Can you grind for levels and supplies?

[alden.monzon]

Want to know first before I purchase the game. Or is there a time limit on how many times you can deploy?

[VirtualFujiwara]

you get one deployment per day and so far ive found xp is based on objective completion and killing big enemies

[Kurtino]

Every time you return to base the game has a +1 counter, which eventually affects the difficulty/infestation and also I think at some point could game over the game, as you can choose how difficult this "timer" is when you first start the game. You can "grind" in a sense by not returning to base and seeing how far you can get to collect everything and clear objectives with your marine squad, but every time you're spotted or chipped away at your marines become more injured, tired, and vulnerable.

The balancing act is how much can you clear without having to return, although returning allows you to level up and equip new things, so eventually you would have to as the challenge becomes too great. There's no time limit during missions (normally) so there's no pressure to speed run anything and you can be as slow as possible slowly getting everything and having lots of resources to spend, but if you go back to base and redeploy too many times (such as having your squad wiped out) then yes I believe there's an eventual limit, or perhaps the limit is that the infestation would rise too high that it's too difficult to continue. All of this is manipulated via the difficulty settings though which are fully customisable, so you could put the game on hard but reduce the "time limit" mechanic down to easy, if you wanted.

[Coyote]

The game timed in almost every aspect.
You can only get so many resources before the maps cleaned out.
Waiting a day makes doomcounter go up, which is insta lose after a certain day limit.

Im playing a combination of custom settings, making the game hard but the time stuff easy..
Cant turn it off though, but i can see why.... They would need to remove the passive scouting dice roll minigame thing when u wait a day.

[Zoopy]

Originally posted by VirtualFujiwara:

you get one deployment per day and so far ive found xp is based on objective completion and killing big enemies

These big enemies, are they level 2 xenos who spawn in when you hit a certain level of aggression, or only enemies that are already on the map, like the queen?

Trying to figure out if I can theoretically push the aggression up to level faster.

[Force_Dragon]

You can get tons of resources, rescue, you get 10 per day per engineer. So you can reduce some engineers and until doomsday clock you can advance the days to get more, however investation level on the planet can go up to 5 which means up to 10 times more xenos depending on difficulty level and lower hive hole spawn timers. So make sure you wait until you have some marines at level 8+ before advancing the clock days at a time. IN fact I would wait until Training facility is open, so you can intensive train all marines it lets you so they level as you advance the days.