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Stallion Cabana
Feb 14, 2012
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Jade Star posted:

Thanks for the Haikus. I'm sure no one will...


:argh:

Haiku Roulette: Enabled.

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Stallion Cabana
Feb 14, 2012
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Eifert Posting posted:

Look you wouldn't ask a little person to compete in the high jump. Don't ask me to do art.

I would because that poo poo sounds hilarious.

Stallion Cabana
Feb 14, 2012
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ReturnOfFable posted:

I live in Florida, probably one of the craziest places in the south and I have never in my life seen a drive-through daiquiri place.

My city has 3. Welcome to Louisiana.

Stallion Cabana
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Pyroi posted:

And yet, in Louisiana at least, I've only seen one drive-through ATM. It's all pneumatic tubes around me.

All of our banks have drive-through ATMS. Odd.

Anyway Xcom is fun and this is hopefully making me better at the game by watching and listening so thanks for that.

Stallion Cabana
Feb 14, 2012
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Hidden Potential sounds like a net negative then, with almost no chance for a 'higher' result over a lesser one.

Stallion Cabana
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give the +Aim to Ragnar to make up for his bad Aim.

Tony 'Voodoo' White should instead be named Tony "Tony White" White.

Stallion Cabana
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if his nickname is Blackend it would just be 'Tony Blackend', you get the First and the Nickname, not the Nickname and the last, don't you?

Stallion Cabana
Feb 14, 2012
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is that Paperlion's friend in that video

Stallion Cabana
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Catalina Yolo Sprahl

Stallion Cabana
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Brainamp posted:

Zhang is pretty much a guaranteed psychic, so don't mec him.

Ragnar would be the best first option for several reasons. You've got plenty of heavies, his stats will grow better than right now, and heavy mecs are the best mecs.

I thought Zhang was guaranteed to be a High Class Psychic, but yeah lets do Ragnar

Stallion Cabana
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oh it was only three aliens.

I thought from all the damage statements you had used one mine to kill like 15 aliens you had somehow tricked into all standing in one spot.

Stallion Cabana
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Jade Star posted:

Checked my sign up mail today... I have a sign up from Chris Salid.

Pretty sure this is a trap.

Sounds legit. I hope his signup picture is a Crysalid in a pair of glasses

Stallion Cabana
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I'm pretty sure he was a member of the Triads, by the way. I think it's mentioned like once or twice in only writing.

Stallion Cabana
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:

I don't know how anything could be too goony. Are you worried you'll get a mission named Pak Chooie 68, or Heteronormative Waifu?

I'm not going to go to AI and put a bunch of car brands and mopar lingo in there or anything...

Operation E/N Shitpost.

And it's brother Terror Mission; Operation Shitpost E/N

Stallion Cabana
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I find the construction site map way harder then this one. The one where you start in a little square and there's a huge high rise area to the left and a bunch of poo poo on the right.

I hope you play one of those so I can see what the hell you're supposed to do in those because I've never not lost a soldier in one of those.

Stallion Cabana
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the only way I've managed to do the overwatch trick is clicking back to the sniper. I don't get how you do it without switching back after activating Overwatch.

Stallion Cabana
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my problem with this idea of ITZ is the XP. I always seem to get my Snipers leveled up to max second (Weirdly, my first Rank 8 is always a Support. a Single support. I dunno why.)

If you spend all your time getting your already max level Sniper even more kills seems like a waste, that XP could be better used by the people who aren't max leveled.

I prefer Double Tap, because I usually can't kill something even when they aren't in cover every turn, but I can definitely use those two shots to set up someone else for kills to get XP.

Stallion Cabana
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I lost one dude as bait for this.

It's been the only soldier I lost, but when you have nothing but two heavies, a support, and a sniper all using regular guns you have to do what you can, I blew all of my rockets and grenades on approach. And that was using the anchor chain to the top and never going into the bowels of the ship.

Stallion Cabana fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Mar 9, 2014

Stallion Cabana
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That would be ungodly painful. You only get around 2k for a month from funding even if you have a Sat on every country, and you don't start with that much, you're basically resigned to the eternal -2 damage bonus until you've already beaten the game. It'd just be increased difficulty instead of requiring strategic thinking

Stallion Cabana
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Adnor posted:

If you have a save just before a mission, the map would be the same every time you load, right? If so, you would do that and have Guava do the mission too, so we can see how differently you two play the mission.

Saving before you launch a mission will end up changing it, so no, it doesn't work unfortunately.

Stallion Cabana
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the Double Steam Vent on Tier 3 is one of the common base maps, and is pretty much unarguably the best one.

The Base isn't AS randomized as you would think, it's basically the same as a mission, so if you want the best one I'd always go for the one Jade ended up getting. The naturally adjacent Steam Generators opens up so much Power.

Stallion Cabana
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Are all of the skills random or not?

Like what happens to the skills tied to specific weapons, ala Shredder Rocket, do they just disappear?

Stallion Cabana
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goatface posted:

Just use a bunch of your favourite swear words.

Maybe not the racial ones.

The racist ones would join the illustrious mission of 'Operation Black Stranger'

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my thought is if a MEC blows up is it JAIDS or just a failure?

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Scribbleykins posted:


"Sir, reporting for dismemberment duty, sir!"

Dr. Vahlen does the amputations for MECs too.

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HOOLY BOOLY posted:

So what IS the point of the EXALT weapons? The description even says that they are the same as X-Com's ballistic weapons so are they just Grey Market fodder or somthing?

you sometimes get requests to send them to countries too for more cash money.

I found out you can't send the laser variants if they're asking for ballistics the hard way.

Jegan posted:

I think that's because you can get both genemods in a location, but only one can be active at a time.

you can install more genemods later but I think you only get one per location

Stallion Cabana
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All the MEC troopers receive Mech names if they promote to the Nickname level while a Mec

So Isobel's name is based on a robot from the Sci-fi novel The Future Eve

You can also get ones named after stuff from Asimov.

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Zomborgon posted:

If Asimov's getting involved anyway, and she'll be a MEC...
Isobel "Olivaw" Gutierez

This is actually another MEC nickname in the roster of possibilities. I have one with this nickname

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I had to abandon this mission on this map once when an Exalt soldier critically wounded my Field Operative and I didn't have someone with Revive.

I had already killed all of the Exalt by the time I realized this, so I spent a long time trying to figure out what to do. Eventually I reloaded.

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Prison Warden posted:

I think Shen or Bradford already mentioned that the aliens must have some ulterior motive, since their technology means that they could just glass any city they want from orbit and there's jack poo poo we could do about it. (Paraphrasing).

they note this even because of the destruction they cause during a Terror Mission. If they wanted to they could just do that constantly instead of abductions and stuff.

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Stallion Cabana
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Rabidredneck posted:

The movie in question is Guyver:Dark hero and it's much better than the first live action film. While that one was pretty cartoony with a lot of unnecessary humor, the David Hayter one had a serious plot and some kickass fight scenes.

So we're probably looking at three more covert ops before the Exalt base assault, one for each remaining country (unless the game decides to be REALLY generous?)

after a certain amount of hints it just goes 'gently caress it it's here' as a hint

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