The Commander's Field Manual to the XCOM 2 Resistance

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EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Oh boy, another Xcom thread.

Submitted a soldier for the cause! :unsmigghh:

The last one was really informative and I look forward to seeing where/how this one goes!

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 08:39

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 15:04

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

You will never catch me,
grinning with murderous glee,
because I missed.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 05:03

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

I'm starting to wonder about that for my first Commander playthrough. On my first completed Veteran playthrough I only had one sniper and holy poo poo mister sandman how did you loving empty your entire expanded clip on a series of missed killzone shots for the eighth time

Just like Combat Lobster to not get specialist. After the 4 percent hacking increase :v:

# ¿ Jul 18, 2016 02:08

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Bruceski posted:

Yeah, you can argue X vs Y, but at least both of them have a point. They may fit different playstyles, but there's no "that's garbage" class, and even the overlooked skills are because they're alongside very useful ones (the first grenadier skill for example), not because they're a bad idea.

As soon as I saw the Sniper's baseline skill being Squadsight (one of the most powerful skill options in the first game) I figured it was this and that the Jade and Guava dichotomy would be even fiercer this time around :allears:

# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 04:39

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Mzbundifund posted:

Hinging a fairly major component of your gameplay on such a small number of RNG rolls is really not my favorite bit of game design.

in a nutshell really. Yet we still come back for it.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2016 00:38

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Zomborgon posted:

Well, since I just was overcome by curiosity and learned the basics of regular expressions, let me know if you want a version with a Skippy Granola namelist. I just finished checking it over.

e: holy heck there's over a thousand first names alone

Now the real question is: is Skippy "My Balls" Granola determined enough to take over the identity of over one THOUSAND random names?
Or is anyone else determined enough for that matter?

A thousand first names alone is pretty impressive.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 09:00

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

McLargefist
McMutons
Spacey
Doitzel Kaiser
Ein Berliner
Don't Panic
Gun Jumper
Art Vandelay
SCROOGE

Edit: we have to have something to do until videos pop up.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2016 07:11

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Man Whore stole the spotlight despite being horrible.

Meanwhile, Ciaphas mowed down like, 3 enemies, all with critical shots. Definitely a Gift Horse.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2016 08:08

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Angry "Grenades" Lobster, Alessandra "Missed" Margottini, Chris "Lethal" Gasmask.

I like giving nicknames people earn :colbert:

Angry Lobster has shot many grenades, Alessandra has yet to hit anything with her sniper rifle (ace on the pistol though) and Gasmask kills things real good.

Also Enemy Mechs. They saw how effective the Boosh was, now they have Boosh-capable units :stonk:

EponymousMrYar fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Jul 31, 2016

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 08:44

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

VolticSurge posted:

Even in death,I still serve.

Even in death, I can still panic and kill myself and everyone around me. Second times the charm Hitler!

# ¿ Aug 12, 2016 00:08

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Random silly thought: Two Sparks, with Bulwark, standing next to each other. Behold a Phalanx! (that probably doesn't work but it sounds amusing.)

Bulwark does sound like it provides more bang for it's buck than Adaptive Aim since the downsides are easily mitigated and Run and Gun rangers cover the 'delete one enemy' aspect better.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 06:00

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Jenner posted:

Shredder and Beef

Short and sweet!

# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 01:51

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Hulk's gotta be RUNNIN' WILD. You can't stop the Hulk.

Except you can, but you just haven't stopped the Hulk yet Aliens!

# ¿ Aug 18, 2016 23:15

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

IMJack posted:

What flower would be inferior to a lily?

A stem

# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 03:15

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

GoneRampant posted:

I'm gonna go with what Guava said. Wrecking Ball sounds really cool, but Jade's not using Overdrive enough to nearly justify it. So I'm gonna say Julian get his mitts on Intimidate.

On the other hand, being able to wreck cover whenever he wants in addition to being a source of high cover to move into for missions such as this where there is a distinct lack of any might get him to use it more.

Then again intimidate stacks with more armor and bulwark provides more armor.

Also he probably won't use it more even if he should be using it more.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2016 04:40

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

AnoHito posted:

Julian "Oh God People Are Going To Keep Suggesting Nicknames The Whole Thread And None Of Them Are Ever Going To Get Picked Because They All Suck He's Just Going To Have No Nickname The Whole LP Isn't He" Shen

I to vote for Julian "Hitler Why" Shen.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2016 08:24

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Man "Rootbeer Chat" Whore.

The possibilities are kind of endless with that name.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2016 22:52

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Zomborgon posted:

For a moment there, I assumed that Reaper was the name of a root beer.

Also same.

Adding to rootbeer chat, I've had a keg of Virgil's and if you're used to soda root beers you're going to get a kick in your tastebuds. Definitely drink it cold.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2016 18:48

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Good Wilhelm and digital Wilhelm scream Jade :golfclap:

# ¿ Oct 25, 2016 08:47

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Duke "Mighty Boot" Nukem.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 05:44

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Recover 1-5, we've lost aliens of the costs. Menace it at all package, we can't material to lose that afford to the control.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2017 05:24

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Jade Star posted:

Thing about this though, is that loot dropped from a ADVENT and Talow scooped it up. It was a superior repeater and PCS Speed, this is evident at 32:57 in the video. Then at the end of the mission I had also found a stock and an expanded magazine, shown at 36:12. Where did the stock and magazine come from? It didn't come from aliens dropping more loot, there was no active loot laying around on the map like a couple people are saying. There was one drop from a kill, which Talow picked up and was shown to be a repeater and a PCS. No where is a second drop made by killing ADVENT. The only guess I can put forth is that hacking the objective somehow got me a stock and a magazine. I don't know for sure but 'it was lying on the ground at mission end' isn't right, or if it is, please point me to the time of the video where a second loot drop is made.

Does Emphenada's gun have a stock and a magazine? That's pretty much the only thing I think anyone hasn't covered, that by getting 'killed' and getting back up, he somehow picked up a copy of his mods from his gun.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 02:11

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

There is only one bad thing that can be said about the blaster bomb.

Especially if it's operator is a dick :colbert:

# ¿ Apr 15, 2017 07:29

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

So... Operation Jack Pronunciation. Is it a Jack Jack, or a Joque Jack, or a Jefferson Andrew Cain Kaprinski Jack?

# ¿ May 1, 2017 12:48

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Vaguely British is what you call someone's accent that you can hear but can't tell exactly where they're from.

Also they have to be speaking some form of English.

# ¿ May 28, 2017 00:41

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Zebrin posted:

I always thought it was because Canadians are vaguely British.
Well... when they aren't being bad at being French.

The proper term is 'Ostensibly French.'

# ¿ May 30, 2017 22:38

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 15:04

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Hooray LP finished! Also hooray for only mild (by it's standards) JAIDS interference!

Kurieg posted:

I eagerly await the submissions of Nota Crysallid and Muton Jones in feudal europe.

Jimmy Muton (who outshone Julian on that last mission shot for shot,) Archie and Archer will probably fit right in dying for the cause in Battle Brothers.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 06:58

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