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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012)

Duration: 3:41:26

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after almost a month after the original i finally beat this one!
The reason it took so long is that I tried to beat it the same way i did the original version, but turns out the strategy was fundamentally flawed.
At first i had to adapt to the new AI, which is more intelligent (kinda), and negates some of the exploits it had on the original.
After getting used to it, the idea was to rush alien base to avoid panic increase, but turns out it doesnt help a lot with panic, because here the exalt is the panic inscreaser, so trying to avoid the exalt also turned out to be a bad strat early in the game.
I tried using MECs they are good very early in game, but as soon as thinman shows up they can 2/3 crit shot the MEC, also it requires heavy investment on it and can lose games when other missions show up when wounded, so it didn't work out too well. Shiv's on the other hand are disposable and can be produced in large quantities they could carry the whole game, but there is another issue which is Base Defense.
So rushing alien base was also a problem because Base defense mission procs after it, and shivs cant join it so basically training soldier is mandatory in this version for this single mission. So only after learning that, the shiv start with training session strat was unleashed!

0:00 Start
11:21 1st Abduction
23:40 1st Council Mission (Extraction)
43:47 1st UFO
56:28 2nd Abduction
1:16:16 1st month report
1:16:58 2nd UFO
1:40:42 3rd Abduction
2:00:46 2st Council Mission (BOMB & Shivs start)
2:13:08 1st Terror
2:33:00 1st UFO Landing
2:40:18 4th Abduction
3:00:16 2nd month report
3:01:11 2nd UFO Landing
3:18:34 3rd Council Mission (Site Recon)

XCOM: Enemy Within (2013) is the expansion of Enemy Unkown, a turn based game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games, the game is a remake of X-COM: UFO Defense (1994) the theme is alien invasion and XCOM is the organization that fights them. It starts with normal machineguns and rifles, but as humans learns with aliens, they eventually get laser and plasma weapons and use their own technology against them!
The Expansion adds a new gene/mec/medal system that can amplify the power of the soldiers, another enemy is also added which is a human company that sabotages XCOM.

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