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[OREOSOME]

Semi-related: It is surprisingly difficult to find a good picture of Stacker Pentecost in his uniform looking stern. I need one for reasons of an LP nature.

LP as in "long-playing record" or LP as in "YouTube videos of people who don't know how to play video games"?

Also, I was always weirded out by the name "Stacker Pentecost". Pentecost works as an ominous Biblical-ish name, appropriate for dramatic reasons, but Stacker? All I think of from that is shitty puzzle games and factory robot jobs.

Neither! LP as in "series of screenshots and sometimes unrelated images of a game, often being played badly".

what game? May I ask?

Was thinking of classic X-COM. Wanted a picture for Mission Control that was not Gendo Ikari. Nothing against the guy personally, but I've seen at least one LP that used him and I wanted someone different.

Please tell me it'll be TFTD. I mean, if you're gonna take that guy as Mission Control, it should be a ocean themed game.

[Sirus]

I've never played TFTD and I hear it is stupidly hard to compensate for the difficulty bug that afflicted the original. So I'd probably fail within two missions. Whether that makes for a more entertaining LP...

[Lord Shonus]

TFTD isn't that bad, as long as you have an up-to-date version and keep an eye out for a couple bugs. It's significantly harder than the first game, but it's far from unbeatable.

[Hanslanda]

I've never played TFTD and I hear it is stupidly hard to compensate for the difficulty bug that afflicted the original. So I'd probably fail within two missions. Whether that makes for a more entertaining LP...

The unupdated version has a small... Issue. The developers got pissed at all the complaints (From another bug making all difficulties Easy) from the first game, and made it so that every difficulty let you play the first battle on the difficulty you chose, then EVERY OTHER battle was on Superhuman difficulty. Because fuck you for complaining.

Also, fucking goddamn Lobstermen. Goddamn Tasoths. Fucking Triscenes. Goddamn Calcinites. But once you get past all that, it's a piece of cake.

[Sirus]

TFTD isn't that bad, as long as you have an up-to-date version and keep an eye out for a couple bugs. It's significantly harder than the first game, but it's far from unbeatable.

I have it on Steam, so I assume it is up-to-date. No idea what sort of bugs I'd need to look for though.

The unupdated version has a small... Issue. The developers got pissed at all the complaints (From another bug making all difficulties Easy) from the first game, and made it so that every difficulty let you play the first battle on the difficulty you chose, then EVERY OTHER battle was on Superhuman difficulty. Because fuck you for complaining.

That was the difficulty bug I was referring to, and the reason for the stupid difficulty.

Hmm...actually, I remember hearing about some sort of function that combines UFO Defense and TFTD, for one super-game. I wonder if I should give that a shot...

[Hanslanda]

They are literally pretty much identical (TFTD gave you a couple extra buttons on the battlescape, and they are very useful buttons) so much so that you can straight port over guns or soldiers from one game to the next via copypasta, IIRC. But yeah, there's mods to make them SUPRA-COMBINE-VOLTRON-GAME!

[Lord Shonus]

I've never played TFTD and I hear it is stupidly hard to compensate for the difficulty bug that afflicted the original. So I'd probably fail within two missions. Whether that makes for a more entertaining LP...

The unupdated version has a small... Issue. The developers got pissed at all the complaints (From another bug making all difficulties Easy) from the first game, and made it so that every difficulty let you play the first battle on the difficulty you chose, then EVERY OTHER battle was on Superhuman difficulty. Because fuck you for complaining.

That is a myth. The dev team simply made Easy harder than the first game's Superhuman because they didn't know about the original bug. The real bug in unupdated TFTD was game-breaking research problems that made it very easy to render the game Unwinnable.

[Hanslanda]

Oh right. The Tasoth Commander and the Deep One Terrorist thing. I forgot about that.

[GiglameshDespair]

I'm just waiting for OpenXcom to update to 10 and get tftd support. If you were planning to play the original x-com I'd strongly recommend it. Adds a lot of optional stuff, fixed bugs, fixes item limits. Everything is improved in the right way.

[Kadzar]

Canadians made a truck out of ice.

[Zangi]

Today... is freakishly cold.

[Sirus]

So...there is a person who seems legitimately crazy (or possibly under the influence of something) walking around outside my truck. She's ranting and raving about something or other, waving around papers in one hand and a bag in the other.

I'm not really sure what to do here o.o

[LordSlowpoke]

take the bag and just drive away

then sell the drugs inside it to the mexicans

it's how it works in the movies

[Steelmagic]

But in the movies doesn't that end up biting you in the ass and then everything goes to hell and at least one person important to you dies before you get the money?

[Sirus]

Either that or you go on a whirlwind adventure, meet a bunch of memorable characters, and find true love and happiness.

Honestly, its a fifty-fifty shot.