How am I doing @Ian?
Plebrolling some alien booty I hope.
How am I doing @Ian?
Plebrolling some alien booty I hope.
You're up to Corporal now, I believe. Gonna struggle to get much more of this played until next week, I think.
Am I dead yet?
Nah, you're still there, shooting aliens in the face. You might also be a corporal.... I may soon reward you with slight de-nerdification.
I think I might have to start again.
I've been moving so slowly and the aliens have moved so fast.
Fuck viper rounds, burning grenades, mechs etc.
My squad (outside of like 5 guys) just get mashed.
Stuck at it and managed to get a bit of a break, managed to be less shit and get some luck.
Pushed through a lot of sciency stuff too which has helped and was on a good run. Just cocked up though by sending a 4 man team with average soldiers but forgot to euip new weapons/gear on them. Mission didn't last long when my fairly vanilla warriors ran into heavily outfitted advent soldiers.
So I thought I'd get the chance to play this tomorrow but I'm away with work tomorrow / Tuesday. Plan is some TTH Alien Resistance updates back end of next week and then a video thingy next weekend.
Started a mission, saw my first Chryssalid of this run and decided to quit.
I'm not prepared to deal with one of those bastards at 1 in the morning.
I'm thinking of getting this soon.
Should I start off with Enemy Within/Unknown before jumping to 2?
I went straight into the second.
I heard that Unknown is a little dated now but it's fun for mech suits.
I've not actually got to the Shen's Last Gift stuff in this yet but there are robots in this if you get that DLC so you're probably as just dipping straight into 2.
Anyway, did my first mission in fucking ages and it was a near fucking disaster.
Disclaimer: it would have been an actual disaster without a reload. The game surprised me in two ways. One with another little quirk of LW2 that I was unaware of and cost me dearly, secondly my first muton surprised me by doing absurd amounts of damage. This mission felt like a massive difficulty spike even though my infiltration score was ace.
Tasked with rescuing four resistance bods (one named Haystacks Horace, because even though I rejigged my Horace as Townsend he was still in the character pool unused) from an Advent cell. Things were going swimmingly and I got to them without being detected.... when I discovered that hacking the cell will 100% of the time break concealment and alert nearby enemies to you. This was the first surprise. So after the disaster which followed and a heroic couple of reloads, I was making a dent in the alien defence force and managing to save the soldiers who went down and risked bleeding out with medkits. Mahow, Byron, Phonics. All took horrible hits and would have died a slow, unpleasant death if not for their comrades. And if not for Shindig charging into a building to take on a stun lancer and a half-smashed robot with little more than a big sword, a stern glare and a snappy haircut.
Sadly, in the melee.... Pleb died. Sorry @Pleb.
He died trying to get to the muton holed up on the second floor of a building drawing fire for two of our VIPs, though two of those died during this firefight too.
We did, eventually, with reinforcements swooping in manage to escape with two of our VIPs, three men nursing grave wounds, Mahow traumatised and taking a hit to his Will and Pleb tragically lost.
Although....
Just days after this mission a new recruit turned up at XCOM HQ calling himself "Kid Pleb", wearing a hockey mask like the legend himself always did, and sporting a 'Death' tattoo in the great man's favoured shade of hot pink.
Toggle Spoiler
Who is the mysterious stranger? is it a fan? An imitator? Pleb's long-lost baby brother, out for revenge? Did Pleb himself somehow survive the battle?? Only time will tell.
At least I died trying to get two VIP out other than getting plebrolled by ailens etc.
My kid should hopefully tear the place up in future missions
So Ironman mode doesn't fuck about.
I move two soldiers into a position where I feel I could flank the aliens only to be shot straight in the face and that's only the second mission
Ironman mode for your first run
I admire your balls / self-loathing, Pleb, but you don't Ironman your first run you mad bastard.
To be fair I've been using it as dummy runs trying to get a feel of the game. Maybe I should play the game without ironman on
Just lost
I thought I had managed to salvage the world though as I had just donned their Network Tower and was infiltrating a mission to fully liberate my first area as well as the Codex mission.
Edit: Rolled back a bit and completed a quick mission to counter a dark event.
First TTH XCOM video should be upon you tomorrow, chaps.
Done some test runs and sound quality seems okay though one of the ones seems a bit jittery. My PC doesn't run the game perfectly but I dunno if that was the issue in this case or if it was the recording software. Will play about with it some more.
Did a mission, recorded it.... now a bunch of my save files have corrupted.
If I have to start again I'm turning off Long War. I like it but I haven't seen any of Shen's Last Gift yet and a LW2 save is, as the name implies, loooong. I don't want to burn myself out on it before the next DLC comes out.
Ugh.
I wondered what the multiple 'Webly is now playing...; pop-ups were, never a great sign.
So now that I'm on an ACTUAL non-ironman run as suggested by you guys () and reading up on tips on RPS and other sites I take it I should focus on getting Intel more than supplies or the other way around?
Tell me you're not doing a LW2 run first though.
Nope. I'm only doing a bog standard xcom2 run with no mods etc.
Good.
You'll need a balance. That's the challenge.Originally Posted by Pleb
So now that I'm on an ACTUAL non-ironman run as suggested by you guys (
Did you get the save back Ian? I hope it's not OBS, a similar thing happened to my CK2 save but I just blamed the game because it regularly mulches everything with updates.
I didn't. So I've binned Long War (even though there are things I miss) and gone back to vanilla so I can have a go with Shen's robots.
There are enough reports of other people having similar issues that I'm not worried about it being OBS. Might not be Long War but I never had an issue previously and as I said, I don't want to burn myself out on the game before the DLC comes out.
I didn't even post the big video I did because I broke it into two bits and the second bit died on it's arse.
Might have another crack tonight before I watch Game of Thrones.
First TTH alien kill squad video.
I probably pause a bit too much and interrupt myself at times but I don't loathe it too much for my first attempt at talking over me doing a thing. Sadly I lack Disco's newsreaderly voice but then those of you who've played any multiplayer stuff with me already know that. There's also a bit of glitchy wibbly jerkiness near the end where I tabbed out to check the recording but otherwise I think the quality and sound are decent, let me know if I'm wrong and something other than my voice is grating like a bitch.
This video stars: @Pleb, @ItalAussie, @Shindig, @Mike and @Baz
I've also done this one, just going through who / what we've got so far:
Be gentle with me lads. I shall endeavour to be more interesting with practice.... and once the missions get more brutal.
Needs more Third Hard promotion.
We need new blood in the group.
We'll worry about hooking people with the politics chat first.
They'll come for the politics but stay for the religious debates.
Getting the plug out early doors. #Engagement
Not dead yet. That's a win.
Looks like I'm using the operating table to my advantage. If I'm on the shelf, I'm surviving. Like Owen Hargreaves.
You also had the highlight of shooting a dude in the face with a minigun from about two yards away.
Dude had it coming.
I liked that Ian (even though your squad roster has a glaring omission), I feel like we should giving Mike some shit for not pulling his weight.
I just need training up. Though being called Mr Sniper Man and not my name has affected my moral. Plus I had to watch my brother die.
There's no greater motivation. Even if it was Baz.
Good to see I'm still donning procedures even as a medic
I saved everybody when I built them in Long War 2 to the character pool but I think I may end up having to make people AGAIN anyway because the game tried to give me some fucking random as a recruit.
You're all there though, just as soon as I stumble across more recruits.
I'm a twit
They're BACK.
Now with 100% less death than on the last mission.
"This video is private."
Ah shite. I do that first to make sure they've uploaded properly.
Should work now.
I refuse to watch a video all the way through until I'm put into the squad.
I'm on strike!
Sounds like alien talk to me.
Obvious alien trick to deflect from yourself.
So next mission should be a good'un and I shall record. it's a blacksite, I'm gonna have some upgraded magnetic weapon shit, there've been promotions and I'm probably gonna get hit with some sort of dreadful enemy that I'm totally not ready for.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
