XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Munkus Beaver

Commander...

We have been watching your recent progress, and can I say we are not pleased.

Your heavies are that in weight only. You realize that the rocket launcher is extremely potent? That it can be used to destroy cover and annihilate aliens? I suppose the choice between Holopoints that give everyone +10 aim or the option to take two shots per turn is lost on you.

Your supports have been saying very mean things and dragging morale down. These are your quickest units that can heal your entire squad! That smoke they are blowing can save your bacon, Commander.

Don't get me started on your Assaults. Three arrests, Commander? This is XCOM, not a college Fraternity. These units are experts at CQC and can take down alien Sectopods with an alloy cannon and double shot, which can be used every turn. I suppose you're the type of kind that ignores lightning reflexes, hm?

And your snipers could not hit the broad side of a barn, Commander. Time and time again, we have had to repremand your units for using Squad Sight to play peeping tom on our female squaddies. Need I remind you that disabling shot is a serious threat to the aliens, and using scanners to check showers for cover is ENTIRELY inappropriate.

Despite all of these shortcomings, Asia has decided to increase funding because you bought them a pony.

You are my personal Terror Mission, Commander.

XCOM out.

Vann Diras

starting this business over again today

now that AC3 is out of my way I can focus on killing aliens exclusively.

Baidol

My team turned into a bunch of sissies.

We are down to two sectoid commanders on a UFO. One mindfrays my alloy cannon assault, causing him to panic. This causes my sniper and my other assault to panic. The second sectoid then mind controls my shotgun assault.

This leaves me with two supports and my heavy. They manage, with <50% shots, to kill the mind-controlling fucker. I use my newly-freed assault to Run and Gun up to the last guy and blow him away.

Is the will increase upgrade from the officer school retroactive?

Rainfall

No it is not. Your early team is blubbering children compared to the beta wave of recruits.

Asia, officer training school, Iron Will asap is a huge help. Really.

Baidol

Welp. I haven't purchased any new recruits, so it looks like I'll be finishing this game with a bunch of babies.

Gatsby

In the latest Beagle XCOM vid, shit gets real

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pk55NYbcFQ&amp;feature=g-u-u

Vann Diras

i haven't even gotten a game to the point where any of that matters

i'm so bad at this guys

TheStig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pk55NYbcFQ&amp;feature=g-user-u

Gatsby

Oh Stig

DE?AD

So what qualifies a soldier for the Gallop Chamber anyway? One of my two psychics has her psi-abilities filled out, but apparently isn't up to muster.

101

need the psi armor

TheStig

Gatsby wrote: »

Oh Stig

Deserves to be posted twice.

Kana

I was more bummed by Beagle's squad biting it than I was at the deaths of real characters in most games.

This is a funny game.

TheStig

Maybe this time he will get a sniper that can hit 75% shots.

smof

That new Beagle video. Holy shit.

He seemed to have it all so well together and then one mission fucks everything.

Xcom.

Also I don't think I have seen a soldier in any of my games as terrible as Oakley was for him.

TheStig

smof wrote: »

That new Beagle video. Holy shit.

He seemed to have it all so well together and then one mission fucks everything.

Xcom.

Also I don't think I have seen a soldier in any of my games as terrible as Oakley was for him.

when he said "you have to save the civilians" I was like nooooo Beagle, you're doing it wrong.

TrippyJing

Ahahahaha.

"The Great Snipe Hope."

Gatsby

I loved

Oakley's misses synched with the music at the end.

BahamutZERO

re: beagle video

Godspeed, noble Beagle! May your next campaign fare better!

Tef

spoilers guys c'mon

TheStig

Tef wrote: »

spoilers guys c'mon

look the video has been posted twice already...

Antimatter

spoiler tags are courtesy c'mon now

smof

spoiler: Oakley misses a shot

Tef

Videos don't play for me at work. It's not a huge deal, but I'd have liked to find that info out myself when I watch it over the weekend

Legba

Soylent, no!

Shabooty

here is my pokemon default name left

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/DefaultNameList.ini?w=7d556400

Gandalf_the_Crazed

Beagle's XCOM vids are at least as entertaining as Red Vs. Blue.

BYToady

DE?AD wrote: »

So what qualifies a soldier for the Gallop Chamber anyway? One of my two psychics has her psi-abilities filled out, but apparently isn't up to muster.

100 Will, you can use gear to boost it that high.

Vann Diras

what the heck was that mission

lost someone right at the beginning to two lucky thin men crit shots from all the way across the map

then, a whole one enemy left for the three of them, one guy gets hit outside the UFO. No biggie, still plenty of healthy. He panics, and a soldier inside the UFO freaks out because of it and shoots the buddy I had in there covering her

WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING EVEN

TheStig

When a thin man crits you from across the screen it's not lucky, that's just how they are.

Gandalf_the_Crazed

Vann Diras wrote: »

what the heck was that mission

lost someone right at the beginning to two lucky thin men crit shots from all the way across the map

then, a whole one enemy left for the three of them, one guy gets hit outside the UFO. No biggie, still plenty of healthy. He panics, and a soldier inside the UFO freaks out because of it and shoots the buddy I had in there covering her

WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING EVEN

They're doing

XCOM

Tef

XCOM

Antimatter

way of the future

Tef

those slimy, bent-backed, jumpin' sons of bitches

20pt hit with a plasma sniper on a Thin Man is never not satisfying

Gandalf_the_Crazed

Tef wrote: »

those slimy, bent-backed, jumpin' sons of bitches

20pt hit with a plasma sniper on a Thin Man is never not satisfying

I will use explosives on them when I don't need to, just for the sheer joy of watching them consumed by flame.

chiasaur11

Antimatter wrote: »

way of the future

That's Aqua Plastics.

Antimatter

by the time i get a better computer i hope that there's a modern terror from the deep so i can get that and this new xcom/the armor painting dlc

Vann Diras

does iron man actually up difficulty too? I thought it just added no restarting from saves, but this game I can't one shot the first enemy type for the life of me. always 2 damage

Tef

I'm pretty sure it's only no manual saves

You're probably just getting bad luck but it's not impossible it affects the difficulty too?

chiasaur11

Vann Diras wrote: »

does iron man actually up difficulty too? I thought it just added no restarting from saves, but this game I can't one shot the first enemy type for the life of me. always 2 damage

Pretty sure it's only the no saves.

My classic ironman was mostly blessed. Only 5 fatalities, no countries lost.

Never done as well with a non-ironman run on classic.

PaperLuigi44

Beagle video:

I'm glad he's starting up another campaign, it was sad to see everything fall apart.

That game over cutscene is fantastic, though.