I just started playing this mod because of the mention in the thread. I'm playing on normal and I have to save scum a lot. I thought I was pretty good at Vanilla X-com, but this is pretty rough. I did get a first month supply ship, which I let land and then took the ground mission. I was able to beat it after a bit of save scumming, but I did lose 1 of my 6 doing it. It seems like as soon as you can expand your team size from 6-8, it would help a bit on those missions.
Something that I didnt really pay attention to in the stress/aftermath of my month 1 supply ship till tonight - I got 4 intact flight computers out of that, which is what you need to research the satellite nexus, which should majorly accelerate your satellite coverage and be just generally helpful. Did you get all 4 of them off your supply ship too or no?
Yeah, I started a new game last week and it was funny the things the scientist and engineer said kinda of foreshadows what is happening in 2(or what had looked like happened in the trailer), like the engineer says something sort of like "but at what cost" and talks about losing humanity.
Grenades are your friend. I bombed the snot out of the first mission, and fortunately being the first mission (with tutorial off) you dont get a chance to dick with your troops loadout so all 6 of your guys have one, regardless of what you might normally carry. Sure you lose some weapon fragments but better to lose some fragments than get wiped. And as I said, massed explosives were all that saved me from having my face eaten by chryssalids on my month 1 supply ship. That was some REALLY ugly shit for a bunch of newbs with 3 promotions between them. Thank god 1 of them was rockets. (and run and gun, and reflexes for the other 2)
Yeah, I get that, was more of a semantic argument anyway.
Awesome note, thanks. I did have enough computers to research the tech and start working on a Nexus. I will have one up by month 3. That should help a bit
Welcome. Still working towards my nexus tech. Another 2 days till the research is done, but I have the construction site ready for my first one, and what should be plenty of power (havent looked up how much it needs). Still probably 1-200 bucks short though, so not quite there yet.
I use shotguns pretty heavily. scouts, infantry, or assault bro's with shotguns. they get a pretty absurd bonus to hit within 3-4 tiles. so for me, early on, i tend to use guys on overwatch with regular 25-35 hits to keep the enemy in place. while a scout wastes their overwatch shots, and then a shotguy guy picks them off one by one.
