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I'm sorry you're wrong, Guava. Bullwark owns.
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The XCOM 1 LP needs to be retroactively renamed 'The Definitive X-Com Commander's Simulation' after first 15 or so missions now that we know that everything past the first few months was Jade Star being brainjacked.
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Aug 8, 2016 21:25
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Farewell, Angry "Slab" Lobster. May you be reincarnated as the hacker you always wanted to be.MelvinBison posted:RIP Angry Lobster. Served with honor--and some clarified butter.
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Let's hope that stupid robot was worth it,Shen! It better be worth it. 
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Aug 8, 2016 22:04
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Shen's emotional chat with her father's video message was dampened a bit on my end because to me she always looks like she just smelled a fart. 
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Aug 8, 2016 22:12
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CJacobs posted:Shen's emotional chat with her father's video message was dampened a bit on my end because to me she always looks like she just smelled a fart. It was probably Lobster,God bless him. 
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Rick_Hunter posted:Who told you to bring a dead lobster back? Enjoy your food poisoning, idiot. That shoot cooked him pretty thoroughly, so it was more like leftovers.
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I missed this in my post production scramble , so let me tack this one right now. Rangers: Conceal vs Run & Gun I would like to just say Run & Gun, end of story, move on. However some people have spoken up with how they enjoy using a scout ranger to be a Phantom and be a permanent scout on missions. And while I won't say that is a tactic I find necessary I will at least admit that Conceal is a skill choice that further enables that option. So this skill choice comes down to the question of do you want your ranger to be more powerful in combat, or do you want them to be a phantom scout and stay concealed as much as possible. That's all you need to ask to pick which one is the right skill for your ranger. While Phantom and Conceal have some pretty obvious synergy going for them, it may be less obvious that Run & Gun and Shadowstep are also a very powerful combination. This combo allows a ranger to be a powerful overwatch breaker, able to close a long distance and shoot a target to remove over watch and free up your squad to move and re-position with out risk. This goes on top of all the other utility that Run & Gun brings for making dash + shotgun flanking maneuvers. Lastly I think it's very telling that Run & Gun is now a Lieutenant skill choice for Rangers where as it was the first skill given to Assaults in XCom:EU. Winner, Run & Gun. (Unless you want a non-combat scout ranger babyman)
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Aug 8, 2016 22:42
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Now the specter of Angry Lobster's successful rookie hack can't haunt me all proceeds according to keikaku (means "plan")
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Aug 8, 2016 22:51
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Poor Angry Lobster. Epitaph: Blast padding would have helped.
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Aug 8, 2016 22:54
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His Claw, now passed down. Died Well. Served with honor and Clarified butter.
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zyxophoj posted:Poor Angry Lobster. Change that to "Bulwark would have helped" and ship it.
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As a person who runs non-combat scout ranger babymen, I say that Conceal is still not very useful. Phantom is really the only skill you need for stealth, Conceal is just overkill that usually ends up just being wasted. By comparison, Run and Gun is more critical than ever with the time limits forcing you to try to cover more ground faster.
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Good night sweet prince.
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I'd like to say that the sound designer for this game is frankly amazing. The almost sub-audible mechanical buzzing a Sectopod makes is really unnerving, it's great.
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Ciaphas posted:Now the specter of Angry Lobster's successful rookie hack can't haunt me Cain  At least I hope you will now become the Hero we need. Bootcha posted:His Claw, now passed down. Huzzah! posted:Good night sweet prince. I love this so much 
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:I love how the debriefing music changes if you've taken KIA. The soldiers on the Skyranger look more somber on the way back too, if they're bringing a body with them Yeah, it was really sobering when I finished a mission with a couple losses and realized that the debrief music was almost the same but in a minor key, and your boys and girls got all mopey And by sobering I mean I reloaded because I am a giant emotionally vulnerable baby and can't stand losing videogame people under my protection 
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Man, I wish I knew there were cool robots when I submitted my soldier request. Also, I like the all the new stuff to highlight the uniqueness of each soldier. Customizable, nameable weapons that can be recovered, and the memorial has pictures and epitaphs. Super cool, and perfect for an audience participation LP like this. Although I guess generally you'd try not to be using the memorial wall too much.
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Just finished watching the mission now and I didn't know you threw away applications that specified a class. I remember my application said I'd like to be a specialist but was okay with any class. Hope that addendum prevented my guy from getting disqualified 
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Aug 9, 2016 03:30
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Canuck-Errant posted:Look, we already did that in a previous Jade Star LP, and see where it got us. I'm glad you posted this.
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Aug 9, 2016 05:00
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I believe this is the very first time Jade has lost a soldier in one of the rebooted XCOM games, other than the tutorial missions, the Base Defense mission, and the end of Enemy Unknown.
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AnoHito posted:As a person who runs non-combat scout ranger babymen, I say that Conceal is still not very useful. Phantom is really the only skill you need for stealth yeah, conceal sounds like it could be cool, but it's cool in the way pubbies who camp corners with a sniper rifle in Call of Duty think they're cool. By which I mean not at all. It could sound tempting, right? Get Phantom, Conceal, and Shadowstrike to get AWESOME STEALTH CRITS ...but you give up super useful skills for something that might occasionally come in handy on a hard target you still need a grenadier to shred for you, at which point the grenade damage and cover destruction will probably tip the scales so you don't need either of Shadowstrike's bonuses, so the whole combo falls apart because you don't need Conceal to set up for it and ... yeah. meanwhile Blademaster swords are great finishing moves, and then once you unlock run and gun it makes flanking shotgun critical hits basically the ranger's base attack. Like just parse that for a minute: Shotgun crits as a reliable form of damage. in short: Jade wasted a bunch of words saying how to pick what is probably the easiest skill choice in the game. Psion fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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When Metal Gear Sectoanthropus learns to walk upright, does that make it easier to hit it? Or is it just to deny XCOM's troops a height advantage?
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See, I like Phantom and Conceal because it lets me advance quicker without risk of multi-activation, letting me set up sick combos of mass murder for everyone else. I take an opportune shot with my ranger to kill someone, reestablish stealth, and then finish off the last pod with the ranger joining in. The LW Rogue mod class did make me build more aggressive rangers, though; my Rogue is just disgusting.
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Tarezax posted:Please tell me Julian is an alternate voice pack for the Sparks. I think you'll enjoy some upcoming content.
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Psion posted:I'm glad you posted this. *quietly equips a SPARK with a flamethrower*
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Canuck-Errant posted:*quietly equips a SPARK with a flamethrower* Just make sure you have the flamethower panic fix mod.
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I'm a big fan of Phantom because having a scout is really useful but Conceal is pretty bad. The opportunity cost of missing Run and Gun is massive and while concealment is really useful for scouting, you don't really need to re-enter concealment after you break it. There is a mission type that a Conceal Ranger can solo but it's a pretty easy mission type in the first place so it's a decent time to level up your bench a bit and you'll miss out on all that experience by skipping all the enemies. If Conceal were up against something like Shadowstep it would be worth it but Run and Gun is just too good to go without.
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Bootcha posted:His Claw, now passed down. Yeah, I vote this for the epitaph.
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For clarity, i didnt actually throw out sign ups that requested specific classes, i just ignored the hell out of the class request. There was one guy who specifically asked to be the Psi-guy and I can't remember if i discarded that sign up, or just ignored it and made him a unclassed rookie like everyone else. Man, someone in my stream mentioned making all the epitaphs Haikus, I think I might have to enact that as policy.
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Generic Soldiers Will be remembered fondly... Who am I kidding? Just something I came up on the spot with for the two tutorial soldiers who died. Don't think it's particularly good, but 
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Aug 9, 2016 10:25
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Didn't Long War from Within also have "bosses" with their giant enemies? They worked basically the same except it was like scaling a Cryssalid up by 50% and giving them 60 health or whatever. Granted i've only ever seen screenshots of those enemies so i'm not sure how the mechanics from that really transfer over to this game.
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Veloxyll posted:Chris "Hubris Button" Gasmask Having watched the Ironcast LP, this makes perfect sense after that slash-that-missed-and-revealed-more-enemies. Kinda weird Julian mentioned activating and sending the whole tower after you but that one MEC was just chilling in a corner having a robo-smoke.
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Elth posted:Kinda weird Julian mentioned activating and sending the whole tower after you but that one MEC was just chilling in a corner having a robo-smoke. Julian may have had the tower running at 90% efficiency or whatever, but he was still operating with decrepit systems. He's got a lot of bluster.
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Conceal scouts are basically there for hard difficulty Iron Man runs. It lets you avoid losses. Also do SPARKS take time to heal or is it instant after missions?
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Sparks are repaired in the engineering bay, and can be sent out while damaged with no penalty, but you can only repair one at a time so fielding more than two sparks at a time isn't very feasible.
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Grapplejack posted:Also do SPARKS take time to heal or is it instant after missions? Nah, they chill in Engineering for a while, but only one at a time. You can take damaged Sparks on missions, though, so it's not too bad. e:f,b
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