by ftl_ftw
Having played it, I don't know if you were stuck... as soon as you unlock the [o]monitor action[/o] that's what you need to do the [o]east asia recon[/o] which then unlocks [o]two more recons[/o]. Later in the game is when it spells out how that works, though, but it's possible to do early.Anyway, overall, I preferred S1. They had different strengths. The best thing I liked about S2 was how organic the map growth was. It felt like we determined our own progression, expanding the map and finding new things, whereas S1 was really more about the game revealing the plot to us, like it or not. However, from what I can tell, in S1 the difficulty was much better balanced. From what people are saying on these forums, playing it four-player is really really hard; whereas with two players, we found it quite easy, until the first game of December which was basically impossible because we didn't start with the right characters (but then the second half of December was easy again now that we knew what ability we needed.)