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    Xcom 2

    Forgot we didn't have a thread. Inspired by RPS posting some screenies.

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015...ss-screenshots

    Looks lovely. Want it very much. I'd love it if the different weather played a part.

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    Loved the original X com on the PS1 so fingers crossed for this.

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    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015...com-2-preview/

    So much to like there. I'm glad it's not just "Enemy Unknown but you're nominally the aggressor."

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    More stuff:
    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015...ombat-preview/

    That should be a good change. As said in there, it was frustrating in EU/EW when you'd painstakingly haul your team across however many yards of cover and short hops only to suddenly have a swarm of mutons suddenly know you're there and swoop down on you. That was part of what made the mechs and MELD so satisfying in EW, gave you more of a feeling that you were actually the aggressor for a change.

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015...customisation/

    I'm going to spend way too much time farting about in that. But the thing I really liked in that article is:
    The terrain and buildings react to damage far more this time round and I actually managed to destroy a third turret that was firing down on my squad from a rooftop by blowing the roof out from beneath it. The device fell right through and shattered into pieces on the floor.

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    And a more in-depth video showing the customisation options.



    Swords! I'd forgotten there were swords.

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    My laptop is JUST short of the minimum requirements. I'll be damned if I don't try it anyway.

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    The concealment stuff just sounds so good, for two reasons. Of course for being the aggressor but also for the "Oh FUUUUUCK" moments when all your careful minutes of planning immediately unravel.

    I'm also going to enjoy the soldier dress-up far, far too much. Think I'll name all my dudes and dudettes after TTHers.

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    I think I'm due another play of the original game.

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    Didn't realise it was out on Friday. Shiiiiii. My weekend sorted.

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    Bought and installing.

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    If the post-work pub-chat is shit today it's definitely getting sacked off for this.

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    So, as well as two I've already taken on missions so I won't be renaming I have four TTH recruits ready to go on my next mission. The four who've posted in this thread: Ian Welby, Ital Aussie, Hfs Wjyr (no New Zealand nationality ) and Andrew Thirdhalf (anybody with a name less easily split up will be from the Thirdhalf clan.) Appearances will be semi randomised, as will nationalities if I don't know where you're actually from, ethnicities, etc.

    They'll be rolling out (without any experienced soldiers due to injuries....) for the first time later this afternoon.

    I've only done the tutorial and the first scripted mission so far which didn't throw up anything exciting but I can say the concealment stuff is really cool and I'm definitely going to spend far too much time dressing my soldiers up.

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    I'm about to give this a first go.

    My mate claims they've made this harder than the last one, which is worrying as I was fairly bad at that. They've apparently made the snipers worse, and they were pretty much 100% of my strategy.

    Still, at least I get to give everyone a pink hat now.

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    This does look rather good, shame I'll have to get around to playing the previous one first.

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    The Lads.

    If any of you even look vaguely similar to real life then that's purely by chance. If anybody has posted mugshots on here before and wants to link it in here so I can get you a bit more accurate for when I report your pitiful death feel free.

    We all look a bit similar gear-wise just now because I tend to colour-code by squads by soldier class (might change that in this one with so many more options) and I used to keep rookies in white in EU so I could immediately spot them if I wanted to protect or sacrifice them.

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    I also appear to have forgotten to give the rest of you helmets. Favouritism, clearly.

    EDIT: Technically I was the first TTH casualty but I failed the mission and it made me replay it, so a reprieve.

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    Finished it at the second attempt without a casualty. Ital took a pasting though.

    Promotions all round.

    Ian Welby - Promoted to sharpshooter.
    Ital Aussie - Promoted to grenadier, so he gets a BFG and a grenade launcher.
    Hfs Wyjr - Promoted to Specialist, so he gets a little flying droid thing that I can use to turn him into either a "combat hacker" or a specialist medic type. Which at this point I'll probably do when I get the chance.
    Andrew - Also a grenadier.

    I have also recruited Cord Uroy, and styled him as a cheesy action movie star as we share a liking for crap action films. Had I been making it how I imagine him to look he'd probably have had a big beard.
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    EDIT: Cord promoted to Ranger, so he'll be cutting fools up.

    Also, I'm going to get annoyed if every bloody mission has a timer on it.

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    The swarthy complexion on that

    I'm being fairly rubbish at this, and it keeps giving me completely bald Frenchwomen as new recruits. Other than that, I'm enjoying it.

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    I will be getting this at some point.

    Keep me posted on the dressing up part. Somehow I always end up spending to much time on those parts of games.

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    I swear at least half of the original game was spent on inventory management.

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    New recruits!

    S.Disco, a man the randomiser has given a very large forehead indeed:
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    Pat Patje, who's black because the randomiser values racial diversity in my otherwise caucasian sausage-fest.
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    And Ma How, who had a beard in that mugshot, right?
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    I downloaded this earlier. Never played the last one, will that matter?

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    Sign me up Ian. I'll be happy enough to polish the boots and do the laundry. I'll leave the fighting to the big boys.

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    You haven't downloaded it really, have you? You just want to be on Ian's game.

    (I'm looking forward to seeing my likeness. If you can be arsed chasing up a mugshot, base it on Leighton Baines)
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    You haven't downloaded it really, have you? You just want to be on Ian's game.


    I've never played an Xcom game and I'm thinking of getting it purely based on Ian's 'team'.

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    Ha, I have actually. Though it's the main reason I asked my question, much like why you've replied.

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    It's not necessary to have played Enemy Unknown, the story isn't very deep.

    Disco gets promoted on his debut mission, he's a sharpshooter now.

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    Patje..... Patje's gone, lads.

    Killed two aliens in his first mission before being shot in the back while heroically running away from some others in fear.

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    Typical Dutchie.

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    Firaxis not pulling the punches, my hairline isn't quite that bad...yet. Although in for a penny and all that, give him a huge flapping combover.

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    Cord has expressed his utter regret at stopping Mahow being constricted to death by a big alien megasnake.

    Mahow has been promoted to specialist.

    I really need to work on unlocking more spaces in my on-mission squads.

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    Specialist

    Clearly they know what they're talking about.

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    Get me involved Ian, I'd like to see if I can survive more than a few seconds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    I downloaded this earlier. Never played the last one, will that matter?
    No. This game implies that Earth lost the last game.

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    Tempted to run out and get this, loved the original game on the PS1?!?!?

    The Third Half massive are humanity's last and only hope!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Patje..... Patje's gone, lads.

    Killed two aliens in his first mission before being shot in the back while heroically running away from some others in fear.
    Sounds like me. Tell me you recovered the marvelous sunglasses.

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    Thirdhalf Mike has volunteered to join the crew and has already got sufficient skills that he will immediately become a Corporal in the ranger (sword-dude) class.

    EDIT: New picture, partly because I've researched some new armor to show off. Mostly because I've taken Mike's bandana off and learned that the game has given him a sweet 'tache.
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    It's really shit that the game lies to you about how good you're going to be at hacking a turret or mec and then punishes you when you fail. All the time.

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    That picture of me could easily be a photo. Its uncanny.

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    I want to get in on this game so bad.

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    Experienced grenadier, Sergeant Pee "P_3" Three, has joined the ranks.

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    You're a big, cigar-chomping black dude, right?

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    He looks high af.

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    Yeah, I noticed after I posted it that I've somewhat caught him blinking.

    Or high.

    EDIT:
    I'm going to do a proper rundown of what all the TTHers look like, are up to, etc. later this afternoon but he's a sneak preview of 80s action b-movie star Cord Uroy brooding on the title screen:

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    So you don't have to edit them in after.

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    Yeah, I need to go and delete the ones I have and save them back in again because I've saved some duplicates and I can't be arsed working out what's what.

    Anyway, a roundup of where the TTH gang are so far.

    There would have been more dead but my only actual deaths have come in missions it made me replay. Lucky.
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    The Team
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    The Alien Murder Premier League
    1 - Lt. Cord - 15 kills (4 missions.)
    2 - Lt. Andrew - 13 kills (6 missions)
    3 - Lt. Aussie - 12 kills (5 missions)

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    While I am obviously the best there, I am slightly worried by the sword specialisation.

    The amount of 90%+ sword hits I've missed leading to my ranger sat directly in front of an enemy just waiting to get murdered. I suspect it's a short but glorious existence twatting giant carniverous ray-gun toting aliens with a sword.

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    The only time the sword has proven to be an error in judgement so far was when I tried it on a completely healthy muton, who'd have laughed in my pathetic face were it not for the fact that they're bred only for violence and rage.

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    2nd place....

    Story of my life so far.😢

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