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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is home base automatically running its mining facilities when you're gone, or do you have to spend time there to supervise?

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
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but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I imagine with the other factions we've actually got to get some decent economy going in every mission instead of just sneaking around like those moonmen.

Aren't the researchers back at home base making any progress on stuff while we're away?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is our own main base inviolate, or will we have to fend off the occasional enemy incursion there?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is there any actual effect to running a mission on snow vs. forest vs. mountains, or is it just a different texture color?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
The Mammoth escort mission is pretty hilarious. Trudge all the way around the map, then just simply hover back to base.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I guess convoy escorts are as good an idea as any. I suppose the moon has to get involved with the people below somehow.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is there any kind of terrain manipulation in this game? Building bridges, digging tunnels? The mooninites obviously don't have to bother, but maybe the other factions do?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Good to see you pull out Japan.

I never considered the importance of mission-to-mission unit carryover, but that's a pretty important issue in this game, isn't it?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
I guess you can keep three heavy units in good repair for the rest of the campaign?

How does repair work, anyway? Does it sap your credits when it happens, or does it only take time?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is there any reason not to arm your units as heavily as you can?

Cost, perhaps, but anything else?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Wow, shields make one hell of a difference. I'm surprised.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is the giant stash of buried credits supposed to feed into the "ALIENS REALLY BUILT THE PYRAMIDS" theory?

Because I sure can see it that way.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Conditions don't exactly sound very hospitable on Earth, though. How many of the UCS's citizens are going to survive to board the ship in the first place?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
You can finish the UCS campaign two missions early? How many missions early could you finish the LC?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Is the ED the only faction with ammo? I don't remember ammo shortages coming up with the other two factions.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Does the ED have its strength in the speed of early-game technologies it can unlock?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
There's that much of a difference in travel time between the unguided rockets and chaingun bullets? Or is the chaingun more of a hitscan weapon?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
You can't decommission your navy to get some of the resources back? Bit of a shame.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So. There are enough resources for everyone to build a ship and get off of Earth, if only they weren't trying to make sure in the face of adversity that they could build a ship and get off of Earth?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
How fragile are bridges? Is protecting them from enemy sorties ever a concern?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Hey, it might be nice to see what playing as NEO looks like from his own side.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
From a gameplay perspective it must be nice to get an early exit if you play the resource game will enough, but from an LP perspective it must be hard trying not to end the game prematurely.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
drat, that UFO is sick. It's not even game over if it blows now, is it? But I'll bet you feel like it is.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
12 missions? Only one resource collection? Holy crap. Sounds like... plot. Don't tell me the ED has to deal with Neo somehow too.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So the ion cannon isn't ground-to-air? Or is it more a matter of getting it mounted on the right kind of vehicles than where it can aim innately?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Can you build structures that are rigged to blow when your base goes up? Or is that just a plot thing for this mission?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Heh! Is the ED losing some of your diverted resources thanks to efficient Soviet bureaucracy?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Well, you know what they say - there's no planet so messed up that nuclear holocaust won't make it worse.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Obligatory "fleet? This game has naval units?" comment.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Ah, this is why they let you get so much cash as the ED - they're expecting you to build all the nukes.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
500 kilos of cargo space?

I don't think I've ever owned 500 kilos of stuff. Is this one of those worlds where they never discovered transistors and that's how much an iPad weighs?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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Clapping Larry
I'm kind of surprised they're still throwing odd little gimmicks into a mission that many people playing the faction might not even see.

Of course, this is before the days of achievement mining so who knows, maybe everybody made it this far their first time.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Now that we know how this is all going to end it seems kind of pointless. But wow, that's a lot of research to get done in the first mission.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Can you make new tunnels on the moon or is it strictly existing labyrinths?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Does our moon base ever get attacked? That seems like it might be kind of a natural progression.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So you've got less missions and a bigger tech tree? Sounds like that would make for some interesting times.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry

UCS Hellmaker posted:

Surprising. I always used the tunnels for a sneak attack with fang into the center of the base then ran the gently caress away while the meteors fell on the seconds bases head.

Do the meteors still hit the surface when you're in the tunnels?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So wait. The Xyrex plants... turn resources into energy? Or they can only be built on resource fields?

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

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any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Why is the interior of the base so lethal? Is everything armed, do the turrets fire 360 degrees?

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Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Wait, I thought the LC didn't care about bridges because they had hover tech.

Or does that not work on the moon?

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