10-18-2014, 12:39 AM
Sometimes I forget how much X-Com wants you to lose. Was playing normally on an abduction mission in Enemy Unknown when a cyber-disk appears from the fog of war and drop bears my highest rank soldier in one shot then disappears into the fog of war. Everyone was damaged so badly that half of them were out for a week. After being presented with a way to make some coin, I ordered some new troops because this was the third time in a row I'd lost a guy. Then, 1 day before they arrived, Mexico suffers from terror attacks and I can't respond to this more difficult than the average mission because I've only got 3 soldiers at the time. I go back to right before the event happens after assessing the situation, and ignore the response, so the entirety of North America goes up into alien flames in one day.