1. Equip all Interceptors with Avalanche missile launchers and missiles and get rid of the cannon it's useless. 2. Autocannons are perfect early, use explosive shots and Auto fire, also always have a grenade in the secondary hand, if you get experience you may also prime it to zero for instant detonation, never do this from inside the landing plane. 3. Laser Rifles have the best accuracy in the game, mid game one or two snipers with Flying Suits will cover the entire map from above and deliver headshots after headshots. 4. Before you exit the Skyranger throw one smoke grenade in front of the ship exit and wait one turn for it to go off, you will thank me later. 5. Always deploy your troops close enough to cover each other with reaction fire but not one next to each other, leave 4-6 squares between them 6. Position two soldiers next to a door facing it and enter it with the third, additional position them in front of the door and just end the turn a few times, you will thank me later. 7. If the UFO is badly damaged it may have a hole where the Elerium reactor rods used to be, that's where you can lob the grenades inside and mess up the enemies before entering. To check for it just use the plus one level view until the roof of the UFO becomes visible. Any black squares signal missing roof tiles. Go back to the floor level and with the grenade Throw action move the cursor inside the UFO until the icon appears that you can throw the grenade inside. 8. You can prime grenades to explode instantly by selecting Zero from the timer, but make sure to increase the distance between your soldiers to 7-8 squares to allow for the nades to go boom if one of the soldier gets wasted by the aliens. 9. Later keep a soldier in the plane with a Blaster ready to fire. If situation requires it fire the blaster right from there and guide it towards the enemy then reload the Blaster. Keep another one here with a MindReader and check the enemies for Navigators, Engineers or Commanders in order to capture them alive. You can do this from the landing ship without the need to move the mind-reader guy. 10. If one of your guys becomes panicked or falls under alien control, use a stun bomb launcher to put him/her to sleep. Always keep stun launchers on each 3rd or 4rth soldier secondary hand, just in case. 11. Remember to have at least 1-2 medics with Medikits, and keep an eye on your most valued soldiers. If they fall without a noise it means they are not dead yet, rush to their bodies and while on top drag them to the inventory and then rush them to your ship. If possible use the Medikit to stabilize them. 12. Advance slowly and let a few soldiers behind with enough action points to react if an alien pops up.
@@yourdadsotherfamily3530 that gives -1000 points to your rating, which will absolutely destroy your funding and make a country more likely to sign a pact
@@gfmustard Landing and immediately leaving is sometimes the best option if the battle seems impossible. There's a big score for *ignoring* the terror site (about -2000 points, I think) but if you land and then run away you only lose points for the dead civilians (usually around -400 to -600). Which is still bad, but a lot less bad. Sticking out a losing battle is the worst option; you'll lose points for all the dead civilians AND all your dead troops, and the material cost of those troops and their gear is arguably worse.
@@andrewdwilliams _"Landing and immediately leaving is sometimes the best option if the battle seems impossible."_ You can always high explosive bomb the hell out of them he he. There can be some civilian casualties but you will win the fight. This is the beauty of this game, there are infinite strategies to fight / win.
@@ajax700 True, but early game you can see your squad minced just by stepping out of the Skyranger! It's a neat approach when you can lob a dozen blaster bombs out of the door though.
X-Com is the proof that true gems never lose their shine. I've still got the original floppy disks from way back when it first sold, and I've played it a lot over the years (not from the floppies, mind you). It never gets old and only gets better. The thought of an early nightime terror mission with Chryssalids still gives me chills!
You should sometimes (once in a few years) put the floppies into a drive. Data on floppies is not permament. It can fade away after some time if not used.
I've long assumed that degaussing has messed up the data on those floppies, so I just keep them for nostalgia reasons. These days I play X-Com from an .exe I found online a few years ago!@@krzysztofpaszkiewicz1274
Thank you for this guide. Every other guide I've found served more as a walkthrough instead of a proper guide, and they tended to not actually explain anything, they just "told" me what to do. You actually went and explained the features and their significance and as a result this was the guide that legitimately got me started, with a rough understanding of what I was doing. Thank you very much :)
Skyrangers are great in UFO fights as tanks - they have more HP than interceptors, so use the Skyrangers to draw fire while the fighters do the damage. You can drop even battleships using just the 3 starter craft this way.
For tactical combat, I'd say that learning about reaction fire rules and the mutual surprise rule is crucial. The basic scout-sniper tactic (which takes advantage of those rules) will save dozens of lives. Using lots of grenades and the grenade relay is also important.
Love you bro, this made my entry to the original games way easier coming from the reboots! Also, i will put my first base on the north pole, and you won't stop me
Great video, hope there's more to come. Thanks to X-Com other brilliant games were also influenced such as "Jagged Alliance", another one worth blowing the dust off.
True classic. Can't count the hours my friend and I spent in front of my amiga in the 90s. The only game at the time where you could destroy the whole map. 😁 Jagged alliance and silent storm are also great games. Battles like xcom but without the base building.
I dunno... Dealing with subpar base layout and rebuilding it later is part of the course. Having all troops separated and cautiously moving them from different directions is much more fun than setting ambush at choke point (which was typical for most battles in xcom 3).
@@ThorneyedWT If you want to play that way you can disable the “custom initial base” option in openxcom. I respect the commitment to keeping it hardcore!
Create masterpiece Guide to decades old games that guide me as newbie XCOM origonal player and then gone. Joke aside Love your guide duded thank you very much. Younare another gem low TH-camr below 1K and have only one video XD but it is masterpiece
Thanks for the tips good sir. I’ve played the reboot games and wanted to try the original. I’ll probably die a horrible death but thats just how it is with games from that era.
make your squads really hench right off the bat, and its much easier. like give 2 people a rifle, pistol, stun batons, grenades, smoke grenades, and have them as dedicated snipers, get them into positions where they can cover your dudes, and have them stay there using all their APs to shoot long range shots. eventually their skills become really good if they survive, and they can hit anything. have 2 heavies. have them both with an autocannon, laser pistol, laser rifle, a few clips, stun batons, medkits. then have 4 solders, these have laser rifle, laser pistol, missile launcher, 2 missiles, stun batons, medkits. if you need to lay it down, you actually have the capacity to. your dudes will be a bit encumbered at the start, but as they level up, it stops being an issue, and having to drag all the extra kit around actually increases their strength faster. give everyone a pistol, because they used fixed APs per shot, opposed to a percentage of your APs which is what rifles do. so in close up fights, you can shoot a far greater number of rounds, and if you need to level a building, or take out a big group, thats what all the missiles and autocannons are for.
Been playing on and off for a few years, all i can say is that grenades are the best thing ever, Lob a grenade to kill, a proximity grenade to cover an area, and hogh explosive to kill "tanks". Its quite fun comboing prox grenades with high explosives
@@batuarganda728 There was one time I brought prox grenades on a terror mission, then realized that all the civillians were accidentally setting them off as they ran around the map!
I'm revisiting this video a year after I first watched, and it just dawned on me that UFO Defense is the only game I know where you can mess up before you open the game.
The year was 2019.. Watched gameplay of XCOM UAP* Defense.. Too lazy to learn the game and put it in cold storage for further study.. Anyhow, looks like a fun game and will slowly get into it, like walking trough alien goop up to my knees.
Have one guy with a rocket launcher at the door to the Skyranger, so you dont spawn in with a Sectoid in a window that guns down half of your troops like youre recreating Saving Private Ryan
Oof! Avoiding those blaster launchers requires you to be so aggressive and take out anyone who might have line of sight. Mind control aliens and Blaster Launchers are a nightmare combination.
@@imhailstarYes sir, I need to be more careful and not keep my soldiers so tightly grouped on missions but sometimes we get bad luck. Thanks for your expert advice, it really helps.
Nice video! Very helpful. You have a criminally low subscriber count for your quality. Subbed! Edit: Ah I see it is because you only have the one video.
this game is amazing, if you over encumber your dudes, your dudes get really strong quick, so load up a couple of guys with auto cannons, 5 clips, a laser rifle and pistol, some grenades. then every single solder, give him a laser rifle, 2 missiles, and a missile launcher throw in a laser pistol too.. your dudes turn hench as fuck very quickly and its easily enough firepower to take on everything in a mission
You don't need to over encumber anyone to increase strength. Along with TUs and stamina, it goes up any time you gain experience in other stats like firing accuracy or reaction.
@Hailstar Hey, I hope you can still make the TFTD video! As a newbie to X-Com this video has been really helpful, your dark, blunt humor alongside knowing exactly what you’re talking about is an excellent combination for this game!
I would do one thing differently though. Forget the auto and heavy cannons and equip 4 to 5 people with rocket launchers. Aliens tend to hide in barns and sheds and removing their cover or killing them outright without risking your soldiers is crucial. Just blast every building on the map. Next thing where this is helpful is your first terror mission. Not only you can remove covers but also blast the most resilient units like reapers or chryssalids. Auto and heavy cannons often struggle to kill them quickly and with rocket blasts not only you kill them, remove cover but there is a high chance you kill groups of enemies standing close or behind a wall. The innability o kill tougher aliens is also the reason you should prioritize laser weapons. But even after you have laser rifles, rockets are your friend. The last thing. If you are a beginner and you are struggling open xcom lets you start the game with more things in your base. The large radar system, more scientists and an alien containment facility. The last one is the most important because the first missions are easy enough for you to capture some live aliens. And an alien navigator is a game changer.
Lots of great advice here! Only thing I would add is that rockets start to lose effectiveness against armored aliens like Cyberdisks and Mutons. You also accidentally destroy lots of alien loot and civilians if you're using it frequently.
@@imhailstar Yeah the biggest downside is the lost loot. Civilians not so much because you'll probably get only one terror mission before you'll get decent weapons and won't have to use the rockets as much. And yes Cyberdisks are always a pain to deal with up until you get plasma weapons. They can tank multiple rockets and a variety of other shots.
In my last game, I was playing in the superhuman difficulty, and I would say that rockets remain useful until very late game. They're actually a great way to take down cyberdiscs. One direct hit is often enough. They're also good for clearing out buildings.
Any tips on what to do when the frontline breaks in base defence? All i have tried is scrambling units to a room and doing a last stand but that rarely works well.
@@spinnereight6794 Base defense is super tough if you don’t have enough people. I try to keep at least 20 people stationed at a base so I even have a chance. Explosives are your friend here. I’d try to play as defensively as possible in your choke point, hiding behind a corner at the end of your turn with every soldier available. It’s way easier in the long run to try and hold that line and never back down than to fall back. But if they do break through I’d try and just move back one hallways worth and set up to cover every direction the aliens could go from there.
xcom is EASY. lol, i remember playing this in 1990 something as a kid and still beating it, best tips i can give, try your best not to fight at night(ai has no disadvantage).. research and equip all your soldiers and ships with plasma weapons(laser weapons are decent till you have it) and from the start invest in stun rods and eventually stun launchers for the live alien captures, especially leaders for the end game mission. likewise from the start invest in tanks, sucks since they get no experience but they deal enough death to carry your squad and eventually you get hover tanks and end tier is the blaster launcher tanks). avoid snakemen terror missions unless you want to experience terror yourself and in the last mission, avoid spending blaster rounds until the 2nd mission where you just obliterate every square inch you see. spoiler alert xcom is not easy.
The first Xcom feels like Aliens movie, while The Terror From The Deep feels like Alien movie. The sheer amount of terrible things you can do with aliens in the game, the power of even default weapons, the size of your squad you can take for a mission - it all plays very well in your favor.
first, this game is not easy. you only beat it because you used the trick with the cost saving. firing scientists and engineers before months end in order no to pay them the salary.
just dropping in for a quick question, in the production menu it says that my profit is going to be negative, (e.g. Profit: -$400,000) is this actual negative profit or just an old game thing
I believe it will actually take money from you equal to that amount. This is usually a result of your base upkeep being too high, or manufacturing expensive things in your workshops. If you're strapped for cash try selling off extra alien corpses and surplus gear (for example you probably won't need more than 30 plasma rifles). Only sell alien grenades and plasma weapon ammunition as a last resort though. The goal is to have so much money in the bank that going negative on profit isn't a big deal and/or to win a bunch of missions and make countries happy so they increase their funding.
@@imhailstar Once you've researched laser weapons, build (and sell) laser cannons. Highest profit margin in the game. I usually build a dedicated base (LaserFab One) to churn them out and soon I have more money than I know what to do with. Funding becomes a non-issue (literally tens of millions). Don't ask who's buying all those laser cannons....
Commenting again after i won my first superhuman run - Smoking saves lives, it lets you move without getting shot from hidden aliens - aliens are the opposition, a building is the real enemy (8/10 are aliens are using them as a secondary stronghold), lob rocket into every building you see, theres a good chance you'll save yourself some soldiers -laser rifle is the best overall gun in the entire game, it lets you kill some aliens in a single hit, has good stats, clears obstacles well and uses no ammo, you'll still switch to heavy plasma later -your first 20~ soldiers are cannon fodder, use them to get alien gear and live aliens so your 30th+ soldier are less expendable -prox mines are a piece of heaven if you know how to use it -motion scanner is a great tool when breaching ufos and base combat. But almost useless on open fields -personal armour is barely useful, it only really protects you from plasma pistols and your own explosives -power suit on the other hand rocks, you can call in arty on your own team w/o any consequences. If you have a soldier with 40+ HP, he can shrug plasma pistol and rifles, while having a 60% chance to survive a heavy plasma bolt Flying suit really shines when you get blasters, you turn the alien fortress called a UFO into a death trap for them -Finally, psychic amp is just op, simple as that
@@imhailstar probably soon! Ive gotten my first taste of underwater through filez. Other than that im gonna go in practically clueless on the tech tree. Ill prolly go veteran first as superhuman on the superhuman game is just asking for trouble
It’s too cool to resist! If you want to keep going on that save I’d recommend getting the large radar quickly so you can hopefully extend your coverage over a couple other countries. Best of luck!
i wish this game wasnt so much of a "if you know what to do then youre good, otherwise get fucked" kind of game cuz i know i can get into it. its just intimidating
Avalanches are definitely the way to go for interceptors. Smokes you can honestly go without. Follow up videos will be talking about specific strategies and gear recommendations.
@@imhailstar on beginner maybe...but I would advise to get used to smoking since later it's essential. In the vid you sold the extra avalanche launcher that is wierd. The first thing I do, is make one ceptor ready with 2 avalanche and buy 2 more. I believe if you prep ppl for superhuman that would work on beginner level too, so no reason to show different setups.
I keep one interceptor equipped with Avalanche/Stinger or Stinger/Stinger. Good for crashing "Tiny" and "Small" UFOs without completely destroying them. Those extra crash site missions are a little tedious but they improve your score, upgrade your troops, and give you infusions of money in the early game when you need it most.
@@TheLilKay Don’t worry if the occasional UFO gets away. You can avoid losing it by clicking the button that says 5 seconds so it’ll slow down time for you
4:30 i see, vanilla does not have missile strikes like xpiratez also you start with so much cash. 6:00 the pain of everyone who plays the entire suite of og xcom and mods
Well... you can deactivate the non vanilla options and play a scalable for modern resolutions, non-buggy version of the game. The guide was a pretty good primer for newbies imo
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1. Equip all Interceptors with Avalanche missile launchers and missiles and get rid of the cannon it's useless.
2. Autocannons are perfect early, use explosive shots and Auto fire, also always have a grenade in the secondary hand, if you get experience you may also prime it to zero for instant detonation, never do this from inside the landing plane.
3. Laser Rifles have the best accuracy in the game, mid game one or two snipers with Flying Suits will cover the entire map from above and deliver headshots after headshots.
4. Before you exit the Skyranger throw one smoke grenade in front of the ship exit and wait one turn for it to go off, you will thank me later.
5. Always deploy your troops close enough to cover each other with reaction fire but not one next to each other, leave 4-6 squares between them
6. Position two soldiers next to a door facing it and enter it with the third, additional position them in front of the door and just end the turn a few times, you will thank me later.
7. If the UFO is badly damaged it may have a hole where the Elerium reactor rods used to be, that's where you can lob the grenades inside and mess up the enemies before entering. To check for it just use the plus one level view until the roof of the UFO becomes visible. Any black squares signal missing roof tiles. Go back to the floor level and with the grenade Throw action move the cursor inside the UFO until the icon appears that you can throw the grenade inside.
8. You can prime grenades to explode instantly by selecting Zero from the timer, but make sure to increase the distance between your soldiers to 7-8 squares to allow for the nades to go boom if one of the soldier gets wasted by the aliens.
9. Later keep a soldier in the plane with a Blaster ready to fire. If situation requires it fire the blaster right from there and guide it towards the enemy then reload the Blaster. Keep another one here with a MindReader and check the enemies for Navigators, Engineers or Commanders in order to capture them alive. You can do this from the landing ship without the need to move the mind-reader guy.
10. If one of your guys becomes panicked or falls under alien control, use a stun bomb launcher to put him/her to sleep. Always keep stun launchers on each 3rd or 4rth soldier secondary hand, just in case.
11. Remember to have at least 1-2 medics with Medikits, and keep an eye on your most valued soldiers. If they fall without a noise it means they are not dead yet, rush to their bodies and while on top drag them to the inventory and then rush them to your ship. If possible use the Medikit to stabilize them.
12. Advance slowly and let a few soldiers behind with enough action points to react if an alien pops up.
"If you got a terror mission first I cannot save you." :')
I can. Just leave if that’s an option. I remember hearing from someone if it’s a terror mission they land and just fly away instead
@@yourdadsotherfamily3530 that gives -1000 points to your rating, which will absolutely destroy your funding and make a country more likely to sign a pact
@@gfmustard Landing and immediately leaving is sometimes the best option if the battle seems impossible. There's a big score for *ignoring* the terror site (about -2000 points, I think) but if you land and then run away you only lose points for the dead civilians (usually around -400 to -600). Which is still bad, but a lot less bad.
Sticking out a losing battle is the worst option; you'll lose points for all the dead civilians AND all your dead troops, and the material cost of those troops and their gear is arguably worse.
@@andrewdwilliams _"Landing and immediately leaving is sometimes the best option if the battle seems impossible."_
You can always high explosive bomb the hell out of them he he.
There can be some civilian casualties but you will win the fight.
This is the beauty of this game, there are infinite strategies to fight / win.
@@ajax700 True, but early game you can see your squad minced just by stepping out of the Skyranger! It's a neat approach when you can lob a dozen blaster bombs out of the door though.
X-Com is the proof that true gems never lose their shine. I've still got the original floppy disks from way back when it first sold, and I've played it a lot over the years (not from the floppies, mind you). It never gets old and only gets better. The thought of an early nightime terror mission with Chryssalids still gives me chills!
Xcom is the gift that keeps on giving
You should sometimes (once in a few years) put the floppies into a drive. Data on floppies is not permament. It can fade away after some time if not used.
I've long assumed that degaussing has messed up the data on those floppies, so I just keep them for nostalgia reasons. These days I play X-Com from an .exe I found online a few years ago!@@krzysztofpaszkiewicz1274
“you can name them to your friends and family if you want permanent psychological damage” 💀💀💀
emotional damage gif anyone?
Thank you for this guide. Every other guide I've found served more as a walkthrough instead of a proper guide, and they tended to not actually explain anything, they just "told" me what to do. You actually went and explained the features and their significance and as a result this was the guide that legitimately got me started, with a rough understanding of what I was doing. Thank you very much :)
I'm glad to have helped! Let me know how your first game goes!
"Play on beginner. This is not up for debate." The way you delivered that was pretty clear but I'm still not doing it.
That felt like a early 2000s video, thank you very much dude.
me and the homies always send Skyrangers after UFOs for the sole purpose of saying "get skyranged"
That's actually a good reason. I retract my earlier statement.
@@imhailstar You, my friend, have just been Skyranged
Skyrangers are great in UFO fights as tanks - they have more HP than interceptors, so use the Skyrangers to draw fire while the fighters do the damage. You can drop even battleships using just the 3 starter craft this way.
Telling new players to move out of the Skyranger on turn 1? Pure evil.
An actual quick start with concise explanation. Well I'll be damned.
Love the slightly deadpan delivery
This game still has a special place in my heart.
Same here, such a great game!
For tactical combat, I'd say that learning about reaction fire rules and the mutual surprise rule is crucial.
The basic scout-sniper tactic (which takes advantage of those rules) will save dozens of lives.
Using lots of grenades and the grenade relay is also important.
Love you bro, this made my entry to the original games way easier coming from the reboots! Also, i will put my first base on the north pole, and you won't stop me
Thanks for the video. That launcher really improves the game.
It really does. If you have other old games that don't run well it's well worth looking up fan patches and launchers.
Smoke grenade smoke grenades smoke grenades is what I would emphasize
They can definitely be a lifesaver. I'm saving tips about specific equipment for another video.
Great video, hope there's more to come.
Thanks to X-Com other brilliant games were also influenced such as "Jagged Alliance", another one worth blowing the dust off.
True classic. Can't count the hours my friend and I spent in front of my amiga in the 90s.
The only game at the time where you could destroy the whole map. 😁
Jagged alliance and silent storm are also great games. Battles like xcom but without the base building.
13:09 Advanced tracking and move/shoot confirmation are options those don't turned on by default.
Enjoyed this video. Should pump out a video of you playing. The banter will be worth it at the very least.
Really appreciate the video. Would love to see a playthrough from you the commentary during your video was great
Thanks, I'll consider it!
I dunno... Dealing with subpar base layout and rebuilding it later is part of the course. Having all troops separated and cautiously moving them from different directions is much more fun than setting ambush at choke point (which was typical for most battles in xcom 3).
@@ThorneyedWT If you want to play that way you can disable the “custom initial base” option in openxcom. I respect the commitment to keeping it hardcore!
Create masterpiece Guide to decades old games that guide me as newbie XCOM origonal player and then gone. Joke aside Love your guide duded thank you very much. Younare another gem low TH-camr below 1K and have only one video XD but it is masterpiece
Thanks for the tips good sir. I’ve played the reboot games and wanted to try the original. I’ll probably die a horrible death but thats just how it is with games from that era.
Good luck! Save scum if you need to it's all part of the game.
This was so useful that without it I would of never loved X-com thank you so much
I'm so glad you like it!
make your squads really hench right off the bat, and its much easier.
like give 2 people a rifle, pistol, stun batons, grenades, smoke grenades, and have them as dedicated snipers, get them into positions where they can cover your dudes, and have them stay there using all their APs to shoot long range shots. eventually their skills become really good if they survive, and they can hit anything.
have 2 heavies. have them both with an autocannon, laser pistol, laser rifle, a few clips, stun batons, medkits.
then have 4 solders, these have laser rifle, laser pistol, missile launcher, 2 missiles, stun batons, medkits. if you need to lay it down, you actually have the capacity to. your dudes will be a bit encumbered at the start, but as they level up, it stops being an issue, and having to drag all the extra kit around actually increases their strength faster.
give everyone a pistol, because they used fixed APs per shot, opposed to a percentage of your APs which is what rifles do. so in close up fights, you can shoot a far greater number of rounds, and if you need to level a building, or take out a big group, thats what all the missiles and autocannons are for.
I love real time/ turn based synergy in games.
That soundtrack brings back memories!
There was no radar range indicator when I was playing it back in 94.
Sweet upgrade.
@@BarbarosaAlexander Open xcom is such a great QOL improvement
This is so helpful. Thank you. Started with Enemy Unknown and wanted to play the OG but felt lost. Thanks!
This is the only video in this channel, but boy it's good
Been playing on and off for a few years, all i can say is that grenades are the best thing ever,
Lob a grenade to kill, a proximity grenade to cover an area, and hogh explosive to kill "tanks". Its quite fun comboing prox grenades with high explosives
@@batuarganda728 There was one time I brought prox grenades on a terror mission, then realized that all the civillians were accidentally setting them off as they ran around the map!
Yep, thats a huge pain
I Loved this video finally i can play this game without having to use DOSbox
Excellent vid! What are the odds of getting some followup ones with additional mechanics, tips, etc?
Thanks! I've been thinking about a follow up getting more into the mechanics of the game, but haven't really set aside the time to make it yet.
Hey, better to take your time than to rush it in and get wiped by a pod of aliens!
Love the humor in this, great guide!
Hello, i tried to send my skyranger after a UFO
I'm revisiting this video a year after I first watched, and it just dawned on me that UFO Defense is the only game I know where you can mess up before you open the game.
Hahaha!
Hexen and Heretic
Thank you for this - I really appreciate the info.
The year was 2019..
Watched gameplay of XCOM UAP* Defense..
Too lazy to learn the game and put it in cold storage for further study..
Anyhow, looks like a fun game and will slowly get into it, like walking trough alien goop up to my knees.
Have one guy with a rocket launcher at the door to the Skyranger, so you dont spawn in with a Sectoid in a window that guns down half of your troops like youre recreating Saving Private Ryan
Nothing like starting up this game again after a decade, playing on beginner difficulty, and getting my team wiped out with a blaster bomb.
Oof! Avoiding those blaster launchers requires you to be so aggressive and take out anyone who might have line of sight. Mind control aliens and Blaster Launchers are a nightmare combination.
@@imhailstarYes sir, I need to be more careful and not keep my soldiers so tightly grouped on missions but sometimes we get bad luck. Thanks for your expert advice, it really helps.
Thank you for the guide, I tried getting into this once by myself and just headbutted the brick wall for like 30 minutes before giving up.
Such a dope video thank you!
6.82 Mb. Man, where did we go so wrong?
Nice video! Very helpful. You have a criminally low subscriber count for your quality. Subbed! Edit: Ah I see it is because you only have the one video.
this game is amazing, if you over encumber your dudes, your dudes get really strong quick, so load up a couple of guys with auto cannons, 5 clips, a laser rifle and pistol, some grenades. then every single solder, give him a laser rifle, 2 missiles, and a missile launcher throw in a laser pistol too.. your dudes turn hench as fuck very quickly and its easily enough firepower to take on everything in a mission
You don't need to over encumber anyone to increase strength. Along with TUs and stamina, it goes up any time you gain experience in other stats like firing accuracy or reaction.
Thank you for the video man.
Will this guide also works for terror from the deep too?
Generally yes, but I plan on making a video about TFTD specifically later.
@@imhailstar Please do :)
@Hailstar Hey, I hope you can still make the TFTD video! As a newbie to X-Com this video has been really helpful, your dark, blunt humor alongside knowing exactly what you’re talking about is an excellent combination for this game!
@@nine1690 Thanks! TFTD video is still something I want to do at some point in the future.
Attack a UFO with the Skyranger, got it.
I would do one thing differently though. Forget the auto and heavy cannons and equip 4 to 5 people with rocket launchers. Aliens tend to hide in barns and sheds and removing their cover or killing them outright without risking your soldiers is crucial. Just blast every building on the map.
Next thing where this is helpful is your first terror mission. Not only you can remove covers but also blast the most resilient units like reapers or chryssalids. Auto and heavy cannons often struggle to kill them quickly and with rocket blasts not only you kill them, remove cover but there is a high chance you kill groups of enemies standing close or behind a wall.
The innability o kill tougher aliens is also the reason you should prioritize laser weapons. But even after you have laser rifles, rockets are your friend.
The last thing. If you are a beginner and you are struggling open xcom lets you start the game with more things in your base. The large radar system, more scientists and an alien containment facility. The last one is the most important because the first missions are easy enough for you to capture some live aliens. And an alien navigator is a game changer.
Lots of great advice here! Only thing I would add is that rockets start to lose effectiveness against armored aliens like Cyberdisks and Mutons. You also accidentally destroy lots of alien loot and civilians if you're using it frequently.
@@imhailstar Yeah the biggest downside is the lost loot. Civilians not so much because you'll probably get only one terror mission before you'll get decent weapons and won't have to use the rockets as much.
And yes Cyberdisks are always a pain to deal with up until you get plasma weapons. They can tank multiple rockets and a variety of other shots.
In my last game, I was playing in the superhuman difficulty, and I would say that rockets remain useful until very late game.
They're actually a great way to take down cyberdiscs. One direct hit is often enough.
They're also good for clearing out buildings.
Any tips on what to do when the frontline breaks in base defence? All i have tried is scrambling units to a room and doing a last stand but that rarely works well.
@@spinnereight6794 Base defense is super tough if you don’t have enough people. I try to keep at least 20 people stationed at a base so I even have a chance. Explosives are your friend here.
I’d try to play as defensively as possible in your choke point, hiding behind a corner at the end of your turn with every soldier available. It’s way easier in the long run to try and hold that line and never back down than to fall back. But if they do break through I’d try and just move back one hallways worth and set up to cover every direction the aliens could go from there.
xcom is EASY. lol, i remember playing this in 1990 something as a kid and still beating it, best tips i can give, try your best not to fight at night(ai has no disadvantage).. research and equip all your soldiers and ships with plasma weapons(laser weapons are decent till you have it) and from the start invest in stun rods and eventually stun launchers for the live alien captures, especially leaders for the end game mission. likewise from the start invest in tanks, sucks since they get no experience but they deal enough death to carry your squad and eventually you get hover tanks and end tier is the blaster launcher tanks). avoid snakemen terror missions unless you want to experience terror yourself and in the last mission, avoid spending blaster rounds until the 2nd mission where you just obliterate every square inch you see. spoiler alert xcom is not easy.
The first Xcom feels like Aliens movie, while The Terror From The Deep feels like Alien movie. The sheer amount of terrible things you can do with aliens in the game, the power of even default weapons, the size of your squad you can take for a mission - it all plays very well in your favor.
first, this game is not easy. you only beat it because you used the trick with the cost saving. firing scientists and engineers before months end in order no to pay them the salary.
Just started today. My coward with only 10 bravery must have a hidden luck stat, he is already a Colonel and the last of the first squad.
Installed it today, my last attempt playing Xcom in DOSbox failed miserably. Keep your fingers crossed!
Good luck! OpenXcom is a lot easier to use than DOSbox, so you shouldn't have any issues as long as you can locate your vanilla installation.
@@imhailstar Everything is working so far, at least as far as the game itself is concerned, not my performance lol
Buy smoke grenades. They are a life saver when off boarding.
When looking around if you see a blast mark on the ground you know there's an alien in that direction
just dropping in for a quick question, in the production menu it says that my profit is going to be negative, (e.g. Profit: -$400,000) is this actual negative profit or just an old game thing
I believe it will actually take money from you equal to that amount. This is usually a result of your base upkeep being too high, or manufacturing expensive things in your workshops. If you're strapped for cash try selling off extra alien corpses and surplus gear (for example you probably won't need more than 30 plasma rifles). Only sell alien grenades and plasma weapon ammunition as a last resort though. The goal is to have so much money in the bank that going negative on profit isn't a big deal and/or to win a bunch of missions and make countries happy so they increase their funding.
@@imhailstar Once you've researched laser weapons, build (and sell) laser cannons. Highest profit margin in the game. I usually build a dedicated base (LaserFab One) to churn them out and soon I have more money than I know what to do with. Funding becomes a non-issue (literally tens of millions). Don't ask who's buying all those laser cannons....
Commenting again after i won my first superhuman run
- Smoking saves lives, it lets you move without getting shot from hidden aliens
- aliens are the opposition, a building is the real enemy (8/10 are aliens are using them as a secondary stronghold), lob rocket into every building you see, theres a good chance you'll save yourself some soldiers
-laser rifle is the best overall gun in the entire game, it lets you kill some aliens in a single hit, has good stats, clears obstacles well and uses no ammo, you'll still switch to heavy plasma later
-your first 20~ soldiers are cannon fodder, use them to get alien gear and live aliens so your 30th+ soldier are less expendable
-prox mines are a piece of heaven if you know how to use it
-motion scanner is a great tool when breaching ufos and base combat. But almost useless on open fields
-personal armour is barely useful, it only really protects you from plasma pistols and your own explosives
-power suit on the other hand rocks, you can call in arty on your own team w/o any consequences. If you have a soldier with 40+ HP, he can shrug plasma pistol and rifles, while having a 60% chance to survive a heavy plasma bolt
Flying suit really shines when you get blasters, you turn the alien fortress called a UFO into a death trap for them
-Finally, psychic amp is just op, simple as that
@@batuarganda728 congrats on the superhuman run! That is a very impressive achievement! TFTD when?
@@imhailstar probably soon! Ive gotten my first taste of underwater through filez. Other than that im gonna go in practically clueless on the tech tree. Ill prolly go veteran first as superhuman on the superhuman game is just asking for trouble
Very nice video. I like the way comment, edit, have music in it. It is a pity you probably found a better way to apply your talent
Doom guy approved background.
thanks! The game sens less dauthing now.
Missing from the guide: interceptors use avalanche missiles until you research something else. The other weapons are ineffective.
why yes, I do use a skyranger to chase ufos and i sold my two interceptors because i thought i didnt need them
Nice! Great game, great vid
Why I have to double-check my resolution?
Relax.. I was just double-pulling your leg!
Nice video. Well explained
best game in all of history
Thanks! Very helpful.
Shit I just put my base in Antarctica because I'm a beginner 😂
It’s too cool to resist!
If you want to keep going on that save I’d recommend getting the large radar quickly so you can hopefully extend your coverage over a couple other countries. Best of luck!
i wish this game wasnt so much of a "if you know what to do then youre good, otherwise get fucked" kind of game cuz i know i can get into it. its just intimidating
If you setup yourself like this, you gonna have hard times....
Before anything, buy smoke grenades, a lot
Equip the interceptors with avalanche.
Avalanches are definitely the way to go for interceptors. Smokes you can honestly go without.
Follow up videos will be talking about specific strategies and gear recommendations.
@@imhailstar on beginner maybe...but I would advise to get used to smoking since later it's essential. In the vid you sold the extra avalanche launcher that is wierd. The first thing I do, is make one ceptor ready with 2 avalanche and buy 2 more. I believe if you prep ppl for superhuman that would work on beginner level too, so no reason to show different setups.
I keep one interceptor equipped with Avalanche/Stinger or Stinger/Stinger. Good for crashing "Tiny" and "Small" UFOs without completely destroying them. Those extra crash site missions are a little tedious but they improve your score, upgrade your troops, and give you infusions of money in the early game when you need it most.
Ah nostalgia
cool vid
I’m playing the PS1 version 😅
... Have fun
Is this the only video this channel is ever going to create?
I might do more classic xcom guides in the future, but nothing is definite yet
Tip: scum save
:P
This is the real best advice
Where has this launcher been all my life! I really needed that custom starting base option
Makes such a huge difference!
I wonder if you found the mods at this poing. I mean Xpiratez and Xcom Files are something very next level compared with the original gamw.
On my very first day I decided to advance the time quickly. An UFO showed and I lost track of it. Am I in trouble?
@@TheLilKay Don’t worry if the occasional UFO gets away. You can avoid losing it by clicking the button that says 5 seconds so it’ll slow down time for you
Make one for xcom apocalypse
4:30 i see, vanilla does not have missile strikes like xpiratez
also you start with so much cash.
6:00 the pain of everyone who plays the entire suite of og xcom and mods
Clips are for sissies we call it mags 😂
Idk.... true guide.... install mods... aside from the upscaling... everything else doesnt seem too honest with the true xcom experience.
Well... you can deactivate the non vanilla options and play a scalable for modern resolutions, non-buggy version of the game. The guide was a pretty good primer for newbies imo