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Mid 2020. Jake told me
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Feb 13, 2019 19:06
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jng2058 posted:I'm aware it's fairly unlikely, but having won X-Com, XCOM, and XCOM2, what I've always wanted from the series was some kind of "kicked 'em off Earth, now let's hunt the fuckers down" game where humanity (with XCOM as the tip of the spear) heads out into space to chase down the Ethereals. Gimme some 4X, with tactical space combat, especially focused on boarding actions and raids on Ethereal held worlds. Let me see what the Ethereals are running from, gimme new aliens, some friendly, some neutral, some shootable. I remember a game like this. It was an indie thing where the tutorial mission was announcing your presence to the world by destroying an alien advance fleet. Afterwards, you would set up a Council of Funding Nations and step into space. There were admirals and firing arcs and all kinds of jazz. Didn't buy it because it was too confusing for my lizard brain and now I can't remember the name.
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Feb 13, 2019 20:20
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Vengarr posted:I remember a game like this. It was an indie thing where the tutorial mission was announcing your presence to the world by destroying an alien advance fleet. Afterwards, you would set up a Council of Funding Nations and step into space. There were admirals and firing arcs and all kinds of jazz. I kicked your description over to the "Help me ID this game" thread, hopefully one of them will point me in the right direction. Thanks for the initial contact report, though.
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Feb 13, 2019 20:37
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jng2058 posted:I'm aware it's fairly unlikely, but having won X-Com, XCOM, and XCOM2, what I've always wanted from the series was some kind of "kicked 'em off Earth, now let's hunt the fuckers down" game where humanity (with XCOM as the tip of the spear) heads out into space to chase down the Ethereals. Gimme some 4X, with tactical space combat, especially focused on boarding actions and raids on Ethereal held worlds. Let me see what the Ethereals are running from, gimme new aliens, some friendly, some neutral, some shootable. Basically pick up the plot from the end of Bad Taste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5A5kgYIoE4 sadly there are no voicepacks on the workshop for this movie.
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Feb 13, 2019 20:40
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Hank Morgan posted:Basically pick up the plot from the end of Bad Taste. "Eat my spinning steel, shithead!" would be a nice Ranger quote.
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Feb 13, 2019 23:32
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Bogart posted:Mid 2020. Jake told me Thank gently caress. Here's hoping for TFTD 2 or Apocalypse 2 settings.
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Feb 13, 2019 23:44
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The plot of UFO Extraterrestrials involves earth getting overrun and humans colonizing another planet, and the game being about you doing the whole X-COM bit on the new planet. The final act is building a giant rear end ship, flying it to earth, and liberating the enslaved humans. There was no Geoscape action on earth but it was still rad
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Feb 13, 2019 23:45
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jng2058 posted:I kicked your description over to the "Help me ID this game" thread, hopefully one of them will point me in the right direction. Thanks for the initial contact report, though. Took me a while, but I found it. Solar War. It was really groggy and hard to get into. I'd try the demo first.
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Feb 16, 2019 20:57
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I've played through the storyline with the War of the Chosen expansion multiple times now. I was wondering now if there is a Steam Workshop mode for the campaign where it takes out the storyline missions and is just randomly generation missions across the globe? I want to keep playing XCOM 2, but i'm not interested in experiencing the storyline anymore.
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Feb 17, 2019 02:20
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ditty bout my clitty posted:Thank gently caress. Here's hoping for TFTD 2 or Apocalypse 2 settings. you're not getting TFTD2 so long as jake is in control, he doesn't like the setting at all
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Feb 17, 2019 03:21
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I said come in! posted:I've played through the storyline with the War of the Chosen expansion multiple times now. I was wondering now if there is a Steam Workshop mode for the campaign where it takes out the storyline missions and is just randomly generation missions across the globe? I want to keep playing XCOM 2, but i'm not interested in experiencing the storyline anymore. Not as such, but there's the Legacy Ops FreeLC that generate a mini-campaign, and there's mods that let you skip all the chatter. e: couldn't pick up the bleeding-out squaddie with the fully tricked out rifle and the serpent armor on my ironman save. fix your game jake Bogart fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Feb 17, 2019 |
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Feb 17, 2019 03:32
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Psion posted:you're not getting TFTD2 so long as jake is in control, he doesn't like the setting at all Cult of Sirius or bust! 
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Feb 17, 2019 05:29
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Psion posted:you're not getting TFTD2 so long as jake is in control, he doesn't like the setting at all And yet xcom2 has been hella teasing aliens from the deep since wotc
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Feb 17, 2019 08:25
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The Templars are certainly rising something from the sea at the end, if nothing else.
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Feb 18, 2019 17:07
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Tactical legacy pack also has, "hmm what strange white chrysallids. All striking on the coastline. by jumping out of the water. There's something scary under the water out there"
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Feb 18, 2019 18:01
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Bogart posted:The Templars are certainly rising something from the sea at the end, if nothing else.
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Feb 18, 2019 19:33
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yay I just finished another campaign, fairly heavily modded
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Feb 18, 2019 19:42
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FoolyCharged posted:And yet xcom2 has been hella teasing aliens from the deep since wotc jake is also a troll But seriously, I can't find the video right now but he makes a reasoned argument for it even if you disagree. It was along the lines of how to him what makes XCOM really good is that you're fighting in a familiar setting; the farm, the gas station, the downtown city. And while XCOM2 pushed that a bit with the future city center and the alien facility in the middle of nowhere it's still a relatable environment; people know what trees look like, and buildings are still buildings even if they're made of Future Glass. meanwhile TFTD is mostly a totally different underwater tileset which is completely divorced from that sense of 'this is an environment I recognize' i'm probably summarizing this badly but at the very least he has a thought-out argument on it But you're right that they have been doing TFTD nods for a while. is it a nice nod to prior games sure, is it more than that - well I guess it depends on how successful someone has been at fixing the problems he has  e: and no the solution is not making TFTD 2 consist of nothing but cruise ship missions for that relatable factor, you monster Psion fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Feb 18, 2019 |
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Feb 18, 2019 21:17
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Fix your setting-theme dissonance, Jake
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Feb 18, 2019 21:22
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Runaway climate change, rising sea levels, increasingly chaotic weather patterns, and the spread of invasive extraterrestrial organisms eventually force most of the remaining human population to consolidate in huge domed megacities under the ocean. This protects the survivors from the former three problems, but the latter proves to be an extremely problematic issue when it becomes clear that some of the nasty alien critters in Earth's changing seas are not only intelligent, but getting orders from somewhere... XCom 3: Apocalypse from the Deep
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Feb 18, 2019 23:24
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Central: Commander to combat this new menace from the depths x-com has moved to a new base located on the water. Behold! Camera pans over revealing the boat from Jaws Central: I am a tactical genius and nothing can go wrong with this plan. Did I tell you about the time I killed
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Feb 18, 2019 23:39
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Basic Chunnel posted:Are they? I read it as their preparing to attack something in the sea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOFjnfb62Y&t=274s Fair enough. I guess you could see it either way. It looks to me like there's something physical rising, but given the earlier scene of the Something underwater, it might just be the psionic call that Geist is going on about.
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Feb 19, 2019 00:20
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I hope XCOM 3 ends with an ending similar to the original X-Com because it's one of my favourite endings ever. Brain: "You cannot destroy us, for you are part of us. We can give you unimaginable technology an--" X-Com: "DUST THIS BITCH   "THE END
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Feb 19, 2019 00:34
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Danaru posted:I hope XCOM 3 ends with an ending similar to the original X-Com because it's one of my favourite endings ever. God I loved that ending. The alien brain was prattling on about how much we need them, yadda loving yadda, a very bored soldier pulls a Deadpool and blasts it mid-speech.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:10
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Bogart posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOFjnfb62Y&t=274s That would solve the problem. Instead of fighting a slumbering monster in the depths of the ocean, the monster rises on a huge island/continent and the fight happens there.
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Feb 19, 2019 04:38
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Is there a Phoenix Point thread?
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Feb 19, 2019 16:01
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Here, friend https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3847975&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Feb 19, 2019 16:07
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Gwaint posted:Here, friend Thanks! I saw an ad on facebook of all things and realized I didn't know how it was going. Turns out its delayed until September. Looks cool though!
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Feb 19, 2019 17:38
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I recently watched a couple of blind LPs, and I just noticed how Bradford gets a nasty hit during the tutorial while carrying the commander, and he's fine in the following cutscenes.
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Feb 21, 2019 01:37
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Bogart posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOFjnfb62Y&t=274s god the cutscenes in these games are so bad
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Feb 21, 2019 20:42
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Dr Christmas posted:I recently watched a couple of blind LPs, and I just noticed how Bradford gets a nasty hit during the tutorial while carrying the commander, and he's fine in the following cutscenes. among Bradford's many powers are having things happen in cutscenes that don't reflect the reality outside of them, such as the entirety of his tactical ops stories this is why he's the best
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Feb 21, 2019 21:08
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Psion posted:among Bradford's many powers are having things happen in cutscenes that don't reflect the reality outside of them, such as the entirety of his tactical ops stories The tactical ops stuff is pretty clearly non-canon in their entirety, especially given what happens at the very end of the last one. Bradford's probably telling these over a few beers at the bar.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:12
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Roluth posted:The tactical ops stuff is pretty clearly non-canon in their entirety, especially given what happens at the very end of the last one. Bradford's probably telling these over a few beers at the bar. No, after XCOM lost he pretty clearly crawled out of the rubble, popped his shirt off, and immediately went to go get ripshit
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Feb 21, 2019 21:24
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Roluth posted:The tactical ops stuff is pretty clearly non-canon in their entirety, especially given what happens at the very end of the last one. Bradford's probably telling these over a few beers at the bar. bradford please stop huffing the smoke grenades
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Feb 21, 2019 21:29
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RBA Starblade posted:No, after XCOM lost he pretty clearly crawled out of the rubble, popped his shirt off, and immediately went to go get ripshit and then when he found his sweater again he defeated all the aliens the commander only mattered because they're a silent protagonist, so bradford can tell his stories uninterrupted. Shen and Tygan kept interrupting so he had to rescue you.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:30
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Dongicus posted:god the cutscenes in these games are so bad Really? I like the “guy with a bat” section of that scene pretty well. It sells the idea of the resistance being more than a bunch of loons in a jury rigged ship. Most of it? Sure. Forgettable. But they’re supposed to be seen once and then skipped.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:43
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The one that always bothered me is all those civilians who pick up and shoulder Advent rifles after they ambush the troopers. Uhhh, those things very explicitly explode if non-Advent personnel fire them, sooo.... I think that angry mob is in for a nasty surprise if they try actually using their new firepower.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:54
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Well you see, the Psinetwork was keeping the guns genelocked, and by destroying it in the first endgame mission,
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Backhand posted:The one that always bothered me is all those civilians who pick up and shoulder Advent rifles after they ambush the troopers. Uhhh, those things very explicitly explode if non-Advent personnel fire them, sooo.... I think that angry mob is in for a nasty surprise if they try actually using their new firepower. Its a nod to the relatively effective "stunbaton-wielding rookie swarm" strategy from X-Com. They're just going to club everything to death.
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