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[Tarran]

What the heck? Can aliens kill themselves? Because I just had a Heavy Floater die outside of my line of sight (or at least I think so, because of things breaking into fragments). Nobody shot at it. It just plain... died.

[Kagus]

Spoiler: Socks (click to show/hide)

(Seriously, can anyone identify this flag? I checked a couple of websites and I can't seem to find this one.)

He's Scottish.  As if the name "Wallace" wasn't a dead enough giveaway, that is...

So, two Brits and a Scotsman.  Biased are we?

[Sirus]

Spoiler: Socks (click to show/hide)

(Seriously, can anyone identify this flag? I checked a couple of websites and I can't seem to find this one.)

He's Scottish.  As if the name "Wallace" wasn't a dead enough giveaway, that is...

So, two Brits and a Scotsman.  Biased are we?

Heeey. If I were biased, I'd make the entire squad American, thank you very much

[Glowcat]

Also, wow, the gift of Psionics is really really rare. Most of my elite soldiers don't have it, only "Angel" that I mentioned a while ago does. Now I'm starting to test the untrained new recruits. What about you guys? How many out of all your soldiers have Psionics?

I tested around 10 soldiers (most of them top-end ranks) and only my original sniper awakened. Didn't really need more than her at least.

[Kagus]

Spoiler: Socks (click to show/hide)

(Seriously, can anyone identify this flag? I checked a couple of websites and I can't seem to find this one.)

He's Scottish.  As if the name "Wallace" wasn't a dead enough giveaway, that is...

So, two Brits and a Scotsman.  Biased are we?

Heeey. If I were biased, I'd make the entire squad American, thank you very much

They already are.

[Sirus]

Spoiler: Socks (click to show/hide)

(Seriously, can anyone identify this flag? I checked a couple of websites and I can't seem to find this one.)

He's Scottish.  As if the name "Wallace" wasn't a dead enough giveaway, that is...

So, two Brits and a Scotsman.  Biased are we?

Heeey. If I were biased, I'd make the entire squad American, thank you very much

They already are.

Just the voices, and you can turn those off.

[Anvilfolk]

Well, people certainly weren't kidding when they said an elite sniper was amazing. I'm feeling bad about playing on Normal... it's still a little too easy.

Still, I've had a few close calls already, with one or two deaths. I'm having a hard time getting more money, which I seem to need for upgrades and better weapons. I am waiting for the Satellite Nexus, which should be awesome.

By the way, is there a way to sell plasma or laser weapons? I'm transitioning into plasma and the laser stuff is kinda just there.

[Tarran]

If you feel bad, you could always up the difficulty.

Anyway, besides requests, I don't think you can 'sell' any items you make.

[Sirus]

Nations will sometimes contact you and ask if you would please sell them laser weapons (I've never seen them ask for plasma). I think that's about it, though.

Semi-ninja by Tarran.

[Thexor]

Nations will sometimes contact you and ask if you would please sell them laser weapons (I've never seen them ask for plasma). I think that's about it, though.

Semi-ninja by Tarran.

I've had plasma requests 3 times. Two times for 4x pistols, offering ~$800(!). Once for 4x light plasma rifles, offering ~$1000(!!).



Also, first win! On Normal, mind you, so it wasn't a terrible challenge. Savescummed a couple of times - once, because a Sectopod teleported halfway across a UFO (leaving its Drones behind) to a position flanking me. I figure game glitches are a suitable reason to reload a save, but fore the most part I avoided scumming. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The last mission was surprisingly easy, up until the final two encounters (dual Sectopods, followed by... something worse than dual Sectopods). My Assault gets the MVP award, abusing Ghost Mode + Rapid Fire to instakill one Ethereal and finish off a second.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Gather 'round kiddies, time for a story of a good ol' XCOM "OH SHIT" moment.


Couple dozen missions in on normal. Lost a handful of dudes, everything's still going fine though. Splashed a UFO, go in, siege the thing for a little bit so we can deal with any defenders that are outside the UFO. All goes well, take a couple hits but it's nothing serious, everything not human that was outside the UFO is killed to death. Hear noise in a corner of the UFO, so i send the squad in from two angles through the UFO and find the remaining aliens.

Suddenly three Mutons, try to move guys into better position, Mutons getting some potshots. Move a guy in room in center of the UFO (small little room with two doors. It's opposite the elevated area where

Spoiler: the Outsider (click to show/hide)

 can be found in that mission where you capture it

), two

Spoiler: Sectoid (click to show/hide)

Commanders

are waiting in there, so he's right there in the room with them and there's still the Mutons just outside. Suffice it to say he gets

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

mind-controlled

and the guy i sent in to cover him gets killed. A Muton take out another couple of my guys with a single goddamn grenade, and the

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

mind-controlled dude

kills one as well.

All i've got left is my sniper (who's the highest-ranking soldier i have, probably because he has that Guile-style hair from the original XCOM due to me preordering this. With hair like that, how can you possibly fail?) who i had on overwatch outside the UFO in case any aliens tried to sneak around. I start running his ass back to the Skyranger before the whole clusterfuck reaches him too. There was a friggin Muton looking right behind him on the hill above, so it got a shot off and then my sniper took him out. Another Muton came out of the UFO, took a shot that missed, and then the game crashed.


Good news is i have a legitimate reason to save-scum this one time since the game crashed. Bad news is my last save was hours ago. FUCK.

[Tarran]

Wow. Usually I would feel bad about savescumming, but this time the game screwed me out of a 95% chance when trying to stun, resulting in the death of one of my best soldiers. Even with the gravely-wounded officer school promotion, and him being in Titan armor and at full health the previous turn. :|

Really, I would accept a loss if it wasn't due to a failed 95% stun. Goddamn RNG.

[umiman]

I don't know if Sirius is also playing on classic iron man, but I'm about to win myself! Oh god! So intense!

There really needs to be an achievement for this.

[Tarran]

There is, it's called "No Looking Back".

[Werdna]

Wow. Usually I would feel bad about savescumming, but this time the game screwed me out of a 95% chance when trying to stun, resulting in the death of one of my best soldiers. Even with the gravely-wounded officer school promotion, and him being in Titan armor and at full health the previous turn. :|

Really, I would accept a loss if it wasn't due to a failed 95% stun. Goddamn RNG.

Dude, you handed your best soldier the cattle prod?  That's on you, man.    Carrying 'Old Sparkie' is a long time initiation rite for X-Com rookies!