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AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

i played through once at release. now that all the dlc is out, this seems like a good time to revisit.

Gridlocked posted:

Edit: Also JadeStar once you have all the characters made can you share the Character Pool file? I want goons in my game too!

he mentioned he would up-thread. i'd be interested in doing the same, too

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 06:44

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 13:38

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Sjonkel posted:

Looking forward to this! I watched the old Enemy Within playthrough after it was already over, so will be nice to follow this one from the start. And holy poo poo can you make your soldiers look really silly!

I know
Isn't it great???

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 21:09

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

geri_khan posted:

I tried but the character already existed and the game won't let you remove nicks from those who already have it.
I'll recreate the character from scratch without a nick... tomorrow. If I don't, just take him off the list.

i did the same thing, whoops!
bizarrely it looks like there's no way to remove a nickname, even via mods. i thought i'd be clever and just open the file in notepad and delete the nickname that way, but that just makes the character not show up for import all together.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 01:04

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

ZiegeDame posted:

I don't know about all these haikus everywhere, I just want root beer.

5, 7, 5, sir; consider yourself exposed. time for processing

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 18:30

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

bringing a sword to a gun fight is so dumb, i love it

# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 00:40

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

the emphasis on 'commander' gives me some serious 'follow freeman' vibes

# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 01:56

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

i don't entirely understand what's going on here, but i like it

# ¿ Jul 17, 2016 19:14

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

TheNabster posted:

Can we keep Sq. Jane Kelly on board for the moment? She seems pretty good at her job and it will be a shame to retire her to permanent paperwork forever.

send her on increasingly dangerous and suicidal moves and see how long she lives

# ¿ Jul 18, 2016 18:57

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

GuavaMoment posted:

She's a ranger.

That's what you do.

i'm glad we see eye-to-eye

# ¿ Jul 18, 2016 21:49

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

radintorov posted:

That's what I've been wondering as well: there were a couple of times when I save-scummed a hack to get that sweet +20 permanent skill increase and managed to.
I know that the original had seeded rolls, but that gave me the impression that this one didn't.

my assumption is that the game's doing something i'm painfully familiar with from final fantasy xii
which is having the game run off a single psuedo-random number, which advances with each action you take, regardless of whether that action would call upon the number or not. You can nudge the things around by changing your order of operations which changes the number being checked to determine success, but it's always the same progression of numbers
i'm probably wrong on some detail seeing as i'm not about to delve into the game code to test my assumption

# ¿ Jul 20, 2016 08:25

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

IMJack posted:

Tygon, putting a chemical mask on your face is a good first step for conducting an autopsy, but you might also want to wear a smock or scrubs or something if you're going to splash that much alien viscera around. Or at least button up your lab coat. That's what they're there for, to keep the bad stuff off.

he got his training from ADVENT, they're probably not too big on safety standards

# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 01:20

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

no, i'm judging you

# ¿ Jul 23, 2016 02:59

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Jade Star posted:

How did that grenade even detonate on the underside of the ceiling?!

caught on a support beam, clearly

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 19:16

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Elth posted:

I think Gift Horse is a good nickname. He carries all the medkits after all!

just don't look in his mouth

# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 01:15

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Sillyman posted:

If losing a retaliation mission means you lose contact with that region, what happens if you only have one region and lose a retaliation mission there?

i'm not sure, but we came very close to finding out

# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 01:46

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

combat protocol is great, but i feel like taking your first specialist down the medic line gives you some more breathing room at the start of a campaign.
the specialist or two after that though, sure, all zap'n'hack all the time

# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 23:17

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

You had asked for a reminder, so once you finish working out the kinks with your set-up Jadestar, it'd be cool to see the goonpool for those that want to play along.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 18:20

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Jade Star posted:

Right, thanks for the reminder about the character pool. It contains about 170 soldiers, most from the sign ups and some that got made for my stream and a few that got sent to me from others. Anyway here is the Giant Goon Pool - http://www.mediafire.com/download/8x3l2waold27x7c/Giant+Goon+Pool.bin

Thanks for sharing!
Also, 170??? wow, I guess there's a lot more lurkers then I would have thought.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 23:40

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

angry 'red' lobster

chris 'silent killer' gasmask

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 06:10

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

i'm a fan of any gasmask nickname that incorporates a fart joke and "bloody" margottini has my vote

Ego Trip posted:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=623425061

jesus

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 01:13

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

'memetic culture build up' sounds like something you would need to bleach out of your shower

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 03:08

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

i'm fine with either option
joke suggestion: cut it into thirds and post them all at once anyway

# ¿ Aug 2, 2016 00:23

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

apostateCourier posted:

Prodigal Son.

yes perfect

# ¿ Aug 18, 2016 17:03

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

i have never once seen intimidate actually work

# ¿ Aug 25, 2016 14:57

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Lunethex posted:

In the next mission Jade's campaign is lost

he should have asked for directions then

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 21:10

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

i had a ranger with serial once, that was fun

# ¿ Sep 15, 2016 16:40

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Rick_Hunter posted:

it does not reset

# ¿ Sep 27, 2016 00:28

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Rick_Hunter posted:

So basically if the clock has 30 days on it and you stop it on 7 days left you would still have 7 days once you pushed it into the red zone again?

yes, you can no longer ride the wave of doom for effectively infinite time

# ¿ Sep 27, 2016 00:35

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Jade Star posted:

Not every skill is in the AWC. It's be a bit poo poo if Salvo for example got put on random people. Somewhere in the code there is a flag for 'can this skill pop up in AWC training' and that determines what you can and can not learn through the AWC. I have also seen at least one skill that is only available from the AWC roulette.

i have gotten salvo on a ranger before, letting me throw my single grenade without ending turn
it loving sucked

# ¿ Oct 19, 2016 13:17

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Jenner posted:

I have to agree. There have only been a few non-SA YouTube LPs I have watched that I thought were any good and it still boggles my mind that these screaming, rambling, babies get any amount of money for their lovely product when really good Goon LPs on YouTube seem largely ignored. I guess that's capitalism?

Example: After playing We Know the Devil I tried to find a good LP of it to link to my sister because I thought she'd enjoy it. Every loving LP on the first page of YouTube results is someone chatting for several minutes before playing the game and then spoiling the game within the first few videos (way before the spoiler is actually revealed.) Just loving horrible.

This means I'm probably going to have to do an LP of We Know the Devil myself because if you want something done right do it yourself/put your money where your mouth is/etc. So I guess look forward to that once I figure out how to handle the repetition that is ever present and inevitable in Visual Novels.
(I'll probably just do what ChorpSaway did in his Hatoful Boyfriend LP and just link back to reused scenes that were previously posted. But that might make for very short updates.) Eh, I'll figure it out.

http://lparchive.org/We-Know-The-Devil/

# ¿ Nov 4, 2016 15:11

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

the music is fun, but maybe not facing down the leviathan fun

# ¿ Dec 4, 2016 17:48

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

name that gun the new archon king

# ¿ Dec 13, 2016 18:19

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

Shei-kun posted:

I vote you recruit Eating Only Apples because you need a grenadier with really huge glasses. Surely nothing can go wrong wearing glasses on a battlefield when you're running around and bumping into things and blowing things up.

i like this logic

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 07:28

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

i still say it's the gun that should be named

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 18:49

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

myth reference

# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 02:01

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

in a third act twist, it's not actually our dna the aliens want, just that of a strain of bacteria that lives in the human colon

# ¿ Jan 26, 2017 19:00

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

i thought it was just a sweater at first, and i was like, well, that's not so bad

and then i saw the front of the plane

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 23:57

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

nova sounds pretty sweet, and jule's extra armor just gives him more breathing room to go crazy with it

side note: has intimidate ever once worked? i don't think it has

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 21:12

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

the truest armor is the reaper's grim cloak

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 22:27

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 13:38

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

rip somethingawful

# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 00:24

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