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Dead Reckoning posted:Also, just casually taking a pass on Untouchable, the power that makes you invulnerable Not gonna lie, I was screaming internally back when he passed up Terminal's "move an enemy down in the turn order" ability in favor of her "go into Stasis instead of entering bleedout once per mission" ability. 
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Oct 17, 2020 18:40
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Watching Dan blind LP is like a movie where everyone who has played before is sitting on the edge of their chairs saying, "Noooo, don't go investigate the noises in the basement!" and then Dan decides to go investigate the noises, drunk, by himself, but still somehow manages to find a way to survive it.
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Oct 17, 2020 20:39
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I've never played this game, so maybe it got nerfed compared to my fond memories in XCOM:EW, but Close Combat Specialist was absolutely the best power in that game. You could just give into the center of a group and blow them all away as they tried to scatter. It's honestly the one power I wouldn't say makes Untouchable a no-brainer.
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IIRC, the nerf from EW is that, instead of triggering on any enemy movement within ~3 tiles, CCS in Chimera Squad only triggers on enemies that move or attack directly adjacent to Godmother. E: CS also doesn't have the pod movement mechanic from earlier games, so you can't abuse that for Bladestorm/CCS/Lockdown shenanigans. CCS is a good power, but I personally put a huge premium on being able to "nope" enemy attacks on a character as aggressive as Godmother when interleaved turns mean you can't necessarily use your sharpshooter to pick off aliens on the flanks. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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Oct 18, 2020 00:48
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Yeah in practice it's basically Bladestorm but with a shotgun I'll be honest there are very few perks I'd consider over that
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Oct 18, 2020 00:55
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Danaru posted:Yeah in practice it's basically Bladestorm but with a shotgun A Bulletstorm you say?
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Expecting Danaru to pick anything else when 'More Murder' is on the table hasn't been paying attention. Jane may be sitting in an office now, but her spirit of extreme and excessive violence lives on.
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Honestly not taking Terminal's Pin Down is just baffling! You maniac!Dead Reckoning posted:Zephyr is a strong, Australian woman who just wants to kick snakes in the head, and nothing makes her angrier than living in a world of doors and windows between her and snakes. All of the voices are really good but Zephyr is definitely the funniest one, it's such an incongruous choice of accent
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 New Episode!Let's Play XCOM Chimera Squad Episode 16 - And Now It Fix Whoops lost track of days  This shoulda been up earlier
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Yay, you got Zephyr's key ability: nope-ing the next attack. Makes face-punching much safer! Demolition is like Ventilate: it auto-hits and destroys any destructible cover. Unlike Ventilate, it doesn't do damage. If the AI was smart, it would use it against your agents who are taking cover behind explosive/acid/gaseous barrels, like you did to that Hitman the earlier encounter. Fortunately, the AI is not smart, and uses it against agents irrespective of whether their cover is actually destructible. Crane Fist posted:All of the voices are really good but Zephyr is definitely the funniest one, it's such an incongruous choice of accent Shelter's thirst for Zephyr is hilarious though. He just likes big, strong Australian women, and shouldn't be ashamed of it.
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Oct 24, 2020 08:33
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Shelter & Zephyr is definitely one of the funniest team ups, got a lot of time for Terminal & Verge as well. The team dialogue is absolutely one of the best parts of the game
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Oct 24, 2020 10:01
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Zephyr functioning a lot like a Templar easily makes her one of my favourite agents. Despite my uh, track record, Templars were my favourite resistance faction
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Danaru posted:Zephyr functioning a lot like a Templar easily makes her one of my favourite agents. Despite my uh, track record, Templars were my favourite resistance faction Templars are the most fun precisely because they're built to encourage extremely spicy choices.
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Oct 24, 2020 16:33
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I forget how much great humor is in this game
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Oct 24, 2020 21:15
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Actually, I take it all back: Floyd Tesseract, the talk radio sectoid, is my favorite character.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Actually, I take it all back: Floyd Tesseract, the talk radio sectoid, is my favorite character. He's pretty great. I came in late to this LP and didn't check out the earliest ones; has the squad met him in-game yet? Or is that a random encounter that doesn't always happen?
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Oct 25, 2020 19:24
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kaosdrachen posted:He's pretty great. Wow, I had no idea you could meet him in-game. He hasn't appeared in person, no.
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I'm not sure, but I think he only shows up in one of the purple "reduce the time until your next critical mission is available" missions during the Sacred Coil investigation.
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Yeah there's a purple time reduction mission that's like 'Rescue Local DJ' where he's managed to piss off Sacred Coil so bad they send like 100 guys to kill him, and when you get to the end and find out who you're rescuing the team so like "uugh do we have to"
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Crane Fist posted:Yeah there's a purple time reduction mission that's like 'Rescue Local DJ' where he's managed to piss off Sacred Coil so bad they send like 100 guys to kill him, and when you get to the end and find out who you're rescuing the team so like "uugh do we have to" Except Cherub. Cherub's a big fan of his.
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I think Terminal is also a fan of his.
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Crane Fist posted:Yeah there's a purple time reduction mission that's like 'Rescue Local DJ' where he's managed to piss off Sacred Coil so bad they send like 100 guys to kill him, and when you get to the end and find out who you're rescuing the team so like "uugh do we have to" I'd like to mention that I've started a new playthrough after following this thread, and while I do not have a setup for streaming, if I get that mission I'll gladly make a copy of the save file available to Danaru.
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kaosdrachen posted:Except Cherub. Cherub's a big fan of his. lmao of course he is Torque is just like "oh no we lost the hostage, oh what a shame, well nothing we could do, let's go"
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Oct 26, 2020 18:27
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Crane Fist posted:lmao of course he is Of course she is.
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Oct 26, 2020 19:33
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Floyd going from being literally a member of the secret cabal that mind controls world leaders to a talk radio host who rants about messiahs and social control because he "knows it from the inside" and eventually has to be saved from a squad of cult assassins is a  character arc. Mirror world Ollie North. W.T. Fits posted:I think Terminal is also a fan of his. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Oct 26, 2020 19:59
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Terminal would 100% be a top tier shitposter. Cherub would unironically send people minions memes
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Terminal actually got her call sign for being terminally online, to the point of installing a twitter client on her gremlin and wearing dasharez0ne t-shirts under her body armor. She's still my favorite terrible employee.
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My favourite running joke is Terminal trying to get Zephyr to say "jabberwock" of all the fuckin things
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Mine is Verge wanting so bad to try human food he mind links with people while they are eating.
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Random dude's face painting in the middle of an office is a treat. "Who's this guy? Why do we have a painting of him in with the Shen and Tygan paintings?" "Eh, idk, but we need more paintings for our laboratory!" "Do we really? We don't even have enough wall space for it, and it looks terrible!" "YES! MORE PAINTINGS! STACK IT ON A TABLE! WE DON'T NEED TABLE SPACE!" And then Patchwork shot it to pieces vov RIP dude painting, you were a great throwaway destructible art asset.
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New Episode! Let's Play XCOM Chimera Squad Episode 17 - The One Where Grace's Coworkers Cant Function Without Him Okay these last couple weeks have been kicking my rear end, over the next few days I'm going to try to post a bunch of these way sooner because we have like an entire other session in the backlog and we recorded it a while back god dammit Also fun fact: since this episode, Grace moved to a different location at his job, and his old location is now in a complete collapse up to the point that the guy in charge is being run out of the company because there are LITERALLY zero functioning employees now that Grace is gone. It owns Danaru fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Oh hey Dan picked up an epic shotgun! I'm sure he'll put it on Godmother and make good use of that. lol no Dan slams through two missions without so much as looking at his loadouts
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So clearly, Cherub's secondary job is to lull enemies into a false sense of security, before a shotgun erases them from existence.
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I'm surprised Dan didn't take lockdown on Zephyr, because punching someone and then punching them again when they try to do anything seems right up his alley. Although for his liver's sake, unconscious enemies are better. Also, the enemies seem to have weirdly low health: I didn't think Zephyr could one-shot people during the second investigation. Maybe I'm just remembering the endgame more.
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Of course he didn't take Lockdown, he's been cursed by a wizard to make the worst possible choice in every situation
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Crane Fist posted:Of course he didn't take Lockdown, he's been cursed by a wizard to make the worst possible choice in every situation The wizard is called Alcohol.
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I stand by all my decisions, especially the bad ones Pin Down is for cowards and while Lockdown is good, punches and kicks should be nonlethal I forget what Untouchable was but it was probably for cowards too
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Danaru posted:I stand by all my decisions, especially the bad ones Untouchable - "If Godmother downs an enemy during their turn, the next attack against her will miss." It was the other option on the tier where you chose "If an enemy is stupid enough to move close to Godmother while she has ammo, they're gonna catch a shotgun blast to the face." Also, I want you to know that I understood and appreciated that G Gundam reference.
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Danaru posted:punches and kicks should be nonlethal Torque was right, humans are the real aliens
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