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Just pay them. I'm tired of hiding in bathroom or having to put on pants to evacuate after they raid our bases. We can always gently caress them up forever later on when we have a lot more resources.
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Ok, so something slightly fucky is going on. In this game you can't actually save during those diplomacy screens, but I have a slightly earlier save. I dunno if dosbox can do state saves like the ol rom emulators of yore. Everything happened the same except the market is a little different and we have slightly less money, and the guys who are wounded / healed are slightly different. It's not enough to noticeably change anything but it's kinda weird to me. All the available physicists suck balls tho, so they won't get hired. Psyke and Nutrivend actually wanted slightly less money to make amends. Nutrivend was still way way too high so I told them to gently caress off. We payed Psyke. It was a couple hundred less than what they wanted before. The Government, Megapol, and Diablo are allied. SELF is friendly. Psyke is now neutral. Transtellar is unfriendly. The Cult & Nutrivend are hostile. Engineering is able to complete a few runs of various stuff.  The Protagonist, Molothecat, HBar, and every bot is injured. Big Beef City is finally able to work again, but we still have no topics. There is an incursion:  we were lucky, and got an opportunity to try to pin down the pancake by itself. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get enough damage out to do anything but break the shield. On top of this I was only paying attention well enough to see where 2/3 of the drops happened, but I have a good idea where the third was.  pre:The Cult 22% (0) Synthmesh 8% (-1) Diablo 5% (0) infiltration is currently "ok." If we can scoop these drops it'd put us in a really good position.
a) The Cult b) Nutrivend a) Cultivator Two. Owner: Nutirivend. Function: Hydro-Farm b) Recyclotorium One. Owner: Evonet. Function: Recyclotorium c) Babylon Apartments. Owner: Sensovison. Function: Apartments (not 100% certain this is the 3rd drop) SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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Feb 8, 2018 15:43
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also that second shwarma did whatever it did extremely fast as gently caress. It either dumped it's load as soon as I moved the screen off of it, or it bailed out and fleed back to the alien zone?? We'll see how infiltration goes and we'll know.
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Feb 8, 2018 15:48
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2a, 2b, 2c in order. Stamp out infiltration before it spreads, and get a few goodies from Nutrivend too.
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Feb 8, 2018 16:01
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HBar posted:2a, 2b, 2c in order. Stamp out infiltration before it spreads, and get a few goodies from Nutrivend too. Seconded. * reaches for pudding cup * Is there any operational downside to Nutrivend being hostile, besides the occasional exchange of gunfire?
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Feb 8, 2018 16:09
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not particularly. They don't sell anything we give a poo poo about and they don't seem so likely to do their own raids. We'll probably have to kill their security guards but my guess is there will be less or weaker guards than Psyke uses. Also I think they are enemies with Evonet but those guys just run the recyclers and stuff so it's not like we'd hugely gain from them being friendly. I think most orgs will have their own agents and ships but only really use them defensively? Most do not seem to send out ships against the aliens unless there's an obvious physical attack on the buildings. If you guys want we can use the investigation at the farm as an excuse to cause Nutrivend considerable monetary loss but we wouldn't particularly gain anything from it. They'll already be losing anyone they put up against us.
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Feb 8, 2018 16:53
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HBar posted:2a, 2b, 2c in order. Stamp out infiltration before it spreads, and get a few goodies from Nutrivend too. Yeah this but with 2a and 2b flipped so we do nutrivend second because they're lower priority on account of being angry dicks.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:00
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HBar posted:2a, 2b, 2c in order. Stamp out infiltration before it spreads, and get a few goodies from Nutrivend too. Thirded.
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Feb 8, 2018 18:11
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I started the mission, and let me tell you, I am very disappointed HBar was too wounded to come along. We brought the demo charge but it's a lot clunkier (even if it does make a pretty big boom)
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Feb 8, 2018 19:19
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Weird. Right after the UFOs our various enemies sent out some vehicles. This ambulance left the farm we're on our way to right now. https://i.imgur.com/WbX8Toh.gifv It's time to crush them and drive our enemies before us. https://i.imgur.com/YBd989J.gifv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9icM1Wth1o Investigation -- Cultivator Two: Owner: Nutrivend. Function: Hydro-Farm. S1: xsuperkidx, haven't heard a peep, Blue Train, the littlest prince, The Kingfish S2: SavageGentleman, The Cubelodyte, Cantorsdust, guns for tits, Akratic Method So we load in, map is a little bit different than our first mission. Peep floats up and spots 3 Nutrivend security lined up and a spitter by itself.  Savage pulls off a mind control. One of the security guards spots more aliens hanging out by the meat vats:  god drat it would have been a perfect spot to launch rockets Looking through the security guard's eyes, we spot 4 spooky skeletons, and two more guards   Got our work cut out for us. The guard didn't have enough time to do anything really useful, so I prime some grenades and hold them. This will at least provide a distraction. https://i.imgur.com/bNFrsFX.gifv Blue Train has the demo charge. If we can get there quickly enough, we should be able to blow the whole goddamn thing to hell and kill half the aliens in one shot. This is going to suck tho, there's very limited cover because of how fragile the whole place is. We need to be ready for when those yellows show. I complete the delicate calculations and deploy the charge. https://i.imgur.com/ZfqsTto.gifv ah Christ I think I hosed up I move our guys into something that's similar to cover, but Cube notices yet more security: https://i.imgur.com/tOf1vIG.gifv Nice, dude During this next part I basically just screamed at the screen: https://i.imgur.com/r2kmsBq.gifv Oh my god a loving disaster a total disaster. I should have thrown down smoke. I should have had Blue shoot through the wall and hide in the bushes. God drat gently caress me.
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Feb 8, 2018 19:53
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Shoot, them X-Com boys in a whole heap a' trouble
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Feb 8, 2018 20:14
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Superkid kills Kingfish: https://i.imgur.com/UbyPjQI.gifv After this Littlest grabs the other brainsucker pod so it won't hatch. Akratic goes nuts with grenades: https://i.imgur.com/nOs2TRt.gifv Cantor goes nuts with toxin: https://i.imgur.com/TNtnOEd.gifv Not shown but we pass out minbenders. I left HBar with one but forgot Cantor like a dumbass. I drop smoke to cover the guys on the ground. Have our flying guys try to shoot a human, but it goes less then swimmingly: https://i.imgur.com/Hf8pzmW.gifv This is loving bullshit. When we shoot off the map it doesn't fuckin bounce back like it hit a wall. This is fuckin bullshit. I have our flyers sink into the smoke, although I think I put them too close to the ground. If that thing hatches and climbs up someone's leg i'll be pissed. https://i.imgur.com/wlQkFXd.gifv I hate this loving game. I loving hate it, everything sucks about it, i'm terrible at it, gently caress this game. https://i.imgur.com/KIcQmN0.gifv are you loving making GBS threads me!? i'm done. I gotta walk away from this one. I'll update it later. e I was so pissed I hosed up the last capture SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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Feb 8, 2018 20:18
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Vote while I go do work poo poo for the next few hours: Abort Mission: y/n? We'll lose a substantial amount of equipment, including the confusingly hard to get psi amps. But our remaining guys will live to fight another day.
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Feb 8, 2018 20:24
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Abort abort!!!! Now I'm happy that I'm on guard duty back at base lol
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Feb 8, 2018 20:29
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Who all has died / who all is left? And what do you think our chances of turning this around are?
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Feb 8, 2018 20:56
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Goons, we are leaving. Losing the psi amps sucks but we can't afford to lose more agents.
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Feb 8, 2018 21:10
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VikingofRock posted:Who all has died / who all is left? And what do you think our chances of turning this around are? 4/10 agents are dead or brainsucked. Coincidentally they were the best guys in the mission. Akratic is certainly dead unless they bail off the map or we pull off an amazing teamwork save. Most of the skeletons are dead but I would estimate 20+ remaining enemies. Our remaining guys are somewhat lightly armed, mostly psi-toxin-plasma or flying disruptors. Machine gun. Handful of grenades. Biggest threat is more brainsuckers, our own agents, or getting one shot before we can react. Imo either we need to hunker down by the exit and bail if it gets too hot, only proceeding thru the rest of the mission if we can successfully pull a 300-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder, or we grab whatever equipment can and leave now.
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Feb 8, 2018 21:33
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Regroup by an exit. Bail if they dont attack us one at a time in an orderly line.
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Feb 8, 2018 21:45
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Aw, god drat it. Out of medbay and straight into a brainsuck. poo poo.
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Feb 8, 2018 21:57
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you almost made it. If you had reaction shotted one more time, or if akratic had landed a shot, you'd be fine. Hell, you had a decent chance to just overpower the thing and tear it off ur head, but it just didn't work out. sorry bro. I got too cocky. If we had some stalwart bots this whole sequence definitely couldn't have happened. They're all hosed up and torn to poo poo tho.
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Feb 8, 2018 22:01
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Listen, I'm sorry our guys got face-raped. I'm sorry our guys got vaporized. But, this is a war for survival. There is no surrender. Agents come back victorious or they don't come back. Suicide bomb the Nutrivend towers if that's what it takes to kill the aliens.
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Feb 8, 2018 22:11
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xsuperkidx posted:Regroup by an exit. Bail if they dont attack us one at a time in an orderly line. Seconding this.
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Holy crap, I missed so many votes and mission updates because SnotGrumble posted:Listen, I'm sorry our guys got face-raped. I'm sorry our guys got vaporized. But, this is a war for survival. There is no surrender. Agents come back victorious or they don't come back. I would normally like this, but my vote is to get the hell out of dodge. Too many sadsack agents hanging around this base, don't wanna be responsible when buddy asks me to borrow an extension cord to end himself with because his "homey" was "vaporized".
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Feb 9, 2018 04:42
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I’m still sad. Goddamned brainsuckers.
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https://i.imgur.com/PI8Q6sS.gifv Here's a recap of the situation. Akratic method is cut off from the rest of the squad. Cube & a popper are visible. Cantor is lurking somewhere in the smoke. There's a lot of damage, but this smoke is going to dissipate eventually. A group of aliens was in the partially caved in tower at some point, at least some of them have made it out. There's at least one brainsucker still walking around, and more pods could potentially get shot out. The lift to the main structure is partially on fire. There is a path down that doesn't require literally walking through a sea of flames though. I don't think any of the nutrivend agents have any armor at all, much less flightsuits. We can see one skeleton and Savage has a moderate chance to panic it or apply stun damage. It can't be mind controlled at this time, to mentally exhausting. here's the map:  Three aliens showing up right now. There's some loot between the popper, Cube, & Akratic. I think it's probably some guns, maybe explostives too, not sure. The flying guy is sort of close to the popper, and if the popper goes up it may be damaged in the explosion. Cube's probably too far away to really get hurt any. There's a psi amp near where i think Cantor is. That means no worry about getting Psi attacked right now, but psi only takes like 3 TUs to use, so we may want to do something about that. I don't know how likely the aliens would be to try such a thing. Other debris is from dead aliens and Nutrivend guys mostly behind Akratic. We've got some grenades superkid has access too. Blue train's poo poo is way up near the cave-in and probably won't be available unless we use a turn to send someone and go get it. Everyone has easy access to an exit, and can at minimum escape the map right this second. If we're careful and lucky we can try to extract Akratic from this mess and regroup. It could go either way.
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Feb 9, 2018 09:09
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Fight the good fight
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Feb 9, 2018 09:22
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Bail and come back later with shields to gently caress nutrivend up properly.
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Alright, we bring Akratic back some, but we also need to move forward as well. Blow more grenades than would be desirable. https://i.imgur.com/eDWAn4j.gifv guns 4 tits & Savage manage to take down the flying guy. This leaves Cube as the closest visible threat. https://i.imgur.com/Y76yeAs.gifv Littlest prince spots that spitter, but it's not worth trying to engage. Superkid gets in a kind of lovely situation, this is pretty dangerous. Prince helps, but I should have angled the gas better. https://i.imgur.com/1t796tl.gifv So we've got at least two spitters, plus that brainsucker, plus at least one worm. They probably have blue guys. Then Nutirvend. Savage trys to freak out Cube. There's not much of a chance we can do anything else, the armor is too good. After this we try to get as defensive as we can. It doesn't go well. https://i.imgur.com/pfxE6kC.gifv Prince is able to mind control an arthropod, tho. I think our best hope is that jet fuel can melt steel beams. https://i.imgur.com/VlUg3Th.gifv I don't think we're gonna be able to pull this off. https://i.imgur.com/I0HFBlL.gifv the enemy turns are long, and I can hear a mix of human and alien screams...
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Feb 9, 2018 10:13
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Bail and come back later with shields to gently caress nutrivend up properly. too late bud, Vadun broke the tie. Honestly we're probably going to bail very soon. The psi amps and everything are destroyed.
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The alien grenade caused a pretty massive cave in. I don't think it really took out too many of their forces though. I can't be sure. https://i.imgur.com/f9pBomZ.gifv Akratic spots a security guard. https://i.imgur.com/ykIhTmi.gifv We're able to blind fire and kill her. A "missed" shot hits someone we can't see. https://i.imgur.com/J9CaB8B.gifv We can at least try to do as much damage as we can on the way out. I should have thrown at least one grenade on the upper level, maybe that would have caused a cave in? Peep spots another brainsucker, that's our cue to bail I think. This would leave us with guys right by the exit and peep can float high enough not to get sucked. https://i.imgur.com/cDaUCBn.gifv Part of me wants to stay and see if a lot of them will die from critical wounds or anything, but it's not really worth it, especially now that almost everyone has bailed. https://i.imgur.com/SEJoHBs.gifv 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGsMOqLA0hg https://i.imgur.com/nTFjyck.gifv pre: _.---,._,'
/' _.--.< "My therapist told me that a great way to let go of your anger
/' `' is to write letters to people you hate and then burn them.
/' _.---.____ I did that and I feel much better but I'm wondering...
\.' ___, .-'` / do I keep the letters?"
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X-COM | \ \\ >.--._ \
Memorial| .-'~~~`-. .-'~~~`-. .-'~~" "'\ .-'~~~`-. '\
Landfill| .' R I P `..' R I P `..' R I P `..' R I P `. ____.---._ '\
| | Free || Resting ||Brazillian-|| Honky Dong,'-. `___ './
| | Hubcaps || B1tchface || peanutwar || Country | // '\
| |FELL 700FT||BRAINSUCKED||BRAINSUCKED||BRAINSUCKED|.-, '\
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| Away all || Yvershek || Harveygod || Sammus || Jawdins || a hole-y ||
| Goats || || || || || ghost ||
| BLOWN UP || BLOWN UP || VAPORIZED || VAPORIZED || BLED OUT || VAPORIZED ||
| 4 Kills || 9 Kills || 10 Kills || 10 Kills || 6 Kills ||16 Projects/
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Feb 9, 2018 11:05
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i don't know what xcom is can somebody explain it in two sentences or less?
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Feb 9, 2018 11:07
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Aliens are invading and you have to stop them by sending ships or soldiers. And do research for new guns.
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Feb 9, 2018 11:19
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can't picture it gonna have to elab
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Feb 9, 2018 11:20
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aliens come out. You gotta shoot em down. They'll try to shoot back so it's not real easy sometimes.
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Feb 9, 2018 11:23
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so a vote. After that mission we only have 7 guys who are taped up good enough to keep fighting. Fart Puzzle, Superkid, Poverty Goat, Chill, Walrus, Taint, & Prince. Mix of old vets and newer guys. We're 73% done with the shield. There's maybe one mediocre physicist who can be hired that doesn't suck balls, there's three more that are basically just better than nothing.
b) Recyclotorium One. Owner: Evonet. Function: Recyclotorium c) Babylon Apartments. Owner: Sensovison. Function: Apartments (not 100% certain this is the 3rd drop)
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Feb 9, 2018 11:30
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Hire some agents for the meat grinder so we've got enough for two squads and you can send the noobs out with some veterans to do the other investigation which is hopefully less hard core. That's assumes we have enough gear of course.
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Feb 9, 2018 11:44
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Hire some more agents and if nothing urgent lets wait till shields are deoloyed before anymore raids etc. Also put me on the agent list.
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Vote #2 so we can top off Squad 2 and then 1b or 1c.
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