Let's Play! X-COM: UFO DEFENSE

[eclipse]

WHEE!!! Thank you! Can't wait to go get molested again some action in!

[IGdood]

Bzzt.

[riariadne]

Yey, LIGHTNING.

Do the other game! This is like, one of my favorite things to check when I get back from school.

Edited September 29, 2010 by Lightning

[Balcerzak]

The name Terror from the Deep is familiar. I vaguely remember playing a trial version or something off some collection compendium CD of tons of games, and not being able to pass the first mission because I had no idea what I was doing (no instruction manual) and all of my men were basically one-shot by the enemy. At the time, this was frustrating, so I gave up and played other things like Dracula in London.

That said, you seem to have a pretty firm grasp on things here, and will undoubtedly fare much much better than I. I look forward to your pain results. :D

[Integrity]

Oh, the pain will be immense. My primary crutch, UFO Classes, does not support TftD. I'm going to have to remember what shit you guys each do.

[Integrity]

Okay, guys, I have one thing to say before I start screenshotting.

IF this isn't a Muton base and I get the Leader (if this isn't a Muton base, I will), I'm going to run three consecutive updates today: a TACTICAL for this base, a GEOSCAPE where we hunker down until research is complete, and a TACTICAL in which we win the game. If not, well, one update per usual. If all this falls into place, you'll be getting an update within the next, oh, four hours or so :P

[Balcerzak]

Exciting!

So far I'm still the only zombie too, and unless I misread something those units only show up in terror missions, not bases, right? I may make it out of here very unique.

[Integrity]

I AM ACTIVELY TYPING NOW, FOLKS. WATCH THIS SPACE AND THE NEXT EIGHT OR SO SPACES.

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The shiny green of an alien base entrance greets us, being all shiny and shit.

Oh, great. The caverns. :/

FUCK NO A CHRYSSALID FUCK

KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT

I'm always impressed by that number.

FUCK IT SURVIVED WHAT

So half of the Win Brigade later ...

Furet flies!

JB found and killed a Snakeman friend.

So did the tank! Let it be known, Balcerzak is mind-probing every one of them to find the Commander and Leader.

Obvious victory by Furetchen.

hn? Didn't JB already kill you? Oh well.

moar tank kills!

NNG CHRYSSALID

Furet destroys the furniture, but kills it.

why so many why why why

thank you lightning I love you.

OW. That bitch actually hurt the tank.

vengeance!

More aliens are found and identified and killed.

Q: How many Snakemen can you fit into a hallway?

A: I really don't fucking know anymore.

Least the tank killed the Chryssalid.

hee hee jb has his own little lookout tower

Tank finishes the job then goes a-hunting.

At this point I couldn't remember which I still needed, so I stunned both.

bzzt, bzzt

Oh, cause THAT'S not ominous.

...huh.

Baster grabs a Snakeman on the way by for transit.

TARII SHOOTS YOU THROUGH THE FLOOR

yeah fuck you hooker

Clean-up!

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Congratulations on your promotion.

Edited September 30, 2010 by Integrity

[Integrity]

Like fucking nowhere, right?

Tight.

Back to winning the game.

I don't really care that they're happy, tbh. I'm winning WITH OR WITHOUT THEM.

I ignore a lot of UFOs and Cairo.

That's it. Once Cydonia or Bust is done and Inn'n'Out finishes its AVENGER, we're gone.

Promptly, I'n'O starts work on its AVENGER.

aw, need more alien alloys.

22 days. Good news is soon a contingent of Engineers will arrive and the third Workshop will finish, so we can cut it down.

Wait, what?

[Integrity]

This is it, chaps. It's a win-or-die scenario for Echidnation - and if Echidnation falls, we're fucked.

This is the inside of our base. Not as shiny as alien bases, which is nice for me.

It perfectly mirrors our base's construction. That's the Access Lift, followed by the three Hangars. Now our base design makes sense, because aliens will always emerge in the Hangars first and Access Lift second - unless there are too many, which is highly unlikely. It's notable that it works both ways; if a room takes enough damage in the siege, it will be destroyed in the GEOSCAPE. If there're rooms left without any adjacent rooms, they poof too. That's really bad.

Fortunately our design allows us to funnel the aliens into the access lift, where the tank opens two doors each turn and everybody shoots them from down the hall. It's just a meat grinder.

And, while shooting at a Muton, Balcerzak misses and kills a bauble thingy.

More shots fired. I could abbreviate this mission to "shots fired, aliens dead" but I don't want to.

Dronejamming is a real problem in base defense. Everybody starts scattered, so Eclipse is currently stuck on an upper floor behind three other agents and Furet is stuck in the back of the base slowly going forward.

Oh, and there're gonna be a LOT of Mutons to shoot.

Killing, spotting.

They just walk right into it!

It's awesome and hilarious and ...well, nasty.

Oh, you'll regret shooting the tank.

Pictured: his regret.

More spotting.

More killing.

hm. Bit of a long shot, but -

lol counter fire! Except not lol, because the tank died.

So this dude goes berzerk, shoots his bud in the face and kills him, then shoots an explosive barrel. wat.

JB is my new tank.

Spot 'em, run away, let others do the work.

One out of two ain't bad.

OHAI

Balcerzak pops the bauble.

More J.B. Rambo business.

He actually took it in the right direction! Too bad he's a horrible shot.

Return fire, kill. His corpse vanished because we've hit the item limit on the map

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[Integrity]

And we can assign the extra Engineers now.

But before that, we get to watch Panzerbjorn become ready.

Even with this crew, we're still ten days out.

Well, Cydonia or Bust is done. We're rarin' to go once we get that AVENGER.

Following this image will be a series of interrogations and autopsies I did to pass the time. Not pictured is all the Small UFOs I shot down to avoid another defense scenario.

SUDDENLY NIGHTMARE FUEL

Ugly fuckers, aren't they?

It seems to come with its own pouch!

Heh. Remember when we were afraid of these guys?

You guys haven't even met Ethereals yet. They're guaranteed in Cydonia, though.

See above. Sectopods are the Ethereal Terror Unit.

SHIT YES.

We. Are. GOLDEN.

26 slots and no living tank means I can load every single trooper Echidnation can muster.

SUDDENLY HIGH OCTANE NIGHTMARE FUEL

Fuel: 100%

Crew: 100%

Gear: 100%

Godspeed, X-COM.

[Integrity]

Mars. Note the spacious AVENGER.

At this point, my Save/Load keys become bound to Mouse1 and Mouse2. I'm savescumming the SHIT out of this.

Reaction fire on the ramp!

Cydonia is always Sectoids, so I'm told. I've never been here. However, there's a programming error that replaces all Sectoid Engineers and Navigators with Leaders for this mission.

Psi-Capable Leaders.

And it's at night.

There's a reason I'm savescumming.

Joey and Integer shoot this dude to death.

Crüniac does me proud.

And so it begins. Ready your drinks, folks, as the game is afoot.

Well that was tragic. He panicked, ran off at random, and then died.

I SHOOT YOU THROUGH THE FLOOR

Balcerzak is VERY susceptible to psionic attacks, so I just have him drop his gear.

whoo close one

And a miss on Joey. Check out the sweet AVENGER.

Told you.

Cyrus dies, screen center.

Fortunately I'm utterly ineffective beyond killing some floors.

IMPRESSIVE. WOW.

Kill for Baster.

Integer is missed many times and hit many too.

Drink, drink, drink.

Furetchen FUCKS some crater's shit up.

gruh. Integer's bleeding.

but he sees one of his assailants! Pew, pew.

Joey stumbles into surface command, apparently.

Incidentally, one of these pyramids will have a lift to take us to Cydonia: Part II. However, if you take it you only keep whoever was on the lift. If you kill all the aliens topside, you get to bring everybody and whatever's on their persons at that moment.

Joey takes more fire.

Drink, drink.

These guys REALLY like shooting at Integer.

And more control!

More spotting.

BOOM

Drink, drnik, drinkk

Crüniac found the way out if we need it.

Oh, c'mon. ONE wound?

what joey died

aw man

Crüniac didn't, though.

More in the towers! yaaay

driiiink, driink,, driinkk

Edited September 30, 2010 by Integrity

[Integrity]

This is a picture of something, I'm not sure what.

So I learned something. When you panic, you drop everything in your HANDS, not everything you have. Furetchen still had his Satchel.

No effect.

Crüniac kills shit.

WHOA REACTION FIRE

And so starts the War Between Two Dudes Who Can't Fucking Hit Each Other.

driiiiiiiiiink

Bitches don't know 'bout Crüniac.

Yeah. Two in one turn.

JB kills Mr. Watchtower.

whoa hi

And a missed reaction shot to cap it off.

SURPRISE PANIC

JB fucks up this dude's pyramid to no effect.

Then JB and Eclipse kill both of them and more of the pyramid.

Predictable.

And Lightning finishes it.

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[Integrity]

Now here is presented the tragedy of the Final Mission. Everybody on the map gets to come because I cleared it, but the only gear brought, as I learn, is what we were holding. I don't have enough weapons for everybody, and I don't have ANY medkits. Soren here is going into battle armed with one Satchel Charge.

Your eyes don't deceive you - this IS THE START OF TURN ONE.

The Final Mission is an Ethereal base with multiple different Terror Units inside. That means MORE FUCKING CHRYSSALIDS. WITH MIND CONTROL.

It's okay, though. Oderic got this shit.

yeah bitches can't stand before levin

What's that you see? Yes, it's Old-School Skitarii, using a fucking Laser Rifle and wearing pajamas. In the FINAL MISSION.

SHADOW OF THE CHRYSSALID

Yeah. There's gonna be a lot more panic. drink, drink, drink

I do admit, I feel kinda bad using myself as an unarmed scout.

Oldschool Tarii logs a kill.

JB surprises a Chryssalid with a backside kill! No, that's not a euphemism.

Our situation is so desperate that Yossarian is getting in on the action.

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That shadow in the bottom is the shadow of a Sectopod. They're two-legged walkers with a FUCKING RIDICULOUS amount of durability. They make Hoverdiscs look like agents in pajamas.

JB didn't even scratch its paintjob.

I spot an Ethereal. They're floating, cloaked figured who ALL have psionics.

They REALLY aren't that tough, though. Two shots, tops.

Well he came inches from killing JB.

Better shot of the horror that is Sectopods.

Pod's still alive, but at least JB killed the bauble accidentally.

Yep. Now I'm levying two Heavy Plasma to no effect.

For some reason, these Ethereals seem to like blowing themselves up.

Baster bravely navigates a dead end.

Control, control, and DE BLOB MOVE

Somebody just very accurately destroyed the floor Kitty was standing on with three direct hits.

Berzerk, berzerk, control. Yeah. It's that kinda missiongame.

Oh, and a screenshot I apparently missed here:

Levin went berzerk. Baster, in front of him, was mind-controlled. Levin went FUCK ALIEN. Guess what happened to poor unarmed Baster? :(

[Integrity]

Yossarian plays the ultra-fun shoot-miss-die game.

After something like FIVE FUCKING KABILLION reloads, JB finally kills the Pod.

Wait a minute, why's the [1] still there?

oh hello.

JB kills the Ethereal.

I appear to have taken this set of images twice. Oderic POPS DE BLOB, then finds an elevator.

Turns out it was a bauble that shot at Kitty's floor. She kills it.

Again? Balcerzaaak.

OH SHIT OH FUCK

Pride takes potshots at ANOTHER DE BLOB and promptly gets really scared.

So does Tarii.

Another Ethereal, but no TUs with which to kill it.

FUCK IT'S IN THE ROOM WITH HIM

DIE DIE DIE DIE

hello bauble

ANOTHER DE BLOB

drink, drink

FUCK IT'S ON THE ELEVATOR UNDER HIM NOW. IT SHOULD HAVE DIED TWICEEEEE

Remember how I said Ethereals seemed to like blowing themselves up?

Yeah.

JB, the cleanup, cleans up. Also, tactical_1000!

MIDBOSS kills DE BLOB.

Oh, GRAND. An elevator complex.

It occurs to me that Furet is standing by the double doors to a REALLY big room. What do you want to bet?

fuck pod run away run away

Pride finally finishes DE BLOB he's been shooting at.

dude seriously? You just killed DE BLOB.

Them crosshairs mark where another DE BLOB tried to munch Furet.

Okay, a long hallway unlike any other with two elevators at the end. THAT'S suspicious.

MIDBOSS find a bog-standard elevator complex. It's gotta be Furet's place.

Oderic, his wits about him, now...can't find the Chryssalid. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

It's probably all just storage up here but Oderic's looking anyway.

ohey, Clipsey found it.

Levin killed it.

THAT. Is definitely the Mother-mother-fucking-Brain and its Ethereal Honor Guard. Run away, Furet, there's too many of them.

[Integrity]

This wall of image chronicles Soren's run to the elevators. I know how to deal with a cluster of Ethereals.

Finally, I get him to the elevators. I set the timer and end turn - but where's Furet?

There he is, with the Ethereals. Godspeed, my friend, you were a good one.

EAT FUCKING SATCHEL

tick tick

Oh yeah, I would too, buddy. You do NOT fuck with humans.

Furet broke their hold on him and survived the Satchel?!

Soren runs back up the lift and grabs Furet's dropped Plasma Rifle. It's got just enough ammo left.

Adios, muchachos.

[Integrity]

GOOD FUCKING GAME, guys. good. fucking. game. I'm proud of every goddamn one of you. I'm going to rip open a save editor now and pull some stats for your pleasure.

If you're just skipping to the last page, don't forget to go back to the page before this and get the first two updates today.

EDIT:

Scratch the save editor, it didn't log the changes made in the mission. I will say, however, that our most gifted Psion was KITTY, at a whopping 95. Psionic Strength can only go up to 100 and it never gets better. She would have been a fucking MIND RAPER.

Edited September 30, 2010 by Integrity

[eclipse]

Wow, I did. . .surprisingly little.

That's totally fitting! Thanks for putting me in!

I guess the way I did everything makes me. . .Est. Dammit!

[Balcerzak]

Balcerzak is VERY susceptible to psionic attacks, so I just have him drop his gear.

<...>

Told you.

Oh man, I leveled up, and class-changed. Sweet!

And uhh... Sorry about my mental abilities here, I blame constant probe scanning for leaders, or something...

[Integrity]

I guess the way I did everything makes me. . .Est. Dammit!

heh. And old SirTeabag was Jeigan. *sniff*

[riariadne]

You didn't even mention when I died, Integ. It says I'm at 0 HP in a screenshot. :(

I'm a bit sad you finished. Now I can't go to this topic and read it every day after school. But it was awesome while it lasted.

Huh, first page says I lived? I'm confused. :/

Edited September 30, 2010 by Lightning

[Integrity]

But you didn't die, Light. Your last picture is finishing Part 1.

EDIT: It's okay, though. I'll be starting TftD sometime unless I get sidetracked video let's play of myth 1 if i can get it to work right

Edited September 30, 2010 by Integrity

[IGdood]

Fuck yes. This was an EPIC LP. Now I'm looking forward to that remake of XCOM, even though its an FPS. I'll be looking forward to shooting every one of those fuckers.

I'm sure there's a fansite called the Tain(?) that lets people get Myth 1 to work on their computers.

[Solanum Tuberosum]

nice lp bro

i enjoyed it

[Integrity]

I can get Myth working no problem, it's the recording that I'm sorting.