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[Reasonableman]

Aww it's not that secretive. The theme is XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and the time is Friday night, roughly 10 PM eastern (GMT-5).

[Bluerobin]

Woohoo! I remember really liking the stream, although it's been so long that I don't remember why. I'll try hard to be there.

[Stworca]

Superhuman lobstermen trawler missions?

[Reasonableman]

Oh man, Bluerobin, I remember why. You were the Russian Robin to my Russian Batman in STALKER, where I ran around leaping from shadows to deliver justice to the faces of unsuspecting Russian criminals. With guns.

[Bluerobin]

Oh that's just on the tip of my memory tongue... it sounds so familiar! And awesome!

What I've learned is that my memories of two and a half years ago are mostly nonexistent.

Edit: Also, there's a minute-long unskippable ad on your stream that's just this guy talking:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Edit2: I just looked up gameplay videos of STALKER and now I remember! Fun times.

[Reasonableman]

Yeah, the ads are a huge pain and irremovable. You can just keep refreshing until you get a shorter, less annoying one, though, so there's that.

[Furtuka]

Ooh this seems interesting

[Reasonableman]

I'll go ahead and get this out of the way: you can request soldiers all willy-nilly, but no two can be the same. XCOM:EU uses the following soldier format:


First name: Maximum 11 characters.
Last name: Maximum 15 characters.
Nickname: Maximum 11 characters; only available at Sergeant rank or better (3rd rank up)

Class: Assault (Fast and short-range), Support (Medics and riflemen), Heavy (Machineguns and explosives), and Sniper (Long-range and scouts) classes are assigned randomly at the first rank up. If you want a specific rank, you'll have to wait until a Squaddie with the proper class pops up.

Gender: Assigned randomly at soldier creation. Non-adjustable. There seem to be fewer women than men.

Nationality: Assigned randomly at creation. Non-adjustable. Your guy gets a little flag patch on his back, and a similar flag on his profile, and nothin' else. Not even an accent! For shame. Don't know what all countries are represented, on account of me not knowing flags... at all. I can recognize a few though. AMURICAH

Race: A few options for general racial type.
Voice: Several different voices. They all say the same quips during combat though, just sliiiightly differently.
Head: A number of general face shapes.
Skin Color: Based on Race, gives you a few different sub-options.
Hair/Helmet: Men get short hair, ladies get a few options for ponytails and the like, either can choose one of three different helmets... or the amazing original X-Com haircuts.
Hair Color: Many neon options for hair color, and a few sensible ones.
Facial Hair: Mustaches and beards, sideburns and mutton chops, for dudes only. Sorry ladies.
Armor Deco: Most types of armor have two different options for their appearance; one usually has more color than the other, which tends to be taken up by grey-green plates. Usually.
Armor Tint: Fairly large selection of colors for armor. Useful for telling dudes apart in the chaos of battle. Most basic colors are represented, and a few combos that are opposite each other on the color wheel. Red/green, purple/yellow, blue/orange, etc. Default is a drab olive color.

Specify what you'd like in the stream or on here and I'll try to make it happen.

IF YOU DIE, YOU'RE DEAD. You go up on the memorial wall, and can not be 'reborn' through identically naming another rookie. You can always request a differently named soldier, though.

[Bluerobin]

I'd like a Canadian one () named Robin. I don't care about anything else, really, so hopefully that helps with the nationality. I could even wait until you happen to get a Canadian if that helps.

[Reasonableman]

Stream should be up in a few hours; no later than 9 PM GMT -5. Be there or be Muton fodder!

[Bluerobin]

Oh, we're watching Aliens as a bit of a pre-show if people want to join. It's got aliens, bay 12, and a cat, so you know it's good!

[Reasonableman]

Stream's back up, jackanapes. And working better than it was yesterday, too. Fancy!

OH GOD OH JESUS TERROR MISSION

[Bluerobin]

RIP everyone ever.

[Reasonableman]

Okay, so... I reinstalled windows, uninstalled a crappy hard disk, rerouted all the power cables, and updated all my drivers. Now the game runs, no joke, twice as fast, and doesn't crash when being streamed. The reason: Procaster uses Adobe Flash to do the whole chat program, and since I haven't reinstalled Flash, it just disables the chat altogether on the streaming PC. So chat no longer crashes the game. It's a bit late to be screaming now, though, so I'll wait 'till tomorrow.

Oh by the way, everyone died. Multiple times. And we ran out of money. And countries. Also Mutons and Cyberdisks started showing up and we've barely got carapace armor. So, in addition to deleting that save, I'm abandoning it. Gonna see if I can't mod the game a bit without breaking it this time. Protip: don't enable the tutorial when you mod the game.

[Reasonableman]

Protip funtimes: I fixed another half-dozen issues, and we're off the ground and running!