It’s unfortunate nuCom’s base assault doesn’t hold a candle to the original’s. Rather than fighting on a layout you designed unknowingly, it’s a one time pre-made mission with no soul.
I played a little bit of nuCom and wasn't that impressed. I hated how they re-used a few pre-made maps and how aliens, when you encounter them on the map, gets alerted and scampers off to cover in a small cutscene. And it felt like they were often in the same location on those maps.
Xcom 2 has them. It's also better about hiding the seams.
They realised that was a problem too. EW changes the start positions so you get to see parts of the map you don't usually get to see, making it feel like there's a lot more maps.
The amount of bugs in the game are baffling to me. If you think moving has problems with depth, there used to be an issue where using explosives would cause the game to rapidly swap between floors. There was one nasty bug where enemies teleport into the middle of your squad. How does that even happen?
lol that's so lame
I used to think the same. And then I remembered how many times I ragequit TFTD because half my squad got picked off at the door of the Triton even with ink grenades deployed, and I understood why they implemented that.
Thankfully Xenonauts got a little more sane with this, because I don't recall that game giving me shit like ayys spawncamping the dropship.
Off-topic, but D&D 5E has Legendary actions that allow this. Usually 2 or 3 different actions that can only be performed after a different creature's turn.
I'm relatively certain there is, but I haven't gone looking for that specifically just yet. Incidentally, there is a mechanic somewhat like that for 4th and/or 5th ED D&D for boss monsters, called "lair actions" if I'm remembering correctly - and if the tales are to be believed, they are precisely as bullshit as that sounds.
You should still think so. The "pod" system systematically undercuts the tactical battlesystem since all strategies boil down to "activate pod when ready, don't activate pods if not ready." The AI cannot initiate anything, the player is always in total control. All battles have the same timeline. Timed missions were an attempt to address this and were thoroughly hated by the players since it didn't address the underlying system.
For the record the aliens spawn in mostly random locations. The "ambushes" I've detailed in the LP are just embellishments on my part. Its pretty rare to actually have three aliens camping you or even all in the same general location.
Part of the whole point of games like this is they're cruel and unfair.
Wait that's rare? IS my luck really this bad that I've had quite a few mission where atleast 2-3 aliens are outside the skyranger ready to potshot the first unlucky meat shield to walk out.
The pods do have some ability to move around. That's how enemies can walk into you during your turn. Iirc it's also the source of the teleporting enemies bug.
Iirc, this is also the source of overwatch creep. The aliens won't shoot from outside of visual range, so the optimum strategy was to set up a line of guys on overwatch, send a guy to trigger the pod, then run back to cover. The AI would try to move the enemies into view, causing them to get gunned down by the 5 guys on overwatch. Any survivors could be swept up easily, and worst case scenario you could fall back on grenade spam. I find this tactic tedious and try to play the game as intended.
Same. I'm frequently having trouble with farmhouse missions. Starting surround by enemies in houses and nothing but open fields for cover.
First round, an alien grenade gets thrown directly into the skyranger.
Based on what I've seen (this is mostly guesswork on my part) you have probably a 50/50 chance of at least one alien spawning in back of the Skyranger, and probably the same chance of one spawning beneath or below it. One alien is normally not that much trouble to deal with, but this seems to hurt players alot because of Sectoids and Ethereals. Both of these enemies have excellent firing accuracy, reactions, and especially the Sectoids have good night vision. Which is why you seemingly end up always faced with an alien that snipes two or three of your squad from beyond visual range. Once Snakemen and Mutons show up, the problem of facing aliens at range is somewhat mitigated.
The maps are randomly generated. I'm not sure why your Skyranger is always spawning in locations with no cover, in my playthrough it fairly often spawns near a wall, a fence, sometimes those annoying hedges and occasionally a building. It also pretty often just spawns right next to the UFO. Even if you're without any cover at all, you should use the Skyranger itself as cover, particularly its wheels which have saved my ass more times than I can possibly count. Wheat fields also obscure your troops to some extent as well, though I find relying on those for cover is iffy.
Yes. Been there, done that, got the shirt.
I see everybody talking about overwatch spam in NuCOM, but I rarely if ever did shit in the OG X-COM without half my squad reserving TUs for overwatch. Anyway...
The difficulty is knowing exactly what actions you do result in what enemy actions, and that's where the learning curve comes in. Unless you make the game boring by spoiling everything in advance, you don't know until you learn. Hence, you experience cruel defeats in the interim.
lmao you think are more likely to lose "your whole squad to a grenade" in a game where you start with 14 soldiers than in a game where you have four? dude you know those irl tacticool door breaches are only used in situations when you have the outside completely secure right?