This is a great game, definitely as fun as the original XCOM. I did a writeup of a particularly great game from last night:
9:13 PM, Sept. 29 2011.
An appearance suburban neighborhood, also appearance a war zone. Nearly a hundred soldiers in armor are moving out from a fleet of drop ships, landed on a road running beside a cluster of ruined buildings. More than thirty corpses of aliens are lying, and eight of humans, are spread throughout the blasted landscape. One soldier kneels beside a fallen suit of power armor, damaged by dozens of weapons hits. He noticed a small black device in it's hand, and pulling it away, inspected. It was a small voice recorder, wrapped in layers of duct tape for protection. He ran back to the shuttles. "Sir, I found some sort of record from the early-response party.!" "Play it." The commander and the soldier stared at the device as it started replaying.
"About thirty minutes ago, a distress call was received from the guard at this experimental weapons bunker. It was surrounded by a fake suburban neighborhood for concealment, but appearance the aliens had located it anyway. We were on duty, so while the rest of the base prepared for a response, we were sent out to ascertain and secure the situation. We landed without incident, and deployed from the ship according to procedure. Me and two rookies were on the south point, and we spotted something coming from between two houses. It looked like a human, but with some metal object grafted onto it's arm, and another onto it's shoulder. It raised it's gun at us, so we shot at it. The rookies may or may not have hit it, but if so, it had no effect. I assumed they had missed, and fired my Heavy Cannon. I hit it with a HE round, and the it went off. I expected it to be blasted apart, but it barely even flinched. It must have had some sort of force field, because nothing takes a fucking 35mm HE round without a scratch, no matter how much armor it has."
"The other guys were moving to the west, because somebody thought there was a grenade over here. The cyborg hit one of the rookies with a plasma bolt, killing him instantly. The Captain landed on a roof above, he had a flying suit, and he fired down with his Autocannon. He hit at least once, but it was unhurt. I fired again, but missed, and the rookie tossed a grenade at it. We both went to meet the others, but the alien got the other rookie. We were all about to go south towards the bunker, but two aliens blocked the way, and the cyborg was following us, so we threw some smokes to cover us, and moved west more. They worked - we weren't followed. We had come to a small area enclosed in a hedge, when we met the second new trick the aliens had. A Gray teleported down in this purple energy field, and we fired, but somebody threw a smoke grenade at it for some reason. It was obscured, so I - the one with the strongest armor - went into the cloud and shot it."
"The Captain wasn't there, but he said that he had taken out two aliens and we should meet up with him at the UFO to the southwest. We went through a hole in the hedge, the last one to arrive was a rookie who had grabbed the plasma pistol from the Gray I shot. We had to cross a open field here, and we were scared as hell, but nobody showed up. We met the captain at the abandoned UFO, and a couple of guys went in to loot it, including me. Tis was when things really went to hell. I had just grabbed a fusion cannon and a fusion grenade, the captain got a blaster launcher, and a rookie got a antimatter cannon. We heard fire, and we ran out there, and found an alien had teleported in on each side of force,and killed a guy before we got them. A guy looked around the corner into the field, and saw a couple of aliens. He used an alien antimatter grenade, but forgot to prime it, and got a heavy plasma blast for it. The captain fired his blaster out to their position, and while it flew to it's target, we it never went off."
"I fired my fusion cannon, and a guy fired his antimatter cannon. The antimatter cannon missed by a mile, hit way out in the field. However, my shot annihilated the aliens, and also blew open the bunker. We went in and found a bunch of lasers. We grabbed some heavy lasers to supplement our explosives, and the captain got a Gatling Laser, and the Sergeant got a Gauss Rifle. We sheltered inside, and killed a Floater that came at us, and then went out. We saw two things - the goddamn cyborg, and what looked like a small flying saucer. The gauss rifle missed the disc, but hit the cyborg, finally killing it. A few lasers took out the disk, which exploded spectacularly. The captain said to head back to the drop ship, so we did so. The Sergeant was killed by a flying alien that teleported in, but I hit it with my laser and killed it. We made it into the drop ship, and activated it, but both the engines had been shot out! This was when we realised we wouldn't make it out of there alive, but we took a position under the ship by the landing gear to try and wait until reinforcements arrived. "
"We killed some aliens trying to get us, and when I leveled a building with my fusion cannon, the Captain had an idea. He said we should destroy the adjacent houses, so the aliens couldn't get so close. We did it, finally finding something the gatling laser was good for, but it turned out to be a bad idea. Several aliens suddenly attacked from the west, and by this point we were all wounded, except me. We decided to head back to the more defensible bunker, to try to call someone if it had a landlines. We went south, and dispatched a few aliens, but one teleported near us with a blaster launcher! This one fired properly, and killed everyone but me, because I was behind a wall. I killed them with my fusion grenade, and got down in a ruined house. I am here now, making this recording. I am noe going to break out and go to the bunker, hoping my armour is still good. If I make it, this recording will be included in my debriefing. If not, it may or may not be received by you when you arrive."
Wow, I was expecting to hit the character limit there. Also, I changed a few details, especially the ranks.
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