Yeah, sometime my plasma sniper hit enemy for only 1 damage and sometime 10.

Darn, 18th game, that's a lot of playtime. Also, anyone can recommend me a good overhaul mod(aside from Warspace since many ppl said it's for baby) for my future playthrough?

This post has been edited by Goliath764: Jan 13 2013, 03:12 AM

True only if the player buys the expansion instantly.

@Skidd Chung
The readme(included in the DL) will tell you how to install. I can vouch for long war being a tough mod, I tried 5 Ironman Impossible(with bunch of Second Wave activated), not surviving any of them so far.

Edit: If you don't like Long War Mod, I think there's one or two other overhaul mods you can consider.

This post has been edited by Goliath764: Nov 2 2013, 05:51 AM

The mod page did ask the users to turn off automatic updates. The mod should be okay as long as the latest patch isn't installed.

I actually liked the mod myself, much tougher than the original, and minor bugs don't bother me too much(Shouldn't the original be pretty stable since it's been out for a long time?). Of course, to each his own.

EU on its own is a little bit too easy to me. Of course, I haven't tried impossible but I did well in ironman classic and THEN I tried Long War in ironman classic and it's so much tougher. I enjoy the difficulty even though I keep restarting games.

The randomized classes are actually in my courtyard as I love roulette - I have most of the second wave options open to add further randomization - and it adds to the challenge as I am forced to consider taking more fresh recruits into battle just in hope that I can get some of the classes I have least. Of course, I can understand players want to assign classes to their soldier, no problem with it, I just happen to like the current method.

Enemies out of thin air...yeah, not much to change about that. I am used to it though after playing a fair share of XCOM so I am extra careful when advancing, constantly overwatch so I can shoot them if they get into my vision out of nowhere. I just consider it to be aliens "patrolling" or lured by sound so they came to the human.

Not sure what you meant by rushed strategic mode, as in rush satellite or die?

I am fine with LW's classes mainly because I got bored with original XCOM and having 8 classes with different skill order seems fresh to me(although technically it is not fresh). I do agree it doesn't add anything new.

LW has improved UFO hunting(which I don't get why EU wants to cut it from the base game), more items, and increased difficulty[alien will improve and so on], all in all good for me.

And oh, just to reply your other post to me, I like the slowed pace. I play marathon mode for original EU anyway, I simply love the slowed pace. I would take marathon with LW but I read that marathon makes the game much easier in a way so I didn't do so.

EU is hard to mod so it's good that EW is open things up, better mod will come soon enough. And just saying, I am not hard-selling LW, more like giving my opinion on why I liked it in comparison to your disagreement.

There's ranking in XCOM and I can see its fun in MP despite not playing the MP(because I have no friend and I am not interested in playing with strangers), I can see a lot of different approaches and strategies as compared to the AI.

I will agree on your point if it's about FPS like Battlefield or CoD where it's definitely more fun with other players and most of the features are there for the MP but strategy game usually are pretty versatile, capable of doing well in both SP and MP albeit having most of the features on the SP part. Seeker seems to be an alien that is very good in MP more than SP, mostly because I doubt the AI can have the perfect timing and execution to use its ability well compared to a human player.

This post has been edited by Goliath764: Nov 21 2013, 02:45 AM