/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5935487
Do not expose yourself on turn 1. The aliens are all on overwatch with max TUs.
Never round a corner by stepping straight out parallel to the wall. Stay 1 tile away from the wall and step out on a diagonal so you can actually see what's around the corner without having to turn. If a soldier and an alien spot each other at the same time they are mutually surprised and the alien can't take their reaction shot until after that soldier does something else that spends TU.
Hi-Ex should be applied liberally.

>fire a small rocket into the top floor of the barn and blow the wall out
>nope, still no sound of alien expiring

PROTIP: Blow out the floor from under them. Gravity will do the rest.

There are two ways to perform a building clearing. The first way involves high explosives, and the other way is the wrong way.

>>1437345
>>1440568

The old games are more like RPGs than the new one. Each of your soldiers has individual stats you can build up rather than static perks. It's a hell of a lot more flexible about inventory and equipment, too. Don't want to walk into a building and get shot in the face by an unseen alien? Got some high explosives and a soldier with a good throwing arm? Pic related.

The FAQs aren't going to help as much as the UFO wiki does, or even the long ass manual that you can download.

>>1129124
Like he said tell us what you find hard?

>>1129568
Also picture related for this, this is always how you should enter anything but an alien craft if you enable a mod in Xcomutil though you can use high explosives to blow through the alien ship walls, but it's not that worth it

Avoid Enforcer and Interceptor like the plague.

The older XCOM games are more "free", you can do lots of things with your rookies you could only want to dream of in Enemy Unknown. Such as you can could prime High explosives to 0 in a rookies hand, and when he dies and subsequently drops the high explosive, on the next turn it'll blow up and he's pretty much a suicide bomber.

You're also not limited to 6 people per mission, and don't have extreme urges to savescum when someone dies. Picture related is what you must do to scout things, unlike the newer one

Also the Bureau looks like shit, a Mass Effect clone set in the 60's.

>>959576
>You can also throw high explosive on top of it and flatten it from the top down over three turns.

You're better off chucking one through a window and blowing out the interior. Aliens die instantly if the floor is blown out from under them and they fall.

>>913417

The key fault of the modern remake is that it simply lacks depth.

Projectiles no longer have trajectories, real cover has been replaced with a modifier to a dice roll, the elimination of dynamic entry, smalltime squad tactics, superhuman rambo soldiers, etc etc...

And then there is the unforgivable removal of HE.

>decided to trow a grenade inside this warehouse
>settling for grenades

Never actually go inside a building, unless it's a ufo.