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Xcom 2 Play through: Part 4

March 23, 2016 Jon Armer Comments 0 Comment

Welcome to part 4 of The Ret’s Xcom 2 diary. Things have been getting tougher, and although our luck still seems to be holding, we’re starting to take heavy casualties. Nick, Kev and Choli are all injured and the next set of missions are time sensitive. This means Chris will be going in for only his second mission.

Given his superb performance last time (saving the squad with a very low chance shot) and subsequent promotion to sniper, my hopes are high for this mission. …

XCom 2 PLaythrough: Part 1

February 16, 2016 Jon Armer Comments 2 comments

If you’ve read the Ret anytime in the last year or so, you’d know I like Xcom and the expansion (Enemy Within) quite a lot. I played it so much I broke my Steam timer on it (it reset itself after 103 hours logged). It was a simply phenomenal game.

I wrote a number of XCom diaries detailing the exploits of the Ret’s writers in their desperate battle to save the world from the alien onslaught. Needless to say, they all died horribly (Nick especially) and the final mission saw Steph going against a map full of enemies on her own…. …