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Author Topic: XCOM: Long War - (Canceled: Moving to new campaign for Beta 15)  (Read 97339 times)

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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #675 on: February 26, 2015, 09:49:41 am »

Eh. Sometimes it's nice to see the old fashioned Ballistic weapons again. You handled that mission superbly.
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #676 on: February 26, 2015, 10:21:38 am »

Is my guy still in there? It seems like it's been forever since I saw him on a mission.

Yeah, you've got 10 more days in the medbay.
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #677 on: February 26, 2015, 10:45:59 am »

Gauss guns look really nice again since I'm usedd to EXALT guns now...
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #678 on: February 26, 2015, 11:03:50 am »

Funniest thing about that mission is that it took me a while to realize anything was wrong. We were going through and killing aliens and at some point I went "Hey, wait, those are bullets. Tiruin, why the hell are you using bullets? Wait, is everyone using ballistics? Damn it."
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #679 on: February 26, 2015, 12:59:34 pm »

Funniest thing about that mission is that it took me a while to realize anything was wrong. We were going through and killing aliens and at some point I went "Hey, wait, those are bullets. Tiruin, why the hell are you using bullets? Wait, is everyone using ballistics? Damn it."
I do hope that's right before you realized and thanked your tactical skills, Commander? :P
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #680 on: February 26, 2015, 01:56:03 pm »

"Commander! Our lasers are very solid and bullet like! Whats going on, is this alien technology?!"
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #681 on: February 26, 2015, 04:32:43 pm »

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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #682 on: February 26, 2015, 08:20:27 pm »

A gearing mistake?

Never done that before.

Nope. Never. Not once.
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #683 on: February 26, 2015, 10:24:38 pm »

I'll take the sniper at the very bottom of the roster.

Name: <firstname>  Shepard
Gender:
Nationality:
Appearance: I volunteer for Skittle Squad (is eye-searingly bright cyan an option?). Make me look ridiculous.

Preferred class:
Preferred weapon: When we get to gauss weapons, a Gauss Long Rifle. Until then, whatever works.
Preferred equipment: High-cap mags. Reaper rounds once they're available, until then I'm not picky.
Preferred tactics: Kill the robots first.
Upgrade path: Gunslinger, Precision Shot, Executioner, Sharpshooter, Lock N' Load, Mayhem

(Shep's just a placeholder until I'm awake enough to think of a name that's not crap.)

Oh...uh, the people at the very bottom are all dead. I do have two available snipers, though. Which do you want?
First NameLast NameNicknameSexRankClassCountryAccuracyWillHPMobilityDefenseStatus
MLance CorporalSniperBrazilMediumMedium4MediumMediumAlive
FLance CorporalSniperIndiaHighLow5MediumHighAlive
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #684 on: February 26, 2015, 10:29:28 pm »

I'll take the guy.
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #685 on: March 02, 2015, 03:50:02 pm »

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Beta 15 requires a new campaign.

That answers that question!
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #686 on: March 02, 2015, 06:10:55 pm »

Yup, and Beta 15 is out now. So I'll have one final update (A pretty heroic mission I just need to do the write-up for) for you guys for this campaign and we can start talking about the next one.

In the good news department, I can now use the Commander's Choice second wave option to let us pick whatever classes we want for soldiers, so we'll get a bit more flexibility on who gets what. Still no way to change country or gender, though, and about 90? new countries are possible? Although most soldiers come from council nations regardless.
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #687 on: March 03, 2015, 07:07:38 am »

In the good news department, I can now use the Commander's Choice second wave option to let us pick whatever classes we want for soldiers, so we'll get a bit more flexibility on who gets what.
...I think you made an understatement, Meph. :)
That is a very useful choice there.
Could we get Training Roulette too? For a bit more flexibility?

Still no way to change country or gender, though, and about 90? new countries are possible?
C'mon Philippines...we have the Asian base in the Batanes Islands! D: They are very resilient people given the many storms in the area.
Oh, and the honesty. Love that honesty.
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Re: XCOM: Long War - Best damn soldiers on the planet!
« Reply #688 on: March 03, 2015, 12:54:03 pm »

Our new Satellite Nexus finishes building


And not long after that our satellites detect a large ship coming in low over Egypt


We send up an interceptor to check it out, and see an Abductor. The pilot pulls back before it can get off a shot.


Surprisingly, it touches down in an unoccupied are instead of assaulting a city.


We have a chance to capture a large alien ship intact, so we gear up some of our best. It'll exhaust a few of them, but we can't afford to send out a sub par team on this.



The troops head off for Operation Morbid Pipe


Spoiler: Operation Morbid Pipe (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Soldiers (click to show/hide)




And that's that.

My current plan is to get a new thread up and running. Beta 15 changes the start options a good bit. You now have individual country bonuses that you get, with a powerful starting bonus and weaker satellite bonuses per country. Continent bonuses only apply if you have all of the countries covered, including your starting continent. With the country bonuses, the continent bonuses are now a bit weaker.

I'll probably try to remake the characters from here as best I can, but of course if you have any changes you'd like to make once we have the initial roster in place feel free.

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