X-COM: UFO Defense | Hardmode Expansion (#1) (Gameplay Series)

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Join me on a playthrough of Microprose's 1994 classic turn-based squad tactical game X-COM UFO Defense (or UFO: Enemy Unknown in the UK). We'll take on a punishing enhancement of the alien threat with the Hardmode Expansion, made possible by OpenXcom. This is a dead-is-dead playthrough so we're going to get absolutely mauled. The game has the following mods/options active:
Mods:
Hardmode Expansion 0.99.8
High Quality Sounds
Psionic LOS
Options:
Ufo Extender Accuracy
Force Craft Launch
Storage limits for recovered items
Explosion Height 3
Live Alien Sale
Save Pre-primed Grenades
Alternate Movement Methods
Override Line Of Fire
Alien Bleeding
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1 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 42

@strategieswithsasquatch 3 года назад

No crew loss. I'm quickly starting to love this game.

@Loonsloon 3 года назад

Hehe exceptional for sure. A big part of xcom is getting used to losing squaddies you’ve become attached to.

@sidgar1 5 месяцев назад

Putting a grenade or other object in the left hand makes firing accuracy worse for 2 handed weapons (everything except pistols). You should have moved those grenades to the belt or legs.

@Loonsloon 5 месяцев назад

This becomes engrained somewhere along the series :)

@mxmacman 2 года назад

Saw your youtube short, now I think I'm sold

@Loonsloon 2 года назад

Yes! Glad you found us.

@luckyclover5899 3 года назад

I found info about this lp on openXcom forum-and Im really glad about it I love Xcom, tftd and mods of them and In see You play very well so watching Youre videos with my 2 brothers will be super fun :) that was really awsome first mission-no one died and Youre playing style was very cool-I never saw anyone to play with all shootguns and explosive weapons before still it worked well :)

@Loonsloon 3 года назад

Hey welcome! I actually have almost no experience with hardmode expansion. All my time was spent in the original release… I’m trying to learn on the fly - reading forum tips and watching other people’s play. So this will evolve. The shotgun/explosive thing was my best guess starting out. Shotguns are sweet though. The only other mod I’ve tried is Area 51 and that destroyed me. But I’d be interested to try it again. Xcom is such a classic game and I’m so glad that the community produced openxcom. So amazing indeed. A Renaissance.

@MrKurtank 3 года назад

what a great find! Thanks for the series, I'm looking forward to watching more. Subb'd!

@Loonsloon 3 года назад

Awesome thanks!

@hipsukun 6 месяцев назад

Don't throw proxy grenades right next to the door. It will go off while the alien is still inside, protected by the door. Throw it 1 tile away from the door.

@Loonsloon 6 месяцев назад

Thanks yea this became part of my knowledge base a bit later in the series

@murphdoc22 3 года назад

Love retro gaming. Need a new game to watch some. And of course, it's you, the Loonsman. I missed out on XCom, but looking forward to catching up with this.

@tamatlt7469 3 года назад

Hey Loonsloon! I have never played this game before. Perhaps this is a perspective of an unexperienced person, but you made it seem quite easy, especially when you made short work of these aliens. Maybe this was just a warm up tutorial battle and it will get much worse soon. Also I liked how in the Silent Hunter series you did some explanations of how things work and what is a mod and what was in the original game. It would be cool if you could do this for this game as well, but even without this by the end I felt like I understood why you did certain things I did not quite get in the beginning, and overall this was really entertaining to watch! And I did not have the nostalgia effect! By the way - I tried to find these SH3 videos and could not see them on your channel anymore - did youtube deleted them somehow?

@Loonsloon 3 года назад

Tamat - I went quickly because I have thousands of hours in the game. I’ll try to slow it down a bit next time. Despite all my experience they will kill us. You’ll see. Entire squad wiped await us. Base overruns. I don’t think we’ll win this campaign as the mod makes the research tree way harder and gates the key technologies based on alien captures. It’s going to be savage. I took down the silent hunter series because I decided not to continue it. They’re still on YT but private. If you want to rewatch them I’ll put them up again. But the save game is now gone because of my computer rebuild. I forgot to back that one up. I suppose I could recreate it if I really wanted to…

@tamatlt7469 3 года назад

@@Loonsloon thanks! Surely, thousand of hours make you click without even looking, but at the same time it very nice to watch someone very proficient taking the game to it limits. So excited to see what they will have to use to bring you down. Hope this series will be popular with folks and the algorithm. Regarding SH I thought youtube pulled a sneaky one on you and removed them somehow. I totally understand your reasons and you have explained them before.

@Topliss1 3 года назад

Played this back when it came out, 2021 playing this mod and its brutal took me several restarts to realize radar bases are a must. Looking forward to watching this series, good luck man! Btw I'm currently in march and still rocking basic weapons . You can check the mod that allows you to see weight, accuracy, reactions on the inventory screen

@Loonsloon 3 года назад

Thanks I’ll check the inventory mod. Based on my ‘practice’ game I think this is going to be a short and very violent campaign - if I make it to March I’ll call that a victory:)

@Topliss1 3 года назад

Radars, alloy vest + alloy ammo then gear up to produce retaliators, the money you save on interceptor rentals is a must

@hundun5604 Месяц назад

Jeez, how many are there? You killed so many.

@Lemonidas75 5 месяцев назад

I have literally thousands of hours on the original xcom, but never actually played it in a modded version. Seen lots of mods but this one looks intriguing to try. Maybe I will in my next play through of this masterpiece of a strategy game.

@Loonsloon 5 месяцев назад

right on - IMO Hardmode Expansion is very faithful to the original, lore friendly, just more challenging. But there are a bunch of other mods that do more extreme changes.

@hundun5604 Месяц назад

@@Loonsloon Hardmode mod is perfect to do a 'let's play' for a 25y old game. 😉 It's good to see something different.

@adricp9308 Год назад

Good stuff!

@legolegs87 2 месяца назад

In the original game the armor vest is included in soldier's hiring price. It costs $39997,01. The rest $2,99 spent for a lollipop to lure the new recruit from kindergarten.

@Loonsloon 2 месяца назад

It might be interesting if there was some recruit availability dynamic based on your survivability rate

@legolegs87 2 месяца назад

@Loonsloon If that's would be the case the game wouldn't be the meatgrinder we know. But to a certain degree the monthly rating is affected by casualties.

@longbranched 20 дней назад

I don't think so. In the OG there is no armored vest, just a jumpsuit.

@LazyScoutJace 7 месяцев назад

I remember playing this back in the day. It was so hard and terrifying for my 8-year old self...

@zion6680 3 года назад

That intro almost belongs on the Ps1 version at least, I can hear it in my ears in 90's audio quality already haha

@Fenrisz8788 7 месяцев назад

wanted to play that for the retro effect. watching the first battle convinced me to play xcom 2 instead. Not because it is easier, but I would hate, seeing aliens and often not having a line to shoot ^^ but nice video, thx ;)

@Loonsloon 7 месяцев назад

Xcom2 on legend is harder IMO. Also I actually find that Xcom 2 is more restrictive in engagement range - you need a sniper with squadsight to engage an enemy seen by another team member. In original xcom everyone has ‘squadsight’. Thanks for watching.

@BobWolf006 3 года назад

I played this game A LOT. The only thing I dislike is the psionics. I think there is an option to make psionics LOS only. Which balance them. Otherwise it's broken. Good luck ... you're going to need it :)

@Loonsloon 3 года назад

Ok yea I’m fairly sure I have los psionics on. But for some reason I didn’t cover that option I think. Anyway, I agree that los psionics is the way to go. I’ll check it next episode. Thanks for watching.

@HelmutKohlrabi 2 года назад

Would be nice if the equipment screen showed the soldier stats. TWoTS does this unless this is a openXcom setting or OXCE feature. Nice seeing someone play efficiently.

@Loonsloon 2 года назад

thanks Helmut I think we put the stats on in a later episode; someone else reminded me. Thanks for watching!

@RobertBlair 2 года назад

Started watching around episode 15, just getting back to 1. I see my man Rahul Malik from the original mission - I think he lasted quite some time. Interesting how Loon's strategy refined over the series. So much smoke by episode 41. It's also notable how many shots the tank absorbed, sparing many lives here. Also Loonsloon says "If I make it to March, it's a victory" - consider yourself a winner.

@Loonsloon 2 года назад

Rahul! I think I figured he was dead because he was wounded for like 30 days or sth. Will have to be careful with him going forward - give him a desk job or something. Then again, as we’ve seen the alien might come to his desk.. yea the smoke thing - that’s one thing I don’t love about xcom is that you really should live in a perpetual smoke cloud. It feels a bit strange at times. But on hardmode it’s excusable because the alternative is immediate plasma death. Or a grenade-induced panic rocket launcher craft self-destruct. I didn’t think we’d make March - they almost got us with those base attacks. Well the did get us on the one, but thankfully they didn’t take out the HQ - that would be a run-ended I think.. thanks for watching.