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Bone marrow. Yeah, I'm boring, but I like healing and a longer healthier life would be nice. Because of this LP (and I felt like playing a sniper/shooter last night), I started playing The Bureau: XCOM Declassified lat night.
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Yeah, adrenal neurosympathy would be cool in a lot of ways... but if it also triggers off of other brain chemicals I don't want to make everyone around me deal with my depression. Well, more than they already do. And as I said, jumpylegs would be really awesome if I thought I had the dexterity to not kill myself while using it. If I missed the part where the mod gives you that incredibly precise level of muscle control sign me up and excuse me while I go relive my favorite parts of Assassin's Creed (running around on and climbing famous landmarks)Chard posted:I have to say I would choose bioelectric skin. Having an entirely new sense organ, plus electric-shock skin, would be pretty boss. I've been scuba diving a few times and it's awesome but you're so out of your element it's hard to appreciate everything. Being able to literally feel the life around you... that's the stuff of dreams. That's an extremely strong argument. Depending on how healthy the bone marrow regeneration makes you (it seems like extremely, considering the rate of regeneration) I might change my answer. Especially since the number of calories you have to eat for regeneration to be feasible would be insane.
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Fire Storm posted:I started playing The Bureau: XCOM Declassified lat night. sorry for your loss nah seriously, the Bureau is really maddening because it has some really cool ideas and some really awful execution. And then it has bad ideas and decent execution and you never know what you'll get ![]() Psion fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Psion posted:sorry for your loss I think that sums up the game perfectly. By the end of it, I was so sick and tired of the game, I couldn't wait for it to be over.
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JT Jag posted:You probably still age even with regeneration. You might age slower though, because the cellular breakdown is delayed or more efficient. Ehhh, but then there's cancer. You might live longer with regeneration, or you might die a horrible death in five years from cancer of the absolutely everything. Who knows?
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Bone marrow. Because regeneration is that drat useful. I have bad knees already, and if I could get that, I wouldn't any more... I miss being able to run.
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Ratoslov posted:Ehhh, but then there's cancer. You might live longer with regeneration, or you might die a horrible death in five years from cancer of the absolutely everything. Who knows? Or you get cancer of the everything, regenerate enough to never die from it, but go irrevocably insane from it and gain the power to break the 4th wall.
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Which one gets your body to build motor neurons? I'll take that one. Failing that, I'd like my muscles rebuilt in some way.
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Well, given the mechanism of Meld as presented it could make your body do all sorts of things that aren't technically options in this game. You could definitely 'cure' genetic disorders with it (just use it to combine their genes with a healthy human's instead of freaky alien poo poo) and in principle curing cancer with it would be equally easy, since cancerous cells inherently have damaged genetic information.
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Depending on how this slightly-different-universe magical biopunk goo operates, any one of those mods might give you the option to spend the next five hundred years dying of terminal agnosticism or it might turn you into a fluorescent pink gorilla-kaiju if the plot requires it. Or both! Writers just can't get enough twists.Ciaphas posted:People getting old and broken and wanting to fix it? Maybe most of the responses are mundane and/or silly because this kind of transhumanism is a bit far-fetched? Or maybe everyone is a bunch of prudes and hypocrites (e.g. 'society') and nobody wants to admit that combat pheromones would fulfill their dreams of being surrounded by a perpetual bloody riot.
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I think I'm going to need to make these polls a regular feature.
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So are these are being framed as polls to noncombat XCOM staff? Like one day a janitor who's working at the base is told he has to fill out a piece of paper about which gene mod he'd like to have most?
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JT Jag posted:So are these are being framed as polls to noncombat XCOM staff? Like one day a janitor who's working at the base is told he has to fill out a piece of paper about which gene mod he'd like to have most? More or less, yeah.
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It'd be bioelectric skin by the way. He'd be able to FEEL the stains.
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Speedball posted:More or less, yeah. If that's the case about half the staff really want mimetic skin to shirk work, but put down something else.
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I imagine that Bioelectric Skin basically functions as Daredevil Vision, with your skin constantly emitting electrical pulses that function as sonar. So you'd be able to detect things that are where they shouldn't be constantly in a full cone around you, compared to binocular vision where you can only see a narrow field of view. Whoever mentioned how cool it'd be to have another sense organ entirely, you have a good point.
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As someone who is just barely-not-legally blind without glasses, Hyper-Reactive Pupils, please. I would like to be able to see again.
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Can bone marrow regen repair nerve damage? Especially damage that has been lived with for a long time? I'll support any medical technology that would let my dad use his hand again before he passes. Real talk.
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Part 19: Site Recon, AKA CHRYSSALID HELL!“Allen’s Movie Pile” posted:John Carpenter’s The THING! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To Be Continued! Commander's Poll posted:
Speedball fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Sep 30, 2014 |
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The newfoundland Chrysallid mission is fantastic, especially the first time you do it. Really unique, especially the final part where you get the gently caress out of dodge with a horde of them right on your heels. As for most hated alien (that we've seen so far) I have to go with the Thin Men. There are a lot of missions where they just drop out of the sky out of nowhere, and if you're a new player who isn't familiar with when they trigger and aren't prepared with guys on overwatch at the exact right place they can really gently caress you over.
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I think I speak for every X-com player when I make this simple statement. gently caress THIN MEN.
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Beaglerush recently did this mission in Long War in his Live and Impossible series, but he solved in a somewhat different way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAIctku3O0s. Most hated alien? Cyberdiscs. They are hard to kill if you don't have the right troops with you and they have grenades. I'm just glad I haven't seen one use its special attack Death Blossom in single player.
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IMJack posted:I'll support any medical technology that would let my dad use his hand again before he passes. Real talk. Functional electrical stimulation looks promising. Also, several technologies that are being applied to limb prostheses can be applied to nerve damaged limbs. A group of professors and assistants from my university is working on a cheaper version of existing electrical stimulation devices that's supposed to restore a certain amount of control to people with hand nerve damage. I'm sure there's something similar being done wherever you live. ![]() ![]()
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pun pundit posted:I'm just glad I haven't seen one use its special attack in single player. One of the only times I ever saw the ai use it was to deliberately murder one of the harder captures in the game that I had just made. I'm gonna go against the grain and say mutons, you need their rifles so you try to capture a lot of them, and with the expansion the ai has gotten tweaked enough that I've literally seen them grenade themselves rather than be taken alive.
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Out of the ones we've seen so far, Thin Men. Even in late game I still have to be careful thanks to their poison crap. In general Sectopods or Cyberdisks.
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pun pundit posted:Most hated alien? Cyberdiscs. They are hard to kill if you don't have the right troops with you and they have grenades. I'm just glad I haven't seen one use its special attack Death Blossom in single player. gently caress them.
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Definitely Chryssalids. But not because I just had an encounter go REALLY WRONG with like six of them before I had laser weapons fully out, no sir. RIP my assault Major, you were pretty good. ![]()
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pun pundit posted:Most hated alien? Cyberdiscs. They are hard to kill if you don't have the right troops with you and they have grenades. I'm just glad I haven't seen one use its special attack Death Blossom in single player. Echoing this. gently caress those things with a rusty spoon.
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I dunno, that enemy can be dealt with pretty rapidly if you make it a priority, and it never shows up in groups so you can make it a priority. My least favorite is Ethereals because not once have they failed to mind control my soldiers. Not even the Volunteer, goddamn!.
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legoman727 posted:I think I speak for every X-com player when I make this simple statement. Thin men are fine actually. gently caress CHRYSALLIDS. Either you know what you are doing, or they wreck your poo poo. There really isn't any middle ground.
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I believe that mission gets a lot easier if you blow up all the sharks and the whale during the approach by using grenades, rockets, and Collateral Damage.
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gently caress Cyberdiscs. I had one of those on the mission after the train station and not only do they more hit points than god, but their corpses block chokepoints.
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pun pundit posted:Most hated alien? Cyberdiscs. They are hard to kill if you don't have the right troops with you and they have grenades. I'm just glad I haven't seen one use its special attack Death Blossom in single player.
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I liked the couple of lines about non-government organizations getting their filthy paws on alien tech and what that would mean. XCOM really doesn't delve into anything that isn't happening in either your base or your crosshairs and I've always thought that was kind of a weak point. My most hated enemy is probably Berserkers, not because they're hard to kill (they aren't) but because they are dumb as rocks (see: easy to kill) and don't really feel like they fit with the rest of the alien forces. They're basically just walls of idiot HP to be chipped away during a real fight.
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pun pundit posted:Beaglerush recently did this mission in Long War in his Live and Impossible series, but he solved in a somewhat different way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAIctku3O0s. Add me to the list, even post EW with the new enemies and buffs to Sectopods, I still hate that other enemy even more. Just from the additional 'oh, you BASTARD ![]() As for SHIV, I love those things but I was always too much of a cheapskate to buy and research them. Plus using them as cover just screams to my paranoid brain 'This isn't cover, it is a Please Throw A Grenade At Two Targets sign'. I am also convinced their bumper and headlights looks like a frowny face.
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Anything with grenade capability. I've lost more people to discs and some of the really heavy hardware but grenades always catch me off guard.
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pun pundit posted:Beaglerush recently did this mission in Long War in his Live and Impossible series, but he solved in a somewhat different way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAIctku3O0s. Gotta agree here, if you have one of those active and not enough firepower to take it down get ready for a world of pain.
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Redeye Flight posted:Anything with grenade capability. I've lost more people to discs and some of the really heavy hardware but grenades always catch me off guard. That's very true. The ability to do guaranteed damage to you, no matter what sort of cover you're in, gets very unpleasant on longer missions where the aliens can just wear you down with attrition - it's one of the reasons why I love my medics so much. Plus, the only thing more annoying than realising that all the good cover is too tightly packed is realising this after you've already moved your troops in. I once had two soldiers hiding behind the same truck, in full cover. The grenade went off and then the truck blew up. Sad times. Chard posted:My most hated enemy is probably Berserkers, not because they're hard to kill (they aren't) but because they are dumb as rocks (see: easy to kill) and don't really feel like they fit with the rest of the alien forces. They're basically just walls of idiot HP to be chipped away during a real fight. I think they work pretty well, because they're an imminent threat - it doesn't matter how good your lines of fire are to the rest of the enemy, if you don't take down the Berserker right the hell now then somebody's in for a really bad day. Berserkers are there to soak up your fire while the Mutons do some killing, and they're very, very good at that job. Plus they're pretty scary the first time you see them.
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Chard posted:I liked the couple of lines about non-government organizations getting their filthy paws on alien tech and what that would mean. XCOM really doesn't delve into anything that isn't happening in either your base or your crosshairs and I've always thought that was kind of a weak point. I remember playing in a Spycraft tabletop campaign that was, unbeknownst to us, an X-COM game. We started out investigating rumors the IRA had gotten its hands on some kind of experimental gun and was selling it on the black market for huge bank, and ended up having to fight off Sectoids and Mutons as an NSA cell. Those were good times. Also, I loving hate Thin Men, for the poison.
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I've never played XCOM (or earlier iterations), despite my abiding love of Julian Gollop's "Chaos". So I don't have any gameplay reasons for my prejudice against Thin Men. Just the whole Matthew Lillard thing. gently caress Thin Men.
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