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FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Name: Foolycharged
Gender: Male
Android
Preferred Role: Explosives specialist Dangerous liability

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pedro0930
Oct 15, 2012
Name: BrotherPedro
Gender: Male
Human
Preferred Role: SPACE MARINE (plasma pistol and power sword, please!)

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
All you faceless cannonfodder who have signed up thus far will die in the first mission. Better sign up again before it starts.

Brass Monkey
Sep 27, 2005

This Compsognathus model at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History shows the animal's narrow skull and long, tapered snout.

Karate Bastard posted:

All you faceless cannonfodder who have signed up thus far will die in the first mission. Better sign up again before it starts.

Does that mean I win?

You can just clone me and add II, III and so on to the end of the name each time I bite the dust.

MechaCrash
Jan 1, 2013

Aw hell yes, Apocalypse. No other game is like it, because either it's turn based, which is fine but not what I want, or I have to constantly micromanage my dudes, because they will not open fire unless I explicitly tell them to do so. Plus this game has destructible terrain and dual wielding. Speaking of which...

Name: MechaCrash
Gender: Male if you can swing it.
Android. Do they even have genders?
Preferred role: PR disaster. Dual wield autocannons, one with explosives and one with incindiary, and never not rapid fire. :black101: ...or if that's more collateral damage than you're willing to deal with, I'll take something a little less insane, as long as I carry something that goes boom.

Speaking of which, if you right click a grenade, it will detonate on impact. I don't think this is ever explained anywhere.

Average Lettuce
Oct 22, 2012


Name: Camoes
Gender: Whatever
Human
Preferred role: Whatever, I just want to participate :3:

Average Lettuce fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Sep 27, 2014

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
Name: Stubart Bubton
Gender: Male
Human
Preferred role: Frontline whatever

Rockopolis
Dec 21, 2012

I MAKE FUN OF QUEER STORYGAMES BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH MY LIFE THAN MAKE OTHER PEOPLE CRY

I can't understand these kinds of games, and not getting it bugs me almost as much as me being weird
Name: Murphy
Race:Android
Gender: Either
Preferred Role: Your call, commander.
Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law, classified.

Koboje
Sep 20, 2005

Quack

MechaCrash posted:

Speaking of which, if you right click a grenade, it will detonate on impact. I don't think this is ever explained anywhere.

Jesus christ! I did not know this, i just thought it set a grenade to its last used time, since they always seemed to explode a bit too fast when right clicking them (the default of 0.75 seconds is usually too short). Well this will no doubt see some use!

Thundersword238 posted:

Gender: Female (we seem to have a lot of dudes)
This is turning out to be very true, alot of the people who wants to be a Man will have to wait a bit, half of my current agents are Women too, i had to skip alot of male applicants just to find atleast No preference ones to name them.

For the moment everyone is named though. Will attempt work on an update today, if all goes well it will be ready tomorrow.

Koboje fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Sep 26, 2014

Koorisch
Mar 29, 2009
Name:Koorisch
Race:Human
Gender:Male
Occupation:Twin Machineguns for maximum dakka!

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Heh. If we need more female applications, I'll submit my wife.

Name: Eice Bleu
Gender: female
Race: any
Role: she prefers sniping.

Lord Windy
Mar 26, 2010
Name: Tracy Livewell
Gender: Female
Race: Any
Role: Demolitions

The Dipshit
Dec 21, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Name: Otto Von Diesel
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Role: Front line grunt

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

Name: Akrasia
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Role: Whatever you need. Make me dangerous. (To whomever, really. I know how this game goes.)

Calebc789
Sep 8, 2014

Name: Shroud
Gender: Either, leaning towards Female
Hybrid
Preferred Role: Scout Sniper, brings a Mind-Bender on raid missions "just in case".

Calebc789 fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 27, 2014

Aithon
Jan 3, 2014

Every puzzle has an answer.
I wanted you to roll up a Joan of Arc and make her prefer energy weapons, but it'll be a while before we pick those up, won't it? So I went to Machete for inspiration.

Name: Luz
Gender: Female
Race: any
Preferred role: heavy weapons

Rexides
Jul 25, 2011

Ah, late to the thread but whatever

Name: R.O.O.M.B.A
Gender: R.O.O.M.B.A does not care about this binary bullshit
Race: Android
Preferred role: Dual machineguns :clint:

Delta Green
Nov 2, 2012

NewMars posted:

Name: Rex Manstrong

Gender: Male

Human

Preferred role: Whatever is least likely to get him killed.

MAANNNSTRRROOONNNNGGGG!!!!

I VOLUNTEER.

Name: Delta Green

Gender: Male

Race: UNDEAD TECHNO-ABOMINATION/CYBORG

Preferred Role: GETTING REX MANSTRONG TO HIS DESERVED DEMISE/ DREADNOUGHT.

Delta Green fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Sep 27, 2014

emormu
Jan 16, 2012
Name: emormu
Gender: Male
Human
Preferred Role: None

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012
Name: General Custerbot
Gender: Male?
Race: Android
Preferred role: machineguns

wafflemoose
Apr 10, 2009

Name: Starhawk
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Preferred role: Sniper

Do they ever explain why everything looks like 50s Scifi? It's giving me a Fallout type of vibe.

Nemo2342
Nov 26, 2007

Have A Day




Nap Ghost
Name: Nemo2342
Gender: ???
Human/Hybrid/Android: Android
Preferred Role: Guns and grenades, or sniper

Supersonic Shine
Oct 13, 2012
Name: SuShi
Gender: Male
Android
Preferred role: Exploding stuff

Double May Care
Mar 28, 2012

We need Dragon-type Pokemon to help us prepare our food before we cook it. We're not sure why!

I feel like this is an elaborate "dorf me" thought experiment.

Name: Rather
Male
Human
Preferred Role: Sniper who can heal stuff

Double May Care fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Sep 28, 2014

Koboje
Sep 20, 2005

Quack

Starhawk64 posted:

Name: Starhawk
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Preferred role: Sniper

Do they ever explain why everything looks like 50s Scifi? It's giving me a Fallout type of vibe.

Of sorts, there are "Aesthetic" laws in place in Mega Primus to ensure everything looks fitting and good, from vehicles to buildings. I think there might be some more indications of it, but i can't remember right now.

Rather Watch Them posted:

I feel like this is an elaborate "dorf me" thought experiment.

Name: Rather
Male
Human
Preferred Role: Sniper who can heal stuff

Strangely enough how medikits work is basically reversed since earlier X-Coms, only the person with the medkit can be healed by it, which makes it kind of worthless if you go unconscious while bleeding, yet another oddity of Apocalypse.

Update is almost done, some minor technical issues, should be ready some time tomorrow.

LordGugs
Oct 16, 2012
Name: R.O.T.O.R
Gender: Male
Race: Android
Preferred role: close quarters

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Rather Watch Them posted:

I feel like this is an elaborate "dorf me" thought experiment.

You get to see your own mentally dislodged idiot that some other idiot saw fit to arm pathetically fail to fight a common enemy along with yet more idiots. Maybe that's why.

Koboje
Sep 20, 2005

Quack
Update 2! Bad thing happened. With Guest Commentator Zedd!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbyX5b8cQ

Well things did not go as well as I expected. We shot down some UFOs but lost a Hovercar which is completely unacceptable, those things are worth like 10 or more fully equipped agents. I failed to set my hovercars to defensive and safe attidudes, thinking they would get the job done faster and for the ufo to not be quite so accurate. Was also way too greedy, I should have focused on one group of them and let the others do their thing, which i will show off next time they arrive. Tried to dodge with my car but by then it was so damaged it ignored me in its attempts to get back to base, too late i realized i could have tried taking manual control. This unfortunate turn of events means we had to pay a visit to the annoying Cult of Sirius and take some stuff to finance new combat vehicles and facilities right away.

Good news is no agents died or were really even wounded during operation "Kill dudes, Take drugs" and we got some Psiclone future drug to sell, some ammo to replace what we used and 2 rocket launchers with a few rockets and of course some experience for our field guys. And we have our first Hybrid recruit! Who will have to spend some time training before getting fielded. Once we have 2 or 3 decently trained Psionics we will start to see some fun mind stuff happening.

Mistakes I did:
-Trying to shoot down all the ufos, I only really wanted one of each type. Big error in judgement there.
-Not preparing my Hovercars properly or grouping them
-My Valk had a bad spot to launch and attack from, should not have been on his own.

Current issues:
-Money
-Need space to build more facilities, we need more money to get a second base
-Transtellar already unfriendly and we can't directly make them happy because no money and even if we had it we need a more permanent solution then just sending them loads and loads of money.


Active Agents list with kills (including totally legit non-war crime killing of unconscious people) and notable accomplishments:
TNG
Compsognathus
Ano Hito 2 kills
Synastren 3 kills
k.d. goon 2 kills
Banjo
Night 2 kills
Fang
Anil E. Hilated 2 kills
Karate Bastard Sucker punched (with stun grapples) and wounded alot of Cultists for easy cleanup
THE BAR 1 kill


Wanted to test a guest commentary to see if it makes for better entertainment and explaining. Do people want more or was it more entertaining to see me just going at it on my own? Currently inclined on continuing by myself for a while, possibly putting in another guest here and there.

Koboje fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Sep 28, 2014

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Koboje posted:

Well things did not go as well as i expected. We shot down some UFOs but lost a Hovercar

Notable accomplishments:
Karate Bastard

Hahaha this run is already hosed! This thread is going places. :patriot:

Karate Bastard fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Sep 28, 2014

THE BAR
Oct 20, 2011

You know what might look better on your nose?

-Does- the Geneva convention still exist in the near future world of X-COM? Or does it not matter since those cultists can be considered above and beyond regular bad guys? And even if it does, what does it say about dual gatling'ing people in their backs, lying down?

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012
I prefer commentary with guest, tbh. There was a lot of dead air in the first episode that having a co-commentator helped with.

Rexides
Jul 25, 2011

I like how the Cult is getting upgrades to it's buildings with higher difficulty levels. On easy they have just a couple tiny temples, and in superhuman it's a whole block of skyscrapers.

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Rexides posted:

I like how the Cult is getting upgrades to it's buildings with higher difficulty levels. On easy they have just a couple tiny temples, and in superhuman it's a whole block of skyscrapers.

I will have you know they are the world's fastest-growing religion, and not a cult. Plus, have you seen the Sirius Celebrity Centre?

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



fool_of_sound posted:

I prefer commentary with guest, tbh. There was a lot of dead air in the first episode that having a co-commentator helped with.
Imagine how good it would be with a commentator that didn't have to keep his voice down while recording. :v:

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



OAquinas posted:

I will have you know they are the world's fastest-growing religion, and not a cult. Plus, have you seen the Sirius Celebrity Centre?

My lawyer has advised me to neither confirm nor deny that I have seen the aforementioned building, and I am as shocked and/or saddened at the appropriate level as anyone to hear of its recent destruction due to the detonation of an unknown number of Marsec Proximity Mines.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
I would like to see you raid the everloving crap out of the Cult of Sirius for money, and once they run out of that, for giggles. Then charge up the bolters and raze their entire block and sit them firmly in the red for the next fiscal decade. In fact, if your ten next videos are nothing but bullying the cultists then I'll be a happy camper, and if I get to be the dual tazer point man then all the better :patriot:

Alternatively, this could go into a schadenfreude blooper reel with yakety sax and a laugh track on it. Plant proximity mines on the roofied to blow them out the window when they get up kind of thing? I'd put that on my phone and use it for my wake up alarm signal and start each day with a smile.

I liked both your videos, and Zedd was nice to have around. Do whatever's most convenient to you (so I get more updates :) ).

e: splelling

Karate Bastard fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Sep 29, 2014

Sad King Billy
Jan 27, 2006

Thats three of ours innit...to one of yours. You know mate I really think we ought to even up the average!
Name:Sad Billy
Race:Human
Gender:Male
Role:Any

wafflemoose
Apr 10, 2009

What about the gangs? Surely they have some drugs for us to steal and sell for ourselves, confiscate because drugs are bad. Except the one gang that makes incendiary grenades, we should be total bros with them.

As for Transteller not liking us, would luring a few UFOs to either attack or deposit aliens into their buildings and then cleaning up the mess after improve their relations with us? Bribing seems very expensive to do. You know it's a messed up situation, when a paramiltary organization has to raid other factions to get the bribe money needed so that the taxi drivers don't hate them.

I also agree we should raid and harass Cult of Sirius 24/7. If I learned anything from playing videogames is that cults are always evil and destroying them is always a rewarding thing to do.

wafflemoose fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Sep 28, 2014

Koboje
Sep 20, 2005

Quack

Starhawk64 posted:

What about the gangs? Surely they have some drugs for us to steal and sell for ourselves, confiscate because drugs are bad. Except the one gang that makes incendiary grenades, we should be total bros with them.

As for Transteller not liking us, would luring a few UFOs to either attack or deposit aliens into their buildings and then cleaning up the mess after improve their relations with us? Bribing seems very expensive to do. You know it's a messed up situation, when a paramiltary organization has to raid other factions to get the bribe money needed so that the taxi drivers don't hate them.

I also agree we should raid and harass Cult of Sirius 24/7. If I learned anything from playing videogames is that cults are always evil and destroying them is always a rewarding thing to do.

I would prefer to atleast alteranate with fighting some more aliens before going raiding again. Since that is what X-Coms is supposedly meant to be doing! But the idea of raiding one of the gangs is a good one, alot of organizations hate the gangs and they rarely have friends who would be upset by this, so we would be gaining more friends by doing it and "Confiscate" some drugs in the process. Just a few issues:
1. Gang members tend to be heavily armed with deadly rocket launchers all over the place (altough that could mean more for us f we can kill them before they fire)
2. The areas they live in, the slums, make for very uncomfortable fighting with both very wide open areas without cover, and sudden cramped spaces and apartments.
3. The Gangs (along with Megapol) are the most likely to raid or launch attacks against another organizations stuff, and that includes our bases.

Still could be fun, i wish you could ask or pay Megapol to send troops to assist in tactical missions against aliens or Gangs, you would think they would atleast assist in searching and clearing their own buildings but nope. And we will certainly be visiting the Cult a few more times in the future, and maybe they will visit us! We will see.

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Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
Raiding the gangs is quite dangerous, because the gangs can raid you back. This is bad. I think it's better to focus on one enemy for now.

At ALL costs, do not piss off Transtellar. If Transtellar turns hostiles, things do to poo poo *fast*.

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