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[Magical CC]

Does the snipers disarm shot work against Sectopod? I tried again and again but my sniper kept missing it.

Edited November 21, 2013 by Char

[Balcerzak]

I seem to remember disabling one once, but don't quote me on that.

That said, I think since it has two types of attacks or whatever it wasn't completely effective maybe? Honestly, my memory is pretty hazy.

[Magical CC]

Sectoid Commander used mind control on Support. It's super effective.

Sniper used disabling shot on Support. Now the support cant do a $%# against his teammates.

Assault used a 34% stun attack on Sectoid Commander. Sectoid commander fainted.

Mission succeeded.

[Verdant Shade]

Is the Sectoid Commander really that difficult to capture, or are you guys just having poor luck - if you don't get line of sight on him (He stands in the same place all the time) you can surround him on the high ground and go in with mere pistols and arc-thrower spam. . .

Unless they've changed it - IIRC I've started the game up once between now and Operation Slingshot's announcement, so I'd be wary if you want to quote me on that.

@Sectopod discussion

" The Disabling Shot ability can provide valuable time for fellow squad mates to temporarily react to the Sectopod without fear of retaliation. Note on certain platforms, it has been proven that Disabling Shot has no effect on the Sectopod. Additionly (sic) there is a known glitch that using this ability on a Sectopod can give it unlimited Overwatch fire, so it more hinders your squad rather than helping." Source

Would be nice if they mentioned which platforms.

[Esau of Isaac]

Sectoid Commanders can be tricky to capture at a glance first because of the danger of losing a teammate through Mind Control shenanigans, and second because they too resilient for weaker arms such as pistols to get the Arc Thrower into a reliable position quickly enough but too little to withstand higher-powered fire. If they're your sole target and you know when they're going to appear then it can be simple to plan for them, but otherwise they can be annoying to maneuver into position for without just killing them right out.

Of course the player could have countered the biggest problem in moving slowly --the mind control-- by progressively working towards increasing Will, but many don't bother until after developing psionics first, instead concentrating on more important things like satellite coverage, weaponry, and armor.

[omglmaowtf]

Which class would make a better MEC Trooper: Assault, Support, or Heavy? Also, Healing mist or Grenade launcher for a Kinetic Punch suit?

Edited November 22, 2013 by omglmaowtf

[Esau of Isaac]

In my opinion, outside the Sniper all of them are pretty good, but the Heavy's going to dominate on lower difficulties and Assault and Support are going to probably do better on higher ones. At higher difficulties where that -20 Aim isn't going to give a terrific chance of dodging, the 1/3 damage reduction is greatly beneficial. Conversely, for MECs that support outside the opponents' range in the back, their aid to allies' Defense can keep more of your dudes alive.

I would recommend the Healing Mist as a general rule to increase longevity of the guy that's going to be trying to get close and punch others. I guess it depends on what your strategy in combat is though.

[Integrity]

The Grenade Launcher is too swaggy to pass up in any scenario imhotep.

[Magical CC]

Which class would make a better MEC Trooper: Assault, Support, or Heavy? Also, Healing mist or Grenade launcher for a Kinetic Punch suit?

I have an assault MEC and a heavy MEC. It's sad that the assault MEC is better than the heavy one. Pass the newfoundland mission, I found that my heavy MEC rarely able to dodge anything except the shots from the weakest ones like sectoid and muton. He was able to dodge 3 out of 4 reaction shots from 3 heavy floaters and a sectoid commander though.

And healing mist is great, you can heal up a lot of hp which is damn useful in later missions. The grenade launcher sucks, my heavy blaster can do ten times better than it.

" The Disabling Shot ability can provide valuable time for fellow squad mates to temporarily react to the Sectopod without fear of retaliation. Note on certain platforms, it has been proven that Disabling Shot has no effect on the Sectopod. Additionly (sic) there is a known glitch that using this ability on a Sectopod can give it unlimited Overwatch fire, so it more hinders your squad rather than helping."

I can assure that on PC, disabling will give the Sectopod unlimited overwatch fire and yes, that glitch is god damn terrible. Now that you mention it, I totally understand why the Sectopod in my previous mission didnt have unlimited overwatch fire, it's because I didnt use disabling shot on it. In my earlier missions, I kept trying disabling him and may be that is the reason why he just shoots and shoots and shoots everytime my squad move. I even thought that they gave the Sectopod unlimited overwatch fire on purpose, lol.

Edited November 23, 2013 by Char

[IGdood]

WE ARE BACK FOR MOAR

Sorry, been busy interviewing and playing AssCreed 4

WOuldn't it be great if XCOM had their own Sectopods? And I'm not talking about MECs or SHIVS. I mean full sized big motherfucking robots with a fuckton of weaponry.

A little too late for this thing to pop up, no?

TIME FOR PSIONICS

Meanwhile Vahlen works her magic on Mutons.

LET'S ADVANCE THE MAIN STORY

NEED MONIES

Why bother when you have Mimetic Skin?

>Unidentified

>NPCs speaking wen I've already used that weapon's functionality

We look kinda cool. Scouting lets me avoid all the aliens.

SURPRISE ASSHOLES

Hunter Wilson tosses the Mimic Beacon for shits and giggles.

What happened next was one of the bigger regrets of this particular XCOM playthrough.

It basically dragged in ALL the aliens on the map.

However, it did fuck with their AI a bit. They prioritized moving towards the beacon over shooting me, although that wasn't always the case.

I found myself overwhelmed and flanked

Fortunately an upgraded Flamethrower and Titan Armor immunity makes for some sweet, sweet death traps

Hunter Wilson keeps missing because he's an unlucky sod, but luckily JIM JONES kept killing shit with his railgun.

Running kinda low on medkits, so I started resorting to Ghost moding to avoid counterfire.

It also didn't help that Sectoid Commanders now show up in pairs as support troops.

What do you do when you have no medkits and the highest chance of hitting the Sectopod is 40%? You let your toughest motherfucker on the team take hits, and then when he can't take anymore you send out the next highest HP guys in cover to take hits, and then you pray to the RNG and offer her a sacrifice of goats to ensure the team survives.

JIM JONES IS MORE ALPHA NOW

ANNA BECOMES AN OFFENSIVE SNIPER

Those with the highest will are sent for testing

I was just about to continue scanning when suddenly the screen shakes.

IT'S HAPPENING

HOLY FUCK THE ALIENS ARE ATTACKING THE BASE

OH GOD BY FORCE OF HABIT I UNEQUIP EVERYONE WHO DOESN'T GO ON A MISSION

FUCK

FUUUUUUCK

Bradford fucks up some mind-controlled guy's shit

This is bad.

The only person with non-default equipment is Integrity.

At the moment we have RIkku, Integrity, Daigoji, and 3 XCOM Security Personnel (aka Rookies with ballistic weapons, grenades, and caps)

The Security Guards do jack shit. They kept missing, so I just ordered them to grenade spam

The initial wave consisted of a Mechtoid, a Berserker, a Chrysallid, a Sectoid Commander....a few Sectoids...

Reinforcements consisted of 2 Security Guards and Support Ho who can't do shit because he has no equipment and therefore can't use his 3-Medkit ability to heal so he's a little more than a glorified security guard at this point.

Daigoji's jetpack thrusters and FALCON PAWNCH come very handily for this mission

Rikku still manages to get decent results with a bolt action, but doesn't give me the kills I need.

Security Guards can receive promotions but they're still better off as meatshields.

Ho gets shot for almost all his health. He has no medkit so fuck.

GODDAMIT STOP MISSING

Cyberdiscs show up, Daigoji gets shot at to the point where she has only 1 HP left and has to retreat

The security personnel begin dying with the most heart-wrenching death quotes.

"HOLD...THE...line.."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~!!!!!"

Luckily HEAT ammo is here to fuck cyberdiscs.

[IGdood]

The Sec Guards keep the drones busy and waste bullets

FUCK. ME.

More reinforcements = Golubev and another Sec Guard.

Golubev is also in default equipment

This is going to be fun

I want to reload this mission because there is no warning before the Base Assault occurs

FRAG OUT

That's just asking for a rocket, to which I oblige.

RNG NO

If that Sec Guard lives to the end of the mission I'll give her a medal

MOTHERFUCKING MECTOID SNIPING A SEC GUARD THROUGH A SMALL VENTILATION HOLE THAT GRANTED IT LINE OF SIGHT

FUCK YOU

WHO DESIGNED THE FUCKING BASE?

I didn't screenshot it, but I'm still in the command room and Central expects me to be fighting in the MEC bay behind me.

What's in the MEC Bay?

Assorted amounts of Sectoids, Mutons, Chrysallids. 2 Berserkers. 5 Mechtoids, and 3-4 Sectoid Commanders. The game just shows them all dropping in.

The Supports are useful for killing off Sectoids spamming Mind Merge. Not so great when they find Sectoid Commanders.

Integrity is pretty much the guy holding the defense together thanks to Bullet Swarm.

Pls stop shooting Daigoji

She's out of Healing Mist

Pls

She still needs to punch all the Mechtoids and Sectoid Commanders

This Sec Guard is really being blessed with the RNG. Killed 2 Drones so far and dealt 4 damage to a Mechtoid.

Ho continues to fight with 1 HP remaining. He's not going to see the light of day.

I jinxed it.

YARGH

>Last Group

It's JIM JONES and 1 more Sec Guard

Fuck, if only the guys I sent to Psionic Testing were here...

I don't want to go back there

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

That's one room clear, and we've lost how many Sec Guards? 4?

Too..many...enemies.

DIE YOU SHIT DIE

I GET IT CENTRAL, I GET IT. I'M GOING TO DIE AND LOSING THIS MISSION IS AN INSTANT GAME OVER

[omglmaowtf]

The Exalt HQ is one sweet, swanky pad! Wonder who funds them

[Magical CC]

The same thing happened to me. Three of my guys went to gene lab and one to psi lab, it left me a support and a MEC....with some poor guards. I immediately loaded the previous save file, kept my men in ready and when the base mission kicked in, I kicked alien nuts with full power.

[riariadne]

Is this stuff still open? I have been in the past ones and I owned. Haven't caught up yet but I remember your LPs being good.

Rein 'Lightning' Slampage- Male American Assault

[a.f.k.a. Howard Hughes]

reloads? You bloody safe scummers! Ironman is where it's at~

[IGdood]

A quick update on the conclusion of the Base Defense.

So pretty much we decided to camp the hallways. The aliens wandered around at the bottom and occasionally took hits.

TOO ALPHA TO BE MINDCONTROLLED

Occasionally we had to descend to kill off Sectoid Commanders who survive Overwatch and maintained line of sight of poor Jim Jones from the litle holes.

INTEGRITTTTTYY SHAKE IT OFF

"Engaging in close combat"

"WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

*thud*

HOOOOOOOO

Idiot berserker climbs up, gets shot at, then jumps through the hole.

Then it shows up waltzing through the door next turn and receives a faceful of overwatch.

THE MECHTOIDS HAVE ARRIVED.

They're not going to wander into overwatch. They're going to wait in the middle of the command room.

We had to engage.

It was going to be a firefight of attrition.

Smokescreen didn't help.

Daigoji and Integrity were the damagers. Rikku was the disabling shot chick.

Please die.

Please.

Why are there so many of you.

It was very fortunate that the Mechtoids waste their turns moving to shoot instead of shooting twice.

Annnnnnd INtegrity gets mind-controlled again.

Also Golubev dies ;__;

The Sec Guard also dies (not pictured)

Daigoji punches the offending Sectoid Commander. I swear, we must have killed plenty of the bastards.

JIM JONES NOOO!

We must finish the mission...

The Sectopod is disabled, Daigoji punches the last Mechtoid to death, then shoots the Sectopod next turn. A berserker is also killed shortly after.

"Systems..shutting...down."

I-I couldn't save him.

I'm so sorry.

I...I..

How many more are out there? There's only 3 of us left.

IT SURVIVED OVERWATCH

DAIGOJI NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Daigoji's okay.

But we lost our Alpha Male Jim Jones.

So it turns out something amplified the mind control powers of the aliens, hence why it managed to turn so many of the XCOM base personnel.

God. Fucking. Damn it.

Is this stuff still open? I have been in the past ones and I owned. Haven't caught up yet but I remember your LPs being good.

Rein 'Lightning' Slampage- Male American Assault

He might want to be a MEC trooper. Will you consider it? I need someone to replace JIM JONES

The same thing happened to me. Three of my guys went to gene lab and one to psi lab, it left me a support and a MEC....with some poor guards. I immediately loaded the previous save file, kept my men in ready and when the base mission kicked in, I kicked alien nuts with full power.

And thus was how this LP turned out.

reloads? You bloody safe scummers! Ironman is where it's at~

;___; It was suffering

[riariadne]

He might want to be a MEC trooper. Will you consider it? I need someone to replace JIM JONES

Sure, no problem at all here. Whatever is best for THE TEAM.

[Sifer]

Good people died that day + the security guards.

[Rehab]

and

, in that order

With these sacrifices made in our names, it is all the less acceptable a notion that we should Let These Rats Win.

Edited November 25, 2013 by Rehab

[Esau of Isaac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uVb5WtQjQM&list=PLE74E04CB0DA0BE05

Today, we lay to rest a great man. A man who gave everything he had to make this world a better place. When the world told him he wasn't fast enough, when it bellowed he was feeble, he roared back twice as powerful as before. They say the brightest flame burns quickest, but if so then James Andrew John Paul Thomas Phillip Matthew Smith Jones died an older man still than the world would have liked.

Goodnight, sweet prince. ;_________;7

[MRDRHAWK]

good maybe now THE FLAN will get more action

[Verdant Shade]

Sectoid Commanders can be tricky to capture at a glance first because of the danger of losing a teammate through Mind Control shenanigans, and second because they too resilient for weaker arms such as pistols to get the Arc Thrower into a reliable position quickly enough but too little to withstand higher-powered fire. If they're your sole target and you know when they're going to appear then it can be simple to plan for them, but otherwise they can be annoying to maneuver into position for without just killing them right out.

Of course the player could have countered the biggest problem in moving slowly --the mind control-- by progressively working towards increasing Will, but many don't bother until after developing psionics first, instead concentrating on more important things like satellite coverage, weaponry, and armor.

Agreed. Which is why I take special precaution to capture the very first commander - he is basically fixed in place, and (last I played) you only ever need one interrogation and one autopsy. (And the interrogation produces a body, so all's well?)

(On another note, I remember one time I entered the Alien Base so early that the only enemy present besides the commander at the end was Cryssalids.)

Edit:

. . . I had thought of mentioning that the base attack commonly occurs almost immediately after you setup a Psi Lab, but I skipped the thought after somehow telling myself that you'd probably already beaten it back.

Either way, it looks like you are going to need some new meatshields for your elite men willing to take up the cause.

Count me in. While I do have class/skill preferences, I generally just go for "fun play" rather than "optimal/useful" play/skills, so feel free to assign me whatever unit class you need, make me a cyborg if the world depends on it, or teach me to Mind Control Etherals if that'd be useful. You're the commander here, after all.

Edited November 25, 2013 by Verdant Shade

[IGdood]

Sure, no problem at all here. Whatever is best for THE TEAM.

Good.

Good people died that day + the security guards.

and

, in that order

With these sacrifices made in our names, it is all the less acceptable a notion that we should Let These Rats Win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uVb5WtQjQM&list=PLE74E04CB0DA0BE05

Today, we lay to rest a great man. A man who gave everything he had to make this world a better place. When the world told him he wasn't fast enough, when it bellowed he was feeble, he roared back twice as powerful as before. They say the brightest flame burns quickest, but if so then James Andrew John Paul Thomas Phillip Matthew Smith Jones died an older man still than the world would have liked.

Goodnight, sweet prince. ;_________;7

Q_________Q

good maybe now THE FLAN will get more action

Perhaps....

Agreed. Which is why I take special precaution to capture the very first commander - he is basically fixed in place, and (last I played) you only ever need one interrogation and one autopsy. (And the interrogation produces a body, so all's well?)

(On another note, I remember one time I entered the Alien Base so early that the only enemy present besides the commander at the end was Cryssalids.)

Edit:

. . . I had thought of mentioning that the base attack commonly occurs almost immediately after you setup a Psi Lab, but I skipped the thought after somehow telling myself that you'd probably already beaten it back.

Either way, it looks like you are going to need some new meatshields for your elite men willing to take up the cause.

Count me in. While I do have class/skill preferences, I generally just go for "fun play" rather than "optimal/useful" play/skills, so feel free to assign me whatever unit class you need, make me a cyborg if the world depends on it, or teach me to Mind Control Etherals if that'd be useful. You're the commander here, after all.

Alright, you're gonna be a support since Ho and Golubev were 2 of our best.

Arrggggh

Never. Fucking. Forget.

More research, more stuff.

REIN SLAMPAGE, the Assault with ridiculously high Aim.

Teheheheh old muton graphics

>Very Large

>2-hit KOs interceptors

Fucking battleships.

Stop a dam from exploding? Okay then.

These towers are bloody perfect for a Squadsight sniper. Shame squadsight doesn't allow for crits anymore except when Headshot is used.

Fuck your Mechtoids.

Push forward! Gotta kill 'em all before the dam blows!

These bloody bastards just drop out of nowhere!

Damage Roulette is not cruel to me.

MOTHER OF FUCK DO MORE DAMAGE

MUH SHADES AND BERET

After killing everyone......

Some chick blows out of the trailer and gives Integ a headache, then steals his heart. She is also French and is shot at by Integrity because he mad.

Where the fuck have you been?

Lel

PROMOTIONS

So Annette is now in XCOM. Okay.

WHO HAS THE GIFT?

IT'S PRINCESS K

More musings.

ALLOY CANNON FUCK YER

Hyperwave complete!

My dick is now diamonds.

Shen pls stop.

You make me think

WHY

ALERT

Things start off with a blast. Durand needs promotions. Integrity keeps getting headaches from her.

SHIVs are great frontline shields.

Sectoid Commanders don't even mean much now.

Assault MEC motherfucka!

Verdant Shade will literally provide shade to our men. We need smokescreen supports.

We have a terror mission in India.

We are welcomed by a Sectopod on the roof, shit..

Good thing I stayed out of its line of sight while ground troops began pouring in.

Tossing the Mimic Beacon nearby probably didn't help.

It took me awhile to realize that I gave SLAMPAGE Excellen's suit. Unfortunately, he can't do shit without Jetboot Modules.

FLYING BODIES

YOU BARE YOUR UGLY FACE YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

ARGGGGHH

Those poor civvies

YOUR ROCKETS MEAN SHIT

[riariadne]

REIN SLAMPAGE, the Assault with ridiculously high Aim.

This is actually really funny because Lightning in Integrity's Terror From the Deep LP broke 100% accuracy at one point

[a.f.k.a. Howard Hughes]

Im psionic huh?

ahem~

I AM JESUS, I AM JESUS, I AM JESUS, I AM JESUS!

~