Really an amazing game. Xenonauts captures most of the magic. I wouldn't mind a straight re-make though.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      27 days ago

      "If it's stupid but it works it ain't stupid" is how I brute forced a lot of those old tactical games as a kid.

    • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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      27 days ago

      Gotta say my favorite strat in the original XCom is to have the maximum number of rocket launchers and grenades and just go ham on the aliens.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        hexagon
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        27 days ago

        Even in to the end game i'd have a couple of guys with incendiary autocannons for area denial and to light up the night. The game had so much cool stuff going on. I used missiles a lot and that's where i learned the idea of an assistant ammo bearer. I'd always have a guy loaded up with missiles to accompany the guy with the launcher.