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    Ready to roll. Oh hang on I need to update my MacBook while traveling on the train.
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    Definitely hoping for a good response.
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    I need a gruntier machine as it really is too low specs as it turns out.

    Spend more time in load screens then anything else.

    However it is the same XCOM and more as before. I got squad wiped in the second mission... the new taller redacted are a huge threat.

    The standard grunts make you feel heroic. But you soon learn that this is still XCOM and that cover is king, and the non grunts can rapidly ruin your day if not handled properly.
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    Downloading right now... 20 mn to go...
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    Having a blast right now!
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    I need to stop trolling the game and get down to finishing it...
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    I was a little complacent and came very close to a total game failure. I wasn't paying too much attention and something snuck up on me, and before I knew it, I was in a life-or-death mission and the game was going "Know that people who lost half their torso? Throw them in battle, you are going to DIE, son!"

    Luckily, I sent one of my soldiers on a YOLO mission, and they succeeded, whilst the other held down the fort. Managed to get them back alive too. Crispy, but alive.

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    I was scanning for resistance in South Africa whilst the UFO is on the map. It hasn't bothered me before so I let it do its thing, it flew off somewhere. Was on the last hours of the scanning and then they decided to show up out of the blue right at me. So I had to disengage and do the random run away, which led me over unexplored Middle East.. where the aliens ambushed the ship, and shot it with some kind of energy pulse. This disabled the ship and it starts to free fall, and then the aliens set up a beacon, which prevents us from taking off.

    Now you got a mission, and the game pretty much goes "They are going to take the ship, don't lose it! send in the wounded! do everything, this is critical!". The map is pretty much the ramp of the Avenger, a lot of terrain, and a beacon on otherside of map. There are masses of enemies and you cannot allow any to get near the ram, and in my case, 2 MEC, and 1 Heavy MEC spawned just outside of the ramp too. So you got to defend the ramp so no aliens come near it, and also destroy something on other side of map, jampacked with aliens... it was difficult!
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