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Blind Sally posted:Yeah, you can't rename SHIVS. I consider it a glaring oversight by Firaxis. You say that, but! Not sure if it's compatible with the most recent patch, but I think it is. I hope it is, there's nothing like renaming your shiv "WALL-E" or something ridiculous. I'm not gonna say that SHIVs are the best thing in the game, but I love playing with them. Since they are easily replaceable you can basically play them as even more aggressive assaults, which is saying a lot. Hover SHIVs also get extra defense while flying which basically makes them flying machines of death. Big thing is, SHIVs don't get really USEFUL unless you do their foundry stuff. The weapon they are equipped with is irrelevant to their model, basically once you finish the SHIV laser project they all get lasers and so on and so forth. They get some really broken abilities too, like Sentinel Drone - or as I like to call it, "thing that abuses EXALT AI during defending transmitter missions."
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So, speaking of Sentinel, it is the one overwatch skill you really want on a sniper in training roulette. Walk forward, game feature into overwatch, shoot two things. Even better when you get covering fire as well.
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Jade Star posted:Would have done it if I could have renamed the thing. Sorry buddy  I was just hoping I'd get my name mentioned when a SHIV got a kill (I knew you couldn't rename the SHIVs themselves), but if this could get implemented, that would be really cool! Naming a SHIV named 'Fred' would be great. If the mod won't install, just mentioning me in the commentary would be good too.
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Apr 30, 2014 02:18
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I believe in a SHIV Called Fred.
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Apr 30, 2014 02:19
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A SHIV Called Fred is the name of my new garage band.
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A Sentinel sniper on Training Roulette almost makes me want to pick Flush for someone else. Almost.
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Just a note about the shieldbreaker achievement? Still kicks in if you break the shield by killing the Sectoid. Much easier. Still took me a while, since it required leaving a MECtoid alive and with escorts for more than a turn, and I did not want to do that.
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chiasaur11 posted:Just a note about the shieldbreaker achievement? Given how buggy the cheevos in this game are, not much point in going after them totally legit. Several hundred hours in this game and I still haven't ever gotten the "get all research" one.
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Dareon posted:I may have gotten the link from this very thread earlier, but with the discussion of SHIVs and MECs previously I feel I should link/re-link this: SHIVCOM. I had to go back and find it, but here's that video Jade mentioned, the UFO mission full of SHIVs. It's pretty great and if you skipped over it you should actually watch it now that we've seen them in game. Edit: I guess there are a couple enemy spoilers there, so if you really don't want to see them I guess you can skip it. Onean fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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Brainamp posted:Given how buggy the cheevos in this game are, not much point in going after them totally legit. Several hundred hours in this game and I still haven't ever gotten the "get all research" one. I would have had this one if I had done the blaster launcher dammit!
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I got mechtoids pretty early in my last game, and goddamn are they entertaining with low ranking soldiers and no MECs. I think I had laser rifles already, but not much else. And it looks like Slingshot makes it basically easy mode as far as research goes (I never saw a battleship, but don't have Slingshot).
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FredMSloniker posted:I have to admit, I'm disappointed in the SHIV's first outing. Not because it performed poorly or anything, oh no. I'm disappointed because I sent in a sign-up application to be the SHIV pilot, and apparently I was quietly rejected. Oh great, now that's the second LP of a game I've never played that this thread is making me read through. I hope you're happy, thread.
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I mean, I get that this LP isn't all fanfictiony like the one I linked was, but I was hoping for a name drop.
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Brainamp posted:Given how buggy the cheevos in this game are, not much point in going after them totally legit. Several hundred hours in this game and I still haven't ever gotten the "get all research" one. That achievement didn't get buggy until EW. Unless you've put in all that time only with EW, you probably just kept missing a research project, like the two Battleship-dependent techs (Blaster Launcher and Fusion Lance), or Interrogate Ethereal. The achievement isn't for researching everything you can see, it's for researching everything there is, and doing them all within any one run. The achievement for the Foundry is the same. If you're really fussed about it, play a game of base EU. It'll pop.
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Felinoid posted:That achievement didn't get buggy until EW. Unless you've put in all that time only with EW, you probably just kept missing a research project, like the two Battleship-dependent techs (Blaster Launcher and Fusion Lance), or Interrogate Ethereal. The achievement isn't for researching everything you can see, it's for researching everything there is, and doing them all within any one run. The achievement for the Foundry is the same. I've had the game since launch. Hell, the bugs were even worse then. Not to say the game isn't bug free, but it's way better than it was. Felinoid posted:If you're really fussed about it, play a game of base EU. It'll pop. And go a playthrough without mecs? You are crossing a line here, bub. 
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Is the Slingshot cyberdisk stronger than the ones you meet on random missions? What's worse about it?
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Seyser Koze posted:Is the Slingshot cyberdisk stronger than the ones you meet on random missions? What's worse about it? It's pre-activated, which means it can attack on the same turn you discover it.
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I love how much more there is to do now. Do Meld drops start going up later, or is it going to take three missions to give somebody mimetic skin?
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Glazius posted:I love how much more there is to do now. You get bonus meld from Mectoids and heavy floaters, but other than that, it's the same 20 a mission throughout the game.
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Male Man posted:It's pre-activated, which means it can pop out of the fog and blow you the gently caress up with no warning. Fixed that for you.
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Jade Star: Toolboks doesn't work with the last patch version (it only works properly for EU patch 4 and has partial functionality for EW patch 1). Interface and Gameplay Tweaks has a No Sleeveless Armor tweak that you can instal with PatcherGUI.
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Raygereio posted:Jade Star: Toolboks doesn't work with the last patch version (it only works properly for EU patch 4 and has partial functionality for EW patch 1). I'll take a look at this, but when you start adding layers and secondary programs to install what the first is supposed to do then we're really pushing it for a JAIDS event.
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Brainamp posted:Given how buggy the cheevos in this game are, not much point in going after them totally legit. Several hundred hours in this game and I still haven't ever gotten the "get all research" one. The latest patch finally fixed this achievement. I got it on my last EW run.
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Onean posted:I had to go back and find it, but here's that video Jade mentioned, the UFO mission full of SHIVs. It's pretty great and if you skipped over it you should actually watch it now that we've seen them in game. Holy crap. Aside from that one...hiccup at the end there, SHIVs freakin' dominated. Is it always like that? I mean, I understand that they're getting huge bonuses since they can flank EVERY time and not care at all about cover, but are they always that beefy or is it just the endgame tech that makes them go from wind-up toys to Skynet?
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I remembered to rename and assign medals before the next mission, but I still have a few left over. I'd uh take votes, but I have three medals left and I think I realized that if I give two of them to Nittien, she will have 154 aim... So uh... anyone want to make a massive angel of death sniper for this LP? For the curious, 124 base, +10 scope, +10 Bonus Buneos Aires Air Medal, +10 Otto Zander Medal of Gallantry. Throw in some height advantage (+20), drat good ground (+10), and depth perception gene mod (+5), and uh... I think she could snipe god. edit: too late, made up my mind, this is happening. Jade Star fucked around with this message at 00:07 on May 1, 2014 |
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A fully upgraded SHIV, especially in EW, is essentially comparable with your top, level troops, except it doesn't have as many special abilities. EW added a couple more goodies, but SHIVs have always been fairly dependable expendable murder machines. Not as good as a fully-armed colonel trooper, but also not nearly as risky to field. Edit: I find them oddly adorable as well, especially the landbound versions.
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Jade Star posted:I remembered to rename and assign medals before the next mission, but I still have a few left over. I'd uh take votes, but I have three medals left and I think I realized that if I give two of them to Nittien, she will have 154 aim... So uh... anyone want to make a massive angel of death sniper for this LP?  Welp, we won, time for next LP.
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A 115 aim sniper (scope included) can pretty much hit 99/100 shots from across the map, you're just going for the comedy factor now, aren't you?
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Jade Star posted:I remembered to rename and assign medals before the next mission, but I still have a few left over. I'd uh take votes, but I have three medals left and I think I realized that if I give two of them to Nittien, she will have 154 aim... So uh... anyone want to make a massive angel of death sniper for this LP? It's not good enough until she can shoot UFOs out of orbit herself
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notZaar posted:A 115 aim sniper (scope included) can pretty much hit 99/100 shots from across the map, you're just going for the comedy factor now, aren't you? Yes. There is no greater success than excess.
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189 aim... drat. Now, if only the extra percentage rolled over to critical chance...
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If this god-sniper is not killed by a Mechtoid or friendly fire, this LP is a failure.
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Does anyone know offhand what month Jade is on?
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EmmyOk posted:Does anyone know offhand what month Jade is on? I'd guess June. Jade Star posted:End of May
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Zebrin posted:189 aim... drat. Now, if only the extra percentage rolled over to critical chance... Oh it does... in our hearts. Thank you, Jade Star, for making Nittien the most ridiculously skilled sniper I've yet seen in a game of X-COM. ReturnOfFable posted:If this god-sniper is not killed by a Mechtoid or friendly fire, this LP is a failure. Not to worry, I think Jade's almost guaranteed himself a hugely incongrous sniping miss at some inconvenient point in the future. But both of those would be amusing too, although I have a hard time seeing how anyone's going to friendly fire the valhallan valkyrie of death hovering above the battlefield way in the back. Unless it's an 'accident'.
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ReturnOfFable posted:If this god-sniper is not killed by a Mechtoid or friendly fire, this LP is a failure. Strangled by a Seeker, death comes after several rounds of Jade attempting a rescue.
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Both a Mechtoid and a cyberdisc and neither got the BOOSH. Very disappointing. I don't think the robo-punchy gods will be satisfied unless you promise to destroy the first locust wannabe with a melee attack.
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Burzmali posted:Both a Mechtoid and a cyberdisc and neither got the BOOSH. Very disappointing. I don't think the robo-punchy gods will be satisfied unless you promise to destroy the first locust wannabe with a melee attack. Isobel was the MEC in that mission, and I think she's a burny MEC. So BOOSH wasn't really on the table. E: Looking at the video, I think that's boosh on the ability bar. Has Jade given up on burny altogether, or did he just stick the wrong suit on her? Felinoid fucked around with this message at 03:41 on May 1, 2014 |
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Felinoid posted:Isobel was the MEC in that mission, and I think she's a burny MEC. So BOOSH wasn't really on the table. Booshsuit is never the wrong suit.
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Isobel is a heavy, she gets boosh suit. Isis Tellar is a support, she gets burny suit. Next mission will have a great boosh though, don't worry.
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