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Jul 28, 2019 05:58
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SniperWoreConverse posted:The skeleton crew we left behind is redreader, Iron Chef Ramen, Lazyhound, Butterfly Valley, Hyrax Attack!, CrazyLoon, & Sick Ness Monster. More like "Hyrax Defense!" amirite? 
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Jul 28, 2019 06:00
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Hopefully! Depending on how this turns out the next city missions are going to be insanely difficult! After it was too late I realized there was a solution to the problem and I just hadn't considered it
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Jul 28, 2019 06:06
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Sounds like you're gonna need more dudes. Can I be a mutant?
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Jul 28, 2019 06:33
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heck yeah. When either everyone dies or we get back to the city we'll recruit you. things are going... weird 
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SniperWoreConverse posted:heck yeah. When either everyone dies or we get back to the city we'll recruit you. Honk, what did you DO?!
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Time passes uneventfully. Infiltration is at an all time low. Woah poo poo it's not that it takes 24 hours to transit to the alien dimension, it's that it takes until the witching hour! https://i.imgur.com/S1pFMKu.gifv Holy gently caress that was bad. Real bad. I dunno if our guys are going to be able to make it home. No going back now.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrD05HVGVIQ woah, the map is big, and gross  I send out Cockler to scout & we find the first pod thing https://i.imgur.com/5zwWEO1.gifv So far, so good. I don't know how many of these fuckin things there are tho. We begin infiltration and don't find any more pods, but we do run into some aliens: https://i.imgur.com/zq2tDJ5.gifv We're able to keep them at bay, and also HukHukHuk sets one of the pods on fire while Lurkbeast blasts another one. Worringly, they're using psi against our guys, but we're tough enough that it doesn't do much. https://i.imgur.com/h6npubF.gifv I had Ron & Rabbi take a side route, but they were too slow and ran into aliens while exhausted. Also it turns out fire is a great way to take out these pods, just takes a few turns. Gonna start making sure to bring fire missiles too, there may be additional sabotage missions like this one. https://i.imgur.com/f8tjaH3.gifv A long cut of some real 3 stooges poo poo where we just throw explosives all over the joint: https://i.imgur.com/QcNkHLW.gifv  Now this is the real question: The second transport is pretty severely damaged, those guys could easily get shot down. How the gently caress are we going to get them home? Can't call for reinforcements, even if we had them. If I had been less focused on loot I could have put extra chairs in the ships, that way we could just load everyone into the best ship and cross our fingers. Too late now.  There's not too many UFOs right in between us and the escape, but a couple are pretty strong, and every motherfucker on the map is going to come hauling rear end. Welp, gently caress it. https://i.imgur.com/udE8oUr.gifv
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Jul 28, 2019 07:24
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Somehow, some kind of way, we blew up the alien building and survived. Nobody got hurt, but our transports are a loving trainwreck. The only thing left to do is wait for them to come home. Biology begins analysis of the next alien assault zone. In the meantime physics has a breakthru: Neat. Will be useful for the next time.
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Jul 28, 2019 07:31
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Jul 28, 2019 07:45
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Throw me in as a robo boi, seems y'all are gonna need more fodder for the other dimension.
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Jul 28, 2019 10:45
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Alien missile thing and cloak. I thought that second ship was toast for sure. Also I’ve only played the new xcom games so if I were to buy one of the older ones on Steam which one should I get?
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TheKingslayer posted:Throw me in as a robo boi, seems y'all are gonna need more fodder for the other dimension. robos are currently exhausted, we don't have a perfectly good relationship with the Sentient Engine Liberation Front and no machines are willing to get recruited right now. If you really NEED robotic android lifestyle you will need to wait until an in game day or few pass until some droid decides to quit their job at the bullshit factory. Plus side is if ur android you don't have to worry about getting trained, that poo poo is all firmware these days. Currently there are a lot of decent humans and mutants ready to kill alien scum, but either way is actually fine -- I don't expect we are going to have any more missions until they drop more aliens, we have the city on lock atm and our guys survived the alien nightmare dimension. This time. So pick the guy you like. There also nerd slots available but they get like 1 second of action at most and generally look at computer screens all day. P sure several got shot in the abdomen with explosive munitions tho. Basically the same thing as my last job. Necros posted:Alien missile thing and cloak. literally one more shot would have killed the second ship and 8 of our best and brightest, it was a god drat miracle. If you're looking at the olds there's not really to much to deal with. IMO TFTD & UFO are essentially the same game except there are a few changes. TFTD is like the palette swap of UFO, it's EXTREMELY similar to the first one, compared to the changes they made for the game we're playin in the thread even. UFO is the root of the franchise and extremely 90s XFiles Area 51 style, TFTD is an evolution of the concept that makes it so you have to fight underwater a lot. It adds a half dimension to combat, where some weapons work underwater and some work on land. TFTD is more difficult due to a bug in UFO where whenever you reloaded a game in UFO it reset to the easiest difficulty -- in TFTD I've heard that the easiest level is harder than the superhuman difficulty of UFO because they didn't know about the bug and just cranked up the difficulty based on feedback. Dunno if that is really true, but the real bottom line is you should be able to buy all this poo poo for like $5 in some combo pack on steam or gog, and then tool around and find the one that appeals to you. Both TFTD & UFO are global instead of apoc being based around one city. TFTD was more futuristic iirc and had stuff like the EU and African Union compared to the more literally individual countries that happened in UFO There's also a couple other xcoms that are extremely weird games that break the mold of tactical-strategy and make it fps-strat or fight sim / strat. I haven't played any of those tho. Also my intro to the franchise was TFTD and imo it's a lot better than UFO. That feels like too easy and imo the graphics and music in TFTD are a lot more intense and cool once you start playing it. Real fan of the atmosphere, it's pretty oppressive & I always thought they did a good job of sucking you in. There's a bug where you can crash the research sequence and make the game unwinnable but I've never personally activated it, even being a dumbass kid. It's also a decent into hell trying to wrangle the ui of super old games like this, compared to what we have now, but it its what it is. Bottom line: Ufo is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX0Cm3N_n6k meanwhile tftd is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMyPVpogqcM Apoc is in the op and the whole fuckin thread and the rest ur on your own. SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Jul 28, 2019 |
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Jul 28, 2019 11:33
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Excellent, I'm hoping for the glory of jetpack into obscurity.
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Jul 28, 2019 11:51
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So who were the lucky ones riding in BioTrans 2?
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I was kind of hoping you'd all die, and that you'd need me to step out of engineering and pick up a plasma pistol (yeah, I prefer the one-handed style myself). This is better though. Now I can say I was willing to do that without actually having to do it. So I get some cred but zero risk. Things are going my way.
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Jul 28, 2019 13:52
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I am glad that I survived and was slightly inept in doing anything. Did I kill any chigs?
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Welp, gently caress it. Holy poo poo that was close.
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Tftd is hard as gently caress, or at least was to me aged 11. Maybe because I didn't realise agents had skill ratings so made no effort to allocate weapons to people that could use them best. Also, gently caress lobstermen and gently caress those brain fuckers as well. Anyway glad to see we wrecked some poo poo in the alien dimension, we blew up their beds pretty good.
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drat, we got really lucky. Do it again! i once played one of the old school Xcoms and got to turn 3 before my entire squad got wrecked. First mission i think. It was way to complicated for 8 year old me who didn't speak english. Not that it mattered because i also didn't have an instruction manual. Good times. A big fan of the new games. If you haven't tried those give them a try.
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For the next expedition, is it possible to up-armour the transports somehow? Would giving them more than one anti-missile system each make any difference?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:So who were the lucky ones riding in BioTrans 2? Mostly our veterans lol, I'll know for sure when they get home & also post the agent stats Foul Ole Ron posted:I am glad that I survived and was slightly inept in doing anything. Yeah you managed to miss and blow up some sleeping blue guys Draadnagel posted:drat, we got really lucky. Do it again! Yeah I never had the manual either, it was wild leaning it from scratch Angry Diplomat posted:For the next expedition, is it possible to up-armour the transports somehow? Would giving them more than one anti-missile system each make any difference? Nope, there are no armor modules. If we could crack the code on shields we could try that but we haven't gotten the ufo wreckage we need The evasion matrix I think would give extra jamming but only verses missiles, same as the defense turret only shots down missiles apparently I dunno for sure why our guys didn't shoot at anything on the way in or out but aliens didn't use missiles this time. That's sort of the only thing we can defend against, but it's not exactly a waste. I feel like alien missiles would really gently caress us up
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Before our daring heros made it home, production completed on the third transport ship. We'll use this to shunt guys around for missions and can sell off most of our ground vehicles now. What do we wanna build? Probes? Guns? we can build an alien missile launcher for the tanks if we want  anything on this list and also personal shields which is pointless because we have a fuckload we stole from aliens
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Is there anything along the lines of a one-man dimension-capable craft we can tool up with guns and use for escort duty?
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yes but not that we can build. Next best thing would be probe, it can at least hold a weapon on it but can't carry any mans or equipment. Has the same gun slot as the transport, so anything 2x2 that the transport can equip. We've got an alien gun sitting around but it's not really perfect. Can still load up some plasma or machine gun too.
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Are the probes unmanned? How long would it take to build an ungodly swarm of them so we can unleash a violently distracting cloud of hornets to take the heat off our surgical strike teams during the next incursion?
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probes are unmanned. Best case scenario we could put out one per day per huge workshop but it's unlikely that we'll have max brainiac engineers. Right now we only have the 1 big shop. It prob takes like 1 or 2 days or something to research each mission, but it will take longer to repair our ships cause they're turbo hosed. I guess we could just cram everybody into the new ship
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Dimension Probes have infinite fuel, right? Make a shitload of them, arm them with light disruptor beams, and keep swarms of them permanently stationed in the skies near the gates. When the aliens invade, focus fire on specific UFOs and maybe take down UFO 5 so better vehicles can be researched.
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Yeah they have no engines and no need for fuel. Or the skin off the craft is the actual engine or whatever Will start building probes
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I wanted to thank you for making this thread and inspiring me to actually play xcom 2, that was the most fun I've had since DOOM.
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SnotGrumble posted:Dimension Probes have infinite fuel, right? gently caress, that's a really good idea 
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Just getting caught up in the thread but If it’s still possible I’d like to get added in, in any place where I can potentially see some action, panic, and commit fratricide. Thank you! Blessed..
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SnotGrumble posted:Dimension Probes have infinite fuel, right? Give this person a raise
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SniperWoreConverse posted:robos are currently exhausted, we don't have a perfectly good relationship with the Sentient Engine Liberation Front and no machines are willing to get recruited right now. If you really NEED robotic android lifestyle you will need to wait until an in game day or few pass until some droid decides to quit their job at the bullshit factory. Plus side is if ur android you don't have to worry about getting trained, that poo poo is all firmware these days. Thanks for the rundown Sniper. There's a pack with a couple of em on Steam for $15 if anyone else wants in on dis.
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Do mass dimension probes and blow poo poo up in the alien dimension.
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It's 37000 skill hours for a probe+light beam, vs 47000 for a biotrans+light beam. And the biotrans can tank a huge amount of damage while the probe can't. They can use vehicle equipment, serve as backup agent transports, and have better resale value if we outgrow the need for them. So it makes more sense to mass produce bio-transports instead. On the other hand, one advantage of probes is that they're small and a little harder to hit. So if the aliens keep missing them and hitting buildings instead, it might make more orgs hostile to aliens and friendly to xcom. But bio-transports are still the better deal overall.
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TheKingslayer posted:Throw me in as a robo boi, seems y'all are gonna need more fodder for the other dimension. Tracked down a bot 4 u. Ex super for a Sanctuary Clinic apartment. TheTrend posted:Just getting caught up in the thread but If it’s still possible I’d like to get added in, in any place where I can potentially see some action, panic, and commit fratricide. Thank you! Blessed.. I founffad a mutant that has the lowest possible bravery. Used to work for Marsec in an arms factory. I had to shuffle the guys around to get them equipped, seemed easier than transferring poo poo. Kingslayer attempted a driveby and missed. https://i.imgur.com/Drz12Ey.gifv I also tried to equp up our transports better but the market for evasion matrixes and weapons controls is wiped. Probably they'll be more expensive next week when they restock.  hell yeah, powerful as gently caress. Physics works on the last projects we have available. We got 5 of these alien missile launchers, who wants one?? They blow up good but don't have incendiary rounds or anything. Our guys make it home. Big Beef City, William Henry Hairytaint, Grognan, The Cockler, Blade Runner, Gridlocked, HukHukHuk, & TK-42-1 were the lucky ones. Both ships had specimins and loot, but we didn't get anything new or interesting off of the sleeper cell mission. Not much else to do but ⏩
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