MagusofStars posted:

Oooh, will be watching this with interest. I stayed away from the game after hearing that they stripped out most of the strategic/large-scale management layer out of it, which has always been the true heart of XCOM IMO, dating all the way back to playing UFO Defense/TFTD days on MS-DOS floppy disks (look it up, kids). But I *did* also hear that the storyline was interesting, so I'm glad to be able to experience it.

Last Transmission posted:

Aw yeah!

I hope you pick up Axiom. He's my big, strong muton friend. A berserk, nigh-unkillable and hilariously mobile shotgun-toting badass.

I love about this game that you can take pretty much any agent and make them just absurd with the right skill picks and gear combos.

Danaru posted:

New Episode!

Let's Play XCOM Chimera Squad Episode 7 - A Smushy, Smushy Boy

So it turns out agents can get scars if they get gravely wounded at all I thought it was only if they went into bleedout

Danaru posted:

New Episode!

Let's Play XCOM Chimera Squad Episode 8 - I Know About Apples

Whisper gets increasingly frightened at the commander screaming about apples and indecipherable garbage over the radio, Director Kelly just says "he opened the Vicar's Cross didnt he"

Section Z posted:

*Terrible shot against android*
Axiom: You want to aim for the fleshy bits.

Godmother, stop listening to Axiom's advice on anything but punching.

I also want drunk Dan to read the 'anonymous tip' Patchwork wrote about how X-Com should totally extract the cool kid with cyber legs.

Section Z posted:

I know the big deal is the Sacred Coil base. But what I want to know is why did you even bother getting sent to save that Data Analyst, if they are so terrible at their job you only get 80% chance for intel?

32:50 posted:

"there could have been andromedon in here, so it could be worse"

"they do have andromedon in here"

Danaru posted:

New Episode!

Let's Play XCOM Chimera Squad Episode 13 - Hope You Like Hell

Fun fact: while researching about this mission between recording sessions to see if I was missing something, I found out a ton of people consider this the hardest mission in the game, even when played with top rank agents with maxed out equipment!

Also the best advice most websites have for beating this mission when you do Sacred Coil first is "Don't do Sacred Coil First"

starbucks hermit posted:

Kinfolk910 posted:

That said isn't this their second or third play through? I could have sworn they said they finished this game before.

Then again they are playing sub-optimally under some very bad personal modifiers. IE: Being drunk off their gourd.

Clarste posted:

My understanding of this mission is that the Gatekeeper is technically a 3rd party and therefore adding it to the battle is supposed to make things easier since it'll draw enemy fire and possibly kill them, but this was incredibly poorly handled by the game design so it doesn't work like that at all.

Mikl posted:

Congrats 🎉🎉🎊👏


Also I love Punch Lady already

Danaru posted:

I dunno what you guys are talking about but I guarantee I'll pick all the wrong options and go "haha big lady go kick" while selecting them

I'm not saying the current conversation is bad, just warning you all that I will NOT remember any of it when I need to

Crazy Achmed posted:

Congrats on beating that pile of bullshit. I'm probably full of poo poo as well, but it feels like always, always killing the guardian during a breach is a good idea. gently caress those guys.

kaosdrachen posted:

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?

Dead Reckoning posted:

"Remember that extremely questionable poo poo most governments have at least dabbled in at some point IRL? Welp, XCOM did it too after they won the war. Cherub loves nachos!"

I mean, resistance XCOM itself was a deniable, unaccountable direct action network, whose methods could often be described as "terroristic", being funneled guns and money by a senior administration spokesman, and descended from an organization whose underground lair literally contained a chamber for torturing and dissecting captives. So old habits die hard, I guess?

Some reporter looking into why a Senior Agent of the Reclamation Agency bears a striking resemblance to the snake lady who ran New Arctic Human Liquidation Black Site #7 is going to be found crushed to death in a steamer trunk snake lady themed strip club, and Godmother is going to No Comment when City 31 PD files it as a "death by misadventure."

Danaru posted:

W.T. Fits posted:

You're thinking of Torque.

Also, Torque is an earthling. Technically.

Flesnolk posted:

Aren't Chryssalids non-sapient murderbugs? That's more like chowing down on the rabid grizzly that just charged you than eating a Muton or Sectoid. Also after the whole "killing everyone's pets and livestock" thing they can shut up and get on the dinner table as far as I'm concerned.

W.T. Fits posted:

"Man, somebody said there was gonna be a thing to make it so that I can put two people on the 3D printer."

"Somebody lied, I bet. loving rear end in a top hat."

Nah, I didn't lie, I just didn't go into enough detail on what needed to be done.

Basically, in order to unlock the second slot for Assembly, Spec Ops and Training, you need to research all of the stuff that lets you upgrade your Field Teams to Rank 3. Once you've done that, you need to rank up at least one of each kind of Field Team to Rank 3. Each type of team you get to Rank 3 will unlock a research project in the Assembly to open up a slot in a specific area.

If I recall correctly, getting a Security Team to Rank 3 unlocks it for Spec Ops, getting a Technology Team to Rank 3 unlocks it for the Assembly, and getting a Rank 3 Finance Team unlocks it for Training.

W.T. Fits posted:

Sacred Coil is always a rough first investigation just because they have so many bullshit units, with Ronin being the worst of the worst due to having Lightning Reflexes, Bending Reed, the ability to inflict root/rupture or just force you to waste an action reloading when they hit you, they can go into a melee counterattack stance, and oh yeah, just because there aren't enough "gently caress yous" in that list of abilities, they also have an ability that gives them two extra turns in the round.

Danaru posted:

New Episode!

Let's Play XCOM Chimera Squad Episode 28 - Oh, They're Lying

Well we knocked over a fish packing plant, that's basically the same as taking down Gray Phoenix right?

W.T. Fits posted:

The takedown mission for each faction consists of five maps total, with the player only ever seeing three of them based on the order you play through the factions in. If you take on a faction first, then you do maps 1-3, if you take them on second, you do maps 2-4, and if it's the last faction, you do maps 3-5.

So for example, in Danaru's run, since he did Sacred Coil first, he got maps 1 (subway area outside the temple), 2 (the temple that ends with the two waves of Ronin reinforcements) and 3 (the room where Bellus Mar summoned the Gatekeeper). If he'd gone for them second instead of first, he'd have started on map 2, moved on to map 3, and then there would have been an additional map beyond that. If he'd saved Sacred Coil for last, he would have started in the room where the Gatekeeper was summoned, then moved on to the last two maps after that.

Sally posted:

haha you should change it back!

Section Z posted:

Catching back up and I'm proud of Cherub's growing kill count.

I hope Dan's new job is cool and one where people won't get mad at paying him for being indestructible.

Chuu posted:

. . . were you talking about Donner Kebab in the last video? I've had it at several places in the US and Europe and never heard of or seen putting cheese on it before.