Let's Play X-Com: Enemy Within!

[ActionDan]

I was more thinking about that stream which no one is mentioned as if it were spoiler material

[KingdomAces]

Steam, you were supposed to e-mail me if it went on sale. How dare you!

Anyway, I'll be picking up the expansion now, thanks for mentioning it.

[Nexus]

I bought Enemy Within!

[Titus]

We so need to play.

Will I be pmmed when I am there. I even think there's a hat thatmatches my av.

[Feirei]

I want this game. I'm broke. :<

[Gammagooey]

Streaming in an hour (9pm EST, at http://www.twitch.tv/gammagooey), eating dinner and working on the screenshots for the last update I still need to catch up on til' then

Science Options are the same as last time, we're currently researching Weapon Fragments with 6 days left, Carapace has 20 days left I think, everything else is the same amount of time to research as previously.

Abudction Mission Options

Argentina- moderate difficulty - Seargent Sniper reward
China - difficult difficulty - 4 Engineers reward
Germany - moderate difficulty - $200 reward

Out of them I

highly

recommend the sergeant sniper reward because China is right out since it's harder difficulty and our squad is not going to be good this next mission, sergeant is where snipers actually start to get awesome and we could reaaaally use actually good soldiers right about now. Germany is a not insane option either just for the pile of cash to spend on various things, especially if you have a particular plan you want followed out, but I personally think the sniper is the more solid option here.

[xRECKONERx]

Yeah let's go sniper

[Titus]

If it wasn't classic, I would not say go sniper.

[Gammagooey]

Bradford: We've got an incoming transmission from the council, Commander.



Gamma: Understood, get our best troops down to the skyranger, I don't want anything similar to what happened last mission.



Cybele: I'm looking forward to this Commander, let's incinerate these bastards for what they did to Caled and the rest of her team.

Dog: I'll tear those meatsacks to shreds!

Reck: We're going to fucking destroy these bastards.
Reck took Savior as his promotion choice between that and shredder rocket so he's getting a medkit)



Gamma: The operation is codenamed Dark Engine- there's been an attack in the area but we don't have many details as of yet- we need to clean out any remaining aliens and find any survivors that can tell us what happened here.

RC: Roger that, cowboy. We'll wrangle up the survivors and brand these IMMIGRANTS with some red-hot lead.

Gamma: RC you can't...nevermind, just kill the ALIENS, not the humans, okay?

RC: Don't worry about a thing!
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Cybele: We're all on the ground, cover me while I move up.



Dog: I smell...metal shells.

Reck: Well yeah, this place was attacked, of course there are some shells left behind.

Dog: There's no plasma residue...*sniff* for at least 100 yards, this was not an attack with alien weapons.

Gamma: Start moving up, there must be someone with an answer to what's going on here.

Cybele: Ha! One Thin Man, 2 o' clock!


Thin Man: Hissss, bitch.

Cybele: He went behind a blown out car, take cover in my Distortion field radius so you'll be harder to hit.

RC: It tingles like an old sunburn, pardner.



Cybele: Ow, fuck.
RC: I gotcha Cybele, they added nanomachines to our medkit spray for ya!



Cybele: Thanks, moving up!



Cybele: Two more thin men two our left, opening fire on this one!...What the hell? The targeting computer is fucking up, it won't allow a shot where the Thin Man is taking cover!



Gamma: Fuckin' bugs, just go on overwatch, those to our left can make a run to flank RC.

Cheery: Shooting at one on the roof!



Cheery: It's still smelling! Uh, standing!

Cybele: They're going for RC, opening fire!





Cybele: AAH I had a fucking ITCH and it moved the entire gun, don't be dead don't be dead DON'T BE DEAD RC!

Gamma: Pay attention Cybele!



Cybele: I'll FUCKING destroy you scaly freaks!

Cheery:RC's in bad shape but he's still breathing, Reck get over-


Sure is thin man crits while in full cover
Cybele: oh no no no NO YOU BASTARDS BURN



Reck: Cheery's still barely breathing too but I only have one medkit Gamma.

Gamma: We need to remove this threat before they get any more hits in, shove a rocket up that Thin Man's ass.

Reck: Don't mind if I do.



Cybele: One Thin Man left, coming at me!


More unlikely thin man crits (was 10% to crit a MEC after an 85% hit chance(i think) 20% after 45% for Cheery Dog, RC got flanked so it was like 85% 70% or something similarly awful to deal with though)
Cybele: He hit my distortion field, it's- AUUUUUUGH

Reck: They're PERFECT SHOTS, I need to kill him first!


Reck: FUCK


Reck:Holy shit they can miss. I can't get to RC without exposing myself, using the medkit on Dog.

Reck: Godamnit, RC is gone. He's fucking gone Gamma.

Gamma: Just take out the last one and get you and Dog out of here, that's just the opening groups, there's bound to be more and you can't handle them alone.

Reck: Firing.



Reck: ...



Gamma: He's getting close, fall back but make sure to get behind solid cover.

Reck: Doing it godamnit.



Reck: The building's collapsing on this side, COME GET ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT


He was behind cover for I think 3 turns there on overwatch since I saw him overwatch the first time and figured he'd eventually go down the left side and get shot at. This was wrong.

Reck: I know you're waiting, COME ON!



Reck: Shit.



Gamma: RECK! RECK YOU'RE STILL BREATHING, GET UP

Skyranger Pilot: This is Big Sky, taking off to avoid enemy capture of tech.

Gamma: Reck and Cheery are still alive down there!

Big Sky: Reck's bleeding out as we speak, Dog won't last with nobody nearby to take him to an actual medical facility, and there's nobody with the equipment or training to shoot through these thin man here, maybe not at all given how they've been shooting. We can't save them and I have strict orders from Dr. Vahlen and Bradford to get out of here when there's no more hope for the mission.

Gamma: We can't fucking leave them there! There must be something we can do!

Big Sky: Local Military was contacted about the attack already but they have their own problems. It's out of our hands.

Gamma: FUCK YOU AND FUCK GODAMN THIN MEN



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I am perpetually sorry about delays, streamed the Argentina mission monday so I'm still one behind, I'm flat out not going to have time to finish that update until the weekend but if there's a particular interest in streaming on sat/sunday night then i can give a shot at finishing the screenshot update before then and then stream regardless of whether it is, if not I'll stream just next Wednesday.

Weapon Fragments are finished so new research options are

Research Options

a)Arc-Thrower - 14 days
b)Beam Weapons (unlocks laser weapons research) - 28 days
c)Experimental Warfare (unlocks Phoenix Cannon, a better interceptor weapon, plus flashbang grenades and reaper rounds new in Enemy Within, neither of which I remember what they do) - 8 days
d)Carapace Armor (+3 health instead of body armors +1) - 20 days
e)UFO Power Source - 33 days
f)Sectoid Autopsy - 10 days
g)Thin Man Autopsy- 10 days
h)

Floater

Autopsy - 10 days

[xRECKONERx]

X-COM APPLICATION
Name: Reck 2.0
Gender: Male
Race: White
Hair: Robot
Hair Color: Robot
Facial Hair: Robot
Armor Tint: Robot
Why I Should Hire YOU: My name is ReckBot, you killed my original model, prepare to die.

[xRECKONERx]

CARAPACEARMOR

WHAT THE FUCK THAT WAS BASICALLY THE RED WEDDING

[Gammagooey]

that is about 80% thin men are horseshit (oh have a 10% crit that happens do max damage since literally nothing else will kill Cybele oh and a full cover crit on cheery too that seems fine) and 20% me positioning RC and Cybele slightly incorrectly (Cybele REALLY should have been able to see that thin man but the game has a lot of minor LoS issues that pop up) and it spiralling from there

and i think rc mentioned in the other thread that crysallids are worse for him to deal with- which is a fine statement despite not having my agreement but crysallids always seem FAIR to me despite being difficult and getting out of hand really fast- if you fuck up and don't kill one then you get destroyed amazingly quickly, but thin men can do literally horseshit on an astoundingly frequent basis since their hit and crit %s are higher than pretty much anything else in the game.

edit: next mission on youtube has a link up and will be done uploading in 15 minutes.

[Sudo_Nym]

Carapace Armor is the first step towards squaddies surviving consistently. Do you need more troopers?

[KingdomAces]

Okay, I started a normal game and my research times were a lot less than that. Does increasing difficulty affect that? I know I started in South America because research credits are awesome, but a lot of that still seems like more than double what I've been getting.

Also, Reaper Rounds make any conventional (read: the ones you start with, not beam or plasma) weapon deal more damage, but have decreased accuracy at long range. I took one look at flashbang grenades and immediately forgot about them, so they're probably not worthwhile. I could just be biased against consumables though.

In terms of research, Carapace Armor would probably be best since there's only double autopsy length left on it, but after that I think it would be best to start prioritizing Arc Thrower and interrogations. I'll need to double check which ones are the best ones though.

[Gammagooey]

I'll have 10 troops in the base when the last one I ordered arrives, which is not enough long-term but it's fine for another mission or two

and yeah Enemy Within increased research times for classic+impossible difficulties, but also we've only gotten one additional scientist the entire game so far so we're still at 6 which is not a particularly useful number.

[KingdomAces]

Also confirming that all of the snipers I've had have had Squadsight vs. Snapshot as their first choice even with training roulette. That's probably because a sniper without one of those two abilities is by far outclassed by any of the other jobs, so they probably kept that to make sure the snipers were still useful.

[Siveure DtTrikyp]

There's an aim advantage if you're on higher ground than the enemies, so yeah, fighting against guys on higher stories mean your full cover doesn't count for crap.

[RedCoyote]

X-COM APPLICATION
Name: Red
Gender: Male
Race: White
Hair: No preference/mod's choice
Hair Color: No preference/mod's choice
Facial Hair: No preference/mod's choice
Armor Tint: red
Why I Should Hire YOU: because you killed me, you son of a bitch.

[caledfwitch]

X-COM APPLICATION
Name: Ghost
Gender: Female
Race: Asian
Hair: Pixie cut with helmet as before
Hair Color: Dark
Facial Hair: nah
Armor Tint: white
Why I Should Hire YOU: bc im caled's ghost and i have duties yet to finish aka kill all the gosh darn thin men on the gosh darn planet

[ActionDan]

There it is.

[Feirei]

X-COM APPLICATION
Name: Phantom
Gender: Female
Race: Asian
Hair: doesn't matter
Hair Color: pink
Facial Hair: lolno
Armor Tint: light grey. if that cant be done, white
Why I Should Hire YOU: kill all the gosh darn thin men. ALL. OF. THEM. seriously. fuck thin men

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Carapace armor, yes.

[RedCoyote]

Experimental Warfare

!

[Gammagooey]

Streaming tonight at 9pm EST! Still would like a few more votes on the research since there's only 2 at the moment, and the screenshot update is

theoretically

close enough to done that I can finish it before the stream once i get off work.

Also going to be running on pretty much just fumes and caffeine and

sweet jams

by that time so I may be a bit weirder than usual and a bit slower to move soldiers to try and prevent as many deaths as is possible given the amount of horseshit that probably thin men will propel at me in-mission.

[KingdomAces]

I'll try to show up if I can. Also, I technically tried to vote for Carapace Armor, but I kind of got a bit long winded and didn't bold it.

[ActionDan]

Carapace armor please.