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[kj1225]

... you do know what flak things do right? Just out of curiosity.

[piecewise]

... you do know what flak things do right? Just out of curiosity.

It wasn't flak, it was shrapnel. Flak disrupts signals, not even sure if there's one in the game. Just wrote the wrong word.

[kj1225]

Good thing you realized that before you caught a lot of FLAK for it.

[Yoink]

Aw, Aigre, I was looking forward to seeing how the next turn would play out.

[syvarris]

@PW
Well, if you dislike "more", then I can certainly see why you'd dislike Long War.  "More" is a core tenent of the mod, and describes it quite well.

I will say that it's entirely possible to do decently well while ignoring a lot of it, though.  In my current game, I've completely ignored all grenades, rocketeers, MECs, gene mods, and SHIVs.  I've barely used engineers and assaults, and there's a lot of miscellaneous stuff I've mostly ignored, like battle rifles and the second type of plane rocket.  I don't even have cinematic mode on, and I'm still doing pretty well; if you dislike all the extra options, and just want to ignore them, that's a perfectly valid strategy.

Tactically, it's still much more fun than basic XCOM in my opinion.  In XCOM, you eventually reach a point where actually losing anyone is extremely rare and unlikely.  In Long War, the game never seems to stop being a challenge, and yet it manages to be less punishing about it because losing a single guy, or even an entire high level team, is not entirely crippling.

[piecewise]

@PW
Well, if you dislike "more", then I can certainly see why you'd dislike Long War.  "More" is a core tenent of the mod, and describes it quite well.

I will say that it's entirely possible to do decently well while ignoring a lot of it, though.  In my current game, I've completely ignored all grenades, rocketeers, MECs, gene mods, and SHIVs.  I've barely used engineers and assaults, and there's a lot of miscellaneous stuff I've mostly ignored, like battle rifles and the second type of plane rocket.  I don't even have cinematic mode on, and I'm still doing pretty well; if you dislike all the extra options, and just want to ignore them, that's a perfectly valid strategy.

Tactically, it's still much more fun than basic XCOM in my opinion.  In XCOM, you eventually reach a point where actually losing anyone is extremely rare and unlikely.  In Long War, the game never seems to stop being a challenge, and yet it manages to be less punishing about it because losing a single guy, or even an entire high level team, is not entirely crippling.

I think my big problem with that sort of thing is that I'm used to the xcom mindset of "research everything, make everything", since original xcom and enemy unknown were set up where there weren't too many superfluous things. Almost everything had a major purpose or benefit.

Again, It's probably more my mindset and first impression than anything.

[Knight Otu]

Great Raptor Jesus, I look away for a few months, and you guys destroy the whole universe? Who won the bets on that?

Not destroyed...inflicted with a status ailment.

It's apparently bad enough to warrant evacuating into a whole different universe. That's close enough for me.

[Parisbre56]

"We didn't destroy your car... we just fucked it so hard you can no longer use it and have to escape it or risk getting burned alive. But the car's skeleton is still there. So the car wasn't destroyed. See? My logic is undeniable."

Irrelevant: I believe this sums up the "moral" people in the HMRC: https://youtu.be/09vVF-Hvykg
Mesk in particular comes to mind.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

NEVER!

[Empiricist]

Maybe we should to send Vanessa one of those invisibility cloaks. Then the big scary monster will appear out of thin air rather than looking like an industrial bed sheet ghost.

[Xantalos]

Oh hells yes. That's even a viable thing for me to do now that I have a way to be sticking with this body forever.

[Empiricist]

You could also get a redesign that makes Vanessa look more inviting, which is to say, I INVOKE THEE, GREAT OWL OF IRONY! IMBUE THIS WILLING SACRIFICE WITH YOUR HALLOWED FRILLS!

[Xantalos]

Trying to frill me up?

Empiricist scumfuckery

[Egan_BW]

Just paint her white and put a big red cross on her, should clear things right up. Frills would look good on you though...

[Xantalos]

And then he ends up becoming the messiah of the space!KKK