XCOM A-Team in theory: They’re the best, they can solve any problem.
XCOM A-Team in practice: It’s March and we just spotted a Snakeman on this terror mission so our soldiers will spend their remaining time units running back to the Skyranger while screaming like little girls.
Newer XCOM or og? OG xcom I’d always have at least 1/4 of my party be new recruits because the act of exiting the landing ship was nearly guarantees to kill a few people. Half the time my A team was just “whoever made it through last battle” and my b and c teams were all new recruits and a single officer for the morale boost who stayed in the ship in case I had to cut my losses and take off
Yesss, go play the original :3
It is a time honored tradition watching a new player lose an entire squad at the foot of the landing ship. If you do play, grab openxcom it’s a fantastic engine replacement and even supports mods.
The new games are more like playing an action movie. The old one is more like balancing a war where soldiers are meat with a dollar value. One of my favorite missions was doing a desperate tech smash and grab to get my research back on track. Over a dozen soldiers dead, more were left behind, many I had hired just for this so they basically showed up and shipped out to die. It was a massacre and a success
It reminds me of when I send my A-team on a mission in XCOM: it’s devastating if they die, but they’re also the ones most likely to succeed.
XCOM A-Team in theory: They’re the best, they can solve any problem.
XCOM A-Team in practice: It’s March and we just spotted a Snakeman on this terror mission so our soldiers will spend their remaining time units running back to the Skyranger while screaming like little girls.
Newer XCOM or og? OG xcom I’d always have at least 1/4 of my party be new recruits because the act of exiting the landing ship was nearly guarantees to kill a few people. Half the time my A team was just “whoever made it through last battle” and my b and c teams were all new recruits and a single officer for the morale boost who stayed in the ship in case I had to cut my losses and take off
The newer ones. Most of my time is in XCOM 2: WOTC. It becomes really tempting to put all your eggs in one basket by leveling an A-team.
Everything like this that I hear about the originals just reinforces that I need to go play them. It sounds brutal.
Yesss, go play the original :3 It is a time honored tradition watching a new player lose an entire squad at the foot of the landing ship. If you do play, grab openxcom it’s a fantastic engine replacement and even supports mods.
The new games are more like playing an action movie. The old one is more like balancing a war where soldiers are meat with a dollar value. One of my favorite missions was doing a desperate tech smash and grab to get my research back on track. Over a dozen soldiers dead, more were left behind, many I had hired just for this so they basically showed up and shipped out to die. It was a massacre and a success
It sounds like exactly my type of game. I just need to get around to it. I love the roster management aspect.