Xtra Spicy Enforcer Mission 4

And this is the first mission in Xtra Spicy where the game outright killed me. I didn't include the deaths in the video, but I died twice in this mission -once to the Giant Reaper, once to sheer volume of fire from Sectoids before then. The Giant Reaper is particularly shocking, as on Normal it was basically forgettable, where on Xtra Spicy it's a really bad idea to let it hit you even once in melee, and its spit isn't exactly ignorable either.

This mission also deals a lot more directly with the difficulties of pushing against the tide of spawns. There's one spawner early in the mission that can only be reached through a single door, which generates Snakemen pretty much continuously, making it impossible to reach the spawner without sufficient firepower. In this case, I had to have the Blade Launcher to go 'upstream' at all. Chokepoints enemies are spawning through was never an issue in Normal, by contrast.

It's also worth noting that I actually had to use some strategy with the Giant Reaper. My original death against it occurred in part because I tried focusing on the Giant Reaper itself, rather than cutting off the reinforcements. That's legitimately cool, that increasing the difficulty forced me to think!

See you next mission.