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I've talked to people who've actually done that sort of planning. The idea isn't to train or have a contingency for every outlandish idea out there, but rather these sorts of scenarios are designed to train their people how to think 'outside the box' in terms of what can happen. Complacency is a deadly sin, and these avoid it.
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There was some movie/book that had "why are [people I know] here?" "You gave us their names in your protocol for extraterrestrial contact." "Yes, but I didn't think we'd ever actually USE it." Was it Stargate? Sphere?
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Night10194 posted:Look, you never known when hyperintelligent cyborg monkeys from the future are going to arrive and declare that ancient Chinese furniture arranging techniques warp the destiny of mankind, and thus start detonating landmarks. You've gotta be on top of that kind of crap.
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Part 23: The Faceplate of the Enemy  No way. I don’t have the same face, skin, hair, voice or SEX I had before, you couldn’t possibly recognize me. Kid, I’m your mom, I could pick you out of a crowd in a text-only chat room. I know your every twitch. So, what happened? Switched bodies with a friend of mine, who died. But I got superpowers out of it. Huh. That’s… huh. Well, your legs are a lot less stumpy now. Yeah, they—HEY! You better take good loving care of that body, you hear me, Cameron? I will personally oversee every IOTA of your physical training from now on. Moooom! Don’t you “Mom” me! I brought you into this world, and I can take you OUT! Oh, God… Someone shoot me where it won’t grow back…  We now have finished the last of our laser weapons, Commander. We’ll need much more staff to begin reverse-engineering the plasma weaponry, but at least now we can begin. Excellent. I’m sure our snipers will love the improved killing power. And…is that a laser SHOTGUN? Oh, man, I have got to get me one of those. Not without my permission first, buster! You want to blow your face off testing experimental weapons in the field? …good point. You take the first one, Mom. It’s time to finish our research on that shard, see if it can lead us to the alien’s nest. Commander! COMMANDER! Priority transmission from the council! What the gently caress? Panic in China? We had China locked down! Something’s up over there, someone caused a kind of… controlled weather disaster. A laser shot into the sky and a typhoon appeared out of nowhere. The aliens have a weather controller? Not quite, XCOM. Who the hell are YOU? Greetings, XCOM. I am the Director, and soon to be the new face of the future. Your attempts at maintaining the status quo are doomed. With the gift of technology pilfered from the heavens themselves, a new humanity, stronger in body and purer of will, shall emerge. We… are EXALT. I don’t know this one… Exalt Director. What do you want? Money? Power? All that and more. Understand this, XCOM: You are doomed to failure, because you serve the whims of petty governments and self-centered idiots with large purse strings. We serve none but ourselves, and do as we please. Even now, China is considering dropping your funding because of your inability to deal with us. I suggest you disarm immediately and allow us to shape the future of the world. Goodbye, FOOLS! Ah-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAHA! HAIL EXALT!  …what…the…gently caress? This is worse than I imagined. A terrorist organization taking control of alien technology.  Commander… we must rely upon you… to eliminate this threat. Your directive to preserve all human life has been… rescinded. Of course, councilman… right. We’ll need help, we’re better at shooting down UFOs than doing ground work. We are capable of assisting your investigation, to a degree…but it is your operatives who must carry out the… wetwork.  Sir, I volunteer. I’m less high-profile than our team leaders and I’m trained on using a side-arm. Good idea, Dr. Gomez. I wish I could send Hilda out on this mission, with her invisibility she’d be the perfect spy, but she’s still melding. poo poo. Next time, I guess. Good luck, Gomez! Thank you, sir! So on top of blowing up aliens who want to steal human bodies, we have to stop a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world? Badass. Looks like I joined at the right time. It’s like the eighties all over again!To Be Continued! Speedball fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Nov 8, 2014 |
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COBBBBRRAAAA, ATTTTTACK! ...COBBBRAAAA, RETREAAAAAAAAT! Yes.
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If only you could modify the game so that XCOM fired blue lasers and EXALT red
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I dunno why, but I'm hearing him as X-Men:The Arcade Game Magneto. This despite knowing what Cobra Commander sounds like.
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Polaron posted:If only you could modify the game so that XCOM fired blue lasers and EXALT red But then everyone's Aim would go down to 1%!
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I'll give some advice I've given in a previous thread: if you don't want to deal with EXALT attacks, then make sure you scan for activity roughly every fifteen days. It costs a bit to be proactive, but not as much as it costs to let EXALT rampage unchecked.
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Bruceski posted:There was some movie/book that had "why are [people I know] here?" "You gave us their names in your protocol for extraterrestrial contact." "Yes, but I didn't think we'd ever actually USE it." Was it Stargate? Sphere?
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I dont think its Stargate. Stargate is just a dude knocking on O'Niells door and is like "we need you to reactive the stargate program" or something. I think youre thinking of something else. Also you nailed the Councils speech pattern, Speedball. Nailed it.
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SpookyLizard posted:Also you nailed the Councils speech pattern, Speedball. Nailed it. While I agree, to be fair, the Councils 'speech pattern' is just 'try to sound as much like a cliche movie-villain as you can. Don't be afraid to go heavy on the pauses, pretend you're Shatner if it helps'
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I kinda want Shatner to voice a cheesy evil video game thing now.
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Bruceski posted:There was some movie/book that had "why are [people I know] here?" "You gave us their names in your protocol for extraterrestrial contact." "Yes, but I didn't think we'd ever actually USE it." Was it Stargate? Sphere? Wasn't that in the first episode of the rather short-lived tv show Threshold?
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Turns out it was Sphere I was thinking of. Norman wrote the report and figured "well, I can either do my job as a psychologist and figure out who would be best suited for this sort of thing or I can put my buddies' names down, cash the check and go buy a house." Once I started remembering a bit more I quickly realized it has "Michael Crichton writing people" all over it and it wasn't hard to confirm after that.
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Bruceski posted:Turns out it was Sphere I was thinking of. Norman wrote the report and figured "well, I can either do my job as a psychologist and figure out who would be best suited for this sort of thing or I can put my buddies' names down, cash the check and go buy a house." Once I started remembering a bit more I quickly realized it has "Michael Crichton writing people" all over it and it wasn't hard to confirm after that. ...because every (US) government-funded biology lab needs an automatic thermonuclear self-destruct, and only one man is level-headed enough to hold authority to switch it off. When that guy is the one asking "who authorized this bullshit?" you know hacks can still spew bestsellers. That, or in some surreal (but less contrived) alternate universe there is an agency going around making sure every building is rigged to explode for no good reason.
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silentsnack posted:That, or in some surreal (but less contrived) alternate universe there is an agency going around making sure every building is rigged to explode for no good reason. They're called the Drama Enforcement Agency. They're the same people who cut your cellphone signal when you're within 100 yards of a serial killer. Polaron posted:If only you could modify the game so that XCOM fired blue lasers and EXALT red
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See, if only I could survive long enough to get that far...
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I'll give some advice I've given in a previous thread: if you don't want to deal with EXALT attacks, then make sure you scan for activity roughly every fifteen days. It costs a bit to be proactive, but not as much as it costs to let EXALT rampage unchecked. Doesn't scanning that infrequently actually generate a profit because exalt gives you a hundred xcom bucks or so for every successful op against them?
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This week it was EXALT using a Weather Dominator to increase panic. If they had stolen money from me instead, I would have had them do something like THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGTV6fvgaM
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Speedball posted:
Dude, Zinchenko. ZINCHENKO.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Dude, Zinchenko. ZINCHENKO. Yes! He's decent with pistols, it will raise him in rank without him screwing up your deployment line up, and he's very expendable.
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Considering that if your operative ever fires a shot you're doing something wrong or things have gone pear shaped, his aim score wouldn't even be that big of an issue.
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Speedball posted:Update Oh, this is good, this is really good.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Dude, Zinchenko. ZINCHENKO. I can just see it now.  I'm about to hack this Comm Relay... with a grenade!
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FoolyCharged posted:Doesn't scanning that infrequently actually generate a profit because exalt gives you a hundred xcom bucks or so for every successful op against them? It depends on the mission. The defense missions give you a hundred credits if you manage to protect both the transponder and the decoy, you lose the money if the decoy gets hacked or destroyed. The other one I think gives you money just for completing it but I don't recall for sure.
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Bloodly posted:I dunno why, but I'm hearing him as X-Men:The Arcade Game Magneto. This despite knowing what Cobra Commander sounds like. Welcome to die, XCOM!
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You know, one big opportunity that I felt was missed in EW was the idea that the two enemy organizations were dedicated to screwing each other equally as they do you. Although I understand that getting the whole ai priority of "should I attack other ai group" or "kill blues at all costs" would be a bit long to develop.
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Annointed posted:You know, one big opportunity that I felt was missed in EW was the idea that the two enemy organizations were dedicated to screwing each other equally as they do you. Although I understand that getting the whole ai priority of "should I attack other ai group" or "kill blues at all costs" would be a bit long to develop. Ah, like a meld-collecting race to see who can grab the most containers before the other side does?
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Sounds more like he's asking for three-way fights, with EXALT and the aliens shooting at each other as much as they shoot at you.
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This is true. In storyline terms, EXALT have tried to bilk the aliens at least once in one major occasion, despite the fact they're also allied with the aliens to conquer the planet(it's how they're getting free Meld and gene mods).
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Bloodly posted:This is true. In storyline terms, EXALT have tried to bilk the aliens at least once in one major occasion, despite the fact they're also allied with the aliens to conquer the planet(it's how they're getting free Meld and gene mods).
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FredMSloniker posted:Sounds more like he's asking for three-way fights, with EXALT and the aliens shooting at each other as much as they shoot at you. Yeah I was thinking for something along those lines. Hell while we're at it why not include a mechanic where you can manipulate the aliens against EXALT to the point where you're just munching popcorn as the roided out super mutants in fedoras battle intergalactic space horrors.
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FredMSloniker posted:I thought they were fighting the aliens as well? Just with different enough motives that they're at odds with XCOM too? Not at all. They're collaborators. They believe the aliens will uplift us all and are working with them to that end.
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Fair enough. I guess the writing around the Slingshot mission confused me. (It is a bit too brief. I think Enemy Within needed to better integrate it.)
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Exalt was given any sort of definition outside of "like xcom, but dislikes xcom"? The only time you get any real story focus on them in game is the first mission of progeny and then the occasional exalt body on a few specific maps.
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Speedball posted:Kill Six Billion Demons Never would have heard about this without this thread. That stuff is good.
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I like the idea of EXALT. The whole world hasn't really united in the past. Why should things be different now?
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Glazius posted:I like the idea of EXALT. The whole world hasn't really united in the past. Why should things be different now? It still hasn't even really united now, or else we'd have a lot more funding!
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