Groo Tries To Grow As A Gamer

[Kersus]

One of the really cool new features of this particular flavour of XCOM - and I touched on this earlier but didn't expand on it - is that you can collect battlefield loot (if you're fast enough) in the form of scopes, laser sights, extended magazines, etc, so you can customize the weapons equiped on your troops. It adds a whole lot more to factor in and plan for *IF YOU TAKE THE TIME* (which, really, seems to be the root cause of the headaches I got on previous attempts at Ironman-style games).

Yeah, I forgot about that and had some loot time-out. Won't happen again.

One final piece of background: because of previous play-throughs, I knew that if I have the Advanced Warfare Facility built on the ship, any soldier who levels-up has a chance of randomly getting a bonus ability from another class skill-tree. Sick, right? That's why it was the first room I built on the Avenger.

Good idea. I forgot that as well. 11 months without playing had me forget a lot.

Anyway, I happened to overlook that Lights Out has the "Ever Vigilant" perk... meaning if he spends all of his action points moving, at the end of my turn he automatically enters Overwatch!

That's awesome!

("The power to stomp the Muton was inside you all along, Groo!")

I love it. Absolutely.

the cat's nails won't clip themselves

You are the second person lately to mention they do this. I had not heard about this chore before. Prior to the last two cats, all my cats have been outdoor/indoor. I have never trimmed a cat's nails. The current cat just sheds layers of them as needed. You do occasionally find them in the carpet.

Plus, have I been so quick to log-on that I've been neglecting the simple pleasure of playing with my kid? Or making sure my relationship with my wife is as strong as it needs to be? Have I been taking things for granted?

All good questions to ask. One never wants to grow too.... What's the word? Often good to re-evaluate but not so much it weighs on you.