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I imagine if angry lobster had become a specialist and did get the enemy protocol in that mission (the extra 20 could have helped!) then Jade would have gotten calls of having complete bullshit luck. I mean, can you imagine the power of having 2 early game enemy protocol upgrades? As it stands though, having the enemy miss that flank shot is already pretty lucky.
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Uh Jade? There's a seventh kind of weapon mod, Hair Triggers. They give a 5%, 10% 15% chance for you shooting your gun to be a free action. Fix your post Jade!
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Jade Star posted:drat it, writing this at 2am wasnt the best idea I see you've updated the post, that's good, but I've also noticed how you talk about the combination of stocks and repeaters, which I believe has, sadly, been patched out. This oversight is much more understandable and so I will forgive it. Seriously though, loving the LP so far, I just derive enjoyment from being the guy to yell "this is wrong" and "you forgot this clearly obvious thing!". I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Jade Star posted:My last stream game before the LP had a sniper get Rapid Fire. It is a great skill to have. It's like double tap, but every turn. I also gave her a superior scope and tracer ammo so I never even noticed the -15% from rapid fire. And I trust you gave her a perception PCS, or at least, would have if you had one? Fun fact by the way, there's a bug that sometimes makes the game forget you gave a soldier a PCS... but it doesn't take away the stats they got from it, meaning you can give them another, and the effects will stack! I used this to make a specialist get 20 mobility, because hey, you never know when you need to hack an objective RIGHT THE gently caress NOW! Also great for skulljacking/mining. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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All i'll say is that you should do the Shen Last Gift mission as soon as possible, so you can benefit from it's reward for the longest possible time. Won't hold it against you if you want at least squad size 5 first though.
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Elth posted:I wasn't. "Guerilla warfare against alien overlords in continuity with previous game" is way more interesting than "aliens again but in the water now". Eh, Cythereal is just weird like that (note, weird does not mean bad or wrong, it simply means weird). I also recall them saying in the main XCOM thread, that another premise that would have been cool with, is essentially the plot of the new independence day movie, humanity has had time to integrate what alien tech they have, but the aliens are coming back in force which I agree is also a cool premise for an XCOM game. That's probably what they'd roll with if they wanted to make a sequel to the "win" state of EU/EW. I do agree with you that I don't think I'd be that interested in a remake of TFTD, (Personally I think Cythereal just likes lovecraftian themes) but considering how well Firaxis has done with XCOM EU/EW and XCOM2, they could probably pull it off. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude. Stephen9001 fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Jul 31, 2016 |
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Cythereal posted:X-COM 2 just doesn't feel interesting to me. Not familiar enough to be that "secret wars in back alleys" like Enemy Unknown, not alien enough to get me intrigued. So essentially, it hits the inverse goldilocks effect for you? How fascinating. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Jade Star posted:You know, there are some things and skills that I may not have given a full trial or thought over as much as I thought I had. As Guava talked more about Overdrive the more I wanted to work it out more and use it and see if I could really justify Adaptive Aim at any point. No real spoiler to say I am taking the SPARK on the next two missions I have recorded and I did my best to try to use Overdrive more liberally than I have in the past. I can say it worked out well, but Adaptive Aim still sucks balls I have to conclude. Eh, in one of my playthroughs I made a full 6 SPARKS and just sent them on missions, replacing one with a specialist (Whom I dubbed "robo-lord") if it seemed like a good idea (so when I need to carry a vip or hack something), and there, I found adaptive aim much more useful than bulwark, as it turned "overdrive, shoot thrice, repeat until enemies are dead" a valid tactic. That's a gimmick though, but it did work amazingly. I will say I much prefer rainmaker over punch though, simply because 3 width plasma blasters are hilarious. As are blaster bombs with enhanced radius and damage. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Shen does upset me that she just gets to have Every Good Perk. I want Gremlins to deliver medkits as a feature, not a perk! Bah. The thing I noticed about Shen is that she pretty much has all the Gremlin specific abilities (so combat protocol, haywire and medical and scanning protocol, threat assessment and capacitor discharge) but no other abilities (except maby field medic?), so no guardian (actually really good) or ever vigilant. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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One thing I find funny is that one of her lines when you make her dash is "glad I didn't skip on cardio".
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You know, I think I can easily make an argument for Phantom over Blademaster. Phantom is the preferred choice of Beaglerush. Yes, that is my entire argument. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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I humbly suggest Julian "Jade's Choice".
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I shall now commit Root Beer chat heresy by taking about Ginger Beer. I'm from England, and I've discovered I very much like Crabbie's alcoholic ginger beer (5% vol if I recall), it taste sweet and nothing like normal ginger beer or normal beer. I know a guy who said something like "it's doesn't taste like alcohol, so you can drink a lot of it thinking you'll be fine, but it'll still get you drunk".
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Lunethex posted:Finally, communism in a bottle Tastes like... proletariat. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Yeah, make Tallow a scout, after all, Phantom is the personal favorite of known XCOM enthusiast Beaglerush.
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Part of the thing about Beagle was his huge-rear end Long War LP on Twitch (where he still does weekly stuff) which helped demonstrate how good he is at finding cheese, and how awful Long War is for trying to remove all of it, resulting in only the very best (and most patient) standing a chance of winning it. Point is, Beagle is genuinely a really good XCOM (both EU/EW and 2) player, and even if his unedited videos have him waffling a bit, it doesn't change that. Certainly, he showed me just how useful a scout can be.
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GuavaMoment posted:tl;dr Jade and I reserve the right to make fun of people who make low-quality videos just for the fame and money. Fair enough I suppose, I don't think Beagle's videos are particularly low quality though, and he is genuinely really good at XCOM, which suggests to me he isn't in it just for the fame and money, I imagine he started with a love of the game, got popular and thought "wow, I could actually makes a living doing this" or something along those lines. I totally understand that it's enjoyable to be the underdog who makes fun of people who make money from their content and act morally superior to them. You know, Beagle has a SA account, and now I want to see him post in this thread, just to see what people's reactions would be. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Brainamp posted:The same as when he posts in the xcom thread? Don't be a weird fanboy. Er, it's more the fact there's a bunch of people making fun of him here that makes me curious. Anyway, that's enough of a derail, I'll stop now, not really anything more to say on the subject anyway. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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GunnerJ posted:The game has a class with a whole set of stealth abilities. Rangers could have been spotters! They already can, for Snipers and the bombardment ability we saw on Julian (which can be used on any tile your squad can see). I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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pun pundit posted:A good way to activate the berserker queen there would have been to put everyone in overwatch. Your sniper with long watch would have taken a shot once she moved from behind the tree, and she would then charge into your overwatching squad on the alien turn. This. A Phantom scout seeing a ruler like this gives you a great opportunity to get a bunch of shots at it without having to suffer a ruler reaction for each shot. Just move near it's sight range (but not in it obviously) activate overwatch, and when it moves near you (or if you have a long watch sniper) and watch it take a near full squads worth of fire (or a full one if you use your last action to shot it with your phantom, that works too) with little recourse. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Jade Star posted:He's using it from concealment while the whole squad is concealed. To my knowledge this never worked. Kill Zone is essentially an enhanced function of overwatch so he put his entire squad on overwatch, put his sniper on Kill Zone which functions like overwatch, and then never dropped concealment. Overwatch and Killzone will not fire at things if the soldier remains concealed. So Beagle is just loving up or not understanding how basic gameplay elements work, otherwise known as pulling a DSP. Uhhhh...... I hate to be a contrarian but his videos are from when he had the first build, where killzone did work like he describes (in the hands of a sniper) and I know this because when I first played XCOM2 I could use killzone like that untill it got patched out, the reason he has killzone on a gunner is because they got it through the AWC, which is a thing you yourself have talked about having the potential to be great. If you watch some of his other videos, you can see him getting killzone to work like he wants, it's just that because it's being used by someone who got it from the AWC, they can't use it at squadsight ranges. I don't mean to be an rear end in a top hat here, but I like to state facts, regardless of who is currently benefitting from them. For the record, if Beagle made fun of you, I would defend you as staunchly as I'm defending him right now. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Rick_Hunter posted:I personally liked the MEC/Officer pod in the watch tower getting murdered by the proxy mine during the ADVENT site mission. His last few missions have been hilarious because of how much ordinance he can bring. Keep in mind, though, that's he's playing a 1.0 review copy and not the current game that we have. I will say this though, I'm amazed he's suddenly started uploading videos at such as rapid rate. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Sylphosaurus posted:Beagle started to stream his playthrough in realtime instead of putting as much effort as he used to in the after editing before putting up his youtube videos, which explains the rapid pace he's kept for a while. Uh, I know the first part, but the thing is, that didn't stop him from taking an oddly long time to release things, as demonstrated by the fact part 17 was released 5 months ago. Whereas, in the last couple weeks, he's picked up the pace, and in the last couple days, uploaded more than 1 episode a day. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Jade Star posted:What, seriously? Beagle took Guava and my 'Fix your game, Jake' meme(catchphrase?repeated semi-funny line?) and claimed credit for it to jakes face? Wow, what the gently caress. So I have a valid reason I can legitimately hate beagle for being a lovely person, and not just an over popular mediocre youtuber. Er, actually, I'm pretty sure that's not what happend. If I recall correctly, Jake asked Beagle if he was the source of the meme, and I think Beagle replied that he wasn't, it was just a phrase he had seen used and he thought it was often appropriate, so he used it himself sometimes. Something like that anyway. I know you said no more beagle talk, but I have a burning need to correct misinformation when I see it. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Yeah, point is it should average out at 1 activation per 3 person pod.
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Rick_Hunter posted:If I say Beaglerush 3 times will Jade release a new video? Beaglerush has started a long war 2 lp. Beaglerush's roster includes the soldier version of Beaglerush. Beaglerush. Somehow, I doubt this is going to work. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Apparently, saying Beaglerush 3 times worked. Go figure. Anyway, let's hope this thread doesn't degenerate into Long War 2 talk, because that would likely be a drain on just about everyone's sanity. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Well, at least you have access to another mission that can get rid of some pips.
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In a rather odd twist, it turns out that Processed Human DNA is the best glue in the universe. Now, as for what the aliens need the glue for, that's another question.
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Yami Fenrir posted:It isn't! I've had multiple drops per mission, sometimes even up to 3. If anything it's limited to one enemy per pod. Uh no, it's supposed to be once per mission. There are mods that change this however, such as LONG WAR 2. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Jade Star posted:Oh very nice. I think those look a bit sharper. Probably because you're working with 100kb and Nekomimi was working with 30kb. Best. Hacker. Ever. (intended to be sarcastic) Worst Hacker.Ever. As it turns out, hacking is not my calling. Any of those ideas seem good? I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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And so, the bravest shadowy man to have ever lived (seriously, give me ONE other example of a shadowy figure putting themselves on the line like this) has fallen, in order to grant us vital information, and to remind us of our duty.
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Cooked Auto posted:So I just realized that the Councilman said that Advent was going to cover its people mulching plan in the guise of a broadcast about "A final treatment for the human condition". I'm pretty sure that the idea of a "cure for the human condition" or whatever, is a way to stop aging, perhaps make people immune to illness, that sort of thing, not make people something other than human. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Zomborgon posted:And they'd certainly best not wait to fight out a rhythm game with a dragon. Great, now you're making me think of a Drakengard/XCOM crossover (to get the best ending you have to commit at least 1 child murder per mission), I hope you're happy. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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