Let's Play X-Com: Enemy Unknown - VICTORY

[inspiratieloos]

If we're going to be putting our virtual lives on the line shouldn't we be allowed to choose the options?

Not Created Equally, Hidden Potential and Results Driven sound good, but what do the other (non-bugged) ones do?

[inspiratieloos]

Okay, I agree with your assessment.
I'd play with Absolutely Critical myself, but since since you will be in full control when it applies it's probably better to let you decide that.

Name: Inspiratieloos
Gender: Male
Race: White or Hispanic (preferably white)
Hair: Black
Facial Hair: Light beard
Armour tint: Maroon (dark red)
Why me: Intelligent, fast, great reflexes, decent aim (sure to improve with practice) and, most importantly, ridiculously lucky.

[inspiratieloos]

^Muton in disguise?

[inspiratieloos]

Ah of course, now I see, I just thought I saw a bit of green peeking through a rip in your skin.

As long as you're not going to start trolling the actual decisions you can be whatever you want to be.

[inspiratieloos]

The last Lets Play (civ 5) went wrong because some people where trolling (and the mod didn't decide to ignore them).

[inspiratieloos]

btw, do we get to choose our class?
And can we submit more characters? I've got a few that became legendary in my old X-COM games.

[inspiratieloos]

Weapon fragments, I prefer the xenos staying down after I shoot them.

The argument for taking Africa is a good one I think.

[inspiratieloos]

SCIENCE! *cough* *cough* Ahem, shall we go to St. Petersburg?

Does panic reduce naturally over time or are there any other ways to reduce panic?
Also: I vote for continuing the project we started, no sense in having two half finished projects lying around.

[inspiratieloos]

I've got two characters that I still remember by name from my own games (one from UFO Defense, one from Apocalypse).

Vote Weapon Fragments... again.

Edit: Btw I must say I've never seen someone turn my screen name into 'Imp' before. Insp is probably the most common used though.

[inspiratieloos]

Beam weapons.

I'd say keep the satellite in reserve for now, we could need it in Germany, Russia, Canada or Mexico within one mission if we're unlucky (if I understand everything correctly).

[inspiratieloos]

I guess I'll move up someone with a better LCK stat

Name: Helga Vogel
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Hair: Black, not very long.
Armour tint: (Disruptor) blue
Why you should hire her: Has the proven ability to hold a facility against an Apocalypse battleship worth of invasion forces on her own, armed with 'just' two toxiguns, a lot of toxin B clips and two personal shields (the dozen looted and burned trough during the fight don't count).

[inspiratieloos]

I guess we should go to Leeds and put a satellite in Canada.

[inspiratieloos]

Beam Weapons. Anything that goes down after one hit cannot shoot back next round.

I like how this guy thinks.

[inspiratieloos]

Politically I'd say UK to prevent panic in France, but the extra engineers from Mexico are probably better for a reward and can then be used to put a satellite there... I think.

[inspiratieloos]

Told you she was awesome like that... And you

still

managed to get her killed.
I can see now why all those countries are losing faith in the project

Take three I guess.
Name: Gerard Odryfus or something like that
Gender: Male
Hair: Brown, short cropped.
Skin: White
Facial hair: None
Armour tint: Beige
Why to hire: First Rookie out of the skyranger in '99, Commander that personally took out the brain in '01 Dates are from vague recollections from playing 2 years ago

You're going to get him killed too right...

[inspiratieloos]

Odryfus: Agression, lightning reflexes, rapid fire, codename Godzilla.
Using a rifle.

[inspiratieloos]

OTOH I idd just get out of a dangerous operation without loss of a limb. You win some, you lose some.

[inspiratieloos]

lolz at Gina.

^agree

Holo-targetting, suppression, rapid reaction. *reads sudo's post*... Wait a second.
Why would/wouldn't you take those?

Plasma rifles FTW.

[inspiratieloos]

So I guess I'll go with Bullet Swarm, Suppression, HEAT Ammo.

[inspiratieloos]

Why do we suddenly need skeleton suits?

[inspiratieloos]

So, how useful are grenadier and danger zone?

[inspiratieloos]

Taking danger zone then I guess.

[inspiratieloos]

I'm still here.

[inspiratieloos]

Don't worry, the aliens are considerate like that. If the commander takes a vacation they'll hold their assault.

[inspiratieloos]

I looked it up, it appears Thin Men only.

[inspiratieloos]

So I guess I'll go with Bullet Swarm, Suppression, HEAT Ammo.

[inspiratieloos]

Can't you check what skills an agent has somewhere?

[inspiratieloos]

We can just recruit Empking's alt, no one will notice the difference.

[inspiratieloos]

I think the idea is to shoot-shoot. Iirc the experts advised me very strongly to take bullet-swarm.

[inspiratieloos]

Heavy Plasma?

[inspiratieloos]

I think so.

[inspiratieloos]

in UFO Defense, with the nature of its system of Fog of War and Time Units - no encounter cutscenes, for one - Psi-powers were absolutely indispensable to winning the game, especially in the later stages against Mutons and other tough customers.

Good memories
(psi training by putting Mutons in front of a firing squad.)

Did I mention already that Odryfus had a psi-score of 98 in my game?

Wraith: You tell them that interrogations are

not

a goddamn show. I don't care if these buggers wiped their hometown of Buenos Aries off the map or some shit like that, the suffering of another sentient being - however necessary - is

not

entertainment by any stretch of the word.

Other sources disagree:

‘Chryssalids’ the Sergeant explained, ‘be grateful you’ve never met one, I had to shoot a mate who got impregnated with an incendiary round before he turned into one himself’ he said. ‘Runs at better than forty miles an hour, claws that’ll rip through a HWP and they always look like they’re grinning’ he continued. ‘Makes your skin crawl it does.

We only ever got one of them alive, they played the tape of the science team cutting it up when it was still breathing to us in the mess hall later that week, we were cheering, swear to god’

he said raising his right hand.

This is X-COM, hate for the xenos is mandatory. Did you know that X-COM canon is that the Geneva Convention does not apply to extraterrestrials?

Also, go India. And put Odryfus in psi testing if possible, she's still using an LMG right?

[inspiratieloos]

Yeah, but it doesn't make you invisible.

[inspiratieloos]

What else is new?

[inspiratieloos]

You know, I'll take actually being able to hit my targets over being psionic any day.

But being psionic is much more fun at parties.

[inspiratieloos]

That's why you have MC.

*waves hand* "This is not the party you're looking for".

Edit: For some reason I'm imagining Eastwood at a bar pulling out a deck of cards and turning to a random person "Pick a card, any card." Other trooper: "Don't mind him, he cheats, he reads your mind."

[inspiratieloos]

I was referring to a card trick, not playing cards.

You've got to admit, playing a card trick by actually doing exactly what you claim to be doing is a good party trick.

[inspiratieloos]

*waves*

@framm, you have no excuse. The original X-com is only ~$5 on Steam and it's still widely considered one of the best games ever made.

[inspiratieloos]

I'm also leveling up so I have at least 6 Colonels, so it works that way too.

Cue half your A-team getting killed by BS

[inspiratieloos]

So... advise? Heavy plasma + extra damage seems good, but I don't actually use suppression often, right?

[inspiratieloos]

Shredder rocket

Rocketeer it is...

[inspiratieloos]

On the one hand, these are the people that thought it was a good idea to send us against aliens in 4-6 man squads. On the other hand not destroying the aliens would be kind of counter-productive.

Destroy the continent the MIB are on.

Edit: better idea: Destroy the Gulf of Mexico.

[inspiratieloos]

Thanks for writing this Wraith, it was great.

Maj. "Dirty Dan" ActionDan: Major ActionDan was very unsatisfied with the pay earned during his time in X-COM. After the Alien War, he opened a toy company in New York City that released products based on his very accurate, personal experiences during the war. The company quickly became extremely successful, and today is the foremost producer of alien-themed toys and other child-oriented media in the US and Europe.

You do know that the pay in X-COM is

ridiculous

right? An X-COM squaddy earns more than an army general/fleet admiral.... At least in the game that used actual currency.

How do you know that the MIB don't have branches on every continent?

In the videos all members of the council are apparently in the same room iirc.

[inspiratieloos]

Very good job Wraith.

Is it possible to Nom this for best Mish Mash game?

If so, I would

I don't think this is actually 'game enough' to be the best MishMash game.
Maybe we can nominate him for the best flavour text award, it doesn't explicitly say it has to be a Mafia game.