A view to a kill in XCOM

Posted by on October 25, 2012 in Games

XCOM is elegant and simple except when it’s not. For instance, ever wonder why you are or aren’t flanking a particular alien? Like so many things in XCOM, it’s all about the cover. MarinusWA’s excellent diagrams of various tactical situations shed light on the inner workings of XCOM. Plus, I can’t get enough of those weird alien smiley faces and frowny faces. Check it out here.

  • Pogue Mahone

    Great, now I have that Duran Duran song in my head.

  • RedHerb

    Dance into the Fire!

  • IVIontgom

    This is much better than my method. I ended up thinking of my troopers as electrons, existing in a cloud of possible locations around their nominal visible location. That’s how they end up being shot even though there is an entire building between them and the enemy.

  • Bodhi

    This game is 100% pure dogshit.
    Some guys jab a vein for it, all you gotta do is jump.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sinkytown Roy Jones

    Brill. This clarifies a few principles that I half-knew, or suspected, or put down to phases of the moon.

  • Anonymous

    I still don’t get it… but, there’s nothing quite as exhilarating as having your cover obliterated by plasma and still surviving.

  • http://nogamenotalk.com GFoppy

    The last example in the gif is pretty bullshit in my opinion…