The Terror from the Deep Experience

This is the typical XCOM: Terror from The Deep experience. Played in OpenXCOM, originally streamed on Twitch at / marbozir
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[@denmander]

Nothing quite like a lobsterman terror mission at night, specially without any drills, thermal shock launchers or sonic cannons.

[@lildiscostu]

Maybe the first tasoth mission with M.C. in the night

[@Marbozir]

Oh yeah, it was way too early into the campaign for any of those. I also got extremely unlucky with calcinites (the autopsy is needed to unlock drills) and didn't have a single one in any mission until fairly late into the campaign

[@lildiscostu]

@@Marbozir Yeah, that sucks. some games u never get Calcinites, because they are the Terror-Unit that comes with Aquatoids. Most of the time u dont get Aquatoid-terror-missions, only Gilman ones. As a solution u have to give away ur base-position and hope for an early Aquatoid base raid with Calcinites in it

[@jorgefreitas5983]

Holy Jesus! I would have abandoned this mission when the 1st grenade fell... You have nerves of steel!

[@Techfiend33]

Are we going to get a series on this like we did for OG Xcom?

[@RocketPropelledMexican]

I once started up a mission in TFTD, got a clear LZ so stepped out and formed a perimeter. On alien turn my guy took a reaction shot at something and set off a chain explosions one by one on the pipeline/airplane thingy map that last A WHOLE FIVE MINUTES. AND THE MISSION STILL WAS NOT OVER. Then from low visibility due to all the smoke, a single tentaculat DESCENDS FROM ABOVE and wipes my squad. Yeah this game is extremely cursed

[@TysonJensen]

Apparently you lose far fewer points for showing up to the terror mission then immediately leaving than you lose for trying one that is too hard or not showing up at all. "hmmm... night mission, oh, lobsters? nope. nope nope nope." It allows you to play like 2 difficulty levels harder than you can if you try to do all the terror missions. It's a huge change to how you approach the entire game since you don't need to rush research specifically because you want to actually do the terror mission. Not something I ever knew. Found it out after how many hundreds of hours? Anyway, people who reverse engineered the code figured it out.

[@wilsonkok4754]

Anytime you win a terror mission with Lobstermen, it's an "Awesome" mission regardless of the score!

[@mrbluebell2735]

Hell mission won by door cheese. Legit XCOM

[@kevinmiller7408]

Oh man, this brings back some trauma just watching this lol. X-Com was pretty brutal at times, TFTD was like "Hold my beer".

[@raifthemad]

Of course the difficulty in TFTD directly resulted from original xcom having a bug, where when you saved your game and loaded it reverted to beginner difficulty. So even if you thought you were playing on superhuman people just complained that it was too easy. Hence why the second game was made so difficult, because devs took the criticism on board.

[@Your_MInd_is_A_weapon]

Speaking of bugs if you researched in an incorrect order some particular things in terror from the deep, that would mean you would never be able to discover the end game alien base.

[@Krogoth512]

Original XCOM/UFO: Enemy Unknown had a bug that revert the difficulty to beginner when it switch between Geoscape and Battlescape modules. 3rd-party mods fixed this. TFTD was basically patched XCOM on hard mode (tougher eniemies,multi-phase missions, all weapons getting nerfed)

[@Krogoth512]

@@raifthemad TFTD had a difficulty spike throughout the whole thing. All weapons got nerfed, tech tree progression is weird, aliens got tougher, mutli-phase missions are more commonplace, sponsoring from nations are more evenly spread out instead of being concentrated in NA/Europe. Battlescape layouts are more advantageous to the aliens.

[@raifthemad]

@@Krogoth512 Why are you responding to me? All I said was, "due to a bug, everyone played first game on easiest difficulty even if they selected the hardest, and thanx to the devs getting feedback, that their game was too easy, they made the second one harder." I played both, so am well aware about most of these things you mentioned. Also, fuuk the damn cruise ship missions.

[@JamieBainbridge]

*misses multiple 45% shots in a row* "Kay" Definitely the classic X-Com and modern XCOM experience.

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

Soo remember playing this game. On PC. That metallic tapping sound when Enemy’s move. Was worrying sound. Then the PSSST PONG sound explosion. Lol. Bubbles bubbles. Loved this game. How it’s not on the fone is bollllox.

[@TheBibliofilus]

Much preferable to the modern X-Com games!

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

It amazes me. Our Eastern European cousins. Had to catch up. From 1994 etc.

[@orarinnsnorrason4614]

It is here! Thx Marbs for posting this. Its going to be great.

[@Gneeznow]

Can't believe you pulled it off 😂

[@mikb5165]

And that's why you don't camp next to the skyranger; there will be a big boom, aliens aren't stupid.

[@lw2978]

12.24..see, I did that civilian a favour....by jellifying him with a sonic pistol blast!😆

[@DeludedOne]

Am watching the discord stream and am not at this point yet but it should be soon, probably in the 2nd stream.

[@starsnmuffins]

truly a classic tftd mission. :D

[@Your_MInd_is_A_weapon]

How you beat this game without savling and loading constantly is beyond me.

[@DrownedInExile]

Mission rating: "Could have been worse!"

[@douglasquaid7550]

Gonna buy this game too. I've got the age but had an amiga500 at the timeperiod when these games were released, so I never got the chance to play them back then.

[@damace8571]

Both xcom were released for Amiga too

[@douglasquaid7550]

@@damace8571 I had no idea , you should have told me 30 years ago. ;)

[@vejet]

12:34 I'm sure he would... if he wasn't already dead 😅

[@lashlarue7924]

This game is absolutely crazy difficult and extremely underrated. I still prefer the original for the aesthetics, but TFTD is deep in terms of gameplay too!

[@windwalkerrangerdm]

I think TFTD has better in-game visuals compared to the bland, repetitive tiles, and mostly rectangular zones that dominate the early game. Here you'll see docks with diffferent building types, tropical resort islands, two different types of ships, many different types of underwater mission sites including sunken medieval ships, underwater volcanoes, and many different types of alien structures. This one is definately more richer in tiles, sounds, and detail in general. However the first one definately has better item sprites and background comic sprites.

[@Aliasalpha]

Peak TFTD...

[@johbsmith5631]

TY 4 nostalgie! 🍺😁

[@radiozelaza]

Grzegorz the brave Pole who sacrificed himself for the team to lure a Lobsterman out of his hiding...

[@MyReksio]

😏

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

Back in the Day I loved this game. I always got beat up on the ALIENS ATTACK LINER or SHIPS with the Ammonite thingy. Nasty ( from watching your presentation) I now realise that there was a real continuation of the game right up to XCom2. But the PlayStation 3 version. Thanks for clarifying this. When I got XCOM2 ps4. I was stunned. Great game. But I wanted to play CHOSEN , my friend had PC. But it seems it’s pc only. Which shows the TOTAL CONTROL SONY and various games Builders are being told hold onto the development. For our new PS5. Which has not one game just a few bull Sh-t versions this has gone on for years and years. I’m old. I paid for games top dollar for years. And the Computer games company’s are totally in league with each other. So I’ve got a buy a PC TO PLAY THE CHOSEN Xcom. It’s time to write to AVGN. let him TAKE A GIANT SHIT ON THIS peanut butter crunch and Sweet corn too. Lol

[@ivynbean]

Xcom 2 war of chosen is on ps4, ps5

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

Is this possible to play on APPLE X.R fones. ?? I’d spend my care home days trying to conquer the first level. Dammnjnt lol

[@bentos117]

haha, nice

[@adamtadamt]

Hey, I was wondering when you will upload TFTD as I am sure it would make for very good content

[@Marbozir]

I'm afraid I probably won't, unless I can find an editor to help me.

[@ArtemKulakov]

that was fun)

[@zeusapollo6504]

LOL

[@adamtadamt]

Hey, when will you upload TFTD?

[@MrKrisstain]

Gotta love Terror from the Deep! Sucha badly designed game :D

[@jairo8746]

They are not soldiers... they are more like untrained conscripts picked up from the streets and given a rifle (most likely kidnapped given how cheap they are). What an abysmally awful aim, it is not fun at all.

[@randallwong7196]

Lot of screaming going on....

[@user-lj1ml3oh8w]

lame