In geoscape, there is very little potential to make the game truly harder (and a lot of potential to just make it annoying instead).įirst option would be to make the dogfights harder (e.g. The game is basically divided into two parts: geoscape and battlescape. Now, when we know we need to set some rules, let's discuss what can we do. Yes, fricking weird (nobody would reload endlessly), but strictly speaking easier. Very stupid and unrealistic example (just to illustrate the point): Sending hordes and hordes of pumped up ethereals, sectopods and chryssalids at the player - while allowing him to reload endlessly - is a lot easier than sending just a couple of floaters at him in Ironman mode. And then it will just not be the same game we all love anymore. and yes, that is not a typo, I meant to say 1000%, not 100%. but to get a comparable level of difficulty, you would have to make aliens/AI 1000% "better" (progressively). Note: to be absolutely fair, you can theoretically make it harder by pumping up alien side of the game instead of dumbing down the human part of the game (i.e. You need to limit the use of tactics and game mechanics that make the game too easy. If you want a proof, look at BattleBunny's latest LP (second half of it).
#Xcom long war easy mode full
If every tactic is allowed, then I can just use a squad full of super-psi-soldiers and win every mission without ever leaving the Skyranger.
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That is true, if you are fighting a real war (actually since humanity developed wartime conduct, even this is not true anymore), but in a computer game this has severe consequences. "07:49 every tactic is appropriate in winning" Let me illustrate this key point/idea on something I've seen on IRC yesterday: So, first of all, to make the game harder, you have to eliminate (or dumb down) things that make it too easy. but similar principles apply to most (if not all) mods as well. I will ignore mods completely and talk only about vanilla OpenXcom. To answer all such questions at once, I decided to make this post.
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Several people have asked me what do I do to make the game more challenging, i.e.