0 soldiers with fuck all intel or supplies
This hasn't been a good day.
Aliens won, fuck sake. Time to start again, shit.
0 soldiers with fuck all intel or supplies
This hasn't been a good day.
Aliens won, fuck sake. Time to start again, shit.
Was all going quite well until the aliens targeted the ship.
Spent far too fucking long killing enemies rather than attacking the pylon thing.
Had 3 active soldiers left and 1 who was unconscious. I sent one to the ship (she had 1 health), one was sent to pick up the unconscious guy and bring him back (he was halfway there and I used an aid droid to give him more defence) and the other was in enemy territory so I decided to let her die.
The wankers took the bait and the guy who was carrying someone so I had to leave the unconscious one (he was a Polish grenadier too) one behind.
Edit: Aliens win again, ffs.
My greatest achievement in gaming (probably life too as that is so fucking huge) by far. Putting my whole team in overwatch the turn before reinforcements arrived was the most satisfying thing I've ever seen. Three troops land, move away and they get absolutely fucked over by my 4 man team. The fist pumps were aplenty.
Only on easy and it's one of the first missions on my third attempt but my word, what a feat.
Decided to go aggressive in building this time. The first go round I didn't build a GTS, the second time it was my fourth building but the third I fucked the proving ground for later. GTS first and I've got Advanced Warfare centre building now with a power relay and finally the proving ground fourth. Haven't lost a single person yet having gotten in five people quick sharp and have managed to get quite a few engineers and a shit ton of rookies.
Edit: A second flawless, I AM GOD.
Yeah, GTS and AWC early are crucial. Not quite so much AWC but the extra skills and healing speed are really handy.
Finally managed to do a fucking blacksite, 3 killed though including my favourite ranger Ryo Ito
Most hated aliens?
Spoilered for Mahow.
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I don't think I've taken on a ball thing or a big metal knobhead but codex's are indeed absolute cunts.
'Oh they've just taken my ammo, reload, shoot. Ha, eat that dickheads. Oh fuck every single person who was inside that purple shit is dead :\'
And yes stun lancers are annoying as fuck, especially when it's on the medic/the medic is fucked/not on the mission and you have to carry them around
Oh wait, are the big metal knobheads those that have guns on their shoulders? I've been fucked a few times by those grenades they fire
Tried a blacksite one time when I was on the roof and it took 3 people out with it by demolishing the roof.
I somewhat inadvertently took the roof out from under an enemy once and was very pleased with the results. Once you know it's a very nifty tactic.
Me and Cord were discussing one day that unlike Enemy Unknown there aren't really any enemies in this that you can totally disregard other than perhaps the basic trooper.
Gatekeepers are probably the biggest pain in the arse because even early doors you should have enough grenades to deal with your weapons being disabled by a codex if you're in a bit of a pinch. Of course the answer is to spread out as much as you can without exposing anybody as soon as you see one of the fuckers.
Yep, I found out about it a few missions before being on the wrong end of it.
The joy at seeing those psi wankers be flung down and losing extra health was amazing.
Still need to build armour but the mag/gauss weapons are so good.
I can't decide which is my favourite though, the shard gun or the mag cannon.
I think that's probably my favourite rookie ever.
He's a Taz/Mert hybrid
RIP in pieces to the wonderful Taz/Mert hybrid.
Died really fucking early in his first mission
Suicide vest?
Indeed, he was meant to go in and blow some aliens with him.
Sadly he got distracted by a female with low self esteem and accidentally pulled the trigger.
Taking down a big facility
Only lost 1 person, got my first captain (a sharpshooter), 2 avatar blocks removed and just a general all round great feeling.
6 in my squad now, woof. Well I will when I have the supplies, most of my squad was injured so had to recruit more for the facility. Have to take 4 on my next mission too :\
Oh and I met a new enemy:
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Edit: Hacked a heavy mec in a missionChrist that's fun.
@Pepe when he gets his green card.
Just failed a mission because one of my team got EVAC'd on the last turn, fuck off.
Edit: Skulljacking a codex, jesus fucking christ.
Wish I could grow a mustache like that.
Archons are a pain more because of their mobility. Their blazing pinions move when your team are huddled on a roof can see things get a bit hairy as well.
Came across a Beserker for the first time. Or more appropriately;
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT.
Also, is the Avatar meter meant to rise that fast? I'm scraping to remove it as fast as I can but I can't help shake the feeling that I'm doing something wrong.
I let mine rise quite a bit (I think it was 3 or 4 bars from completion) whilst training my squad up by doing little missions etc. Started hitting it hard by going after the blacksites and I've got it to under half now.
Sometimes the dark events make it inevitable that it's going to up.
One dickhead gets panicked and decides the best course of action is to throw a fucking incendiary grenade not at aliens but at two on his own team.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Met that ball thing.
Fucking hell :\
The stupidity of the team sometimes, fucking hell.
UFO finally caught up to us (about a day before I had built the defence thing), wasn't going too badly.
Had everyone pulled back to the ship (the last one went to the area on their last turn), an alien shot at us. Most of the squad got panicked, one ran away from the ship and another decided the best course of action was to lob a grenade. Where do you ask? Right to the feet of four of his 'friends'.
Because of this the squad is shit on health and I had to leave the gimp behind as she was panicked and didn't have a specialist to comfort her. Well played love, I hope your panicked arse gets plenty of joy by being fucked by a shit tonne of aliens.
One of those that was killed (2 in the main party and 1 left behind of the reserves) was a major that I just rescued the mission before.
I know what the big metal dickhead thing is now :\
Edit: And now I've actually found the ball things
Oh my fucking lord, put a ranger on overwatch to end a turn, those massive metal dickheads popped up. The ranger shot him and got an execution on him
Ah, I remember that. I was on the verge of losing that mission BEFORE I even skulljacked the Codex. After the skulljacking, well... it was a massacre.Originally Posted by Mahow
Didn't even think you could execute those big machines. Might try that a bit more, looking for a lucky shot.
I did it right at the start and it fucked me over, I've decided not to do it until I'm further along and have an actual shot at defeating it.
I didn't either, it was fucking glorious though.
Edit: Finally got a colonel and it's a specialist too (thank you council for allowing me to hire him) and the restoration skill? So damn good.
Finally did some of the Shadow Chamber stuff and unlocked the Psi Ops. Problem is that they're only 3 bars away from the Avatar Project and I need to save up enough Intel to make contact with the Forge region (as I stupidly ignored a supply raid meaning the contact was lost)
Also lost my main Grenadier in the last mission, which sucks. I replaced her from Resistance HQ but still.
Missed the news that mimic beacons have been weakened a bit.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...c-beacon-nerf/
Probably the right move, but still...
I waited until mine was filled up yesterday as I had a bad run and had no intel or supplies (I needed my drop), got them and then took on a facility and destroyed it.
I almost cried when I lost my main sharpshooter the other day, 18 missions she went on.
She was a proper hero.
Got lucky but that's the first alien site I've done without losing someone.
Took one of the round metal things in one turn (a colonel grenadier with rupture and blue rounds absolutely fucking dicked it) and it was surprisingly swift. Grenaded the crap out of the building so I was even able to call the EVAC inside the joint.
Edit: The most annoying thing in the game? Hunting a rogue chryssalid.
Stop burrowing away you twat.
Chryssalids aren't the horror that they were in Enemy Unknown.
Cunts.
It seems that every mission I have now I have to hunt one down across half the fucking map though, they don't do any damage to my team but I take out what seems to be every single person on the map and then realise there's one burrowing away across the other side. It's really fucking annoying, the last level I did I spent 3 or 4 turns just moving along to get close to it.
I hated them in EU. They were particularly frustrating on the save the civilians missions. They would ignore my troops and run around turning all the civilians into zombies. Cunts.
Serial with free reloads on a sharpshooter almost feels like cheating.
And, I haven't tried it yet but one of my grenadiers got serial too. That's going to be fucking bonkers.
Did the skulljack successfully.
Was on a retaliation mission with a specialist (with the upgraded medkits and restoration skill), two rangers including one who I've trained to be a sword wielding maniac, a beast of a sharpshooter, a grenadier and a brand new psi operative.
Killed all enemies bar one codex, then shoved a skulljack in it, almost killed it that turn (two people missed) and it only had time to mind control one person but went down before it could hurt us.
Here are my sergeants or better:
Might as well just call ourselves 'Team Asia'
I'd actually cry if I lost Ma Dong.
Executed a gatekeeper now
I think it was Colonel Byron who executed a gatekeeper in one of my missions and it was perfectly timed as well becauseit was in position to do some serious damage.
You had much fun with the psi ops yet?
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Even outside those they were awful though. They were, for me, a proper "Drop everything and kill that RIGHT NOW" enemy.
Yep, they're brilliant fun.
Playing the last mission, got lost, went the wrong way and in my attempt to find aliens I pushed one up so far that he was alone with 3 trooper people. Sadly he didn't 'bleed out'
Took fucking ages to traverse the fucking map and I ended up going right round the whole thing, somehow missing those troopers and I'm guessing others :\ Have to wait a few hours before I keep playing now
I'm done, it flies onto my 'favourite games of all time' list too. I fucking loved it, I'm not sure if it's genuinely brilliant though or not because I don't usually do turn based games. I'd like some recommendations to similar games though.
50 hours in under a week though, fucking hell and only about 3 or 4 of those were me just leaving the game open.
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My recommendation would be to buy Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within (dunno how cheap they are as a pack, might be better waiting for a sale.)
It'll definitely show some flaws given you've started with XCOM 2 BUT by getting it with Enemy Within and playing that way you get:
- MECs
- Gene mods (for example, you can give a soldier the ability to jump onto rooftops)
- Some more scripted missions (the fishing village
- And I stress again: MECs.
Kinetic strike.
£25 for the pack, think I'll hold out until a sale.
Yeah, there's no need to be spending that on it.
As for others, Invisible, Inc. is somewhat different but also a good game. Jagged Alliance 2 is, I think, the other famous non-XCOM one in the genre though I didn't really get on with it.
http://www.dlgamer.co.uk/download-xc...SuoaAvZY8P8HAQ
£5 on DLGamer but it's out or
http://www.kinguin.net/category/6491...vOYaAgQ48P8HAQ
£6.15 on Kinguin who I've never heard of.
It's a pity I'll probably never play Enemy Within again (unless I just go in for an afternoon) because smashing a chryssalid through a wall simply never got old.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...dlc-out-today/
I do like a bit of gaming dress-up but... nah.
I saw that and was instantly glad I didn't buy the deluxe edition with all future DLC.
£3.99 alone too, proper lol and that's coming from a person who spent £1.59 to drive the batmobile around a rocket league pitch about 4 times.
DLC adding what might as well be called ragequit monsters because they sound fucking horrible.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...-dlc-released/
Christ alive, whoever thought of those is seriously depraved.
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