Long War? --- well, basically, the Bad End future of XCOM 2 coming in November, the dev team as much as *said*: 'the most common result of playing Ironman Impossible Long War is storyline canon.'
But yeah, Slingshot, you can totally skip the Phoenix Cannon and Laser Cannon before you have a flying abductor. Here, I originally made this chart for the UFOPaedia: http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Air_Combat_%28EU2012%29#Damage_Table <-Winnable matchups.
As said: in Within, this is all knocked back a month to be less game-breaking (with Confounding Light honestly being the hardest of the 3 missions, especially as early as April in vanilla). The biggest bonus is that Gangplank's reward is more than you can use, so sell to build the base super-early.
Vanilla, set the difficulty to Impossible (Within: classic or impossible): then instead of a Chryssalid, there's a Muton with a Plasma Rifle. Stun it for an insane early lead on Plasma Research with it's interrogation, to the Light Plasma Rife, then to the Plasma Cannon for your interceptors by MAY.
And Slingshot is more gamebreaking in the vanilla than in Enemy Within: rush to have Alien Containment and the Arc Thrower before the 'escort Zhang' mission (in vanilla, it's as early in March, the 1st month. In Enemy Within, it's hardcoded to be in late April).
Zhang in xcom also has a higher multiplier for chances to become a psionic. Though this is irrelevant as the other additions content gives you 4 assured psionics
It's called Slingshot because completing the series of missions "slingshots" you into the rest of the campaign where you can research and buy whatever you want. It's supposed to be FUN!
If you really want to suffer, try The Long War after you beat Enemy Within! (2)
The special soldier from the XCOM Slingshot DLC has a little extra HP, but is otherwise not terribly special. If you don't like him, just don't use him. The point of Slingshot is to give some especially challenging missions for players who might have already beaten the campaign. (1)
I picked up the XCOM DLC too. The chinese soldier isn't actually special, he just has a unique face and voice. Otherwise, he is the same as any other heavy. He is cool to have around though.
Zhang ain't the thing that breaks that DLC pack. He is a perfectly normal council mission soldier, with his own face and voice.
What does break it is that the third mission offers you a Battleship with TWO Fusion cores, the rarest resources in the game, along with tons of other much needed stuff.
Trust me, the Chinese guy isn't anything special. You'll have a couple of his Rank by the time you get that mission available. To be honest, it's the content that's bad for the price; it's only one mission.
Looked it up, it was who I thought, didn't notice the stat increases since I played normal and he only becomes op in harder difficulties since it seems his slightly better stats aren't affected by difficulty
I remember the Chinese soldier. He's not incredible, he's just a normal soldier with a back story mission where you can screw up and lose him. Least I think he's who you mean. No special stats, skills or numbers, just a soldier you aren't allowed to change the appearance or story of
I get the joke, but I think it should say something like "less than a dollar" instead of "a dollars". Anyway, I'm kind of like Anne in that I usually wait to buy a game I want until there's a sale or it's free (I got the original Syndicate when Origin offered it for free).
Ironically, the Slingshot DLC does offer a hefty advantage, but the unit it gives you isn't it. Zhang is actually pretty ordinary in terms of numbers.
RodIshiCi
over 9 years ago
And then I saw some guys here in Brazil, where you know we already get a generous conversion, having their account in Russia so they can pay less in rublos.
There gets to a point where your time is more valuable than your money.
In those indie pixelated adventures, where you have to play through two hours of game integrated tutorials in order to get to a couple sorta fun levels, hell with that. I'd rather replay Binding of Isaac.
therm
over 9 years ago
The chinese DLC soldier isn't overpowered unless you are playing on impossible, and even then its debatable how much the +aim he has really matters. Playing on easy mode actually gives him an HP nerf :p
