REPLY HERE TO HAVE YOUR USERNAME ON A SOLDIER I'm going to pull a few names from the comments (on Jan 16), but from here on out leave a simple reply on this comment if you want your name on a soldier. Don't want to pull random people's names who may or may not be interested if it's not required. edit: this will be pinned once youtube lets me (fixed it)

i've owned and played this game since 1996 - i only finished it without cheats in 2021. maybe in another 25 years i'll finish it on superhuman :D

One of the best Xcom videos I have ever seen. Ive always wanted to make a well editied rendition of one of my xcom games like this and this has honestky inspired me to actually work towards that goal again. Great work! Death to the Alien invaders!

Good watch! I love X-com but can't play it while I work. So the second-hand joy I got from hearing the narration was fun and entertaining while I worked. THANK U.

The coolest part is I just watched a man beat the game in 12 minutes :D Great job on the video! Love Xcom and Xcom TFTD! :)

I’ve always wondered why I’ve never found anyone who had made this type of video before, and after finally finishing this off, I now understand. There is just too much information to try and gracefully organize, and to say that I was unprepared would be a massive understatement. On an unrelated note, I will be posting a number of random videos over the course of the next month for the fun of it. For the 3 people who subscribed to see my edit of the funny lethal company video, it’ll be out sometime this week. To everyone reading, happy new year! I’m hoping to do more with KZfaq over this year, and any support is appreciated. See you next time for whatever I end up uploading.

I believe that opening doors without going through them is always enabled, even in vanilla OpenXcom. It was a feature in Terror of the Deep that was backported to UFO Defence in the PS1 version, so it's considered vanilla.

So much nostalgia here - I have been playing since the mid-90s too. One of my all-time favourite games, and a very entertaining video with great narration!

this deserves more views and you deserve more subs, this was a fun af ride

It's a brutal game that NONE of the many variant's over the years have ever come close to.

Very exciting video, watched it from beginning to end

This game is the number 1 in my all time list of games. Well done video walkthrough. Thinking of compiling openxcom for my Linux system instead of heading back to dosbox to play the original versions.

A really awsome video, got a soft spot for old x-com games, especially terror from the deep. Remember playing it on my dads 486 dx when I was 7. Obviously there was no way for me to beat that game, but defeating a single Homaroid with a squad of vanila rookis was surely an achivement.

Hey, I quite enjoyed that. Still one of the best game in the 90’s. Thanks for the long form edit.

Damage during interception doesn't affect UFO Power Source explosions, it's a flat 75%. But hey, if that's the only complaint... Great writing and editing here. Massively mpressive for a first video!

pretty cool video! i love the structure and story-style way of explaining xcom, surely deserves more views, only recomendation would be better edditing graphics and maybe a better mic, otherwise nice job!^^

Great video, appreciated hearing your thoughts during the gameplay and condensed information about the game, it's very rare to see

Very nice and high quality video, keep up the good work! Next time you could try the sequel, Terror form the deep. I'd like to be a soldier in your next playthrough as well!

Excellent job, can't imagine the effort it took to edit together.

The Antarctic Superhuman Challenge

If you only invade ships when they land then you get much more loot. But eventually even if you smash every ship those mind control or whatever missions will start flipping your supporting countries. But you will have more than enough time and money to get to mars by then. At mars you will have blaster bombs and psi control so if you know what you are doing you should not lose any men at all unless you get an unlucky blaster bomb disaster, which can be very bad.

Original X-com despite brutal is not very hard once you get to know what to do. Though there are thing that I do differently: -I only use laser rifle then heavy plasma as my main damage source. -I tend to let the UFO land instead of shoot it down most of the time so I can recover all the elerium. If the UFO lower the altitude (which change every time they change direction), you can assume it's going to land, otherwise it's trying to leave. -I only use smoke on spawn, not everywhere. -I would risk soldier life to capture a psionic alien asap. Even failing the mission carry it back to base is fine. Once I get the psi-amp, the game it pretty much beaten. It's broken when the moment you see the alien, they are all mind screwed. -I build a factory base to mass produce things, including firestorm. Firestorm would be great if you have it on every continent since most UFO can't out run it.

I've always found that xcom on superhuman is quite easy, once you get mind control that is... Getting to that part can take a bit of patience and luck.

Can’t wait to see Terror from the Deep. Fear the Lobster, man.

Damn, you make me want to play terror from the deep. I hope they make XCOM 3 and make it like the old XCOM 3 with the mega city, corporations, and extra dimensional aliens.

It's crazy how much more detailed this game is compared to Firaxis XCom's in some of it aspects. My go-to example is you can't f***n shoot through your own dudes.

You made this superman run look pretty easy. But I'm sure if I tried I'd get wiped before the end of month one

great video, got my xcom itch scratched by watching it.

I always bring 2 blaster launchers and a ton of bombs to the final mission, you can leisurely sit in spawn and blaster launcher a hole in the wall into the brain room after you've scouted it's location. The best is when you MC an alien with a blaster launcher and have him do it himself.

cyber discs are vulnerable to laser's

Great game and great video!

I played this as a kid (maybe around 13-14 years old) and only played on superhuman so it can’t be that hard. Terror from the deep was tough though.

i hope they will remake this with upgraded graphic, UI actually it is much detailed in term of many aspects compare with xcom: EW and xcom 2

2:32 so you didn’t get invaded? Welp, that’s lucky.

I love Xcom.. just beautiful

I would love to see what you think of X-com Files

Some useful info here, especially around how to exit the skyranger. I never planned to replay the game but maybe.... Definitely not on Impossible though, I'm not that good.

1:10 so on default settings weapons didn’t get accuracy drop-off at range?

3:55 as the first mission? Oof.

In the video it says that there will probably be 2 more superedited videos in the futur............ is that still planned ?

we were promised modded xcom 7 months ago, how many years do we have to wait?

1:12 doesn’t this mean you’re technically not playing the original X-COM since settings have been changed from the original, or were said settings available in the original?

13:54 doesn’t that make 4 cyberdisks, not 3?

22:43 was the number of enemies inconsistent again?

What a journey this has been.... I would not go for the whole VOD but this edited version is great. I'd really like to see the full modded run!

so do you need this open/xcom thing to run the game if you buy it on steam?

The original game had the bug: after the first mission difficult resets to begginer :)

8:24 the crash damage is dynamic?

I dont really like playing xcom on superhuman (The og one, not the openxcom) mainly because the alien get too much buff and your hand are literally tied behind your back, it doesnt help when you get punished too much over shooting down an ufo and that 20% retaliation chance hits you during january and if you are extremely unlucky, you would be facing sectoid that can just mind control every single of your soldier in the base without even looking contact for them. The sloggiest part of the game is definitely training your unit because, each mission felt really detrimental toward your success and you needed to appease the council, but guess what? the alien sets up most of their mission across the continents and avoid the region where you are specifically, yay! and did i mention if they have measly 2 psionic strength and they are the commander of the base on europe? someone getting sacked after you train him for 3 hours straight. call it skill issue, but i prefer to call it that im not masochist and even playing on easiest difficulty, there was a bug where even if you picked superhuman in og game, the game would revert back to beginner after january, it would just be pointless to play on superhuman, and with how the game work it literally just asking me to just keep using psi-amp to minimaze as little casualties as possible because somehow every alien they brought to earth is literal crackshot and you have to deal with weekend soldier that cant hit the side of the barn, it just really frustrating and it doesnt help that most alien would be just using heavy plasma that could instakill anything, and the most annoying part is obviously the ethereals and the sectopod who has high reaction/accuracy. but aside all the pain, this game is just amazing, nothing ever compare to it, even if i still preferred to play the modern xcom, this game is a gem, i suppose the biggest satisfaction is watching your dudes with shitty pistol and rifles transformed into bunch of space marines with heavy plasma wrecks everything that the aliens has to offer, anyway great video Potato.

Shockingly low subscriber count for such a great video. Looking forward to your TFTD video if that ever comes out :) If you have space, I'd love to see my username on there too!

Easy Plasma cannon rush blaster bomb rush easy money

Wow, Entire run without base defense with that many UFO shot down. One of benefit of early Firestorm imo is to shoot down scout UFO that doing infitration mission as soon as it appear on hyperwave radar. Their entire of infitration loop will delay as long as you shoot them down fast enough so you can delay some countries withdraw from council that way. but usally I'll just skip it straight to Avenger instead.

47:02 what misconception?

7:12 is that 17% to hit or 17% to miss?

Why didn’t you use plasma weapons?

I want to be a soldier! 😊

7:07 what killed him, did the section even shoot?

Was this the first attempt?

you mentioned that you have another youtube channel yet did not link it

It's just easy. Even without offensive psionics. EASY

The base on open xcom still have the difficulty bug?

Do fallout shelter speedrun next pls!!!!

This is not 'original' X-Com at all. The modifications used are not 'just QoL' but definitely changes in mechanics that under normal circumstances would be considered hacks compared to the original game. (e.g. opening doors without walking through them was not in the original and it gives you huge tactical advantage and so does reordering troops) I wish OpenXCom players would stop this _false_ advertising. OpenXCom is fun and I admire your devotion and skills in that game but it is NOT the original by a long shot! (pun not intended) Call me a purist but if you want to beat the original game you must play _only_ by the rules and mechanics of the original game!

next video you should play minecraft

Wants to show how difficult the original was. Turns on a bunch of cheat features. Pfff....