X-COM: Apocalypse failed playthrough Part 6 Final (Fail state)
0We've reached a fail state. Research was required to obtain from crashed ships. However, I was never able to actually investigate a crashed ship. The game simply did not let me. Well, it also hadn't let me capture aliens - alive OR dead - until a research was completed, and then a component built. Which meant the game directed me to waiting until a research was completed for the UFOs as well. This is not the case. It turns out I needed to use an air craft, with crew and cargo space, to investigate the ships. Despite trying to send people and ground vehicles, becuase I didn't send the AIR vehicle, it didn't work. The game never gave any indication of this.
I will attempt the game again another time. But I consider this a big failure point of this game. Not only did it not give me any indication of what I needed to do, it actively guided me in the wrong direction thanks to other areas of design of the game. And that's a failure. At this point in the game, I am no longer able to shoot down ships (and, indeed, some of the ships I need to shoot down no longer appear at all). So we've reached a fail state. There's no point in continuing. Even Terror from the Deep gave you a SMALL chance to recover (remember, the nearly two in-game YEARS worth of reloading to find the missions with the one rare enemy). But this game locks you out entirely. In my books, that's an automatic failure on the game's part. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/the_nametag
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