X-Com Fun Stuff

[Psiweapon]

Well, since it looks like X-COM has an XBOX HUEG fanbase around, let's share some fun stuff we experienced playing that awesome game.

Once, I had such a badass soldier, named Virgil Crosset, that his stats kept going up and up and up.

He enjoyed a long period of demigodhood, until he was so badass the game couldn't keep track of him anymore. All his stats wrapped around to around between 10 and 20 and he became a crippled veteran.

Just now, I was cleaning a two-story UFO of floaters, and the damned things instead of dying would go unconscious. That is usually nice, but there were a couple more outside who prevented the mission from ending - and allowed their comrades to wake up and start wandering stupidly inside the ufo.

What the hell, those were plasma shot. They shouldn't be knocking people unconscious, they should be burning holes in them!

[Kyzrati]

So you're playing again now since it's been brought up, eh?

Last I picked it up was already a few years ago, but I recall the last mission I played, which was pretty damn exciting.

Assaulted a large UFO downed in a rural area, and a spate of bad luck wiped out my entire squad except for one soldier I had sniping from the second story of a farmhouse. It seemed hopeless, usually time to retreat, but I decided that last dude was destined to be a hero. I had him gather up as many explosives and clips as he could and hide out on that second floor.

One by one wandering aliens approached the house (situated so that there was really only one approach), and one by one they fell to direct weapons fire or grenades. By the time he was done the entire area outside the house was flat and smoking, and many of the second floor walls were shredded by alien shots... but he won.

[Psiweapon]

Wow, epic. He sure got an XBOX HUEG promotion right?

[Kyzrati]

Well, even without the epic roguelike survival, that's a given since all his buddies just died and thinned out the ranks above him! And he was just some random squaddie, too....