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I should note that the context of invasions is somewhat changed now: since red phantoms have a time limit with which to kill you in, facing an overpowered one changes from "I need to get really lucky or die" to "I just need to survive for long enough". (Which I actually think is a pretty cool twist on the invasion system.)

Huh, are there gunna be alternate invasions via other covenants without time limits, something like the duels from the Dragon covenant? Because I imagine the dedicated honorable PvP community isn't going to enjoy having all their battles on a time limit.

(not that I care, I loathe that community, as for me, PvP in Souls is all about being a dick.)

Quote from: Nightscar982 on January 11, 2014, 03:22:27 am

The wiki page isn't entirely informative about Jormungand, and I don't want to delve further in case of spoilers so I am wondering, is it episodic in nature or does it have an overarching storyline to it?

I think it has an overarching storyline. I guess it's like Black Lagoon, except about arms dealers instead of smugglers.

Yeah its a lot like Black Lagoon, but with more of an overarching storyline. Episodic for the most of it.

I have a glitch in my current game where the Jellied elerium and Kinetic punch foundry upgrades are carrying over between games... and stacking. I have 19 damage flamethrowers and 27 damage rocket punches...

Endured base defense while three of my best soldiers where having their heads looked at to see if they could kill with their minds.

I'm pretty sure the trigger for base defense is building your psi labs, so you really shouldn't shove your best soldiers in right away if your worried about it all.


On a another note.... I'm disappointed. There was that whole article ranting about how Impossible was made even more impossible, but my current II game is disappointingly easy >.>. Sure had some rough spots early on, and I realize the late game was never as hard, but in my II games in Unknown I still had a challenge in the late game. Now, between my two col. mechs and my mimetic skin scout everything is just kinda getting wasted. I don't have to worry about actually using decent terrain because they will always choose to attack my mechs over my people in shitty terrain, even though they can't possibly kill either of my mechs in less then 4 shots and in many situations easily flank and kill other members. With the retarded amount of explosives I get I barely even have to chance not doing full damage or missing. Oh, and while the Exalt missions are fun, over the course of two ironman games I have had 0 casualties facing them and seen them launch a total of one rocket.

The only death I've had in the past ~30 missions was one where I had a team with 4 squaddies and one of my mechs, and it happened to be the first time heavy floaters showed up.

(Though I partially blame actually doing Slingshot for the second time in like 15 games)

I'd say Not Created Equally pulls you down about a quarter of a difficulty level.  While it is true that it can produce worse soldiers than normal, you aren't going to use those soldiers.  So for all intents and purposes it represents a ~10 aim buff to all your soldiers at no cost.  It completely changes the dynamics of the early game to have supports and assaults that are worth shooting with at range.  The main cost of using it is that if you suffer heavy casualties before you have money to get new rookies, you might find yourself digging into your reserves of bad shooters.

Compare to training roulette, which doesn't let you know which soldiers are good or which soldiers are bad in advance.

True, but manly men pretend that they don't have magic numbers indicating the exact accuracy of all their soldiers and just take whoever happens to show up to the skyranger first.

Yeah Mimetic Skin is pretty crazy, especially since the only people who can see through it only appear on UFO crashes and only in one squad always at the bridge, barring the occasional sectoid commander accompanying a mechtoid.

Quote from: EnigmaticHat on November 17, 2013, 10:37:26 pm

Quote from: Mageziya on November 17, 2013, 09:13:09 pm

In my first few attempts at EW I didn't quite understand how you got MECs. I thought you needed a foundry, and was too afraid to augment a soldier and end up with them being useless for a bit. After several failed playthroughs, the first MEC I got was in JULY. That playthrough was doomed in the end, unfortunately.

Now that I have a proper understanding of them, I've got a playthrough going where I got 2 MECs in the first month.

If anyone thinks that's excessive, may I redirect you to Total Biscuit, who was playing with 3 MECs, classic, and doing fine.

Assuming you aren't replacing dead MECs, each MEC trooper you put out costs 50 meld (10 for augments, 40 for suit).  You get 40 for the meld recombination research, so you need 60 extra to get two suits out in the first month.

There are 3 meld giving missions each of the first two months.  That means 60 meld per month if you get all the meld possible.  So... is my math right here?  I've been trying to think of an II MEC build.

I think I might have shitty memory. I think I might of gotten the second MEC in the second month.

You can also get meld just for winning missions; though honestly not sure if the ones that early give any meld other than the canisters.

Got my first MEC just now in the second month. Am I doomed for not rushing them?

Not really, despite all the hype about it, you could probably beat the game without any meld just fine, other than maybe II. (certainly not a bad idea to rush them though.)

Yeah base defense is part of the "Progeny" mission line, and doesn't really matter whether or not you sell teh exalt weapons, as your just stuck with whatever your last squad that was on a mission had. So if you have the equipment for one squad more doesn't matter.