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I hate night missions. I tri to always avaid them

wow. So the smoke grenades are actually useful!!! I never, ever used them. And yes, I lost many people when landing :)

I love edited, narrative style videos like this, although it can be instructive to see the raw footage as we get to see exactly how tactics and strategies are carried out. You should give Xcom Apocalypse a try. It's pretty different, especially in real time mode, but it's an amazing game.

X-Com Apocalypse next! :D

This was the first X-COM game for me when I was a kid and oh boy did it do a number on me! I remember doing my 15th base mission while wearing pajamas because I couldn't secure deep one in the right time. I didn't realize I was stuck and that hounts me to this day. Also something about doing research in the wrong order. Couple of years ago I did a blog in a closed forum where I recruited my soldiers to fight the fight. I decided that for the first time in my life, I was going to finish this game. I rushed research and just left every ship mission (oh I hate those!). When I finished, it felt really anticlimactic. This game is too hard for my liking in places it shouldn't be. Also really tedious. I won't touch this thing never again, I want my games to have a modicum of fun in them. Have you ever thought trying to beat the new XCOM's with Long War mods? They're really fun! I myself am a self-proclaimed "Two-time Long War Veteran". Or perhaps beating the Xenonauts (which also have somesort "long war" mod)? Also did a blog when playing these and the stories they generated amongs the recruits was hilarious! One of my long war medics used "healing crystals" and it was common joke that getting some infirmary time meant lots and lots of ice cream.

I don't know if it's a feature of Open X-Com, but in classic X-Com, if you leave a UFO (or a sub in TFTD) alone for a while after shooting it down, it will start to repair, and regain its crew. Useful to know if you're looking for loot.

I love watching people play Factorio, but never really could get into myself. This was a great video. Also 23:02 had me laughing more than it should.

"this is almost a decade older than me" that hurt me in the knees. I was playing the Demo of this when I was 14...

Ive been thinking about getting factorio for years but I never had. Hey, any plans to play xcom apocalypse? Thats my absolute favorite. Played tf out of it in the late 90s-early 2000s. (Yeah. Im old.)

I never got into this one. Played tf out of the first xcom when it came out. I was about 13 then. Didnt figure out how to beat it till I was in my 20s tho. But terror from the deep I never liked as much.

I'm aware of the various visual and audio issues in the video. As you may have guessed, I had issues with the editor. Instead of redoing the entire video, I've gone ahead and posted it in the current state. I can talk more about it in the discord if you're curious, otherwise enjoy! This took far longer than expected. I'll do a space age run sooner than later, though I'm looking to play another game first. I'm most the way through a first playthrough of space age, so when I do get around to it, I'll know what to expect. Additionally, this was the first of my "variety" videos that I'll be posting. I'm still sticking to the vague category of games that make me think, but I'll be playing some games other than X-COM in the hopes that people enjoy them. This will allow me to play the crazy mega mods people have been asking for (think X-COM Files), and I'd love to play one of these mods without disappearing for a year or more. Let me know what you think, and if you'd like to see some of the big Factorio mods in the future.

The music and pixel art in classic xcom is gorgeous.

Having watched this blind, about half on my second monitor and half on my phone while cooking dinner, I didn't really notice the frame drops. I tend to watch compilation videos like this while I'm doing other stuff so I don't think it affects it too badly. I did notice some choppiness in the audio specifically with 'copper' at 1:24. Rechecking to see if I could see the frame issue I also noticed the audio at 0:09. I don't think the audio or visual hiccups are deal breakers for posting this though.

It is actually super easy, barely an inconvenience. But only because of a bug that resets the difficulty to super easy after the first mission. Then plays the rest of the game like that. Which is very jarring when a single sectoid downs 7 out of 16 squaddies on your first op. Then become dum dums in all subsequent missions. Terror from the deep notably did not have this bug, and was considered widely as a much harder experience as a result.

Cheers for these, needed a bit of retro X-Com for my work day.

all i know is, always skip the cruise ship terror attacks

I’m older than this game. 😭

This is one if my favorite videos on all of RUclips. The music, game, and your presentation were all exactly what I wanted. Keep up the great work!

Well it does look a little hard for simple people.

Would you be interested in playing xcom apocalypse or phoenix point?

Do TFTD and you're a literal superhuman

If you enjoy trying older games I recommend The Lost Vikings (1993). It's made by the company that eventually became Blizzard.

love it please post more

"This version of the game is 10 years older than me". F my life, just let my bones disintegrate already.

"we'll be watching your career with grewt interest.." Jokes aside, gonna join discord and also question - will you be playing Xenounauts max difficulty then?

25:39 brazilian corrupt polictics strike again lol

Good video as alway with a great naration (the only problem is the micro with who produce a slight background noise but not the most dramatic thing). For future playtrought after your Reaver Harmony one (which i hope receive the same tratement as your two last xcom and TFTD playthrought), you could trie XCOM apocalypse (great game with few playtrought online and no sort of superedit) or the XCOM file (great but TITANIC modpack for open xcom).

I only ever played this game on easy. But I would have enough money to recruit harvest accurate marksmen. So my guys would all have accuracy of 70 or over. Once I got to the mind control stage and realised that most of my snipers would panic very easily I started looking at other stats as well. I don't know if it's a bug, but elerium was never a problem as the alien attacks on my base gave something like 2000 elerium. I had to sell it just to have enough storage space. I love this game and this playthrough is very interesting.

Im a somewhat new xcom fan, and dawm this one is way prettier than ew and 2

Bs. you've changed the core rules.

Hah, i blasted the brain with a guided blaster bomb once, though i was no more then 3 or 4 corners away from it when i did. My absolutely favorite method though, was to train two squads of elite Psy operatives, proceed to take control of the Etherials guiding it, and use them to kill it!

Wish you explained the differences present in Superhuman. Great video and editing though

Yes, give me a hour of 90s XCOM! I just played both for the first time earlier this year. Time for another run I guess.

Is Xcom harder or easier than Xenonauts?

I hated the mid sea anti terror attack missions. The ships had too many small rooms and hallways, and not only one but two levels to clear. It took forever to find that last alien. Worse when there's several terror attacks one after the other.

I love UFO Defense. One thing I do to farm resources is placing a base near an alien base that isn't sectoids. The landed larges will match the base inhabitants and they show up every(ish) month. I just send rookies with laser rifles and personal armor. Laser rifles so you don't need extra storage for clips, and personal armor because you can create alien alloys to make them anyways. So you're trading money for elerium. And it pumps your score. Camping UFO doors for the streams of aliens coming out and murdering your guys, kneel and have them look at an angle in the room (or ufo) to both sides of the door, otherwise you'll just kill your own guy with reaction shots. This also protects them from immediate vision, forcing the alien to walk out, and then turn before being able to shoot giving you lots of chances at reaction fire. Also with laser/plasma can you shoot your own door into a UFO wall, but it might take a while to destroy. With hoversuits you can assault any UFO by shooting holes in the walls/roof for vision at different tile heights.

The amount of X-COM PTST I have is impressive. Hearing the Chryssalid sound make me want to nope out of there. (:

okay brother, u need a better mic, other than that - great videos - editing, script and commentary are on point, if you keep this up - i think that the algorithm may choose you, just dont sellout after that, lol godspeed, commander o7

wtf brother, that was good, and only ~90k views? godspeed, commander o7

Ahh nostalgic

any body ever play Lazer Squad? It looked like Xcom but multiplayer. Also Xenonauts

That was exciting. Good to see OpenXcom getting some love.

22:00 Imagine the relief of hearing X-Com come to save you only to hear them immediately turn back around and fly away. Total 0 to 100 to 0 moment.

Imagine your alien invasion foot troops are so bad your enemy has to build specially accessible, walkable hangar bays so they don't get stuck

Actually, if you have Vibro-blade, Disruptor Pulse Launcher, and Magnetic Ion Armor, it's easy. Definitely get Vibro Blade first, ghis thing can 1-shot almost everything, that is if you can get close.

It is quite easy, first missions are scripted, there is single last mission for it, just do not do it, and you can have easy beginner enemies for as long as you want, when you got all inventions you want, train your squad, you can do that last one scripted mission , and finish game with great weapons and trained squad.

The fact that you are selling your soldiers so easy is heartbreaking. I always had my team from first mission to Cydonia.

>"Please something happen I need money" >first cruise ship mission >LOBSTERMEN ahahahaha fuck you xcom

I hope youre down for the Marbozir XCOM2 modlist, its absolutely incredible. Closest thing to feeling like the breadth of OG, but the depth is shocking.