Let's Play! X-COM: TERROR FROM THE DEEP

[Integrity]

One hundred and twelve TACTICAL pictures uploading now. Watch this space.

Edited October 4, 2010 by Integrity

[IntegerZero]

One hundred and twelve TACTICAL pictures uploading now. Watch this space.

Oh Shit son!

[Integrity]

Balcerzak ruined my spacing. More like WHORECERZAK. /shakes fist

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So this is a port-city in 2039 or whatever year it is.

And that's...a...uh...

A dead, now. Actually, no death cry. That's a stunned! Sweet.

And that's a...um...greenthang. Yes. Whitethangs and greenthangs.

Now it's a dead!

And that's a greenthang and a whitethang! Man, these maps are way more vertical than UFOD's.

WHAT

Integer valiantly shoots the wall.

Apparently these things are called Deep Ones. That's...very ominous and better than Whitethang.

VV tosses Furetchen his Dart Gun. Figure since the thing's already stunned, let's camp it!

More Deep Ones.

I even invoked some primitive form of Fire By Rank with the front row shooting and crouching and the back row firing and scooting out of the way and didn't kill that shit.

Ouch. Poor civilian bitch. Better him than us!

That ...packet, screen right, makes me very nervous.

Well shit. Total damage:

* The tank was destroyed

* JB25 II died

* Vladimir was utterly vaporized and didn't even leave a corpse. Fortunately, his items (and the deep one) survived.

* The torpedo launcher and three torpedoes died

* A chunk was taken out of the Triton (?!)

Some famous soldier, I think it was Eclipse, once declared, "aiming is for pussies lol."

Even in death, JB25 II is useful to me. Furetchen gets his stuff!

Yeah, bitches don't know 'bout skitarii.

Balcerzak actually hit it, but didn't kill it. Integer stunned it!

Nothing eventful is going on in this picture.

Is he...guarding the door?

I'm starting to get tired of not killing things even when I rarely hit them :(

'clipsey and Furet follow Skitarii's example. Soren, glory be, kills it.

woo that was close

The water is actually *flowing*. That's pretty big for 1991.

Gill Man? Really?

Wait, how can Skitarii --

you know what, nevermind.

ITP: The camera fails and you can't see the customs shack next to some dude getting shot up. I do, however, and know where the bitch what did it is hiding.

Integer GRENADE RELAYS to Eclipse. You can see it on the yellow lines.

Incidentally, grenade timers are a factor of turns. 0 means it goes off at the end of this turn, 1 means the end of the next EP, 2 at the end of your next turn, etc. However, a grenade will not go off while in somebody's hand so you can prime a grenade for 0 and hold it forever. Of course, if the soldier holding it dies...

Relays work because priming is expensive, TU-wise. Picking things up is less so. Eclipse can pick up a primed grenade, run, throw it, and run away where she couldn't prime, run, throw.

Right behind the doorway. Boom.

More Deep One and a Greenthang.

[worf]

Direct hit! ...no effect.

[/worf]

THAT'S MY LIGHTNING

STB was exploring and fell off the tower. Evidently he can fall three stories while carrying a stunned alien and suffer no repercussions.

Deep One runs away.

Our first grenade didn't kill the hiding greenthang. I have Eclipse pre-prime a second one and wait a turn. Next turn she'll blaze in, huck it, and blaze out.

Why is their immediate prerogative to protect doors?

[Integrity]

OH HEY COOL

I always thought XCOM was missing more explosive barrels.

Direct hit!

And Tarii has to finish it off anyway. Ye gads, but giant harpoon guns suck.

Soren continues to shoot at his Deep One friend.

who runs away!

Hi.

Ooh, perfect toss. This won't be pretty.

hmm. Apparently Soren's buddy was going to molest Eclipse. Let's put an end to this!

Furet hits it. Tarii shoots twice and - well shit, runs out of ammo.

Apparently Furet's one hit was enough to stave off the molestation. Balcerzak can't shoot it, let's have Tarii reload.

Well shit.

Soren tosses Tarii a spare mag,

and in true action-movie fashion, Tarii slaps it in and fires a single, lethal shot.

Fur-et-chen.

Skitarii! :D

You miss Balcerzak, Balcerzak shoots you in the fucking face with a fucking harpoon.

Also, an entire floor explodes on the EP. wat

huhwhat

Apparently the Gillman escaped from STB's grasp.

[Integrity]

Damn. Not enough TUs.

Captain, our phasers are having no effect!

yeah run away whore

STB continues the chase!

Alien musta killed himself. Huh.

Eclipse moves to block!

Balcerzak...finally missed.

Shit yeah go Tarii!

OW FUCK. Shot 3 hit the barrels.

It's okay, Furet's got a medkit.

Damn. Our escapee escaped the net of Eclipse.

ahaha tarii gave himself three chest wounds

Good lord, do you SEE the Medkit? It's like a Med...fucking...briefcase.

Eclipse blocks the door! and bzzt.

There's too much smoke to tell, but Soren was just missed from behind and from an UPPER FLOOR, INTEGER.

you said it was clear grumble grumble

Ah well, a few harpoons and it's okay again.

Deep One standing next to explosive barrels that Furetchen can shoot? :D :D :D

aw

Well fuck me.

It runs away and dies to Furetchen.

Sometimes all you can do is throw grenades at horrible creatures from the deep and pray.

Bah.

Contrary to what this picture suggests, Soren was missed. Apparently Deep Ones, uh, lob spit at high arcs at short range?

Okay bullshit that second one wasn't there a minute ago.

Furetchen primes and moves up cause, y'know, they have no harpoons left.

Eclipse...takes a fucking retarded path.

Perfect toss!

Tarii's in position now!

Barely jumped the gun on the screenshot, oh well. Explosion, Deep One dies, and ...I hear a human death scream? Well fuck. Guess there was a civvie hiding in the house.

I THINK YOU'RE THE LAST ONE LEFT. DON'T WORRY CIVVIE ECLIPSE WILL PROTECT YOU

Well that totally wasn't another civvie.

PEW PEW

Well, that's it for Tarii. Who else can --

Suddenly, from about FOUR SCREENS AWAY, Lightning.

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EDIT: Oh yeah lol, synopsis.

SIX captured aliens. Tight.

Edited October 4, 2010 by Integrity

[Jaybee]

Died again AFTER being a demigod in the previous one? Dang =(

[Integrity]

Let's try to kill you once per episode :D

[Jaybee]

Keep going until JB25 XXV.

8D

[Balcerzak]

Balcerzak ruined my spacing. More like WHORECERZAK. /shakes fist

Haters gonna hate.

I even invoked some primitive form of Fire By Rank with the front row shooting and crouching and the back row firing and scooting out of the way and didn't kill that shit.

Even if it didn't work, it looked fucking awesome.

Soren tosses Tarii a spare mag,

and in true action-movie fashion, Tarii slaps it in and fires a single, lethal shot.

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You miss Balcerzak, Balcerzak shoots you in the fucking face with a fucking harpoon.

Fine examples of upstanding moments of badassery. This was a great update.

[eclipse]

Did you just make me useful?!

If you can do that, can you please talk to Gordin in the draft tourney? Let's say he's already promoted and has a whopping 11 Strength. . .AFTER I fed him an Energy Drop.

[riariadne]

Suddenly, from about FOUR SCREENS AWAY, Lightning.

I'm a badass now. 8]

[Parrhesia]

I actually didn't totally fail completely! Holy hell!

[IGdood]

I somehow became badass..... =)

And I'm loving the primitive Fire By Rank, with HARPOONS, no less. That was so epic I had multiple gamergasms.

[Soren37]

I'm helpful!

[Integrity]

Yay, a good update! :D Too bad it's followed by this one.

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Pretty much the most interesting thing I could find was a picture of the submarine going back over the land.

See that spike up and back down? Yeah baby.

Thermal...Shok...Cannon? DO WANT

Things are just things; they can be replaced. Furetchen has a torpedo again! More SCIENCE! The tank! Soldiers!

Airbwaitwhat? How, by definition, is an Alien-SUB Airborne?

WHAT. Look at the yellow dot: that's us. Look at the red dot: that's them. DO YOU SEE HOW THEY'RE TOUCHING?!

Oh well. SONIC-BLASTA RIFLE!

We'll start research on the clips.

It's touched down. We're golden.

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Let it be said, those 15 pictures or so I took comprised over three weeks of game clock. There's some phantom activity in New Mexico that I can't find at a glance. We need a base over by the US.

Also, stats!

[spoiler=JB253]

Okay, okay, shitty low TUs and no Stamina of which to speak plus low STR, but at least he's got some damn fine Accuracy, WHICH WE NEED GUYS.

[spoiler=he's back!]

...

Wow. But for STR and Health, it's all below-average.

[Jaybee]

I can AIM, woo-hoo!

If you kill me this mission Integ I swear to god I'll-

[Parrhesia]

[spoiler=he's back!]

...

Wow. But for STR and Health, it's all below-average.

Perfect candidate for the Breach Squad, then.

[eclipse]

If you kill me this mission Integ I swear to god I'll-

I don't know what you'll do, but I'll laugh. Out of spite. Because, I'm like, worse than Gaggles.

[Integrity]

Grats, 'clipsey, my ignorance saved your life again.

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At least we're in the bottom corner of the map. IT'S ALL SO BLUE

...

At least the tank can see things?

Ah, yes, there we are. What's this brass thingamabob?

Why does Firefox recognize thingamabob as a word?

Lightning fucks up the shot and kills a chunk of the hill.

Okay, I gotta admit: Rank Firing Drills work REALLY well in this game. As you can see: Integer, Lightning and Eclipse all missed the alien, so I just pull Furetchen into formation.

yeah motherfuckers

Apparently the "brass thingamabob" was an explodey brass thingamabob. No damage, fortunately, but it looked cool as all hell.

Soren is revealed to have the same clairvoyant powers as the tank.

On Turn 2, the tank finds what Soren was "seeing"

Two perfect shots, but the stupid thing survived Soren's shot.

GOOGLY EYES

A-ha! You are to the tank's right! AVAST! HARD TO STARBOARD!

The fuck is what? Didn't I just see a harpoon there?

At this point I JUST found JB hiding in the corner. I admonish him for his cowardice and order him outside into the scary depths.

So it IS still in there what the fuck?

And now I can see it. Stupid ocean.

Lightniiiiiiiiing!

So, yeah. The only action I've seen in five turns now is something walking around some hills. The tank is scouting.

This USO is silly, but not as silly as the one shaped like a penis.

SO, you ask, WHY DID GAGGLES SURVIVE AGAIN? Well, it's because coral seems to utterly rape your TUs to travel through. It takes, quite literally, three times the amount of time to walk through. I mired Eclipse in it early and she just escaped.

That's a cool something buried in the sand. I bet it explodes.

Integer reveals a whole lot of nothing in the USO.

AHA! Man, JB must be a Spiketoid considering how COWARDLY they are.

Pathetic shot.

GOOD SHOT!

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It seems small, but I'm not even sure how four aliens fit in that craft.

whoa hey congratulations

[IGdood]

Looool coral!

Unrelated: By the way, did you decide which Indians you wanted in my thread yet?

Wait, I didn't get a promotion yet, did I?

Edited October 6, 2010 by skitarii

[Jaybee]

wait i got promoted what

And holy shit I survived.

[riariadne]

I refuse to consider JB an equal after all of his doing nothing. No fair.

[eclipse]

So I was stuck in some coral the entire time? I'm glad that stuff didn't rip my suit open (or something equally dumb).

[IGdood]

Don't I deserve a promotion too!?

[Integrity]

GEOSCAPE update!

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Large Radar is complete. That means I can dismantle my Small Radar because Radars don't stack

^^

Extra grenades arrive, just in case.

...what.

Yes. That was the entire update. I do feel bad for you folks, getting a FIVE PICTURE UPDATE, so I'm going to do a TACTICAL now too :P

And yes, Tarii, you do deserve a promotion. Unfortunately, I don't hand them out.