A big thing to remember about Terror from the Deep is that you lose everything except what your troops are carrying when you go to the second part of a two-part mission. If you are going to play it, it is worth your time snagging a utility that will move the abandoned gear back to your base.

ALSO: Do _NOT_ research the Tasoth Commander until you have the Leviathan, (the XCOM2 version of the Avenger). Due to a bug in the game, such research makes it impossible to ever build one and thus renders the game unwinnable.

Also, it IS the original game, except with the description text and sprites changed. Almost all the weapons and aliens are recognizably something from the first game with the name, sprite and sound effect changed. Which was kind of I've-been-ripped-off inducing in the days when the game cost 50 bucks. Nowadays, not so much of an issue, I suppose.

ISTR reading somewhere once that the issue with TFTD being nearly impossible was that the game was bugged, such that whatever difficulty level you thought you were playing on, you were really playing on the hardest one.

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Correct. A bug inherited from the original game, which nobody noticed for years (until a fan-mod found and fixed it). As a result, people playing the original X-COM on "Superhuman" were really playing it on "Beginner"... and complaining it was way too easy.

"TOO EASY?" Microprose said, and jacked the difficulty (in several senses of the word). Now there's STILL only one actual setting, but it's Frickin' Impossible.

A fine example of Stargate Syndrome. (No, nothing to do with the movie or SG-1. Per an earlier post of mine: the sequel to Defender, Stargate, was playtested in an arcade which, unknown to the developers, was the hangout of a national Defender champion. Seeing his scores, they kept turning up the difficulty. The final game was famously, almost unreasonably hard.)

(I know Ben knows the ref - he's the one who told me, years back - and now you all do too.)

I lost the whole dang team in that firefight and about jumped when the shots started coming out of nowhere.

Talk about a learning curve...

Oh, and Lobstermen. Bloody, bloody lobstermen. When I hit something with the underwater equivalent of a Blaster Launcher round, I want it to -die-, not turn around and shoot me in the face.

Er, *ahem*. Sorry, needed to vent on that point a touch. Anyway, this knowledge makes me feel better about never beating Terror from the Deep. It also makes me quite impressed with (and a little intimidated by) my dad, who actually did.