This music played when I used one of my heavies that was on low health to cover as I pulled the rest of the team back with a VIP. He was poisoned and on 2 bars, so he was never gonna make it back anyways. His final standoff was one of the most memorable things I did in this game.
+Top Hattington Yes, that kind of causalities make xcom gaming like a personal process. I remember how I needed to sacrifice my assault to decease sectiod commander who'd taken over mind of my other assault guy chasing my Major sniper on 3 hp and was bound to kill him in the next round.
+Top Hattington these one is the music playing in my craziest moments in this game when i come trhough a situation of mad disvantage that the only thing made me win was my soldiers positions in the field
@@xxvagary, особенно учитывая каноничную концовку первой части. Не удивительно, что в официальном саундтреке этот трек называется "Vigilo Confido" - собственно, как лозунг организации Х-СОМ.
This soundtrack fits with both victory and defeat, it's epic for retreating due to heavy casualties on your side, and pushing forward because you're on a winning streak
A theme for Victory or a glorious last stand, like my Mec Trooper, during the Chrysalid infestation mission, standing his ground and holding them off while the rest of the team escaped to the dropship
weldonwin Wow, the same thing happened to me the first time I did that mission! I had to leave my first MEC trooper behind because I wasn't sure whether "turns left: 1" meant I could wait the one more round I needed. It was ironman though, so I had to weigh one life against the possible loss of the entire team... I can just imagine her watching the dropship lift off.
tratan3 Gun blazing and smashing bugs to paste with the Rocket Fist, looking up for a moment as the swarm closes in on all sides and seeing the dropship boosting away and she just whispers "Vigilo Confido..." Under he breath, before the flurry of claws decends on her and the airstrike hits
Brilliant. I still remember my squad surviving the entire war then on the final mission they started falling one by one. 2 out of 6 made it out alive. Its been 6 years since I played this beast of a game.
*Enemy located. Mechtoid and two Sectoid Commanders. This theme plays.* *Team: Two rookies, a Heavy, Sniper, Assault, and Support.* *Heavy holo-target hits one Sectoid Commander. One rookie grenades it, and Support finishes it off with Laser Rifle.* *Sniper crit-hits the other Sectoid Commander with a Laser Sniper Rifle shot dealing 11 damage.* *Assault run-guns to trip the Mechtoid Overwatch via Lightning Reflexes. Rapid-fire with Scatter Laser. First shot crits for 11. Second shot hits for 5.* *It's all down to the other Rookie to save the Assault from almost certain death by Mechtoid plasma. Shot probability after moving: 45%. No grenade.* *Rookie is armed with a Light Plasma Rifle, a Laser Pistol, and a dream.* *Rookie lines up the shot with the rifle. Time stands still in those couple seconds.* *Rookie fires. It connects! 6 damage!* *The Mechtoid falls! Mission complete!* Even the lowest-ranking, non-imposing grunt of the pack has the power to truly make a difference.
"Rookie is armed with a laser rifle, a laser pistol, and a dream." That is literally how I arm soldiers for all my missions. I dont look at the gear thinking it's not enough, it's always enough, better gear just makes it smoother.
True, one of my rookies got 5 kills on his first mission, saving the squad But it was when my best were corporals and sergeants, now he's my best troop alongside an assault
When you're team is barely holding together, their magazines empty, desperately dragging the VIP back to extraction, and then Thin Man start dropping from the top of the suspension bridge.
All my heavy hitters injured except my sniper, so nothing but a squad of rookies with one veteran. That sniper held the line, capping thin men left and right while the rookies escorted the VIP, getting smoked every turn... VIP made it... The sniper didn't make it home that day... I hope he appreciates the sacrifice...
My favorite battle theme from XCOM. I always get hyped up when this theme plays because it reminds me of a triumphant comeback I made during one of my seemingly-lost battles. I believe I had three soldiers fight off two waves of Aliens after the rest had been killed or incapacitated. I always recall that feeling of dread and relief when the battle was over and I somehow won.
This song waa was playing... grenaded by Mutons. 1 KIA. 1 critically injured. She was then executed by another Muton. The designated team leader panicked and so did the medic. Silvia " Chops " Lopez with her shotgun was left...she single handedly killed both Mutons to this song.
Me fav! You can feel the weight of the world on your shoulders but then you have your team, gruff, scarred but valiant and ready, staring the enemy down. On impossible with rookies tho, it's a bit anti climatic when the kids start panicing and play 'pass the panic'
This tune can make you feel a tad overconfident if you let it cos it makes sound like things are going so well then you run into that pack of muton elites you missed earlier
Then you starting taking heavy casualties and the one novice squadmate you have which replaced an injured member goes beyond the call of duty and goes absolute beast mode.
it was my first play and here was my first EXALT mission. I got 5 man squad with two Captains (sniper and assault) and the rest with rookies. I thought "i mean these are some regular human folks so how hard can it be?" right? after 5 mins here I was with 2 rookies down, my Cpt Assault Ruben "the Mad Man" trapped inside a garage where he's taking fire from 5 different angles. He had this "counter attack any moving enemy within 4 tiles" skill so he was fighting back constantly and dodging enemy fire like Muhammad Ali. Odds were like 7 to 1 yet he took down 3 of'em by himself in a turn. He was wounded and waiting for his backup and this wonderful music was playing in the background. In that moment I fell in love with this game.
7 саундрек искал везде, но нашел только здесь. Один из самых памятных моментов в игре: финал операции "Праща", когда отряд XCOM был отправлен на разрушающуюся плотину спасти девушку-псионика
Fitting music for your backs against the walls in a cemetery with squaddies and corporals with traditional weaponry against a cyberdisk and its drones, and a mechtoid buffed by a sectoid. Lost four guys in that clash. Made me wish my better units weren't battered when dealing with the UFO earlier.
Bah I've been listening to this for so many years and it always had no downvotes...now suddenly it has 4. Who goes to a game ost to downvote?? Is this even something you can just stumble upon? You'd have to actively be looking for it and then CHOOSE to listen to it, but somehow dislike it.
This was playing when I first encountered the Chrysalids. After the initial 'oh crap' moment, I proceeded to smear those bugs. Unfortunately they zombied a civilian. :( Smeared the zombie too!
The last squad man survival, i never forget my last sniper in terror mission all squad members where killed by crissalids, she sniped one by one from high ground playing, becoming hero of xcom since there!
Come to think of it these combat themes are probably the ones rejected from Human Revolution, recycled into a completely different game... that's not a complaint, i love McCann's music :)
In all honesty, it's quite difficult to top Deus Ex: HR's OST. But he really captured that "fighting for survival" feeling in most of the tracks he did here. xD
Once, all my soldiers were KIA, except for one. What is funny that is.. Aliens never hit their shots! They were killed off quickly though. (Irony, that soldier had 1 hp left)
Next time you play x-com ufo defense, remember to toast them zombies with fire to avoid new lids... Actually scratch that, burn the city to the ground, there is only one way to be safe with lids. But no question about it, in the new game the lids are nerfed (assault operatives can wreck them in THEIR turn) while the sectopods are insane killing machines capable to killing half the squad in one go.
Oh man, My first mission against Chrysalids on the highest difficulty was surprisingly easy, so I was given the wrong impression. The mission simply had an astoundingly low amount of them present, and without any others around. Every panic event since then was a clusterfuck of 10+. My second encounter was horrible... Lone Chrysalid charges me, smoke it from cover, when suddenly the biggest fucking swarm I've ever seen pours out from EVERY direction and onto me. Out of ammo before you notice it.
LOL. Chryssaalids in this game are such wusses. In the original they always one hit kill and then the victim becomes a zombie. When you kill the zombie in this game your safe. In the original that zombies dies and out comes the Chryssalid within (that is even if you kill him in the same turn). So essentially Chryssalids spread like a plague within your squad (did I mention, they can kill multiple victims in one turn?). That made them my absolute worst enemy in X-COM. Worse than everything else.
+Cosmic Drew poor resource allocation but its damn annoying should i go for scientists for my research of engineers to gain coverage and keep the panic low if i dont get soon panic reduction missions
+Cosmic Drew - To be good at XCOM, you have to already know the game and pray for a lot of luck. It also helps if you have already done enough runs to memorize the maps and the enemy encounters. First timers playing will face inevitable casualties and frustration.
tueher86 The first time I ever played x-com was with light casualties. I decided to up the difficulty. I still repent to the x-com gods for my foolish hubris.
Didn't know he did the music for those games, but go listen to Knight's March. That's a damn good song. He can really throw some great music out there. McCann is just as good, I'm not raggin on him, but I just like Zimmer a bit more. That's just my opinion thohugh.
clearly you never played x-com apocalypse. They did a great job, it's nice, but it doesn't quite live up to x-com apocalypse combat music. For reference: watch?v=U9_Ki_B21Yk&list=PLA94551885A87EFD2
This is one of those few "we're winning" tracks. I know it doesn't choose tracks based on that, but look at the comments for this one and look at the comments for Combat Music 6.
Hey, not saying Zimmer isn't terrific. I absolutely adore his work for the Dark Knight Trilogy. If you're interested, check out Michael Giacchino's work. He did music for both video games (Call of Duty) and films (Up, Ratatouille, Star Trek).
I always imagine one xcom veteran giving an epic speec to this music, like this: 'We are the greatest fear an e.t. can feel, we are the hopes of every human in the world, we are the first and last defensive line, we alone protect this planet from being destroyed. We are...the xcom. Commander, we will not fail.'
Wait, didn't they do that already? If not then I might think up a way to exploit that. But fuck no. I'd do anything to make Chryssalids easier to beat.
Rk Anderson - KIA
Rk Cole - KIA
Rk Smith - KIA
Sgt Garza - KIA
Cpt Murphy - Gravely Wounded (14 days)
Ouch
A single casualty is acceptable
Five soldiers? It’s too easy to play with five.
@@Wonders_of_Reality I play with 6 and it still hard sometimes for me ._.
@@ruinalast Oh well, I like to make life more difficult and I have only four soldiers in my squad.
This music played when I used one of my heavies that was on low health to cover as I pulled the rest of the team back with a VIP. He was poisoned and on 2 bars, so he was never gonna make it back anyways. His final standoff was one of the most memorable things I did in this game.
+Top Hattington Yes, that kind of causalities make xcom gaming like a personal process. I remember how I needed to sacrifice my assault to decease sectiod commander who'd taken over mind of my other assault guy chasing my Major sniper on 3 hp and was bound to kill him in the next round.
+Top Hattington these one is the music playing in my craziest moments in this game when i come trhough a situation of mad disvantage that the only thing made me win was my soldiers positions in the field
*radio crackle* "Firing rocket." )&
A true Iron Man.
This is what a determined, but desperate struggle sounds like. Which is exactly what this game is.
one of the best youtube coments i've ever seen
о, да.... так и есть:)
@@xxvagary, особенно учитывая каноничную концовку первой части. Не удивительно, что в официальном саундтреке этот трек называется "Vigilo Confido" - собственно, как лозунг организации Х-СОМ.
Да брат) согласен с тобой)
вообще мне был дорог каждый солдат организации)@@Feningor
This soundtrack fits with both victory and defeat, it's epic for retreating due to heavy casualties on your side, and pushing forward because you're on a winning streak
A theme for Victory or a glorious last stand, like my Mec Trooper, during the Chrysalid infestation mission, standing his ground and holding them off while the rest of the team escaped to the dropship
weldonwin Wow, the same thing happened to me the first time I did that mission! I had to leave my first MEC trooper behind because I wasn't sure whether "turns left: 1" meant I could wait the one more round I needed. It was ironman though, so I had to weigh one life against the possible loss of the entire team... I can just imagine her watching the dropship lift off.
tratan3
Gun blazing and smashing bugs to paste with the Rocket Fist, looking up for a moment as the swarm closes in on all sides and seeing the dropship boosting away and she just whispers "Vigilo Confido..." Under he breath, before the flurry of claws decends on her and the airstrike hits
Your hear that commander ?
That's the sound of accuracy.
😂
Brilliant. I still remember my squad surviving the entire war then on the final mission they started falling one by one. 2 out of 6 made it out alive. Its been 6 years since I played this beast of a game.
*Enemy located. Mechtoid and two Sectoid Commanders. This theme plays.*
*Team: Two rookies, a Heavy, Sniper, Assault, and Support.*
*Heavy holo-target hits one Sectoid Commander. One rookie grenades it, and Support finishes it off with Laser Rifle.*
*Sniper crit-hits the other Sectoid Commander with a Laser Sniper Rifle shot dealing 11 damage.*
*Assault run-guns to trip the Mechtoid Overwatch via Lightning Reflexes. Rapid-fire with Scatter Laser. First shot crits for 11. Second shot hits for 5.*
*It's all down to the other Rookie to save the Assault from almost certain death by Mechtoid plasma. Shot probability after moving: 45%. No grenade.*
*Rookie is armed with a Light Plasma Rifle, a Laser Pistol, and a dream.*
*Rookie lines up the shot with the rifle. Time stands still in those couple seconds.*
*Rookie fires. It connects! 6 damage!*
*The Mechtoid falls! Mission complete!*
Even the lowest-ranking, non-imposing grunt of the pack has the power to truly make a difference.
"Rookie is armed with a laser rifle, a laser pistol, and a dream."
That is literally how I arm soldiers for all my missions. I dont look at the gear thinking it's not enough, it's always enough, better gear just makes it smoother.
True, one of my rookies got 5 kills on his first mission, saving the squad
But it was when my best were corporals and sergeants, now he's my best troop alongside an assault
this music aways will remember when my entire team was killed but one shotgunner survived, she faced the entire operation alone and won
"Give that soldier a medal"
The best medal.
In fact, give all of them.
+Corporal Corgi The first time I encountered Mutons my MEC trooper got 5 kills I thought he deserved a medal or two.
Moving at the speed of Death.
Remember, we will always be watching!
When you're team is barely holding together, their magazines empty, desperately dragging the VIP back to extraction, and then Thin Man start dropping from the top of the suspension bridge.
All my heavy hitters injured except my sniper, so nothing but a squad of rookies with one veteran.
That sniper held the line, capping thin men left and right while the rookies escorted the VIP, getting smoked every turn...
VIP made it...
The sniper didn't make it home that day...
I hope he appreciates the sacrifice...
My favorite battle theme from XCOM. I always get hyped up when this theme plays because it reminds me of a triumphant comeback I made during one of my seemingly-lost battles. I believe I had three soldiers fight off two waves of Aliens after the rest had been killed or incapacitated. I always recall that feeling of dread and relief when the battle was over and I somehow won.
I know, this is my hands down favourite and I use it when I need a kickass dose of adrenaline
This song waa was playing... grenaded by Mutons. 1 KIA. 1 critically injured. She was then executed by another Muton. The designated team leader panicked and so did the medic. Silvia " Chops " Lopez with her shotgun was left...she single handedly killed both Mutons to this song.
Me fav!
You can feel the weight of the world on your shoulders but then you have your team, gruff, scarred but valiant and ready, staring the enemy down.
On impossible with rookies tho, it's a bit anti climatic when the kids start panicing and play 'pass the panic'
Undoubtedly my favorite combat track from Enemy Unknown. Exhilarating, moving, and most certainly inspiring.
When this plays you know IT'S RAMBO TIME!!! VIGILO CONFIDOOOOO!!!
it's ten minutes and it's still somehow not enough :)
да... саундтрек превосходен!
Idk why but I like this soundtrack more then xcom2's soundtrack.
Same
Likewise.
XCOM 2 tried too hard for a superhero vibe with its music, I feel. This one is more...war-like.
When you're playing Long War and you face the first Chryssalid squad leader.
>Make contact with 3 Muton Elites, a Sectopod and a Cyberdisc + drones simultaneously
>This track starts
MOVIN' AT THE SPEED OF DEATH
This tune can make you feel a tad overconfident if you let it cos it makes sound like things are going so well then you run into that pack of muton elites you missed earlier
Then you starting taking heavy casualties and the one novice squadmate you have which replaced an injured member goes beyond the call of duty and goes absolute beast mode.
it was my first play and here was my first EXALT mission. I got 5 man squad with two Captains (sniper and assault) and the rest with rookies. I thought "i mean these are some regular human folks so how hard can it be?" right? after 5 mins here I was with 2 rookies down, my Cpt Assault Ruben "the Mad Man" trapped inside a garage where he's taking fire from 5 different angles. He had this "counter attack any moving enemy within 4 tiles" skill so he was fighting back constantly and dodging enemy fire like Muhammad Ali. Odds were like 7 to 1 yet he took down 3 of'em by himself in a turn. He was wounded and waiting for his backup and this wonderful music was playing in the background. In that moment I fell in love with this game.
7 саундрек искал везде, но нашел только здесь. Один из самых памятных моментов в игре: финал операции "Праща", когда отряд XCOM был отправлен на разрушающуюся плотину спасти девушку-псионика
michael mccann never fails to perfectly fit his music to a game
Fitting music for your backs against the walls in a cemetery with squaddies and corporals with traditional weaponry against a cyberdisk and its drones, and a mechtoid buffed by a sectoid. Lost four guys in that clash. Made me wish my better units weren't battered when dealing with the UFO earlier.
Bah I've been listening to this for so many years and it always had no downvotes...now suddenly it has 4.
Who goes to a game ost to downvote?? Is this even something you can just stumble upon? You'd have to actively be looking for it and then CHOOSE to listen to it, but somehow dislike it.
Lets just say they were misclicks?
“X-Ray, neutralized.”
This song causes me to make mistakes. I get too enthusiastic. :(
That one man army who saves the mission.
this is one of those times when when your surrounded and your last man makes the last stand
I swear every time I get this combat music my team ends up Code Black.
best theme
They got me flanked!
It'll be nice hearing this again in Xcom 2
This was playing when I first encountered the Chrysalids. After the initial 'oh crap' moment, I proceeded to smear those bugs. Unfortunately they zombied a civilian. :(
Smeared the zombie too!
I've had this song play even when only a member or two was engaged. The music is just picked at random.
The last squad man survival, i never forget my last sniper in terror mission all squad members where killed by crissalids, she sniped one by one from high ground playing, becoming hero of xcom since there!
I haven't even played this game yet, but I could listen to Michale McCann's music all day
The soundtrack of this game shows once again, the music is a big part of the whole experience. They knew why the hire Mister McCann for the music :)
Best combat music in the game. I wished I could mod the files so that only this song plays.
We missing 85% chance with this one 🔥🔥🔥
this and combat music 2 are amazing tracks
The sacrifice..
Each to their own,I guess. I often listen to a select few of the MWW2 soundtracks
this portion of the song plays when the entire team is endangered of being completely eliminated
Come to think of it these combat themes are probably the ones rejected from Human Revolution, recycled into a completely different game... that's not a complaint, i love McCann's music :)
In all honesty, it's quite difficult to top Deus Ex: HR's OST. But he really captured that "fighting for survival" feeling in most of the tracks he did here. xD
Once, all my soldiers were KIA, except for one. What is funny that is.. Aliens never hit their shots! They were killed off quickly though. (Irony, that soldier had 1 hp left)
This is the sound that played when I had to push my Assault unit inside enemy lines, because that Outsider's next shot was going to kill my sniper.
Moving at the speed of death...
Zimmer just wrote the menu theme. The actual in-game soundtrack was written by Lorne Balfe.
Have this on my head all day at work, it seems i will need to kick some Alien's ass tonight when i get home.
mankind against aliens - the soundtrack
I have never finished a mission with a KIA. I have also never played Ironman.
Perfect homework music.
Next time you play x-com ufo defense, remember to toast them zombies with fire to avoid new lids...
Actually scratch that, burn the city to the ground, there is only one way to be safe with lids.
But no question about it, in the new game the lids are nerfed (assault operatives can wreck them in THEIR turn) while the sectopods are insane killing machines capable to killing half the squad in one go.
They always one hit my soldiers till I'm set with titan armor + chitin plating...
...and holy shit, are they fast.
Break "F5"
Because I don't wanna break "F"
Best soundtrack ever
Oh man, My first mission against Chrysalids on the highest difficulty was surprisingly easy, so I was given the wrong impression. The mission simply had an astoundingly low amount of them present, and without any others around. Every panic event since then was a clusterfuck of 10+. My second encounter was horrible... Lone Chrysalid charges me, smoke it from cover, when suddenly the biggest fucking swarm I've ever seen pours out from EVERY direction and onto me. Out of ammo before you notice it.
you know that, except the piano parts like "leaving earth" and "an end once and for all", much of the ME3 music is from the previous parts, don't you?
this one is teh best
Best IMAO
Vigilo Confido
Silly aliens! Over watch is for snipers!
+Captain-Starfish Eban that thin man gave me fucking hard times at early games by using overwatch
LOL. Chryssaalids in this game are such wusses. In the original they always one hit kill and then the victim becomes a zombie. When you kill the zombie in this game your safe. In the original that zombies dies and out comes the Chryssalid within (that is even if you kill him in the same turn). So essentially Chryssalids spread like a plague within your squad (did I mention, they can kill multiple victims in one turn?). That made them my absolute worst enemy in X-COM. Worse than everything else.
Negative. You will hold that fisher price toy laser rifle and shout 'PEW PEW' at them aliums.
Love it!!, sounds allot like the Deus Ex: Human Revolution
;
I never asked for this. But I like it anyway.
This makes me feel like I can do anything. :XD
Best sound track ever besides mass effect 3
how are people so bad at Xcom
+Cosmic Drew poor resource allocation but its damn annoying should i go for scientists for my research of engineers to gain coverage and keep the panic low if i dont get soon panic reduction missions
+ShadowFlipsy Don't forget the RNG being a dick and harder difficulties...
Took five attempts to win LW Impossible
+Cosmic Drew - To be good at XCOM, you have to already know the game and pray for a lot of luck. It also helps if you have already done enough runs to memorize the maps and the enemy encounters. First timers playing will face inevitable casualties and frustration.
tueher86 The first time I ever played x-com was with light casualties. I decided to up the difficulty. I still repent to the x-com gods for my foolish hubris.
Same here. I had a long history of playing tactical RPGs so I thought going into XCOM I was going to rock the enemies even on Hard. Boy was I wrong.
Didn't know he did the music for those games, but go listen to Knight's March. That's a damn good song. He can really throw some great music out there. McCann is just as good, I'm not raggin on him, but I just like Zimmer a bit more. That's just my opinion thohugh.
Get warspace extension. It makes Chryssalids much much worse (they automatically get zombies when they kill off screen).
then you end your turn, 2 sectopods come out of nowhere
Zimmer's work for Crysis 2 and Modern Warfare 2 was totally forgettable. McCann has his heart in game music as much as he does in film.
Permission to use a *real* gun, sir.
and double agent
Fallout 4 is confirmed
Terra Sustinere
Well, shit.
clearly you never played x-com apocalypse. They did a great job, it's nice, but it doesn't quite live up to x-com apocalypse combat music.
For reference:
watch?v=U9_Ki_B21Yk&list=PLA94551885A87EFD2
Hey, guess what guys? I found another game for me play sooner or later!
cool story bro
"Remember your training, and you will make it out alive!"
Either I'm getting stomped or doing the stomping with this one. No in-betweens.
the moment you realize that you are against 4 sectopods....
On impossible ironman...
Wtf 4 sectopods???
Thats some good shit
4 Sectopods?
TARGET RICH ENVIRONMENT
When this song plays you know you got this and everyone's coming home alive
Most of the time yeah
This is one of those few "we're winning" tracks. I know it doesn't choose tracks based on that, but look at the comments for this one and look at the comments for Combat Music 6.
EVAC, WE NEED EMERGENCY EVAC, NOW GODDAMMIT NOW
Hey, not saying Zimmer isn't terrific. I absolutely adore his work for the Dark Knight Trilogy. If you're interested, check out Michael Giacchino's work. He did music for both video games (Call of Duty) and films (Up, Ratatouille, Star Trek).
This theme makes even taking a dump sound epic. Great stuff!
Great theme!
This track reminds me some of Vanu theme in Planetside 2
Dror Yuditski ya how they all died to TR
+Cosmic Drew Hail the mighty vulcan! Savior of the Republic!
true but thats cause Vanu was humans with alien tech :)
@@biowepcosmic Not really, TR are brainless peons compared to Vanu.
i like it
The composer, Michael McCann, did the soundtracks for both Deus Ex: HR and XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Ahh. I thought you were smack-talking all of the MW2 soundtracks:)
I always imagine one xcom veteran giving an epic speec to this music, like this: 'We are the greatest fear an e.t. can feel, we are the hopes of every human in the world, we are the first and last defensive line, we alone protect this planet from being destroyed. We are...the xcom. Commander, we will not fail.'
but back then you could have a 24 man squad
this, and the sortie theme.
is the greatest!
Wait, didn't they do that already? If not then I might think up a way to exploit that. But fuck no. I'd do anything to make Chryssalids easier to beat.
X-rays spotted!