XCOM Is A Very Depressing Game

You need a Roll Fizzlebeef on your team to successfully win

Just eat some Reese's Puffs, followed by pizza rolls. It's impossible to be sad while having either.

In Xcom Russia is EU,not Asia ;)

The government disavows all knowledge of this event.

I heard players can get quite attached to their squad. I bought XCOM during the summer sale and can't wait to play.

some of the maps due to the enemy getting a raised terrain advantage feel massively unfair and it is quite difficult to come out without taking any losses. The cemetery can be annoying at time, but the worst level for me is usually the one with the fountain.

Aha, sounds just like the old ones, I really should play this... :) Sorry...

An all-time advice: blame Russians.

Hope that helps.

.. i feel ur pain.. im very close and attached to soldiers :< but when i first met the disc of death i was able to take it down before it did anything at all.. never thought much of it till i met them again during an terror attack and had to deal with 3 of them which was more then enough for me to realize just how evil those things can be.. i was lucky because they took down both my supports which are my absolute fav because i love the friendly/support/medic types and they were both in critical but they both were the onlly ones who had a medkit :< but i was able to end it just when one has 1 turn left and the other had 2 turns left phew ~

Pro tip. Never walk into new tiles ever if you are already fighting enemys.

Also, use a greanade whenever you see a disc. They always have 2 little ones very near to it. Also, Overwatch is a very good thing forsnipers if they got the skill which allow them to shoot if they kill the target (forgot its name (: ). One sniper may clean 3 or 4 mutons if s/he gets lucky and that helps a lot. (:

This post just makes me want to play again. :)

Named all my squaddies after real-life friends, so I definitely re-loaded if any of them died! :D

I LOVE XCOM! You know how I deal with tough situations? save load save load save load. I already have 200 save files on XCOM :D

hahaha, XCOM is sic man, don't know why your complaining, shit happens in these missions, with so many rookies name them after ppl you hate so when they go down post them on xcoms facebook fallen soldier page and leave a message how another a$$hat blown to sh$t means more oxygen to breathe for the rest of us.
Just chill and reload the save and work a better strategy..

You know what can be much worse and WAY more emotional than a squaddie getting killed by a disc of death? When a unit gets mind controlled and you are forced to kill him/her.(You can kill the mind host, but I did not know this first time a sectoid commander did this) I literally was 9/10 sadness level and crying ensued. +1 if you've had to kill your own squaddie and it felt aweful...

And despite the sadness, XCOM isn't s dpressing game, it's one of the greatest and most fun games out there. You approach the sadness in the wrong way.

dude dont ever use 2 moves as a run. walk for 1 move, then stay on alert

XCOM sadness is nothing compared to the original 1994 X-com sadness. When troops with the best armor in the game can still be one-shotted by a sectoid toting a heavy plasma, you know a lot of people are going to die.

Psi was way overpowered in that game, though, so it kinda balances out :/

Then do not play Super Meat Boy. Or Binding of Isaac. Or Atari games which eat up your 117 hours save game.

In other news: Fire is hot. Like, really hot.

once I sent my whole best crew against a similiar enemy to a gas station. It's kind of hard being pinned down with cover only being gas pumps and cars. Needless to say, everyone died in 5-7 turns.

What difficulty were you playing at?

By the way, when I played, the best way to win was 2 snipers with Squad Sight, Damn Good Ground, Double Tap and Archangel armor.

Heheh a Captain lost is a loss indeed but no worry soon enough you'll have nothing but Major and Colonels in your ranks. In fact mostly Colonels.

And they are armed and equipped to the teeth.

Trust me...losing the 1 sniper Colonel 70% of the game in is a much worse feeling - I pretty much stopped playing after that! I was very attached to that Russian woman, she was part of my 1st squad!