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[Cthulhu]

What ranger colonel is like.

Just watched him beast on a full pod, Andromedon and two Archons.  Teammates softened them up, he killed the archon in melee.  The andromedon charged him, got stunned by his bladestorm, the other archon charged, lost half his health, couldn't hurt him cause unstoppable.  He ran around and killed them both with his flamethrower, then when the shell charged him he killed it with bladestorm.

Here's my Raiden if you want him.  He's a fucking monster.  He makes the aliens wish they had a skyranger to get back into.  The was only the final and most heinous of a long series of ridiculous exploits that mission.

[Man of Paper]

Just had three shots at 70%+ hit chance (one was at 84%...) miss in the same turn, then proceeded to see my two most veteran XCOMmies get critical hitted and killed immediately afterwards, one of which was in full cover, and to top it all off my medic specialist got tongue molested by a Viper as well.

RNGesus is an asshole.

[Neyvn]

Welp, now that I have finished the game once. Time to play with Mods. Up the difficulty and all that...

[SOLDIER First]

Just had three shots at 70%+ hit chance (one was at 84%...) miss in the same turn, then proceeded to see my two most veteran XCOMmies get critical hitted and killed immediately afterwards, one of which was in full cover, and to top it all off my medic specialist got tongue molested by a Viper as well.

RNGesus is an asshole.

Congrats, you've finally experienced XCOM in its full glory.

[BFEL]

why would you try

RULES OF NATURE!

And yet again I am wrong. You win this round.

Just don't melee Gatekeepers.

Why even bother giving us sword class if we can't melee anything?

[Sean Mirrsen]

why would you try

RULES OF NATURE!

And yet again I am wrong. You win this round.

Just don't melee Gatekeepers.

Why even bother giving us sword class if we can't melee anything?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks

[SOLDIER First]

RULES OF NATURE prevent death from death explosions

[Flying Dice]

You can melee anything you like. You just need to be sure to kill it if it explodes on death. 

[Rince Wind]

Too bad you can't give the psi ability of immunity to explosions and other damage types to others. Would be a neat thing if you could do that for a turn, so someone could run through acid or whatever.

[Aklyon]

Or better yet, give psi-ops swords! They're already immune to most things that aren't rainbow magnet bullets or plasma, they could slash gatekeepers, ignore the explosion and assert dominance as the better psi-fighter in one go.

[Djohaal]

What comes to my mind when the sectopod extends its legs: j00tubs link

On to the ending and whatnot:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 The ammount of hooks they left for a sequel/DLC was annoyingly high, the plot lacks in closure in the end I found it a bit unsatisfying. One thing that bothers me endlessly is the whole technobabble on why the aliens harvested and distilled genetic material, it's about as bad as Hollywood action movie technobabble. Mr. Ethereal, did you happen to know we have a machine smaller than a microwave oven, called a thermocycler, that can provide unlimited DNA copies from a single drop of blood? Oh yes, so you don't have to go around the globe setting up a convoluted scheme to abduct innocents and turn them into jelly. It all falls into an essentialist metaphor where they are sucking the souls out of people and the souls are DNA, except for the minor detail that it doesn't work like that. Plus the 1000 times they said "Genetic code" when they should say "Genome" 

[Puzzlemaker]

So I am kind of tempted to restart in ironman mode, because I get too attached to my guys, and I also made a lot of mistakes in my build and room selection.

I keep rage quitting and loading earlier saves, it makes levels take way too long.

[Skyrunner]

councilman why is your voice so good

[BFEL]

KINDA starting to hate Killzone. I mean, I like it on a theoretical level. "Shoot all the things" would be amazing with my shredder sniper or grenadier who got it, but in actual combat I haven't seen it work correctly a single goddamn time.

I mean, the ideal situation to use it is when you're about to ambush some peeps, but for some reason it doesn't act like "normal" overwatch and trigger the moment one of them so much as twitches, but waits until they've gone a good 3 feet before shooting at the FIRST one in the "chain"
Because of this EVERY TIME I'VE USED IT it hits one, and the other enemies are already safely in cover before it even tries to fire off again. Or more often it MISSES the first shot and doesn't even try against the others.

Oh, and unrelatedly, but I built a workshop and workshops are boss. I don't even know what to do with my other engineers at this point.
Have one drone running the hospital and two running communications. I imagine that when our rebels call base they have to talk to one of those automated message things.
"Press 1 if you're a VIP in need of extraction.
Press 2 if you're the victim of ADVENT retaliation
If you've stashed supplies for XCOM, press 3" etc.

[misko27]

councilman why is your voice so good

Ha, I saw this.

Somehow I'm doing really poorly with the AVATAR project, and now its full. And a got a dark event for "Major Breakthrough", which means that even if I do take out the Eastern Europe Facility (which I will be doing as soon as I start playing again) and take out three pips, I have to hope to counter that dark event or I'm almost right back where I started, except this time it'll be a lot harder because there aren't any facilities in reach.

Tell me: I see the AVATAR project progress is locked up in several different little facilities, but are there hidden facilities that have some portion of the avatar project that already exist (as opposed to the ones they tell me about when they build them)? If not, what is the hack award "Facility Lead" do?