Let's play UFO: Enemy Unknown - Update #25: It's on!

[lightbane]

Dear diary,

Once more I belive the Emperor has a sick sense of humour. Not only in my first mission I was shot shortly after leaving the transport, for some reason I was carrying just a laspistol and a stunbaton to capture some xenos alive. Why I cannot have grenades, or gas grenades for this fact? I saw one of the xenos using a sort of stunpistol, I think it would be more wise to use the same weapon against the enemy to use cannon fodder (specially if it's me!).

But that wasn't the worst: In my second mission, recently given the rights to have some type of armor better than that cheap flak jacket copy, I'm shot again right after leaving the transport, and the aliens seemed to purposely make a mockery of welcoming comittee to make fun of me (and once more the lack of grenades)!!! Fortunately, somehow I managed to survive and live another day. I fear what can happen latter, I bet I'll be attacked by some sort of mind-controlling device and forced to kill my teammates, knowing my bad luck...

 

[Big Nose George]

Dear diary, I've been playing with myself out of boredom. Please continue.

 

[spekkio]

Pink walls? WTF, Georgie?

 

[Toxic Avenger]

Private Toxic reporting for some sectoid skull cracking.

 

[Black Cat]

@ Lightbane

"Once more I belive the Emperor has a sick sense of humour. Not only in my first mission I was shot shortly after leaving the transport, for some reason I was carrying just a laspistol and a stunbaton to capture some xenos alive. Why I cannot have grenades, or gas grenades for this fact? I saw one of the xenos using a sort of stunpistol, I think it would be more wise to use the same weapon against the enemy to use cannon fodder (specially if it's me!)."

If memory does not fail me both the Ordo Hereticus the Ordo Xenos will want to have a word with you. You better make a run for Tau space, nya.

 

[Tails]

Dear diary, I've been playing with myself out of boredom. Please continue.

Dear sir, specially for you I will make update today. I'm even in middle of it and well things got wacky a bit.

 

[lightbane]

@ Lightbane

"Once more I belive the Emperor has a sick sense of humour. Not only in my first mission I was shot shortly after leaving the transport, for some reason I was carrying just a laspistol and a stunbaton to capture some xenos alive. Why I cannot have grenades, or gas grenades for this fact? I saw one of the xenos using a sort of stunpistol, I think it would be more wise to use the same weapon against the enemy to use cannon fodder (specially if it's me!)."

If memory does not fail me both the Ordo Hereticus the Ordo Xenos will want to have a word with you. You better make a run for Tau space, nya.

Actually, the Ordo Xenos is eager to use the same weapons against the enemy (at least the most Radical of the Inquisitors). Second, this diary was not suposed to be taken seriously (and the 1st line was taken from one of the books of Ciaphas Cain). Third, you're not the most adequate to speak, specially with your knowledge of "dubious stuff":wink: . And fourth, when will the next update be?

 

[Haba]

Hohohoho. Totally dodged the enlistment.

 

[Tails]

New replacement of fallen ones:

Not bad I guess.

Boredom awaits. Only few very small UFOs shows up, all are destroyed into pieces by Interceptors.

US fuckin A gets first Interceptor, one should be enough for now.

Small UFO goes HERP DERP to the ground.

Our beloved landing zone. I forgot to equip Troops with Electro-Flares...

Time to spread out. After throwing few flares around, nothing to see so far.

Satori tried to throw Electro-Flare inside the UFO and failed. Hm it looks like we probably won't have many survivors.

Alien turns. taplonaplo is dead after one sneaky shot from west-south.

Luzur is under fire from west and drops monocle before falling on ground dead.

Satori Our turn and time for payback! spiekko kills Luzur murder, and finds out location of another Snakeman.

Big Nose George hits Snakeman with his fine Aimed Shot, yet he is still alive. Lazor Tank aim failed all the time.

Krraloth spots another one and his rocker misses in horrible way. Damn! Since he is standing in the same place as Luzur, there is possibility of another dead on our side.

Satori gets his grenade ready, but currently there is no way we could throw it somewhere around that Alien scum.

Aliens turn. Krraloth survives, since all shots missed him.

spiekko took down this ugly motherfucker.

Big Nose George switch his HE ammo for Incendiary.

Lazor Tank move south, to find out if we have another Snakemen around landing zone.

Satori throws a Grenade inside UFO and moves forward. Silellak and Overweight Manatee stay in Skyranger for now.

Aliens turn. Lazor Tank gets destroyed by Snakeman, fuck. Satori Grenade exploded but it seems UFO is empty.

Krraloth get hit but managed to survive.

Overweight Manatee snipes down Snakemen.

You will live soldier!

Satori assaults the UFO and shots three times....

...one shot only missed yet still Snakeman is alive and responded with one, shot. As you can see Satori still alive, but with three fatal wounds. Since retreating would mean obvious plasma in the back, last single shot by Satori sadly missed Alien. Your dead meat pal.

Or there is still hope? Big Nose George throws a Grenade behind Snakemen. Will it save Satori or kill him as well?

spiekko throws carefully flares around.

Aliens turn. So you wonder what happen to Squaddie Satori? To make it short: Grenade blast killed the Snakemen and also saved Satori life nice throw Big Nose George!

We travel around for some time looking for last bastard. spiekko scouted the north part of Farmland. Satori, Krraloth and Overweight Manatee head for the stable.

Satori makes a hole in the first floor of stable, so Krraloth could shot missile inside.

Well it didn't work out as I wanted, yet we got nice light source.

Thanks to the fire, Overweight Manatee spots last Snakemen and snipes him down

10th Apr is the day when taplonaplo and Luzur died like heroes, fighting Alien menace. Nevar forget!

After returning to base time to check how long will take our boys return to duty. Not bad, you will be ready soon enough with the rest, and yes, including you SV.

Few days later we spot small UFO but we lost track of it later on. Also new Lazor Tank is ready to kick ass.

New recruits!

Current Skyranger-1 crew and rest of Codexia soldiers waiting for their turn.

Small UFO visits US fuckin A we pursuit i to Asia when...

How many they got of them?! Interceptor-3 is following Battleship just in case.

Meanwhile, Interceptor-2 find and shoot down the small UFO from US fuckin A.

Will be it day or night, next update shows which should show up tomorrow.

 

[Big Nose George]

Why dont you just smoke the Transporter exit so you can run for closest cover?

 

[spekkio]

Damn, master of war as always.

 

[Derper]

Weeeeeeeeeee!!! Give me some grenades!

 

[Bloodlust]

Freash meat reporting for duty ! You'll need a soldier with lust for alien blood,right ? right???

 

[GarfunkeL]

Luzur and taplo NEVARFORGET

 

[Luzur]

Luzur is under fire from west and drops monocle before falling on ground dead.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-*

 

[taplonaplo]

Alien turns. taplonaplo is dead after one sneaky shot from west-south.

:D i was good for what i was i guess

 

[Tails]

Why dont you just smoke the Transporter exit so you can run for closest cover?

Good point Big Nose George, really good one, could not be worse for sure.
Oh and from now on, you are permanent scout.

Update should follow soon.

 

[Tails]

Move out squad! Lazor Tank goes west, when Big Nose George, Krraloth and lightbane go towards Small UFO. SV stays by ship just in case.

During Alien turn, Lazor Tank was hit by Stunbomb time to pay back.

So far there is no other Snakemen activity, but keep your fingers on triggers, soldiers! you never know what could happen...

Lazor Tank was taken down during Alien turn, damn.

spiekko and Overweight Manatee go south, track down Tank killa. Our dear German friend, Der Judenjager will provide cover.

We spot another Snakemen. spiekko shoots him once, yet Overweight Manatee scores kill.

We are inside, so far so good, no welcoming committee. Big Nose George is in south corner. Der Judenjager will join them soon, and Silellak provide extra gun for Overweight Manatee & spiekko.

During Alien turn, Der Judenjager is hit and got one nasty Fatal Wound.

:tearofangel: SV makes a beautiful rocket shot, wiping Snakeman from earth

Cautiously, Big Nose George& ligthbane get ready for room assault in next turn. Krraloth will stay in north corner, kill any Snakemen who dare use doors.

Nothing happened during Aliens turn. Yet lightbane catch & stunt Snakemen who was planing enter this small room. Nice! time to retreat to corner. spiekko and Overwieght Manatee stay in place.

SV heals up Der Judenjager arm.

spiekko & Overweight Manatee spot some Snakemen on hill. Both of them have few nice shoots, yet the Snakemen still stands alive. Silellak have to take care of that.

Alien turn. Krraloth fire reacts Snakemen, yet the bloody bastard survived and retreated to previous room.

Let's see what kind of trophy lightbane catch.

spiekko spots Snakemen, and shots him once. The Snakemen respond was a plasma bolt, that killed spiekko Overweight Manatee avenged him.

Aliens turn. Krraloth didn't fire react on time and this mistake cost him life

lightbane tried to take that bastard by surprise, yet Snakemen kill him also... Yet Big Nose George manage to kill him.

Next turn, Big Nose George enters UFO Powers Source and with cold blood, burst shit loads of laser shoots into Snakemen back.

Things gone bad, our Laser Weapons are not effective enough against Snakemen. Which is bad, since Plasma Rifle research is going slowly. Let's hope the second live Snakemen is something else then soldier, and will boost our research. to fallen comrades.

You had pretty shitty performance on first mission, private Der Judenjager. Let's hope that next time you will have more luck.

Living Quarters are done in US fuckin A. New 15 troops is coming and we already got part of equipment.

Small UFO spotted! with last two missiles, we shot it down. In this mission we won't have Lazor Tank but 10 Soldiers, and most of them will be Rookies! Should be entertaining.

 

[spekkio]

The Snakemen respond was a plasma bolt, that killed spiekko.

 

[Silellak]

Wow, that was actually a bit of a slaughter right there at the end. Your laser tanks have no luck.

Silellak provide extra gun for Overweight Manatee & Silellak

I'm so good that I'm my own back-up.

 

[Tails]

I'm so good that I'm my own back-up.

yeah, such daisies happen to me often, during late night updates.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Plasma rifle + plasma clip takes a total of 11,000 research days

Each engineer and soldier alien you capture about cut it in half though.

 

[Tails]

Plasma rifle + plasma clip takes a total of 11,000 research days

Each engineer and soldier alien you capture about cut it in half though.

Hm we did catch Snakemen Soldier & Engineer in this mission, still Plasma Research is on poor level with 100 Scientist. And I'm using Xcomutil build 305, with fixed research bug.

 

[Satori (original)]

FURLONG DEMANDS RETRIBUTION FOR SPEKKIO

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Poor is gonna be a reaaaaaaaly large range with those massively increased research times. It won't turn to average until you have about 1,000 research days left (100 scientists * 10 days of research). You probably have at least 20 days until you get the plasma rifle, then you need another 4k days worth of research for the clip.

If you have the xcomutil thingy enabled where it reports after-combat information stuffies, it will tell you the number of hours subtracted from the research and the currently remaining hours.