Wholly X:Com

My thoughts are my own, but remember this is coming from a guy who didn't play the original and is playing on the 360. 

 

- - - - - - - -

 

Even on Normal for me it is at the right difficulty. It makes you learn the controls so you don't get over loaded up front. If you hate losing players you mine as well give in now as you will lose people no matter what. 

 

Barely Survived Single Player Story: 

 

I have gone into battle with 6 soliders with all different set-ups. However, at one point I was surrounded by 3 thin men, 2 Green Brutes and 2 Sectoids. I lost four guys due to positioning and had only a sniper and a shotgun wielder left. After backing up and re grouping I frantically took them out over the next several turns and barely survived till the end. From this point on I knew it was going to be hard.

 

Rage Quit Story:

 

Going on a mission with 6 people again to Rescue civilians. I thought it was going to be a decent struggle at first. Scouting went on and I was doing good and thought fast rush and an kind of slow rush was going to work. First encounter of the enemy I saw three crystilites (sorry bad spelling) which got me worried. So I started to pick them off instead of finding people to rescue. (Bad choice) After I defeat the second one I see another group of three further out taking out more civilians and turning them into Zombies (they automatically get +10 Health & +poison when attacking). Another two turns pass and more civilians go zombie and a third set of these things pop up. By this time I 6 of these things and 8 zombies and I only have save 3 people. With out a chance of saving more people and surrounded by a horde of zombies and aliens I rage quit. 

 

Multi-Player:

 

In MP I am 4-3 in Un ranked, but three of those wins are against the same person and 1-0 in ranked matches. All my loses come because I am a newb and unaware of what the aliens can do or how awesome the gear for soliders are. 

 

Multi-Player win hangs in the balance of a Zombie:

 

I was playing this person on my friends list and I knew her squad of four. She had three high powered soliders and one Muton. For me I had 2 crystilies (sorry for bad spelling) 1 thin man, 1 solider (1300 point spec) and 1 floater.  I sent out my floater to scout her as I knew it was going to be destroyed, but wanted to know what direction or movement she was going to do. From here I set out to cover and took us about three turns to get towards each other for the gun battle. By now my floater has been destroyed which was to be expected. As our battle raged I got her down to two people and she killed both a thin man and a crys of mine and a zombie. All I had left was one more cry and my solider. It was her turn and she shot my solider dead and one of her people had little life left. Start of my turn I send my crys after her player and kill 1 of her two left. Which ends my turn. Her muton kills my crys because of close range and I was wounded from before. Screen starts to go dark and holds. Slowly screen comes back up grey and says it is my turn and I have a Zombie with 10 health to her 7 health on the Muton. It is her turn after I move a space. She uses surpression on me and hits me for 8. Moving my slow zombie I kill her and win the match with her undead warrior. I tell her good game and we will play again another day. 

 

 

- - - - - - - - - -

 

things I hate, but have to learn to work around:

- there is only 5 maps in MP and none of them involve a crash landing site

- Satellites take up to 20 days to make which suck time away from everything else 

 

Hint - If you start a game on normal and do the tutorial you lose three men, but you get to learn the control layout which is good, but if you don't you skip the tutorial and get to choose where you get to do your home base and what reward you will be going after ...