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Keeshhound posted:It's the entire point of the games, arguably. Late game gear is laughably overpowered, but nobody minds, because you're getting to use it against those fuckers who made your early game hell. In X-Com: UFO Defense, the balancing factor was mind-controlling aliens who could target you while your soldiers were still in the Skyranger. All that wonderful explosive gear isn't as good when it's being used on your own troops and you'd have to clear the crashed UFO entirely to kill the mind-controlling alien. Whereas in Terror from the Deep, the balancing factor was the player's likelihood to rage-quit before reaching the late game.
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Iny posted:Sure is! As pointed out in the video where he makes his appearance. But "Gollop" probably isn't a good nickname for him in-game. How about "Lobstakilla" for the Spark's nickname? Too soon?
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Highwang posted:So a thing about Ruler Actions: Or Jake played 4E D&D, which not only gives its boss monsters five times the hit points, but features the solo Beholder line of nasty monstrosities. Beholders get their full set of actions, but they also make random gaze attacks whenever a PC gets a turn.
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TheDarkFlame posted:I was going to ask how the end-of-days timer works when you stop it but you guys covered that already. I would say I don't believe that you've instantly got another two pips of progress on the Avatar Project yet again, but given the course of this LP yeah I absolutely believe that. It's like some sort of reverse It's A Wonderful Life. The Avatar Project gets an extra pip every time an angel loses its wings (to a repeater).
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KnoxZone posted:The total failure of that ambush was absurdly hilarious. And just to add insult to injury, "Successful Shot Percentage: 100%"
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Mar 14, 2017 02:15
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Anybody (Guava?) for Icarus Armor on a Gunslinger? Drop a grenade or bomb on a cluster of enemies and then descend from the heavens to finish them all off at once. Also, I usually found Bladestorm to be really effective, so this is clearly Jade's problem. In the final mission my Bladestorm ranger killed as many as three enemies a turn with it.
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Apr 15, 2017 23:24
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Yami Fenrir posted:well, both have problems other than there aim, though - bladestorm requires stuff like chrysallids to actually target the ranger - and reapers loss of damage is rather crippling faster than one'd like. There's also the Bladestorm among the reinforcements approach. Reaper is pretty situational, though it's almost always a nice bonus skill via the AWS.
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InwardChaos posted:I personally think that the insta-kill attribute of the Skullminning ability outweighs the potential damage you take from the shock, especially if you use it on a high priority advent target, like a lancer or shieldbearer. That's correct. Preferably, through a wall; old-school style, through a wall and you can't see the hacking interface.
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Yapping Eevee posted:Yeah, I'm gonna need Jade and Guava to also LP that Mario game. Mario and Otto Zander, together for the first time.
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From the look of the trailer and E3 footage, it's practically a contractual obligation.
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You want a grenadier to play that acoustic guitar, as unless you've built them wrong they can really shred it. I do think that final mission is balanced with the expectation that you'll be hacking/Commander mind-controlling and using those as scouts and mobile Mimic Beacons. In the unlikely event you can't get the aliens to kill them, you do have to spend an action or two before they shake the control to finish them off yourself. My favorite was usually to grab an Andromedon, run it into the middle of an alien pod to draw fire, and then hack the suit when they killed it. I have fond memories of a Bladestorm Ranger just cutting down pods of crysallids in this final mission. Somewhat less fond memories of about three different bugs in this final mission, as well as some of the wonky LoS issues in this otherwise wonderfully designed room. The weirdest involved using Restoration with one soldier outside the final room. I also had one game where an Avatar teleported out of the room entirely and I had to send several soldier up our backtrail to find it. I didn't even know that was possible and it was pretty brutal fending off incoming pods until I worked out what had happened. I felt like there was an attempt in the final mission to both play up the "Commander controlled a la Bureau" and the "does that human environment remind you of your home growing up, Commander?" Happier about all the hints of something worse that the Ethereals were trying to fight/run away from, though as presumably Earth isn't home to that threat it's something more along the lines of Apocalypse than TfTD. (Though I'd love if we had a TfTD remake that isn't so punishing to play.) Great LP, Jade and some unknown number of Guavas.
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