In Progress Let's Play: XCOM + Classic + Iron-Man OR: Reserve Your Corpse's Name!

[Azira]

An Israeli sniper?!

That's almost as awesome as Ulminati. I'm very pleased.

 

[Ulminati]

An Israeli sniper?!

That's almost as awesome as Ulminati. I'm very pleased.

I'm just looking forward to archangel armor and in the zone. :3
None o' them wee lil' fairies will be out o' me reach then.

 

[felipepepe]

Since the body count is rising , I shall volunteer as well: Felipe Pepe, male, Brazilian, whatever class you got.

rocket blasts don't seem to like elevation differences, often doing no damage to units on a different elevation from the actaul impact.

Yeah, aiming rockets and handling elevation on this game are a absolute pain, especially when you're near the edge of the map.

 

[CappenVarra]

Heh, I guess this is the moment where I say dulce et decorum est pro terra mori or something

On the question of player respawns, I'd let all people who signed up have their rookies first, and start again from the beginning roster once you're out of fresh meat. Any proper X-COM LP requires multiple incarnations of the players Also at the sectoid drawing at the shooting range

 

[RedScum]

Well, i bit the dust rather quickly and without doing any real good during my short tour. Oh well, we can't all be supersoldiers like Bee or Tigranes.
If we're going with the "1-time cloning rule" i would volunteer with my DNA, then i might atleast do some good the second time around.

And the LP still entertains mate.

 

[Hellraiser]

Bee is a bloody menace, look at her murder every xeno scum around.

Also fucking hell the maps get so repetitive. You play through the game once and you recognize nearly every damn one in any LP. Firaxis dropped the ball with console UE3 popamole, no random maps and dumbed down mechanics are honestly this game's main flaws.

 

[felipepepe]

I really miss a farm level...

 

[Hellraiser]

I really miss a farm level...

Yes, so many barns were obliterated with blaster bombs

It's just not X-COM without them.

 

[felipepepe]

BTW, any interesting mod out there? I saw there is a XCOM nexus now, but nothing worth yet... (and suprisingly, no nude mods)

But it appears there were more countries planned, as you can unlock Colombia, Portugal, Turkey and Venezuela with a mod.

 

[eklektyk]

Ah, a death.

and as for Tigranes comment: in old[better] xcom we would se grandsons and grandgrandsons of codexers by now [such was the body bags flow that many a mortuary made great buck off xcom command alone...]

You could go through old XCOM without losing many people if you were a pro baller--and inversely, lots more people would die in new XCOM if I were playing like the average consumer does. I'm just being a devil's advocate, though. I don't really disagree, and I'm already contemplating an X-COM 1 playthrough once we're done here.

true, u could ... but it requied shitloads of savescumming to survive till nuke tech research and my favorite terror site is 2 stage terror ship from xcom tftd [ so much concentrated rape ... one bad RNG roll and no mater what tech u got u were screwed...so much FUN]

 

[Modron]

I really miss a farm level...

I believe there is a barn stage type of mission in the game; I got a mission in kansas and I distinctly remember being inside a building which had tractors and a cornfield behind it, the cornfield was inaccessible, but I cannot for the life of me remember what the building looked like. Sigh damn late game missions were kind of a blur just because i trudged through them so I could continue research/wait for a battleship.

 

[Bloodshifter]

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Looks like a pretty safe map. Plenty of cover.​

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I died even before i was sworn in

 

[Zeriel]

I really miss a farm level...

Fuck, yeah. There's something quintessential about the farmyard missions in X-COM 1. Something about the juxtaposition of something so normal and mundane, with a fucking alien just standing amid the cornrows, blank-faced "Sup?" look for all the world to see. Lead designer actually mentioned this in an interview as something they wanted to keep, the weird feeling of terror that arises from something so alien put along every-day environments. There's a video floating around of the proof-of-concept cinematic clip they used to get funding that had X-COM agents investigating a farmhouse, complete with LASER DEATH RAY ROBOT hiding in the barn, but somehow this didn't make it into the actual game.

I really miss a farm level...

I believe there is a barn stage type of mission in the game; I got a mission in kansas and I distinctly remember being inside a building which had tractors and a cornfield behind it, the cornfield was inaccessible, but I cannot for the life of me remember what the building looked like. Sigh damn late game missions were kind of a blur just because i trudged through them so I could continue research/wait for a battleship.

That's interesting, haven't seen anything remotely like that. It seems all there is for me is cities and crashed UFOs. I have noticed a few tiny variations this time through--like the Alien Base, which I thought was a static map, had a somewhat different layout for me this time.

Ah, a death.

and as for Tigranes comment: in old[better] xcom we would se grandsons and grandgrandsons of codexers by now [such was the body bags flow that many a mortuary made great buck off xcom command alone...]

You could go through old XCOM without losing many people if you were a pro baller--and inversely, lots more people would die in new XCOM if I were playing like the average consumer does. I'm just being a devil's advocate, though. I don't really disagree, and I'm already contemplating an X-COM 1 playthrough once we're done here.

true, u could ... but it requied shitloads of savescumming to survive till nuke tech research and my favorite terror site is 2 stage terror ship from xcom tftd [ so much concentrated rape ... one bad RNG roll and no mater what tech u got u were screwed...so much FUN]

I didn't save-scum, but I did use the tanks frequently to scout for enemies, which I suppose is just substituting one type of death (non-soldier mechanical who doesn't ever get promoted) for another. But yeah, there's tons of stuff I love about X-COM 1 over the new one. The really big randomly generated maps were amazing, especially the first few times before you started to understand they all had fairly predictable patterns of generation.

BTW, any interesting mod out there? I saw there is a XCOM nexus now, but nothing worth yet... (and suprisingly, no nude mods)

But it appears there were more countries planned, as you can unlock Colombia, Portugal, Turkey and Venezuela with a mod.

The first few mods that appeared were all "BOO HOO, GAME IS TOO HARD, LET'S MOD IT SO I CAN BEAT THE GAME TRIVIALLY WHILE PRETENDING I'M PLAYING ON CLASSIC", so that kind of drove me away from the modding scene. I haven't really bothered to see if things have improved. To be fair, there's probably all sorts of cool details to be found in random mods, I'm just of the opinion that games like this really should be experienced as the developer intended them.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at something that jacked up the strength of enemies late-game, though, that's one of the bigger flaws Firaxis left in.

 

[Zeriel]

Also, here's a preview of the next update:

Spoiler

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That aside it is nice to see the increase in casualties.

This was a reader request!

 

[felipepepe]

Wow, some weird shit must have gone down, that level isn't that hard, except for some suprise rape insects near the end...

 

[Modron]

Wow, some weird shit must have gone down, that level isn't that hard, except for some suprise rape insects near the end...

I think it varies more than you know, I only got surprise rape insects at first hallways so not too dangerous there, mutons in middle with floaters and a drone, and disc at end before the 2 sectoid commanders. Lots of half-cover in the second to last area though so he may have been screwed over by mutons having a good chance to hit or floaters getting flanking criticals due to his second wave choice.

 

[Zeriel]

Wow, some weird shit must have gone down, that level isn't that hard, except for some suprise rape insects near the end...

Spoiler

It wasn't the alien base. There's some sweet, sweet irony about to unfold in this tale, but for now I'll just leave it at that.

What's in the alien base varies massively based on when you go there. If you go there late-game (like I did on my first winning Classic/Iron-Man game) there will be sectopods and muton elites out the ass. If you go there early/mid, it is fairly easy if not trivial (the case in this game).

 

[Ulminati]

Way to ruin the butthertz by revealing the deaths in advance

 

[RedScum]

Bring back the old dead. Let them walk the earth once more!

 

[BlitzKitchen]

So what's the troop count after that? I'm assuming some of the survivors are still back at base healing from wounds? Haven't seen the black sheriff or Ulminati's dude for a while.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Eeeexcellent. Not enough Rance sex/rape jokes though. Good to see the bodycount rise and that my namesake is slowly rising in the ranks!

 

[Krraloth]

Glorious.
Sign me in.

Krraloth, male, euro zone, heavy shit.

 

[Zeriel]

So what's the troop count after that? I'm assuming some of the survivors are still back at base healing from wounds? Haven't seen the black sheriff or Ulminati's dude for a while.

There were dark days after that where we questioned whether we'd survive the alien invasion, when entire armies of rookies vanished into lakes of plasma. Black Sheriff actually has distinguished himself as the only member of the original team who has yet to die once. We'll see more of both of them soon enough.

Working on putting the next update together. It's a bit of a doozy. This seems like a good time to explain that the way the LP is structured is going to change a bit. Since the missions tend to repetitive (this is a game about gameplay, not narrative), I'm going to start skipping content that isn't "new". In other words, we'll see important missions, every big spaceship variant, and of course the Final Event, but there's going to be less of Random Storefront Filled With Thin Men, since we've already seen plenty of that.

 

[Shadenuat]

And here I was thinking that character named after a person who LPed Wizardries and deathly blobbers, and someone who have to deal with romances at Obsidian forums, those would actually never die o_O

 

[RedScum]

Ordered the game two days ago and got it today. Failed miserably in my first campaign on Classic, but atleast i stuck with it a bit.. but now im just gonna restart the whole thing.