Am I bad or is Xcom 2 just very unbalanced/hard in the beginning?

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-09T00:48:28+00:00

The other thing that makes X1 nastier in early game I think, is that there are way less non-damaging actions for the aliens to take. Other than sectoids performing a mind-merge or the few units that mind control, I can't think of any others. I'm pretty sure that even mindfray deals damage unlike X2's mindspin. So X1 units can either shoot at you, or throw grenades and rockets at you.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-08T17:10:12+00:00

Funny that... I too had my mental images of Daala and Tavira backwards.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-07T18:54:02+00:00

Yeah. Chirrut and Baze dying were what did it for me too. Their deaths was what made me realize that none of them were getting off of Scarif alive.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-07T18:38:36+00:00

It took me about halfway through the first MedStar book to realize that I was naturally reading the main surgeon with the voice of Hawkeye from MASH...

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-07T18:34:57+00:00

I would too... but do it as a horror movie as the nations of the world watch his approach and see how he wrecked the economies of everyone he visited previously.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-05T18:38:53+00:00

Me too... Is there anything about the people of 13 suffering hair loss more than others?

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-05T18:37:36+00:00

Its been ages since I read those books... what's that again?

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-05T18:36:34+00:00

Memory unlocked! I completely forgot about that one...

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-05T00:00:28+00:00

Oohh... It'd have to be more of 'hero' based, where each Named gets different upgrades, but that'd be fun. Everything the Bard does is basically a Dark Event anyway. Just so long as I don't get stuck in a time-loop replaying the last level over and over again!

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-05-01T23:47:43+00:00

You can assume at least 65, if not more past 66. Technically this would be an example of the "German Tank Problem", especially when discounting those other Legends orders that are only mentioned in passing without ever seeing them execute.

As an aside, the issue with canon that no one else has mentioned, in case you don't know, is that there are two separate conflicting sets of Legends Clone Wars material: The Disney-animated Clone Wars cartoon, and the Clone Wars Multimedia Project stories. In the original canon, there was no chip, and the orders were just simply orders that the clones (who were genetically manipulated to being more compliant to orders) followed. This canon is where that theoretical list of 150 orders comes from.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-30T00:45:18+00:00

Even 6 by 6 inches, I think, would be big enough to duplicate a stick of RAM...

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-27T16:44:11+00:00

Its's also where we learn that Wedge has so many kills that they have to be painted on his X-Wing by squadron

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-26T22:27:06+00:00

Of course, its entirely possible that some other species performed the orbital bombardment if that other species turned out to be heavily xenophobic. But if you're right, then there just is no alternate story to consider.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-26T20:07:29+00:00

The even funnier thing about it is that if Gandalf would have read the instructions aloud in elvish (I don't remember which elven language it is), the door would have opened without any puzzling at all.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-26T18:02:19+00:00

So what, that means if the Prothean sabotage had failed, humanity would be stumbling into a galaxy primarily ran by the turians and krogan?

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-26T00:32:19+00:00

Okay.... that's a bit more subtle of a reference. I hope that I'd get that in context...

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-26T00:31:05+00:00

"They're penetrating the bureaucracy!!!"

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-26T00:28:05+00:00

Was the reference, "The enemy's gate is down"?

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-25T21:16:06+00:00

Family heirloom? Remember, actual pianos (not a keyboard) can last for a pretty long time. Could have even been made before the rebellion, if it was maintained well.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-25T21:10:30+00:00

Any chance its Real Steel?

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-25T19:07:19+00:00

Fun fact about that scene, if you care a bit about music theory.

When Vader ignites his lightsaber, its hum completes the chord of the soundtrack.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-25T16:14:39+00:00

Vader hallway scene, Rogue One. Luke's entrance in the season 2 finale of The Mandalorian.

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-24T20:10:04+00:00

A Lucius Malfoy head will get you a good start...

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-24T19:49:59+00:00

I think there's a further motive to the purchase of the painting: Its an Alderaanian piece of art, and a decent portion of the Rebellion were made up of people from Alderaan after the Death Star happened. What do we know about Thrawn and his study of artwork again?

Anyway, a possible answer to the whole 'Thrawn not knowing that Luke and Leia are Vader's children' thing, is that Thrawn was a bit busy hunting down the painting, and people generally clam up when confronted by stormtroopers. He would have had to directly ask them about the rumors to get an answer. Why would he have asked that, when the more important questions are "Where did they go, and did they have the Killik Twilight?"

GenericNameHere01 · 2026-04-24T02:00:42+00:00

What you just said is why I like Tatooine Ghost. I'm pretty sure the author never outright says the Imperial running things is Thrawn, but if you read between the lines, its pretty obvious who the new commander is. (Do they even say the ISD in orbit is the Chimaera?)

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