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Khisanth Magus posted:Be honest, if you were told "Hey, we are being invaded by aliens, it is your job to fight them", wouldn't you want to be drunk for it? Honestly, a hip flask item that worsened your aim but made you immune to psionic attacks would actually be worth using sometimes.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Honestly, a hip flask item that worsened your aim but made you immune to psionic attacks would actually be worth using sometimes. An Ethereal tries to mind control the drunken soldier, just recoils in horror instead at the filth it sees.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Honestly, a hip flask item that worsened your aim but made you immune to psionic attacks would actually be worth using sometimes. Alternatively, being drunk reduces your resistance to getting mind controlled, but getting mind-controlled results in both the rookie and the mind-controller stumbling around randomly for a turn.
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Jan 17, 2015 21:21
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Honestly, a hip flask item that worsened your aim but made you immune to psionic attacks would actually be worth using sometimes. Heh, I would totally bring the flask that I got for my 21st (which was the 12th of January this year) if I had to fight aliens. The flask is a nice one, made of stainless steel with a leather covering and my name (and the number 21) engraved into one of the sides. currently I'm using it to store relatively cheap rum, to drink whenever I want to get drunk, and am even brining it with me in my bag to lectures and stuff. I'll also use for the good whisky I got on my 21st, when I can find sufficient reason to open that. I may be talking about this because I have just had some rum from my flask right now. (yay for alcohol in the bedroom!). I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Tomn posted:Alternatively, being drunk reduces your resistance to getting mind controlled, but getting mind-controlled results in both the rookie and the mind-controller stumbling around randomly for a turn. No no no, you're going at it all wrong. Mind Control on a drunk unit transfers to the alien. Your units don't even have to deal with the hangover!
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Well I was working on the update and MissEschelon surprised me with this puppy: I have good feelings about this project now. Now, back to working on the update...
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Speedball posted:Well I was working on the update and MissEschelon surprised me with this puppy: Miss Echelon is great. You're great. Eagerly waiting the next update.
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Speedball posted:Well I was working on the update and MissEschelon surprised me with this puppy: Is that a sky shark? I suppose it could be under water but I'm thinking sky shark until proven otherwise. EDIT: vvv 
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Jan 18, 2015 05:53
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It is a flying hammerhead shark.
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Speedball posted:It is a flying hammerhead shark. Sweet. Hope that the depression isn't weighing too hard on you right now, but hey it let's you make jokes about how the best artists (as seen by some people anyway) are the troubled ones, like Van Goph and your now one of them! Er, that sounded better in my head, please tell me if that was in fact terribly offensive to you or anything. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Xcom Part 26: Alien Base Assault IN MY MIND!  Laser Delta Shard Attack! GO!  Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah! Stop destroying alien resources! You’ll never amount to anything at this rate! Why is Vahlen scolding me like my mom? What the gently caress is happening?! Cam! Man, I thought I’d never see you again. How do you like my jetpack? Wheeee! Oh, God, I know what this is. This is my other worst nightmare. No matter what I do, Allen will always be way cooler than me… What? That’s not it at all. This is a mental battlefield. That’s why it looks like Earth being invaded by aliens. It’s half your mind, half the Sectoid Commander’s. Then what the hell are you doing in here? You’re dead! The Sectoid mental network was sucking out information from my head ever since they hypnotized me. Thoughts, memories, personality traits; they copied all of it. I remember everything…right up until I died. I guess I’m like a mental clone of the real Allen… Like Harvey from— Like Harvey from Farscape! You’re definitely the real Allen. Oh, my God…Allen…I… we all missed you so much! No time for weepy reunions! Octopi! Blast ‘em, girls! gently caress I hate those things! Then you’ll love this. Oh my God it’s an alien Bar-Lev. How are you liking the mental battlefield, Cam? There’s more where that came from. BASTARD! Cam, if we can kill him I think we can get you out of here! Will that work? I don’t know what’s real! Well, it’s worth a shot! Magical robots, GO! Jesus that thing has giant plasma cannons for hands! Yeah, which begs the question, how the hell does it pick things up? …What? FIRE!  Hah! You’ll never be anything but a pathetic freeloader, Cam. This won’t kill me. Try harder. God drat it, you’re loving naked, why do laser cannons only lightly toast you? You will is weak, Carol Allen. It always was. It’ll take more than your imaginary friends to harm me or my mental avatars. Wait a minute…  This is all in my head, right? If I concentrate, really hard, maybe I can try to destroy the illusions… Hrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! Hahahahaha! Is that the best you can do, Cam? Bar-Lev, make them feel pain. Of course. Because unlike Cam, I’m a real badass. Hey! You’re nothing, Cam. An idiot getting by on luck and a lot of inherited genes from much better warriors than yourself. If you hadn’t made the switch, you’d still be a rookie… or dead.  You will is mine, Cameron Watkins! Your body, and even your mental avatar, belong to me! N…NO! GET…OUT…OF…MY…HEAD!!!! GET… OUT! HRRAAA!!! AAAAIIIGGHH! FEEDBACK! Holy poo poo! I couldn’t do that! And gently caress you too, Fake Bar-Lev! The real Naomi is grumpy and awesome but she never rubs our faces in it. Deep down, she loves us all! Grraarr! No! You’re pathetic! You’ll never amount to anything! I…I… AUUUGGHH! Holy poo poo, Cam. That was great. We’re still not out of here… I guess we need to kill more mental demons first… So, do you really think you’re inadequate? Allen… you were a better soldier than me, and then we switched, and the very next mission out, you died. How do you think I feel about that?**** BACK AT THE BASE ****  Grahh…grrrarhhh! Cam? Cam, respond! Cam’s still not responding… Well, crazy or not she’s blowing away any aliens that get close… but she might not be able to tell friend from foe, so we shouldn’t get close either. Just follow the trail of alien bodies. Ngguh…guh… You’re doing fine, Evie. Just breathe deeply and let us do most of the work. Remember, we love you. We all love you. It’s in my head… I remember everyone who ever hated me for anything… it hurt so much, like I was dying… Where the hell is Princess?  Right behind you. And it’s not princess anymore! It’s QUEEN! HOLY poo poo! Don’t do that! You were right behind me the whole time!? No. The alien got inside my head too. I spent about five mental centuries fighting an army of spiders. But then I turned invisible and it lost control of me. For whatever reason, this thing can’t attack me mentally when it loses sight of me. It must be watching all of us on alien security cameras or something. …whoah. Are you… are you okay? I’ve been better, but I’m not new to this. There was this one time my dad and I fought an evil Venezuelan hypnotist… anyway.  Mmm… huh? MIMI! You’re hurt! I need to patch you up, now! You’re better? It… it let go of me. Like it was trying to focus on someone else. I got another drone spying on us in the distance, anyone got it? No problem! Drone down! What’s in these pods? It looks like ground-up meat mixed with milk and blood. …oh, UGH. My sensors say it’s human meat. They’re turning people into meat smoothies! Oh, God. Maybe that’s what the giant meat tubes in the distance are for. They’re melting people down to create a giant robot skeleton! Yuck! Let’s just… just keep pushing forwards… maybe we can try to give the pods back to the countries that owned them later… I count at least six kills we aren’t responsible for…oh, there’s Cam. …let’s be careful… Cam? Shh!******* BACK IN THE BATTLE OF THE MIND *******  Aww, it’s not your fault I died. Actually, I’m pretty sure it’s mine. Wasn’t the last thing I said “TESTOSTERONEEEEE!!!” ? Yeah… heh. Haha. Figures. One week with a dick and I was already letting it make my decisions for me. And no, that wasn’t your fault either. So, uh… what’s with the jetpack? And the robots? I watched a lot of anime as a kid and always wanted to be the star of one! In my own mind I can be my true inner hero!   Oh, hey, boys! Look what decided to show up to the prom! I thought we told you what would happen if you came, Watkins. …oh my god. Mutons with the personalities of my high school bullies. This will be the greatest mental battle ever. CAROL SUPER SHOT! …gently caress! Even my idealized dream self sucks! NO! Gorgeous Betty! Ha ha! Your droids suck, turbo nerd. What did you imagine them out of, aluminum foil? Pretty Shelly, VENGEANCE SHOT! RARGH! I’ll kill you for that! He’s coming right for us! Roger Green, you were a racist piece of poo poo in high school. You’re not strong. SHIV, blow him away!  Let’s see if I can use the power of imagination to destroy another one… MUTON BILLY UPTON! If X is 5 and Y is 9, how many X are needed to equal four Y? ARGH I HATE MATH! It makes my head explode! GAaauuuggh! This is for Gorgeous Betty! …ahhh, poo poo why can’t I hit anything?! I dunno… hey, you, other SHIV! Rolly Paulina! Get around that cover and avenge your sister! Muton Ramon Grayson… man, I don’t even hate you anymore. You were just kind of a wimp deep down, and you wanted to be loved, but you lashed out at me to look tough for your lovely friends. So… you’re going to forgive me? Well, I’ll forgive the REAL Ramon Grayson. You, though, can go right to hell. Rolly Paulina, Super Fantasy Revenge Cannon Blast! Whew… this is more fun than I thought it would be. So, I guess you must like the new DNA if you never swapped back. Yeah, well, it’s definitely an improvement, performance-wise. I’d have to reinstall all my gene mods if I got my old body back, which would waste more meld than necessary. I’d be giving up more than I’d be getting back. Including your lesbian girlfriend? Including my — HEY! She's bi! Ha ha ha ha ha! I told you! Well, I’m waiting until the war’s over. I don’t want to roll the dice on getting my old body back just yet. For all I know I’ll get turbo cancer or just look funky, like when you get a character looking good in a character editor in a game, and then mess with it some more and suddenly it looks like rear end and you never get the good-looking one back. Good point. …ah, hell, MORE ALIENS!*** BACK AT THE BASE ***  More drones! These guys aren’t so tough, though. All the meat tubes in this place seem to be converging… anyway, open fire! Got one! Missed mine… we’ll get it later. This looks like some kind of command center! The thing getting inside your heads must be in there somewhere! Cam…I know you’re still out of it… but, uh, what are you looking at? Videogame… What? Aliens have videogames too? I guess. How’s everyone else doing? Not good, my skin’s still crawling from what it made me see… I feel hundreds of years older than I actually am, but otherwise, alright. I… I’m fine! …gonna need a lot more hugs when this is over, though… There! The alien commander is there, by that strange pylon! Gonna have to wait, we have CHRYSALIDS! AAAH!**** Within The Mental Battlefield *****  Eat my dream plasma cannon, alien motherfuckers! YAAAAAH! Phew… that’s all of ‘em for now. God these nightmare-floaters are way nastier than the real things. Let’s catch our breath before we push on. Say, Carol… are we… what’s our endgame, here? You destroy the last of the Sectoid Commander’s mind, free yourself from the illusion world and wake up, while he goes braindead. If you fail, you’ll be like me, stuck in HIS head forever. But I mean, like… is there a way for you to, I don’t know, hide in my subconscious so I can get you out of here too? …dunno. Might make your brain explode if we try. And you’d go crazy even if it worked. Who wants to have ME nattering on in their ear for life? But that means— HERE WE ARE! The bridge of the UFO. He’s hiding inside there, the real one this time. Open the door! Right. On three. One, two…  Three?! HAhahahahaahahahahAHAHAHAHAHA! Which one’s real, Cam? Which one’s real? Doesn’t matter! You ALL DIE! RAAAAAA! Chromia, GO! Now! ALLEN! YES! Finally! I finally got something! Of course you did. Those were all the decoys. Aaaa… AAAAAAUUUGH! Allen! Carol, you’re pointing the gun the wrong way! Don’t you see, Cam? Allen isn’t as independent as she pretends. She may rebel, but she’s a part of my mind. I was using her to pump you for more information. Caaam… And killing me means killing her. I know you can’t face that a second time. You never wanted to let go of Allen, that’s why you couldn’t even let go of her DNA. No… Cam… listen to me. That’s not my face you’re wearing. It’s yours. I was born looking like this, not like that. You’ve had that DNA a lot longer than me, and you’ve done a lot more cool things with it than I ever did. You’ve owned it. You got promoted all the way up to Colonel by being cool-headed and strong, not because of the genes you’ve inherited. Now… shoot this motherfucker. Allen, you’ll die if I kill the Sectoid Commander! Heh. At least this time I’ll die for a good cause. No! My stash is behind the second locker on the left. And hey, if you ever settle down with Princess, just name one of your kids after me. If it’s a girl, name her “Allen.” And if it’s a boy, name him “Carol!” …heh. Okay, buddy. Thanks for everything. It was amazing. Thank YOU. No. NOO! *sniff* Goodbye, Allen. ******** REALITY ********  Last bug down! Where’s Cam? *sniff* Goodbye, Allen.   Cam, you did it! You killed the alien commander! How the hell did you manage to kill the commander when it was loving with all our heads? Well… I had help. Cam… are you crying? I’ll… heh… I’ll tell you later. *weak smile*TO BE CONTINUED! Speedball fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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Jesus, this one took a lot out of me. I hope you see why. BIG update. And like I said, this is where it really jumps the shark.
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Jan 20, 2015 07:46
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I do not see any shark jumping. Just an awesome two-fer battle!
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My only regret is that you didn't capture the commander. That said, it had to be this way in story.
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Jan 20, 2015 07:59
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JT Jag posted:My only regret is that you didn't capture the commander. The downside of using the assault's sprint is you can't use items!
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Jan 20, 2015 08:17
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The perils of R&G. you have to shoot the commander in the face. Alas.
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Jan 20, 2015 08:26
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Speedball posted:
So... Normal Mutons, then  Back when I was still playing Vanilla Multiplayer, I did get my best Muton results treating them like football players admittedly. *alien grenade to alien commander* "Touchdown!" That is how alien football works, grenades to the face.
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Speedball posted:
Good question. FRAG OUT!
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Jan 20, 2015 08:32
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That was well worth the wait, Speedball.
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kaosdrachen posted:That was well worth the wait, Speedball. Seconded.
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Totally worth the wait. That was awesome. Where was the second battle and how did you do that?
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*slow clap* That was really, really good, Speedball. If that's the standard you hold your updates to, no wonder they take time to make.
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That was amazing, though a drat shame you couldn't capture the commander. Personally, I hope that if you continue to limit yourself for "story" reasons then you only build psionic stuff after actually capturing one. (like you have to when the put "the greater good" second wave option on. Unless of course you do in fact have that option on, in which case this is redundant.) It just seems... more... hmmm... can't think of what I want to say... poetic? reasonable? tense? sense-making? Ah whatever, the point is, that to me, it just make more story sense that you need to capture one before you can build psionics and stuff. Also I look forward to seeing how you characterise the blue shirts when their time comes. Once again, excellent work Speedball, we look forward to seeing the fruits of your continued efforts. (or however that one council line went) And remember, WE will be watching. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Holy poo poo, that was tense and awesome, far more than worth the wait, good Job Speedball!
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Bravo Speedball, that was absolutely brilliant.
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JT Jag posted:That said, it had to be this way in story. http://youtu.be/ZcpGIVbPYrI You people are wonderful to me. I was worried it'd be overwrought or come off as stupid. VV That's kind of what I was going for, so mission accomplished, I guess! Speedball fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jan 20, 2015 |
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It kind of was, but in a pulpy, fun way. If I can enjoy Star Wars, I can enjoy this.
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Speedball posted:http://youtu.be/ZcpGIVbPYrI It can come off as a tad silly... but considering we already had "the world will be saved by weirdo's" that's totally forgivable, and helps give a sense of fun. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Epic stuff, Speedball!  Good to see Allen again.
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Speedball posted:You people are wonderful to me. I was worried it'd be overwrought or come off as stupid. No way. They're fighting psionic aliens. Of course there's going to be an epic mental battle with personal demons and lingering doubts. Godspeed, Allen (and Speedball for an update that must have required monumental effort). 
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How long did it take you to set up that scenario with jet-pack Allen and the shivs? Did it take a whole playthough or do you have some sort of game editor for enemy within?
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Thefluffy posted:How long did it take you to set up that scenario with jet-pack Allen and the shivs? Did it take a whole playthough or do you have some sort of game editor for enemy within? If I can reveal my tricks.... In this case I utilized a save from a different game.
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That was awesome. Pulpy and silly, but flippin' sweet.
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I'm more surprised you actually did a UFO assault with four SHIVs.
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Glazius posted:I'm more surprised you actually did a UFO assault with four SHIVs. Not as hard as it sounds when they have decent upgrades. The trick is remembering that since they can't take cover, you don't need to worry about it. Make them charge around enemy cover to get good shots and blow them away. These ones also had the Close Combat Upgrade and the self-repair upgrade (too bad Gorgeous Betty was an unarmored Shiv, she died in one hit to that berserker).
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Glazius posted:I'm more surprised you actually did a UFO assault with four SHIVs. Shiv's are actually really potent in ew once you upgrade them with the new foundry stuff. They have an innate defense bonus, high movement and no need of cover for easy flanks, the most powerful ground guns xcom can field and the ability to suppress units without any of the heavies ammo woes. They can regenerate hp infinitely allowing them to recover from any and all wounds they take and they can get free shots on anything that moves within four tiles(works well with all the flanking they do, which prompts enemies to flee the flank). They do have one crippling weakness however in their will score of 0, as a later ability(rift) does more damage to low will units. also, they are totally adorable and have the cutest animations for scaling small ledges.
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FoolyCharged posted:also, they are totally adorable and have the cutest animations for scaling small ledges. They're like micro Metal Slugs!
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Was in dire mental straits today, but then I got cheered up by a friend who broke everything down for me in a way nobody else did before, and got even more cheered up when I took a trip through memory lane attempting to describe the idiotic awesomeness of the Civ V: Peace Walker thread. Heh. Man what the hell was I eating when I came up with that. I'll shoot for another update this weekend, but could I get enough comments to get onto the next page? This update's kind of huge.
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