Laser rifles let you two-shot Chryssalids.I think armor is more important. I used Carapace armor until the last mission. It is good enough to keep you from being one-shotted, which is enough to keep most people alive. Laser weapons are only slightly better than regular weapons. Although I think a laser sniper rifle and heavy weapon are important to get as soon as possible.
Anyone have tips on cash flow? Even on easy, I find that I don't have enough money to do even what the game is asking me to. I need to get sats into space to satisfy countries, but between the control centers, time to build and the price per unit I have to spend virtually every cent just trying to get them into space quick enough to stop bleeding countries, which means even less money. That's if I ignore my troops and fighters, which has it's own problems. I'm sure there is probably some sort of trick to it, maybe something to focus on, but it's alluding me.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Anyone have tips on cash flow? Even on easy, I find that I don't have enough money to do even what the game is asking me to. I need to get sats into space to satisfy countries, but between the control centers, time to build and the price per unit I have to spend virtually every cent just trying to get them into space quick enough to stop bleeding countries, which means even less money. That's if I ignore my troops and fighters, which has it's own problems. I'm sure there is probably some sort of trick to it, maybe something to focus on, but it's alluding me.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Sell anything on the gray market that you don't need.
How do you know what you don't need?
Otherwise, just be as economical as you can producing weapons/armor.
The game actually tells you what you don't need. It will say above the description in bold green letters what is safe to sell.
This.
I started out with an old-X-COM mentality, wanting to produce 20-30 of everything. Built ten nano weave vests, ended up with all ten still in inventory by the time last mission rolled around.
Since there's no assembly lead time, you can basically build exactly what you need, no more, and that's the end of it.
I was wondering, now that the game has been out for several weeks, what are everyone's takes on the game after extensive play? Are the initial reviews of the games holding up or is it another case of reviewers getting overzealous? I ask because of...Civ5....
Yup it's good. No Civ 5 repeat. With Civ 5 many agreed it was kind of lame from day one, and the real damning came a week or two later. XCOM's been out for almost a month and I still can't get enough free time to play it.
Don't sell floater or sectoid corpses. Don't sell Thin Man corpses until you get the Improved Medikit upgrade.Money is usually limiting, at least early in the game. That's the way it's supposed to be. Makes you make tough decisions. Selling stuff in they grey market helps a lot though.
Don't sell floater or sectoid corpses. Don't sell Thin Man corpses until you get the Improved Medikit upgrade.
I was very underwhelmed by the sniper at first. It seemed like they would either never have a shot or would be so close their hit percentage was super bad. I didn't play with one for a long time then finally added one back and got a plasma sniper and double tap ability and its decent. It seems like they don't see targets you want them to though.
You get the blaster launcher which deals more damage and has non-line-of-sight aiming capability.The heavies can do some serious damage with the heavy plasma but they don't always seem to have the best hit percentages. Do you ever get a better rocket or is there just the standard one all the way through, I'm pretty close to the end I think and don't think I've seen research for any better ones.
I think I opted for the other ability instead of squad sight for my sniper. Need to get another and try that.
I think I opted for the other ability instead of squad sight for my sniper. Need to get another and try that.