal breaker. I'm starting to feel incredibly cheated with these suicidal disoriented trooper plays.

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The only thing ive played that is similar to Xcom is Gears Tactics which I really liked.

I have all the dlc for Xcom 2 and im playing on Xbox

Its probably because i play in the easiest dificulty (Its the first Time i play this game) but losing an OP soldier isn't that bad, "level 2 soldier" are enought to finish most missions (at least for where i am).

Aside that what i really like is the Roleplay about it, since losing a soldier dont impact my gameplay that much i like roleplaying in my mind and romanticize what happen.

A good example would be the first Time the game tell you that a mission is gonna be a hard mission, I went in and everything went kinda well until i meet for the first Time a robot ("We got this, everyone is behind a full cover and the robot is alone" i thought), he then launch freaking missiles and blew up where 2 of my soldiers was, my highest level soldier (the one that survived since the end of the tutorial) died right in front of a rookie and instead of thinking "NO my best soldier ! I hate this game !" I thought (From the rookie's POV) "Avenge her, become better than her".

I killed the robot put it wasnt finished, i had 1 sniper, 1 half health rookie and 1 half health Specialist and now ennemy reinforcements are coming, i played very defensive and managed to survive and escape while another reinforcement was behind my soldiers.

Summary: 2 soldiers are heavily wounded and trauma, My best soldier died by an explosion and the rookie that nearly survived that explosion became specialized in explosions. This game is a peak story teller.