Careful with acid on the final mission!

[*****id]

So I just ruined my ironman run on then final stand by having my brewtalist throw a grenade (with the acid upgrade) on a bunch of seeds conglomerating around the chalice. The seeds all died but the chalice was acided in the process. At the end of every turn forward, the chalice would take the acid damage and there's no way to stop or repair it. I had long cleared all the monsters in the direct vicinity of the chalice but it died to the acid anyways and thus I lost the entire run.

[easytarget]

That was a tough way to go. I didn't realize the acid didn't ever stop because typically what you hit it with his enemies with lower HP than the chalice.

[RJJameson]

Haven't gotten to the final mission yet. Good to know!

[easytarget]

The upside once avoiding dumping acid on the chalice your alchemists can rearm during the battle from it. ;)

[////]

final mission is really dumb. every weak fart hurts chalice, even enemies that bounce back, or enemies that do not hurt each other. it's like in those silly movies where bad guys have one button to destroy their everything. game is full of awkward design decisions and tries to treat itself seriously.

[easytarget]

Hey look, it's the loser that keeps coming back to a steam forum for a game he hates.

So consistently pathetic it deserves it's own steam achievement.

[////]

alright, you keep throwing tantrums, and i'll keep up with realistic criticism.

so far, discussions for this game do not look very lively... or am i missing something? maybe devs made this game just to get lost to time? it was a huge success in this case.

[easytarget]

Sweet summer child.

[*****id]

I appreciate that the final mission tried to offer something different, but I would rather that there were more missions like it throughout the campaign not just once at the ending (without prior tactical info or practice). Xcom has different mission types like terror attacks, landed UFOs, abductions, alien base assaults, etc. Massive Chalice is rather slim on the mission variety.

I really wish that this game would have gotten an expansion or too. Think for example how much Starcraft or Warcraft improved with their respective expansions. Massive Chalice is decent as is but there are foundations to become great too which now go unused for forever.

[Heau]

I've been craving for any game reusing the lineage system, or an expansion or new, more polished version of this game for years. It's one of those unique systems I haven't encountered elsewhere that makes me come back to this game once every year or every other years despite it's numerous flaws in other areas.

Also, sorry for your loss. I had that happen to me a few years back. Although I don't think I was on ironman. Maybe I should've posted about it.