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[RAM]

Wow, just wow...

[Archangel]

Wow, just wow...

[RAM]

Does that first <mysterious bug monster> get an accolade for single-handedly freaking out the whole team?

[Acanthus117]

Yay! Anne wasn't killed!

[Haspen]

I hope that the live alien is that bug I know about.

I just cant' wait for scientific reports of it

*shudders*

[RAM]

Nice to see that this time some of the team survives first contact with them. I suspect that more than any other alien, those ones specialise in leaving no survivors...

[rickvoid]

Ugh. You got lucky. Every time I've encountered chrysalids for the first time, I lose the entire team.

[CJ1145]

 

Well, this is why I put "interested in cloning" on Quibble's sheet. Time to break out the vats, I guess.

[Heron TSG]

Death comes quickly to those who deal with Chrysalids. Oh well, new character time!

Name - The Carl
Specialty - Explosives
Bio - 'The' Carl is a man who has spent his entire life with explosives. He is a rocketeer, a demolitions expert, and a pyromaniac. He likes to use rocket launchers, and actually did some good with one by blowing up a sectoid scout that had been hovering over his village in Belize. He has heard rumors of aliens using weapons similar to rocket launchers, and is very curious.

[Haspen]

I'm always lucky on first encounter with chryssalids. By the time I meet them, I already have some plasma weapons researched, sometimes even grenades.

[Kagus]

Chryssalids can be taken out with relative ease in certain situations.  Laser rifles can work just fine against them, you just need to keep your people in squads so there's enough firepower for all of them to get a shot in at this dude.  Just have some mobile firing squads available, and try to maintain clear sightlines.

Of course, since these guys usually show up in urban environments, that's much easier said than done.  And a cluster of squadmembers can quickly become a death pile thanks to a grenade, B-Bomb, or even a chryssalid chain.


If you really want to be stylish (albeit somewhat ineffectual), roast them with IN rounds.  Although this is really better for taking out the infinitely less worrisome zombies.

And, of course, the moment you get flying suits chryssalids turn into glorified target practice.

[Greiger]

Yea Chryssalids were terrifying in xcom.  I recall rather fighting mutons than those things.  But a few guys with flying suits turn them into jokes.

Sorta like the brainsuckers in Apocalypse.  Fast moving, small targets almost garenteed to take out a soldier and turn them against you if they got to one.

Brainsuckers fortunately had that little bug or exploit though that made them significantly less dangerous. They couldn't brainsuck a crawling soldier.  And they would still try.  They would just bug out and knock themselves out on the soldier's tile for the duration of the mission instead of brainsucking.  It was hilarious when an entire swarm of the things went after one crawling soldier.  That bug probably singlehandedly knocked the game's difficulty down a few notches, and made live brainsuckers child's play to get.

[RAM]

And once again flying is effective as they can't jump all that high...

[Urist McOverlord]

That... was awesome.

And because I feel obligated: Quibble.

Also, that audiolog. Recorded before the skyranger left for Tehran.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

AUDIOLOG 103479
Recorded by: Lucsly
Date: 15:47_10_29_2010

ENTER KEY: **********
…
KEY ACCEPTED
DECRYPTING AUDIOLOG
AUDIOLOG DECRYPTED
BEGINNING PLAYBACK

Alright. I think I finally figured out this audiolog business. Apparently they want us to “record our thoughts on the operation.” Hell, I can hardly get a handle on this, much less have a coherent thought about it. Hold on a second…

Lucsly’s voice becomes distant

These logs are private, right? Encrypted?

a muffled second voice speaks momentarily
Good.

Lucsly returns

They tell us that we’re here to fight aliens. Apparently all these strange things they’ve been investigating have been UFOs – Alien spacecraft. And if they think I believe that then I’m the king of Siam. OK, I am, but that’s because “SIAM” is the CIA codeword for our mental landscape. Our own individual “Kingdoms” if you will. But that’s beside the point. This whole thing is a conspiracy, and we- the soldiers – are the guinea pigs of whatever sick experiment we’re in. Don’t believe me? Just think about it. Which is more likely? Are we actually running around fighting an extra-terrestrial menace bent on destroying us all – despite the fact that no scientist has ever even confirmed the EXISTENCE of alien life at all? Do we use magic laser technology and armor made of weird “alien alloys?” More likely than not, we’re all plugged into some simulation. Or this could be a continuation of the stress-suppressant experiments from Vietnam. Hell if I know. The lunatics we get on these missions don’t help their credibility much, either.

So I get in here, and they assign me to pilot their skyranger. Best troop carrier in the world. I swear, we can’t have more than a dozen of these in the US army. I don’t know where this X-COM got them, but these guys are something else. My flight roster – the “away team” so to speak – consists of, and I swear I’m not joking:

Myroc Newman. He seems normal enough, if you can get over the fact that his voice is attached to a tank rather than a human being. I swear, I’ll never get used to these tele-operated behemoths. I don’t think he knows what’s going on. I don’t think I should tell him either.

Niel Stranek. Another good soldier, although what a French legionnaire is doing attached to an experimental US battalion I can only wonder. He must be some sort of general in disguise, observing. Of course I can’t tell him, then.

Sarah Newman. Apparently she’s related to Myroc. They’ve given me a rocket launcher for her use on my plane. I wouldn’t have explosives here without knowing what was up for certain, but who knows what they’ll do to me if they find out that I know? Best keep quiet. I don’t think I should tell her either. Rockets explode…

Tamunshin. All files on her are encrypted. Encrypted deeper than I can break, I mean. She seems… haunted, somehow. I don’t know. I don’t trust her, but it seems cruel not to tell her what’s really going on here. We’ll see.

Shu Bei. From somewhere in Asia. She’s shipping back soon, apparently. Either she’s been expelled, or this conspiracy runs deeper than I thought. Probably shouldn’t trust her either.

Sigvard. This guy scares me. Nothing else to say.

Anne Maxwell. She seems a bit reclusive. Haven’t seen her around the base much, although I haven’t been around long myself I guess. From what I hear, she lost everything in LA. I… I think I can trust this one. We’ll see, though.

Shigeo Okabe. Apparently a mercenary of sorts, who has “dealt with the alien menace already.” I don’t buy it. Has to be in on the act.

The last guy is the one who really gets me: Quibble. I can’t tell if that’s his name or if he’s just telling me to take a hike, though, because that’s all he ever says. I think his mind is gone, even more than the rest of them. Whatever, though. He seems like a decent enough guy, despite his… condition…

That’s just the away team though. We’ve got a nutjob who thinks he’s a psychic… vampire… ninja… robot… cowboy… zombie… thing. He’s… weird. And then theirs the supposed clones, and the supersoldiers, and the—

Alarms can be heard in the background

Aw hell. That’s the mission alert. I’ve got to board ship and get running. Here’s hoping I survive an outing with these nuts.

LOG END
VIEW NEXT LOG? (Y/N)

I'll add another one later, recorded after the mission.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Seeing the indestructible chrysalids and watching those "fake" lasers kill one of his squadmates should get him clean of most of his "X-COM is fake" Conspiracies. For now. Although that was rather fun to write.

[jasonred79]

Yea Chryssalids were terrifying in xcom.  I recall rather fighting mutons than those things.  But a few guys with flying suits turn them into jokes.

Sorta like the brainsuckers in Apocalypse.  Fast moving, small targets almost garenteed to take out a soldier and turn them against you if they got to one.

Brainsuckers fortunately had that little bug or exploit though that made them significantly less dangerous. They couldn't brainsuck a crawling soldier.  And they would still try.  They would just bug out and knock themselves out on the soldier's tile for the duration of the mission instead of brainsucking.  It was hilarious when an entire swarm of the things went after one crawling soldier.  That bug probably singlehandedly knocked the game's difficulty down a few notches, and made live brainsuckers child's play to get.

OR, you could fly up to the ceiling.
OR you could stand in a doorway.
OR you could use androids.
 
Plenty of ways to beat brainsuckers, actually.