It Came From The Sea (Gold)

[Khan, Binary of None]

The requirements to unlock Gold on the 2nd Mission are much higher for next to no reason. Even with only two soldiers getting wounded throughout the entire 7 missions, and achieving 28,600 bonus points, I was still short about 5,000 points from hitting Gold. I'm not sure how the game is telling me to improve when I literally dragged out missions just to get extra kills for points, on top of only losing 2,000 points max for Soldier wounds.

And I was obviously cashing in on all the objectives and the bonus points from early bird kills.

[Roderick]

You played on nightmare?

[Khan, Binary of None]

Originally posted by Roderick:

You played on nightmare?

Shouldn't have too to earn Gold. Got it easily on the first set of missions and the third set as well. Even then Nightmare doesn't add that much more points in total.

[gimmethegepgun]

You were too slow. Gotta get those early bird bonuses.

[BaconHer0]

Huh, I thought you had to play on Nightmare to get gold because there were so few pods on normal.

On the last mission of that series on nightmare, a bad grapple caused me to activate 4 avatars at once. 1 that retreated from a previous pod with 1 HP and 3 from fresh pods over 2 turns...

I had 2 guys die that mission and everyone was wounded but I still got my gold

[Alex_x86]

On the last mission I waited till the last turn and two crysalids that died on the overwatch provided me with gold. However there was a mission where I had 3 wounded. I played on Story mode

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by BaconHer0:

Huh, I thought you had to play on Nightmare to get gold because there were so few pods on normal.

Nope, I was able to get gold on the first try on normal.

Originally posted by Alex_x86:

On the last mission I waited till the last turn and two crysalids that died on the overwatch provided me with gold.

Though this was necessary.

[Azure]

4 Dead soliders in Mission 5 of Shens one cost me gold ~ Lids and Purifiers and no way to cure them...

[Future]

Story mode can get you gold if you played VERY well, but its risky, i rather stick to nightmare which has way more enemies.

[Roderick]

Originally posted by Duo Vandal:

Originally posted by Roderick:

You played on nightmare?

Shouldn't have too to earn Gold. Got it easily on the first set of missions and the third set as well. Even then Nightmare doesn't add that much more points in total.

You don't have to play on nightmare to get gold. I just wanted to know since a wounded soldier only costs 1000 points, not 2000 as you wrote. That's why I guessed it could be nightmare with higher costs for wounds.

[HotLeadExpress]

Yeah this one is hard, i had to re-do it 3 times in Story Mode to get gold. As someone previously mentioned last mission wait till last turn and keep killing 1-2 crysallids to get that 300k score.

[Roderick]

Originally posted by HotLeadExpress:

Yeah this one is hard, i had to re-do it 3 times in Story Mode to get gold. As someone previously mentioned last mission wait till last turn and keep killing 1-2 crysallids to get that 300k score.

shooo! go away dead rising sectoid! *throws flashbang at you to let this post die*

[Karasukan]

i still wonder if the devs didnt want to make vipers crawl out of the sea. A very soon dialogue says clearly 'females' and chryssalids idk what they are but not females. Maybe the devs hates women or is total gay

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

You were too slow. Gotta get those early bird bonuses.

this yes. Speed is the key, you earn a lot of extra points by early kills https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2533557723