A good homage to XCOM:enemy unknown

[Kmany]

I bought this in really early access but didnt play it much.. now when Xenonauts 2 was on salein EA i considered buying it, but hell.. i never even really played this one.
I am a veteran of UFO:enemy unknown.. finished that game many times back in the day.

Anyway, I started a game on normal.. Put a base in russia covering europe.. Shot down a UFO and sent my ship with soldiers to take care of the wreckage..
but there was a fighter UFO intercepting my manned ship and shot it down.. killing my most highly ranked officer.
So the first month i spent reparing my ship.

I lost a lot of time.. but i put up a new base in north america.., and once i got paid for the next month i put up another one in Asia, to have more radar coverage and interception capability..

My first mission where i shot down a UFO and finally got to go on a ground mission i encountered the lizardmen.. 6 of them.. and they killed half my squad when i entered the UFO.

After that i had better success in the tactical missions.. losing 1 soldier sometimes.. sometimes none..
Until.
A bunch of green men attacked my third base in Asia, something like 6-8 of them, where I had 3 troops.. and apparently the green men were very resistant to Ballistic weapons.
So yeah they killed my soldiers.. and destroyed the base.

At this point i have reconstructed the third base and just researched laser weapons..

So yeah.. It seems on point with the first Xcom game.
It fnucks you at every turn..
But I am sure ill turn this around still..

[Kmany]

Xcom enemy unknown.. also known as XCOM UFO defense.. Not to be confused with the more modern XCOM games lol..
I played those too but they were kind of ♥♥♥♥ tbh..

[caviarus]

Originally posted by Kmany:

At this point i have reconstructed the third base and just researched laser weapons..

A long fan of UFO: Defence I admire your ability to keep playing when the game shows its cruelty. Probably I would've started afresh at some point.. But sometimes and in other games I also like to play fair and man up to losses 8-D

[Kmany]

Yeah i like to play these kind of games in a kind of pseudo, self inflicted iron man..
Where i still can load a game if something stupid, buggy or unfair happens..

My plane being shut down because i didnt have an escort made sense, and my base being overran by tougher aliens made sense too.. so in those cases i just roll with the punches..

If i for instance missclick and my important soldier runs straight into alien gunfire because of it.. i can reload.. or in similar cases.. where it wasnt meant to happen like that.

It makes the game more interesting and fun, while still giving you the option to load a game.