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Somehow protag lives through certain death once again. Fuckin weird.Molothecat posted:what's up. Why have I been benched for so long? I'm a killing MACHINE. They're in the process of reattaching your arm. If you want you could go in wounded but I wouldn't recommend it because one shot could kill you. poisonpill posted:Can you sub me in for one mission? Just one tho, I don’t want to die I guess if you want, depends how the votes go.  So once again almost all our guys are injured. Akratic, the littlest prince, Cantorsdust, SavageGentleman, & poverty goat are the only ones in fighting shape.  the infiltration situation is getting to be hosed. If we don't act we might lose somebody. We just did missions in Sensovision & Marsec buildings, so hopefully those will be ok without further missions. We have living space for exactly one more agent, to take WWN's place. I'll get em' hired. There's only one living prospect too, kinda lovely stats on this bum, but better than nobody. That leaves us with 6 agents, enough for one effective squad if they stick together and I play conservatively. It'll be mostly noobs, but better than nothing. We can't afford any more losses unless we're willing to lose an org to the alien menace.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:We have living space for exactly one more agent, to take WWN's place. I'll get em' hired. There's only one living prospect too, kinda lovely stats on this bum, but better than nobody. Leave that bum in the slum and give me a gun. Wanna raid that cult!
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Somehow protag lives through certain death once again. Fuckin weird. As eager as I am to get made squaddie, it sounds like we're one invasion or base raid away from a wipe. You desperately need to get guys healed up and finish a second med bay. #2, let's live to fight again.
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Jan 24, 2018 02:21
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iirc we gotta lose both bases to game over, and if we get raided we can mostly duct tape everyone together enough to survive. Except the second base, there are no security stations to assist, so the bots will have to carry the mission on their cracked and broken backs. Now if someone 9/11'd both our bases we'd be in bad shape but I don't think we'd get game over from just that. Everyone would be murdered tho.
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Jan 24, 2018 02:26
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1A Ally Diablo then 1D Synthmesh We need our friends in the slums and we need our construction workers in the city. We're basically the mafia but we kill aliens.
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Jan 24, 2018 05:18
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1B, if we don't intervene the cult will fall to the aliens in about a day. And if we get any loot, sell it to
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Jan 24, 2018 05:35
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So what are the actual consequences of The Cult falling to the aliens? Aren't they already pretty hostile?
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Jan 24, 2018 08:00
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I think the cult would be a pretty difficult mission to take right now so I'm gonna vote 1a
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Jan 24, 2018 08:12
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1A, investigate our pyromaniac ganger buddies then 2, research, we need better poo poo
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Jan 24, 2018 08:59
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Living up to all my expectations by appearing immediately and loving things up. I vote 2, we need to just wait for some people to come out of the hospital, and hopefully develop a way to keep them out in the mean time.
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VikingofRock posted:So what are the actual consequences of The Cult falling to the aliens? Aren't they already pretty hostile? Now they're just a hostile org. Going alien means they're an actual arm of the alien menace. Iirc they get access to any alien tech that comes thru the gate, not just black market stuff. Their buildings become breeding grounds for more aliens and they will spread from those buildings in addition to the usual drop off points.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Now they're just a hostile org. Going alien means they're an actual arm of the alien menace. Iirc they get access to any alien tech that comes thru the gate, not just black market stuff. Their buildings become breeding grounds for more aliens and they will spread from those buildings in addition to the usual drop off points. Okay, yeah, that sounds bad. Still, they are only at 15% so we have some time. Let's get a little less aggressive on the investigations so our guys can heal up.
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Jan 24, 2018 19:46
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RIP me. I think that leaves about four agents left of the original starting lineup?
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it's grim. We've only got five originals left. pop fly to McGillicutty poverty goat Blue Train The Protagonist Chillgamesh This is the core of our elite squad and the only ones who can rival their kills would be walrus and snot, who are also very old compared to most agents.
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I know that this is a meta suggestion, but maybe you can switch over to real-time combat? In a lot of missions, you can set up kill zones and let the aliens walk into them and get murdered. It also gives you a leg up against poppers and brain suckers; agents should be able to kill them before they get close. The only problem is that these investigations are in tight quarter hallways, and if you try to wait out the aliens they will escape. Once the personal shields are finished researching, it would be very hard for the aliens to make a dent in the agents with real time combat.
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yeah, sure next mission will be realtime. I did a base attack like that but I was spooked by how much damage we took. Also it glitched out pretty bad.
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Jan 24, 2018 20:47
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1B because the end of times is coming... FOR THEM
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Jan 24, 2018 21:49
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Didn't we just investigate diablo? What the gently caress are they doing... Also I think my kill count on the graph is wrong, don't want to take credit for someone else's work!
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Jan 26, 2018 01:37
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 straight from the horse's mouth. Them stats is accurate. Yeah this is even after all the diablo missions we did. Barely slowed the aliens down. They're gunning for our ally.
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Jan 26, 2018 05:20
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I vote we help our ally, Diablo. 20% is an ugly fuckin' number. It may be whack-a-mole but it's a-stickin' out and we should be hankerin' ta whack it.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:
drat, I guess I'm even better than I thought I was!
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*Approaches table in the cafeteria* Hey guys, just wanted to say thanks for the opportunity to turn the tide against these alien baddies! *Sits down at the table with a bunch of veteran agents* I’ve got a bunch of great ideas I hope to share, that I’m sure will help us out a bunch. Not that you probably haven’t already thought of some great ones of course, just that sometimes you need a fresher perspective, uncolored by the foggy veil of past months. Like for starters, for some reason we brought some pineapples on the last few missions. Wouldn’t it be better to put pineapples here in the caf? So to start kicking off this new wave of optimized resource allocation, I brought one with me today! *Starts cutting into a grenade*
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*eats a hunk of exposed RDX* *barely seizes, not even noticeably postictal* "your turn, rook" prob update later today
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the littlest prince posted:*Approaches table in the cafeteria* God drat this is some good poo poo.
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Look guys, we're getting close to figuring out these personal shields, so let's hold off on new missions for a bit and finish building that second medbay so our people can heal up.
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the littlest prince posted:*Approaches table in the cafeteria* Let's do whatever this dude says
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*bursts into the cafeteria at a run, glancing frantically around, before rushing to a table and grabbing a grenade out from a soldier's mouth* "I need to borrow this. The ReMeat restraints have failed! The sex dolls won't hold them off long." *flees back through the door, leaving only the sound of pounding footsteps in the direction of Biology*
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"Look, you're my agent. If I'm not getting cast in this alien show I'm gonna have to be the pedophile in that upcoming SVU episode and how am I going to explain that to gram-gram??"
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We should put ourselves in a better position before we launch another investigation. Let's build them bases up.
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I went to update, but I was looking at steam and thought "dang stellaris is coming out with that big update, I should play a little before it comes out, been a while. Drink this coffee then update xcom." then I fell into a time wormhole and lost 14 hours. Still never beat even one game. The Serene Empire of Raktuur will teach these violent anarchists the value of peace, and their many vassal states will give unflinching support. *** right so looking at the votes investigate diablo and ⏭ are tied. Gonna load up and look at the map while the pot brews and if there's no new vote i'll figure it out. The only other votes were for investigating the cult so we'll prob investigate somebody? Dunno. @ minimum we'll make sure we have everyone geared up and at least one squad prepped in case there's any alerts.
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Change my vote to fast forward but make sure we've got enough alien meat stockpiled to BBQ on Super Bowl Sunday
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alright but if diablo gets briansucked i'll be peeved we blew 8 grand on them and also it's a big pain whenever anyone gets brainsucked.
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I vote build up a bit. When we visit my old gang stompin' grounds I want to appear strong, not weak.....Sir! Besides if we are stronger and have more tech then we should be even more effective against the aliens and reduce the infiltrations at a rapid pace.
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alright. That's what we'll do. Current progress on the personal shield is 6%. We've recovered some aliens from the last mission. Normally I don't look at them but we've actually recovered so many they wouldn't be able to store them all. That's a lot! 1 live egg 1 live multiworm 2 live chrysalises 4 live skeletoids 2 dead brainsuckers 2 dead hyperworms 3 dead anthropods 1 dead skeletoid 1 dead spitter That's a hell of a meat. It was a 9 versus 16 mission and we lost one guy while wiping the other team. Rip WWN. I'm gonna hold off on hiring a new agent, because the only one available has lame stats. This will backfire severely if there is an alert before new guys email resumes to HR. Actually no, Molo is still 55/56 HP so we can send him if we have to. While I was waiting for some deliveries I noticed Psyke and Nutrivend sending cars to various other orgs. Nutrivend in particular sends quite a few all over the city. The cops blew up a psyke car, but Psyke sent some U-hauls that made it. I assume it was a shipment of drug implants. The only weapons we have that can penetrate shields are stun gas and toxin. We are plum gave out on toxin ammo so I make sure everyone who isn't in the medbay has at least one stun grenade. PSI and stun grapples may also be effective but I'm not going out of my way to give them out anyone who doesn't already have one. We're also getting low on plasma ammo, we've been using them as a good sidearm because they hold a shitload of shots per clip and normally we can get through a couple missions without even reloading, but we may run out soon. I'm not gonna buy more because we can fall back to regular LAWPISTOLS™ if we have to. If it really comes down to it we can switch to the heavier and less accurate disruptor beams. Also all of our plasma has been looted from other orgs, so that's fun.
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Engineering pulls through with a few more toxin clips and The Last Squad is fully equipped. In the couple of hours that passed the aliens have not been idle:  pre: The Cult: 24% (+9)
Diablo: 19% (-1)
Synthmesh: 13% (+5)
Osiron: 11% (-1)
Sensovision: 5% (0)
Megapol: 3% (-1)
Marsec: 3% (+3)I don't know for sure but if someone goes alien they either need to hit 100% or it might be some thing where above 50% they start getting dice rolls and flip if they fail. I honestly cannot remember at all, maybe there's someone here who does. We make it to midnight without any alerts. Infiltration trends change:  pre: The Cult: 25%
Diablo: 19%
Synthmesh: 13%
Osiron: 11%
Sensovision: 5%
Megapol: 3%
Marsec: 3%*** Personal Shield is now at 8%. Molo, Hairtytaint, Deadbeat, HBar, and Kobolds are now fully healed. The other two injured scientists and most agents are still in. Medbay is now at 120% capacity, so as more and more guys get out the rest will heal faster until we hit 100. We're gonna need to buy some more psi amps at some point but there are none available. Additional time passes and Psyke is raided by the Government itself. That's cool and I thought the Senate offloaded all that poo poo to the cops. *** Again the aliens have not been loving around, and don't like to have all their eggs in one basket:  pre: The Cult: 34%
Diablo: 17%
Synthmesh: 15%
Osiron: 9%
Marsec: 5%
Sensovison: 2%
Megapol: 1%
Superdynamics: 1%
Nutrivend: 1%
Evonet: 1%Evonet is sorta Nutrivend's competitor, but they focus mostly on recycling and water purification stuff. Nobody else got healed up. Our current crop of functional agents are: poverty goat, SavageGentleman, Molothecat, Cantorsdust, William Henry Hairytaint, Deadbeat Poetry, HBar, the littlest prince, Akratic Method. 9 Guys. Some good heavy weapons in there, some medium styles, but heavy on psi and light weapons. Got some good toxin clips tho. What do?
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Also, it's interesting, but you can really see where the aliens are coming from if you have some info and you take a look at where these buildings are. In our last mission some of the aliens must have escaped, because all the buildings next to it are owned by someone who either was already on the list or is now. e: i guess another thing i forgot, if someone goes hostile (including getting alien'd) they will refuse to sell you poo poo. So if e.g. Marsec goes then the only source of advanced armors or ships or elerium or psi amps would come from raids. I don't think you can actually raid for ships. If Nanotech goes then we're out of medkits. Either Transtellar or Superdynamics does fuel, if that guy goes we're hosed on gas. If Transtellar goes hostile then we can't even transfer items between bases unless I have someone hoof it over. They're currently unfriendly for some reason. SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jan 29, 2018 |
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We are getting our rear end kicked, maybe it's time to focus on building our strength for a bit.
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If you think you have a good bead on which buildings are infiltrated, then Investigate Diablo and Synthmesh and get those numbers down. I think the cult is a write off at this point.
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the cult will be eternally hostile unless we pay them off and then play nice with the aliens (read: get game over). But there's a difference between hostile and infiltrated. If someone gets infiltrated then the aliens can use their buildings to breed and spread into the city (i think).
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As far as trying to detective out where these fuckers are: So there's not really a good way to show this because everything is a muddy DOS game, but the building in the upper left is where our last mission was. It's the one that looks like little paths between pink towers. The brown thing to the south is Evonet, the blue bars is Synthmesh, the red fork thing is Synthmesh, The glass ovals are Nutrivend, and the brown thing north of the glass is Sensovision. The purple arrow over the wasteland is a space shuttle from offworld. They yellow arrow in the sewer plant is one of our few remaining ships.  trying to find where the aliens are in Diablo is going to be more of a crap shoot. They're the boxed in slums. The one in the upper right is connected to a Sensovison building, which is connected to a Nutrivend farm and a Cult temple. That's connected to a Superdynamics factory and a Cop factory. So they're all interlinked. Aliens could be in any of these or none of them, we would have to wait for an alert or do an educated guess. That Sensovision building is also where there was a recent drop. I think the diablo building closest to us would have the aliens, but i don't want to piss them off too much by rifling through all their poo poo repeatedly with no aliens to show for it.
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