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I'm personally happy with the longer episodes I enjoy watching you two screw around in the avenger, too
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I'd suggest a combination of "split the Geoscape into a separate video" and "battle videos last as long as the battle does."
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Mar 4, 2019 01:15
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Lprsti99 posted:Definitely don't cut out the Geoscape IMO, watching you guys make... interesting choices For coherence, I think option 1, or even Gnoman's suggestion. FoolyCharged posted:The WoTC lp that is going on right now is at update 44 and near the end of the game as well
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Mar 4, 2019 01:22
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Yeah, you guys commented on feeling like you were in a death spiral, but that's just how the game is designed to feel. The devs did a really good job of making the player feel constantly under threat by constantly making them choose between mutually exclusive picks. You stop one black event but you get defeated by the other two. Combined with the perma death and the game feels very stacked against you. But that also means that as you figure out ways to beat the odds that feel so stacked against you it feels good. Think about how many videos made you two shout bullshit, only to end with you guys high fiving over having overcome it.
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Mar 4, 2019 02:52
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I'm in the "Don't care how long the episodes go" camp. If they go long, they go long, no problem in my book.
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Mar 4, 2019 06:08
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Yeah, I don't mind longer episodes either! Would prefer each mission to be in one video too.
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Mar 4, 2019 06:28
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I started off already wishing the episodes were longer, but was just getting used to them being short!  But yeah, even though I agree now that keeping them more bite-size at first was a good idea, anyone who's watched this far is prolly invested enough now that you can start rolling out the longer episodes.
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Mar 4, 2019 09:13
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Count me in the bandwagon for option 1! Definitely don't cut geoscape cause it's half the fun, especially in a blind LP. You could consider cutting/skipping repeated content (like assigning equipment to soldiers) and do a small "this is what we are going in with" to shorten things down though! Also if there is a super long geoscape section, you could split it up the same way you did last time.
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Mar 4, 2019 09:47
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Yeah I’m all for longass missions. We have a pause function or we can fast forward. Don’t get stuck editing your videos more then you have to.
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Mar 4, 2019 11:47
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I definitely want to keep watching Geoscape stuff and I'm fine with either dividing them into X.5 episodes or rolling them into the larger videos.
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Mar 4, 2019 23:36
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I'd be happy with watching full-length videos of the missions and also watching the geoscape strategising.
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Mar 4, 2019 23:46
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 Thanks for the feedback everyone! We'll keep things as they are for now. I briefly did consider splitting geoscape and missions, but if we do two missions in a week we either go to two days or you just get a day of pure Geoscape and no action, which isn't what I really want to see!
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Mar 5, 2019 00:06
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(Spoilers for most recent update)"Why can't he see them? I don't understand." Full cover blocks vision, half cover doesn't. Other than that, an excellent mission so far. I think you're really starting to get the hang of XCOM tactical combat.
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Mar 5, 2019 03:25
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I was going to say, rupture takes 3 ammo, iirc but you noticed pretty quickly 
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Couple misc things to remember: You can always sell poo poo at the black market That throwing axe is just collecting dust back at base
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Mar 5, 2019 06:34
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You're definitely pulling yourself out of the hole that the early game left you in! The upcoming alien facility mission is going to be pivotal, I don't think you can afford to lose that one. I'm worried about mutons and heavy stun lancers. They haven't yet seen the muton counter-punch, and that's an easy way to lose a ranger. Mutons also carry grenades and the big boy guns, they can one shot some of the team since they won't have plated armor for the mission. Heavy stun lancers are also horrifying and they might face the double stun lancer + priest pack, which can take out a squad by itself.
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Mar 5, 2019 07:27
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StoryTime posted:You're definitely pulling yourself out of the hole that the early game left you in! The upcoming alien facility mission is going to be pivotal, I don't think you can afford to lose that one. Aren't Priests from the expansion?
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Bremen posted:Aren't Priests from the expansion? Isn't that a Priest that they zoom in on and try to figure out in the latest video? It dies to overwatch shots before it can do anything, but it seems to have the white armor of a Priest.
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StoryTime posted:Isn't that a Priest that they zoom in on and try to figure out in the latest video? It dies to overwatch shots before it can do anything, but it seems to have the white armor of a Priest. I think it's a Shield bearer - which is also bad news when acting as an unknown factor. Priest are from the expansion afaik.
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Mar 5, 2019 10:56
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That Italian Guy posted:I think it's a Shield bearer - which is also bad news when acting as an unknown factor. Priest are from the expansion afaik. Yeah, you guys are right. The Priest has a very distinct helmet, and that's not it. The Shieldbearer, while not really an enemy you want to see on the field, is at least more straightforward to fight against.
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Mar 5, 2019 11:15
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Mordja posted:Couple misc things to remember: P sure you can't sell it. Can someone tell me why they aren't using it? It is superior to a normal sword right?
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Mar 5, 2019 11:33
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They did not even look at bluescreen protocol.  Aaand they are still taking shelter behind cars, the one true enemy.  Otherwise good, hope still lives. Those new guns should be nice to have once you make them.
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Affi posted:P sure you can't sell it. Haha, the two things aren't related, I was just saying they should remember to equip the axe.
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StoryTime posted:Yeah, you guys are right. It’s not even the first one they’ve seen! The autopsy for Shieldbearers became available after the supply mission. It’s just that it was in the great frost grenade mass murder so, as with this one, never did anything. Some day one will get a turn and the guys can see what magical surprises they hold.
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What are your guys favourite compositions to bring? I never double down on snipers and rangers and sometimes I skip snipers because they just aren’t as good until you get serial. Typically it’s 1 ranger 1 sniper 2 specialists and 2 grenadiers. When I get a decent psychic I skip either the healer or the sniper.
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Mar 5, 2019 17:11
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2 psi, 2 heavy, one ranger one support. Sometimes swap out to two ranger one heavy if I'm feeling saucy
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Mar 5, 2019 17:21
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Affi posted:P sure you can't sell it. They bought the arc blade and axe at the same time, and found they didn't have enough supplies to upgrade the axe. They just got supplies again, but they had more pressing upgrades first. Edit: Regular hunter axe does have the same damage as the arc blade, and the throwing ability is almost certainly superior to the small stun chance, but I can see not being sure of that. I don't think this needs to be spoiled because all the numbers are there, but I'll respond in kind. Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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Mar 5, 2019 17:45
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I cannot explain how much I want to see all these spoilers.
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Affi posted:What are your guys favourite compositions to bring? tarbrush posted:2 psi, 2 heavy, one ranger one support. Sometimes swap out to two ranger one heavy if I'm feeling saucy What I can't understand is how few people actually use the SPARK units which are utterly awesome and prevent the need to double up on classes present in vanilla while doing their own unique thing. I mean yeah, sure, they are weaker but it's loving murderbots. And it's not like they're as much of a downgrade from soldiers as the SHIVs were in XCOM 1.
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Mar 5, 2019 19:41
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Xcom 1 Shivs were actually super strong in the expansion because it added a bunch of nifty upgrades for them. Deffo a downgrade in the base game though
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Mar 5, 2019 19:45
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They know that SPARKS exist, you don't have to spoiler that. Hope they get them tho. I've only actually played base-XCOM2 but I really need to play WOTC+DLC+modded to the gills one of these days. Check out this ridiculous jetpack mod!
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Natural 20 posted:I cannot explain how much I want to see all these spoilers. They're not nearly as interesting as they probably look as black bars. Mostly just a bunch of questions or speculations about the latest video.
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We know Spark units exist but we've no idea of the difficulty that Shen's last gift represents. Given how badly behind we think we are (despite reassurance to the contrary) we can't afford to risk a potentially lethal mission to get robots.
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Nat20 you and Tea may be unaware, but Shen's comment during the Viper autopsy ("...this reptilian creature with such distinctive human features is surprisingly unsettling..." is a funny snipe/nod to the community's reaction at large when Vipers were revealed in a trailer for the game (Snakemen were an enemy in the original XCOM, but were lacking some of these...features  ).More details:  (more goon reactions to snake tits can be found in the Games thread, which may contains spoilers for the blind LP, so you may want to avoid it until later.
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Given the general experience of the DLC thus far, yeah, I’d avoid anything from the people who made the alien rulers and called it good
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Mar 5, 2019 21:28
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To be honest, I just really wanted to come up with a blackened-out block of text where only the words for robots, "vanilla" and "loving" would be visible for the LPers to project meaning into.
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GeneX posted:Given the general experience of the DLC thus far, yeah, I’d avoid anything from the people who made the alien rulers and called it good Keep in mind, the Alien rulers DLC includes the boltcaster, the freeze grenade, the shadowkeeper pistol, and the (so far unseen) axe. The idea was that you'd have more capable soldiers but also occasionally run into powerful boss enemies. Shen's Last Gift at least limits itself to a single mission you can run whenever you want, and while opinions on SPARKs vary it's still a new class to play with.
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That Italian Guy posted:Nat20 you and Tea may be unaware, but Shen's comment during the Viper autopsy ("...this reptilian creature with such distinctive human features is surprisingly unsettling..." is a funny snipe/nod to the community's reaction at large when Vipers were revealed in a trailer for the game (Snakemen were an enemy in the original XCOM, but were lacking some of these...features Weirded out Viper is my spirit
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I have to say, I have specifically not bought the Alien Hunters DLC because I didn't want to deal with the Ruler bullshit, but having now seen the bolt caster in action I'm getting mighty tempted.
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