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PSI is so busted I remember finishing final mission on turn 1 by chain mind controlling all the opponents

Remember to check under your bed for lobstermen tonight 🦞

How hard would it be to beat XCOM: Apocalypse?

Did OpenXcom patch things in a way that made the old arms-dealing Laser Cannons trick not profitable? I always loved that the definitive cheesy money trick felt like we were also outfitting every single air force to have a chance at downing UFOs.

You’ve earned a subscriber mate, cheers from Aus.

I didn't know about the OpenXcom project! I'm excited to give it a go!

Did an XCOM session last year. TFTD is the black sheep because of the damn research bug! Making most playthroughs broken and unfinishable. But if you follow the guide you can get around it. It's definitely more difficult than the first game but - as you will probably have to burn 80% of your aquanauts the second you get the MC Lab anyway, losing soldiers isn't a big deal at the start of the game. You could level up your commander into superhuman only to find they have a 5 PSI rating later in the game. I prefer it to XCOM 1 and 3 but it ran so badly on my 386-DX-33 back in the day. Never finished it back then. Last year I played them all on DosBOX Staging with Roland sound support. Good times! But nothing beats original hardware. A pentium 75Mhz and a flatscreen CRT is still the best for these old games!

This was a great watch, thanks for the upload :)

My favorite X-com game. So damn good. Played it a lot on PC back in the days. I crave a new modern version of the game :)

Never like Terror From the Deep very much. X-Com Apocalypse was fantastic.

I remember watching my Dad play these games as a little kid. It always seemed so utterly incomprehensible to me then, so it's interesting seeing it as an adult. Cool video dude. From one small YTer to another, you should mention the difference between the difficulties, so someone completely unfamiliar to Xcom effectively knows just how difficult this is.

Watched your terror of the deep a few days ago. This video also did not disappoint. Excellent work.

I loved XCOM and remember being pressured to buy TFTD but I was put off by the entire principle: I knew what a "palette swap game" was as a kid, and I suspected the entire game's concept was one giant palette swap to try and quickly (and cheaply) ride on XCOM's coattails. "Hey, what's the opposite of land combat?" "Water combat?" "Great! There's our game. Now just make sea-versions of all the XCOM equipment and we've got ourselves another blockbuster!" It was also twice as difficult as regular XCOM, twice as ugly and confusing to fight underwater, and the sticker price was twice what XCOM had shipped at.

I prefer Terror from the Deep over Ufo Defense because I got so sick of the urban environments, fighting in warehouses and orchards. The bottom of the ocean was a nice change of pace. Also the enemy subs look more appealing to me than the almost featureless flying saucers.

Great Video!! Thanks for making a cool start to finish UFO playthrough into a vid that I can watch during a lunch break :)

woah this is awesome

HAH, GUESS WHAT, SUCKER?! NOW I'M SUBSCRIBED! GOOD LUCK RECOVERING FROM THIS SETBACK!

A blast from the past... and a terrorizing blast at that... as a X-Com 1 (UFO Unknown) player when it came out, I remember 2 being so much harder to beat... my teams usually died in the first few missions. Thanks for this video!

Ok I've subscribed. This is incredible, I must have played the original so many times, but never terror from the deep. I was too hard. I highly recommend you do this with some mods, the 40k one and xpirates are two ive sunk far too many hours into. Loving this, and look forward to what comes next.

Just came from your TFTD summary and had to check this one out while I'm working. It's really making me crave to try the game after failing to understand it when i was like 4 in the late 90s and kinda forgetting about it

Great video! I hope you do some of the classic xcom mods. Although some of those are very long

cool video

I remember the "must capture live deep one on first terror mission or fail the campaign" requirement all the way from 1995. Those first runs were harsh, without question.

Why did you do night terror missions? Was this a challenge? Usually, half of my squad is wiped out even in daylight 😅

Im currently drunk and have no how i stumbled on this love it! tho old school xcom is mint for your next video do the warhammer 40k mod? theres at least 3 diff camps there and its bloody fun either way great video quality and content!

Despite the tediousness and the game itself being a hasty reskin of a first installment, the lovecraftian atmosphere of TFTD hits hard.

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Subscribed and excited for more~

I always used to take Dreadnoughts and Supply Ships from above. Once I had DPLs, MC, and Mag Ion Armor, one trooper scouted the four fans up top on the Dreadnought, and then we'd crack the roof with a DPL Torp. Once we scouted an enemy with a DPL, we'd MC one or both, and they would fire on each other or the Commander to kill all the officers and demoralize all lower tier enemies. We'd then move down from the upper entry point to clear with other troops clearing the surrounding area and create blocking positions to prevent runners. Rinse repeat

Do NOT play minecraft next video

Yes, each research has a custom score value that is credit to the month that you finish it.

While UFO Defense is one of my favourite games ever, TFTD was tedious at times, and at others it had horrible difficulty spikes. I completed it once and have never gone back. It broke me with (what i think was) a terror site that was massive and finding the last panicked, stationary alien took at least an hour of just stumbling around. After that I just wanted to get to the end and uninstall. UFO defense got so much right the first time around, that TFTD was 'the difficult second album' for me.

Do you shoot down all alien subs? There are several types of ships/missions that always land. I guess it was the medium ships that almost always land, so just follow them with a Triton. As you know you get much more points from landed crafts.

Thanks for the entertaining video! Is there some reason you went for so long with sonic pistols? I typically skip them in favor for other research until cannons appear. Was the mc lab training up also mc-unrelated stats in the vanilla? I've never noticed. Also, I would never dare to attack alien base without MC training on superhuman. For the terror missions, I remember that in vanilla, you could almost always play them during the day by delaying deployment of the Triton. WP and well thought out!

Played this with friends together on one PC. Trying a higher difficulty, opening the door and just exploding was a formative experience. I dont think any of us ever finished the game though. I resorted to savescumming which made the experience tedious. Liked the video. If you are looking for something which might fit: Neo Scavenger might work if you're not spoiled on it and should not take a fraction of an X-Com game.

Nights spent for this game😂 good old time Those search radius of base was not there in original It took me several weeks to realize the downed craft in combat mode is a craft i just downed. I thought it is some kind of alien structure. I alwyas float everyone to height 3 or 4 .. it can help evade that homing missile

for the shorter vid I'd love a look at Arc the lad 2 Twilight of souls for the ps2 is a cult classic of mine that hits very strong and interesting themes

OpenXCom total conversions is an obvious candidate.

If there is a lot of activity in a certain area there's more you can do besides just waiting. You can patrol said area with your subs (just send them to a random location in the area and they will patrol until out of fuel). This can reveal alien bases in the area... For example, you could've seen rising activity in Asia and patrol and reveal a base in China and destroy that base to prevent China withdrawing from the project...

I think the beginer month bug for the previous game wasnt taken into account for the harder difficulty of this game as the developers were aware of the type of issue it had. My source is tv tropes but i think this rumor does get spread around a lot.

This video format is great. As addictive as X-Com is, it is also a little bit tedious, especially towards the end point, so posting edited playthroughs with highlights is the best way to go about it. As for future videos... well, I happened on this channel because of X-Com, so anything strategic/tactical/turn-based would have my attention. X-Com Apocalypse? Some of the OpenXCom mods, like X-Piratez? Jagged Alliance 2? Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic? Any of the old classics that can't readily be found on other channels would do.

Also, will you do Jagged Alliance 2?

Well played!

Impossible since the game is so buggy that I have never been able to get past 50%ish point without total save game corruption that prevents entering/exiting missions 😂