🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:58:41 +0100, malc <malc@NOSPAM.gothcorp.co.uk>
wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Sloth wrote:
>
>> 
>> Reading the official forums, it seems that the game suddenly ramps up the
>> difficulty quite a bit when you get to a certain point... I'd tend to agree
>> having just been wiped out on a base assault mission! A mission that has to
>> be completed to continue the plot AFAIK. Of course, standing in a group
>> outside the main base area to have a chat, heal my troops, and swap weapons
>> = not the best idea of the evening.
>
>I think that going from Morelmen with Browning pistols on one mission to 
>them being armed with Advanced Alien Lasers on the next constitutes an 
>upping of the difficulty... So much so that I'm having real difficulties 
>even completing the easiest types of missions! Having had to abort the odd 
>one or two so far and delegating others!
>
>> 
>> Also, it may have already been mentioned in this ng, but if you start the
>> game with the 'default' profile, you are playing on the 'Hard' difficulty
>> level :)
>
>Yes, I discovered that after I had already put in a few hours, not wanting 
>to throw away that time I decided to carry on muttering the imortal words: 
>"Hmm, it doesn't seem *too* bad at the moment...."
>
>I'm beginning to think that I should restart on easy just to get the hang 
>of the research lines and the finer points of the enemy; afterall UFO:EU 
>seemed more fun once I knew all the dangers and different strengths and 
>weaknesses so I could concentrate on the actual strategic and tactical 
>side of the game. 
>
>> 
>> On the good side, I have found a couple of those flame throwers, and have
>> plenty of sun armor, enhanced combat armor, and heavy armor now.
>> 
>
>(Flame Throwers)++ :-D
>
>- Malc
easy on easy mode things get way hard to near the middle to end.
i suggest u have 1-2  soldiers purely armed with 4-6 first aid kits as
full time healers and rest with alien laser rifles in burst mode for
indoors and maybe a rocket lauchers soldiers with alot of rocket
reloads.
and spread out your troops inside missions along a long ocllidor and
use 1  squaddies to do lure and baiting and heal anyone asap who gets
hurt. this works for almost every mission for me. i even got to the
very end of normal diffculty up to researching the last option which
is the area where the last mission will be at.