Let's Replay X-COM UFO Defence #21: Coverage, Coverage, Coverage

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Published on June 10, 2018 8:30:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF4YrmHmGkQ

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X-COM: UFO Defense (1994)

Duration: 20:18

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As the aliens increase their levels of activity across the globe, so too does X-COM. Unlike the aliens however, our bases are hindered by build time and the costs incurred in both the building and the maintenance of said underground facilities. That’s not to say that the aliens base pop out of nowhere; they have to send specific missions to Earth to set up bases and so, you can stop them from doing this if you detect the UFOs. That detection is only possible if you have radar coverage, which means detection bases like the ones I’ve built in Europe and Asia. While you can in theory use the incerceptors and skyrangers to detect UFOs, doing so is sporadic at best and puts you at risk of not having enough fuel in those craft when you really need them.

If you don’t want to get overwhelmed after the first few months, you really need to start building bases to increase your radar coverage, ideally so that you have most of the world within your sphere of influence. The three bases I have set up are a good start, but we still have more of the world to cover. We could do that by building even more bases, but there’s another method that we’ve yet to research that not only increases our detection radius but also makes said detection intimately more effective. In time we’ll get this capability but not yet.

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