My nephew has been playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown on an Xbox 360 which doesn't have an internet connection. But the game updated the system software. Now when he boots up the machine and logs in, the Xbox says "Do you want to check your internet connection? Unsaved data may be lost". At the moment he select "No", but when he runs other games, they don't work properly. He doesn't want to select "Yes" because he's worried about the "unsaved data" bit. But won't selecting "No" just mean that it will try and find an internet connection, and then fail, and then hopefully finish the update process, making the games work? What is the purpose of the question? And what will happen if he selects "Yes"?
[I agree with this - lesser levels of enemy activity mean you can sorta be a bit more reckless with the FNG's. As for ranking difficulties - hard to say, as it depends on what enemies you've discovered. I should say terror missions - but there is no penalty for not saving more than a couple civilians. Also, considering the aliens run for civlians first and more or less ignore your team, they are almost easier.
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Yeah I just had my first terror mission. It was crazy. Aliens starting right next to civilians, and then obviously killing them without me having any chance whatsoever to save them. So I didn't know if I was supposed to sprint at them, which would no doubt get my troops killed anyway. Thankfully I had a few run and gun troops, and managed to save about half the civilians. I'm guessing my next terror squad will be nothing but run and gun.
Can someone tell me what the different types of mission are (e.g. crashed UFO), and how they generally tend to rank in order of difficulty? Just to help me decide what level of troops to take along for each mission.
Good advice, thanks. I definitely agree that it's good to build up a large collection of promoted troops, so there are more backups available. I also send my rookies up front usually, with my more experienced soldiers supporting them. I'll try taking one rookie along and see how that goes.
I'm a reasonable amount of missions into my game now, and I've been doing pretty well. I just had a mission in China which was ranked "Very Difficult" (I'm playing Normal Ironman), where I expected my team to die horribly. So I took the very best squad available (which meant no Rookies), and everything went perfectly. Everyone used the right weapon/ability at the right time, only one troop was injured, it just couldn't have gone any better. So now I have a good ten or so non-Rookies, and I'm wondering what kind of difficulty level of mission I should include a couple of them on, so that I can be expanding my non-Rookie troop selection? Maybe Medium? Or maybe just Easy?
Does anyone else have problems with the discs coming loose in the Xbox 360 games that they order online? I've had it happen a few times now (also with DVD's). It's not so bad when I buy a preowned game or DVD online, because the disc usually has marks on it anyway. But when I buy a brand new and sealed game online which I can't normally afford to do (namely Xbox 360 XCOM), I expect the disc to be held in place within its box, and it wasn't. Thankfully it only had minor marks on it, but it could have had major scratches. And in this particular case I'm concerned because of the disc read errors that some people have been getting. I really think that new Xbox 360 games should come with some kind of padding inside the box, to hold the disc in place, to stop this from happening when games are bought online, which is a very common occurence now.
I know you can have any content you download on two consoles, one of which has to be online (as per my link above). But generally speaking it seems like you can be offline for Arcade or Indie games, unless they specifically multiplayer games, and certainly if you don't do the two-console thing.
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