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I'm going to throw out Car Bomb for Superstring, in memory of the van-explosion incident in Mission 6.
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May 5, 2015 18:19
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ProfessorBooty posted:I'm going to throw out Car Bomb for Superstring, in memory of the van-explosion incident in Mission 6. Glorious.
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May 5, 2015 18:23
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That was like 11 people coming back to active duty there.  Can't think of any nicknames unfortunately.
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May 5, 2015 20:14
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ProfessorBooty posted:I'm going to throw out Car Bomb for Superstring, in memory of the van-explosion incident in Mission 6. Going to agree with Dinctus here.
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May 5, 2015 21:19
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Oh hell yes, I get sweet rear end purple armor. And eat poo poo Seekers, I don't need my breath to shoot lead in you. Also hitting 39% shots.  edit: Apparently I have magic eyes too goodamn. The game even had a mostly appropriate pre-generated nickname! I'm looking forward to this lone wolf build, I hope you talk about some of the changes to the scout tree before we actually get to them, it'd be cool to hear about some of the different things the Long War devs are doing. ProfessorBooty posted:I'm going to throw out Car Bomb for Superstring, in memory of the van-explosion incident in Mission 6. I'm going to toss my vote for this on the pile. Sometimes your nicknames don't need to be clever, just defining. Hunkering down next to a car that's about to blow up cause your commander said so is pretty defining. Evil Kit fucked around with this message at 23:13 on May 5, 2015 |
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May 5, 2015 22:39
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SaffronKit posted:I'm looking forward to this lone wolf build, I hope you talk about some of the changes to the scout tree before we actually get to them, it'd be cool to hear about some of the different things the Long War devs are doing. I might discuss some changes that occurred between betas, there was a huge change that occurred at the Tech Sergeant level (rank 5, assuming rookie is rank 0) for scouts that I will be sure to bring up when it comes by. In this case drat Good Ground was dropped for Low Profile at the Corporal rank.
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May 5, 2015 23:12
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ProfessorBooty posted:I'm going to throw out Car Bomb for Superstring, in memory of the van-explosion incident in Mission 6. approved
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May 5, 2015 23:42
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I just took a moment of time to research what country I'm from because I'm not super familiar with a whole bunch of country flags, but apparently I hail from Pakistan. Which shares a border with Kashmir where the spice, saffron, is typically grown and cultivated. And this is fairly close to South-East Asia, the voice pack you decided to settle on for me. That's one hell of a crazy coincidence. Almost like the games knows. 
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May 6, 2015 00:17
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SaffronKit posted:I just took a moment of time to research what country I'm from because I'm not super familiar with a whole bunch of country flags, but apparently I hail from Pakistan. I like that you somehow assumed the game didn't know everything about you yet. It knows what you did this year... killing a metric tone of aliens, that is.
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May 6, 2015 00:21
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I do appreciate the fact that the flyboys of XCOM are starting to display a trend of operating in pairs. Almost as though they would work more effectively if a wing of them could be sent after alien craft instead of one at a time... Crazy talk, I know, but a man gets to thinking while he spends another 14 days fixing his plane. Well done to Crowsbeak and Eepies for their joint effort
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May 6, 2015 01:53
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ModeWondershot posted:I do appreciate the fact that the flyboys of XCOM are starting to display a trend of operating in pairs. Almost as though they would work more effectively if a wing of them could be sent after alien craft instead of one at a time... What? That would double repair times!! 
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May 6, 2015 02:02
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Car Bomb sounds good to me! Let's go with it.
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May 6, 2015 02:22
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Getting ever closer to that officers promotion. 
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May 6, 2015 02:56
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That sniper fire was something else, hitting the throw-away shots. He was easily MVP there.
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May 7, 2015 13:40
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 Youtube Link A reasonably simple mission for training. Due to the overall lack of specialists, I opted to take a risk and brought 3 rookies - not normally a good idea in the middle of May, but I think it worked out quite nicely! I kind of regret taking Platoon, though. His services would be better utilized on tougher missions. Perk Talk Heat Ammo v. Advanced Fire Control v. Shredder Ammo Heat ammo gives you +50% damage versus robotic/mechanical units (the extra damage ignores DR, and there is a 2 damage minimum from the heat effect). In prior versions it was +75% and a lot more viable than it is now. For me, this means we need more heat, because large mechanical units in the late game can ruin you. Shredder Ammo gives your ammo the Shredder effect. It is step 2 of the bullet wizard build (holo target them, and shred them). Advanced Fire Control is kind of a lovely opportunist. It removes the aim penalty from overwatch, but doesn't allow you to have a crit on an overwatch shot. Heat and Shredder are up to player preferences. I like making the majority of my gunners Heat gunners, and a couple of them shredder/bullet wizard gunners. If you seriously want to make an overwatch gunner, then take Advanced Fire Control. I would only take this perk if I was doing a gimmicky 'Mostly Gunner Squad'. Honestly, an overwatch gunner undermines the gunner's ability to suppress, and gunners already get 'opportunist' when they take a reaction shot with suppression.
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May 8, 2015 13:42
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This video is private. 
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May 8, 2015 13:46
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Public now. You're too fast!
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May 8, 2015 13:46
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Thank you, you're too fast! 
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May 8, 2015 13:53
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That was a nice and quick bag'n'tag mission. 5 aliens, 3 rookies, easy pickings. It's pretty cool to hear there's extra little things you can do to get rookies bonus exp, are there any other things like activating a tough alien, or is that just the extent of it?
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May 8, 2015 15:40
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I think that's it. 80 XP for going on the mission, 25-ish XP for going on a mission with no downed soldiers, 25-ish XP if a weak soldier activates a 'difficult' pod. I don't play too much 'excel-com', so the only thing I know that works every time is activating the command group of a UFO with a rookie. Coincidentally that's why all the rookies got a promotion in mission 3, I didn't know about that last thing until about a week ago. Its something like 25 XP for administering the killing blow on an alien. Later on there will be small items and officer perks that improve how much XP a soldier gets.
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May 8, 2015 15:51
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Well that's a bit boring, they could of done something like psi soldiers getting extra XP for grabbing meld or something. The fumes would help expand their minds or some poo poo, I dunno. Missed opportunity. I also have to say Booty, I really look forward to updates and this is probably the first LP where I've been really anxious when I don't see any updates in too long. It's weird, but I guess everyone gets that one lp they can't stop  ing for. I'll be the first to admit it's probably the personal involvement of my own soldier being in the game! ...What I'm trying to say in a very long winded fashion is keep up the good work, Commander Booty!
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May 8, 2015 16:11
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I'm doing my best to have a steady update schedule  . I plan to have updates out on Tuesdays and Fridays for the most part. I happen to be roommates with Kidneyman so it makes scheduling time to record very easy. Thanks for the kind words - playing the game is a lot different and more fun when there's thread involvement, and I experience the fun kind of stress when bad things go down, though I'm trying to sound less negative and frustrated.
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May 8, 2015 16:20
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ProfessorBooty posted:I'm doing my best to have a steady update schedule ProfessorBooty am I cool enough to be an officer yet?
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May 8, 2015 16:39
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Gridlocked posted:ProfessorBooty am I cool enough to be an officer yet? I'm powerleveling you the best I can. Gotta be a Corporal first, sorry buddy.
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May 8, 2015 16:41
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Does Kidneyman have an SA account? Because he should totally be getting in on this discussion stuff, and it'd be cool to see him voting or coming up with nicknames too. I'd be more then willing to help you guys out if it's just a matter of needing to save  for food or something. Shoot me a PM if that's the case and we'll get him set up. If he's willing of course.edit: oh hell, I didn't know you needed to enable private messages in options. Just did, whoops! Evil Kit fucked around with this message at 16:58 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 16:46
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Hee. The list of named people who signed up before me grows shorter. That was impressively handled even if it was the tiniest UFO ever. All in all a nice training boost for some spare rookies.
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May 8, 2015 16:52
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ProfessorBooty posted:I'm powerleveling you the best I can. Gotta be a Corporal first, sorry buddy. X-Com me is trying her best sir. Also when I heard Kidneyman say "all you have to do is kill" at the start of the mission I thought he was making an All You Need Is Kill reference. I was sad when it wasn't.
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May 8, 2015 16:53
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SaffronKit posted:Does Kidneyman have an SA account? Because he should totally be getting in on this discussion stuff, and it'd be cool to see him voting or coming up with nicknames too. He has an account, but he's a butt and doesn't browse SA very often. I would like him to participate, at least minimally, in the thread - but its up to him really.
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May 8, 2015 16:59
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ProfessorBooty posted:He has an account, but he's a butt and doesn't browse SA very often. I would like him to participate, at least minimally, in the thread - but its up to him really. Well tell him the thread is extremely disappointed that he hasn't chimed in yet or something. We need more Kidneyman in this thread dammit!
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May 8, 2015 17:26
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ProfessorBooty posted:I'm powerleveling you the best I can. Gotta be a Corporal first, sorry buddy. Also there's a limited number of officer billets available. I think at the start you're limited to only three lieutenants, increasing with OTS upgrades and total ranks. That's one of the things I like about LW. In vanilla, you'd end up with your squad full of colonels, which is just silly for a number of reasons. Of course, in LW you end up with your squad full of master sergeants, which is pretty silly as well.
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Fister Roboto posted:Also there's a limited number of officer billets available. I think at the start you're limited to only three lieutenants, increasing with OTS upgrades and total ranks. That's one of the things I like about LW. In vanilla, you'd end up with your squad full of colonels, which is just silly for a number of reasons. Yeah, having a different way of ranking people past corporal would be cool (even something as simple as 'Corporal 2', 'Corporal 3'), then there could be some sort of NCO rankings that work differently from the officer rankings (Sergeant, Tech Sergeant ...) that are also limited in number (but not as limited, maybe a max of 2 or 3 master sergeants), less powerful, but at the same time allow psions. But XCOM is its own little organization anyway, and they don't have to deal with the trappings of real life military rank structure, so there's no problem just making everyone a Master Sergeant
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May 8, 2015 20:02
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ProfessorBooty posted:I'm doing my best to have a steady update schedule This is my favorite LP.
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May 9, 2015 17:51
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My only regret was finding this LP too late to participate. Now my dreams of becoming the fastest punching mech the world have ever seen won't ever be realized.
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Erm, Phalanx pronounced fal-anks, not fail-inx, it's been bothering me since you unlocked it.
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May 10, 2015 19:30
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Hi everybody, it's me Kidneyman. Yep, I'm that other guy in the videos who gets to bum around and relax on missions while ProfessorBooty does all the hard work. It's a smooth job but someone's gotta do it. Right? Anyway, some of you may be wondering why I haven't participated in the forums yet or anything. Well, alright fair enough, you win. Here I am. I suppose the main reason I don't post is that I'm a really quiet person in general who tends to avoid human contact like pods on a map. Except the part about blowing up pods. I don't want to blow you guys up. I consider myself much more of a listener than a talker, so I wouldn't expect to see a plethora of posts from me. But from this point forward I will at least periodically log in and respond to questions/comments directed specifically at me (if there are any). So, I hope you're enjoying the series so far! I also want to thank all of you for participating like you do. You really make this a joyful endeavor for everyone.
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Kidney Man posted:Hi everybody, it's me Kidneyman. Yep, I'm that other guy in the videos who gets to bum around and relax on missions while ProfessorBooty does all the hard work. It's a smooth job but someone's gotta do it. Right? Welcome Subcommander Kidney Man!
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May 12, 2015 14:36
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Glad to have you be a part of this ridiculous endeavor, Kidney Man!
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May 12, 2015 14:43
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 Youtube Link Right. This mission. I finally found one weird disadvantage to taking the roof. Not shown is skipping the 10 minutes or whatever to get Jimmy4400nav out of fatigue. After reviewing the footage, there's a bunch of things I could have done to mitigate the floater problem. - Used overwatch to pin the floaters in place. - Kept shotgunners in the back to protect the flanks, keep long range troops in the front to engage those floaters (Zore and Gridlocked were not properly utilized). - Paid more attention to audio cues so I could have a better idea where the floaters went. - Steady rocketeers when they end the turn in cover. I could have prevented the problem by being aware of the potential to activate bad guys across the roofs. I know now to respect lift-off a lot more in the future, especially in a situation like this that's ripe for floater ambushes. The biggest problem was that I couldn't take cover at the edge of the roof due to the risk of activating aliens in the streets. It was pretty unlucky to have every single drat pod on the same side of the map as me. I think the trap I set in the end was pretty good, though. I do think I realized how much trouble I really was in when I immediately went for a rocket. I should have been steadying Kurieg after every turn. He's just not good enough yet to fire unsteadied rockets unless they're 'non-vital' rockets. If the rocket worked out in turn 1 versus the floaters there wouldn't have been a problem. Also, I gave Kurieg a shredder rocket spare instead of a traditional rocket. Shredder rockets are great at either making large HP units more vulnerable (which I don't have to worry about in this stage of the game), or for clumped up smaller mechanical units (which, again, aren't a big concern). So I should have given Kurieg a second rocket spare. But in general things worked out. Too bad about Jimmy.  Congratulations Gridlocked in achieving Corporal Rank! Gridlocked needs a nickname!Also, I'm probably going to spend a lot more time planning my moves - I think I'm rushing the game a little too much. I'll probably start editing out tactics-chat, or at the very least, start making truncated video alternatives - anyone have thoughts on that? No time to talk about mechanics now! We have stuff to do!
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