Fucking fuck I forgot that autosave wasn't enabled by default and my manual wave was after the vey first mission. On the plus side that gave me an excuse to play it 3 more hours....
When you first started playing X-COM: UFO Defense were you able to jump into superhuman on your first playthrough or did you have to learn the game's mechanics first?
So I just got my first UFO mission (3rd overall) and I went "well now would be a good time to send in the original 4 for a mission"
All were rookies except Vinny who was support, because he was in my first mission (Ryan Davis is also now Chinese, because.....)
I move up and I spot 4 sectoids, and they run off and do two mindmelds (jesus they happen more in my game than in any of the videos I watch) and after a few rounds I had killed the two main melders and get ready to approach the main station, only to forget that the dude who spawns inside has a decent enough gun, AND FUCK BRAD IS DEAD FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU HE IS MY FAVORITE.
I killed him easily the next round (not before I had vinny smoke the area) and finished the mission.... But damnit I killed Brad :(
One thing that has helped me a lot is watching other people play it, even if they suck just as bad as you, by just watching others I have learned what to do (and more often than not what not to do)
I will name my squad after both friends and pop culture icons and then watch in horror as they are picked off by aliens.
It depends on the icon. You may feel warm inside when you "accidentally" send Justin Bieber his death.
@Brodehouse said:
I'll name my dudes after whatever country they're from. I actually really like the sort of art or science of names and how languages develop over hundreds of years.
This is my plan. Of course, they come with names that reflect their home countries, so I'll probably just keep default names. I may adjust nicknames, however, and appearances. If I get a man named Zhang Li and he's black, I'm going to change that. I'll probably make all the females hotter, too, because why not.
Oh, and I might name one guy Kitkat Chunky. After those OXM videos, it just seems like the right thing to do.
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