Soren37 Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Eye'm the medic! Eye can heal joo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 10, 2010 Author Share Posted September 10, 2010 And a couple days later: GEOSCAPE: THE RETURN ---------- We leave Oklahoma, a proud people. Fucking FINALLY. Congratulations, Kitty, you've been promoted to Heavy Plasma. This shit is basically the best man-portable weapon you can get your hands on without going explosive. Going to divert the research towards, y'know, game-winning prospects. Plus, I don't remember what we decided on researching next so I'll call the vote again. Weapons? Armor? Propulsion? Tanks? Ah, there we are. I only have AVALANCHE missiles stocked at Echidnation. While refitting INTERCEPTOR-1, I remember to restock the Ranger. Heavy Cannon out, Heavy Plasma in. Furet is also added to the crew hold. Alien interrogations are generally fast. hee hee, he's naked I get started on that, too. The reason I'm doing this is there's a certain point in the research (I believe it's after Alien Origins) where you need to get a Commander or Leader to continue the end-game research. I also need a Commander or Leader for Psionics, so I may as well double it up. Looks like your first assignment, Furet. Right next to us, too. dun dun dun dundundundunnan DANANA fuck you, gulf of mexico. Ooh, a LARGE UFO. That means Terror or Infiltration, and likely means Commander. What the flying fuck? I put like fifteen extra Stingray missiles in Inn'n'Out. Why is this bitch low supplies? Standoff range, shadow him. I'll go get INTERCEPTOR-1 to- motherfucker. ---------- Terror mission! And don't forget, give me research topics. Weapons, armors, planes, tanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balcerzak Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Voting we research planes/propulsion/whatever it's called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGdood Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Woohoo! Plasma weapons and a naked Sectoid! I also call for propulsion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren37 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Propulsion for jet-packs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 12, 2010 Author Share Posted September 12, 2010 (edited) Actually, Soren, I'm pretty sure you were joking but researching propulsion and armor results in jetpacks. ---------- So I'm pretty sure I'm going to delve into a LP for the Mission Pack Sequel after this one is over. That will be hilarious, because I've never played it before. ---------- This'll take two posts because this is gonna be a fucking gigantic TACTICAL update. Also, Drinking Game! In a Terror Mission, take a drink every time the screenshot consists entirely of an agent panicking/berzerking/being mind controlled. Take two if it's Kitty. ---------- Welcome to London, agents. This is a fucking gigantic building to go along with the fucking gigantic update. Yeow. And we open with Hoverdiscs. Hoverdiscs means Sectoids. Sectoids means psionics. ugh. Fun times. Skitarii manages to blow up the gas station at least. Even if he, Baster AND Balcerzak manage to not kill it. CONTACT: PRIDE. pew pew Baster got it this time. Tank makes a loooooooong damn shot. Soren blows open a wall and finds out it's just a fucking gigantic fence. Plus, enemy. LIGHTNING. BZZT. and the Psykers act. Fun times start! Well THAT was quite the run. Her gear is up by the tank near the top. hmm. Let's save this guy for stunning! Balcerzak scavenges Kitty's Heavy Plasma. Incidentally, now that we've researched Heavy Plasma we can loot it from aliens in the field. You get everything that's dropped automatically if you win, but if you grab it during the battle, well, you can use it before then. HO NOW that was close. Evidently the civilians decided they were safe in here. SHIT SOREN ... Well. FURETCHEN, WE NEEDS YOU AHHHHHHHH What's with our agents surviving with One Fatal Wound To An Arm? Baster takes some shots, to no effect. Ah, the third stage of psionics. Fortunately, the AI won't get gear off the ground and Kitty already Panicked and dropped all her shit. Notice how she's now flagged as an enemy. If she survives this turn and the mind control is not renewed, she'll return to our control in whatever state she's in, minus a bunch of morale. There's also a bug where agents who are actively mind-controlled at the end of a mission, even if victorious, will be flagged as MIA and you lose them forever. XCOMUTIL might patch that, but I dunno. Lightning, blocked by the crush of people, makes himself a door. Baster spots the aliens for... Balcerzak and his new looted Heavy Plasma. What the fuck? I can see him but there's no line of fire? Backed off a square and fired a Snap Shot. It's good. Well, we know the commander's still alive. We'll try to stun him! Balcerzak appears to have panicked. :( You know, guys, let it be said: I fucking HATE Cyberdiscs. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate CYBERDISCS!!!!! Edited September 12, 2010 by Integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 12, 2010 Author Share Posted September 12, 2010 Perfectly predictable. FUCK. DID NOT EXPECT. ... OH GOD SKITARII MAKE A DOOR AND RUN Skitarii makes a door and gets shot at. EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE WALL HE'S HIDING BEHIND gets destroyed. That's unnatural. Well I hope that guy wasn't the commander, because he just died to the tank's reaction fire. holy shit this guy actually hurt the tank. Ah well. Lightning was nearby. What's this, three? YEAH BABY Balcerzak gets a new alien heavy plasma. It's not his old one, but oh well. Feeling tipsy yet? lul his luck was too much for his fragile little head I have the awesome idea to make Furetchen run over and grab Skitarii's plasma rifle. He panicked into the line of sight of a Cyberdisc. Well fuck me. OH JINKIES it's cool. Soren takes the shot and it's good. So many aliens in this corner. So THAT'S where Kitty's been running to. oh God. Fatigue is starting to set in. This is where I stop downplaying Stamina as an attribute to you guys. ... I could just cry right now. Inevitable reaction fire on the tank. Lucky civilian and unnaturally lucky Skitarii. AHAHA they blew the poor fucker up. Adios, civilianos. bzzt Let's try to handle these Cyberdiscs finally. First, though, Skitarii runs away. Now I explain a problem with XCOM's pathfinding: When you order somebody to run through a room in a multi-story house, and there are stairs in the way, they will fairly often decide to go up a floor and run to the equivalent stair up a floor instead. This wastes tremendous amounts of energy and time units and, well, leaves a unit where you don't want them. Tarii did this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 12, 2010 Author Share Posted September 12, 2010 Well, actually, it took three. Sorry, you have posted more images than you are allowed to. ---------- Whew. I don't even remember how many of these I took. WHAT. THE TANK DIED?! Ah well. It spotted for Baster's EXPLODING ALIEN TANK shot. Godspeed, Balcerzak. That did NOT work. Furet shoots through a wall and sees aliens and kills them dead. So does Pride except for the through a wall business. Tarii is armed again! ... Well, that's Pride. Lightning makes a window and spots everything. Then he avenges Pride for good measure. Baster avenges Balcerzak. We're even now. That was an even more impressive explosion than the last one. It even set fire to the house! Lightning and Furetchen ruin the walls so I have a place to look in. I see nothing. Lightning goes up a floor and sees...nothing. Then I have him look out the window. Seems one of our stunned aliens woke up minus any gear. Kitty finally arrives at the action and loots poor dead Pride's stun rod. hi. bzzt Lightning makes himself a hole in the wall, floor and ceiling of the next floor... and falls through it. Shortcut! I bet you didn't see THAT coming. Smashed yet? I spend the next ten turns (no, seriously) trying to find the last alien. He could be hiding in here... ...but he's not. Yes, those waist-high hedges block movement. Tarii had to kill one. Turn 18: THERE HE IS bzzt ---------- Gyeh. So many dead civilians ruin our rating but at least we got three live aliens. ... AND I MISSED THE FUCKING COMMANDER. AGH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren37 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Yes, I was actually. And let's count the number of drinks. Furet- 1 drink from him. Skitarii- 1 drink from them. Spectakitty-16 drinks just from them. So I'd say everyone would be out of it for a couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGdood Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 My liver....it cries in pain. Damn, this was one adrenaline-pumping update. =) Looks like everyone got mindfucked, including me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 12, 2010 Author Share Posted September 12, 2010 Just so you guys know, if I'd stunned the Commander like I tried to find, we'd all have psionic abilities within a month. That's why I am cursing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specta Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Yes, I was actually. And let's count the number of drinks. Furet- 1 drink from him. Skitarii- 1 drink from them. Spectakitty-16 drinks just from them. So I'd say everyone would be out of it for a couple of days. Holy crap, I'm getting everyone totally smashed. o: You all can thank me later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGdood Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 -much later- Thankss...zzzzz..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntegerZero Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I want a character! Can I have a dude Integ? Please? Awesome long update. At least I'm not the only one with triple post updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 13, 2010 Author Share Posted September 13, 2010 (edited) You have one, Integer. He was idling in the base due to lack of space on the 'Ranger, but now that people have died ... :P So anyway, for reals an update! ---------- First step: success! Building complete! Just looks so pitiful, you know? Five guys and no tank. :( Levin, Integer, welcome to eternity. Things arrive. on the first of April! We did EXCELLENT this month, X-COM! Ooh, it's a day of pleasant surprises. I dunno, we seem to mostly be winning. The voting pretty much said Planes, but I'm taking a quick diversion to get the Mind Probe. The Mind Probe allows an agent to see the stats of any alien any other agent can see. This is only marginally useful, except that you also get their class. Next Leader I run into after researching this bitch I'll be able to snag. I should have gotten this WAY earlier. eh, small UFOs. ...over...Nigeria. dun dun dun PSHEW BOOM Now, I'm going to leave the crashsite because it's in the daylight and by the time I get there it'll be night. I don't want an Arabian Night, so if we leave the US in the day we should catch Nigeria also in the day. We get the tank back while we wait. A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS Close to home. By the time the Ranger gets back and refuels it'll probably have disappeared. Ah well. ---------- EDIT: Oh yeah, stats! [spoiler=this "D" character] I named him MID-BOSS, saved, and loaded because that's what you need to do for UFO Classes. Somehow, in the process, his name got changed to D. Weird. Poor to average everything, with bottomed Bravery and one point of Firing Accuracy above bottom. Hoo boy. I'll be throwing this guy at shit for fun. [spoiler=Balcerzak's new stats] Marginally better than D. At least his Strength is REALLY good, but he's not winning me any battles. [spoiler=the new Pride] VERY above-average. I'm reminded of Kitty's original stats here. He could use a little Bravery is all, but still. Edited September 13, 2010 by Integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 I have no idea what the hell is going on, but it looks amusing. If you have a generic unit whose stats inexplicably suck, would you mind naming it after me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 14, 2010 Author Share Posted September 14, 2010 (edited) :D I'm glad I can finally give back a little morning amusement to you, Eclipse. Of course you can have a redshirt. Can't promise his stats'll be bad though. I mean, look at JOEY ffs. ---------- Update time! ---------- Good news, X-COM. We landed in the green part of Africa. I love reaction fire while I'm still on the 'Ranger's offramp, don't you? Oh, SHIT. These motherfuckers are Snakemen. Snakemen, honestly, aren't all that bad. They seem to have higher durability than Sectoids and they use the same weaponry, but their terror weapon is vastly, VASTLY worse than Cyberdiscs could ever be. VASTLY. pew pew misses. Welcome to combat, Integer and Levin. While they're at that, Skitarii decides to professionally miss the lower Snakeman. Dear Pride, on the other hand, hits him square in the back. Unfortunately, he SURVIVES, turns around, and fires a reaction shot. It missed and Baster walked casually off the 'Ranger to kill it with lasers. Lightniiiiing, my man! I knew I could count on you! To give you a short indication of Lightning's awesome, holding a two-handed weapon in one hand and another weapon in the other gives you a decent accuracy penalty. Rifles are two-handed weapons. Lightning hit with one hand what Levin and Integer couldn't with two each. Booyah. A dramatic shot of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksman Brigade, backed up by Sergeant Kitty. Holy CHRIST Furetchen can run. He went from inside the 'Ranger (pictured lower-right) to his current position under the floating arrow in one turn. Breaching time! That's a job for the Level X Shock. Oh, FUCK. Go out with a bang. Godspeed, my friend. Well hey at least he killed one before he -- IT MISSED Levin scoots out of the way, Lightning runs in. You know what time it is. bzzt ---------- BOOM! A perfect mission. Obviously, there wasn't much to perfect so "perfect" is actually just OK, but still. GOOD JOB. Congratulations are in order, Sergeant. Edited September 14, 2010 by Integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 15, 2010 Author Share Posted September 15, 2010 (edited) The so-called doglike creature is the terror unit for Floaters, as I recall. The terror unit for Snakemen is the Chryssalid. ---------- I've now hit 500 pictures uploaded into the LP folder. I misplaced one of the early updates, so it's actually a few more, but hey. Milestone! ---------- I was curious and checked. We picked up the Snakemanses Navigator! We can research him for the ultimate radar anytime. That crash site's still there but I don't really care. Frankly, we're doing well enough for money I'll probably start leaving aliens to crash and die more. Still there in the morning, tempting me. ooh! This is Inn'n'Out's second Hangar! That means they get a 'Ranger for the B-Team. hmm Okay, SOMETHING'S up with the Middle East. I've got to learn what. I shadow it for a while and learn absolutely fuck-all. It landed outside of Ankara and waited for about three hours then flew off. Now the B-Team can mobilize! fuck yes. Research and manufacture are determined in Man Hours. Actually, Research is measured in Man Days, but it's the same thing times a few. Anyway, each Scientist assigned to a project adds one Man Day to the total at midnight each night. Each Laboratory has the space to allow 50 Scientists to research - that's 50 Man Days. By building another Laboratory, I've doubled our capacity for research! Actually, Scientists cost a fuckton, so I can only get 25 right now, but the point's made. 25 Scientists, as promised. OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK This is what it looks like when you pile two Interceptors onto a single alien ship. You can get up to four at a time and this is necessary for Very Large ships - also know as Battleships. I'm afraid of Battleships because their primary function is Base Raids. Yes. THEY ATTACK YOU. It's still alive. It takes three Interceptors to reliably take a Battleship down with conventional weaponry. I need new craft. We chase it around and lose it over the Atlantic. The things are also God-awfully fast. hm. That's awkward. what. Either they come in peace or they're buying a government. Only the first of May can tell. ...or they're flying over Vancouver for some reason. Refueling. Missile and Scientists. Yeah baby. A Large UFO! :( Inn'n'Out is being set up as my manufacturing capital. Medium! ... Of COURSE I shoot it down over Tehran. Why the fuck not. A Very Small UFO I can't even catch. Edited September 15, 2010 by Integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Lightniiiiing, my man! I knew I could count on you! To give you a short indication of Lightning's awesome, holding a two-handed weapon in one hand and another weapon in the other gives you a decent accuracy penalty. Rifles are two-handed weapons. Lightning hit with one hand what Levin and Integer couldn't with two each. Booyah. What's a Base Attack like? You should make some dummy base with like no maintenance just to show us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 15, 2010 Author Share Posted September 15, 2010 Well, the aliens have to find the base then attack it. It's random and the only way to provoke it is to keep shooting aliens down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 Some savescumming was used in the production of this episode. Kitty actually died a few times and the tank did once, but they kept getting saved because there was one turn that would cause the game to hang on the EP. I had to have Kitty make a kill on an alien that would kill her if she missed (this was the savescumming) because if he was still alive at the end of Turn 15 or whatever, the game hung. So, uh, yeah. ---------- Always good to come off the 'Ranger and see smoke. Smoke and Floaters! Man, we fucked that UFO right up the wrong way. Incidentally, that red square is an alien elevator. This is a two-story UFO. well fuck. should've turned south with the tank. Levin died. Look on the bright side: your next incarnation will be better than a Level X Shock! Yeap, there he is. gg integer Tarii knocks off the first spotted one. Pride makes a friggin' epic shot. EP: One alien moves around and another narrowly misses somebody. Tank spots this guy and blows up the hedge. Pride puts some plasma through the new hole and kills the Floater. Baster takes a reaction shot and kills a guy. Score. Bet we can stun that guy. Perfect toss! oookay, there was another one. Kitty hightails it out of the UFO while Lightning fucking kills them both. Baster takes another reaction shot at another Floater and...he survives? Turns out he had an alien rocket launcher. FUCK. Nothing to be done about that. GG Baster. :/ Good news is I had no other agents near him, so it's only one casualty. Tarii (yes, the sniper) fucking misses twice. Furet (the drunken medic, we expect it) also misses. EVEN FUCKING LIGHTNING misses this guy. Kitty's second shot in a burst of three gets him. Integer scouts all the buildings and finds a third alien. Bet we CAN stun that guy. Unfortunately, the poor dumb bastard put his back to a door on the next EP. bzzt Tarii takes a reaction shot and hits once. The Floater survives. Oh, fuck. I think we know where this is going. Goddammit. :( Integer survives the trip up the alien elevator! The bastards like to camp the top side so that when you come out, they take free shots. He does not, however, survive the mission. Okay, Floaters officially SUCK. The dude did, however, squirrel himself away in a corner so bzzt Remember this poor fucker who already got shot by Tarii? The tank hits him TWICE directly. And then misses a lot more. It takes a surprise maneuver from Pride to kill it. lol he woke up bzzt Now this is the aftermath of the aforementioned savescum. I save at the beginning of almost every turn because DOSbox's screenshot key is CTRL-F5. The "immediately close all DOSbox" key is CTRL-F6. I've slipped up and lost progress on a few updates before. Anyway, Kitty has a 26% chance on each shot of a 3-round burst to kill that dude behind the chair. If she misses all three - which is actually unlikely and I'll explain why in a minute - he takes reaction fire and likely kills her. The problem is, for some reason, if he was alive at the end of the turn the game would hang on the EP and I didn't have a save from before that turn to go back to. Answer? Park Kitty in the door, save, reload until I kill him. Dirty and shameful but necessary. The reason the 26% is more than it sounds is because that's the chance for a perfect hit. In other words, if the roll is below 26 the shot is guaranteed to fly straight to the target. If it rolls anything else, the shot is still ballistically modeled with a random offset from slight to massive. At a short range like this, several of the offsets you roll on a miss will still see the shot straight into the target. This is why at point-blank range, it's almost impossible to miss even with something pathetic like a 14% to hit: because even if you miss, the shot is very very likely to miss straight into your target anyway. Anyway, our final alien is spotted and the tank lands a damn fine shot. ---------- That DIDN'T go as well as I'd hoped. I lost two of my best shots until Joey's out of rehab, I lost some inconsequential Shocks (you're replaceable.) and many of my rolls were...fucktarded. Oh well, live and learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntegerZero Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Aww. I died. Can I have another dude? I hope I won't fuck up the next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 Redshirts named for forumites get reincarnated forever. Oneshots like Tarkus or Voldemort just die and are dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGdood Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Hahaha, nice one Integrity. Ah...what are our LPs coming to? Mine crashes, yours goes to hang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 It means you two are flooding the game with more awesome than it can take. Which reminds me. . .whose alive right now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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