Fenn Vs X-COM

[Fenn]

Glad you all enjoyed it so much! And thanks to RefSteel for his extra writings. Clone #3 came a long way since being indicted for murder, hasn't he? I'm a little disappointed there was never an Ethereal Terror Mission to play out and show how deadly Sectopods can be, but them's the breaks. Wasn't going to wait more months for them to show when the endgame was right there.

I might pick this up with the sequel Terror From the Deep; maybe vanilla like this playthrough was, maybe modded; either way it'll be a month or so before I think about it.

[haphazard1]

My last clone already learned first-hand how dangerous sectopods can be! How much more proof do you need that those things are evil?

I like Terror from the Deep. It is mostly more of the same, scaled up a bit. But many of the maps are a lot of fun -- cruise ship terror attacks, for example -- and the use of 2-part missions throughout the game rather than only for the final battle makes for a nice challenge. There isn't anything revolutionary about it, but since I liked the original so much I did not complain about getting another sizable helping.

[RefSteel]

Oh my. A playthrough of Terror from the Deep with more of your outstanding reports - whether vanilla or with some cool mod I've never heard of - would be fantastic.

And yeah, I couldn't believe that clone - introduced as mediocre at best apart from a strong back and powerful but wildly inaccurate throwing arm - made it all the way through to the end of the game and contributed so much on the final mission! I kept expecting a grisly end that never (quite!) materialized. Surely further proof of the infallible justice of the pRNG!

[Molach]

Awesome game and nice final mission.

I remember back when I played xcom and tftd that tftd was significantly harder. And scarier. And that some of the nice bang-bang weapons would not work on land. = terror missions.

Oh yeah, two-part terror missions on cruise ships, all those narrow hallways were death traps.

Looking forward to see that again. Safe in my cloning vat.