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[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm not seriously arguing that there's anything supernatural going on here, it's just...uncanny.

[Chiefwaffles]

"Okay, so Chiefwaffles got a code black assaulting a crashed battleship, 1/22/14. Now to add that into the database."

[timferius]

"Okay, so Chiefwaffles got a code black assaulting a crashed battleship, 1/22/14. Now to add that into the database."

Where I used to work, Code Black stood for Severe Weather hazard.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

"Okay, so Chiefwaffles got a code black assaulting a crashed battleship, 1/22/14. Now to add that into the database."

Where I used to work, Code Black stood for Severe Weather hazard.

If you consider fiery plasma death a form of weather, this remains accurate.

[Mageziya]

"Okay, so Chiefwaffles got a code black assaulting a crashed battleship, 1/22/14. Now to add that into the database."

Where I used to work, Code Black stood for Severe Weather hazard.

If you consider fiery plasma death a form of weather, this remains accurate.

Do lasers also count? The most powerful enemy in the game uses a giant laser cannon.

I suppose, though, they might not fall under the weather category, due to lasers not really being the ejection of a substance but, rather, energy.

[Sindain]

Lasers are the sunlight of the burning, bloody death weather.

[timferius]

Special weather statement: 90% chance of Fiery Laser Death Rain

[crazysheep]

Special weather statement: 90% chance of Fiery Laser Death Rain

Fixed

[GreatWyrmGold]

EDIT: Oh yeah, and to continue the phenomenon of X-Com having prescient mission names, the mission where I lost half my team and only survived thanks to a decent Run & Gun was called Operation Bloody Hero. The assault in question was even fucking injured. It knows.

I'm reasonably sure all the mission names are, as a theme, named in such a way that if anything bad were to happen the name would be apt.

Or people are good at making connections.
For instance, in my playthrough, most of the missions with religious or mystical names went horribly.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Attacked a big ship. Nice that I didn't have to guess which direction it was. Less nice? The couple ceyssalid packs. A rocket and a grenade took out the first group, but the second required a bit of firepower. They killed a squaddie. Remarkably, they weren't the biggest thing; that would be the sectopod. That thing was frikkin' hard to take down. On the bright side, it didn't quite kill anyone, although it darn near killed Sid Meier. After that, I was worried because the mission wasn't over...but then I saw that the remaining aliens were just a pair of sectoids wandering out by the side of the ship for some reason. I'm imagining them going out to fetch some cryssalid chow in case we were late, and then..."Hey, guys! We heard some noises, are you--OH GOD THEY KILLED KE'NII!"

[Mr Space Cat]

"Hey, guys! We heard some noises, are you--OH GOD THEY KILLED KE'NII!"

I c wut u did thar.

[Mageziya]

You're late enough in the game to encounter Sectopods, yet Chrysallids cause more problems for you? Don't plasma weapons 1-2 shot Chrysallids? You also had Sid Meier?

[Remalle]

You're late enough in the game to encounter Sectopods, yet Chrysallids cause more problems for you? Don't plasma weapons 1-2 shot Chrysallids? You also had Sid Meier?

GWG's demonstrated he's really bad at XCOM, yeah.  Just roll with it, it's more entertaining that way.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Welp, my first Enemy Within game has been brought to its crashing end, curtsey of Thin Mints. I learned a very important lesson: Regenerating bone marrow does nothing to prevent bleeding out.

[Knirisk]

Welp, my first Enemy Within game has been brought to its crashing end, curtsey of Thin Mints. I learned a very important lesson: Regenerating bone marrow does nothing to prevent bleeding out.

Yeah. Didn't find regenerating bone marrow to be particularly useful since it only regenerates up to max hp pre-armor and most enemies in the late game can more or less often shred off 6-8 hp in one turn. The meld could be better spent elsewhere, in my opinion.