X-com Enemy Unknown

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Bells

Good day for you to play the lottery it seems

Now all you need to do is get me to having Squad Sight and then you'll revel in the the one guy who can safely pick off the most problematic enemy each turn.

EDIT: And the odds were 50/50 since it tries to evenly fill out the classes and sniper was one of it's last options.

[Ramary]

If you make me one of your troops Bells he better be a fucking assault.

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Ramary

If you make me one of your troops Bells he better be a fucking assault.

Translation for Bells: Sacrifice yourself on the next mission and have the only rookie on the next be Ramary to ensure 100% chance of shoving a shotgun in his hands before he cleans the alien guts off of himself.

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

Translation for Bells: Sacrifice yourself on the next mission and have the only rookie on the next be Ramary to ensure 100% chance of shoving a shotgun in his hands before he cleans the alien guts off of himself.

In my first game all my assaults kept dying, and I would usually have a rookie with me so I'd have a decent fallback pool, and most of the time that rookie would get promoted to assault after witnessing the assault die a horrible death. So basically: "Congratulations rookie you're promoted! Now here's that dead guy's armor and weapon. Make sure you clean that blood off before the next mission!"

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Also bells, avoid too much use of rockets and grenades early on. You wanna haul back as much fragment loot as possible early on.

Unrelated note: dunno if anyone mentioned this before but i stumbled on it by accident. Apparently when you mind control an alien and it dies its gear wont asplode. Easy way to get grenades and guns with much less risk!

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Grandmaster_Skweeb

Also bells, avoid too much use of rockets and grenades early on. You wanna haul back as much fragment loot as possible early on.

This is especially good to keep in mind since the true currency of the game is weapon fragments. Money comes monthly and you can inflate it's payout like an airbag while you actually have to go murder things to get fragments.

It wouldn't be really problematic if the X-com project didn't have such a small attention span to only babysit one squad at a time.

[Bells]

Yeah, my science girl back at the lab keeps yapping at me about not exploding the Aliens, so i'm trying real hard to make it work her way now, cause i really want better stuff...

But then...



"Oh Shit, Bells just blew that Alien sky high with a grenade next to the power generator of a Nuclear bomb! We should totally promote him!"



And this guy took a Shyria to the face. Didn't even knew what hit him!



And Flare shows that it only takes 45% to Crit an Alien from across the graveyard, holy crap!



And i'm happy to report that, yes, in fact... "One Hit Kill" Aldurin makes a very nice sniper.

[Aldurin]

We are the best team. Though you should buy the squad size upgrades if only for the advanced tactic of putting a rookie at extreme risk in order to aggro monsters to ground you control and to extend squad sight for sniping. I'm sure you'll have fun sending the mod staff to be the running targets.

[Melfice]

... Bells, I'm heavily insulted.
1) You're not French, you're Dutch.
2) You didn't make ME the Dutch guy.

Also, Aldurin, you're not French either. You can tell because the blue is actually black. You're from Yemen.

[Arcanum]

Okay, yeah, wasn't really paying attention to the flags or the country talk, but c'mon, France's flag is vertical stripes not horizontal.