Got this with the Bioshock Infinite preorder. Loving it atm.
Think I must be nearing the end now. Had a bit of an iffy start (Normal difficulty, went Europe, which wasn't anywhere near as beneficial as I would've liked) and didn't follow the best of upgrade paths I think. Took me quite a while before I got any additional satellites up and was always struggling to afford even the basic upgrades. All my weapons were default and only a few had ugpraded armour at the Alien Base. Managed to pull through though (with only a few reloads of a level early on, mostly the first Terror mission which I eventually fluked with 15/18 Civilians saved).
Last mission I did was the Ethereal Device one. Only 1 satellite uplink away from complete global coverage. The last Firestorm is in production with EMP Cannons waiting for them. All research available has been completed and my squad is mostly Colonels and geared up with the endgame armours and all have the top level weapons.
My primary squad tends to be 1 Sniper in Ghost Armour (I've not really seen the benefit of the stealth so far), 1 Support specced for defensive smoke grenades and covering fire, 1 Titan assaulter with Alloy Cannon and Chitin Plating, another psionic Archangel assaulter with Alloy Cannon and Chitin Plating, 1 psionic Heavy and the last spot varies between my other Heavy, a high-level heal Support and a second high level psionic asaulter who has benefited massively from the Iron Will and is wearing the Psi armour with a Plasma Rifle.
Anyone got any tips for next time? I only really have a single team atm so if anyone is wounded or I send them the Psi Lab it can cause problems.
I'm thinking either starting as Africa for the funding boost which would be great with early game satellites or Asia for the discounted officer training which will really help get the ugprades earlier on and if I push 1 soldier to higher ranks quickly and level the rest slowly, I can get more benefit from Iron Will and have a better chance of psionically gifted soldiers later on. South America would be my first choice for satellite coverage as that Autopsy boost would be really handy but not worth starting as when it only requires 2 satellites, or is it possibly better to just get higher funded places first?
Also, is the SCOPE upgrade bugged? It doesn't seem to be providing any additional crit chance.
