I never understood why the game starts out insanely hard and becomes insanely easy as time progresses.. >.< I always loss half the counsel at first, then none for the rest of the game. You can't even play the harder difficulties to make the end of the game enjoyable, because the first part is so relentlessly hard, in ways that have very little to do with the actual tactical gameplay, and really just rely more on luck and knowing how to abuse the system more then anything...
Sounds like this mod might really balance that out. I too agree the game "rushing" me to finish was by far the worst aspect of this game. No one likes being told "You've been doing very well, and I'm glad you enjoyed the last 15 hours, but game over you automatically lose, and there is nothing you can do about it" And being forced to play your entire playthrough around avoiding that screen...
this sounds perfect I wanted to play the game on impossible but losing one battle on that difficulty (which was a damned near certainty unless you did EVERYTHING perfectly and even then you lose just SO much) causes means that you'll lose most of the council and the game within the first month >.< this might make it managable.. and if not I have another mod that will let me control panic levels with cheats and just make it a non=entity
I installed the mod as directed and ran modpatcher 0.12 (which appears to be the most recent one). It updated, but I'm not getting any change with how panic operates that I can see on Marathon Mode. The entire continent still takes a hit upon missed abduction missions.
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You can't even play the harder difficulties to make the end of the game enjoyable, because the first part is so relentlessly hard, in ways that have very little to do with the actual tactical gameplay, and really just rely more on luck and knowing how to abuse the system more then anything...
Sounds like this mod might really balance that out. I too agree the game "rushing" me to finish was by far the worst aspect of this game. No one likes being told "You've been doing very well, and I'm glad you enjoyed the last 15 hours, but game over you automatically lose, and there is nothing you can do about it" And being forced to play your entire playthrough around avoiding that screen...