My first Evac in Exode was quite memorable.
Each player having their own story is an important part of the gameplay in Exode, so I wanted to share the story of my fist Evac.
I read a few guides, had a general idea how to Evac successfully. Find your crew if anyone is MIA. Load up fuel. Repair hyperdrive. Load cargo and escort citizens if you can.
My deck was ready and guns and ammo were equipped. I was ready for Evac.
After getting my crew under my control and issuing orders to remedy the hyperdrive and fuel situation, I started loading up cargo and attempting to escort citizens. Hostiles showed up pretty fast. OK crew, time to defend the ship! Pilot, head to the bridge and find a safe spot to hide!
But wait --- what is going on? My crew is getting smoked! OK I can fix this. Frantically clicking, issuing orders to the rest of the crew: get over into storage and the hall and help! Oh no. My entire crew was wiped except for my pilot and a maintenance droid.
Then the aliens showed up. The mood, the environment, the sound, the pacing; all quickly changed. What was already a dire situation become much more serious.
Okay well let's go for it! Launch and see if we can land. No chance right? Well the pilot and his little maintenance droid buddy touched down on the lovely lush planet.
After quite an intense first Evac, I decided that the fateful mission was doomed. How could my pilot and maintenance droid survive on their own?
I decided to rerun the Evac the next day to see if I could land with my crew intact. A bit more research yielded an important action I had overlooked: my crew did not even draw their weapons! By the crew I mean I, I did not draw their weapons. After an equally intense second Evac --- with guns drawn this time of course --- I made it out with the whole crew alive. Landed on my new planet, but in another learning moment, I misclicked when selecting my pilot and my poor Maintenance guy was forced to land while my Pilot sat back and watched ran reports on the planet. Ahh to be a noob again.
Now on to the Colony Management phase.
-Cap. Col