X-COM speed run segment 8 - Lower Cydonia

[jpietryszyn]

That was amazing !!! I`ve watch the whole serie... No way !!! I had a hard time on medium diff and You did it on SUPERHUMAN in just a little longer then one hour !!!!! SHITTTT I know You`ve made a load but not in a battle !!! Big thumb up for You !!!

[Kizor]

I think it's adorable that you throw an explosive that will win the game when the turn ends, then take the time to move your soldier to safety.

[Badhabitsjay]

This speed run is actually kind of disappointing, you have a bunch of mods that make the game much easier. Tank mod, starting base layout mod, etc.

You should do this with vanilla, just the difficult fix enabled.

[tbgox]

@Badhabitsjay Hrm actually the difficulty patch was the only fix applied...Did you watch from part 1, the base layout was remade from the default set up in the first couple of parts. And don't know which tank mods you are referring to...

[fjuraa]

they are all blond lol :D

[DamazViccar]

9:22

Windows is under alien control

[vitrael]

LOL at windows automatic updates notification

[tolka]

Hmmm. Holding something in one hand decreases the accuracy of the gun in the other... not advisable.

[ToXeye]

I usually choose soldiers with high bravery, and sack the rest (letting them die in combat)... it wasn't speed run tactics material though.

[mikeNanna]

you took all the fun out of the game. lol

great speed run

[benz1no]

i think the game gets too easy when you get psi abilities, but i also think it's too hard without it. maybe i'm just not thinking the 'right' way to do things.

[jacobbill]

Get laser weapons, and an eight man squad. Be tactical about everything! Check corners, and cover each other. Then it's really fun! :3

[Toad22484]

Very impressive. I just beat it for the first time today but I had 10 fully armored troops with 4 plasma hover tanks haha. I also brought 10 blaster launchers. Made it really easy but I was playing on the ps1 version and my memory cards have been corrupting a long with the many bugs of the CD. I knew it was for pc, and much better, but I wasn't the only one playing. Again, great job, just over an hour total? That's some masterful X-Com playin.

[conradragzoff]

I'd love to give this game another try, the last time I played it was about 10 years ago, maybe even longer... maybe I'd do better now...

[kainronin1]

I have yet to see a game as realistic as this one.You can have lots of armor and still die in one shot and when you die you die.your men panic like when they are the only ones left and I like that you can patch up people with a medikit and carry them back to your ship

[tbgox]

thanks thanks. yeah they really manage to put A LOT into a game. very impressive and complex for something from the early 90s!!

[kainronin1]

Nice work. I just played through this game first time in about 12 years.Even with the xbox 360 and ps3 this game is still addictive and fun as hell.

[woekan]

Heya, question. Do your soldiers have less chance to panic/be controlled when you move them together in groups like you do?

[tbgox]

hrm i highly doubt it. It seems like the game usually finds soldiers with the lowest Psi Defense.

BUT! I believe one requirement is that the aliens have to have you in the line of sight before they can mind control. It's because of this I try to kill them whenever possible.

This mission took a lot of reloading to get right though!

[ertyqwer]

The aliens need to see you to know where you are, but they don't need line of sight to use psi. Like, it can see you and then run back into cover, and psi you next turn if you are still standing in the same place.

Nice speedrun though :)

[Jujukal]

unbelievable awsome, my jaw droped even more after watching your previous ones. nice work :)

I'm stil playing this awsome game from time to time.

[Quilbo]

cool

[ShadXCom]

laser rifles are beast guns :p

[SouhiroR]

hat wasn't a so wise speedrun, your scientist weren't working at full time, and you had to contract/sack engineers and scientist continously. why you din't go to study about heavy plasmas directly?

[tbgox]

dont worry, a better version is in the works.

Heavy Plasma is not need to complete the game so it's not researched. In fact the new run won't even bother with Laser Weapons

In UFO the only research you need are:

- Alien Alloys

- Elerium

- UFO PS

- UFO Nav

- UFO Construction

- New Fighter

[tbgox]

- New Fighter-Transport

- Ultimate Craft

- any live alien

- Alien Origins

- any live leader

- Martian Solution

- any live commander

- Cydonia or Bust

That's it, the scientists were working 95% of the time. the 5% was due to some bad timing

the hiring/sacking of scientists/engineers will not be take place for the second run

[timonczesq]

Where is the second run?