Snike Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 It seems that my tendency to get knocked out carries on into this game. Good to know. Also, I scored a hit. W00t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 21, 2010 Author Share Posted October 21, 2010 Sorry late update today. Had shit to do in the morning and couldn't quite churn it out before they crept up on me. So, half an update with the proper GEOSCAPE -> TACTICAL tomorrow. ----------- TRADITION! ... I can tell this is going to go well. So, you say, what in God's name are those things? Well that's why we have BALCERZAK! Notably, Mind Probing takes exactly half his TUs, so if he has to turn at all I can only do one per turn. Lobster Man. I like that. holygodwhatiswithhealthinthisgame Unfortunately, I'm impatient and reload after scanning the Lobsterman so I can scan his support. Bio-Drone. holyfucking140hpthatsmorethanourteamtogether Hm. We're not all walking away from this. I remember the Torpedo is a water-only weapon. Congratulations, 'clipsey, you got promoted to New Weapon Tester. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT BABY grah Those Lobstermen take many shots to kill. tarii. Shots connect. CIVILIAN NO lol Bio-Drones set the ground on fire. NNOOOOOO TTTAAAANK Incidentally, that's the lineup it took to kill that one Lobsterman. shit. ~~one hundred per-cent accur-a-cyyyy~~ Biodrones are pretty tough too. boom OH JESUS FUCK WHAT Is it just me or are explosions made up of a bunch of firey skulls? So, yeah. You proud of yourself, Furet? Shots fired. NINE TIME UNITS? Oh hell yes. Eclipse can make the full run! HOLYSHIT INSTANT KILL A blaster bomb flies through the fog of war and into more fog of war. This Biodrone killed JB repeatedly on the EP. I savescummed to prevent it because I felt bad for the guy. DRILL Turns out they don't explode when you drill them to death. This was a suicide mission backed up by a save just in case Lot of these fuckers. ~~one hundred per-cent accur-a-cyyyy~~ KSHGHAGHAK please ignore eclipse please ignore eclipse He ignored Eclipse! ...but how to kill him? Balcerzak sure as hell ain't getting it with his rifle... And then it hit me: Thermic Lance: Throw! I AM THE DARKNESS. I AM THE NIGHT. I. AM. BATMAN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 21, 2010 Author Share Posted October 21, 2010 AAAAnyway, enemy boat spotted. Nothing I can do about it yet, though, so Eclipse regains her weapon and -end turn- Respot him next turn. Soren weakens, JB kills. GHSAGH I just love taking pictures of the aftermath of explosions. Bet that's where that Blaster Bomb ended up. Some bitch tried to grenade Soren on the EP and failed miserably. OH HELLO ~~one hundred per-cent accur-a-cyyyy~~ Turns out two Sonic Cannon hits will generally drop these things. This one's only stunned, though, so be careful. Enemy boat spotted. bitch plz EPIC STUN ROD TOSS Like seriously, holy shit. From the arrow to Soren. shit. WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?! whrrr no no about face Enemy boat spotted. pew pew JB SURVIVED A HIT I want everybody to give a HALLELUJAH to the armor now. whrrr what That house just blew up. SWEET three fatal wounds. All patched up and good to go. Thanks Furetchen! ~~one hundred per-cent accur-a-cy and his best friend eighty-fiiiiiive~~ You can do this, Snike. CHAAARGE, TOSS Oh, karmic retribution. Remember when this fucker shot JB a minute ago? whrrr And there you are. More Lance relaying: JB to Soren to Tarii. ow shitdamn tarii survived getting shot too teehee ~~ ---------- Poor? POOR?! Fuck your shit. Hey grats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 It seems my invisibility extends to this game. WTF?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGdood Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 I survived! YEEEEES. And what the fuck, FLAMING SKULLS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 (edited) HOLY FUCK, THERMAL LANCES ARE WIN in other news, i can shoot as accurate as other people need to go melee for. bitchin' I noticed the flaming skulls before actually. Edited October 21, 2010 by Luka Megurine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren37 Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Wait, how the hell did I get promoted? Meh, this means I get lackeys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Yeah, flaming skulls were the first thing I noticed about the game when I actually started playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 22, 2010 Author Share Posted October 22, 2010 (edited) Psionics, motherfuckers. ---------- PREVIOUSLY ON X-COM: Can't not take pictures. whatever Apparently I ordered torpedoes. Seaking is now my manufacturing capital. New tank ammo arrives. bading! Eclipse's Dart Gun is officially retired. TOTALLY PREDICTABLE. We start that. I just like the word. Coelacanth. Gobwin Knob can have subs now. yay. DO WANT. Not even sure what it is. Apparently I already retired the Dart Gun. SUDDENLY JUNE ONEST fuck you new mexico Let's see results. AND THE WINNER IS JAYBEE! Honorable mentions to Furetchen and ...Mouldey Pete?! MC Strength is a fixed number and never changes; it determines both your ability to use and withstand mind control. Note Lightning's MC Strength. Anything above 80 is useful for our purposes; anything above 95 is spectacular by any standards. Amusingly, when I get psionics it always so happens that my best psions are also my best shots, making me choose between mind control and bullets for then. Only Furetchen is making me make that call today. We're exceptionally gifted. Detection online. Welcome to the brigade, Pete. I can't let a 96 STR slip by. And there we are, courtesy of FuckYeaSeaking. It's a shitty small USO, but PsiSkill improves by using it and by training each month, so let's get to using it. ---------- Also, TOTALLY CHANGED LOADOUTS. This is the standard I shall attempt to conform to from henceforth: [spoiler=the gears]Furetchen, JB, Mouldey Pete: MC Disruptor, Sonic Pistol Eclipse: MC Disruptor, Heavy Thermic Lance Integer, Lightning, Skitarii: Sonic Cannon, Cannon Power Clip Soren: Sonic-Blasta Rifle, Thermic Lance, Medikit Balcerzak: Above, but + Mind Probe Snike: Torpedo Launcher, 2x Small Torpedo, Stun Rod Edited October 22, 2010 by Integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 22, 2010 Author Share Posted October 22, 2010 Bitches, we underwater. Y HELO THAR SO, this is the MC Disruptor Use screen. Jam Implant is, essentially, Invoke Panic. It is the easier of the MC tricks to use and all it does - if successful - lowers an enemy unit's Morale by a hefty chunk. Molecular Control is, well, you'll see in just one minute. Three facts regarding all MC: Most weapon use actions in the game are %-based. What takes Lightning's godly 71 TUs 27 to accomplish will only take Mouldy Pete's 51 TUs 20. Or something. To balance this, most world actions (running, crouching, equipping, reloading) are a fixed integer. Like 4. So Lightning cannot shoot more in one turn than Mouldy Pete, but he can move more and still shoot. However, MC is a flat 25 TUs. Always. Soldiers' TUs can go up to 80. Yes, that's 3 attempts per unit per turn. Raising Psionic Skill is trivially easy. Every failed MC attempt (remember, two to three per turn) counts as one psionic action anyway - and a success counts for THREE. Psionics can be used by any soldier with training and a Disruptor on - ANY - alien - ANY - friendly can see. You mind control an alien and he sees his friends? Congratulations, your Psions have technical line-of-sight to his friends. Bada-boom, bada-bing, thank you Eclipse. Regarding why Eclipse has a Disruptor and Snike and Soren (who are better than her) don't: Eclipse can't shoot anyway. The S-Bros. can. :P And oh yesses, this is the result of a successful Molecular Control. Eclipse made this guy her bitch. I can run him around to scout for more aliens, check his stats, anything that doesn't involve the inventory screen. You can access it via exploit in UFO Defense but it got fixed for TftD :( And yes, for one turn you CAN make your pet alien shoot his own teammates. Or, even better... Throw away his own gun. Aliens are too dumb to pick up dropped weapons so... Sadly, at the beginning of your next turn you lose control of him :( ~~ My luck is good today. Oh look, you don't have a gun anymore. Shoulda kept it so he could have shot his buddy for Unfortunately, MC is a finicky bitch and doesn't work very often when your Skill is low. But that doesn't mean Lightning can't shoot our new pet in the back for no consequence. :D Now we'll deal with the first one. On second thought, should have had Soren crouch first. Oh well. pew LE GASP MORE FODDER! I levied everybody's Invoke Panics at him to little effect. Drat. what. Oh, weird, it hit. Next turn: more MC practice. Nobody can get a shot except the tank. Tiny sub! hm ho what shall be his fate. How about I actually demonstrate Invoke Panic to you? <3 yeah motherfucker. More MC practice! hm. he had a friend. Oh yeah, Soren's been running around cleaning up. whrrr More MC practice, and... whrrr ---------- So, how do you lot like MIND CONTROL? :D I know I enjoy it with drills. whrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 (edited) what. Number of gamebreaks in this Let's Play: 2 Number of them made by me: 2 This is too cool for my member title. It's now a status update. Edited October 22, 2010 by Luka Megurine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Ooh, now I get temporary underlings! DO MY DISHES, FISHES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 23, 2010 Author Share Posted October 23, 2010 GEOSCAPE good morning, my psionic friends! ---------- I just figure you don't expect anything less of me. Step 1: Finish making Seaking my manufacturing base. I might want to get a bigger scrub brigade in there... I queued up a *lot* of General Stores in Tokyo. shebang Two touched down Medium USOs? Psionic training much? what. It's tomorrow, ffs. How long does it take to refuel a submarine? Oh, also, while I was ordering shit for Seaking I ordered a sub and armaments for Gobwin Knob. And by the time the Triton is done, the USOs are gone and gone. Arrivals to Seaking and Gobwin Knob can now have a scrub brigade. Gobwin Knob can also have its own 'cuda! Well that sounds neat as hell. Defense was never my thing. wait Why haven't I learned to manufacture ammo? could this mean... ---------- Er, anyway, a Very Small USO! Any aliens are good for training! pfeh. weaklings. ... You know, I totally forgot about these guys. He's pacing me en route to the colony. I bet that's a supply ship. w/e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 23, 2010 Author Share Posted October 23, 2010 Bad news, kids. I have some work to get done starting 1100 and I may not have the time to finish the TACTICAL update on account of level 2 is fucking HUGE. I did manage to complete it, however, and I got? Missing in Action, you say? As it turns out, motherfucking stunned agents in Stage 2 count as MIA if they're not awake when the level finishes. So I'm gonna have to either hack the save or play very meticulous medkit searching - while keeping the stunned aliens I have stunned longer which is hard because they're ALL FUCKING LOBSTERMEN - and either way I don't have time for it right now. So plan for a TACTICAL update on the morning with something on the order of two hundred pictures. Whee! Also, Integer, you got zombified. Sorry, bro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 23, 2010 Author Share Posted October 23, 2010 Status update! As it turns out, simply hacking a soldier's Stun Level to 0 won't make him immediately wake up. In fact, hacking a soldier's Stun Level seems to do absolutely nothing whatsoever except make them easier to wake up via medkit - they don't seem to get up on their own (that'swhatshesaid). However, by hacking everybody's Stun Level to X+1 (where x=health) and then having Soren and Balcerzak run around and give single stimulants to Eclipse, Jaybee, Lightning (yeah, THREE OF MY BEST FIVE) and Snike, I was able to wake everybody up and leave only Integer behind. Amusingly, after hackstunning the last Lobsterman (Soren was in the position to kill it when this whole fiasco happened and fucked if I was going to run him BACK from JB's body) nothing happened in the EP - where we were supposed to win. At the very end of it - JBCCLIV has fallen unconscious followed by X-COM: TURN 36. I click to start, and it takes me to the debriefing. JB's still alive, though. tl;dr: fuck this shit, but everybody lived except Integer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riariadne Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Darn, you had to make it work... Well you didn't know and that's really lame otherwise so I guess it's not that big of a deal. pics pics pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 I'm a best?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybee Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 You came back for me?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 24, 2010 Author Share Posted October 24, 2010 One hundred and seventy-nine pictures uploading. Yeah, this is a M-M-M-M-MONSTER UPDATE Typing started at 0713 EST. ---------- Sweet forced nighttime mission! And straight out the gate? A Jellyfish. ewww his body went over two floors WELL HELLO DERE you jaybee's hooker now There's ...nothing in here. Lame. Throw away your gun! shitdamn we're on a roll holy fuck. Soren'll just go finish the dude we left. He's good at cleanup. Pete's bitch absorbs some fire. whrrr Stunned. Blah. Do you see this fucking darkness? moar jellyfishes Tarii fires an AMAZING SHOT I always click straight through the Implant Control screen. This guy is Pete's bitch, iirc spot-ting. I also have him shoot his friend right in his stupid face. His friend survives but gets angry and counter-shoots him right back in his stupid face. Awesome! Lightning got teh vision OH NO TENTACULAT KILLED MAH PET! I'm always surprised when Lightning hits. hey sup bro whrrr nnnnnngoawaygoawaygoaway TANK DESPERATION REACTION FIRE AH ENEMY FIRE The tank lived, and now we have *two* Tentaculats floating around him. Pop-up by Soren and C-C-C-COMBO wait for iiiiiiit Okay, actually, it was Integer's kill. ave! whrrr A shot, a hit, no kill. A shot, a miss. I got tired of those dudes pissing me off so I fired a torpedo and one of them and it missed. This picture is significant for some reason I can't remember. Oh, now I see. The Tasoth is dying to Soren. yeah fuckers wat Lightning has a habit of killing aliens when he goes mad. what the gayness I need you to drill people. :( it's a kill! too...tempting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 24, 2010 Author Share Posted October 24, 2010 GNAA HAA HAA gshambamtahe also, whrrr TENTACULAT Wanna know how fucking manly Balcerzak is? IT DIDN'T DIE SHIT SHIT SHIT ~~friendship!~~ Clicked right through the success screen again. Scout~ing. I just park him for drilling in a minute. furious angry rage! whrrr urgh, an upper floor. Fuck breaching, we'll just -- squee! Shoot at your friends, throw away your gun to Tarii... C-C-C-COMBOOOO GO PETE TWO IN ONE TURN He has no weapons. mega hyper gayness :( I missed the implant shot again. This one was probably Furetchen. Also, what the devil is in his right hand? OOH perfect suicide weapon y/y? What is this, [1]? The button in the top-right, if it's too dark, says "LAUNCH TORPEDO" OH MY GOD I CAN SET WAYPOINTS FOR THE MISSILE EXECUTE 90-DEGREE TURN KABOOM One survives. Oh, improbable angles. double improbable angle! Super Soren! Pete's first bitch gets Tentaculated. :( At least alien puppets don't turn into zombies. damn right There are *still* Jellyfish out there? Tarii mops up the center Tentaculat. Incidentally, that center pad is the "abort and move on" zone but fuck that I kill everything. Oh, so those little blue ...nipple things are elevators. Cool. fuck he survived Teamwork! ffs tentaculats too? Balcerzak attempted to make it around to the other side to drill the last Tasoth, but the floor is too holey. Guess I gotta move Tarii up. ah go away ok he did :D MOTHAFUCKIN ROOKIE SNIKE DRILLED YOUR SHIT BRAIN THING also: whrrr well hello Tarii gets his man and almost passes out from smoke inhalation. Snike fears NOTHING. If he had the TUs, I swear to you he would sprint that distance and sever that goddamn head. But, he doesn't. So instead, SURPRISE INTEGER Stage 1 completed typing at 0743 EST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 24, 2010 Author Share Posted October 24, 2010 shit what why is furetchen alone Oh, this is going to fucking SUCK. Why are there adorable sea critters in those pods? Really? REALLY?! Lobstermen! :o ... wow. HA HA HA yessss YESSSSS skadoosh Congratulations on living, btw. Integer in position. Jaybee takes some potshots with his dinky pistol. Tentaculats have MASSIVE PsiStr. oh teh noes my lobster died teehee~ Aw, he lived. Bastard is invincible. er, I think this picture is of him dying but ...to what? Stairs! Apparently _903 was actually of the Tentaculat running away? Soren seems to have killed it anyway. fuck This furniture isn't very appealing. wahey! ... Balcerzak just breached a room and single-handedly drilled THREE Lobstermen to death. whrrrrrrrrr fuck, hm, tentaculat and lobsterman vs. pistol and psi-amp :D Yeah fuck your shit Tentaculat whore. Now walk over to Furetchen so I can mind control you again later. INTRIGUING Well hello dere! It's an armed Lobsterman, come to clean up my mess! What...is... One shot? Oh my. That's a STUN LAUNCHER :D Now you two go play nice in a corner away from Furetchen. Like with this unrelated third party! *stun launch'd* I SEE YOU IN THE, er, BAUBLES fuck what NO INTEGER Holy shit Jaybee avenged him with the stupid pistol. *stun launch'd* I appear to have not taken the next screenshot, but he has a Stun Launcher. Perfect thing for re-stunning the Commander Balcerzak is lugging around, no? I do not relish these odds. A-HA! I SAW YOU Refreshed on that one dude. He survived his own stun bomb! Note: Balcerzak hiding in the corner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted October 24, 2010 Author Share Posted October 24, 2010 (edited) NOOO POINT-BLANK STUN BOMBS So, uh, how is Soren going to deal with the ensuing Tentaculat? With GENIUS, that's how. Plus, by missing before I realized the folly of even shooting. whrrr WADDLE AWAY HERR GOBLIN I will wait for you. Now I explain my plan: Soren picks up Integer's Sonic Cannon, with one shot left, and puts it in his left hand. Then Soren shoots the Zombie with his Rifle, killing it. Then, he drops his Rifle (for accuracy) which leaves just enough TUs for -- The Sonic Cannon. lobstars Sometimes your only option is a FUCKING BLIND MELEE RUSH nooo stun launch'd I gotta get something heavier down here. OI FUCK HI Furet can still shoot. HRM. Point blank shot! Point blank stun launcher counter. Least Lightning got them both. whrrr *corner* whrrr *corner* wh- HO SHIT whrrr yeah, fucker. whrrr whrrr This guy will spend the rest of the mission futilely clawing the tank. For now I'm shooting at it! pew pew wtf Pete MCs its shit and WHAT THE FUCK I didn't even hurt it? Go feed yourself to Soren. whrrr ---------- THAT IS TECHNICALLY HOW THE MATCH ENDED, AND THAT IS HOW WE'LL REMEMBER IT. IN ACTUALITY, SOREN SPENT THE NEXT THIRTEEN TURNS RUNNING AROUND ADMINISTERING SHOTS. ---------- Yay, no MIA! w/e yo Now we check the sodding base. YAY ALL PRESENT UND ACCOUNTED FOR Part 2 finished typing at 0808 EST Edited October 24, 2010 by Integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren37 Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 I swear, I'm so close to being a TF2 Medic it's not even funny. Except I'm way more badass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntegerZero Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 Aww, I got zombified. Hopefully my replacement isn't nearly as full of fail as my previous incarnation was. And do you like TftD or Vanilla better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGdood Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 COMBAT MEDIC.... Same in Lords of Magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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