Glad to see XCom is getting a marketing push...

[richardhutnik]

badgenome said:

Crono141 said:
I played my first real abduction after the tutorial (which lasted WAY too long), and managed to get all my soldiers killed. Need more soldiers per squad. In original X-com, I always had a squad of 8. 4 is just not enough.

That was a concern for me when I was reading the previews, but the game feels nicely balanced for the smaller squad size. And you can upgrade to 5 or 6 pretty quickly, at least if you're lucky enough to have one tough bastard who just won't die and ranks up a lot like my own Eduardo "Kingpin" Marquez, Argentinian badass extraordinaire.

Well, looks like they are in keeping with the original.  I understand in the original XCom, the idea was almost all your squad would end up dying, and a few would survive and you would get attached to them.  When I did try to play the original XCom, I didn't know this is what happened, so my soldiers would die, and I felt like I was doing something wrong.