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Speedball posted:Mission suspended as Watkins, Hilda, Hugo and Bar-Lev are busy playing as Athena the Gladiator, Nisha the Lawbringer, Claptrap the Fragtrap and Wilhem the Enforcer. Respectively. That came out today? OH poo poo, that came out yesterday! What the gently caress was I thinking!?
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Bahumat posted:Torgue, if playable, would be the best character ever. Replace Zed with General Knox and that list is perfect.
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Oct 15, 2014 08:01
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Knox is no longer about though. Otherwise he would be on the list.
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Oct 15, 2014 11:22
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Speedball posted:Mission suspended as Watkins, Hilda, Hugo and Bar-Lev are busy playing as Athena the Gladiator, Nisha the Lawbringer, Claptrap the Fragtrap and Wilhem the Enforcer. Respectively. Caros posted:That came out today? OH poo poo, that came out yesterday! What the gently caress was I thinking!? Man, I forgot about that as well... Still, probably not going to get it until it goes on sale on Steam. The Pre-Sequel just doesn't grab me the same way Borderlands 2 did, mostly because the only character I'm really interested in playing is Athena and maybe Claptrap, since everyone else is a humongous rear end in a top hat, and I really hate the idea of helping Handsome Jack. I can always wait to play it, especially since my Jeopardy money is almost all gone already... The game will probably go on sale during next year's Summer Sale at the earliest, and I'm ok with that. Speedball posted:...Van Doorn is attempting to get Gearbox to make Torgue a playable character. Bahumat posted:Torgue, if playable, would be the best character ever. If Mister Torgue High Five  Flexington was playable, I'm buy this game in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, he isn't...
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Oct 15, 2014 15:14
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Being that it isn't made by Gearbox proper, I'm waiting on the reviews to shake out. If it's acceptable, I guess I'll grab it during the Winter Sale.
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Oct 15, 2014 17:12
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Not being made by Gearbox proper should be a positive thing, rather than negative. Duke Nukem Forever. Alien: Colonial Marines.
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Oct 15, 2014 18:22
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pun pundit posted:Not being made by Gearbox proper should be a positive thing, rather than negative. Duke Nukem Forever. Alien: Colonial Marines. Agreed. Gamespot said the new mechanics are great and the game looks great, and the gameplay is more of the same we know and love, but the story is poo poo. But why would you play Borderlands for story? e:VV Dunno. Review make it sound like the quirky, dark humor and general insanity is still there, but the writing generally falls flat. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Oct 15, 2014 18:50
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I don't care about the story: But what about the writing? To me,part of the appeal of borderlands is it's weird rear end humor and writing -this is still a thing?
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Oct 15, 2014 19:31
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welp, just lost my only support due to a god drat glitch, that's aggravating - is this common for the game?
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Oct 15, 2014 23:52
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Robindaybird posted:welp, just lost my only support due to a god drat glitch, that's aggravating - is this common for the game?  so yes.. Kinda, at any rate.
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Oct 16, 2014 02:56
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Never happened to me. What exactly happened? Can you reload a save to recover him/her? I'm a bit paranoid about always having multiple saves due to my laptop overheating and crashing.
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Oct 16, 2014 03:32
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Sephyr posted:Never happened to me. What exactly happened? Can you reload a save to recover him/her? basically she got shot, bled out and somehow feel through the stairway she's on so her head and arm was sticking out. I could put my support next to her and basically on top of her, but it won't register.
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Oct 16, 2014 03:40
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Robindaybird posted:basically she got shot, bled out and somehow feel through the stairway she's on so her head and arm was sticking out. I could put my support next to her and basically on top of her, but it won't register. Every now and then XCOM just freaks out about z-levels. I once had a Sectoid drop one tile under the ground and become invisible, except he was still shooting my guys like cover didn't exist. Finally had to use a rocket to root him out.
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Oct 16, 2014 04:10
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That's weird as hell. I don't think I've ever had one of those happen, though I have had trouble with z-levels mess up my pathing.
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Oct 16, 2014 04:19
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I once had a Thin Man pod activate, they went to do their first-turn scatter, and then they all took a step, jumped off a balcony, fell through the level geometry, and loving died, right there. This game is a little glitchy sometimes.
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Oct 16, 2014 05:25
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On one of the new rooftop contruction site maps there's a consistent glitch where I can't move to one spot on top of a container. Which is annoying because it's a good sniping spot!
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Oct 16, 2014 05:30
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Chard posted:Every drat time XCOM just freaks out about z-levels. Fixed for truth. Assume in all cases that the spherical blast radius for Grenades/Rockets applies only to cover, and that living targets in midair are only affected along a central circular plane that only actually intersects with their bodies for 1 out of every 60 mouseover frames. Or more colloquially, the "Why Can't I Frag This Floater/Seeker" Rule.
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Oct 16, 2014 05:59
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Speedball posted:On one of the new rooftop contruction site maps there's a consistent glitch where I can't move to one spot on top of a container. Which is annoying because it's a good sniping spot! I think I know which map you are talking about. I spent 20 minutes once trying to manipulate the camera and mouse before I could actually click to move the squaddie to the square.
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Oct 16, 2014 06:14
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Puke on Cops posted:I think I know which map you are talking about. I spent 20 minutes once trying to manipulate the camera and mouse before I could actually click to move the squaddie to the square. gently caress that square. I know that square. gently caress that square.
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Oct 16, 2014 16:42
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Enemy Within is on Steam sale today for $10. Enjoy.
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Oct 17, 2014 04:10
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Going through the mission a bit more, we are going to have a SHITLOAD of alien loot.
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Oct 17, 2014 04:10
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Enemy Within is on Steam sale today for $10. Enjoy. 12.49 for the complete package. And here I'd just tried out the demo...
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Oct 17, 2014 04:58
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Aghhh I need Enemy Within and withouta credit Card I just have no way of getting it! (No, my country doesn't give out credit cards willy nilly)
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Oct 17, 2014 05:05
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Siegkrow posted:Aghhh I need Enemy Within and withouta credit Card I just have no way of getting it! Some major department stores' electronics section (or GameSwap if those exist) sell prepaid cards/codes for Steam money.
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Oct 17, 2014 07:07
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Not in my country they don't
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Oct 17, 2014 15:28
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Siegkrow posted:Not in my country they don't What kind of third world country do you live in where you don't get a debit card as standard with a bank account.
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Oct 17, 2014 15:32
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Are we talking 'Bank' or 'Building society'? Especially if it's a children's account upgraded as you got older. Those accounts, even if they come with a card, aren't usually usable for online transactions. It has to be a proper account.
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Oct 17, 2014 15:49
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Puke on Cops posted:I think I know which map you are talking about. I spent 20 minutes once trying to manipulate the camera and mouse before I could actually click to move the squaddie to the square. It gets worse on the battleship raids.
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Rumda posted:What kind of third world country do you live in where you don't get a debit card as standard with a bank account. Maybe not just a regular bank account, but definitely with a checking account. Deadmeat5150 posted:Enemy Within is on Steam sale today for $10. Enjoy. Blargh, spent most of my Jeopardy money already this past weekend at NYCC... Ah well, I'll scrounge up some money somewhere.
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Rumda posted:What kind of third world country do you live in where you don't get a debit card as standard with a bank account. Oh we get debit cards. They just aren't VISA backed debit cards, we get backed by some lovely local version of it that isn't accepted online anywhere. we also have to pay like 5 bux every time we use it.
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Oct 18, 2014 02:13
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Session fully recorded (spoilers: aliens died) now I'm editing images.
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I wait with anticipatory glee. I just stumbled across this LP today and I must say, great work speedball! I found myself actually quite connected to the characters, and I was very upset when Allen died, shame on you  (Which means you did your job as a writer, I suppose)
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BTW, I am so jealous of you on Site Recon. I lost my 5 Canadian team of majors to it. (The only non-Canuck was Zhang)
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bunnyofdoom posted:BTW, I am so jealous of you on Site Recon. I lost my 5 Canadian team of majors to it. (The only non-Canuck was Zhang) Oh, sad. Even sadder: they were defending their homeland on that mission.
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Speedball posted:Oh, sad. Even sadder: they were defending their homeland on that mission. My homeland too. Althought, it was Newfoundland, so it's not like it was a big loss
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Part 21: GANGPLANK!!! (You sunk my Battleship!)  So… ? It wasn’t a “Don’t touch my daughter” speech. He leaned in close, said I was doing a hell of a job and that he recognized how much hell I’ve been through and that it makes me one tough bastard in his estimation. He was also appreciative of how considerate I’ve been of Hilda. Though…there was one thing he said. Huh? “It’s not me you have to worry about.” Say… how’s Mimi doing? Better, but she still needs rest. She’s been on EVERY mission we’ve had since she was cyberized. I don’t know if she even knows how to take it easy.  “Grassh fa grroola GREEE-GAAAA!” “Your eyeballs will make… excellent armor wax…” Ah, good, the translator program is working! Soon we’ll know everything they discuss to each other.  Thanks to our base setup, we’re shaving off a lot of costs of building materials during construction, up to around 40%. Great. I think it’s time to build a secondary laboratory next to the gene lab while we can afford it; it’s taking too long to unlock the aliens’ secrets. After we put the finishing touches on our more specialized laser weaponry, we need to research that Outsider Shard, according to the interrogations that thing is the key to finding the aliens’ home base.  Commander, you-know-who is calling us. They’re ready to put that alien battlecruiser out of commission! This is it, boys and girls, assuming we don’t screw this up, we’ll have a wealth of alien technology at our fingertips to play with. But it’ll be hard. Our big guns are out of commission, so it’s down to the flesh-and-bloods to handle it. I know you can, though. This may be a long mission, so I want both of our supports ready to provide medical support, and we are going to be blowing the crap out of strategic areas of the battleship, so we want heavies too. Princess, I’m sorry we don’t have laser sniper rifles ready yet. It’s fine, I’ll make do, sir! I feel so excited… After this, we’ll be heroes! Don’t count it as a victory until we’re victorious. The short version, team, is that we need you to blow up five or six power conduits. The battleship has emergency antigravity engines according to our pilfered information, but destroying the power conduits will make their main engines die and the whole thing will gently sink to the ground. The chopper escorts we have set up are equipped with criss-crossed cables that we will use as a gigantic net to catch the whole thing, COMPLETELY intact. Except for the parts we blew up. You’re sure the thing won’t just crash the moment we do this? Positive. Worst-case scenario, I’m wrong and you’ll all die, but you’ll have taken a horrible weapon out of the hands of the aliens. Great. I think one of us will live. Cam regenerates like Wolverine… I am not immortal. Allen proved that.  Whoofs, we’re high up. I wish we had been equipped with parachutes… I can see the buildings pretty close, we’re not THAT high up. In fact we’re going to be scraping the deck if we aren’t careful. Move up SLOWLY. Time is on our side, we don’t have any meld canisters to worry about. Okay, they didn’t spot me, but there’s Thin Men up ahead, guarding one of the power conduits. Either blow it up or switch it off. There’s six of them in all. Preferably switch it off if you can, because I don’t want you to waste rockets on things that aren’t trying to kill you! Right. Everyone, surround the Thin Men and take ‘em out!  X-rays down! Two more hopping in from…somewhere! Gra ba-ma da! Gra ba-ma da! Fagreer! That translates as some sort of intruder alert call. Watch out. Got the low one, that just leaves the one way up top! He’s ready to snipe anyone! I’ll draw his fire. YOW! Haha, not even close. That’s one conduit deactivated. Now, I’ll shoot the sniper…  GAIIGGGH! Whoah. You buried him in rubble from his own cover. Great! Everyone move up. Slowly. Cover all angles! It seems instead of ladders, the aliens have some kind of… antigravity launching pads. What an excessive use of technology for a simple task. I dunno, man, the opportunity to have real-life Unreal Tournament-style jump pads would be pretty awesome. Cam, they have a chrysalid on this ship! poo poo. They must have been saving it for emergencies! Everyone, keep your trigger fingers itchy. I can see it! I’m not set up yet, taking a potshot with the pistol. Everyone else on overwatch! The moment it pops around that corner I want you to vaporize that sucker. No zombies on THIS mission. RAAAAAAAAA! Hello again, Mr. Zhang. Augh, gah… Kill that bastard! Oh, yeah. I got this. Enemy down! Great shot. I think I need to update your code name. You gotta take it easy, Zhang, you’re not a young man any more. Geh. The armor took most of it… but perhaps you’re right. Right, for the next bit, everyone use the jump pads to get on top of these towers. I sense more aliens up ahead, as well as another power conduit. We’ll need the height advantage. Yup, what did I tell you? Rash ja nana-gaaa. Corrum-bra. Something I can’t translate. “Six -something- becoming less?” I don’t think it’s talking about the power conduits. Taking the nearest one down!  I got the one on the right!  More have appeared. Gaaaah, I missed! Knock-knock! Fashion Police! Huh? We’re here to shoot everyone wearing tacky Action Wada suits.   Second conduit and Thin Man down, but there’s another bug over by the door to the right. ANNIHILATE! Once again, Officer Gutierrez to the rescue! Great job. Everyone, reload and stack up on the doors. Fah ba ba grag. Corrum-bra-naloog. “Prepare for death. Four becoming less.” Oh…poo poo! It’s not counting the power conduits, it’s counting DOWN. If we don’t disable this ship it’ll self-destruct, blow up the whole city! We’re set up! I sense at least one alien behind each door. Now, breach!  Hilda, vanish and scout ahead! There’s one little sectoid guarding the conduit to the right. No sign of...what the hell is THAT? The hell is that?! It’s a mini-UFO! I don’t see any gun ports on it, but I don’t trust anything we haven’t seen before. As soon as you’re in position, blow that sucker apart, heavies! I don’t know what it is, but it probably won’t like being shot with an EMP dart. Positive hit, but it’s still moving. This thing is much tougher than anything we’ve ever faced before! Another thin man by the last conduit on the right. I’m taking the shot! There’s a Muton too, next to the left conduit. Must be the announcer guy, maybe the captain. He’s got one of those extra-big plasma guns! I don’t want to risk being shot, I’m popping smoke. poo poo! That was too close! RAAAASH FA MOOO NARGA! Something like, “you shall become our shoes!” I think this is a metaphor for imperial conquest. I sense more enemies incoming! EVERYWHERE! Behind you, Hugo! Behind you, Cam! And in front of ME! poo poo. Thin Men on all sides! You didn’t think it would be THAT easy, did you? Face death with dignity, Cameron Watkins. The self-destruct procedure cannot be terminated. If that were true you wouldn’t be shooting at us, rear end in a top hat. No more stalling. Heavies, kill that disk before it makes our heads explode with microwaves or something. Everyone else, pick a skinny and toast him! Get the hell out of my country! Two in one minute. This old dog isn’t dead yet. Got this one, Hilda, take out the guy behind me! He’s dead. RRRARRRG GUULA GUUGGG! “Your mother gave birth to you!” Uh…I think he’s insulting the fact you’re NOT a clone. Oh, you son of a bitch. My mother? Let me tell you about my MOTHER! Grauugh! He’s running! I got him! Great shot! Eva, you’re amazing. Hee hee. I got this power conduit. Someone power down the last one, that should disable the self-destruct and let us take control of this battleship! Will do! Twenty aliens dead, and a simply enormous amount of alien material salvaged. I’d give you all a vacation if I could, but instead, take heart knowing that I’ll probably be able to give you all really cool gadgets to play with. And pay upgrades, too. Hugo, you’ve earned yourself a code name. Zhang, we didn’t know anything about you when you were hired, but you’ve definitely earned your keep. I thought perhaps you might execute me to preserve your secrecy. Thank you for disproving my pessimism. Trust me, I learn from the mistakes of other agencies. Killing you would be like chopping off one of my own fingers. Take some time off in the hospital, you got really singed, there. We destroyed the disk before it had a chance to attack us, but even from a preliminary examination I can tell you it would have been very, VERY bad if it had. It’s some kind of robot, armed with powerful plasma beams. The battleship’s fusion cores can also be examined for more directed-energy weaponry, once we have time. We have a shitload of raw material to work with. Now I don’t feel so bad about selling off some alien junk before. But this time, we’re keeping it ALL. We need to build a better UFO-detector. And next I’m prioritizing the research of that Outsider Shard… we want to know what the hell it is sooner rather than later. So, Eva…you seeing anyone? Not…currently. Well, let’s have a date. We’ll keep it simple; grab some popcorn and watch a movie in the Officer Training Center. I hear tonight they’re showing something good. Ooh!To be continued! quote:
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Excellent update, as always- I especially loved all the goofy alien curses. And personally, I'm hoping that alien tech'll lead to a cool transhuman future- I mean, with all the mecha parts and gene modifications, we seem to be going in that direction. Just think of all the possibilities for healing the disabled alone! Mec technology would be wonderful for construction workers, the various physical boosts from genes as well, all the weird rear end arguing over if this stuff should be allowed in sports or not... It'll be great!
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Goddamnit. The Mutons are *Clanners*? All yelling about Freebirths? Kill all mutons.
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Nice handling of the Douchedisk, I forgot this is the first time you've seen one this playthrough. Shitton of research opportunities come out of this mission too, I love it. Can't wait until you get those Blaster Launchers researched, those things are always fun to play around with.
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