In fiction as in life, I ended up somehow not dying when I probably should have; while wrangling tards, juggling lives & explosives.... I try to to think about it too much, and kinda sounds like @L50LasPak might need to do the same with this LP.
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It seems these days one can never be too superstitious. It is the impression of even the most rational of XCOM's staff, that the stars are almost right, and something terrible will befall the world soon.
Dear Leader, Pocket Dragoon and Willy confer over stacks of battle reports mixed haphazardly with copies of ancient texts and works once thought blasphemous or outright fictional. If the science team can't make sense of this shit, what chance do they have?
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Getting your lobster boiled, how they say, Texas Style, will make you say a lot of weird things, but the black speech that the translator spit out after the Lobsterman started babbling still needs to be decoded. The entire science staff complains of sleepless nights and waking nightmares when they nod off. The base is mostly a collection of lexorin junkies at this point. Even Command's booze cabinent is starting to run a bit dry. The science team says they need only one more step though.
Deep in the bowels of Vulcania the Technicians still work feverishly on the hull of the Leviathan. It ain't gonna be pretty, but it will get XCOM to the deepest part of the ocean. Nobody thinks to ask them about getting back though, so its unclear if they've built it with that in mind or not.
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Ah, this is a nice surprise. Another terrain type: Volcanic. Realistically speaking being this close to an underwater magma vent would instantly cook you alive even if it didn't melt your suit, but hey it looks pretty at least.
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This is it, we have the location of an alien city, in the Sigsbee Deep, Gulf of Mexico, some 14,000 meters below the surface. This is only a stone's throw from the massive Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico, where the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is said to have struck. We now know the truth, that it was T'leth that struck our planet rather than a random meteor. And that apparently it bounced.
A supreme being lying asleep in an underwater city, and when he awakes the world will be terrible? Where have I heard this story before?
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Final research is divided between the various live aliens and alien corpses we still have, just for the hell of it.
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Well that's entertaining. We don't even do anything on the first turn and a Tasoth loses it and nukes his buddy. Even the aliens seem to be living in fear of what's coming next for this planet.
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Getting to the submarine is uneventful, but when we actually get there its a different story. Gezkill is immediately mind controlled and runs out the door. I think I've forgotten to mention this entire time that you can't use psonics to take control of your own troops back in either game. LullerDerbyRollin is ordered to try and stay inside the Hunter and wait out Gezkill's mind control rather than try to taze him and risk getting shot.
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Finally. The sub isn't quite ready to go right away though, a few Medikits need to be manufactured first, some tazers need to be ordered, and Dear Leader agrees to wait a week or so for TerribleIdeasTM's psionic training to complete since he's otherwise so close to being able to use an MC Disruptor.
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Oddly enough, after the two deaths we had on the preivous mission we have exactly 26 marines to fill the Leviathan to capacity. I had ordered ten more but not named them yet. Thus, there will be no last call for marine names, as we have all that we need already. The final loadout will be at the end of this update.
If you missed out, once again, have faith that this won't be the last XCOM LP I do.
I'll make a point to actually post in this thread a few hours or a day before I actually post the next LP thread. I kind of did it ass backwards this time.
I expected to die a lot but I somehow made it all the way through to survive the final mission. I'm sure getting psionic training helped keep me out of the line of fire but I got lucky before that.
I expected to die a lot but I somehow made it all the way through to survive the final mission. I'm sure getting psionic training helped keep me out of the line of fire but I got lucky before that.
You might as well, like more of my deaths have been to team killed rather than the aliens iirc. If you fail tho, I'm choking you with your stupid jelly donuts.
X-COM: providing hilariously underwhelming finales to video games long before Neil Druckmann cursed the world!
Hats off to you once again @L50LasPak for being a cool dood, providing a romp through a game that nobody should ever play holy tapdacing Jesus what was wrong with these people and having a damn fine taste in music.
X-COM: providing hilariously underwhelming finales to video games long before Neil Druckmann cursed the world!
Hats off to you once again @L50LasPak for being a cool dood, providing a romp through a game that nobody should ever play holy tapdacing Jesus what was wrong with these people and having a damn fine taste in music.
You've been great too. Also, to be fair to them, they had no idea the hardest difficulty was bugged into being no where near for the OG Xcom. They legit thought people wanted even harder so they basically said "fuck quality control" and did well all the absolute shit you saw and more. Discommunication and misinformation kills and all that. That said, ya this game was a fucking train wreck.
However, this game brought a bunch of Kiwis together, all enthralled with the same goal. Of dabbing on water logged AYYLMAOS and dying!
In the interest of fairness the next XCOM LP will only start collecting names when the thread goes up, but like I said I'll let you guys know first in this thread instead of just springing it randomly like I did this one.
In the interest of fairness the next XCOM LP will only start collecting names when the thread goes up, but like I said I'll let you guys know first in this thread instead of just springing it randomly like I did this one.
You too man, I'll keep you a clown and we goin' down with the clown. We'll fuckin' smoke with Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J, maybe even make ICP and Twiztid work out their shit in Hell.
