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Voting closed: April 07, 2013, 10:34:35 am

[GreatWyrmGold]

((Is that why I'm sucking so much every other mission?))

[TCM]

((Is that why I'm sucking so much every other mission?))

((Possibly, since by now you could have had 6 members on your squad, plus with Rapid Recovery your Vets would get out of the hospital a lot quicker.

But I'm also suspecting you're doing something wrong, as you're suffering many more casualties than you should recieve, especially on Easy. I can't watch you play every move, but it sounds like you might be playing a bit too agressively.))

[Tack]

((Doubletap is a Colonel Choice, between it and 'In the Zone'. And I'm not sure which is better...
However, Why is GWG doing the XCOM thing here?
Not to discredit you or anything, but it was understandable when PW did it because this is pretty much his thread, and even then a bunch of people got annoyed with it.
And while I don't claim any authority here or influence over your individual actions GWG: Shoo))

[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: X-Communiques (click to show/hide)

But I'm also suspecting you're doing something wrong, as you're suffering many more casualties than you should recieve, especially on Easy. I can't watch you play every move, but it sounds like you might be playing a bit too agressively.))

((Probably.))

However, Why is GWG doing the XCOM thing here?
Not to discredit you or anything, but it was understandable when PW did it because this is pretty much his thread, and even then a bunch of people got annoyed with it.
And while I don't claim any authority or influence over your actions: Shoo))

Honestly? I started doing it mainly because you guys were what drew me to the game, and I kept doing it partly out of habit and slightly due to folks like Remalle.

Keep it up.

Also because you guys give dang good advice. (Except maybe the Squadsight thing. It almost never helps. Dang game engine, not letting people shoot through walls, trees, and cars. Usually.)

[Toaster]

Lars praises his team over the radio.  "May the Most Holy Steve watch over us all."


Be generally helpful.  Dance if skills are not needed.

[Harry Baldman]

"I saw thirteen black crows, as black as 3 AM and as big as vultures' eyes, their wings hanging by their sides like laundry on the line..."

Sing and help Mesk! Preferably in a constructive way, too!

[BFEL]

Lars praises his team over the radio.  "May the Most Holy Steve watch over us all."


Be generally helpful.  Dance if skills are not needed.

"Which Steve is the Most Holy?"

[Toaster]

Lars looks askance at STEVEN.  "The one who rules our lives and controls the mighty Sword?  Who else?  Have you not seen his miracles?"

[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: X-Combat (click to show/hide)

Operation Hidden God
We move out, Lockdown taking position on a truck, the rest moving out. We tell a civilian to get the the Skyranger...wait, if the Skyranger can hold us and a bunch of civilians, why can't it hold more of us? I'm starting to suspect some kind of X-Com Soldiers Union that I'm not aware of...Anyways, three crysallids. Lovely folks. Lockdown kills one in one shot, thanks to his elevated position, head-shooting skills, and laser rifle. We don't see any more; they seem to have retreated towards areas with fewer armed people and more victims. We save four, one dies. Then, we spot two crysalids. Given that I'm treated to the neat up-close animation, I'm guessing that these are two more. Yup. Two of the crysallids kill Sanchez. Socks kills one and Cookie mortally wounds another, before that crysallid and a zed kill Cookie.
Well...frak. Half the team dead in two turns. What was that line? "Get back to the Skyranger, screw India"? Such a plan is under consideration, but Socks is pinned by xenos. She polishes off the crysallid and Lockdown manages to knock half the health off a zed, but another cryssalid, doubtless trailed by more of the undead, bursts in...only to be finished with two quick shots, filling the heat gauge or whatever on her rifle.
Another trio of crysallids shows up. Two zombies are seen, one splits apart into a crysallid an mauls Socks. Dammit. Skyranger! Skyranger! WHERE THE FRAK DID THE SKYRANGER GO?!? Three crysallids skitter past where Socks is, but the fourth polishes her last hit point off. Dammit. I "saved" another civilian, but apparently we had to dump all five of them because I saved zero in the final report.
Goddammit, that was our suckiest hour. And if Lockdown doesn't have PTSD and survivor's guilt after getting through two missions as the sole survivor, one of which was our first complete failure and saw the death of two of our best and Sanchez...
For some reason, X-Com's near-total failure to protect Komchatka combined with already-high levels of panic across Asia leads to India withdrawing support for the X-Com Project immediately.
And in case anyone cares...Captain Socks's final kill count was 26.

I hire five new rookies and check the Officer Training thing. Now, I will be able to send five soldiers out at a time. I sell off some excess alien corpses in hopes of raising some more funds, for another SHIV and another suit of carapace armor.
More fucking abductions. UK...panic level max. Australia...in Asia, where panic levels are extreme. Brazil...not a consideration. Game crashes...common.

Say, are there lose conditions other than "Eight countries leave the Council"?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Spoiler: X-Combat (click to show/hide)

Operation Hidden God
We move out, Lockdown taking position on a truck, the rest moving out. We tell a civilian to get the the Skyranger...wait, if the Skyranger can hold us and a bunch of civilians, why can't it hold more of us? I'm starting to suspect some kind of X-Com Soldiers Union that I'm not aware of...Anyways, three crysallids. Lovely folks. Lockdown kills one in one shot, thanks to his elevated position, head-shooting skills, and laser rifle. We don't see any more; they seem to have retreated towards areas with fewer armed people and more victims. We save four, one dies. Then, we spot two crysalids. Given that I'm treated to the neat up-close animation, I'm guessing that these are two more. Yup. Two of the crysallids kill Sanchez. Socks kills one and Cookie mortally wounds another, before that crysallid and a zed kill Cookie.
Well...frak. Half the team dead in two turns. What was that line? "Get back to the Skyranger, screw India"? Such a plan is under consideration, but Socks is pinned by xenos. She polishes off the crysallid and Lockdown manages to knock half the health off a zed, but another cryssalid, doubtless trailed by more of the undead, bursts in...only to be finished with two quick shots, filling the heat gauge or whatever on her rifle.
Another trio of crysallids shows up. Two zombies are seen, one splits apart into a crysallid an mauls Socks. Dammit. Skyranger! Skyranger! WHERE THE FRAK DID THE SKYRANGER GO?!? Three crysallids skitter past where Socks is, but the fourth polishes her last hit point off. Dammit. I "saved" another civilian, but apparently we had to dump all five of them because I saved zero in the final report.
Goddammit, that was our suckiest hour. And if Lockdown doesn't have PTSD and survivor's guilt after getting through two missions as the sole survivor, one of which was our first complete failure and saw the death of two of our best and Sanchez...
For some reason, X-Com's near-total failure to protect Komchatka combined with already-high levels of panic across Asia leads to India withdrawing support for the X-Com Project immediately.
And in case anyone cares...Captain Socks's final kill count was 26.

I hire five new rookies and check the Officer Training thing. Now, I will be able to send five soldiers out at a time. I sell off some excess alien corpses in hopes of raising some more funds, for another SHIV and another suit of carapace armor.
More fucking abductions. UK...panic level max. Australia...in Asia, where panic levels are extreme. Brazil...not a consideration. Game crashes...common.

Say, are there lose conditions other than "Eight countries leave the Council"?

((Do you even need anything besides that?

Well, you can auto-lose by losing either the base defense, the base assault, or the final mission. I think that's it. And all of those can be replayed from the beginning if you fail, even on Ironman. You can't lose as long as you have funding, you can't lose funding as long as you have the Council.

Also. Why the fark is your game crashing so often? Mine doesn't crash at all unless I've already closed it, and even then only sometimes.))

[GreatWyrmGold]

((I suspect it has something to do with alt-tabbing a couple of times per turn.))

[Sean Mirrsen]

((I suspect it has something to do with alt-tabbing a couple of times per turn.))

((Aye, that could do it.

Have you tried, I dunno, playing in a window?))

[BFEL]

Lars looks askance at STEVEN.  "The one who rules our lives and controls the mighty Sword?  Who else?  Have you not seen his miracles?"

((GAH its STEPHEN))

"Ah, I thought you were saying there were more of him, and that some of hymns were holier then other hymns"

((Ah hah homonym hymns. WORDPLAY))

[GreatWyrmGold]

((I suspect it has something to do with alt-tabbing a couple of times per turn.))

((Aye, that could do it.
Have you tried, I dunno, playing in a window?))

((Yes. It crashed at least as often.))

[syvarris]

((Hah.  I only now realized that Skylar is wearing his suit, because Kri was talking in another thread.  FYI, I've been assuming that no suit was given to Steve for this job.  Probably the same for Whitius.))

@STEPHEN HAWKING
Why didn't you just tell Lars that Toaster had misspelled your name?